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- Thu Feb 08, 2024 9:31 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: What films have you watched lately?
- Replies: 432
- Views: 283605
Re: What films have you watched lately?
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,...
- Wed Feb 07, 2024 8:09 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
- Replies: 640
- Views: 314305
Re: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
I'm guessing he was shaken but not stirredMark James wrote: ↑Wed Feb 07, 2024 6:03 pm https://twitter.com/ChudsOfTikTok/statu ... 8869177654
Don't name your child James Bond.
- Wed Feb 07, 2024 11:50 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
- Replies: 1615
- Views: 705261
Re: Questions you've always wanted answered
Roof boxes are more popular these days.
I used to have one and a small trailer.
I used to have one and a small trailer.
- Tue Feb 06, 2024 4:31 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
- Replies: 1615
- Views: 705261
Re: Questions you've always wanted answered
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
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
- Mon Feb 05, 2024 8:48 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: The Dead of 2024
- Replies: 67
- Views: 11059
Re: The Dead of 2024
I think I might have backed the wrong horse
- Mon Feb 05, 2024 4:22 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: The Dead of 2024
- Replies: 67
- Views: 11059
Re: The Dead of 2024
Don't tell him PikeGavin Chipper wrote: ↑Mon Feb 05, 2024 2:30 pm Wow. That's Dad's Army gone then. I was hoping for another 20 years.
- Sat Feb 03, 2024 9:15 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
- Replies: 1615
- Views: 705261
Re: Questions you've always wanted answered
That's a nice quiz question I can give you a clue it wasn't a misspelling
- Sat Feb 03, 2024 7:52 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
- Replies: 1615
- Views: 705261
Re: Questions you've always wanted answered
Quite a funny joke rendered useless now I've corrected my typoGavin Chipper wrote: ↑Sat Feb 03, 2024 3:10 pm There's better satellite coverage just outside the Grim Reaper's house.
- Sat Feb 03, 2024 2:27 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
- Replies: 1615
- Views: 705261
Re: Questions you've always wanted answered
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
I have to be at deaths door to get a face to face appointment these days
- Thu Feb 01, 2024 8:24 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Favourite Comedy Gig
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3174
Re: Favourite Comedy Gig
I'm old and forgetful, even though I posted only a year agoMatt Morrison wrote: ↑Thu Feb 01, 2024 2:48 pmProbably because it already exists (I was sure I'd posted an answer to this sort of question before so searched).
Tony Law.
Tim Key.
- Wed Jan 31, 2024 2:10 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Favourite Comedy Gig
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3174
Re: Favourite Comedy Gig
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...
- Wed Jan 31, 2024 2:05 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Favourite Comedy Gig
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3174
Re: Favourite Comedy Gig
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
- Wed Jan 31, 2024 2:02 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Politics in General
- Replies: 1645
- Views: 1764993
Re: Politics in General
This means nothing to me.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.
I have delusions of Midge Ure
- Wed Jan 31, 2024 11:54 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: People you shouldn't trust
- Replies: 921
- Views: 462655
Re: People you shouldn't trust
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...
- Tue Jan 30, 2024 5:31 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Which Is Your Favourite Joke?
- Replies: 48
- Views: 12526
- Tue Jan 30, 2024 2:00 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Favourite Comedy Gig
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3174
Re: Favourite Comedy Gig
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.
- Mon Jan 29, 2024 5:48 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Favourite Comedy Gig
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3174
Favourite Comedy Gig
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
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
- Mon Jan 29, 2024 10:07 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: People you shouldn't trust
- Replies: 921
- Views: 462655
Re: People you shouldn't trust
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
Actually people who use the term socials.
Confirming what I always suspected I don't trust myself
- Fri Jan 26, 2024 9:48 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Worst word ever
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3247
Re: Worst word ever
Gusset
- Fri Jan 26, 2024 9:06 am
- Forum: Other game shows
- Topic: Jeopardy!
- Replies: 17
- Views: 4105
Re: Jeopardy!
But no so much yesterday, basic maths errorMarc Meakin wrote: ↑Wed Jan 24, 2024 8:44 pm Great episode today
The game theorist used his skills well
- Thu Jan 25, 2024 2:57 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold
- Replies: 318
- Views: 52115
Re: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold
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...
- Wed Jan 24, 2024 8:44 pm
- Forum: Other game shows
- Topic: Jeopardy!
- Replies: 17
- Views: 4105
Re: Jeopardy!
Great episode today
The game theorist used his skills well
The game theorist used his skills well
- Wed Jan 24, 2024 6:02 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold
- Replies: 318
- Views: 52115
Re: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold
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...
- Wed Jan 24, 2024 3:59 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold
- Replies: 318
- Views: 52115
Re: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold
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...
- Wed Jan 24, 2024 1:50 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
- Replies: 1615
- Views: 705261
Re: Questions you've always wanted answered
The council has installed a radon detector.
When did this become a thing?
When did this become a thing?
- Tue Jan 23, 2024 4:06 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Was Jeanne Calment a fraud?
- Replies: 70
- Views: 29440
Re: Was Jeanne Calment a fraud?
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...
- Mon Jan 22, 2024 6:40 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: People you shouldn't trust
- Replies: 921
- Views: 462655
Re: People you shouldn't trust
People who deconstruct a joke to it's base level
- Mon Jan 22, 2024 2:59 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Real life situations that made you laugh
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2416
Real life situations that made you laugh
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.
- Mon Jan 22, 2024 2:39 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
- Replies: 1615
- Views: 705261
Re: Questions you've always wanted answered
MeMark James wrote: ↑Sat Jan 20, 2024 9:41 am Is there anything in real life that actually has a self destruct button?
- Mon Jan 22, 2024 1:37 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Was Jeanne Calment a fraud?
- Replies: 70
- Views: 29440
Re: Was Jeanne Calment a fraud?
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...
- Sat Jan 20, 2024 7:01 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Was Jeanne Calment a fraud?
- Replies: 70
- Views: 29440
Re: Was Jeanne Calment a fraud?
I'd love to be roaming this forum when I'm 80
- Fri Jan 19, 2024 8:51 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
- Replies: 1615
- Views: 705261
Re: Questions you've always wanted answered
How is it that a poem or song written in a foreign language is translated into English it still seems to rhyme
- Fri Jan 19, 2024 9:47 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Was Jeanne Calment a fraud?
- Replies: 70
- Views: 29440
Re: Was Jeanne Calment a fraud?
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
There's a horror movie in that
- Fri Jan 19, 2024 9:44 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: People you shouldn't trust
- Replies: 921
- Views: 462655
Re: People you shouldn't trust
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...
- Thu Jan 18, 2024 3:40 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
- Replies: 1615
- Views: 705261
Re: Questions you've always wanted answered
Maybe it's a secret safeMark Deeks wrote: ↑Thu Jan 18, 2024 3:12 pm What's the deal with those plugs in the wall that have no holes?
- Wed Jan 17, 2024 9:43 am
- Forum: Other game shows
- Topic: Jeopardy!
- Replies: 17
- Views: 4105
Re: Jeopardy!
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...
- Mon Jan 15, 2024 4:35 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
- Replies: 640
- Views: 314305
Re: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
A bottom feeder refers to a fish that eats from the sea bed rather than someone that eats shit
- Mon Jan 15, 2024 2:21 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Track and Field (and Road) Athletics
- Replies: 252
- Views: 58883
- Sun Jan 14, 2024 11:40 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: What films have you watched lately?
- Replies: 432
- Views: 283605
Re: What films have you watched lately?
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...
- Sun Jan 14, 2024 9:54 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
- Replies: 1615
- Views: 705261
Re: Questions you've always wanted answered
I just assumed someone had shat in his sinkIan Volante wrote: ↑Sat Jan 13, 2024 10:52 pmSome sort of biofilm. Don't put it in your sandwiches.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?
- Sat Jan 13, 2024 3:15 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold
- Replies: 318
- Views: 52115
Re: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold
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...
- Sat Jan 13, 2024 2:04 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold
- Replies: 318
- Views: 52115
Re: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold
I don't think we will ever a man walk on the moon, this century
- Thu Jan 11, 2024 7:25 pm
- Forum: Other game shows
- Topic: Jeopardy!
- Replies: 17
- Views: 4105
Re: Jeopardy!
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...
- Thu Jan 11, 2024 7:19 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: The most boring OFF-topic poll
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2892
Re: The most boring OFF-topic poll
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...
- Thu Jan 11, 2024 5:58 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: The most boring OFF-topic poll
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2892
Re: The most boring OFF-topic poll
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
Marmite cashews, Naarmite peanuts and Cheese infused with Marmite is good
Marmite Peanut butter is not bad.
Marmite with pasta is surprisingly good
- Thu Jan 11, 2024 11:36 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
- Replies: 1615
- Views: 705261
Re: Questions you've always wanted answered
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
- Wed Jan 10, 2024 12:41 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Politics in General
- Replies: 1645
- Views: 1764993
Re: Politics in General
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...
- Tue Jan 09, 2024 7:24 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Politics in General
- Replies: 1645
- Views: 1764993
Re: Politics in General
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 ...
- Tue Jan 09, 2024 3:55 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Politics in General
- Replies: 1645
- Views: 1764993
Re: Politics in General
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-politics-67922410
About fucking time
About fucking time
- Tue Jan 09, 2024 2:59 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Kurt Zouma and animal abuse
- Replies: 160
- Views: 13918
- Tue Jan 09, 2024 2:58 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Kurt Zouma and animal abuse
- Replies: 160
- Views: 13918
Re: Kurt Zouma and animal abuse
Interestingly it's not illegal to eat dogs, just make money from itCallum 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
- Tue Jan 09, 2024 9:45 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Politics in General
- Replies: 1645
- Views: 1764993
Re: Politics in General
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...
- Mon Jan 08, 2024 9:00 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: The Dead of 2024
- Replies: 67
- Views: 11059
Re: The Dead of 2024
JPR RIP
- Mon Jan 08, 2024 6:45 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: The Dead of 2024
- Replies: 67
- Views: 11059
Re: The Dead of 2024
Der Kaiser, probably a better defender than Bobby Moore.
Maybe an unpopular opinion
- Mon Jan 08, 2024 6:42 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Politics in General
- Replies: 1645
- Views: 1764993
Re: Politics in General
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/wales/67807719 This is ridiculous, there is no advantage in pool OK, so for context: A transgender pool champion says she received "vile" and "horrific" abuse online after her opponent refused to play her in a final. Pinches said she did it out of &qu...
- Mon Jan 08, 2024 6:11 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
- Replies: 1615
- Views: 705261
Re: Questions you've always wanted answered
If you're still sending work emails, you surely haven't knocked off early. This was a bone of contention when I worked on a PC at work. When they offered me a work laptop it was on the condition that I could take it home and that's leave work early whilst still working. Needless to say I never got ...
- Mon Jan 08, 2024 4:18 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold
- Replies: 318
- Views: 52115
Re: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold
I think The Pride movement with the rainbow flag should be the all encompassing banner
When I was younger it was Gay Pride but over the years I think the Pride part is more important than the gay part for me, being proud of who you are
When I was younger it was Gay Pride but over the years I think the Pride part is more important than the gay part for me, being proud of who you are
- Mon Jan 08, 2024 1:31 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Euthanasia, isn't it time to decriminalise this
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2513
Re: Euthanasia, isn't it time to decriminalise this
I recommend you watch Truelove on Channel 4 which covers this topic very well
- Mon Jan 08, 2024 12:17 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
- Replies: 1615
- Views: 705261
Re: Questions you've always wanted answered
Maybe so the recipient knows you sent it on your phone if you say, knocked off early, but still wanted to give the impression you are still working and emailed on your phone, you are busted
- Mon Jan 08, 2024 10:49 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Politics in General
- Replies: 1645
- Views: 1764993
Re: Politics in General
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/wales/67807719
This is ridiculous, there is no advantage in pool
This is ridiculous, there is no advantage in pool