scottsdad

I hope that, some time in 2025, this thread surpasses the Covid thread in terms of length and bin-fireness.

For every occasion, there is a Curb episode that beats us to it.

Don't worry about it. I have no clue what is going on in half the threads I post in. Just fill in the gaps with random Star Trek gifs.

Generally I'm not in favour of people/teams that got there without merit but because they have backing. Man City, PSG and now Newcastle are sportswashing outfits. They can all get lost. Man City was a yo yo team before 2008. Guardiola is right - nobody wants them to win the title. Lance Stroll in F1 (no danger of him winning anything anyway). Nikita Mazepin was the same.

She was on TV this morning. As usual the BBC showed her with a banner underneath. Top line: name. Bottom line: occupation. (ie Boris Johnson, Prime Minister). They had her name, and underneath? What did they give as her occupation? I would have expected "Cancer campaigner", "Podcaster" or similar. Nope. The BBC gave her occupation as "Bowel Babe"

That is utterly shitty - hope he (and you) feels better soon. Can't have been nice to be singled out in class like that, that sort of thing gets to kids quite deeply.

I greenied as it was a play on words, chief. Sorry for any offence caused. I kind of expected to be playing in the LL next week anyway. The questions have been unkind to me lately.

I take from this 2 options. 1. Guy gets drunk on Boris's election night. Pees on a doctor. Uses the election as an excuse when up in front of the judge. 2. Boris Johnson is a fucking deviant who, on the very night of his triumph, forced some poor chap in to a urine frenzy near a medic.

If proved she was the culprit, maybe in line to pay out damages but she won't be sent to break rocks in a chain gang.

It is I, Le Dead https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10802585/Allo-Allo-actor-Robin-Parkinson-played-Monsieur-Ernest-Leclerc-dies-aged-92.html

Man, I have so many examples of this. A colleague shared a piece of coursework with me a few weeks back, relating to businesses. There was the "Champions League variant" of Covid which damaged the economy. The business didn't have a cash flow, it had "coins float". On and on...

This was my take at the time. Also, Lalo saying the word "lawyers" made me think he will come to Jimmy soon.

Ukip were pulling in 4 million votes before the referendum. These were split by Labour and the Tories in 2017. This is why I don't think you could say either side did particularly well - it was one of a number of circumstances that made this an oddity of an election. They inherited loads of votes but I don't take this as much of an endorsement

9 for Wednesday. Opera wrong.

When filming the original Star Trek pilot The Cage, the actress Susan Oliver was covered in green paint. They shot the scene but nobody told the guy in post-production. He stayed up all night "fixing" the film making her look normal. He thought something had gone wrong in the studio. Luckily they had a copy, so were able to have a word with the guy and leave her as green.

He did himself no favours with that one - though what choice did he really have? Come out as a Remainer, get vilified and accused of being anti-democratic and working against his own beliefs? Come out as a Brexiter and abandon the 48% of the electorate who voted remain? In the end he chose neither which was worse than both other options as it made him seem indecisive. I don't think any labour leader would have done well there.

Here's what I don't get. The media had the knives out for Corbyn in 2017. But people were enthused by his left-wing policies. In 2019 the press still had the knives out for him. He still had left-wing policies. So...what changed? My thinking is that 2017 was just an oddity/outlier following the carnage of the referendum and 2019 was back to normal. Happy to be proven wrong though.

2017 was an utter outlier of an election. A year after the Brexit referendum but before the negotiations, it was still the main issue, the Tories changed leader, UKIP vanished overnight, Trump came to power...it was a strange time to call an election. Add to that Theresa May was by a country mile the worst campaigner I have ever seen. The right wing press being no chums of Labour leaders is not new, nor was it unique to Jezza. Remember the disgusting stuff they wrote about Ed Miliband's family, and endlessly recycling the picture of him gagging on a sandwich. Starmer's not having it easy at the moment either.

The doc says there is no point in going for any treatment. I've mentioned this in the depression thread, but this cancer frankly isn't a health concern for him right now.

'She is crying for help': Britney Spears sparks concern after posting NINE full frontal naked pictures on Instagram as worried fans beg her to stop

Years back I had a stereo in my bedroom that I could set an alarm on. It would play track 1 of whatever CD I had in at the time. Results were varied. Some mornings getting terrified awake as some big banging tune starts thumping with no warning. Others too gentle. Turns out (from my experience) that the best CD for this was Dire Straits, Brothers In Arms. Track 1 is So Far Away which has a very nice, gentle intro and builds into a fairly chilled song.