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Letters
17-07-2020, 09:40 AM
As with all victims of grooming, I hope she gets the help she deserves.

WRONG!

https://newsthump.com/2020/07/16/sympathy-for-victims-of-grooming-stops-if-the-child-is-brown-confirm-racists/

Ollie the Optimist
17-07-2020, 10:48 AM
As with all victims of grooming, I hope she gets the help she deserves.

According to reports, the security services have evidence she actively tried to recruit others to join ISIS, took a lead role in their “morality policy” and stitched people into suicide vests.

She deserves life in prison with no parole.

GP
17-07-2020, 10:49 AM
WRONG!

https://newsthump.com/2020/07/16/sympathy-for-victims-of-grooming-stops-if-the-child-is-brown-confirm-racists/

Clearly.

Letters
17-07-2020, 11:10 AM
According to reports, the security services have evidence she actively tried to recruit others to join ISIS, took a lead role in their “morality policy” and stitched people into suicide vests.

She deserves life in prison with no parole.

Calm down. Tbh, I don't know much about all this in detail, but wasn't she 15 or something when she "joined ISIS"?
Below the age of consent, below voting age.
She's not responsible enough to do those things but you think decisions she started to make at that age should condemn her for the rest of her life?

Letters
17-07-2020, 12:05 PM
Wait...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-53445109

I mean, gawd bless 'em and all that, but no day off? No pomp? :sulk:

Niall_Quinn
17-07-2020, 12:34 PM
Calm down. Tbh, I don't know much about all this in detail, but wasn't she 15 or something when she "joined ISIS"?
Below the age of consent, below voting age.
She's not responsible enough to do those things but you think decisions she started to make at that age should condemn her for the rest of her life?

The judge in this case is correct if we go strictly by the law. She(? fugly bitch) is entitled to a trial. The outcome is a foregone conclusion, but we have laws and they should be applied equally to all (if only). Minors can still be tried and convicted for crimes and detained until the age of consent, at which time they can be imprisoned. But once she's found guilty, she should be deported again. Why should the British taxpayer have to pay to keep her locked up? And they'd probably let her out anyway because of CORONAVIRUS!!!!!! PANIC!!!!! So just get rid of her and let her go and enjoy the wonders of the Islam.

Ollie the Optimist
17-07-2020, 02:07 PM
Calm down. Tbh, I don't know much about all this in detail, but wasn't she 15 or something when she "joined ISIS"?
Below the age of consent, below voting age.
She's not responsible enough to do those things but you think decisions she started to make at that age should condemn her for the rest of her life?

Most 15 year olds will know that stitching someone into a bomb vest (unable to take off with detonating) is wrong.

She travelled with two other girls. I believe one was killed and the other tried to escape early on when she realised her mistake. According to the reports on the security services, this was not the case and she terrorised and played a part in killing innocent people.

She showed no remorse in any interviews she gave to sky & didnt think she had done anything wrong. If you are 20 years old and dont think being part of a murderous death cult is wrong then there is much help you can give

Letters
17-07-2020, 02:32 PM
I'm not arguing that she shouldn't have known better, but kids are idiots.
She sounds pretty awful (although be careful about judging someone based on reports in certain newspapers), but I'd be loathe to write someone else for the rest of their life for stupidity at this age.

The Wengerbabies
17-07-2020, 02:43 PM
Off with her head.

Ollie the Optimist
17-07-2020, 02:58 PM
I'm not arguing that she shouldn't have known better, but kids are idiots.
She sounds pretty awful (although be careful about judging someone based on reports in certain newspapers), but I'd be loathe to write someone else for the rest of their life for stupidity at this age.

Stupidity is things like stealing a car at a young age and agree not writing someone off for rest of their life for something like that.

However, joining a murderous death cult & according to reports from security services, being an active part in teh death of many, is not just “stupidity” its terrorism. She remained there for five years. I would imagine that if ISIS hadn’t collapsed, she would still be there. She doesnt think she did anything wrong and only seems to want to come back “home” because isis is no longer there.

Globalgunner
17-07-2020, 05:26 PM
Calm down people. You are falling for the polemical. Think.about it. A mass murderer living amongst the population killing a dozen or more doesn't get stripped of his her citizenship. The state wants to make an example of her. Not for her actual crimes. Some of you sound like your be happy to pick a handful of stones and throw them at her if it were being staged at Wembley stadium. She deserves a trial at least. She is still human...I think.

Letters
23-07-2020, 08:25 PM
Chuckle

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/boxing/53517095

GP
23-07-2020, 09:01 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gv7mO41bbPg

GP
27-07-2020, 04:03 PM
https://i.redd.it/kt1he34zzdd51.jpg

dazthegooner
27-07-2020, 04:06 PM
Scary...

Mac76
27-07-2020, 06:48 PM
That's a really old story https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-derbyshire-50501203

Globalgunner
27-07-2020, 07:26 PM
How do you expect to be taken seriously with a barnet like that?

GP
27-07-2020, 08:30 PM
By forming a nu-metal band in 2002?

WMUG
27-07-2020, 08:57 PM
My uni told me I'd got a 2:2.

Had a job interview today where a goodly portion of it was me explaining my way out of it.

Check the post afterwards. My degree certificate's in there.

2:1.

:doh:

Letters
27-07-2020, 09:22 PM
People who get 2ii's :haha:

People who get 2i's :bow:

Xhaka Can’t
27-07-2020, 10:43 PM
My uni told me I'd got a 2:2.

Had a job interview today where a goodly portion of it was me explaining my way out of it.

Check the post afterwards. My degree certificate's in there.

2:1.

:doh:

Congratulations - now we'll see just how good of a bullshitter you were.

Mac76
28-07-2020, 08:58 AM
People who get 2ii's :haha:

People who get 2i's :bow:

i got a third - what do you want to say to that?

my approach was: dope, booze, music, women - and just about enough work to get me through...

past your first job, having a degree is all that counts, no-one cares what it is any more

oh, and i did go back and do a masters' a few years back - got a high mark though maybe not the very top one, but again no-one cares, I can't even remember what it is

Letters
28-07-2020, 09:39 AM
i got a third - what do you want to say to that?
:pal:

Although it sounds like you had significantly more fun at Uni than I did.


past your first job, having a degree is all that counts, no-one cares what it is any more

True, but in my game I don't think I'd have got in the door at most places with a 3rd.

WMUG
28-07-2020, 10:05 AM
past your first job, having a degree is all that counts, no-one cares what it is any more


Trouble is, my first job's what I'm looking for :lol:

First "real" job anyway /snob

Marc Overmars
28-07-2020, 10:59 AM
I think you’d still need 2:1 at least to get through the door at most places. Particularly for graduates because there’s so much competition. After you’ve got the experience then your degree doesn’t really hold much weight unless you did something very specific.

To be honest if I could go back now I wish I had learned a trade or something. My degree was very broad because I didn’t know what I wanted to do so I covered a lot avenues. I’ve got a good job and I’m relatively comfortable in life but fuck me is it boring and feels like a never ending rat race.

The Wengerbabies
28-07-2020, 08:34 PM
Upcoming Sports Illustrated swimsuit edition cover:

https://media.breitbart.com/media/2020/07/Sports-Illustrated-640x480.jpg

lmao

Clown world.

Mac76
28-07-2020, 09:17 PM
That head is about three sizes two small for that body

Xhaka Can’t
28-07-2020, 09:25 PM
Upcoming Sports Illustrated swimsuit edition cover:

https://media.breitbart.com/media/2020/07/Sports-Illustrated-640x480.jpg

lmao

Clown world.

https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20200728/32a41fa15c59230ad357ad372883bbc1.jpg

LDG
29-07-2020, 06:02 AM
Roll her in flour to see where the wet spot is

Letters
29-07-2020, 09:10 PM
Chuckle

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/tommy-robinson-flees-spain-family-22429002

GP
29-07-2020, 10:08 PM
I hope his children die in a fire.

Mac76
30-07-2020, 09:00 AM
I hope his children die in a fire.

I hope they grow up to be liberals who marry black people and have interracial kids - believe me that would piss him off a lot more... ;)

Niall_Quinn
30-07-2020, 11:30 AM
No, it wouldn't actually. And if you weren't so ignorant on easily obtainable facts then you'd know how dumb your post is. No way as dumb as that cunt GP though. Hoping kids die in a fire. What a epic twat. Wonder how far he'd go to get attention? What a piece of slime though, eh?

Niall_Quinn
30-07-2020, 11:33 AM
Chuckle

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/tommy-robinson-flees-spain-family-22429002

Arson attack, ha, ha, he-he, ha...

Targeting women instead of fronting up to men, he-he, ha, ha, ha...

Anyway, shouldn't you be in church praying for the salvation of sinners?

Letters
30-07-2020, 11:45 AM
You do love a good old straw man

If you only had a brain... :console:

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/be/7f/ee/be7fee6745c9f162d9db539adb750876.jpg

Marc Overmars
31-07-2020, 02:01 PM
Bloody hot today.

It’s days like this where I can work in the garden I appreciate working from home.

Niall_Quinn
31-07-2020, 02:02 PM
You do love a good old straw man

If you only had a brain... :console:

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/be/7f/ee/be7fee6745c9f162d9db539adb750876.jpg

Deflection is the Christian thing to do, I guess.

Keep hating - Mr Christian.

Letters
31-07-2020, 04:24 PM
I'm sure most people "got" it, but for the hard of thinking.
I was chuckling at the irony of someone who has for years railed against refugees becoming...y'know, a refugee.
Not the reason for it.
Isn't it ironic, don'tcha think?

Letters
01-08-2020, 07:48 PM
Princess Anne ##

50 years ago, I mean

LDG
01-08-2020, 07:54 PM
Princess Anne ##

50 years ago, I mean

You would have been very attractive to her too

Niall_Quinn
01-08-2020, 07:59 PM
You would have been very attractive to her too

Red rag to a bull in that T-shirt. His arse would have hurt for a month.

Letters
01-08-2020, 08:14 PM
You would have been very attractive to her too
I’m not over 50 you cherry sod :sulk:

LDG
01-08-2020, 08:21 PM
I’m not over 50 you cherry sod :sulk:

Must be nearly innit? 48?

Soon your age will be bigger than your height

Letters
01-08-2020, 08:23 PM
I'm closer than I’d like to be :(

Globalgunner
02-08-2020, 07:26 AM
Theres life after 50, believe me. You just cant do some stuff for as long or as often. Otherwise its GRRRRREAT!

Letters
02-08-2020, 01:31 PM
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-53627888

:lol:

Musk :bow:

Niall_Quinn
02-08-2020, 07:14 PM
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-53627888

:lol:

Musk :bow:

It's funny because the BS pushed by Egyptologists is even crazier than Musk.

Letters
03-08-2020, 08:16 AM
Theres life after 50, believe me. You just cant do some stuff for as long or as often. Otherwise its GRRRRREAT!

I have conceded I'm getting older. I mean, I look in the mirror now and think "Hmm, I'm sure my skin used to fit" :(

But 50. Holy shit! Right now I'm still sort of pretending I'm not that old. But when you get to fifty...fifty! You can't really pretend any more.

:oldboy:

The Wengerbabies
03-08-2020, 08:19 AM
Theres life after 50, believe me. You just cant do some stuff for as long or as often. Otherwise its GRRRRREAT!

Not if these cunts get their way

https://news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-millions-of-over-50s-could-be-told-to-stay-at-home-to-avoid-second-nationwide-lockdown-12040780

Mac76
03-08-2020, 08:28 AM
I have conceded I'm getting older. I mean, I look in the mirror now and think "Hmm, I'm sure my skin used to fit" :(

But 50. Holy shit! Right now I'm still sort of pretending I'm not that old. But when you get to fifty...fifty! You can't really pretend any more.

:oldboy:
It makes no difference, it's how you think and act

I'm 53 but most people think I'm about 10 years younger

Just don't buy any pringle sweaters or start wearing boring trousers instead of jeans and you'll be fine...

Letters
03-08-2020, 08:30 AM
:lol: Noted.

And agreed about state of mind. I don't feel old.

Xhaka Can’t
03-08-2020, 10:31 AM
It makes no difference, it's how you think and act

I'm 53 but most people think I'm about 10 years younger

Just don't buy any pringle sweaters or start wearing boring trousers instead of jeans and you'll be fine...

Fuck.

We’re turning into a forum of Coneys and Theologooners.

The fact I can remember the latter is a damning indictment of me.

Letters
03-08-2020, 10:39 AM
We need fresh blood more than the black pudding industry.

Probably should leave GW to Maccy in my will :(

WMUG
03-08-2020, 12:40 PM
Even I'm fuckin 26.

Christ, I've spent a majority of my life as a member of GW.

'kinell.

Letters
03-08-2020, 01:09 PM
Even I'm fuckin 26.
Holy shit! :lol:

Even the kids :rolleyes: aren't kids :rolleyes: any more.

:ilt:

GP
04-08-2020, 04:00 PM
Have you seen this explosion in Beirut?

https://twitter.com/GrablyR/status/1290672078950023169

They're saying it's a fireworks explosion, but... look at it!

Globalgunner
04-08-2020, 04:29 PM
No way is that a fireworks explosion

Mac76
04-08-2020, 07:06 PM
Have you seen this explosion in Beirut?

https://twitter.com/GrablyR/status/1290672078950023169

They're saying it's a fireworks explosion, but... look at it!

Holy fuck that looks like an A-bomb!!! :faint:

Xhaka Can’t
04-08-2020, 09:25 PM
I don’t think I’ve ever reacted to a news video the way I did for this.

That was shocking.

Mac76
04-08-2020, 10:25 PM
A big store of ammonium nitrate apparently

Check these out... https://mobile.twitter.com/RafaelPern/status/1290731873610559488

Globalgunner
05-08-2020, 08:20 AM
I don’t think I’ve ever reacted to a news video the way I did for this.

That was shocking.

Its shows how fleeting this existence is. One minute you are going about your own business. Selling fruits by your cart, walking to work, buying biscuits...then out of nowhere. BOOM!. Almost 80 dead i hear.

Mac76
05-08-2020, 10:56 AM
check this out - really shocking - the reporter was ok afterwards though

https://twitter.com/i/status/1290771289939075073

Letters
05-08-2020, 10:58 AM
check this out - really shocking - the reporter was ok afterwards though

https://twitter.com/i/status/1290771289939075073

Holy shit! :o

Letters
05-08-2020, 11:15 AM
A big store of ammonium nitrate apparently

Check these out... https://mobile.twitter.com/RafaelPern/status/1290731873610559488

Wow. When you think that he's over 6 miles away there (~30 seconds between seeing the explosion and hearing it, you do the "math" #science)
EDIT: Amazing how you can see the shockwave approaching.

Mac76
05-08-2020, 11:38 AM
yeah the one with the guy in the car's pretty amazing too, not least he doesn't say anything after his car's trashed in a huge explosion, still i guess you're a bit stunned when it happens - i hope i never find out...

Mac76
05-08-2020, 10:35 PM
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-europe-53665860/tourist-posing-for-photo-breaks-19th-century-antonio-canova-sculpture

:haha:

Letters
06-08-2020, 06:00 AM
I hope they operate a “you broke it, you bought it” policy.

Mac76
06-08-2020, 09:54 PM
"Little did I know he had destroyed our entire living room," she said. :lol:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-53678828

Letters
07-08-2020, 06:00 AM
“ filled the living room with hundreds of tea lights, candles and balloons on Monday evening.”

Yes. What could possibly go wrong?

:doh:

Letters
07-08-2020, 06:02 AM
Wonder if he previously had a job as head of safety in a Lebanon chemicals factory.

:unsure:

Mac76
07-08-2020, 11:17 AM
could be.... :lol:

Letters
09-08-2020, 09:39 PM
Submitted without comment

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-53713971

Mac76
10-08-2020, 08:46 AM
Yes i have no comment to make about that either ;)

Globalgunner
11-08-2020, 06:08 AM
Of course we all wish him well:thumbsdown:

Letters
11-08-2020, 07:50 AM
I wouldn't cry if he fell down a well.

GP
11-08-2020, 08:12 AM
I've never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure

Letters
12-08-2020, 12:45 PM
Apple evil: Official

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-53740820

Mac76
12-08-2020, 03:48 PM
Just shows that all the 'hey i'm so cool cos i buy Apple', jeans-halfway-down-their-arse brigade who buy Apple's overpriced heavily proprietary crap are helping a company which has Jobs' neo-nazi jackboot-print all over it

The guy was a total fascist and his company is the opposite of the liberal, free 'n' easy BS which people like to associate with it

Letters
13-08-2020, 08:25 AM
I'm not a fanboy, but I do quite like Apple's stuff. It's just nice and easy to use, all fairly intuitive.
But they are pretty evil. I guess most big companies are. Amazon certainly are, but they're just so darn convenient and cheap.

Marc Overmars
13-08-2020, 08:32 AM
Not much of a tech geek but I’ve had an iPhone for years and couldn’t imagine ever using another phone now. I guess that’s the kind zombie Apple has produced but the phones have always been reliable and user friendly for me. So carry on with your evil ways and I’ll still keep buying. :lol:

Mac76
13-08-2020, 09:13 AM
Not much of a tech geek but I’ve had an iPhone for years and couldn’t imagine ever using another phone now. I guess that’s the kind zombie Apple has produced but the phones have always been reliable and user friendly for me. So carry on with your evil ways and I’ll still keep buying. :lol:

That's the point, there were already MP3 players before ipod and there have and always will be better phones than iphone, they just captured people with smoothy white shiny toys

And their computers lack a lot of the in-depth functionality of a windows pc but hey who cares they're, like, so coooooool :rolleyes:

Letters
13-08-2020, 09:23 AM
Depends what you mean by "better". From what I understand other phones have features which Apple phones don't, but Apple phones are just generally more intuitive - I'm theoretically "in IT" and I struggle a bit with Android phones. Most people just want something they can just pick up and use and do the basics, that's where Apple seems to win.

GP
13-08-2020, 09:56 AM
I wouldn't say either was better than the other. Competition is a good thing.

Marc Overmars
13-08-2020, 10:02 AM
If something works and is comfortable for you as the user, then as far as I’m concerned that makes it “better”, so to speak. Your average person isn’t really interested in all the bells and whistles that come with technological advances, just get what is right for yourself and your needs.

My dad is a dinosaur and I’m pretty sure he’d still be using a Nokia 3210 if he could. :lol:

Xhaka Can’t
13-08-2020, 09:31 PM
My first smartphone was the iPhone 3Gs. It lasted for ages. Following that, I’ve been on a number of Android phones, always flagship models. They have varied in quality. I came back on to Apple with the iPhone 8 which I’ve had for almost three years.

I’ve found the iPhone to be easier to use as well as finding battery life much better meaning I’m replacing my phone less frequently. It is overpriced for the spec, but it becomes more economical because I’m replacing my phone less often.

After over 2.5 years use, I’m not even considering replacing my phone yet.

Letters
17-08-2020, 04:15 PM
Government backtrack on their infamous grades formula

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-53810655

GP
17-08-2020, 05:29 PM
Have this government done anything right?

Letters
17-08-2020, 05:38 PM
Well. They have at least conceded the point rather than doubling down.
I’ll give them that.

Mac76
18-08-2020, 07:16 AM
Have this government done anything right?

No

GP
18-08-2020, 09:36 AM
Well. They have at least conceded the point rather than doubling down.


Eventually.

McNamara That Ghost...
18-08-2020, 10:06 AM
They always 'back down' because they're perennially coming up with such bollocks in the first place.

Letters
18-08-2020, 10:29 AM
They always 'back down' because they're perennially coming up with such bollocks in the first place.

I have some time for them bowing to the pressure on this one.

Although now they've created a different mess because the teacher grades are unrealistically high. So now university courses are going to be oversubscribed as more people will have been given the grades they need than the university could have predicted.

So...yeah, as usual they've made a complete bollox up of it all.

Niall_Quinn
19-08-2020, 10:54 AM
Well. They have at least conceded the point rather than doubling down.
I’ll give them that.

Mistakes were made. Provided lessons are learned I think it's reasonable to forget about this, say in a month or so, and carry on as if nothing has happened.

Letters
19-08-2020, 08:29 PM
The teachers marks were something like 30% up on last year which is clearly bollox. So actually the government were right to make adjustments. The main thing they got wrong seems to have been the algorithm didn’t deal well with outliers. So the really bright, hard working kid at a rough school got clobbered. And, of course, you only hear from the losers. They probably should have stuck to their guns and dealt with the exceptions in the appeal process.

Now we’ve got hugely inflated results and universities scrambling around trying to fit everyone in. The predictable omnishambles.

Ollie the Optimist
20-08-2020, 07:51 AM
Weirdly it isn’t just the Tory government to blame on this one.

We are in a stupid situation where the Tories attack the SNP for screwing up results there but then ignore any attacks on them for the English results, Labour attack the Tories but then ignore anything on the Welsh Labour screw up & Northern Ireland has also backtracked.

Only party who can claim they are not to blame are the Lib Dem’s :lol:

Letters
20-08-2020, 07:52 AM
Weirdly it is just the Tory government to blame on this one.
Yeah, that is weird that the party running the country are blamed for fucking things up.

Ollie the Optimist
20-08-2020, 07:57 AM
Yeah, that is weird that the party running the country are blamed for fucking things up.

Yeah i should read the post before hitting send. Meant to write “isn’t”

The reason being is that each devolved administration has presided over the same fuck up. Labour, Tories, SNP & whoever is in charge in Northern Ireland all got it wrong. Hard to blame just one party when all are very different!

Letters
20-08-2020, 08:12 AM
To be fair, I don't think there was any way to get this right.
Using the teacher's estimates which means a 30% improvement on last year is pretty clearly the wrong thing to do.
But the algorithm dealt with some people unfairly. I'd suggest there is no algorithm which would have kept everyone happy, and obviously it's the losers you hear from.

As I said above they should have just stuck to their guns - maybe they should have explained beforehand that they would deal with any injustices individually afterwards. But then there would have been a massive outcry before the fact because people don't understand that there is no way of doing this perfectly. My gut feel is the algorithm got it right for a very high percentage of people.

Niall_Quinn
20-08-2020, 10:07 AM
30 days...

WMUG
20-08-2020, 03:00 PM
30 days...

Until international talk like a pirate day? :unsure:

Niall_Quinn
21-08-2020, 11:18 AM
Until international talk like a pirate day? :unsure:

29 days...

No, until this whole exam thing is forgotten. It's just another thing on a long list. Incompetence followed by outrage followed by a lack of action, then forgotten and the whole thing resets, with our leaders claiming competence once more and the people - for some inexplicable reason - believing it. An enduring mental illness that seems to have no remedy.

Letters
22-08-2020, 11:44 AM
Someone signed up with the username "badgirlNef".
Has a .ru email address. Looks legit :d

Letters
26-08-2020, 09:01 AM
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-53894998

Nice tits, tbf.

Mac76
26-08-2020, 10:04 AM
Predictably EOTHO has brought all the lowlife from under their stones

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-53769749

I've onlyused itonce so far i think, and that's just because we felt like eating out that night anyway

Letters
26-08-2020, 10:15 AM
We did it this week. First time. It was nice to be doing something a bit normal, first time we'd been in a pub since all this started.
Might try and squeeze one in on Monday as it's the last day.

Marc Overmars
26-08-2020, 10:27 AM
I've used it a fair few times, mainly to try out places we wouldn't normally eat at, like some lesser known independently run restaurants, which is supposed to be the point of the scheme.

I've seen some of the queues at the big chains and it's ridiculous. They definitely shouldn't be included in the scheme, they'll survive no matter what the global situation is.

Hopefully it isn't extended into September. As ever when you give a inch, entitled cunts take a mile. I read an article the other day about someone who couldn't be seated because the place was fully booked, so they kicked off and demanded to come back the next day (when the scheme wasn't on) and have their 50% off. :doh:

Niall_Quinn
26-08-2020, 10:49 AM
I've used it a fair few times, mainly to try out places we wouldn't normally eat at, like some lesser known independently run restaurants, which is supposed to be the point of the scheme.

I've seen some of the queues at the big chains and it's ridiculous. They definitely shouldn't be included in the scheme, they'll survive no matter what the global situation is.

Hopefully it isn't extended into September. As ever when you give a inch, entitled cunts take a mile. I read an article the other day about someone who couldn't be seated because the place was fully booked, so they kicked off and demanded to come back the next day (when the scheme wasn't on) and have their 50% off. :doh:

In a civilised and lawful society the government could simply open restaurants (they should never have shut them and don't have the right anyway) with zero restrictions and then issue real scientific advise about the actual threat posed by this flu. Then, so-called free people could decide for themselves. Don't fancy the minuscule risk? Then don't eat out. As if the takeaway services are "safe" anyway.

Driving along the road yesterday I guess a thousand cars, tons of metal, hurtled towards me at a closing velocity of over 100mph. At any time I could have pulled into their path and caused a head-on collision. Yet I didn't. And not one car pulled into my path. Why? Fairly fucking obvious answer to that one.

Why can't the same individual choice be applied to this covid flu? People know it's not dangerous, that's why the authorities have to bastardise the law to enforce compliance with their bullshit agendas.

Niall_Quinn
26-08-2020, 10:53 AM
Predictably EOTHO has brought all the lowlife from under their stones

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-53769749

I've onlyused itonce so far i think, and that's just because we felt like eating out that night anyway

I refused it because I don't have any right to steal money from other people so I can eat. I wish other people felt the same way about stealing from me.

Letters
27-08-2020, 12:47 PM
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-53930163

Didn't know they were a couple tbh.

Letters
29-08-2020, 08:16 PM
Musk at it again.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-53956683

Niall_Quinn
29-08-2020, 08:41 PM
Musk at it again.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-53956683

This could be one of the technologies, if handled properly, that allows blind people to see, crippled people to walk, leftists to think. Theoretically it's very good news, practically it will be horrifically abused.

Mac76
29-08-2020, 09:15 PM
This could be one of the technologies, if handled properly, that allows blind people to see, crippled people to walk, leftists to think. Theoretically it's very good news, practically it will be horrifically abused.

Could it teach people the difference between trustworthy sources and nutters on youtube do you think?

Niall_Quinn
29-08-2020, 09:51 PM
Could it teach people the difference between trustworthy sources and nutters on youtube do you think?

Sad fuck.

Mac76
30-08-2020, 11:43 AM
Sad fuck.

I agree, you shoud see someone about it

Letters
30-08-2020, 11:50 AM
Could it teach people the difference between trustworthy sources and nutters on youtube do you think?

:lol:

Look, it’s very simple.

Trustworthy = something I agree with.
Fake News = something I don’t.

:d

Niall_Quinn
30-08-2020, 03:05 PM
:lol:

Look, it’s very simple.

Trustworthy = something I agree with.
Fake News = something I don’t.

:d

Well that's not a good way to be. You should work on that. Instead, examine the facts, look at the science. It will help you greatly.

Niall_Quinn
30-08-2020, 03:06 PM
I agree, you shoud see someone about it

Fuck you lefty. Enemy.

Mac76
30-08-2020, 04:54 PM
Fuck you lefty. Enemy.

gosh you really are angry

once again, for apporximately theone millionth time, i am not left, simply not extreme right-wing whhc immediately makes me a lefty in your jaundiced eyes because your own world view is so sadly distorted

Niall_Quinn
30-08-2020, 07:17 PM
gosh you really are angry

once again, for apporximately theone millionth time, i am not left, simply not extreme right-wing whhc immediately makes me a lefty in your jaundiced eyes because your own world view is so sadly distorted

Which bit about, fuck you, don't you understand. We're done talking. I'll see you on the streets.

Letters
30-08-2020, 07:46 PM
TRIGGERED!!1!1!!!

Niall_Quinn
30-08-2020, 09:48 PM
TRIGGERED!!1!1!!!

Says the TDS victim and BBC rent boy.

Letters
31-08-2020, 06:02 AM
Says the TDS victim and BBC rent boy.

Sticks and stones... :blah:


Do stop crying, dude. It’s not a good look on you.

Niall_Quinn
31-08-2020, 07:30 PM
Bravely bleated from behind a keyboard.

Letters
31-08-2020, 08:07 PM
And where are you sitting? :)

Xhaka Can’t
31-08-2020, 09:00 PM
A padded room.

Probably.

Niall_Quinn
01-09-2020, 10:30 AM
Months explaining things to you morons and yer man is still posting up BBC celeb gossip. I guess you have to accept that some people are just beyond reach, floundering fools that would pull you down if you offered them a hand at sea.

Even with the simplest chain of recent posts in this thread (Xhaka excluded because he wasn't here), a hapless lobotomy case pipes up in a disturbed bray - howling derision at he knows not what because he never saw it. Then the next monkey starts slapping the side of his head in rhythmical sympathy.The standard retaliation against anything that, oh, oh V_E_R_N! - isn't on the approved schedule written 20 years in advance. Then... Here! Did you know that so-and-so was married to fuck-a-lot? Wow, Big news! Literally, I'm not making it up. So what can you do? Exactly what I did - we're done talking, fuck off. To which the monkey screams, between posting trivia, ha, ha, you're mad!

It's a bit like urging the village idiot to get out of the middle of the road. Coaxing, pleading, but eventually you lose patience and just say, die then you fucker. If that' what you want. I think Mac gets it because he shut up, went away, we disagree and he maybe can't see the point in pushing it.

But the screaming monkey? Not so much.

Don't be the screaming monkey's choir buddy Xhaka. Might be fun to start with, but it gets old fast. As I believe you already know.

Xhaka Can’t
01-09-2020, 10:45 AM
What?

I just posted a joke. I’ve been away for the past couple of weeks.

Letters
01-09-2020, 10:47 AM
It's a bit like urging the village idiot to get out of the middle of the road.
Yeah. Except you're the lone voice screaming at everyone to get out of the road.
So...y'know, maybe it's you in the road. :shrug:
Not necessarily, you can be a lone voice and be right of course (like me with Wenger :cool:), but it's less likely.

And if you want a grown up conversation, I did post some more considered thoughts about what constitutes fake news in the other thread.

Mac76
01-09-2020, 11:00 AM
What?

I just posted a joke. I’ve been away for the past couple of weeks.

welcome back to GW :lol:

Niall_Quinn
01-09-2020, 11:15 AM
What?

I just posted a joke. I’ve been away for the past couple of weeks.

Sorry. It's my memory. I remember further back than 2 weeks.

Niall_Quinn
01-09-2020, 11:23 AM
Yeah. Except you're the lone voice screaming at everyone to get out of the road.
So...y'know, maybe it's you in the road. :shrug:
Not necessarily, you can be a lone voice and be right of course (like me with Wenger :cool:), but it's less likely.

And if you want a grown up conversation, I did post some more considered thoughts about what constitutes fake news in the other thread.

Yeah, another one of your dumbed down, framed pieces that sets the stage for a trip around the houses? I read that. LDG tried to explain this to you as well, how fake news goes way beyond rigid semantic analysis of isolated points. I know it's not beyond your comprehension - you just play it that way.

Grown up conversation. LOL.

Xhaka Can’t
01-09-2020, 12:01 PM
Sorry. It's my memory. I remember further back than 2 weeks.

Two weeks in Greece and I seriously can’t be bothered thinking about posts on GW beforehand.

If you have any specific issues with me that are festering, let it all out.

Letters
01-09-2020, 12:08 PM
Two weeks in Greece and I seriously can’t be bothered thinking about posts on GW beforehand.

I'm starting to question your commitment :angry:


You're worse than Ozil :sulk:

Xhaka Can’t
01-09-2020, 12:11 PM
Yeah, another one of your dumbed down, framed pieces that sets the stage for a trip around the houses? I read that. LDG tried to explain this to you as well, how fake news goes way beyond rigid semantic analysis of isolated points. I know it's not beyond your comprehension - you just play it that way.

Grown up conversation. LOL.

News is only as objective as the person and/or organisation reporting it. Headlines tend to serve as click bait and a lot of people don’t read beyond that.

The syntax of reports are often designed to influence the reader as is what is included/excluded from reports.

This is the same with the evidence, data and information derived from that data and evidence.

Only by truly researching from multiple sources and critically analysing the output of your research, which nobody has the time to do for every report, can you have complete confidence in what is real or know how you are being influenced to think.

So, what makes you so sure in your sources and in what you think?

Letters
01-09-2020, 01:04 PM
News is only as objective as the person and/or organisation reporting it. Headlines tend to serve as click bait and a lot of people don’t read beyond that.

Right. And I mentioned that in my post in the other thread.
If NQ's issue with the BBC article about an "avalanche of infections" is the headline then he has a point.
The article itself is fairly well balanced.

Letters
01-09-2020, 01:07 PM
New users :bow:

There is a new user, windking at Goonersweb

Email Address : replicahandbagsuk@<redacted>.com


Looks legit :cool:

GP
01-09-2020, 01:08 PM
Anyone wanna buy some knock-off handbags?

Xhaka Can’t
01-09-2020, 01:23 PM
Anyone wanna buy some knock-off handbags?

This place has more than enough handbags.

Niall_Quinn
01-09-2020, 02:06 PM
Two weeks in Greece and I seriously can’t be bothered thinking about posts on GW beforehand.

If you have any specific issues with me that are festering, let it all out.

Well that's fair enough.

No, no issues. Just handbags, so to speak.

Niall_Quinn
01-09-2020, 02:12 PM
Right. And I mentioned that in my post in the other thread.
If NQ's issue with the BBC article about an "avalanche of infections" is the headline then he has a point.
The article itself is fairly well balanced.

Obviously, as you are well aware, it is not about a single article, but no surprise you pretend so. Of course you'll try to make it about a single article. And then, next time, another isolated article. Without ever recognising the pattern or acknowledging the long historical record. The fake news BBC's fake news policy can't be fully qualified in one article. But that's your point and purpose, isn't it? The word "avalanche" would be like a funny misprint in isolation. But as part of the relentless fear porn it is so much more than an error of judgement. I guess they had advance notice of the CDC's confession, so were trying to get some more of their BS out in advance. Or maybe it's just second nature to them now and they don't need to think about it.

Letters
01-09-2020, 03:03 PM
Of course you'll try to make it about a single article.

I'm not trying to make anything about anything. I don't even know what "it" is here.
Your Pavlovian response about the BBC was prompted by me posting that article so it seems fairly reasonable to ask what your issue is with that article.
I don't expect your issue with the BBC to be because of one article but if this is an example then explain why.

"Avalanche" wasn't a typo, it was a quote. And in the article the response from the university was given. So is your issue the headline?
If so then you have a point.

Niall_Quinn
01-09-2020, 03:30 PM
I'm not trying to make anything about anything. I don't even know what "it" is here.
Your Pavlovian response about the BBC was prompted by me posting that article so it seems fairly reasonable to ask what your issue is with that article.
I don't expect your issue with the BBC to be because of one article but if this is an example then explain why.

"Avalanche" wasn't a typo, it was a quote. And in the article the response from the university was given. So is your issue the headline?
If so then you have a point.

Here's my Pavlovian response, you thoroughly deceitful wretch.


So are we starting to sort of, maybe, in the loosest sense - agree on what constitutes fake news? Serious question. How much bullshit can the BBC spout before people start to doubt it as a viable source of information?

Can we, in the most reasonable terms, now assume - after all that has passed - the BBC is fake news?

Serious question.

It's a question. And a qualified one too - "after all that has passed".

But it's about scoring points for you, so naturally you have changed the nature and intent of the response to suit your dishonest purpose.

Letters
01-09-2020, 03:53 PM
Here's my Pavlovian response, you thoroughly deceitful wretch.
Have you been using the Shakespearian insult generator again? :lol:

Really is quite amusing how you can hold so many contradictory thoughts in your head without seemingly realising it.
You have previously said you think that people are, in general, decent. Yet every time people disagree with you it's because they're dishonest or deceitful or have some nefarious purpose.

Niall_Quinn
01-09-2020, 03:59 PM
Have you been using the Shakespearian insult generator again? :lol:

Really is quite amusing how you can hold so many contradictory thoughts in your head without seemingly realising it.
You have previously said you think that people are, in general, decent. Yet every time people disagree with you it's because they're dishonest or deceitful or have some nefarious purpose.

Now you are pretending the initial conversation was a disagreement. Any manoeuvre to spin an advantageous angle. I didn't even reply when you started your usual bullshit. I left it. YOU brought it back up. Your deceit in action, once again. Nothing seeming about it, at all.

Xhaka Can’t
01-09-2020, 04:22 PM
I wish I was back in Greece.

Even more so now.

Letters
01-09-2020, 05:58 PM
Now I think he’s arguing with himself so I’ll leave him to it :lol:

Also, Charlie Hebdo :bow:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-53985407

Niall_Quinn
01-09-2020, 07:11 PM
Now I think he’s arguing with himself so I’ll leave him to it :lol:

Also, Charlie Hebdo :bow:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-53985407

The facts always see you fucking off. Lightweight.

Letters
02-09-2020, 07:34 AM
He no longer likes to move it :(


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-53993125

Erick Morillo :rose:

Letters
02-09-2020, 07:35 AM
Lightweight.
I have lost a bit of weight during all this nonsense. Thanks for noticing :)

Mac76
02-09-2020, 08:16 AM
I have lost a bit of weight during all this nonsense. Thanks for noticing :)

really? most people have put it on

i think i've more or less maintained my spare tyre at about the same amount

Letters
02-09-2020, 08:40 AM
really? most people have put it on

i think i've more or less maintained my spare tyre at about the same amount

Not much. At the start of this I lost about half a stone, I actually think I was finding it all a bit stressful, I wasn't eating much differently.
Have put some back on now but football is resuming tonight so hoping that will help, if I don't keel over which is entirely possible.

Letters
02-09-2020, 09:33 AM
Going to the office tomorrow to clear out my locker - we are moving in November and they've decided we won't go back to our offices now, we'll just start again at the new ones.
Just before lockdown I started working at home because of a cold, following government advice. I left some stuff in the office which got put in someone else's locker. Someone no longer with the organisation.
Am hoping to retrieve it tomorrow but I obviously don't have the key to the other locker

Me (to someone called TM): "Hi, I need access to a locker because some of my stuff got put in it before lockdown."

TM: "You need to email the helpdesk, here's their email address"

Me (to Helpdesk): "Hi, I need access to a locker because some of my stuff got put in it before lockdown."
*email bounces*

Me (to TM): "The email bounced, help?"

TM: "Oh sorry, there was a typo in the email address, it's this."

Me (to Helpdesk): "Hi, I need access to a locker because some of my stuff got put in it before lockdown."

Helpdesk: "I've forwarded your email to TM, they can help"

:doh:

Globalgunner
02-09-2020, 09:35 AM
Going to the office tomorrow to clear out my locker - we are moving in November and they've decided we won't go back to our offices now, we'll just start again at the new ones.
Just before lockdown I started working at home because of a cold, following government advice. I left some stuff in the office which got put in someone else's locker. Someone no longer with the organisation.
Am hoping to retrieve it tomorrow but I obviously don't have the key to the other locker

Me (to someone called TM): "Hi, I need access to a locker because some of my stuff got put in it before lockdown."

TM: "You need to email the helpdesk, here's their email address"

Me (to Helpdesk): "Hi, I need access to a locker because some of my stuff got put in it before lockdown."
*email bounces*

Me (to TM): "The email bounced, help?"

TM: "Oh sorry, there was a typo in the email address, it's this."

Me (to Helpdesk): "Hi, I need access to a locker because some of my stuff got put in it before lockdown."

Helpdesk: "I've forwarded your email to TM, they can help"

:doh:

Classic case of a circular organogram

Mac76
02-09-2020, 09:41 AM
Franz Kafka would love it

WMUG
02-09-2020, 09:45 AM
Training for a job in a sportswear company.

They have a framed photo of the Giggs goal in 1999 on the wall <_<

Mac76
02-09-2020, 10:02 AM
surely you can 'accidentally' smash it with a broom or something? ;)

Niall_Quinn
02-09-2020, 10:06 AM
Classic case of a circular organogram

Or they know who he is.

Niall_Quinn
02-09-2020, 10:08 AM
Training for a job in a sportswear company.

They have a framed photo of the Giggs goal in 1999 on the wall <_<

Not the fat Geordie's sportswear themed, specialised customer abuse service?

Letters
02-09-2020, 10:16 AM
They're letting the gays dance now :sulk:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/strictlycomedancing

GP
02-09-2020, 10:42 AM
They're letting the gays dance now :sulk:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/strictlycomedancing

Gay AND black AND a woman!

A gay BLACK WOMAN!!

And you still defend the bbc!

Mac76
02-09-2020, 10:43 AM
Or they know who he is.

that's actually quite funny :lol:

WMUG
02-09-2020, 05:20 PM
Not the fat Geordie's sportswear themed, specialised customer abuse service?

Nah, not that one. Would never work there, for the reasons you mention.

Mac76
04-09-2020, 11:38 AM
https://twitter.com/jonholmes1/status/1301546709198295040

:haha:

Letters
04-09-2020, 02:23 PM
Went into the office yesterday afternoon. First time since this all started.
Decided to go into town early and have a walk around to see what it was like.
More people than I was expecting but the shops were very quiet. Shops like Hamleys and the Lego Store which are usually heaving were empty, other shops were closed, maybe permanently. There's going to be a lot of redundancies coming in that sector, I don't think the level of activity they once had is coming back, people's attitudes to commuting into an office every day have changed - mine have.
Not necessarily a terrible thing. The economy has always changed over time. But there's a big shift coming, I reckon.

Letters
06-09-2020, 06:37 PM
John Terry taking a knee in Soccer Aid :haha:

GP
06-09-2020, 08:07 PM
John Terry taking a knee in Soccer Aid :haha:

On a n*gger's neck?

Letters
06-09-2020, 08:35 PM
Naggers annoy him...

GP
06-09-2020, 09:13 PM
They annoy everyone

Letters
10-09-2020, 03:16 PM
Diana Rigg :rose:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-54106509

Mac76
10-09-2020, 03:43 PM
Diana Rigg :rose:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-54106509

oh no :(

a real quality lady, I had a real crush on Emma Peel - I had this picture framed on my wall for many years, it made girlfriends jealous :)

https://e6f7x6r7.rocketcdn.me/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/diana-rigg-emma-peel-01.jpg

Globalgunner
10-09-2020, 03:46 PM
Wow sad news...and she was looking quite strong on Game of Thrones recently. Another part of my lustful youth gone. Whats Lulu doing these days?

Mac76
10-09-2020, 03:49 PM
Whats Lulu doing these days?

jeez, talk about from the sublime to the ridiculous ;)

if you'd said suzi quattro or sally james that would be a different matter - or sarah jane smith... *sigh*

Globalgunner
10-09-2020, 03:55 PM
jeez, talk about from the sublime to the ridiculous ;)

if you'd said suzi quattro or sally james that would be a different matter - or sarah jane smith... *sigh*

Lulu was quite dy-no-mite in the early 70s
It was either her or Racquel Welch. My 10 year old brain couldnt decide

GP
10-09-2020, 04:11 PM
Wow you people are old.

Letters
10-09-2020, 04:19 PM
Audrey Hepburn :bow:

IMO she's the GOAT, in terms of beauty.

Globalgunner
10-09-2020, 04:37 PM
Audrey Hepburn :bow:

IMO she's the GOAT, in terms of beauty.

Agreed but sadly she was as flat as a pancake. No attack, nor rear guard action

Globalgunner
10-09-2020, 04:38 PM
Wow you people are old.

It happens to everybody laddie. Your turns a coming.

GP
10-09-2020, 04:39 PM
Nah I'll be dead by then.

Letters
10-09-2020, 05:18 PM
Nah I'll be dead by then.

:pray:

GP
10-09-2020, 05:54 PM
:pray:

Of or with?

Master Splinter
10-09-2020, 07:59 PM
Didn't know Coney's uncles were on GW.

Also, Diana Rigg was fantastic in pretty much everything she was in.

Special mention to Theatre Of Blood with Vincent Price, which is hilarious.

Niall_Quinn
11-09-2020, 09:53 AM
Of or with?

You'll be slain by the big billy goat gruff.

Coney
11-09-2020, 09:53 PM
Didn't know Coney's uncles were on GW.

Also, Diana Rigg was fantastic in pretty much everything she was in.

Special mention to Theatre Of Blood with Vincent Price, which is hilarious.

In the Avengers in the 60s - I was a pubert at the time - she looked so good in black leather. :loveblush:

LDG
11-09-2020, 10:19 PM
Of or with?

Nothing to do with me either way

LDG
11-09-2020, 10:25 PM
In the Avengers in the 60s - I was a pubert at the time - she looked so good in black leather. :loveblush:

So does your granddaughter

Niall_Quinn
11-09-2020, 10:45 PM
So weird. I flicked on the TV a couple of days ago and the first thing that came on was the Avengers. Haven't watched TV for months. Just turned it on while I was waiting for the coffee machine. Turned it off when the coffee was ready. In hindsight, that's probably what killed her.

Niall_Quinn
11-09-2020, 10:54 PM
Another weird thing I noticed. No posts about the trade deal with Japan. Considering Brexit was the end of the world, before Covid became an even bigger end to the world, I thought it might be a bit of relief that at least one end of the world scenario seems to have been overblown beyond all credulity. And, you never know, if predictable miracles can happen for one world ending crisis, maybe they can happen for another?

Yeah, I guess it's only the bad news that makes the news.

Xhaka Can’t
12-09-2020, 06:09 PM
It relates to one of the continuity agreements. Based upon the agreement the EU made with Japan recently whilst we were part of the EU.

It’s good but not as good as the deal we were already party to whilst an EU member state.

And it accounts for 0.07% of our trade by value.

Niall_Quinn
12-09-2020, 06:27 PM
It relates to one of the continuity agreements. Based upon the agreement the EU made with Japan recently whilst we were part of the EU.

It’s good but not as good as the deal we were already party to whilst an EU member state.

And it accounts for 0.07% of our trade by value.

And yet, there was no possibility of trade agreements being struck in the short term. It was going to take at least a million years. The point here being, it is actually possible for an independent (sort of) nation to negotiate independent (sort of) trade deals. And also, of course, the other point, yet another fear-mongering plank splintered to pieces.

Perhaps, given all this covid absurdity, the Leave/ Remain split can be placed into some sort of perspective and we can move on now for the benefit of everyone. Or, you know what I mean by everyone. A few will benefit, and the rest of us might avoid being fucked quite so hard - as it was with our EU "partners".

No, of course I don't believe any of this is worth a shit for average people. But I do believe that halting the agenda of globalists is the better of two outcomes.

Mac76
12-09-2020, 09:08 PM
Whaddever

(just going for the clean sweep :lol:)

Niall_Quinn
12-09-2020, 10:00 PM
Whaddever

(just going for the clean sweep :lol:)

Is that reserved for you leftie propaganda bastard types? Sorry!

Mac76
13-09-2020, 08:56 AM
Is that reserved for you leftie propaganda bastard types? Sorry!

'Sad loser' alert

Do change the record - or preferably just turn off the stereo

Niall_Quinn
13-09-2020, 11:41 AM
'Sad loser' alert

Do change the record - or preferably just turn off the stereo

Oh, I thought you were trying to initiate another one of your substance free discussions.

Letters
15-09-2020, 03:05 PM
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-54158832

Excellent!
Another stride towards equality.

Niall_Quinn
15-09-2020, 09:07 PM
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-54158832

Excellent!
Another stride towards equality.

Why don't they just go back to the magic Covid money tree and get a few more billions? Must be plenty down the back of the magic Covid money sofa too. Seems odd they can't bundle up a bit more confetti and chuck it at people that they genuinely owe and had promised to pay. If the average person tried a scam like that they've be locked up.

Letters
16-09-2020, 05:49 AM
You understand that this money is being borrowed and there are long term economic consequences to all this?

Niall_Quinn
16-09-2020, 09:37 AM
You understand that this money is being borrowed and there are long term economic consequences to all this?

What I don't get is if you are trying to out-sarcasm me, or if you've really just explained the magic tree is not real.

Mac76
16-09-2020, 09:38 AM
What I don't get is if you are trying to out-sarcasm me, or if you've really just explained the magic tree is not real.

what?! what do you mean 'not real' ...??? :faint:

Niall_Quinn
16-09-2020, 09:42 AM
what?! what do you mean 'not real' ...??? :faint:

Relax - there's still the magic sofa (unless Letters says otherwise)

Mac76
16-09-2020, 10:03 AM
Relax - there's still the magic sofa (unless Letters says otherwise)

and there's still free unicorns right...?

you have to tell me there's still unicorns... :pray:

Letters
16-09-2020, 10:30 AM
What I don't get is if you are trying to out-sarcasm me, or if you've really just explained the magic tree is not real.

I see.


I'll just see myself out
:getcoat:

Letters
16-09-2020, 02:10 PM
Fuck you, Barbados!! :fury:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-54174794

GP
16-09-2020, 03:21 PM
HRH Queen Elizabeth II :pal:

Mac76
16-09-2020, 03:37 PM
HRH Queen Elizabeth II :pal:

:gp:

:lol:

fuck the monarchy

Niall_Quinn
16-09-2020, 03:42 PM
and there's still free unicorns right...?

you have to tell me there's still unicorns... :pray:

Best go to the horse's mouth for the definitive answer.

Niall_Quinn
16-09-2020, 03:43 PM
Fuck you, Barbados!! :fury:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-54174794

LOL, good luck with that! I don't think they get how this works.

Mac76
16-09-2020, 04:08 PM
LOL, good luck with that! I don't think they get how this works.

people can just do wth they want now, irrespective of any laws. haven't you heard...

Niall_Quinn
16-09-2020, 04:27 PM
people can just do wth they want now, irrespective of any laws. haven't you heard...

Not if they want to keep their money laundering business, they can't. What do you think these Caribbean islands are primarily engaged in these days? Tom Cruise films don't give the full picture.

GP
22-09-2020, 12:23 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_mhFOyLQBg

Letters
22-09-2020, 12:45 PM
:haha:

Made much funnier by the kid who answers correctly.

Mac76
22-09-2020, 02:28 PM
:lol:

Letters
29-09-2020, 02:04 PM
Over to you, NQ :ninja:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-54289152

Niall_Quinn
29-09-2020, 05:57 PM
Over to you, NQ :ninja:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-54289152

People like that have serious mental issues.

Letters
01-10-2020, 11:59 AM
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-54370226

:popcorn:

Letters
06-10-2020, 01:35 PM
Hmm. Had British Gas round earlier about a new boiler.
We've been here over 3 and a half years now and the boiler was old as the hills when we moved in.
They've come back with an estimate of about £4,700 :blink:
They say they need to move the boiler next to the tank and the existing one the flue isn't where it should be so they'll need to sort that out.
Even so, I wasn't expecting it to be anywhere near that much. They do financing, but still :(
Anyone had anything similar done?

Marc Overmars
06-10-2020, 01:54 PM
Sounds like there is a fair bit of labour there so it’s probably not far off the mark. Worth getting another quote or 2 though.

One of my best mates is a gas engineer and he rakes it in. There’s a shortage of certified engineers so they do price themselves accordingly, particularly the big companies.

Mac76
06-10-2020, 02:01 PM
yes you should get more quotes - can't remember where you live but these guys are good and cover N London, Herts and Essex

https://www.plumbingwise.co.uk/

Letters
06-10-2020, 02:26 PM
Cheers. Will give them a call :good:

WMUG
06-10-2020, 02:54 PM
A new boiler. Surely the least enjoyable way to spend £1000. At least throwing the money out of the window you'd see the scrabbling mass, the hate-filled faces. I have spent a cool grand on acquiring the resumption of an equitable temperature.

Niall_Quinn
06-10-2020, 06:37 PM
A new boiler. Surely the least enjoyable way to spend £1000. At least throwing the money out of the window you'd see the scrabbling mass, the hate-filled faces. I have spent a cool grand on acquiring the resumption of an equitable temperature.

Could have got plenty of hookers to keep you warm for that sort of cash.

Mac76
07-10-2020, 04:38 PM
This country really is no fun... :(

https://www.drinksandco.co.uk/vodka/euphoria-cannabis-vodka-50cl

Letters
07-10-2020, 05:13 PM
yes you should get more quotes - can't remember where you live but these guys are good and cover N London, Herts and Essex

https://www.plumbingwise.co.uk/

Called them yesterday.
They took my details and said they’d call back.
Called late morning and said they’d come round later to have a look and they’d call me when they’re on the way.


...and that’s the last I heard from them!
So thanks for that! :lol:

Our neighbour is a builder so I asked him, he’s going to put me in touch with a plumber he uses.

What a palaver!

Mac76
07-10-2020, 06:40 PM
Okay, that's a bit rubbish sorry thought they did a good job on my boiler, but maybe the people have changed

Letters
07-10-2020, 07:08 PM
Okay, that's a bit rubbish sorry thought they did a good job on my boiler, but maybe the people have changed

To be fair, they did call me just now.
They only just finished work! They’re coming to have a look on Friday.
:tiphat:

Niall_Quinn
07-10-2020, 08:38 PM
:popcorn:

It doesn't get any better than this.

Letters
07-10-2020, 08:46 PM
I reckon Netflix will buy up the TV rights to this saga soon :cool:

Mac76
08-10-2020, 03:54 PM
:lol: well they should certainly buy up the rights to this bike ride...

https://twitter.com/RexChapman/status/1313612928067809287

Letters
09-10-2020, 04:15 PM
IMPORTANT UPDATE:

That lot Mac76 recommended came to have a look at the boiler today. They're going to give me a quote on Monday.
Press conference will be arranged after that.

Mac76
09-10-2020, 04:43 PM
IMPORTANT UPDATE:

That lot Mac76 recommended came to have a look at the boiler today. They're going to give me a quote on Monday.
Press conference will be arranged after that.

so we won't know until after the weekend?!?! :faint:

Letters
09-10-2020, 05:40 PM
It’s the greatest cliff hanger since Who Shot JR? :cool:

He asked who’d recommended them so I had to explain it was some bloke I talk to online but didn’t really know :lol:

LDG
10-10-2020, 06:00 PM
Lockdown of the coronavirus thread.

Boris at it again :sulk:

McNamara That Ghost...
10-10-2020, 06:42 PM
:lol:

No idea why that's the case.

Letters
10-10-2020, 06:48 PM
Weird. Shouldn’t be locked.
Doesn’t look like it is?

LDG
10-10-2020, 06:54 PM
Lockdown of the coronavirus thread.

Boris at it again :sulk:

McNamara That Ghost...
10-10-2020, 06:54 PM
I've unlocked it now but it was locked, briefly.

LDG
10-10-2020, 06:54 PM
I've unlocked it now but it was locked, briefly.

Like my wifes pants

GP
10-10-2020, 07:02 PM
I've unlocked it now but it was locked, briefly.

Like LDG's wife's pants.

LDG
10-10-2020, 07:03 PM
Like LDG's wife's pants.

Very much so. But without the hair.

GP
10-10-2020, 07:10 PM
That's what she said!

Niall_Quinn
10-10-2020, 09:35 PM
Like my wifes pants

I told you about that a year ago and you got the hump.

Letters
12-10-2020, 05:57 PM
Over to you, NQ :ninja:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-54509975

Letters
13-10-2020, 10:57 AM
so we won't know until after the weekend?!?! :faint:

Had the quote yesterday. It's just over half what British Gas were asking for!
Have told them to make it so :cool:

If they do a terrible job then I WILL hunt you down though :threaten:

Niall_Quinn
13-10-2020, 11:10 AM
Over to you, NQ :ninja:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-54509975

Facebook censors? That's hardly new.

Mac76
13-10-2020, 01:27 PM
Facebook censors? That's hardly new.

have they been blocking some of your paid-for neo-right propaganda then?

Niall_Quinn
13-10-2020, 02:14 PM
have they been blocking some of your paid-for neo-right propaganda then?

They aren't able to block my bots. Made in Russia.

Niall_Quinn
15-10-2020, 03:23 PM
I'm arranging to have my combination grill/ fan oven repaired. Hunting around for quotes now. Will advise when there's any important information available.

Letters
15-10-2020, 03:31 PM
Ah, which reminds me.
They're coming to fit our new boiler in a couple of weeks.
Will update you all when they're done.

Letters
15-10-2020, 03:36 PM
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-54541367

I dunno, something about English Oral?

Mac76
15-10-2020, 04:04 PM
Ah, which reminds me.
They're coming to fit our new boiler in a couple of weeks.
Will update you all when they're done.

we'll be waiting...

Xhaka Can’t
15-10-2020, 04:45 PM
I've had 192 cans of beer and a bottle of Black Bush delivered.