Ambulance... Ambiwlans - Has dumbing down gone too far?

[james_tigerwoods]

carreauchompeur said:

I love the way the OP is so quick off the mark every...single...time this thread reappears.

That's because i get an email whenever it's bumped by you lot.

You 'tard

And i think of all you lot smiling and laughing. At me :-(

Therapy anyone? I think i've gone insane, can't remember my own name......

Well, the "Therapy" song reference was funny to me anyway

[james_tigerwoods]

captainzep said:

We're off to Wales at the end of the week.

My usual trick for diverting Zep child Mk1 away from the clamour for ice cream when an ice cream approaches in its loud bingly bongly way is to simply state that it's an ambulance for clowns.

Does anyone know what the Welsh word for 'clowns' is so I have my story straight when in the Principality?

1. clown n.m. (clowniaid)
2. digrifwas n.m. (digrifweision)
3. lleban n.m. (llebanod)

Obviously, I'd go with the first of "clown". Pronounced slowly, with some random "ll"s, some wild gesticulation, shouting and spitting.

[james_tigerwoods]

9 Days - Leave it 9 days!

Actually - leave it alone... Each time this is resurrected, some fluffy animal, somewhere, suffers a fate worse than my embarrassment....

[james_tigerwoods]

carmadgaz said:

Mc lovin said:

shirly this should be pinned so people dont have to keep bumping it!

Naa the fun of it is waiting for it to resurface every few days

Which isn't funny

Oh, hang on....

[james_tigerwoods]

Thought I'd get this in before someone else does

Cheers chuffer - there's a white fiver on it's way!

[james_tigerwoods]

sleep envy said:

I'm surprised you're attention whoring this thread

Am just putting this in now to save it popping up for me to see anyway.

Trust me, I don't generally attention we this or bump it - look back through - I'm pretty sure I'm hardly ever the one to bump this, but I will respond to it as sometimes it makes me laugh.

ETA - would you rather I throw teddies out of the pram every time it pops up and demand it to be locked?

Edited by james_tigerwoods on Friday 10th July 09:14

[james_tigerwoods]

sleep envy said:

james_tigerwoods said:

Am just putting this in now to save it popping up for me to see anyway.

Trust me, I don't generally attention we this or bump it - look back through - I'm pretty sure I'm hardly ever the one to bump this, but I will respond to it as sometimes it makes me laugh.

ETA - would you rather I throw teddies out of the pram every time it pops up and demand it to be locked?

you're enjoying the notoriety of a joke that's well past its sell by date

let it die, much unlike like oxo and mx5

Yeh, it's a laugh a minute - I like being reminded of something like this that I did, stupidly, every bloody week.



Edited to remove my childish rant

Edited by james_tigerwoods on Friday 10th July 09:32

[james_tigerwoods]

sleep envy said:

actually, keep this thread going - based on your last response it does great service to you

[james_tigerwoods]

sleep envy said:

james_tigerwoods said:

great response just like your 5 year old rant

agree, lock it

I'm not self publicising this thread, I don't revel in its attention/noteriety and I don't intentionally bump it - My childish rant (and the eye rolling above) was/is a direct result of being in a pissy mood due to having had no sleep due to small child and the rant was, admittedly, idiotic which is why I removed it.

If it needs to be locked because of that and the perception it may create of me - Lock it and let it die.

[Hangs head in shame]

Edited by james_tigerwoods on Friday 10th July 09:46

[james_tigerwoods]

him_over_there said:

James.

Haaaaaaaave you met Chris ?

http://www.pistonheads.com/xforums/topic.asp?h=0&a...

I think that thread should take future precedence over this one

[james_tigerwoods]

But that's not dumbing down!

[james_tigerwoods]

GTIR said:

james_tigerwoods said:

But that's not dumbing down!

I thought you wanted this thread to die!

Shame on you.

Well, yes, but I don't keep bumping it from deep sleep!

[james_tigerwoods]

Shaw Tarse said:

james_tigerwoods said:

GTIR said:

james_tigerwoods said:

But that's not dumbing down!

I thought you wanted this thread to die!

Shame on you.

Well, yes, but I don't keep bumping it from deep sleep!

But do you like the infamy?

Nooo - But I've not posted in here for a while and it was in my email.... This will be my last post here. Promise.

Infamy! Infamy! They've all got it in for me....

[james_tigerwoods]

7mike said:

james_tigerwoods said:

.... This will be my last post here. Promise.

Bet yer can't resist taking a peek though

No! I mean yes!! I mean no!!! Aw crap!

Edited by james_tigerwoods on Sunday 16th August 19:27

[james_tigerwoods]

7mike said:

................sorry James

No you're not

Note - there may have been some drink involved when I got this.....

Edited by james_tigerwoods on Wednesday 26th August 20:05

[james_tigerwoods]

GTIR said:

Well funny if you're a member of PH - And are familiar with this thread.

That'd be most people who post in P&P - Sorry, "The lounge" then....

It's a proper "in" joke - I'm looking forward to explaining it to people:

"Well, I posted about dumbing down. Of the word 'Ambulance'. Before I thought about the Welsh variant. And I got the piss taken out of me. A lot. And then I though I should, er, well, never mind...."

[james_tigerwoods]

pits said:

Dr.Doofenshmirtz said:

There was a real life 'Ambiwlans' on BBC1 Traffic cops last night.
I LOL'd

Ambiwlans? Have they spelled it wrong, or has dumbing down gon....Oh wait sorry

James, that sticker is superb, infact perhaps even a PH shop sticker???

I got it from Zazzle which was, once I didn't use Safari, Firefox or IE6quite easy to do

I am, however, gutted that I didn't get a PH logo on the other side - but would that have been a Trademark infringement....

[james_tigerwoods]

I like the PH shop sticker idea - It's a shame I couldn't mine as a Window transfer though...

[james_tigerwoods]

Ah man - I thought (hoped) this would have been forgotten. 11 Days though - that's a record

Again.

Chunter, chunter.

[james_tigerwoods]

Don said:

If it keeps humiliating James than we're doing God's work.

Hey.... No fair!