@Baz posted:The advert for those Lycra , non chafing men’s pants
Joel Dommit (sp).!
He's everywhere and not funny at all.
I often wonder how some people become famous - I could name so many
Paddy McGuiness - how? Claudia Winkleman - how? Denise Welch - how?
People have all their details plastered over FB and Instagram. Where I live they have their houses lit up drawing attention to themselves.
And then there's greater demands for privacy from the same people - how their info is stored by the Gov, at work, online 
Just bought 4l engine from Ebay = £26
From Halford = £51
Also bought x50 1st class for £16.50 - half the price from the Post Office
@Saint posted:The phrase 24/7
What the hell is wrong with saying "all the time"??
Such a smart arsed saying, "Ooh i'm busy 24/7"
"Oh bloody-well are you now!!"
You forgot to put 365 on the end.
All the time would be 24/7 365.
"we are open 24/7, 5 days a week".
Slightly pedantic on my part, but I think my example proves a point. 
LOL i don't even remember writing that one.
"At this moment in time" - you mean 'now'
"Moving forward" also annoys
Patreon Some are for people to continue bringing you valuable content of them driving Ferraris through the Alps. We pay them to drive around while we watch 
The madness of the modern era
https://www.buymeacoffee.com/ The cheek !!
I'm freedom of speech but i'm not Charlie Ebdo
https://apnews.com/article/cha...74cf5ed1ff8e5c4ac0db
"Charlie Hebdo has lampooned dead child migrants, virus victims, dying drug addicts, world leaders, neo-Nazis, popes, bishops, Jewish leaders, and other religious, political and entertainment figures. This week’s issue features a cartoon of the funeral of a beheaded teacher, showing officers carrying two coffins, one for the body, one for the head."
@Saint posted:I'm freedom of speech but i'm not Charlie Ebdo
https://apnews.com/article/cha...74cf5ed1ff8e5c4ac0db
"Charlie Hebdo has lampooned dead child migrants, virus victims, dying drug addicts, world leaders, neo-Nazis, popes, bishops, Jewish leaders, and other religious, political and entertainment figures. This week’s issue features a cartoon of the funeral of a beheaded teacher, showing officers carrying two coffins, one for the body, one for the head."
I'm with you on this Saint. I really think the French state projecting Charlie Hebdo cartoons onto the sides of public buildings is not the way to go. Those cartoons are provocative and deliberately offensive. "je ne suis Charlie". One cartoon they projected onto a public building showed the Bible, Tora and Quran as three rolls of toilet paper, and showed such disrespect to people of faith. I know that France has traditionally prided itself on its secularism but there's secularism then there's just shoving your disdain for religion into people's faces.
I am not religious myself and I do think every person has the right to critique religions but with rights come responsibilities. I don't think it's a state's role to ram secularism down everyone's throat and such state-sponsored vilification of religions is reminiscent of the 3rd Riech.
@Carnelian posted:I'm with you on this Saint. I really think the French state projecting Charlie Hebdo cartoons onto the sides of public buildings is not the way to go. Those cartoons are provocative and deliberately offensive. "je ne suis Charlie". One cartoon they projected onto a public building showed the Bible, Tora and Quran as three rolls of toilet paper, and showed such disrespect to people of faith. I know that France has traditionally prided itself on its secularism but there's secularism then there's just shoving your disdain for religion into people's faces.
I am not religious myself and I do think every person has the right to critique religions but with rights come responsibilities. I don't think it's a state's role to ram secularism down everyone's throat and such state-sponsored vilification of religions is reminiscent of the 3rd Riech.
Dunno if it's "state sponsored" more like state tolerated or state protected/justified in the name of "freedom of speech".
In the UK it would probably come under outraging public decency. There is freedom and there is provoking a response which is what Charlie Ebdo are saying they do. Provoke to reveal intolerance to France's freedom.
That's a very dangerous game and Macron has put everyone in France at risk when he chose to stand by them
@Saint posted:Patreon
https://www.buymeacoffee.com/ The cheek !!
I'm both pro and against this post. Pro, in the sense that some people are just looking for a free lunch, but against because there are some who offer well produced, high quality videos. The person I would say does this well is Techmoan. Yes, his material is a few steps away from the mainstream, but he has a lot of Patreon supporters. I pay nothing but still enjoy his videos. 
@Enthusiastic Contrafibularities posted:I'm both pro and against this post. Pro, in the sense that some people are just looking for a free lunch, but against because there are some who offer well produced, high quality videos. The person I would say does this well is Techmoan. Yes, his material is a few steps away from the mainstream, but he has a lot of Patreon supporters. I pay nothing but still enjoy his videos.
I watch Techmoan. I like his content but I'm a nerd anyway. I like that he's around my age going through tech of the present and past tech with his grounding in the 1980s. I've learned a lot about past audio-visual tech from his videos and like his relaxed style. I'm not too interested in the present tech videos. I also pay nothing but enjoy his videos!
I also watch videos by Paul McGowan of PS Audio. Although the audio is well beyond my budget I like his chilled out friendly old guy style. He knows his stuff and presents his subject from both the money no object audiophile obsessive to bog-standard mainstream consumers' points of view.
Disgraceful Gateshead Council once again shamelessly self promoting it's own interests by using Remembrance Day to place a poppy on the ludicrously named "Angel" of the North.
This unrequested vanity project is like placing a fairy on top of a tacky Xmas tree - they can't sweep our streets but admit to "Investing heavily" in cultural projects no one wanted.
God loves a trier but not when they're hopelessly in over their head and should know better.
Cue Gateshead Council (again) who has decided to spend £260m developing the "riverside" into an exhibition and visitors centre. The leader of the council said, "When you think of visitor centres you think of Sidney Harbour or San Francisco and now you'll think of Gateshead"
Even he said that with a smirk .... what a twit.
@Saint posted:God loves a trier but not when they're hopelessly in over their head and should know better.
Cue Gateshead Council (again) who has decided to spend £260m developing the "riverside" into an exhibition and visitors centre. The leader of the council said, "When you think of visitor centres you think of Sidney Harbour or San Francisco and now you'll think of Gateshead"
Even he said that with a smirk .... what a twit.
Not quite got the same ring , has it Renton 
It's laughable and annoying - do they really expect us to believe that nonsense.
I guarantee they're furious that daft sculpture is not called the Gateshead Angel - and what's an angel got to do with the north east. Even Anthony Gormless said it never had the intention of being seen that way. So it's a purposeless vanity project and cost us £1m
BBC seem to have become a station that pays ex-athletes to sit and talk about the sport they can't show you
Match of the Day is a perfect example
And now there's push to reduce reliance on painkillers via GPs
What are the alternatives? Acupuncture, Mindfulness and CBT
One bloke said he's learned to accept pain is how his life is - in other words those on pain are going to be ababdoned and left to get on with it
I have been on annual leave today, so took a walk.
Stood and watched an Amazon delivery driver, this driver appeared to have a better transit van and by the side were some useful sorting bins, into which the Amazon driver was putting parcels.
What I failed to say was, he was throwing his parcels in without any care or attention. Hopefully there is nothing in them that is fragile or can be damaged by being bounced around.
Amazon really suck and it's just another reason why I rarely buy from them.
Stick #Govanhill into Twitter search.
And weep. Sturgeon realite/realitay.
Janey Godley.
The fragile Twitter "comedienne" who can give and not take.
Total hyprocite. I'm hashtagging the cops. Dearie me, after the stuff that's been screenshotted from her in her past.
Sweary words in Glesga ain't original. It's a new Audi Q5 for all who fall for it though. No chance here.
Scottish drug deaths. European Champions. Vote SNP - they'll "fix" it.
@velvet donkey posted:Stick #Govanhill into Twitter search.
And weep. Sturgeon realite/realitay.
Tis amazing what we don't hear - sanitised and ignored
In Japan there's a serial killer trial that's "gripped the nation" - not a word of it over here
North East news reported a charity making Xmas Stockings for children "who would otherwise go without a present this Christmas"
I'm stunned - National Lottery gives away £30m a week to good causes - Children in Need raised millions.
And children in the UK still go without a present? How?
@Saint posted:Tis amazing what we don't hear - sanitised and ignored
In Japan there's a serial killer trial that's "gripped the nation" - not a word of it over here
We don't know what world news is my friend.
Like we don't know world film. Hollywood needs bombed. Monopoly.
If we're not supposed to eat after 8pm why is there a light in the fridge?