Just got back from the supermarket. People with big trolleys who dawdle and block the aisles. I just want to get in and out as quickly as possible. Get out of my way. Worse are the old blokes on trolley pushing duty, while their wives go through a paper list that goes on and on. You know who you are!
Yep. Problem solved post Brexit. The supermarkets will be empty
think how many packets of cigarettes they could buy instead.
Oooh, you naughty boy, you're not allowed to use the B word in here!
I'll tell you what's getting my goat right now.....whenever I start a new paragraph in a post, there always seems to be two empty lines in my posts between the paragraphs after I've hit the "Post" button, even though I only hit the "return" button to add one empty line each time. Then I have to go to "Modify" and back-space out the extra blank lines.Ooohhhh, it makes me sooooo mad !......and there we go, I've had to do it again.......................................
Talking to a primary school teacher the other day, apparently the old nursery rhyme " baa baa black sheep" is now " baa baa rainbow sheep". Anybody ever seen a rainbow sheep? You couldn't make it up could you...when I was a kid there was a telly programme ( and accompanying song) called "white horses". Do you think if they remade it it would be called "rainbow horses"? People who see the word " black" as a racist slur when used in a perfectly normal context are surely the ones making it so. And that's what's gets my goat today..
Quote from: Millietant on 03 November 2018, 07:05:44 pmI'll tell you what's getting my goat right now.....whenever I start a new paragraph in a post, there always seems to be two empty lines in my posts between the paragraphs after I've hit the "Post" button, even though I only hit the "return" button to add one empty line each time. Then I have to go to "Modify" and back-space out the extra blank lines.Ooohhhh, it makes me sooooo mad !......and there we go, I've had to do it again....................................... The opposite is happening also. It's taking out intended empty lines and closing paragraphs up together. I tried modifying but it made no difference.
Foccing BT Sport, sat down to watch the MotoGP and halfway through the second lap the result came up on the bottom of the screen and the results for the Moto2 and Moto3 races. Unbelievable, and the presenters get worse every race and the claptrap they spout , bring back Parrish and Cox, at least they made me laugh sometimes.
Quote from: slappy on 04 November 2018, 02:58:42 pmFoccing BT Sport, sat down to watch the MotoGP and halfway through the second lap the result came up on the bottom of the screen and the results for the Moto2 and Moto3 races. Unbelievable, and the presenters get worse every race and the claptrap they spout , bring back Parrish and Cox, at least they made me laugh sometimes.Sounds like you had a nightmare in a bubble car
You know what's getting my goat right now?BREXIT? Well yeah. But something else is getting my goat right now, and its being doing so this time each year since 2011..............Poppy fascism..Why does anybody have to explain not wearing a red poppy? I mean what the fuck?.Apparently a footballer I’ve never heard of has had to explain why he does not wear a top with a poppy printed on it. His name is Nemanja Matic. I’m thinking – mmmmm – interesting name. And guess what he’s Serbian. Why would a foccin Serbian wear a red poppy. How stupid can people get?.No, frankly I can't think of anything more tacky than premier league footballers with red poppies printed on their shirts. This demeans and trivialises remembrance. Quiet contemplation at at an English premier league football game – really? .No longer is it good enough just to remember, but people today are more interested in being seen to remember.Rant over.
To be meaningfull Remebrance has to be a concious, personal choice doesn't it?. Surely if it's just been printed on a shirt and handed to you without your request or knowledge it's meaningless isn't it??
They actually do have a box full in the studio that they keep ready to offer presenters/guests on the way in though don't they?.Surely if you genuinely, sincerely wanted to wear one and remember you'd have your own on before you got there.
No one would just put one on for the benifit of the cameras would they?
They actually do have a box full in the studio that they keep ready to offer presenters/guests on the way in though don't they?.Surely if you genuinely, sincerely wanted to wear one and remember you'd have your own on before you got there.No one would just put one on for the benifit of the cameras would they?
Actually I have some problems with WW1. Empire vs Empire, shell shocked soldiers shot at dawn, public schoolboys blowing whistles so that poor devils could run at machine guns. Lions led by donkeys. Not our greatest moments.