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- Mon Oct 30, 2023 12:05 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
- Replies: 1615
- Views: 717058
Re: Questions you've always wanted answered
I don't think the worry is kids getting abducted, more them getting hit by cars.
- Fri Oct 27, 2023 9:36 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Interesting things that aren't necessarily completely obvious
- Replies: 10
- Views: 6149
Interesting things that aren't necessarily completely obvious
NASA explored the idea of putting Big Bird on the Challenger space shuttle. You know, the one that exploded.Ian Volante wrote: ↑Mon Oct 23, 2023 12:07 pm I feel that some people need to look at the title of this thread, and maybe disappear off to the "interesting things that aren't necessarily completely obvious" thread.
- Fri Oct 20, 2023 11:11 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
- Replies: 644
- Views: 321463
Re: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
Not obvious I suppose, but apparently the word Tory for Conservatives comes from an old Irish word for criminal. If the shoe fits.
- Mon Oct 16, 2023 6:32 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Can you be pro-Palestinian without being anti-semetic?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 2482
Re: Can you be pro-Palestinian without being anti-semetic?
Is it not too soon?Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Mon Oct 16, 2023 4:39 pm Not according to the Guardian
https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-67122609
I'm looking forward to Owen Jones comments
- Sun Oct 15, 2023 8:58 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Can you be pro-Palestinian without being anti-semetic?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 2482
Re: Can you be pro-Palestinian without being anti-semetic?
Agree with everyone else. Really appreciated your post Adam.
- Sun Oct 15, 2023 5:08 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Politics in General
- Replies: 1645
- Views: 1782569
Re: Politics in General
https://www.timesofisrael.com/for-years-netanyahu-propped-up-hamas-now-its-blown-up-in-our-faces/ The current state of Israel is a terrorist organisation as much as Hamas is. They are committing war crimes. It is not antisemitic to point this out. Left wing labour would have been elected if it had ...
- Sun Oct 15, 2023 10:50 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Politics in General
- Replies: 1645
- Views: 1782569
Re: Politics in General
https://www.timesofisrael.com/for-years-netanyahu-propped-up-hamas-now-its-blown-up-in-our-faces/ The current state of Israel is a terrorist organisation as much as Hamas is. They are committing war crimes. It is not antisemitic to point this out. Left wing labour would have been elected if it had n...
- Sat Oct 14, 2023 6:51 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Politics in General
- Replies: 1645
- Views: 1782569
Re: Politics in General
It was Israel wasn't it.Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Sat Oct 14, 2023 6:18 pm I've seen some propaganda media adverts on Youtube alongside ads for insurance and Sainsburys advocating killing what is the world coming to.
Note I've avoided saying who
- Wed Oct 11, 2023 5:21 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Countdowners in the news
- Replies: 243
- Views: 145640
Re: Countdowners in the news
https://twitter.com/fesshole/status/1710798417805394113
Not quite in the news but what do we think? Someone claims to have cheated on Countdown. I agree with the reply that says no one who has been on Countdown would call the numbers game the maths section.
Not quite in the news but what do we think? Someone claims to have cheated on Countdown. I agree with the reply that says no one who has been on Countdown would call the numbers game the maths section.
- Wed Oct 11, 2023 4:44 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Politics in General
- Replies: 1645
- Views: 1782569
Re: Politics in General
When you have two terrorist organisations going at each other full guns blazing, it's never going to end well. Hamas beheading babies. Even ISIS had standards Isis have used 4 year olds to detonate explosives. Let's not pretend they have values https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9186359/ ...
- Sat Oct 07, 2023 11:03 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
- Replies: 644
- Views: 321463
Re: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
A friend of mine learned sign language and he was talking to a deaf guy and the deaf guy let a fart and my friend signed "that was loud". And that was the first time the deaf guy realised that farts make noise. So he just realised that and I just realised that deaf people wouldn't know tha...
- Sat Oct 07, 2023 7:15 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Politics in General
- Replies: 1645
- Views: 1782569
Re: Politics in General
https://metro.co.uk/2023/10/04/people-who-see-shoplifting-should-arrest-thieves-minister-says-19600987/ Minister says people who see shoplifting should perform citizens arrests. Now, while this absolutely will not decrease shoplifting, it will increase people getting the shit kicked out of them, so...
- Fri Oct 06, 2023 2:10 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Politics in General
- Replies: 1645
- Views: 1782569
Re: Politics in General
https://metro.co.uk/2023/10/04/people-who-see-shoplifting-should-arrest-thieves-minister-says-19600987/ Minister says people who see shoplifting should perform citizens arrests. Now, while this absolutely will not decrease shoplifting, it will increase people getting the shit kicked out of them, so ...
- Tue Oct 03, 2023 8:15 am
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: What’s the most remarkable anagram you know of?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 4446
Re: What’s the most remarkable anagram you know of?
Jeremy's Iron
- Fri Sep 29, 2023 3:32 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
- Replies: 1615
- Views: 717058
Re: Questions you've always wanted answered
I think "broken home" is a very weird term for it. I've always thought of that in a more general sense. Like if one of your parents goes out and gets drunk and then comes back and beats everyone, that's a broken home. Not just your parents happen not to live with each other. My sentiments...
- Fri Sep 29, 2023 9:18 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
- Replies: 1615
- Views: 717058
Re: Questions you've always wanted answered
You know in tv shows, kids and even adults get upset when their parents divorce. I've never understood this. Divorce was only legalised in Ireland in 1997 or something like that so even the idea of couples being separated was pretty taboo and I remember the first set of kids I met who came from a &q...
- Wed Sep 20, 2023 4:25 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Celebrities that are all round good eggs
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2243
Re: Celebrities that are all round good eggs
Wonder Woman herself, Linda Carter.
- Wed Sep 20, 2023 8:12 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
- Replies: 1615
- Views: 717058
Re: Questions you've always wanted answered
Yes. I absolutely am spending too much time on twitter. Have to get my fill before he makes you have to pay for it.
- Tue Sep 19, 2023 10:51 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
- Replies: 1615
- Views: 717058
Re: Questions you've always wanted answered
Admittedly stolen from twitter, but why does the word fridge have a d in it when the word refrigerator doesn't?
- Tue Sep 19, 2023 8:01 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Trial by media (Russell Brand etc.)
- Replies: 19
- Views: 2237
Re: Trial by media (Russell Brand etc.)
There absolutely would have been WhatsApps about Saville et all in the 70s you nobhead. Katherine Ryan couldn't name names in public without being sued. It took journalists at least four years of work to be able to bring this to the table without that threat. Especially with libel laws in the UK. An...
- Mon Sep 18, 2023 5:11 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Trial by media (Russell Brand etc.)
- Replies: 19
- Views: 2237
Re: Trial by media (Russell Brand etc.)
Remember the movie Spotlight. They named priests who had only been accused before any trial convicted them, based on journalistic investigation. This is exactly what the media and proper journalism should do. On a side note, getting me to agree with Rhys and Andrew Neil is almost the worst thing Rus...
- Mon Sep 18, 2023 1:06 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Trial by media (Russell Brand etc.)
- Replies: 19
- Views: 2237
Re: Trial by media (Russell Brand etc.)
As you probably know, C4 did a programme on accusation against Russell Brand last night. I haven't seen it, but it's also all over the news on the BBC etc. But if he's been accused of rape and other sexual offences, should this not go to court before they start making television programmes about it...
- Wed Sep 06, 2023 11:59 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
- Replies: 644
- Views: 321463
Re: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
There are some people who, when they hear an asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs, think that the asteroid actually hit all the dinosaurs.
I'm really hoping this is followed up with a post that says, the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs didn't actually hit all of the dinosaurs.
I'm really hoping this is followed up with a post that says, the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs didn't actually hit all of the dinosaurs.
- Fri Sep 01, 2023 6:25 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
- Replies: 644
- Views: 321463
Re: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
I haven't died yet. If this trend continues I might be immortal.
- Mon Aug 28, 2023 4:58 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
- Replies: 644
- Views: 321463
Re: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
They should do a Celebrity special version of a gameshow where it's all celebrities who went bankrupt and they are playing for themselves instead of for charity.
- Sun Aug 27, 2023 9:55 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
- Replies: 1615
- Views: 717058
Re: Questions you've always wanted answered
If you're in court and the judge says, "Do you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth?" What happens if you say no?
- Fri Aug 25, 2023 11:50 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Politics in General
- Replies: 1645
- Views: 1782569
Re: Politics in General
Now that womb transplants are a thing I can't wait until a trans woman has an abortion. Just to see the reaction from the right.
- Thu Aug 24, 2023 9:57 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: What films have you watched lately?
- Replies: 438
- Views: 290339
Re: What films have you watched lately?
They Cloned Tyrone on Netflix is pretty good.
- Thu Aug 24, 2023 9:06 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Rachel Riley Post
- Replies: 76
- Views: 17665
Re: Rachel Riley Post
Robbed it from twitter to be honest.Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Wed Aug 23, 2023 10:35 am.Mark James wrote: ↑Tue Aug 22, 2023 11:17 pm Mason Greenwood left by mutual consent after it was explained to him what consent was.
I think post of the month at least
- Tue Aug 22, 2023 11:17 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Rachel Riley Post
- Replies: 76
- Views: 17665
Re: Rachel Riley Post
Mason Greenwood left by mutual consent after it was explained to him what consent was.
- Mon Aug 21, 2023 9:24 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: What films have you watched lately?
- Replies: 438
- Views: 290339
Re: What films have you watched lately?
Jackass 4.5. Will it ever not be funny?
- Thu Aug 17, 2023 1:00 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
- Replies: 644
- Views: 321463
Re: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
"Honk if you like X" bumper stickers are not supposed to illicit fans of X to honk. It's a private joke for the driver that if they make someone mad enough to honk at them they can console themselves that the person isn't mad at them but just really likes X.
- Tue Aug 15, 2023 1:38 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: What films have you watched lately?
- Replies: 438
- Views: 290339
Re: What films have you watched lately?
https://youtu.be/tTA584iCoSU
Just watched this. Bit of an Australian cult classic. Really enjoyed it.
Just watched this. Bit of an Australian cult classic. Really enjoyed it.
- Fri Aug 11, 2023 9:19 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
- Replies: 1615
- Views: 717058
Re: Questions you've always wanted answered
Have they ever tried introducing polar bears to the antarctic? You'd probably have to introduce more seals at the same time if you didn't want them to die out Apparently there's more than enough. It would be a tremendously bad idea because of how it would fuck up the ecosystem but I was wondering i...
- Thu Aug 10, 2023 9:22 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
- Replies: 1615
- Views: 717058
Re: Questions you've always wanted answered
Have they ever tried introducing polar bears to the antarctic?
- Thu Aug 03, 2023 6:38 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
- Replies: 1615
- Views: 717058
Re: Questions you've always wanted answered
What, that she's guilty but will get away with it anyway?Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Thu Aug 03, 2023 1:36 pm
I'm gonna cross my fingers and hope this is another Kevin Spacey type scenario.
- Mon Jul 31, 2023 7:49 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
- Replies: 644
- Views: 321463
Re: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
Cosying up to right wing ideologues and conspiracy theory wackjobs.Fiona T wrote: ↑Sun Jul 30, 2023 9:38 pmFor those of us who live in an oblivious bubble outside popular culture, what is he doing now?Mark James wrote: ↑Tue Jul 25, 2023 9:05 am Russell Brand did less harm to society when he was addicted to heroin than whatever it is he's doing now.
- Wed Jul 26, 2023 9:59 pm
- Forum: Games and Puzzles
- Topic: Password Game
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3085
Re: Password Game
It was fun until I had to paste an emoji of the current phase of the moon. My phone isn't letting me do it.
- Wed Jul 26, 2023 9:50 pm
- Forum: Games and Puzzles
- Topic: Password Game
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3085
Password Game
https://neal.fun/password-game/
This is fun. Almost a mixture of loads of different games including Wordle, Geo Guesser and Sporcle.
This is fun. Almost a mixture of loads of different games including Wordle, Geo Guesser and Sporcle.
Re: Music
Have we done this yet: First record you ever bought with your own money. I think mine was Shame, Evelyn "champagne" King 12 inch. Think the first CD single I bought was Brimful of Asha by Cornershop. First CD album with my own money was probably Appetite for Destruction by Guns 'N' Roses ...
- Tue Jul 25, 2023 9:05 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
- Replies: 644
- Views: 321463
Re: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
Russell Brand did less harm to society when he was addicted to heroin than whatever it is he's doing now.
- Mon Jul 17, 2023 7:59 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
- Replies: 644
- Views: 321463
Re: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
If you are on a online dating site and the main profile picture has two people in it, the account never belongs to the good looking one.
- Sun Jul 16, 2023 9:47 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: What TV programmes have you been watching lately?
- Replies: 773
- Views: 659625
Re: What TV programmes have you been watching lately?
Watched first two episodes of the new series of Black Mirror. It's pretty good so far.
- Fri Jul 07, 2023 1:02 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
- Replies: 644
- Views: 321463
Re: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
Elon Musk is such a douchebag that he makes Mark Zuckerberg, one of the world's foremost douchebags, look like less of a douchebag.
- Sun Jun 25, 2023 1:42 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Glastonbury
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1013
Re: Glastonbury
For as much as I like my music I was never into going to outdoor gigs but I did recently see Pulp and last night I was at Blur and they were both excellent. I am also going to see Kraftwerk next week.
- Thu Jun 22, 2023 1:40 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
- Replies: 1615
- Views: 717058
Re: Questions you've always wanted answered
I thought a worm was going to go one way but then it went another way so they can feint.
- Wed Jun 14, 2023 1:42 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
- Replies: 644
- Views: 321463
Re: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
I'm baiting degenerate gamblers to keep gambling.Ian Volante wrote: ↑Wed Jun 14, 2023 12:08 pmI don't get this one at all. Can you explain?Mark James wrote: ↑Mon Jun 12, 2023 10:19 pm 90% of gambling addicts stop just before they're about to win big.
- Mon Jun 12, 2023 10:19 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
- Replies: 644
- Views: 321463
Re: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
90% of gambling addicts stop just before they're about to win big.
- Wed Jun 07, 2023 11:41 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Politics in General
- Replies: 1645
- Views: 1782569
Re: Politics in General
Of course it sucks that people go through tough times but I guess it's like the paradox of tolerating the intolerant. I have a hard time having empathy for people that lack empathy. I consider advocating for policies that will cause harm to be a personal attack. At this moment in time I think Conser...
- Sat Jun 03, 2023 11:23 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Politics in General
- Replies: 1645
- Views: 1782569
Re: Politics in General
The fact that Rhys has probably never set foot in a charity shop aside, I can envisage him acting similarly to Barlow in that sketch if he did... Is that comment really necessary? Yes. What's this obsession with civility politics? Have you seen what's going on in the world? The right have gone nuts...
- Tue May 30, 2023 9:28 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: What TV programmes have you been watching lately?
- Replies: 773
- Views: 659625
Re: What TV programmes have you been watching lately?
Cool. I'm trying not to binge it. First two episodes were on sky last night. Not sure what the regular schedule is but I have it set to record in case I'm not around but I'm hoping not to watch more than two a week.
- Mon May 29, 2023 10:12 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: What TV programmes have you been watching lately?
- Replies: 773
- Views: 659625
Re: What TV programmes have you been watching lately?
Yep, enjoying Poker Face.
- Thu May 25, 2023 11:45 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Politics in General
- Replies: 1645
- Views: 1782569
Re: Politics in General
What's that got to do with anything?Rhys Benjamin wrote: ↑Thu May 25, 2023 9:58 pmYou must have missed this then. https://order-order.com/2023/05/19/bbc- ... -coverage/
- Thu May 25, 2023 6:37 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Politics in General
- Replies: 1645
- Views: 1782569
Re: Politics in General
I'm so woke I'm actually allowed to use the N-word in any context but I choose not to.
- Thu May 25, 2023 3:04 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Politics in General
- Replies: 1645
- Views: 1782569
Re: Politics in General
https://youtu.be/b4buJMMiwcg Here's the BBC being "left on social issues". There might be liberal elements in the BBC but let's not pretend they are in any way on the left. I do think they try to adhere to balance better than some other media outlets but the best I could say is the BBC's o...
- Thu May 25, 2023 1:18 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Politics in General
- Replies: 1645
- Views: 1782569
Re: Politics in General
I think this is a bit insane really. What's insane is not understanding that the actual objective of the story is to make people read the headline and think the looney left, political correctness brigade have gone too far again when in reality it's one fucking student that could have been easily ig...
- Wed May 24, 2023 7:33 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Deathwatch 2017
- Replies: 467
- Views: 259341
Re: Deathwatch 2017
And Aaron Ramsey hasn't even scored this year.
- Fri May 19, 2023 9:34 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Wildlife Parks are they a good thing.
- Replies: 5
- Views: 859
Re: Wildlife Parks are they a good thing.
They've improved I think as they are more about conservation and animal rescue these days.
- Fri May 12, 2023 1:20 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Is it time to end, the Monarchy?
- Replies: 66
- Views: 4923
Re: Is it time to end, the Monarchy?
I hope she's learned her lesson and will no longer support the royals and any of their nonsense ceremonies.
- Thu May 11, 2023 9:04 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: What TV programmes have you been watching lately?
- Replies: 773
- Views: 659625
Re: What TV programmes have you been watching lately?
I don't watch Coronation Street or I'm a Celebrity but since I'm big perv I was googling Helen Flanagan and was looking at her Wikipedia page and I felt bad for her because she was only nominated for, but didn't win the Best Bitch award. I don't think they should announce the nominees for that award...