Ridiculous reasons or arguments people put forward

[DonnyMac]

DickyC said:

DonnyMac said:

Maybe it had decomposed before it got frozen?

We tried him with all those arguments. He just wouldn't have it. But, then, this was the bloke who condemned any artifice among his fellow man and yet had a tattoo and a comb over. The tattoo he explained with, "Everyone had one when I had it done," but the comb over no one ever had the balls to quiz him about. This, despite it standing out perpendicular from his head like a shelf for a carriage clock in anything stronger than a gentle breeze.

Thank the sweet baby jesus I read that twice.

The first time I read it "tattoo and a comb over" became "tattoo of a comb over" and my head went into a tailspin, everyone had it done, no one had the balls to quiz him about it and a gentle breeze affected its perpendicular-ness.

Everything was right with the world upon the second reading.

Phew.

[vx220]

DickyC said:

A mammoth was discovered frozen into a glacier. Scientists had trouble examining it because when bits were thawed out they decomposed very quickly. This, a colleague claimed, was why he would never have a freezer.

A fridge to keep things fresh for a few days, yes. A freezer to keep things edible for a few weeks or a few months, no. All because a 200,000 year old mammoth decomposed when thawed.

WHERE WILL HE KEEP SAUSAGES FOR HAMMERING INTO HIS NEIGHBOURS LAWN!?!?!?

[soad]

vx220 said:

WHERE WILL HE KEEP SAUSAGES FOR HAMMERING INTO HIS NEIGHBOURS LAWN!?!?!?

He's probably not a PH'er.

[frumpytrickle]

ClassicMotorNut said:

I think I would prefer being raped to having my house ransacked and losing all the material possessions that I hold dear.

kateg28 said:

Really? You can replace possessions.

classiccarnut said:

Not if they're unique, out of production or very expensive. I'd rather have a sore arse and a few months of mental discomfort, assuming it would take me that long to get over it.

Worth repeating.

Edited by frumpytrickle on Saturday 20th September 16:20

Edited by frumpytrickle on Saturday 20th September 16:21

[ocrx8]

Everything some bint in my office says.

[austinsmirk]

Just re phones

Key point being cost. 24 v 40 a mth. Really 40 squids for a phone ???

And worse data, mins etc.

And in my experience android phones just fail miserably.


Mind you the yoof I was arguing with is regularly getting monthly bills of over 100 due to his downloads.


In the 80's downloading yr "entertainment" cost feck all from the bottom of a hedge.

[DickyC]

When we were growing up, my brother and I were frequently subjected to burnt toast. I took the pragmatic approach, scraped off the worst of the burnt and ate the toast. My brother refused to eat any of it on the grounds that the burnt bits were pure carbon and carbon is radioactive.

[StuntmanMike]

Impasse said:

But then Android stuff isn't exactly rubbish either - just different to Apple. The fanboy frothing over both types is worthy of its own entry into a Thread of Cringe.

This is true, I have had 1 iPhone and 3 android phones, I generally get a better deal on android which I why I've had 3 of them, the handsets have all been st though, but in performance, all very similar.

[StuntmanMike]

mph1977 said:

in 1984 apple made a game changing decision and have been riding on the back of that the the reputations of the Wizard of Woz and the Cu*t of Jobs ever since

classic Mac vs DOS was a gamechanger

classic mac /PPC mac vs Win 3.11 over dos was still a league ahead

windows post W95 reached the point for the uninterested consumer when it worked out the box like the classic Mac did, if you area 'man in a shed' with an interest in under the lid of computers you variously
1. have a *nix box
2.use a Win/ Mac for your usual office / web / email uses and play with raspberry pi and/or arduino
3.use a Win/ Mac for your usual office / web / email uses and play with Amateur radio ? packet / Amateur TV etc
4. Have retrocomputing interests and depending on your retro interests run win / mac alongside for office / web. email ( some of the later retro computing kit can live on the 'net e.g. the RiscPC era Acorns, the later amigas ridin on the coattails of Mac / workstation tech ( O40 - 060 - ppc)

DO YOU SPEAK ENGLISH

[Ari]

austinsmirk said:

I now have a an I phone 5c 16 gb with free mins/calls 4gb, free handset. was 23.99 a mth

£24/month!

I bought a used iphone 4 for £80 and a tenner a month for 1,000 minutes (way more than I'll ever use).

[kristie567]

"I know exactly how you feel having your dog put to sleep, I had a fish that died once."



Idiot.

[bitchstewie]

I went into the BMW dealers to buy a BMW but they ignored me so I went and bought a Mercedes instead.

[csd19]

austinsmirk said:

In the 80's downloading yr "entertainment" cost feck all from the bottom of a hedge.

[grumpy]

StuntmanMike said:

mph1977 said:

in 1984 apple made a game changing decision and have been riding on the back of that the the reputations of the Wizard of Woz and the Cu*t of Jobs ever since

classic Mac vs DOS was a gamechanger

classic mac /PPC mac vs Win 3.11 over dos was still a league ahead

windows post W95 reached the point for the uninterested consumer when it worked out the box like the classic Mac did, if you area 'man in a shed' with an interest in under the lid of computers you variously
1. have a *nix box
2.use a Win/ Mac for your usual office / web / email uses and play with raspberry pi and/or arduino
3.use a Win/ Mac for your usual office / web / email uses and play with Amateur radio ? packet / Amateur TV etc
4. Have retrocomputing interests and depending on your retro interests run win / mac alongside for office / web. email ( some of the later retro computing kit can live on the 'net e.g. the RiscPC era Acorns, the later amigas ridin on the coattails of Mac / workstation tech ( O40 - 060 - ppc)

DO YOU SPEAK ENGLISH

You beat me to it.

[bencollins]

grumpy said:

StuntmanMike said:

mph1977 said:

in 1984 apple made a game changing decision and have been riding on the back of that the the reputations of the Wizard of Woz and the Cu*t of Jobs ever since

classic Mac vs DOS was a gamechanger

classic mac /PPC mac vs Win 3.11 over dos was still a league ahead

windows post W95 reached the point for the uninterested consumer when it worked out the box like the classic Mac did, if you area 'man in a shed' with an interest in under the lid of computers you variously
1. have a *nix box
2.use a Win/ Mac for your usual office / web / email uses and play with raspberry pi and/or arduino
3.use a Win/ Mac for your usual office / web / email uses and play with Amateur radio ? packet / Amateur TV etc
4. Have retrocomputing interests and depending on your retro interests run win / mac alongside for office / web. email ( some of the later retro computing kit can live on the 'net e.g. the RiscPC era Acorns, the later amigas ridin on the coattails of Mac / workstation tech ( O40 - 060 - ppc)

DO YOU SPEAK ENGLISH

You beat me to it.

all of these posts were very funny

[DanielSan]

mph1977 said:

in 1984 apple made a game changing decision and have been riding on the back of that the the reputations of the Wizard of Woz and the Cu*t of Jobs ever since

classic Mac vs DOS was a gamechanger

classic mac /PPC mac vs Win 3.11 over dos was still a league ahead

windows post W95 reached the point for the uninterested consumer when it worked out the box like the classic Mac did, if you area 'man in a shed' with an interest in under the lid of computers you variously
1. have a *nix box
2.use a Win/ Mac for your usual office / web / email uses and play with raspberry pi and/or arduino
3.use a Win/ Mac for your usual office / web / email uses and play with Amateur radio ? packet / Amateur TV etc
4. Have retrocomputing interests and depending on your retro interests run win / mac alongside for office / web. email ( some of the later retro computing kit can live on the 'net e.g. the RiscPC era Acorns, the later amigas ridin on the coattails of Mac / workstation tech ( O40 - 060 - ppc)

Is it just me who gets a headache trying to read this?

[Lobsta]

I must be having a senior moment ,I have no idea what that guy said/wrote.

[Boobonman]

DickyC said:

When we were growing up, my brother and I were frequently subjected to burnt toast. I took the pragmatic approach, scraped off the worst of the burnt and ate the toast. My brother refused to eat any of it on the grounds that the burnt bits were pure carbon and carbon is radioactive.

Well, burnt toast is carcinogenic so he may have been on to something...

[DickyC]

Boobonman said:

DickyC said:

When we were growing up, my brother and I were frequently subjected to burnt toast. I took the pragmatic approach, scraped off the worst of the burnt and ate the toast. My brother refused to eat any of it on the grounds that the burnt bits were pure carbon and carbon is radioactive.

Well, burnt toast is carcinogenic so he may have been on to something...

How can man die better than facing fearful odds
For the carcinogenic breakfast and the ashes of his toast?

[aw51 121565]

Think of it as activated charcoal...



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