Crimes Against Humanity

[Wacky]

12 hours ago, BFTD said:

I wonder if the sale is still on at DFS?

I think there's supposed to be a rule that sales have to be for a limited time, so presumably they had to have a week now and then where their prices went through the roof and they made no money.

I’m sure they change products in the sale, which means they can advertise a perpetual sale in store. 

[Central Belt Caley]

3 hours ago, Swarley said:

Yes, am sure that story was highlighted here too. Can't remember what thread though. Maybe Compo Face? 

Not sure, was a few years ago I think I seen it. Used to work for Tesco and one of the women that worked there used to let everyone know if Tesco had been mentioned in any of the papers 

[MEADOWXI]

On 21/08/2024 at 22:56, BFTD said:

It certainly sounded interesting in the pre-publicity. The reality was that it was incredibly tedious and I switched off after two episodes, never to return. Was genuinely amazed that it became anything other than a one-off experiment, never mind that it was so popular for years.

Reality TV is astonishing for the things that people will watch. Gogglebox; a show where very dull people watch TV and you watch them watching the TV, occasionally making banal comments. I've known multiple people who've said that it's their favourite show.

Reality TV

All reality TV is manufactured crap, in extremely artificial environments badly presented with false cliffhangers and pretend jeopardy.

It call all f**k off.

Edited August 26 by MEADOWXI

[Richey Edwards]

On 25/08/2024 at 11:52, Parttimesupporter said:

two tier

[BFTD]

2 hours ago, MEADOWXI said:

Reality TV

All reality TV is manufactured crap, in extremely artificial environments badly presented with false cliffhangers and pretend jeopardy.

It call all f**k off.

I quite liked some of those fly-on-the-wall shows at people's workplaces - very Dad stuff. I'll still watch those customs and immigration programmes when I catch them; they obviously just show the dramatic stuff there too, but it's interesting to see a bit of other people's work.

Anything that's basically a soap opera with even worse actors and writing? GTF.

[MEADOWXI]

Just now, BFTD said:

I quite liked some of those fly-on-the-wall shows at people's workplaces - very Dad stuff. I'll still watch those customs and immigration programmes when I catch them; they obviously just show the dramatic stuff there too, but it's interesting to see a bit of other people's work.

Anything that's basically a soap opera with even worse actors and writing? GTF.

So much of that is about bailiffs and landlords and people that are having a shit time or at the bottom of the ladder,

Hardcore Poverty Porn for the middle classes, lets have a w**k at someone living in private let poverty.

Just appalling TV.

[BFTD]

11 minutes ago, MEADOWXI said:

So much of that is about bailiffs and landlords and people that are having a shit time or at the bottom of the ladder,

Hardcore Poverty Porn for the middle classes, lets have a w**k at someone living in private let poverty.

Just appalling TV.

The bailiff stuff can be interesting to see the rules that they have to follow, but there's an awful lot of "oh, the poor landlords" shite too. They're definitely looking for the audience of folk who rent out granny's old house and are pissed off that they haven't been able to retire on the rent it's bringing in.

They always seem to throw in a tearjerking story of kids being thrown out on the street and the bad councils that won't help until they're actually living rough, but there's no mention of why that might be. Great opportunity to point out that there are side effects to cutting public service funding and selling off housing stock on the cheap, but they're never brave enough to point that out to the audience that needs to hear it.

[jimbaxters]

On 25/08/2024 at 03:21, ClydeTon said:

Having to queue at EU passport control = 'literally Nazi Germany'

  Reveal hidden contents

Apologies for posting Lorraine Kelly

 

Was that the real Lorraine or the one she puts on to avoid tax?

[Ludo*1]

Decided to have a kebab after travelling through to Dingwall to watch Dundee get pumped. Went to a place in Inverness called Max's 2.

First red flag was the offer of garlic sauce as standard instead of chilli sauce.

I asked for salad and chilli sauce on said kebab. To then be asked if I wanted a pitta bread or chips was the second red flag but no harm, no foul, I appreciate I was asking for a drunk food staple. 

The real crime was that said salad was placed underneath the pitta bread and consisted of a large dollop of f**king coleslaw. Outrageous behaviour. 

[pub car king]

Coleslaw on a f**king kebab 

[A96]

9 hours ago, Ludo*1 said:

Decided to have a kebab after travelling through to Dingwall to watch Dundee get pumped. Went to a place in Inverness called Max's 2.

First red flag was the offer of garlic sauce as standard instead of chilli sauce.

I asked for salad and chilli sauce on said kebab. To then be asked if I wanted a pitta bread or chips was the second red flag but no harm, no foul, I appreciate I was asking for a drunk food staple. 

The real crime was that said salad was placed underneath the pitta bread and consisted of a large dollop of f**king coleslaw. Outrageous behaviour. 

Sorry, but you forfeited the right to complain when you chose pitta bread instead of chips.

Doner meat smothered in chilli sauce with chips and coleslaw on the side sounds like perfect comfort food following a humiliating reality check in Dingwall

[Ludo*1]

28 minutes ago, A96 said:

Sorry, but you forfeited the right to complain when you chose pitta bread instead of chips.

Doner meat smothered in chilli sauce with chips and coleslaw on the side sounds like perfect comfort food following a humiliating reality check in Dingwall

You disgust me.

[Venti]

11 hours ago, Ludo*1 said:

Decided to have a kebab after travelling through to Dingwall to watch Dundee get pumped. Went to a place in Inverness called Max's 2.

First red flag was the offer of garlic sauce as standard instead of chilli sauce.

I asked for salad and chilli sauce on said kebab. To then be asked if I wanted a pitta bread or chips was the second red flag but no harm, no foul, I appreciate I was asking for a drunk food staple. 

The real crime was that said salad was placed underneath the pitta bread and consisted of a large dollop of f**king coleslaw. Outrageous behaviour. 

Reminds me of this.

 

[milton75]

On 15/08/2024 at 17:45, Richey Edwards said:

Have you ever seen the bottom of a wind turbine?

Piles of dead seagulls.

 

On 15/08/2024 at 17:57, Caledonian1 said:

You just made that up didn't you.  There have been a few recent studies that have concluded there is no additional threat to birds - indeed they actively avoid the blades.  Unique study: birds avoid wind turbine blades - Vattenfall

I like wind turbines, and I'm also one of the few on here, judging by a recent thread, that loves gulls. Big Herring Gulls being the best ones.

But, I'm not sure about that report. It's findings are probably correct, but to my knowledge actually hitting the turbine blades isn't the issue. I didn't think anyone thought it was. There were questions about migration patterns and whether The Electro-magnetic fields generated by the turbines can screw them up. I don't believe there's evidence that they have a great effect, but there is evidence that the sub-sea cables from the offshore ones to land can adversely affect fish migration and feeding.

Where the wind turbines onshore definitely do have an adverse environmental impact would be on things like bats. My missus is a zoologist and ecologist and one of this things her company specialises in is looking at bat habitats and wind farm proposals. Wind turbines create pressure drops that kill bats by causing barotrauma. Basically they get withing close distance of the turbine and their lungs implode. They just drop dead out the air. I assume the same can happen to birds.

They're also often built in moors and suchlike which can have implications for local biodiversity and carbon storage, and of course steel production is one of the most polluting practices going, but there's always going to be some sort of pay off for energy production.

[milton75]

On 15/08/2024 at 19:26, Melanius Mullarkey said:

Borders accents. Like Dumfries and that.

 

On 15/08/2024 at 19:30, MazzyStar said:

I agree, the Hawick accent is one of the worst. Don’t know what that’s got to do with Dumfries though. 

What about the accents over at Stranraer? The folk there sound like the accents the South Part folk do when taking the piss out of Canadians.

[Melanius Mullarkey]

17 hours ago, A96 said:

Sorry, but you forfeited the right to complain when you chose pitta bread instead of chips.

Doner meat smothered in chilli sauce with chips and coleslaw on the side sounds like perfect comfort food following a humiliating reality check in Dingwall

Im sure the wider med and middle east are raging on their lack of chips with their meat dishes.

Coleslaw on a kebab sounds dece tbf.

5 minutes ago, milton75 said:

 

What about the accents over at Stranraer? The folk there sound like the accents the South Part folk do when taking the piss out of Canadians.

Aye, they borderers are all mental with their accents. 

[Silvio Tattiescone]

38 minutes ago, milton75 said:

and of course steel production is one of the most polluting practices going, but there's always going to be some sort of pay off for energy production.

Have you seen just how much rebar and concrete (hugely polluting) go into the base of these things?

 

[HTG]

People on holiday who hire mobility scooters as their primary means of transport when there's quite obviously f**k all wrong with them apart from being fat and/or lazy. 

[milton75]

On 16/08/2024 at 15:03, highlandmac said:

Every type of crisp multi pack seeming to always contain prawn cocktail instead of something nice 

Highlander's Prawn Cocktail were great back in the 90s before they changed the recipe. They had loads of paprika on them and tingled the tongue.

They came in a multipack with Bacon & Brown Sauce, which were also great, and something else but I forget what. 

[milton75]

14 minutes ago, Silvio Tattiescone said:

Have you seen just how much rebar and concrete (hugely polluting) go into the base of these things?

 

I've never liked the term carbon footprint, but I always wonder what the environmental and energy payback timescales are for building hydro schemes that involve dam-building. Must be ridiculous a lot of the time. I still love a big dam though.