Mourning stupidity

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  • monkimark
    monkimark Posts: 1,598
    As a contractor, I have lost a days wages for an unwanted random monday off work but I will be spending it mowing the lawn/cutting hedges and filling my green bin, which will be collected as usual on Wednesday.
  • monkimark said:

    As a contractor, I have lost a days wages for an unwanted random monday off work but I will be spending it mowing the lawn/cutting hedges and filling my green bin, which will be collected as usual on Wednesday.

    That is brutal
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,401
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
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  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,401
    really? REALLY?



    I dunno, Atomic Bombs perhaps? GFC maybe? Archduke shooting as Ostrich because he was hungry???
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  • rjsterry
    rjsterry Posts: 27,824

    Interesting concept that the queue is designed to be such a thing. A ticket system with timed access could have been easily set up but the queue provides much better optics to repel future reform discussion. Interesting.

    Pretty much every timed-entry event I have ever attended has still involved a queue and all of those with a tiny fraction of the numbers involved here.
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  • rjsterry
    rjsterry Posts: 27,824
    ddraver said:

    really? REALLY?



    I dunno, Atomic Bombs perhaps? GFC maybe? Archduke shooting as Ostrich because he was hungry???
    Saw that. I think a case of brain and mouth momentarily losing connection.
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  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 20,727
    rjsterry said:

    Interesting concept that the queue is designed to be such a thing. A ticket system with timed access could have been easily set up but the queue provides much better optics to repel future reform discussion. Interesting.

    Pretty much every timed-entry event I have ever attended has still involved a queue and all of those with a tiny fraction of the numbers involved here.
    The main problem with timed entry is that it would require some luck to get a ticket. A long queue enables anyone who really wants to to go
  • dabber
    dabber Posts: 1,928
    The useless idiot that is Hoyle has surpassed himself.
    “You may think that; I couldn’t possibly comment!”

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  • monkimark
    monkimark Posts: 1,598
    Now THAT is how you show respect for HMQ, close your brothel for a few hours on a Monday morning.
    I think they have spelled masseuse incorrectly as well :D
    ddraver said:
  • MattFalle
    MattFalle Posts: 11,644
    monkimark said:

    Now THAT is how you show respect for HMQ, close your brothel for a few hours on a Monday morning.
    I think they have spelled masseuse incorrectly as well :D


    ddraver said:
    its not a brothl, its a massage parlour.

    FACT

    .
    The camera down the willy isn't anything like as bad as it sounds.

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  • MattFalle
    MattFalle Posts: 11,644

    .
    The camera down the willy isn't anything like as bad as it sounds.
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,401
    rjsterry said:

    ddraver said:

    really? REALLY?



    I dunno, Atomic Bombs perhaps? GFC maybe? Archduke shooting as Ostrich because he was hungry???
    Saw that. I think a case of brain and mouth momentarily losing connection.


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  • Damn, the queue has closed, will have to stay at home :D
  • MattFalle
    MattFalle Posts: 11,644

    Damn, the queue has closed, will have to stay at home :D

    quel domage....

    maybe drown your sorrows in vino rosso and salami to help ease the pain?
    .
    The camera down the willy isn't anything like as bad as it sounds.
  • MattFalle said:

    Damn, the queue has closed, will have to stay at home :D

    quel domage....

    maybe drown your sorrows in vino rosso and salami to help ease the pain?

    Or British sherry and Spam for the post-Brexit version.
  • MattFalle
    MattFalle Posts: 11,644
    Sherry? too Spanish.

    Surely Ribena or some of thatshit gin from Cornwall the Farage lickers started selling?
    .
    The camera down the willy isn't anything like as bad as it sounds.
  • MattFalle said:

    Sherry? too Spanish.

    Surely Ribena or some of thatshit gin from Cornwall the Farage lickers started selling?


    Fairish point, but British sherry was truly execrable (think Harvey's Bristol Cream but lacking the 'subtlety' of the overpowering saccharine sweetness and with a bit of a tangy edge), which is kind of Brexit in a nutshell.
  • orraloon
    orraloon Posts: 12,750
    Have the radio playing in background, been muting on the news breaks, now has ooh Gary Davies playing an ok selection. But. I find myself keeping on swearing at the raydeeoh when he reads out the waffle messages from those weirdos who queued for no good reason. Leave it. Leave it.

    The Establishment are doing a grand job cementing in the forelock tugging subservience mindset. Never mind the suitcases of dodgy cash or Prince Nonce.
  • Dorset_Boy
    Dorset_Boy Posts: 6,974
    So the biggest gathering of world leaders EVER.
    And most of you lot think it's a trivial waste of time.
  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 25,920

    So the biggest gathering of world leaders EVER.
    And most of you lot think it's a trivial waste of time.

    Most of them will have met her. It will be a duty for the others.
    Respect for the Monarch but this is overkill as far as I am concerned. Cycling tomorrow.
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  • Dorset_Boy
    Dorset_Boy Posts: 6,974
    pblakeney said:

    So the biggest gathering of world leaders EVER.
    And most of you lot think it's a trivial waste of time.

    Most of them will have met her. It will be a duty for the others.
    Respect for the Monarch but this is overkill as far as I am concerned. Cycling tomorrow.
    There will have been an obligation for the Commonwealth heads of state, but not for any of the others. I really think most in this echo chamber under-estimate what a huge occassion tomorrow is.
    That said, nothing wrong with going out for a ride if you want to.
  • pblakeney said:

    So the biggest gathering of world leaders EVER.
    And most of you lot think it's a trivial waste of time.

    Most of them will have met her. It will be a duty for the others.
    Respect for the Monarch but this is overkill as far as I am concerned. Cycling tomorrow.
    There will have been an obligation for the Commonwealth heads of state, but not for any of the others. I really think most in this echo chamber under-estimate what a huge occassion tomorrow is.
    That said, nothing wrong with going out for a ride if you want to.

    Of course it's a big event. Couldn't not be. I've not really seen anyone on here arguing otherwise, though plenty saying that they personally aren't tht bothered about the event. That includes me.
  • sungod
    sungod Posts: 16,605
    edited September 2022

    So the biggest gathering of world leaders EVER.
    And most of you lot think it's a trivial waste of time.

    classic straw man argument

    you'll need to show evidence for it being the biggest gathering ever, the loathsome scum duo of xi and putin aren't there for a start
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  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 25,920
    edited September 2022

    pblakeney said:

    So the biggest gathering of world leaders EVER.
    And most of you lot think it's a trivial waste of time.

    Most of them will have met her. It will be a duty for the others.
    Respect for the Monarch but this is overkill as far as I am concerned. Cycling tomorrow.
    There will have been an obligation for the Commonwealth heads of state, but not for any of the others. I really think most in this echo chamber under-estimate what a huge occassion tomorrow is.
    That said, nothing wrong with going out for a ride if you want to.
    Just for clarity, I have no objections to the events themselves.
    It is the media overkill that has gone past annoying, and personal impact.
    Apparently you can overkill a massive event.
    The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
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  • Dorset_Boy
    Dorset_Boy Posts: 6,974
    sungod said:

    So the biggest gathering of world leaders EVER.
    And most of you lot think it's a trivial waste of time.

    classic straw man argument

    you'll need to show evidence for it being the biggest gathering ever, the loathsome scum duo of xi and putin aren't there for a start
    Sky News have stated that it is the biggest gathering of world leaders ever.
    Just because 2 leaders aren't there doesn't mean it isn't.
  • pangolin
    pangolin Posts: 6,344

    sungod said:

    So the biggest gathering of world leaders EVER.
    And most of you lot think it's a trivial waste of time.

    classic straw man argument

    you'll need to show evidence for it being the biggest gathering ever, the loathsome scum duo of xi and putin aren't there for a start
    Sky News have stated that it is the biggest gathering of world leaders ever.
    Just because 2 leaders aren't there doesn't mean it isn't.
    Is the implication that they are going to accomplish something by all being there?
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  • orraloon
    orraloon Posts: 12,750
    Nor the Saudi one. Him of dubious journalist killing fame. And being the oil producer...

    Anyway, I've got God Save The Queen lined up for 8pm. Yes. That one.
  • sungod
    sungod Posts: 16,605
    edited September 2022

    sungod said:

    So the biggest gathering of world leaders EVER.
    And most of you lot think it's a trivial waste of time.

    classic straw man argument

    you'll need to show evidence for it being the biggest gathering ever, the loathsome scum duo of xi and putin aren't there for a start
    Sky News have stated that it is the biggest gathering of world leaders ever.
    Just because 2 leaders aren't there doesn't mean it isn't.
    ah, sky news, well known bastion of truth

    there were more world leaders at the 2016 g20 summit, a bunch of irrelevant also rans are not world leaders
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