Text Speak! I even get messages from my daughter's school in text speak. I rang them and had right moan at them. How the hell do they expect students to pass English language, when the school sends messages to parents in bloody text speak.
In a couple of weeks, this thread will outstrip The "Discuss Anything EXCEPT Horses" Thread I thought I had best post this before Easter Sunday as this year it is very appropriately All Fools’ Day as well. I should get enough material from that observation to present to my Christian best friend, with whom I have an unwritten agreement never to talk about religion because he has a History degree so he knows that his belief in most of the world’s best selling work of fiction is irrational; and he can never win the argument. Dog sh*te: easy solution. Change the law so that anybody caught not clearing up after their hound or throwing their takeaway into a bush is punished by forcing them to eat it. That should keep parks, footpaths and hedgerows clean. Round here I think they walk their mutts in the middle of the night as the turds on the courtyard lawn are long past steaming at 7:30am. That policy would not work with smokers because the second they drop a butt end these days some bum picks it up to try and get a few threads of tobacco out of it to create a roll up. Smokers do seem to be bone idle because despite there being a metal bin for their detritus in the designated smoking area at work, the ground is still littered. The drinkers will soon be taking their empties back for refunds rather than littering. The winos will be going round looking for bottles and cans in the local recycling bins so they can claim money back on them. Soon local councils will not need to do recycling as it will all be done at the retailers’/customers’ expense. How long before you get money back on a baked bean tin? The loonies on Hull City Council spent £25m on repaving the pedestrianised area of the city centre to now find that they are spending a fortune power cleaning the chewing gum off it because the cretins that vote for them just spit it out and leave it for someone else to get it stuck on their shoes.
Half the people smoking outside Hull Royal Infirmary are doctors and nurses, indicating what a waste of a medical education they are and what hypocrites they are telling everyone else to stop because it is bad for their health. They could set an example and save the NHS a fortune in the future if they all quit now instead of becoming patients with various respiratory diseases or lung cancer. Many hospitals are in town/city centres. If they do not charge for parking, the car park is full of shoppers’ cars. The problem is no different to parking permits for ‘disabled’ people whose disability is not something that means they cannot walk; and who lend them to their able-bodied family and friends so they can park illegally whilst out shopping. In cycling, they just excuse themselves by saying that everyone does it. Ask Lance Armstrong. You should have chinned them. Or at least told them to move their arse... I got an email Thursday asking when I could fit in a piece of work that I had done back in December but the numpty had forgotten to sign it off on the project system as ‘Done’ even though it was released the week before Xmas, which he authorised.
Have a young work colleague who made the mistake of growing a beard that looked a lot older than him. After a couple of weeks being called Captain Birdseye, he arrived clean shaven one day... Round here, the kids say f*** every few words; but they learn that from their sub-eloquent parents (assumption there that both parents are present). Not just footballers. My late grandfather was a North Sea fisherman, second mate on a trawler. He had a couple of tattoos on his arms. Tattoos are for sailors and South Sea islanders. Why does every other person under the age of thirty have one? Why do they have tattooists on every other street describing themselves as body artists? These people look a mess and when their skin loses its elasticity in a few decades time, nobody will be able to tell what the art was originally. You can get rid of waste of space middle management in the private sector by simply making them redundant – I have worked at a couple of places that have done just that. In the public sector, the last fiefdom of the unions, it is almost impossible to get rid of the union guy with the clipboard and the union rule book who does no actual work and should be paid for solely by union members. Wasteful and inefficient private sector companies generally go bust because their competitors have better productivity and efficiency – market forces at work. The public sector just gets more money from the taxpayer to avoid confronting their inefficiencies and lack of productivity.
Careful, you will be hearing from the loony followers... As a fellow lazy bastard, I have to confess that the designer stubble will be going on Tuesday morning and I use those expensive MACH3 things, so I will be checking out Dollar Shave although the cynic in me suspects that £8 a month for replacement blades will not save me a dime. My written French was okay at school but I dropped the subject even though the French French teacher was gorgeous because half the ‘O’ Level marks were for the verbals! That is the problem with learning French. They speak so fast that you have no chance of understanding their response. What I try to do is just pick out the relevant words from what they have said and try to figure it out. Best thing to do is phrase your questions in such a way that the answer will be short! I think the French word ‘lentement’ means slowly in English but foreigner to wind up in French.
And you can add injury time equalisers to the list I am sure everyone cares about geopolitical, economic and social issues but it's more cathartic to moan about the really important stuff
I will defer to your superior knowledge of the subject. I never had any time for the world’s oldest con trick, religion. As Easter moves every year so that it is always on a Sunday, that just adds further fuel to the logical argument that Christianity is a complete load of hokum, as they cannot decide when things actually happened. As religion keeps billions of gullible soles on the planet entertained, they can do as they please so long as they leave me and the other non-believers alone. We know for scientific fact that Jesus was not born on 25th December in the year zero because that date was selected centuries later and there was no star to follow. In the modern, supposedly well educated world, it amazes me that people still believe works that are un-contemporaneous, largely disproven and even contradictory. No modern day scientific conclusion would be accepted on such flimsy evidence. If Paul Daniels had got out of his coffin two days after his death, everyone would know it was magic.
You're fond of saying believers should leave non believers alone and stop ramming religion down their throats. I agree with that but do have to note that the only person on here who mentions religion on anything like a regular basis is you. Physician heal thyself
Objection – facts not in evidence: “mentions religion on anything like a regular basis”: Excepting Gabriel Fernando de Jesus the footballer, my previous 4,672 posts contain 6 religious subject posts, of which 4 were replies to comments by others. My first religious reference was about Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby in 2013. My one reference in 2014 was a reply agreeing with a point that Dexter made. In 2015, I replied to somebody called Dan Starkey twice – one of those posts was about Ramadan fasting and the other about ‘kaflik birds’. I also mentioned God in a reply to a light-hearted post by Cyclonic about God making the Earth flat. I have mentioned Godolphin hundreds of times more than God, but why let actual facts hinder your argument? My one reference to ‘Jesus Christ’ was an exclamation in a reply to a post by Ron. Perhaps your definition of “regular” is “more than 0.00128 per cent of the time” or perhaps your memory is playing tricks on you.
Companies that pay extortionate sums of money to advertising consultants to come up with crap adverts. The number of times I've seen an advert and got pissed off to think they got paid to come up with that crap. Just seen one that reminded me.
Bang average championship sides acting all billy big bollox trying to unsettle your league 2 manager in the week of the biggest game in club history #checkatrade trophy final
