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2 minutes ago, Tommy_B said:

Why is this offensive to you?  

I didn't say I was offended; I said I found it pathetic.

Because it wasn't for the purpose of learning anything about what it is like to be trans; it was purely for the salacious titilation; the showing off in front of mates and the trying to big yourself up by putting others down. It's like a someone saying 'Sir, Sir, it says in the bible sir, that you should love your fellow man sir. Do you love your fellow man sir?' But on the first day at University! All I could see were the Memes of Picard one face-palming in utter disbelief, the other crying out in desperation, "Who put the 50p in the Idiot?"

As the question was asked and the asker looked around for laughter and approval from his class-mates, all was quiet, just the sound of a lone cricket that didn't get the memo. A tumble-weed blew across the scene and everyone just shook their head in utter, utter disbelief.

1 minute ago, Mick Dempsey said:

Really?  how so? Maria said feel free to ask questions, surely that one is fairly central to the debate?

Yes! Really.

20 minutes ago, Mick Dempsey said:

What genitalia do you have? And what were you born with?

Pathetic. Utterly pathetic.

1 hour ago, Toxteth O,Grady said:

I saw two lads in a car going down the M6 and the wipers on their car had broken and they had tied string between the wipers and string to each end and had a pulling sequence going on , bloody genius i think . 

Nah! Genius has one string looped around the wing mirror with a balloon on the end of the string: air drag on the balloon pulls one way, single handed operation pulls contrarywise to return.

Bloody kids know nothing these days. Country's gone to dogs etc.

sigh!

there y'go. Section 12 closed all day; we had a match on with a visiting club. Nope go away we're cycling that day. Yep, all day.

Section 14 Milan South Harting, the Village is the road, Pub? Nope, Church? Nope. F**k Off? Yep, That's the one.

Loved the comment btl: 'This is why women live longer'.

as in sawara/peas-ifera! if the cones are like small peas about half the size of the larger cones of lawson and hinoki/obtusa... then, yes, maybe.

nope tent

Hanging offence if you ask me.

Yep. I would have thought that if the neighbour had given them a drop of ointment the leaves would be still green but hanging down lifeless until they then turned brown and fell. That the green leaves are still looking healthy does suggest that the brown section is just lack of water or just not taking to being planted. 

Cut out the brown section and go with what's left.

And cut out those leaders too: it'll prompt the rest of the plant to bush out and produce much more abundant growth which will then all grow up together.

12 hours ago, Mesterh said:

We only have a finite time on this planet before it is consumed by the sun. At that point every living thing on earth will be dead, unless we happen to colonise another planet and move the fauna and flora with us.

 

I very much the dolphins or orangutans are going to achieve this so saving the planet falls down to us.

 

Humans, the saviours of the planet.

 

Hmm, your time-scales are a bit awash there Mh; think of a piano keyboard - oh lord why can't we - whole geological eras pass within the space of a single key, individual species last but the width of a hair. The sun will expand to its red giant phase... on another piano keyboard... over in New York!

Oomans as we know them will be long gone regardless of bigger brains and opposable fifth digits and regardless also of anything they do or don't do to the planet. They may die out they may evolve into something else. Maybe all mammals will be gone by then.

Happy days.

A perspective.

4 minutes ago, Woodworks said:

Thats lovely but would she not prefer it in pink?

Ah, sorry, my op was misleading.

Shd be: If I had a wife.

Who had a birthday...

if I had a wife... who had a birthday... what could I... ah!...

yes! this!

25 minutes ago, Stubby said:

Monty Python . The three ( or was four ) Yorkshire men sketch .

Yep, sorry, was just playing as you got my Monty P. reference on the Softwood thread.

Currently shittin its tits off since you ask.

23 hours ago, josharb87 said:

This was quite a good one, church property having an extension done and a building company that does everything 

 

 

Someone said," The F*** even is that?"

Someone here said, "Hornbeam?"

14 hours ago, Stubby said:

Used to lick road clean wid touge ...Get up half an hour before we went to bed , pay mill owner for permission to come to work  and when we got home our Dad would thrash us to sleep wid a broken bottle ...If we were lucky !

Two Ronnies?

Here

To follow EdC's London Bridge story, as it's a rainy day, another good story well told that I thought about posting earlier but didn't.

6 minutes ago, Mick Dempsey said:

If you’re not cutting for milling why go low? Do it at a comfortable height.

 

Yep cut nice and high and have a nice sit down and cup of tea before the next one.

I don't like to piss on other people's fire-works; it being their big day and ev'tin.

So I'll just leave this here.

13 minutes ago, Stubby said:

K' inell

Sorry. Kinda struck a nerve there.

37 minutes ago, donnk said:

No consequences, your rules.

 

I'll start off, benefits only paid 10 months a year. The other 2 months they goto 40% taxpayers.

 

 

Why? I mean, just, why would you do that? Do you think that life isn't hard enough already? Does it give you some warped satisfaction to think that instead of doing nothing and causing no harm you could go out of your way to do something and make the already miserable lives of thousands of people even more miserable. Oh forgive me, you're a god now, yes I suppose you would do that: that is what gods do.

But still as to yourself, again Why would you do that if you were a god for a day rather than all the things you could do to make peoples lives better? How about creating a fairer world for everybody? Huh? Do you think that if you suck up to the 40% tax-payers they'll smile, and pat you on the head and let you into their club? Or are you already in their club? The Daily Mail and their like has got you so sewn up into the mindset of just not being able to afford the mercedes and having to settle for the audi and it's all the fault of all those poor people, so make sure you punish them and then you'll be one of us, that you've stopped worrying about all the abuses and robbed pension funds and savings schemes and million pound salaries and payoffs that they get away with and which you are powerless to do anything about but look, here's something you can do, blame the poor! That will make you feel better won't it? Don't feel quite so powerless now huh? How about when you are god for a day you redistribute a bit of wealth? The rich won't even notice - they'll just put it down to a market fluctuation - but even £40 extra would make so much difference to so many people - even if means that just for one day they don't have to suffer the humiliation of going to the food-bank. The amount of money the ultra elite have at their command is truly mind-boggling a tax arrangement that would see them improving the life of thousands - millions - of people would not even be noticed by them, they would still be able to buy boats and planes and jewels for the fun of it but you will never be one of them however much you try to put as many of your fellow men below you. They will still offer you a biscuit and as you take it whisper, " you want to watch him" (pointing to the poor, the immigrants, the not-us) "he tried to nick your biscuit" - as they keep the rest of the packet to themselves. All the time you are putting yourself first and treading on the faces of those coming up the ladder behind you, you will struggle you will be on you own but if you reach back and give a hand up to those behind you will create such a swell that you will all be carried along on the surge towards better things. Just stop being so selfish; stop thinking you are so much above so many other people and stop causing harm when you could help. Does it really burn you up to think that someone is getting something that you're not? Even if it's the bare minimum to make a difference between being and not being cold wet miserable and hungry? If you were god for a day - nay, a second - how about you instill in everyone's mind that their own life will be better if they help other people? How about starting by, when driving, letting people pull out from a junction rather than taking every last inch? How about extending that to every aspect of your life? Help or do nothing but only a dick-head of a god would go out of their way to make some-one's life worse when they could just as easily make that life better.

Cut the fruit in half and taste it!

mmm= pear

ooo=quince

10 hours ago, Joe Newton said:

Do you know what they call conspiracy theories that have been proved?

Most people just carry on calling them a load of old bollox in my experience.

With thanks to Phil Plait.