Calling Cards of Morons

[Honest Saints Fan]

On 14/04/2023 at 09:01, Leith Green said:

I am posting this as a placeholder for moronic behaviour I can guarantee to see later today - 

I have to go for an x-ray at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary, and its nailed on that there will be people outside having a fag while simultaneously rocking a mobile intravenous drip (or even better the ones being pushed in a wheelchair, one legged after an amputation).

I was in hospital a few years ago due to a viral infection whilst on chemo. I was on a general ward whilst I was being assessed and at about 4am I was woken up by another patient going to the toilet. She was in their for at least half an hour. She came out and a nurse went in right after to collect a urine sample. Nurse came out raging as the bathroom was stinking. The wee wifey who was about 75 was in the toilet smoking away. She apologised and said she couldn't wait until visiting. Arsehole.

[101]

50 minutes ago, Todd_is_God said:

I see the latest yuppy nonsense is to throw orange powder on a, famously environmentally unfriendly, snooker table.

Truncheon to the face for these vandals.

Tbh it's the pinnacle of the snooker tournament so it's just a big way to get folk talking about climate change or stopping drilling for oil.

Any petrochemical sponsors would be another tie I guess. But considering you can upset snooker players by farting sitting on their table is much more about making sure your cause it attention rather than stop their game.

[Derry Alli]

These guys grew up in pool and snooker halls yet never rattled his skull with their cue. If I owned one where these guys frequented they'd be banned and all memorabilia and mementos would be removed from adorning the club's walls.

Embarrassing.

[johnnydun]

Boy made a fair mess opening his Cheetos.

My son is becoming quite the Pool player (thanks @Derry Alli) and I work for an Oil Company.

They are more than welcome to come and paint my house, as long as it's not that god awful tangerine colour.

 

[Derry Alli]

7 minutes ago, johnnydun said:

Boy made a fair mess opening his Cheetos.

My son is becoming quite the Pool player (thanks @Derry Alli) and I work for an Oil Company.

They are more than welcome to come and paint my house, as long as it's not that god awful tangerine colour.

Don't thank me, I'm on first dibs of his sponsorships (and a 5% fee of all winnings!). Good to hear he's getting on well!

[tamthebam]

If it was white powder scattered over the table there have been a fight between half the audience and the players to sniff it first

[tamthebam]

Also I look forward to these protestors interrupting the Rangers v Celtic Semi Final.....

[Derry Alli]

1 minute ago, tamthebam said:

If it was white powder scattered over the table there have been a fight between half the audience and the players to sniff it first

It wouldn't even have had the time to hit the table, tbqphwy.

[johnnydun]

7 hours ago, Derry Alli said:

Don't thank me, I'm on first dibs of his sponsorships (and a 5% fee of all winnings!). Good to hear he's getting on well!

He is thanks! He is so invested in his pool, plays 1 to 2 times a week and now owns a pretty decent cue. Beats me on a regular basis. For a kid who had no interest in team sports, this is perfect for him.

Edited April 18, 2023 by johnnydun

[EvilScotsman]

6 hours ago, johnnydun said:

He is thanks! He is so invested in his pool, plays 1 to 2 times a week and now owns a pretty decent que. Beats me on a regular basis. For a kid who had no interest in team sports, this is perfect for him.

[MEADOWXI]

12 hours ago, 19QOS19 said:

Just saw that. Haven't bothered to read into it - what's the story there? They upset with the baws or something? 

Their press release genuinely states “New oil and gas will snooker us!”

 

It was an attack based on a crap pun...........

https://juststopoil.org/2023/04/17/new-oil-and-gas-will-snooker-us-just-stop-oil-supporters-disrupt-the-world-snooker-championship/

[scottsdad]

11 hours ago, 101 said:

Tbh it's the pinnacle of the snooker tournament so it's just a big way to get folk talking about climate change or stopping drilling for oil.

Any petrochemical sponsors would be another tie I guess. But considering you can upset snooker players by farting sitting on their table is much more about making sure your cause it attention rather than stop their game.

I doubt it'll convince anyone to convert their views on climate change. It's much more a 5-minutes-of-fame thing.

[velo army]

I'm starting to think that some of these guys are Tory/MI5 plants to discredit the movement.

Not the horsey types, I think that protest is absolutely fine. Horse racing exists only for gambling and should go the way of fox hunting imo. Anyone giving it the "thousands would lose their jobs" presumably laments the number of slave traders who had to find alternative employment or the number of children who were left unemployed after child labour laws came in.

[Mark Connolly]

7 minutes ago, velo army said:

I'm starting to think that some of these guys are Tory/MI5 plants to discredit the movement.

Not the horsey types, I think that protest is absolutely fine. Horse racing exists only for gambling and should go the way of fox hunting imo. Anyone giving it the "thousands would lose their jobs" presumably laments the number of slave traders who had to find alternative employment or the number of children who were left unemployed after child labour laws came in.

I've got a fiver on the next one being an anti-GRR protest at the darts

[19QOS19]

1 hour ago, velo army said:

I'm starting to think that some of these guys are Tory/MI5 plants to discredit the movement.

Not the horsey types, I think that protest is absolutely fine. Horse racing exists only for gambling and should go the way of fox hunting imo. Anyone giving it the "thousands would lose their jobs" presumably laments the number of slave traders who had to find alternative employment or the number of children who were left unemployed after child labour laws came in.

Horse racing isn't in the same category like those other things highlighted tbh. 

[GTG_03]

Thinks that anyone who is concerned about/believes that climate change is an issue shouldn't drive a car,get on a bus or use electricity. 

Same goes for communists/socialists/left wing types who shouldn't be allowed to buy Starbucks coffee etc.

[jimbaxters]

1 hour ago, velo army said:

I'm starting to think that some of these guys are Tory/MI5 plants to discredit the movement.

Not the horsey types, I think that protest is absolutely fine. Horse racing exists only for gambling and should go the way of fox hunting imo. Anyone giving it the "thousands would lose their jobs" presumably laments the number of slave traders who had to find alternative employment or the number of children who were left unemployed after child labour laws came in.

^^^^^ a perfect example of the name of this thread.

[velo army]

23 minutes ago, 19QOS19 said:

Horse racing isn't in the same category like those other things highlighted tbh. 

It isn't in the same category if you believe that horses have a lesser right to life and freedom than you or I. However the animal rights protestors I've spoken to and heard on TV tend to be of the belief that horses being made to race for the amusement of humans at a risk of death for themselves isn't a bawhair away from them as animals have, in their eyes, the same rights to life that you or I do. A more germane example for the average punter might be fox hunting. Jobs were no doubt lost there, but nobody gave a shiny shite because they felt that an economy based around foxes being killed by a bunch of gammon horray Henries on horseback wasn't one worth preserving. 

The arguments in favour of the grand national, given the death and suffering among horses that it causes, are mostly deflection or emotive strawman construction. The chat about protestors "causing distress" to the horses might sound valid, but given the protestors were trying to stop the race to prevent horses being needlessly killed it seems  piss-weak. Horses will bounce back from being distressed better than if they had a broken leg.

The argument that stopping the Grand National would cost jobs is ludicrous too and I'm annoyed that the protestor flubbed it on the news. Very few jobs are horse-specific, and I refuse to believe that any full time jobs would be lost (that couldn't be employed elsewhere) with the banning of jump racing in general or the GN specifically. As said before about fox hunting, an economy that exists for gambling (which, when its for football purposes is portrayed as a cardinal sin in the media) and causes the deaths and injuries of horses annually isn't one that, if we are to aspire to some level of compassion and civility, should be preserved. 

Back to the thread, the snooker boy is either a complete moron or a plant.

[19QOS19]

13 minutes ago, velo army said:

It isn't in the same category if you believe that horses have a lesser right to life and freedom than you or I. However the animal rights protestors I've spoken to and heard on TV tend to be of the belief that horses being made to race for the amusement of humans at a risk of death for themselves isn't a bawhair away from them as animals have, in their eyes, the same rights to life that you or I do. A more germane example for the average punter might be fox hunting. Jobs were no doubt lost there, but nobody gave a shiny shite because they felt that an economy based around foxes being killed by a bunch of gammon horray Henries on horseback wasn't one worth preserving. 

The arguments in favour of the grand national, given the death and suffering among horses that it causes, are mostly deflection or emotive strawman construction. The chat about protestors "causing distress" to the horses might sound valid, but given the protestors were trying to stop the race to prevent horses being needlessly killed it seems  piss-weak. Horses will bounce back from being distressed better than if they had a broken leg.

The argument that stopping the Grand National would cost jobs is ludicrous too and I'm annoyed that the protestor flubbed it on the news. Very few jobs are horse-specific, and I refuse to believe that any full time jobs would be lost (that couldn't be employed elsewhere) with the banning of jump racing in general or the GN specifically. As said before about fox hunting, an economy that exists for gambling (which, when its for football purposes is portrayed as a cardinal sin in the media) and causes the deaths and injuries of horses annually isn't one that, if we are to aspire to some level of compassion and civility, should be preserved. 

Back to the thread, the snooker boy is either a complete moron or a plant.

The irony of 'horses have a right to life like us' being they wouldn't have a life if horse racing was banned. They're bred to race. They wouldn't suddenly be left to roam the fields. 

A life of luxury with a tiny risk of death while racing or no life at all. I'd still say the first option is the better of the two. 

[welshbairn]

There's also the thing that maybe horses actually enjoy racing, I don't know if anyone's found a way of telling for sure. If aliens looked at some of the things humans do for fun they'd think it was outrageously cruel and we must be being forced. 

Edited April 18, 2023 by welshbairn