milton75

Do elucidate.

If it was the middle ages you might not have needed more info on the fairy GoD though. Just as you wouldn't have needed more info on a pantheon of Greek Gods, or on a thousand other now-defunct deities. Just as a cult can graduate into a religion given time and popularity, a religion can become a cultural footnote when things go in the opposite direction. Nothing's unique. Nothing's special. The only constant is our capacity for conceited delusion.

I can see that being alright, but I'd rather just a pain aux raisins / cinnamon tbh

Bagels are shit. People need to accept this truth into their lives.

When I have cold roast chicken leftovers (basically twice a week - I know the kids will eat chicken above all else) this is my better half's absolute top pleasure. Crusty bread, salted butter, roast chicken. Anything else is a complication and annoying apparently. I like a messy complicated sandwich, but I can get behind this one.

I've found the fruit and veg in general to be great from most Polish and Eastern European shops. There's one in Govanhill that has a huge range of tomatoes in the summer months, and also sells those pale green peppers and yellow beans, both of which I'm partial to, and neither of which are carried by most other shops. Buying punnets of cherries, various currants, strawberries, etc. costs about half of what it does elsewhere too, and is of better quality. I make a point of going into Eastern European shops whenever I see them. Rarely disappointed. This is true for a lot of stuff in Italy. It's also funny how the Italian far-right like to propagate this notion of a shared cultural heritage, considering how discrete the regions used to view themselves from each other. In terms of food I suppose if we go back far enough you could point out that tomatoes have only been there since the 16th Century, and going back further no-one in Europe had pasta either.

They generally follow it up with drivel about everything from Steptoe and Son, to Dad's Army, to On the Buses, and all the way through to Only Fools and Horses by way of Open All Hours and Porridge. Mainly shite. Hancock's Half Hour will often get lobbed in, and while can see it's well written and performed, it doesn't mean I can't pretend it's not aged. It's not the fault of the programmes themselves sometimes; they've been copied, parodied, reworked so many times in media since that the gags are basically telegraphed from a mile off to modern eyes. It's a bit like 50s rock n' roll. I get that it was new and exciting at the time, but f**k me it's trite and route-one by today's expectations. All that said, we don't always move onwards an upwards. There will always be enough actual simpletons in the world that Mrs Brown's Boys will have a large audience.

I'm glad he came up anyway though. Particularly here on a football forum. I remember the shite that passed for a lot of TV in the 90s, and there were plenty of my mates who would watch total shit like They Think It's All Over simply because it was sport-related, and were in denial about it being chronically unfunny shite. I feel time has vindicated my viewpoint. I don't think Bill Hicks was bad but he certainly wasn't anything like as revolutionary or amazing as was made out. I remember when the videos were first circulating over here and it seemed like he was saying stuff that wouldn't have been out of place at all in a lot of the UK circuit. It might be that it was more incisive than most of what was breaking trough into the mainstream of US standup at the time, but I wouldn't know. Either way it was fine but nothing crazy. Then he died and all of a sudden was this firebrand character. Also, I hate that "'kay? 'Kay." Rhetorical call & response shit he does in one of the shows.

They're a terrible design. The blades are fine but no better than many other knives if you're spending cash. The number of people that have fallen for Global's marketing is ridiculous.

Nice fair refereeing as ever.

You don't think there's something a little knob-hole about his gob?

Craig Levein's interviews are still as awful as ever I see. A disaster of a character. A Jambo supporting friend of mine used to just sigh and say "Thin lips.... like a penis". Ever since then, whenever I see his mouth I get a flash of those little lips being the opening to a twitching hog's eye.

I used to like an unbattered half-pizza when I was a youngster. I liked the way they would put it face-down on the chips and they would embed themselves into the molten pizza-top and you could eat it al together. For this reason I always avoided ordering either a full pizza (they would fold it in half trapping the topping in the centre when wrapping) or a pizza crunch.

Disagree

I really hope the shit h*ns beat the marginally less shit h*ns now.

I take on board the rest, but 120 hours overtime over a year is f**k all.

Cracking stuff, well done Jambos!

No more

I think it's fair to say that there's not been conclusive evidence though. I will say that I like that it's a topic of wide discussion, even if I remain a sceptic. Quite enjoyed this article: https://washingtonspectator.org/spaceship-of-fools/

Didn't realise Chemtrails was even still a thing. Some gold in a few replies too.

A woman in the Korea office for my work had a picture of her dressed in a fairytale milkmaid's outfit, sitting on a 3-legged stool, milking a cow. A guy I worked with used to trawl the intranet creeping on honeys. You would hear him pipe up with "another in Brazil!" and shit like that.

Sinéad O'Gonnor

Seems as though this was what was being distributed.

There's a guy at my work who I have long suspected may be the most boring man I have ever met. Today he told me that he likes going to airshows. It's nice to have long-standing prejudices confirmed. He went on, holding court at the next bank of desks to where I was sitting, to complain at length about how much it is to get in, and to compare in detail how much it has gone up in various years since he was a young man. He then expanded on this with a diatribe on how shocking it is that there's also a £5 charge for car parking. "I mean once you're in you'll be spending money on all sorts anyway. Food... A beer... or a coke of course. A snack... Maybe a programme if you fancy... I mean, there's a lot of choice..." I got up and left the room in a rage.