The Irony Thread

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  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,320
    I think you are missing the irony that if it was flattened then you could guarantee that it would be in the history books. Best to leave it alone so there is nothing to write about.
    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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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    edited July 2020
    pblakeney said:

    I think you are missing the irony that if it was flattened then you could guarantee that it would be in the history books. Best to leave it alone so there is nothing to write about.

    Is that it? What's that to do with Berlin's priorities?

    I mean guys, that's seriously weak.
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  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,320
    It's about trying to stay on the topic of irony, and hopefully not too seriously.
    I'd ask who cares about Berlin's priorities, but nobody cares.
    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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  • rjsterry
    rjsterry Posts: 29,546
    rick_chasey said:

    pblakeney said:

    I think you are missing the irony that if it was flattened then you could guarantee that it would be in the history books. Best to leave it alone so there is nothing to write about.

    Is that it? What's that to do with Berlin's priorities?

    I mean guys, that's seriously weak.
    I think the point was that if you are going to choose to rename a metro station because of the old name's racial connotations, then picking a Russian composer with antisemitic proclivities, in a city with a world famous Jewish Museum, seems an odd choice.
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    rjsterry said:

    rick_chasey said:

    pblakeney said:

    I think you are missing the irony that if it was flattened then you could guarantee that it would be in the history books. Best to leave it alone so there is nothing to write about.

    Is that it? What's that to do with Berlin's priorities?

    I mean guys, that's seriously weak.
    I think the point was that if you are going to choose to rename a metro station because of the old name's racial connotations, then picking a Russian composer with antisemitic proclivities, in a city with a world famous Jewish Museum, seems an odd choice.
    Right, got it.
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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    edited July 2020
    rick_chasey said:

    rjsterry said:

    rick_chasey said:

    pblakeney said:

    I think you are missing the irony that if it was flattened then you could guarantee that it would be in the history books. Best to leave it alone so there is nothing to write about.

    Is that it? What's that to do with Berlin's priorities?

    I mean guys, that's seriously weak.
    I think the point was that if you are going to choose to rename a metro station because of the old name's racial connotations, then picking a Russian composer with antisemitic proclivities, in a city with a world famous Jewish Museum, seems an odd choice.
    Right, got it.
    Sorry, I genuinely thought it was a wind up; that maybe you though my comment barbed.
    Anyhow as RJS says.

    The German's gave a name for dealing with their post war "collective guilt".
    Vergangenheitsbewältigung, which literally translates as "coping with the past":
    It became a key concept in post-1945 German culture, and describes the way in which Germans discuss and confront their history.

    Only after reunification has more has been done by Germany to remember the atrocities of the 1940s.

    Anyhow, this is all a bit too serious and depressing for the irony thread.
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  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,314
    blazing_saddles said:


    Anyhow, this is all a bit too serious and depressing for the irony thread.

    I did try.

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  • shortfall
    shortfall Posts: 3,288
    People who complain that footballers are overpaid but happily fund their wages via Sky Sports subscriptions and the purchase of overpriced replica shirts etc.
  • morstar
    morstar Posts: 6,190
    edited July 2020
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-politics-53371014

    They're all f'in idiots!!!!

    SNP don't like UK union but like EU union.
    Now TBP (Edited) who don't like big Eu union, do like UK union for Wales.

    Do these morons not ever take a step back and realise they are just walking talking contradictions?

    Petty minded regionalism when it suits, power of the many when you realise it is ugly and inefficient.
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,314
    edited July 2020
    morstar said:

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-politics-53371014

    They're all f'in idiots!!!!

    SNP don't like UK union but like EU union.

    I cannot speak for the Welsh but in Scotland, 69% of the electorate voted to remain in the EU.
    There are growing and significant differences between Scotland and England.
    Off the top of my head: rules regarding the relationship between care provision and asset ownership are different.
    Tenancy rules give tenants much more security than in England.
    Pension rules are different. My mother taught as a lecturer in Scotland for a period of time. This time allowed her to a) get a pension which was b) significantly more than what she would have got had she served that time in England.

    We are more socialist in Scotland and we see a tangible difference between us and Westminster Policy - therein lies the rub. We don't feel like Westminster policy matches Scotland's needs. England is predominantly Tory right now.

    It's not about liking 'Union' or not. Scotland has benefitted (England has too but the twits don't see it) from being in the EU and seen as most of us want to remain in the EU - a far more comprehensive split between the 48/52 English vote, we feel like we are being dragged out of a Union to which we want to be in and forced to be in another Union with a parliament miles away at odds with Scottish preferences.

    Now don't get me wrong, the Nationalism under whatever banner is often unfounded and I am ill at ease with it but given the predominantly right wing press, they are going to always spin this in a way that cast's Sturgeon in a poor light.
    Read the Glasgow Herald or the Scotsman and they paint a very different picture.

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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    edited July 2020
    Yeah but what did Thatcher do for Scotland, Pino?

    ;)
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  • Stevo_666
    Stevo_666 Posts: 61,392
    I'm imagining something like this, but with Scottish accents:

    https://youtu.be/Y7tvauOJMHo
    "I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]
  • coopster_the_1st
    coopster_the_1st Posts: 5,158
    @rick_chasey doesn't like dogs but has a poodle called @rjsterry
  • shortfall
    shortfall Posts: 3,288
    coopster_the_1st said:

    @rick_chasey doesn't like dogs but has a poodle called @rjsterry

    😁 That actually made me laugh out loud.
  • Stevo_666
    Stevo_666 Posts: 61,392
    coopster_the_1st said:

    @rick_chasey doesn't like dogs but has a poodle called @rjsterry

    :D

    Somehow this springs to mind:


    "I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]
  • rjsterry
    rjsterry Posts: 29,546
    edited July 2020
    I can definitely do the eyebrow as you can see from the avatar 😏


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  • shortfall
    shortfall Posts: 3,288
    edited July 2020
    rjsterry said:

    I can definitely do the eyebrow 😏



    👍
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Stevo_666 said:

    coopster_the_1st said:

    @rick_chasey doesn't like dogs but has a poodle called @rjsterry

    :D

    Somehow this springs to mind:


    I assume I am minime on the left.
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  • Stevo_666
    Stevo_666 Posts: 61,392
    rick_chasey said:

    Stevo_666 said:

    coopster_the_1st said:

    @rick_chasey doesn't like dogs but has a poodle called @rjsterry

    :D

    Somehow this springs to mind:


    I assume I am minime on the left.
    I hadn't thought about it but good point :)
    "I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]
  • Wheelspinner
    Wheelspinner Posts: 6,694
    rjsterry said:

    I can definitely do the eyebrow as you can see from the avatar 😏


    The avatar is Michael Keaton?
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  • rjsterry
    rjsterry Posts: 29,546
    edited July 2020
    No, it's me. A self portrait of sorts.
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  • ballysmate
    ballysmate Posts: 15,930
    No. I'm Spartacus!
  • darkhairedlord
    darkhairedlord Posts: 7,180
    Lands End sell Jean's with "iron knees". They are just doubled up denim, not iron at all. They don't even have a cast iron guarantee. Ffs
  • rjsterry
    rjsterry Posts: 29,546
    The UK government publishing a document extolling the economic benefits of free movement of labour and capital around a single market.
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  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,320
    rjsterry said:

    The UK government publishing a document extolling the economic benefits of free movement of labour and capital around a single market.

    🤣🤣🤣

    The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
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  • shortfall
    shortfall Posts: 3,288
    Celebrity Masterchef. I mean who are some of these people?
  • capt_slog
    capt_slog Posts: 3,973
    shortfall said:

    Celebrity Masterchef. I mean who are some of these people?

    That's true of a lot of the 'celebrity' stuff, I haven't a clue who most of them are and for the most part, i cherish my ignorance.

    Last week on Masterchef, it was Bagga Chipz. They introduced this person as a 'drag queen' and then for the rest of the program referred to Bagga as "she".

    I always thought drag queens were men pretending to be women, surely if Bagga has undergone gender reassignment, then she is no longer a drag queen?


    The older I get, the better I was.

  • Stevo_666
    Stevo_666 Posts: 61,392
    shortfall said:

    Celebrity Masterchef. I mean who are some of these people?

    Celebrity anything. I'm hard pressed to work out who nearly all these people are when unlucky enough to flick onto a channel with this sort of bilge on. That's why they have to explain to people what the has-been does, or did ages ago.

    Although ironically I quite like the regular Masterchef.
    "I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]
  • rjsterry
    rjsterry Posts: 29,546
    shortfall said:

    Celebrity Masterchef. I mean who are some of these people?

    I think that's standard for middle age.
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  • shortfall
    shortfall Posts: 3,288
    rjsterry said:

    shortfall said:

    Celebrity Masterchef. I mean who are some of these people?

    I think that's standard for middle age.
    Possibly, but claiming celebrity status for some of these none entities is stretching the definition to breaking point. I asked my youngest daughter who's 21 and she hardly knew any of them either.

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