Seemingly trivial things that cheer you up
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So really 5 foot 8 then...pblakeney said:
Confused by the question - "Have you ever met a man who admits to being five foot ten?" I am 5 foot ten.rick_chasey said:0 -
could I add - who is Annie Mac?rick_chasey said:0 -
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie_Macsurrey_commuter said:
could I add - who is Annie Mac?rick_chasey said:
google is your friend0 -
No. 5 foot ten.mrb123 said:
So really 5 foot 8 then...pblakeney said:
Confused by the question - "Have you ever met a man who admits to being five foot ten?" I am 5 foot ten.rick_chasey said:
You are fooling nobody by lying about it so why bother.The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
I am not sure. You have no chance.Veronese68 wrote:PB is the most sensible person on here.0 -
Catching up with Dr Hutch's podcast Faster with Emily Chappell etc....To hear the Transcontinental Race described as a "Long Distance Picnic" has made me oddly happy
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How many on here are pro Brexit? Shortfall perhaps, and he posts rarely now.surrey_commuter said:
I don’t know many people pro -Brexit but it does intrigue me that the ones on here seem to becoming more obsessed with framing everything through an EU lens.ballysmate said:orraloon said:Get a gravel bike BT, you know you want to. Go on, go on, go on.
In other cheery news, Niggly Fartrage and similar fascist ilk's criticism of the RNLI causes massive spike in donations to the charity.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-58009646
See, there are good people out there, we are not all Gammonati.
Yes Loon, there are good people out there. The fact that donations went up doesn't surprise me.
It seems that within the EU, only the people Sweden and the Netherlands were more comfortable having immigrants as friends than than we were in the UK. Same with work colleagues.
Who says so? Why, a report commissioned for the European Commission,
Directorate-General for Migration and Home Affairs.
http://www.europeanmigrationlaw.eu/documents/EuroBarometer-IntegrationOfMigrantsintheEU.pdf
Or this report, with only Canada and Australia viewing immigrants more positively than the UK. As for the other countries in the Eu....oh dear.
https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2019/03/14/around-the-world-more-say-immigrants-are-a-strength-than-a-burden/
I voted remain and have stated that I would do so again. But you are right, I am not as fervent in support for the EU as some on here.
But the narrative on here is that anyone who voted differently to them is some sort of racist and is almost demonised as a bigot.
Loon seemed surprised and cheered by the fact that that there are good people here who are not as he puts it, gammons.
I pointed out that he should not be surprised because reports compare us favourably with the other EU nations and countries around the world in our acceptance of immigrants.
But no matter. Carry on.
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Are you saying that some people on here treat people as big lumps of opinion and not individuals?ballysmate said:
But the narrative on here is that anyone who voted differently to them is some sort of racist and is almost demonised as a bigot.0 -
So you think there is no link between the UK being outside the EU and getting a head start in the vaccine drive?rick_chasey said:
Is it just not that it's hard to deny the lack of sunlit uplands, or indeed deny that there are empty supermarket shelves, so you need to focus your attention on it all being worse elsewhere?surrey_commuter said:
I don’t know many people pro -Brexit but it does intrigue me that the ones on here seem to becoming more obsessed with framing everything through an EU lens.
Hence all the "thank brexit for the vaccine" chat, which is no different to the "£350m a year" chat. ie. a wilful misunderstanding of how it all works.
I also think for those people who have read the nonsense the telegraph et all would make up about the EU for 20 years or so, it's quite hard to suddenly see them as anything other than the bogeyman.
People were asking for examples of a benefit of Brexit. That was one and it actually saved lives.
You may criticise the government in the handling of the pandemic, but the simple fact remains. The earlier you can roll out a vaccine, the more lives you save. Being outside the EU gave us a head start. You may feel we have squandered it, but that is a different matter.
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And as you've been told many many times, we could have done the same thing if we were in the EU.
But no matter. Carry on.- Genesis Croix de Fer
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Bizarrely you are agreeing with me in a manner that suggests you are disagreeing.ballysmate said:
How many on here are pro Brexit? Shortfall perhaps, and he posts rarely now.surrey_commuter said:
I don’t know many people pro -Brexit but it does intrigue me that the ones on here seem to becoming more obsessed with framing everything through an EU lens.ballysmate said:orraloon said:Get a gravel bike BT, you know you want to. Go on, go on, go on.
In other cheery news, Niggly Fartrage and similar fascist ilk's criticism of the RNLI causes massive spike in donations to the charity.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-58009646
See, there are good people out there, we are not all Gammonati.
Yes Loon, there are good people out there. The fact that donations went up doesn't surprise me.
It seems that within the EU, only the people Sweden and the Netherlands were more comfortable having immigrants as friends than than we were in the UK. Same with work colleagues.
Who says so? Why, a report commissioned for the European Commission,
Directorate-General for Migration and Home Affairs.
http://www.europeanmigrationlaw.eu/documents/EuroBarometer-IntegrationOfMigrantsintheEU.pdf
Or this report, with only Canada and Australia viewing immigrants more positively than the UK. As for the other countries in the Eu....oh dear.
https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2019/03/14/around-the-world-more-say-immigrants-are-a-strength-than-a-burden/
I voted remain and have stated that I would do so again. But you are right, I am not as fervent in support for the EU as some on here.
But the narrative on here is that anyone who voted differently to them is some sort of racist and is almost demonised as a bigot.
Loon seemed surprised and cheered by the fact that that there are good people here who are not as he puts it, gammons.
I pointed out that he should not be surprised because reports compare us favourably with the other EU nations and countries around the world in our acceptance of immigrants.
But no matter. Carry on.
It is entirely in your head that anybody on here is “fervently in support of the EU” and that frames the comments you make on the subject.0 -
Like Germany, France Italy and the Netherlands who were made to scrap their procurement programme even though it was further advanced than the EU's?pangolin said:And as you've been told many many times, we could have done the same thing if we were in the EU.
But no matter. Carry on.
But enough. I've been re-educated and am now with the programme. No hint of any benefit of Brexit will be countenanced.
In fact I won't mention the EU again. It's just so painful to think of all that milk and honey I'm missing out on, not to mention the pavements of gold.
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Someone disagreed with you. Get over it, buttercup.ballysmate said:
Like Germany, France Italy and the Netherlands who were made to scrap their procurement programme even though it was further advanced than the EU's?pangolin said:And as you've been told many many times, we could have done the same thing if we were in the EU.
But no matter. Carry on.
But enough. I've been re-educated and am now with the programme. No hint of any benefit of Brexit will be countenanced.
In fact I won't mention the EU again. It's just so painful to think of all that milk and honey I'm missing out on, not to mention the pavements of gold.
FWIW, I don't think there is any chance we'd have done the same with the vaccine without having left, or at least without the Brexit mindset at the top.
There was an explanation of the historical reasons why this might be wrong a while back on here which made me a little bit less certain, but I think it's 100% we approved it quicker than if we weren't about to leave all the structures.0 -
There of course is the separate issue that, judging by how a lot of nations in the EU have caught up, it wasn't all that different in the end!kingstongraham said:
Someone disagreed with you. Get over it, buttercup.ballysmate said:
Like Germany, France Italy and the Netherlands who were made to scrap their procurement programme even though it was further advanced than the EU's?pangolin said:And as you've been told many many times, we could have done the same thing if we were in the EU.
But no matter. Carry on.
But enough. I've been re-educated and am now with the programme. No hint of any benefit of Brexit will be countenanced.
In fact I won't mention the EU again. It's just so painful to think of all that milk and honey I'm missing out on, not to mention the pavements of gold.
FWIW, I don't think there is any chance we'd have done the same with the vaccine without having left, or at least without the Brexit mindset at the top.
There was an explanation of the historical reasons why this might be wrong a while back on here which made me a little bit less certain, but I think it's 100% we approved it quicker than if we weren't about to leave all the structures.0 -
But that's definitely not for this thread.
Velodrome cycling must be about to start, that's always something to cheer me up.0 -
How were they made to scrap their programmes, bearing in mind Germany and France are the two big guns in the EU? Who made them?ballysmate said:
Like Germany, France Italy and the Netherlands who were made to scrap their procurement programme even though it was further advanced than the EU's?pangolin said:And as you've been told many many times, we could have done the same thing if we were in the EU.
But no matter. Carry on.
But enough. I've been re-educated and am now with the programme. No hint of any benefit of Brexit will be countenanced.
In fact I won't mention the EU again. It's just so painful to think of all that milk and honey I'm missing out on, not to mention the pavements of gold.
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I think the UK would have done the same even if in the EU. There were very few reasons for the UK to join the programme.kingstongraham said:
Someone disagreed with you. Get over it, buttercup.ballysmate said:
Like Germany, France Italy and the Netherlands who were made to scrap their procurement programme even though it was further advanced than the EU's?pangolin said:And as you've been told many many times, we could have done the same thing if we were in the EU.
But no matter. Carry on.
But enough. I've been re-educated and am now with the programme. No hint of any benefit of Brexit will be countenanced.
In fact I won't mention the EU again. It's just so painful to think of all that milk and honey I'm missing out on, not to mention the pavements of gold.
FWIW, I don't think there is any chance we'd have done the same with the vaccine without having left, or at least without the Brexit mindset at the top.
There was an explanation of the historical reasons why this might be wrong a while back on here which made me a little bit less certain, but I think it's 100% we approved it quicker than if we weren't about to leave all the structures.
In the absence of Brexit, I don't think there would have been as much focus on unity, so perhaps other EU members would have done their own thing. We will never know.
Yes the UK had experts on standby which was quite convenient, but equally I imagine a fully staffed EMA in London might have been a bit quicker anyway. Again, we will never know.0 -
The contemporary Godwins law:
How long before Brexit gets mentioned.seanoconn - gruagach craic!0 -
Monday, but not much on until Tuesday.kingstongraham said:But that's definitely not for this thread.
Velodrome cycling must be about to start, that's always something to cheer me up.0 -
If only to distract Bally from moaning about Brexit.
1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
Pinnacle Monzonite
Part of the anti-growth coalition0 -
Yes that is Brian Cox in the off the shoulder number.1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
Pinnacle Monzonite
Part of the anti-growth coalition0 -
Apparently a live show about the universe with which he was involved a few years back. Along with Noel Fielding and Eric Idle.pinno said:
Wtf is it?rjsterry said:Yes that is Brian Cox in the off the shoulder number.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b086kfbj1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
Pinnacle Monzonite
Part of the anti-growth coalition0 -
Oh okay ta.rjsterry said:
Apparently a live show about the universe with which he was involved a few years back. Along with Noel Fielding and Eric Idle.pinno said:
Wtf is it?rjsterry said:Yes that is Brian Cox in the off the shoulder number.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b086kfbj
seanoconn - gruagach craic!0 -
Paying for an upgrade to first class on the train to London and only being charged £20 for 3 of us (train manager took pity on us as we had someone snoring loudly next to our original seats so only charged for one of us).0
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Did you give the bloke snoring a fiver?Pross said:Paying for an upgrade to first class on the train to London and only being charged £20 for 3 of us (train manager took pity on us as we had someone snoring loudly next to our original seats so only charged for one of us).
seanoconn - gruagach craic!0 -
Nah, I felt the nicest thing I could do for him was let him sleep.pinno said:
Did you give the bloke snoring a fiver?Pross said:Paying for an upgrade to first class on the train to London and only being charged £20 for 3 of us (train manager took pity on us as we had someone snoring loudly next to our original seats so only charged for one of us).
That's the reason I've never been able to sleep on plane or train journeys (on a plane the issues caused by pressure changes are also a potential embarrassment factor!).0 -
I paid £2 extra for first class the other day only to discover, after walking the length of the train with heavy bags, that there was no first class carriage.Pross said:Paying for an upgrade to first class on the train to London and only being charged £20 for 3 of us (train manager took pity on us as we had someone snoring loudly next to our original seats so only charged for one of us).
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Haha, having someone stop in their car on the main road near Luc-en-Diois, wind down the window, and ask if I was my online French FB identity/nom-de-plume. Mind you, it wasn't me she recognised, it was my Colnago. Upstaged by a bike...1
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Putting a teaspoon through the (thin) glaze into one of the Crème brûlée's I made.
That crunch is so satisfying.seanoconn - gruagach craic!1 -
Pross said:
Nah, I felt the nicest thing I could do for him was let him sleep.pinno said:
Did you give the bloke snoring a fiver?Pross said:Paying for an upgrade to first class on the train to London and only being charged £20 for 3 of us (train manager took pity on us as we had someone snoring loudly next to our original seats so only charged for one of us).
That's the reason I've never been able to sleep on plane or train journeys (on a plane the issues caused by pressure changes are also a potential embarrassment factor!).
On a plane, I'm frequently asleep before the wheels leave the tarmac.0
