BBC studiously avoiding reporting top name for boys
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Breadvan72 said:
Funkycoldribena said:
Nah,5" 2", 8st,big boobs with a thing for men with oak desks piled with paper and an ink well.
Oak desks are for country town solicitors. When I was a sprog I had a mahogany desk (yeah, rich mahogany an' all) , but now my desk is (reinforced) glass, which is more fun in many ways, but sometimes requires a can of Pledge the morning after. I used to have an ink well, but I flung it at the devil in a fit of visionary rage one day.I have an ink bottle. My desk is Scandi blonde wood:
Breadvan72 said:
Stickyfinger said:
Really, just how far can you get up your own arse mate ?.....elitist, leftist, liberalist mono speak sucked from the nipple of your monochrome iPhone that just regurgitated all the latest Guardianesk clap trap !
Harsh but fair!PS: Guardianesque, please. Details matter.
PPS: it's a Samsung. Because cheap-ass.
Stickyfinger said:
Really, just how far can you get up your own arse mate ?.....elitist, leftist, liberalist mono speak sucked from the nipple of your monochrome iPhone that just regurgitated all the latest Guardianesk clap trap !
I must upgrade my phone; my 4S is very dependable but I like the sound of this nipple feature.At the risk of being branded up my own arse or elitist, I believe it's "Guardian-esque claptrap".
Breadvan72 said:
One of the current ironies is that many people who bang on about the real world in fact live in an unreal world that is distorted by biased and dishonest media. The academic researcher that NTM may so despise may in fact be closer to reality than the pub blowhard secure in his Daily Mail opinions. I am routinely told that I do not live in the real world because of my job, which is being a litigation lawyer, and because of where I live, which is London. My job introduces me to things like businesses failing or doing well, to government decisions, to school and hospital stuff, to mental health issues, to immigration issues, and sometimes even to prison stuff. But none of that is the real world, I am told. In the area where I live there are wide variances of affluence and poverty. There is social and ethnic diversity. There is crime. There are transport problems. There are homeless people. But this is not the real world. The real world is apparently a leafy cul de sac in a suburb or small town.
Its more to do about having options and choices which you have and others don't. You talk about what you see but that's all you do, see it you don't live it. You always have the option of leaving and saying this is not for me thanks. Take away them options and I expect your view would change very quickly I suspect. Its why there was such a big deal made over Brexit lots of people who are used to having control and options all of a sudden and one taken away from them and they didn't like it and still don't.
Edited by Not-The-Messiah on Thursday 21st September 17:44
Zod said:
I suspect the ink well allusion will go over some heads.
I have an ink bottle. My desk is Scandi blonde wood:
Yes, but would a Scandi blonde? I have an ink bottle. My desk is Scandi blonde wood:
(I had better hope that my Scandi blonde Head of Chambers does not read PH. She is a petrolhead, but is too sane to come in here, I hope).
As for the Lutheran ink well, you never know.
Not-The-Messiah said:
Its why there was such a big deal made out of Brexit lots of people who are used to having control and options all of a sudden and one taken away from them and they didn't like it and still don't.
It's an option that's been taken away from everyone. It's possibly the best geopolitical example of cutting off one's nose to spite one's face. The 'true' elite won't suffer at all if there's a huge financial fallout post-Brexit, and the inability to easily go and work in the EU won't bother them either - they don't need to work. Where it will impact is in the very poorest areas that receive the most EU funding and on those people from poorer backgrounds with a bit of 'get up and go' who will suddenly lose easy access to a huge market for their skills. Turkeys voting for Xmas springs to mind. Not-The-Messiah said:
Its more to do about having options and choices which you have and others don't. You talk about what you see but that's all you do, see it you don't live it. You always have the option of leaving and saying this is not for me thanks. Take away them options and I expect your view would change very quickly I suspect.
Its why there was such a big deal made out of Brexit lots of people who are used to having control and options all of a sudden and one taken away from them and they didn't like it and still don't.
No, that is because Brexit is a dreadful act of national self harm based on shoddy premises and a lot of fibbing. Lack of reliable information and analysis was key in delivering the "will of the people" (all 37 % of them). Brexit won't hurt me all that much, and right now it is mega for my business (lawyers thrive on uncertainty and chaos, and we have lots of that just now), but it will hurt many who voted for it. This is a bitter and unamusing irony. Its why there was such a big deal made out of Brexit lots of people who are used to having control and options all of a sudden and one taken away from them and they didn't like it and still don't.
If you feel pinned by lack of choice, ranting and raving about "them" is not the solution to that.
Zod said:
Is that some kind of Carry On/Fawlty Towers mash-up comment?
Carry on up the Ramblas?Carry on Major?
Carry on not mentioning the War?
Does Hattie Jacques do Sybil and Babs Windsor do Polly? Kenneth Williams as Basil? Kenneth Connor as Manuel? Where's the Sid James role?
Edited by anonymous-user on Thursday 21st September 17:49
Breadvan72 said:
Carry on up the Ramblas?
Carry on Major?
Carry on not mentioning the War?
Does Hattie Jacques do Sybil and Babs Windsor do Polly? Kenneth Williams as Basil? Kenneth Connor as Manuel? Where's the Sid James role?
Sid James would be the Major - demoted to the other ranks of course.Carry on Major?
Carry on not mentioning the War?
Does Hattie Jacques do Sybil and Babs Windsor do Polly? Kenneth Williams as Basil? Kenneth Connor as Manuel? Where's the Sid James role?
Edited by Breadvan72 on Thursday 21st September 17:49
TTwiggy said:
Breadvan72 said:
Carry on up the Ramblas?
Carry on Major?
Carry on not mentioning the War?
Does Hattie Jacques do Sybil and Babs Windsor do Polly? Kenneth Williams as Basil? Kenneth Connor as Manuel? Where's the Sid James role?
Sid James would be the Major - demoted to the other ranks of course.Carry on Major?
Carry on not mentioning the War?
Does Hattie Jacques do Sybil and Babs Windsor do Polly? Kenneth Williams as Basil? Kenneth Connor as Manuel? Where's the Sid James role?
Edited by Breadvan72 on Thursday 21st September 17:49
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