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Marc Meakin

Putting this here as I can't think where else to put it
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-68237123
Its about Everest and poo

Marc Meakin

Cats and dogs are the same. People think cats are cold and heartless and dogs show love. Bullshit. They've both learned to manipulate humans to get food. This is a good one. I find it odd when people paint dogs as being "they love you unconditionally and will protect you at all costs". If...

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Poor Things was absolutely batshit. Loved it. Very funny. Off to see Argylle tomorrow. Poor Things second to Oppenheimer as film of the year. Let me know what you think of Argylle I have no real standards when it comes to films. Any light entertainment pap will do me. Argylle was rubbish. Can't rem...

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/swimming/68248821

I would to see athletes try this

Marc Meakin

Why is it off putting?
Ive never considered the concept of Parkrun being competitive but more collaborative
But then I haven't dipped my toe in yet

Marc Meakin

Which foodstuff has the biggest retail profit margin? I would have said crisps or popcorn (especially in a cinema) but one of my managers said it was bread but I'm not convinced Well if you're allowed to specify the place (e.g. in a cinema) there's a lot of places that hike up prices if you're in a...

Marc Meakin

Which foodstuff has the biggest retail profit margin?
I would have said crisps or popcorn (especially in a cinema) but one of my managers said it was bread but I'm not convinced

Marc Meakin

Callum Todd wrote: ↑Thu Feb 08, 2024 5:53 pm Poor Things was absolutely batshit. Loved it. Very funny.

Off to see Argylle tomorrow.

Poor Things second to Oppenheimer as film of the year.
Let me know what you think of Argylle

Marc Meakin

Watched about 10 films at the cinema already this year. Stand outs are American Fiction. Yes Americans really can do satire, really funny. The Zone of Interest, probably told more about the horrors of Nazi concentration camps than Schindlers List.everyone should see it but I think only once Argylle,...

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Mark James wrote: ↑Wed Feb 07, 2024 6:03 pm https://twitter.com/ChudsOfTikTok/statu ... 8869177654

Don't name your child James Bond.

I'm guessing he was shaken but not stirred

Marc Meakin

Roof boxes are more popular these days.
I used to have one and a small trailer.

Marc Meakin

Why does the medical profession come up with terms like Chronic Kidney disease then say its nothing to worry about.
I mean Chronic and Disease is bad enough and add kidney to the equation and you can see why I was worried.
Still it was nice to see my GP and to check his satellite signal

Marc Meakin

I think I might have backed the wrong horse

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Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Mon Feb 05, 2024 2:30 pm Wow. That's Dad's Army gone then. I was hoping for another 20 years.

Don't tell him Pike

Marc Meakin

That's a nice quiz question I can give you a clue it wasn't a misspelling

Marc Meakin

Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Sat Feb 03, 2024 3:10 pm There's better satellite coverage just outside the Grim Reaper's house.

Quite a funny joke rendered useless now I've corrected my typo

Marc Meakin

Why are GPs not working as they were pre Covid 19.?
I have to be at deaths door to get a face to face appointment these days

Marc Meakin

Matt Morrison wrote: ↑Thu Feb 01, 2024 2:48 pm
Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Mon Jan 29, 2024 5:48 pm why not a thread for stand up performances.
Probably because it already exists (I was sure I'd posted an answer to this sort of question before so searched).

Tony Law.
Tim Key.

I'm old and forgetful, even though I posted only a year ago

Marc Meakin

Sad to say since he's since become a zionist boomer on a complaining about PC gone mad kick in recent times but Jerry Seinfeld was probably the best live gig I saw. My face was hurting from laughing. Other highlights would be Jackie Mason, Billy Connolly, Bill Burr, Tommy Tiernan, Reginald D. Hunte...

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Jon O'Neill wrote: ↑Tue Jan 30, 2024 9:38 pm Cliche but it's Stewart Lee and Frankie Boyle.

Interestingly, in his set Stewart Lee had a little dig at Frankie Boyle for using a team of uncredited writers. (Lee writes his own material) for his stand Up

Marc Meakin

Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Wed Jan 31, 2024 1:16 pm Just to add to the above, Sunak speaking out in that way suggests delusions of grandeur. His opinion is irrelevant. The ICJ is much bigger than him in this regard.

This means nothing to me.
I have delusions of Midge Ure

Marc Meakin

Anyone who writes/participates in the articles that have the caption "I bought my own house at 22 whilst working at Asda. Here's how you can do the same!" Two lines in: "Michael got a gift of £100,000 from his parents to help towards getting his house, but it was definitely the worki...

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https://www.facebook.com/reel/353635817 ... WDuG2&fs=e

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Callum Todd wrote: ↑Tue Jan 30, 2024 12:56 pm Stewart Lee for me! Enjoy it Marc

It was great really good seats in row D but luckily for me I wasn't wearing a T Shirt as he picked on a few people.
First time I've seen him
One of the few comedians both myself and my partner like.

Marc Meakin

As I am about to see Stewart Lee tonight I though why not a thread for stand up performances.
Up until now, Frank Skinner in 1997 is my favourite, it was a tough gig, coming days after Princess Diana's funeral but he was great as was Bob Monkhouse in 1981 at Butlins in Skegbess

Marc Meakin

People who use the term Netizens when referring to the online community on their socials.
Actually people who use the term socials.
Confirming what I always suspected I don't trust myself

Marc Meakin · Re: Worst word ever Ian Volante wrote: ↑Mon Jan 15, 2024 1:07 pmMoist. Gusset

Ian Volante wrote: ↑Mon Jan 15, 2024 1:07 pmMoist.

Gusset

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Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Wed Jan 24, 2024 8:44 pm Great episode today
The game theorist used his skills well

But no so much yesterday, basic maths error

Marc Meakin

You seem to parrot this as though you're being paid to do so. Have you not yet thought of a more original nickname for him than the tabloids have? Fwiw, I came up with his anagram before the tabloids but probably not first There's a good one for Margaret Thatcher too Baroness Thatcher The Iron Lady...

Marc Meakin

Great episode today
The game theorist used his skills well

Marc Meakin

But seriously, I could never understand how Tony B Liar did not try and reverse the privatised industries back to being nationalised You seem to parrot this as though you're being paid to do so. Have you not yet thought of a more original nickname for him than the tabloids have? Fwiw, I came up wit...

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Sure, but that's privatised industry for you. And that itself is a problem. Essential services like this should not be privatised. You will have to speak up, they can't hear you from back the 1980s 😊. But seriously, I could never understand how Tony B Liar did not try and reverse the privatised ind...

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The council has installed a radon detector.
When did this become a thing?

Marc Meakin

I don't think your post really addressed what Marc was saying. Marc said he expected people living to 100 to be the norm, which I think is fairly interpreted as more people doing that than not. Sure, but in the context of the discussion the exact proportion is not really that relevant. Globally eve...

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People who deconstruct a joke to it's base level

Marc Meakin

A bit Mumsnetty but I was at work today and a 6 year old was showing his grandad (or great grandad as he looked about 80) how to open the child proof lid on a bottle of bleach.

Marc Meakin

Mark James wrote: ↑Sat Jan 20, 2024 9:41 am Is there anything in real life that actually has a self destruct button?

Me

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Improvements in the global south might enable us to surpass 80, but I'd be amazed if we got much further than that. There's already loads of 80-year-olds roaming the streets. What's your point here? Not sure who you are addressing @Ian Volante (oops in FB mode) but I was saying that the oldest livi...

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I'd love to be roaming this forum when I'm 80

Marc Meakin

How is it that a poem or song written in a foreign language is translated into English it still seems to rhyme

Marc Meakin

I think in 30 years time living to 100 plus will be the norm however as we are all gifted with a limited amount of brain cells I can envisage 120 year olds roaming the streets like zombies.
There's a horror movie in that

Marc Meakin

People who put the squash/Ribena/whatever in AFTER the water. what in god's name are you thinking As long as you stir it afterwards. I used Tom makke ribena milkshakes that way too. Before I got a fancy coffee machine I used to make instant coffee by adding it to the boiled water mainly because the...

Marc Meakin

Mark Deeks wrote: ↑Thu Jan 18, 2024 3:12 pm What's the deal with those plugs in the wall that have no holes?

Maybe it's a secret safe

Marc Meakin

It’s a very simple format (which I know and love) and yet some viewers still don’t fully understand how it works. I think Stephen Fry should outline the rules properly at the very beginning of each show as most people don’t necessarily know of the US format; answers must be in the form of a “Who/Wh...

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A bottom feeder refers to a fish that eats from the sea bed rather than someone that eats shit

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This is incredible
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/athletics/67974629

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Poor things. If you can get over the basic premise (I suggest you Google it) Its a very well made film. Its basically a feminist film in a steam punk victorian world about sexual awakening (warning there is a lot of sex in this though not titillating) and control. If you have seen Yorgos previous fi...

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Ian Volante wrote: ↑Sat Jan 13, 2024 10:52 pm
Mark Deeks wrote: ↑Fri Jan 12, 2024 11:09 pm What's that gunky brown gank that builds up around the bathroom tap all about?
Some sort of biofilm. Don't put it in your sandwiches.

I just assumed someone had shat in his sink

Marc Meakin

That's quite a claim, considering they want to do so in the relatively near future. Well September 2026 at the earliest . Yes it's bold. Maybe I should have said, I won't see a moon landing this century, given I'm in my sixties. I think that manned space travel beyond the ISS is full of pitfalls, I...

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I don't think we will ever a man walk on the moon, this century

Marc Meakin

awful fucking show from the 10 mins I watched. never seen the US version to compare though. the "answer with a question" thing is one of the lamest USPs I've ever seen as most of the time the grammar doesn't even fit so it just ends up meaning "say any interrogative word of your choi...

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Twiglets are glorious, equally so for Marmite. I can eat that shit neat from the jar. Marmite is nice in a sandwich with jam (Maus has eaten worse), and also goes very well on Digestive biscuits with cheese. The pasta thing is going on the list to try. It doesn't make peanut butter any less vile, h...

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Twiglet's are crap mainly because of the texture
Marmite cashews, Naarmite peanuts and Cheese infused with Marmite is good
Marmite Peanut butter is not bad.
Marmite with pasta is surprisingly good

Marc Meakin

Mark Deeks wrote: ↑Thu Jan 11, 2024 11:31 am What's the difference between a cook and a chef?

Ive always assumed a chef has had some training beforehand but a cook may not have.
I mean I know school Cooks without formal training but not a School chef

Marc Meakin

On the pool thing, if it's just that fewer women play than men, then there's no need for a separate women's category on the basis of fairness, but there could still be interest/demand anyway, and I don't think it's necessarily too outrageous to have a women's category. In any case, while there migh...

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We used to have men v Ladies competitions in Scrabble and it was a fairly even affair given it wasn't a rated event so the elite players didn't always play. It might be something worth considering for focal but it's probably not a popular idea. Doing a bit of research I would say women are probably ...

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-politics-67922410
About fucking time

Marc Meakin

Fiona T wrote: ↑Tue Jan 09, 2024 11:22 am Yeah I did wonder what the difference between eating a dog and eating a cow is.

Come to think of it, I think all the animals we traditionally eat are vegetarian - we don't generally eat carnivores - wonder why that is....

I do like shark fin soup

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Callum Todd wrote: ↑Tue Jan 09, 2024 10:45 am Dog meat to be outlawed in South Korea

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-67920167

Interestingly it's not illegal to eat dogs, just make money from it

Marc Meakin

If there's no advantage, then why is the women's #1 ranked #118 in the open rankings? The answer to this question is the reason why there's a protected category, regardless of size, strength, speed and power advantages. Its not a level playing field in the same way that there are less established c...

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