Mark Connolly Posted February 15, 2021 Share Posted February 15, 2021 1 minute ago, 101 said: Celebrant is harder because you would have to be invited. A church wedding is public hence the does any one object thing, so you could go around upstaging weddings at will in churches. I used celebrant as an all-encompassing term in case it upset any of our non-religious viewers 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Moonster Posted February 15, 2021 Share Posted February 15, 2021 6 minutes ago, Stellaboz said: Your ex chairman was the 2nd worst for attitude in 3 years working there, much to the embarrassment of the rest of the board that were present during his little meltdown... but the rest of the club were absolutely sound including Ian Murray. The worst was some guy who's daughter was getting married and wanted all the staff to wear toga's and slave collars etc. Offt, was this Alan Jardine? That bit in bold Fucking hell. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derry Alli Posted February 15, 2021 Share Posted February 15, 2021 11 minutes ago, Stellaboz said: The worst was some guy who's daughter was getting married and wanted all the staff to wear togas and slave collars etc. This is absolutely fantastic. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
101 Posted February 15, 2021 Share Posted February 15, 2021 18 minutes ago, Jamie_Beatson said: Occasionally got the train back to Perth from Aberdeen on a Friday evening when there would be squads of guys fresh off the rigs on the same train, each with a massive carry out. Overpaid bell ends who made it their mission to know they were a) overpaid and b) bell ends. To be fair it's danger money because f**k going on a floating platform in the North sea drilling shit that's under pressure made by the cheapest bid by the cheapest sub contractor. They can enjoy their pay I can still get petrol for like £1 a gallon which I still think is crazy value for what it has to go through to end up in my car. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moomintroll Posted February 15, 2021 Share Posted February 15, 2021 17 minutes ago, 101 said: To be fair it's danger money because f**k going on a floating platform in the North sea drilling shit that's under pressure made by the cheapest bid by the cheapest sub contractor. They can enjoy their pay I can still get petrol for like £1 a gallon which I still think is crazy value for what it has to go through to end up in my car. Where the f**k is petrol a quid per gallon? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miguel Sanchez Posted February 15, 2021 Share Posted February 15, 2021 1 hour ago, Kejan said: People talking about books they have never read e.g 1984, Brave New World. People who use the term "Orwellian" as if the guy wrote one book and did nothing else in is life 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kejan Posted February 15, 2021 Share Posted February 15, 2021 7 minutes ago, Miguel Sanchez said: People who use the term "Orwellian" as if the guy wrote one book and did nothing else in is life Absolutely. Everyone becoming an expert or whatever the latest issue is as well, when they've read/heard a phrase somewhere and repeated it. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
101 Posted February 15, 2021 Share Posted February 15, 2021 29 minutes ago, Perkin Flump said: Where the f**k is petrol a quid per gallon? Litres/gallons same thing probably, whatever it says on the screen 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moomintroll Posted February 15, 2021 Share Posted February 15, 2021 8 minutes ago, 101 said: Litres/gallons same thing probably, whatever it says on the screen Don't open a Petrol Station, in fact do open one & let me know where it is. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coprolite Posted February 15, 2021 Share Posted February 15, 2021 24 minutes ago, Miguel Sanchez said: People who use the term "Orwellian" as if the guy wrote one book and did nothing else in is life But Brave New World is the one people remember. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aim Here Posted February 15, 2021 Share Posted February 15, 2021 (edited) 45 minutes ago, Miguel Sanchez said: People who use the term "Orwellian" as if the guy wrote one book and did nothing else in is life My peeve is that Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty Four aren't explicit enough about Orwell's views and that there are people who've read one or both of these and think that because Orwell was against Soviet-style Communism he'd support whatever right-wing shite they happen to believe. I've had to educate more than a few conservatives and even fascists that Orwell was very much an outright socialist antifa-type of his day whose politics were to the left of Stalin in some respects and wrote about having funny memories of trying to stick a bayonet into the shoulder blades of a fleeing fascist. (Related to this are those two groups of scumbags who turned Animal Farm into films and changed the endings for their own political purposes. Those c***s are outright malicious and can't even plead ignorance.) They should ban the teaching of Nineteen Eighty Four in schools, at least until the kids in question have read two major works of Orwell's non-fiction. Edited February 15, 2021 by Aim Here 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Granny Danger Posted February 15, 2021 Share Posted February 15, 2021 18 minutes ago, Aim Here said: My peeve is that Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty Four aren't explicit enough about Orwell's views and that there are people who've read one or both of these and think that because Orwell was against Soviet-style Communism he'd support whatever right-wing shite they happen to believe. I've had to educate more than a few conservatives and even fascists that Orwell was very much an outright socialist antifa-type of his day whose politics were to the left of Stalin in some respects and wrote about having funny memories of trying to stick a bayonet into the shoulder blades of a fleeing fascist. (Related to this are those two groups of scumbags who turned Animal Farm into films and changed the endings for their own political purposes. Those c***s are outright malicious and can't even plead ignorance.) They should ban the teaching of Nineteen Eighty Four in schools, at least until the kids in question have read two major works of Orwell's non-fiction. I think you can read other works of fiction he wrote to get a sense of where he stood. That said Down and Out in Paris and London and The Road to Wigan Pier are both excellent reads. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coprolite Posted February 15, 2021 Share Posted February 15, 2021 27 minutes ago, Aim Here said: My peeve is that Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty Four aren't explicit enough about Orwell's views and that there are people who've read one or both of these and think that because Orwell was against Soviet-style Communism he'd support whatever right-wing shite they happen to believe. I've had to educate more than a few conservatives and even fascists that Orwell was very much an outright socialist antifa-type of his day whose politics were to the left of Stalin in some respects and wrote about having funny memories of trying to stick a bayonet into the shoulder blades of a fleeing fascist. (Related to this are those two groups of scumbags who turned Animal Farm into films and changed the endings for their own political purposes. Those c***s are outright malicious and can't even plead ignorance.) They should ban the teaching of Nineteen Eighty Four in schools, at least until the kids in question have read two major works of Orwell's non-fiction. Not the one about drinking tea though. That behaviour would get you on a watchlist these days. Taking it black is a bit weird but leaving the leaves in is wrong 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aim Here Posted February 15, 2021 Share Posted February 15, 2021 6 minutes ago, Granny Danger said: I think you can read other works of fiction he wrote to get a sense of where he stood. That said Down and Out in Paris and London and The Road to Wigan Pier are both excellent reads. Exactly. The trouble is that his actual views, while there, are harder to glean from his two most famous works, and since those are the two that most people read, he gets misrepresented an awful, awful, lot. That's why I reckon we should force kids to read either Catalonia or the two you mentioned first... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
resk Posted February 15, 2021 Share Posted February 15, 2021 A Clergyman's Daughter is a decent read too. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
101 Posted February 15, 2021 Share Posted February 15, 2021 (edited) Locking the covid thread just as I put a zinger in Spoiler Not really, is that the pandemic over now? Edited February 15, 2021 by 101 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonS Posted February 15, 2021 Share Posted February 15, 2021 In Animal Farm he was showing that communism was the right idea and capable of making everyone happy, but it was ruined by those who seized power for themselves. It's no more criticising the concept of communism than The Life of Brian is criticising the concept of faith. Animal Farm and 1984 are cautionary tales about authoritarianism. Left, right, makes no odds. 1984 is pretty explicit about that. Unfortunately twats with no sense of perspective use it against literally everything any government does to regulate life, from food safety to sex education. "Government is doing something I don't like, ergo it's 1984." Gie's peace Sharon. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonS Posted February 15, 2021 Share Posted February 15, 2021 Closely related to "the Nazis were socialists, that's what it says in their name." 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DA Baracus Posted February 15, 2021 Share Posted February 15, 2021 Keep the Aspidistra Flying was, I felt, rather anti capitalist amongst other things. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arabdownunder Posted February 15, 2021 Share Posted February 15, 2021 The use of "Room 101" to describe something you don't particularly like irks me 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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