Cosmic Joe Posted February 28 Share Posted February 28 19 minutes ago, Barry Ferguson's Hat said: f**k up you piece of shit. Charming 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted February 28 Share Posted February 28 3 hours ago, DiegoDiego said: Commentators should be trying the right amount of hard to pronounce people's names. That amount is finding out how they're supposed to be pronounced and then pronouncing them that way. The terrible journalism thread is full of posters slating media folk for not knowing enough about the players. Surely getting their names right should be the starting point. Reminds me of the time the actor Haing S. Ngor won a BAFTA for his appearance in The Killing Fields. It was presented by Julie Walters, who when she opened the envelope admitted she didn't know how to pronounce his name. She got slated in the press, with everybody pointing out that she should damn well have learned how to pronounce it before she went on stage, given that he was on the shortlist even if nobody at that point knew he had won. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coprolite Posted February 28 Share Posted February 28 58 minutes ago, Barry Ferguson's Hat said: Only tangentially related, but made me think of this Catholic Grotto in Cork: Imagine walking out on to the balcony of your new flat on a sunny morning to be greeted with the sight near life-size recreation of a man being tortured to death. It’ll keep vampires away though 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFTD Posted February 28 Share Posted February 28 1 hour ago, Barry Ferguson's Hat said: Only tangentially related, but made me think of this Catholic Grotto in Cork: Imagine walking out on to the balcony of your new flat on a sunny morning to be greeted with the sight near life-size recreation of a man being tortured to death. Why did they paint the back, but not the front? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Moonster Posted February 28 Share Posted February 28 6 hours ago, coprolite said: On the subject of remembering blokes being nailed to posts, this easter bunny shit gets on my nerves. We never had an easter bunny, so i don't know the story behind it. I guess it's some country's pagan symbol of spring, but f**k knows what the connection is with the chocolate eggs. Egg shape on the other hand is the optimum shape for chocolate and well worth the 300% price jacking. I'd like to thank Jesus for inventing chocolate eggs. I was informed that a lot of kids get fucking presents for easter these days and not just a chocolate egg. For me that can go on the same fire that "graduations" from primary school (or worse, a nursery) and "proms" for high school kids should be burning in. 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Florentine_Pogen Posted February 28 Share Posted February 28 (edited) 6 hours ago, coprolite said: On the subject of remembering blokes being nailed to posts, this easter bunny shit gets on my nerves. We never had an easter bunny, so i don't know the story behind it. I guess it's some country's pagan symbol of spring, but f**k knows what the connection is with the chocolate eggs. Egg shape on the other hand is the optimum shape for chocolate and well worth the 300% price jacking. I'd like to thank Jesus for inventing chocolate eggs. Well, I don't go to church on Sunday Don't get on my knees to pray Don't memorize the books of the bible I got my own special way I know Jesus loves me Maybe just a little bit more Fall down on my knees every Sunday At Zerelda Lee's candy store Well, I've got to be a chocolate Jesus Make me feel good inside Got to be a chocolate Jesus Keep me satisfied Well, I don't want no Abba Zabba Don't want no Almond Joy There ain't nothing better Suitable for this boy Well, it's the only thing that can pick me up It's better than a cup of gold See, only a chocolate Jesus Can satisfy my soul When the weather gets rough and it's whiskey in the shade It's best to wrap your savior up in cellophane He flows like the big muddy but that's okay Pour him over ice cream for a nice parfait Well, it's got to be a chocolate Jesus Good enough for me Got to be a chocolate Jesus It's good enough for me Well, it's got to be a chocolate Jesus Make me feel so good inside Got to be a chocolate Jesus Keep me satisfied Edited February 28 by Florentine_Pogen 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergeant Wilson Posted February 28 Share Posted February 28 5 hours ago, Barry Ferguson's Hat said: Only tangentially related, but made me think of this Catholic Grotto in Cork: Imagine walking out on to the balcony of your new flat on a sunny morning to be greeted with the sight near life-size recreation of a man being tortured to death. I lived in a flat you could see real people getting tortured to death. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hedgecutter Posted February 28 Share Posted February 28 Overly fancy and stupid job role descriptions. 'Principal's who aren't even the lead member of their team, with multiple of them. That and teams with five 'leads' where the name lead simply means 'not a graduate', etc etc. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesP_81 Posted February 28 Share Posted February 28 41 minutes ago, The Moonster said: I was informed that a lot of kids get fucking presents for easter these days and not just a chocolate egg. For me that can go on the same fire that "graduations" from primary school (or worse, a nursery) and "proms" for high school kids should be burning in. First time I ever heard of of this was the Mrs saying we have to get her niece a wee Easter present the first year we were together. Never heard an egg being called a present before but there you go. Turns out it was an actual present. 14 years later and it still catches me out every year. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DiegoDiego Posted February 28 Share Posted February 28 52 minutes ago, JamesP_81 said: The Mrs saying we have to get her niece Why would you have to get a present for someone else's niece? Presents should be limited to first order relatives at most, and maybe the postie at Christmas. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Connolly Posted February 28 Share Posted February 28 1 hour ago, Hedgecutter said: Overly fancy and stupid job role descriptions. 'Principal's who aren't even the lead member of their team, with multiple of them. That and teams with five 'leads' where the name lead simply means 'not a graduate', etc etc. My previous employers had a "Senior Line Manager", who was in charge of making sure the Department Managers made sure the Team Leads made sure Supervisors made sure the plebs were working. The Senior Line Manager reported to the General Manager, who reported to the Directors. One member of staff was disciplined for calling someone a "useless middle managing p***k". When challenged on this at his disciplinary, he accepted that he should not have used the term, as "the 2nd level of management is not the middle in our structure" 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Central Belt Caley Posted February 28 Share Posted February 28 2 hours ago, The Moonster said: I was informed that a lot of kids get fucking presents for easter these days and not just a chocolate egg. For me that can go on the same fire that "graduations" from primary school (or worse, a nursery) and "proms" for high school kids should be burning in. Can we add kids getting presents on Christmas Eve into this? 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GNU_Linux Posted February 28 Share Posted February 28 Sky Sports showing the same game on multiple channels 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TxRover Posted February 28 Share Posted February 28 2 hours ago, Sergeant Wilson said: I lived in a flat you could see real people getting tortured to death. Port Glasgow? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnderooMFC Posted February 29 Share Posted February 29 On 27/02/2024 at 21:57, Rugster said: I’ve probably told this before but the Queen died on my wee boys birthday and just as we were singing hip hip hooray was the exact moment the flag was lowered and Huw the paedo announced it. I love to think what anyone walking past hearing the celebrations would have thought. And you know this because whilst singing hip hip hooray to your child... the TV was on and you were paying attention to the BBC instead? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SlipperyP Posted February 29 Share Posted February 29 9 hours ago, Central Belt Caley said: Can we add kids getting presents on Christmas Eve into this? Just add the Germans into this, before it all kicks off again. Better safe than sorry. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hk blues Posted February 29 Share Posted February 29 (edited) 12 hours ago, JamesP_81 said: First time I ever heard of of this was the Mrs saying we have to get her niece a wee Easter present the first year we were together. Never heard an egg being called a present before but there you go. Turns out it was an actual present. 14 years later and it still catches me out every year. Ach, you'll catch on eventually. Now I think of it, when we were wee we often got a gift instead of an egg from close relatives such as grannies or aunts. Not as expensive as a birthday or Christmas present though. Edited February 29 by hk blues 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SlipperyP Posted February 29 Share Posted February 29 1 hour ago, hk blues said: Ach, you'll catch on eventually. Now I think of it, when we were wee we often got a gift instead of an egg from close relatives such as grannies or aunts. Not as expensive as a birthday or Christmas present though. We were lucky to get boiled egg and a felt tip pen to decorate it ourselves. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hk blues Posted February 29 Share Posted February 29 2 minutes ago, SlipperyP said: We were lucky to get boiled egg and a felt tip pen to decorate it ourselves. Aye, I remember those days - the strands of wool glued on for hair and the felt from the pen seeping through into the egg. Happy days! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheScarf Posted February 29 Share Posted February 29 12 hours ago, GNU_Linux said: Sky Sports showing the same game on multiple channels They show that absolutely shite replacement to Soccer AM that I can't even remember the name of with utter no mark podcasters on a Saturday morning on 3 channels too. They charge hundreds of thousands of people in the UK over a grand a year for TV subscriptions alone and they don't even have the rights to enough content to fill their Sports channels with different shows. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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