The Irony Thread

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  • rjsterry
    rjsterry Posts: 29,816
    surrey_commuter said:

    morstar said:

    rick_chasey said:

    Ah, the ol' niqab - bank robber vibe.

    You’re making some gargantuan mental leaps.
    Name me a better example of headwear having different levels of acceptance in different circumstances.
    Men and women wearing a hat to church
    Which is a relic of the exact same prescription that women shouldn't show their hair in public.
    1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
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  • tailwindhome
    tailwindhome Posts: 19,459
    “New York has the haircuts, London has the trousers, but Belfast has the reason!
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,521
    This hat, veil, mask thing argument - i'm lost.
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  • morstar
    morstar Posts: 6,190
    pinno said:

    This hat, veil, mask thing argument - i'm lost.

    Probably for the best.
  • briantrumpet
    briantrumpet Posts: 20,752
    Not opening Johnson's letter about CV19 because it might have been handled by someone with CV19 before it came through my door...
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  • bompington
    bompington Posts: 7,674
    briantrumpet said:

    Not opening Johnson's letter about CV19 because it might have been handled by someone with CV19 before it came through my door...

    Conjures visions of Boris Johnson sitting on his own in No 10 licking all those millions of stamps....
  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,496
    Eeuuwww!
    The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
    I am not sure. You have no chance.
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  • N0bodyOfTheGoat
    N0bodyOfTheGoat Posts: 6,067
    Few items in the PX basket, deliberating adding one or two other bits while absolutely cream crackered, only I get side-tracked, it goes past midnight and the "3 for 2" promo ends... No, not paying that "full" price for them!

    It's a death row pardon, two minutes too late.
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  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,521
    briantrumpet said:

    Not opening Johnson's letter about CV19 because it might have been handled by someone with CV19 before it came through my door...

    How did you know who it was from?!
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  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,496
    People banging on about blanking China and reopening British factories.
    The same people who shop at Primark.
    The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
    I am not sure. You have no chance.
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    PB is the most sensible person on here.
  • morstar
    morstar Posts: 6,190
    pblakeney said:

    People banging on about blanking China and reopening British factories.
    The same people who shop at Primark.

    It’s interesting. After the 2008 crash, it had felt like there was going to be a change in approach to driving prices as low as possible all the time and that a more sustainable economy was required.
    That didn’t happen and I doubt the move away from China will either.
    Personally, I hope it does as I think China is achieving a monopoly which is a risk to other economies. But, I don’t think we should turn on backs on China completely and nor do I think we could or would. We’re hooked on cheap.
  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 22,029
    Police officers in pairs telling single people that they are failing the social distancing rules.
  • Stevo_666
    Stevo_666 Posts: 61,825
    TheBigBean said:

    Police officers in pairs telling single people that they are failing the social distancing rules.

    Try pointing that out if plod pulls you over for a word in the park.
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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,597
    TheBigBean said:

    Police officers in pairs telling single people that they are failing the social distancing rules.

    The video of the Thursday clap at my local hospital showed all the police cars lined up outside and groups of officers standing together clapping. Obviously there are situations where they can't avoid being in close proximity but it didn't look good when they're telling people to keep apart if they don't live together.
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,521
    Primark is owned by J.C Penney, a US company.
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  • orraloon
    orraloon Posts: 13,272
    edited April 2020
    pinno said:

    Primark is owned by J.C Penney, a US company.

    Bzzzt. Primark is a brand of ABF, Associated British Foods, a FTSE listed intl conglomerate, CEO George Weston. (Deleted, too much information)
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,521
    orraloon said:

    pinno said:

    Primark is owned by J.C Penney, a US company.

    Bzzzt. Primark is a brand of ABF, Associated British Foods, a FTSE listed intl conglomerate, CEO George Weston. (Deleted, too much information)
    ? Then the records haven't caught up.
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  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,496
    Point being where the clothes are manufactured, not who owns the company.
    🤔
    The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
    I am not sure. You have no chance.
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  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,521
    pblakeney said:

    Point being where the clothes are manufactured, not who owns the company.
    🤔

    I don't mind British based companies basing production abroad. In fact, there are 16 factories in the UK.
    We moan a lot when foreign companies set up shop here or when they buy out UK companies.
    Look at Dyson - shifted most of his production to China, headquarters in Singapore.
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  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,496
    The point wasn't the production line, it was the Britain First folk wearing Far Eastern produced clothes.
    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.
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,521
    pblakeney said:

    The point wasn't the production line, it was the Britain First folk wearing Far Eastern produced clothes.

    Oh.

    Well, that's cleared that critical situation up.

    Ho hum.
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  • surrey_commuter
    surrey_commuter Posts: 18,867
    Boris Johnson praising foreign nurses and then praising the nation for enduring the hardship of self-isolation out of respect for others...

    ... and then fvcking off to his second house in the country

    Boris Johnson I think you have done more harm to this country than Hermann Goering but for your chutzpah and complete lack of self awareness I salute you
  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,228

  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,597
    One of the people my wife cares for had to go into hospital yesterday and as they're now supposed to take any medication they need with them she did this only for the hospital to discharge the patient without it and lose it for them. As a result she just had to ignore the NHS advice to stay home, protect the NHS and save lives by travelling to the local hospital, pick up a prescription and then on to the supermarket pharmacy for the medicine.
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,521
    Yep, don't know how many times I went into hospital with all my medication and come away with nothing.
    The thing I learnt is: take 2 days supply (the length of time hospital pharmacy takes to catch up) and leave the rest at home.
    Now my local medical centre is till only supplying 1 month!! Despite this pandemic. Why? It causes no end of hassle.
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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,597
    The kind interpretation is it got lost due to incompetence. The other option, as it was sleeping tablets, is that someone has a bit of a black market going on!

    Another irony. 2018 - we need to stop making single use disposable plastic products they're killing the planet. 2020 - we need to start making and importing loads more single use disposable plastic products or more people are going to die.
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,521
    Yeah, why not autoclave some of the PPE stuff?!
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  • fatted864
    fatted864 Posts: 67
    pinno said:

    Yeah, why not autoclave some of the PPE stuff?!

    because it destroys it. Alternatively place in a paper bag and leave for 6 days, virus should be dead, good to go again, or for N95 weak solution of Hydrogen Peroxide, as long as you reuse your own should be OK.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,597
    pinno said:

    Yeah, why not autoclave some of the PPE stuff?!

    Doesn't stop in being ironic.
  • Longshot
    Longshot Posts: 940
    kingstongraham said:



    If that's not ironic, I don't know what is :D
    You can fool some of the people all of the time. Concentrate on those people.

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