Seemingly trivial things that cheer you up

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  • cowsham
    cowsham Posts: 1,399
    Racing the Roosters
  • robert88
    robert88 Posts: 2,696
    Cowsham wrote:
    Robert88 wrote:
    Our Dyson has been eaten by a Shark. Bye bye Dyson, overrated heap of junk - like its inventor.

    One expensive vacuum cleaner replaced by another -- good old Nilfisk for me. Break free!

    We live in an 'ouse, not a bleedin' factory mate.

    (..and until March 29 we can afford expensive stuff)
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,351
    Robert88 wrote:
    We live in an 'ouse...

    Posh git.
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  • cowsham
    cowsham Posts: 1,399
    Cowsham wrote:
    Racing the Roosters

    Barsteward beat me this morning -- must a woke him up with me flashing headlamp!
  • meursault
    meursault Posts: 1,433
    Cowsham wrote:
    Robert88 wrote:
    Our Dyson has been eaten by a Shark. Bye bye Dyson, overrated heap of junk - like its inventor.

    One expensive vacuum cleaner replaced by another -- good old Nilfisk for me. Break free!

    Had to sell my hoover, it was just gathering dust...
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  • robert88
    robert88 Posts: 2,696
    meursault wrote:
    Cowsham wrote:
    Robert88 wrote:
    Our Dyson has been eaten by a Shark. Bye bye Dyson, overrated heap of junk - like its inventor.

    One expensive vacuum cleaner replaced by another -- good old Nilfisk for me. Break free!

    Had to sell my hoover, it was just gathering dust...

    :lol:
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  • ballysmate
    ballysmate Posts: 15,930
    rjsterry wrote:
    That the men's rights crowd are wetting themselves over a Gilette advert.

    Are they?

    https://www.thepoke.co.uk/2019/01/17/ta ... dia-works/

    I assume an advertising campaign is supposed to have a positive effect and given the media coverage, this campaign has attracted more attention than most, the results seem disappointing.

    https://www.marketingweek.com/2019/01/1 ... backfires/

    Given that the ad was apparently done by a woman, it would be ironic if the executives she pitched it to were reluctant to tell her it was bollox, lest they be thought misogynist. If it continues to have a negative impact how long will they give it?
  • ballysmate
    ballysmate Posts: 15,930
    Diane Abbott complaining that people jeer and laugh at her because she is black and a woman.
    No Di, its because when you speak on a subject you are so far out of your depth, the coastguard couldn't reach you.
    She is comedy gold.
  • rjsterry
    rjsterry Posts: 29,605
    Ballysmate wrote:
    rjsterry wrote:
    That the men's rights crowd are wetting themselves over a Gilette advert.

    Are they?

    https://www.thepoke.co.uk/2019/01/17/ta ... dia-works/

    I assume an advertising campaign is supposed to have a positive effect and given the media coverage, this campaign has attracted more attention than most, the results seem disappointing.

    https://www.marketingweek.com/2019/01/1 ... backfires/

    Given that the ad was apparently done by a woman, it would be ironic if the executives she pitched it to were reluctant to tell her it was bollox, lest they be thought misogynist. If it continues to have a negative impact how long will they give it?

    I think you have this confused with the trivially annoying thread ;) Are you in marketing?
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  • ballysmate
    ballysmate Posts: 15,930
    Marketing? God no! :D
  • ayjaycee
    ayjaycee Posts: 1,277
    Ballysmate wrote:
    Diane Abbott complaining that people jeer and laugh at her because she is black and a woman.
    No Di, its because when you speak on a subject you are so far out of your depth, the coastguard couldn't reach you.
    She is comedy gold.
    Well said, I expressed my views on her last year when I said in 'Seemingly trivial things that annoy you'
    ayjaycee wrote:
    Not trivial but it annoys me that she constantly whinges on about being abused because she's female and black. Well Diane, I've got news for you - it's got nothing to do with you being female or black but everything to do with you being useless as a politician in general and a Shadow Home Secretary in particular. You probably wouldn't have survived as the latter without your tongue being stuck up Corbyns aris and probably wouldn't be elected to parliament anywhere else but 'ackney North & Stoke Nooington'. My apologies if I have offended anybody from Hackney North or Stoke Newington.

    I kind of envy you for being able to find a bit of comedy in her!
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  • rjsterry
    rjsterry Posts: 29,605
    Ballysmate wrote:
    Marketing? God no! :D
    The Marketing Week link requires you to register to read it.
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  • ballysmate
    ballysmate Posts: 15,930
    rjsterry wrote:
    Ballysmate wrote:
    Marketing? God no! :D
    The Marketing Week link requires you to register to read it.

    :shock:

    Don't know how I got to read it then. Certainly didn't register.
    Perhaps they have a firewall to keep out riff raff. :wink:
  • Stevo_666
    Stevo_666 Posts: 61,495
    rjsterry wrote:
    That the men's rights crowd are wetting themselves over a Gilette advert.
    Being told that we have rights these days kinda cheers me up :)
    "I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]
  • ballysmate
    ballysmate Posts: 15,930
    ayjaycee wrote:
    Ballysmate wrote:
    Diane Abbott complaining that people jeer and laugh at her because she is black and a woman.
    No Di, its because when you speak on a subject you are so far out of your depth, the coastguard couldn't reach you.
    She is comedy gold.
    Well said, I expressed my views on her last year when I said in 'Seemingly trivial things that annoy you'
    ayjaycee wrote:
    Not trivial but it annoys me that she constantly whinges on about being abused because she's female and black. Well Diane, I've got news for you - it's got nothing to do with you being female or black but everything to do with you being useless as a politician in general and a Shadow Home Secretary in particular. You probably wouldn't have survived as the latter without your tongue being stuck up Corbyns aris and probably wouldn't be elected to parliament anywhere else but 'ackney North & Stoke Nooington'. My apologies if I have offended anybody from Hackney North or Stoke Newington.

    I kind of envy you for being able to find a bit of comedy in her!

    The fact that I would rather clamp my nads in a vice and set about them with a blow torch than vote Labour, helps.
  • Stevo_666
    Stevo_666 Posts: 61,495
    Ballysmate wrote:
    The fact that I would rather clamp my nads in a vice and set about them with a blow torch than vote Labour, helps.
    Sad to see you getting more left wing as you get older Bally.
    "I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]
  • rolf_f
    rolf_f Posts: 16,015
    Ballysmate wrote:
    The fact that I would rather clamp my nads in a vice and set about them with a blow torch than vote Labour, helps.

    I hate to be pedantic but I think that if you clamped your nads in a vice firmly enough that they just wouldn't easily pull straight out you'd be totally incapable of setting about them with a blow torch. Nice image though.......
    Faster than a tent.......
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,351
    Ballysmate wrote:
    The fact that I would rather clamp my nads in a vice and set about them with a blow torch than vote Labour, helps.

    Will you be selling tickets?
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  • ballysmate
    ballysmate Posts: 15,930
    Pinno wrote:
    Ballysmate wrote:
    The fact that I would rather clamp my nads in a vice and set about them with a blow torch than vote Labour, helps.

    Will you be selling tickets?

    If ever I vote Labour, you can come round and hold the blow torch.
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,351
    Ballysmate wrote:
    Pinno wrote:
    Ballysmate wrote:
    The fact that I would rather clamp my nads in a vice and set about them with a blow torch than vote Labour, helps.

    Will you be selling tickets?

    If ever I vote Labour, you can come round and hold the blow torch.

    Can you shave first because I hate the smell of burning fur?
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  • ballysmate
    ballysmate Posts: 15,930
    Pinno wrote:
    Ballysmate wrote:
    Pinno wrote:
    Ballysmate wrote:
    The fact that I would rather clamp my nads in a vice and set about them with a blow torch than vote Labour, helps.

    Will you be selling tickets?

    If ever I vote Labour, you can come round and hold the blow torch.

    Can you shave first because I hate the smell of burning fur?


    I am a 70s fox. If you check old pornos, it wasn't the done thing to shave your fur.
  • Stevo_666
    Stevo_666 Posts: 61,495
    Ballysmate wrote:
    Pinno wrote:
    Ballysmate wrote:
    Pinno wrote:
    Ballysmate wrote:
    The fact that I would rather clamp my nads in a vice and set about them with a blow torch than vote Labour, helps.

    Will you be selling tickets?

    If ever I vote Labour, you can come round and hold the blow torch.

    Can you shave first because I hate the smell of burning fur?


    I am a 70s fox. If you check old pornos, it wasn't the done thing to shave your fur.
    You're talking to Pinno. What do mean 'if' ?
    "I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,351
    Stevo 666 wrote:
    Ballysmate wrote:
    Pinno wrote:
    Ballysmate wrote:
    Pinno wrote:
    Ballysmate wrote:
    The fact that I would rather clamp my nads in a vice and set about them with a blow torch than vote Labour, helps.

    Will you be selling tickets?

    If ever I vote Labour, you can come round and hold the blow torch.

    Can you shave first because I hate the smell of burning fur?

    I am a 70s fox. If you check old pornos, it wasn't the done thing to shave your fur.
    You're talking to Pinno. What do mean 'if' ?

    I hope you are sitting down but I don't actually like porn.
    Now, can we get back to the burning issue?

    I'm selling tickets for the Bally gonad incineration spectacular and for this week only: a super vice bonanza chucked in.
    No applications for refunds for the squeamish will be entered into.
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  • ballysmate
    ballysmate Posts: 15,930
    Would that be from Pinno's pop up ticket tout stall?
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,351
    Ballysmate wrote:
    Would that be from Pinno's pop up ticket tout stall?

    The very one.

    All tickets will be sold on a 'first come. first served' basis. The management retain the right of refusing entry to individuals who do not meet our standards or dress code. There will be live, explicit acts of self harm involving a vice, a portable gas incinerator and no forms of anaesthetic. All those who enter do so at their own mental and physical risk.
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  • cowsham
    cowsham Posts: 1,399
    Watching the guy that didn't get paid by travel lodge drive his digger through their hotel. Don't know who's at fault yet but great viewing so far.
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,351
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  • laurentian
    laurentian Posts: 2,548
    That was brilliant!
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  • cowsham
    cowsham Posts: 1,399
    laurentian wrote:
    That was brilliant!

    600 FKING QUID!