I just use the Elementary book, but I skipped through the levels to see how the story unfolds.....:supergrin:

This may well be the issue here as the bottom was full of water and it won't start after being drained. No stink yet though.

I'd gladly pay that to not have to wash up a household's worth of stay at home cooking twice a day.

If you're Croydon-area I'd happily take a recommendation assuming they'll come out at the moment and distance sensibly etc.

Cheers

I would be amazed if I have not mentioned him before on this thread but just in case, Colin Murray.

December. (And before that).

Rosie Jones. Sorry but she is just a box ticker. Takes forever to tell a joke (really not her fault) but is just not funny.

People who respond to a post with "well quite". You may think it makes you come across as intellectual, but to me it makes you come across as tediously pompous and patronising.

Question for those that do use this, do you say it to people in real life, where the chances are they would look at you like the faux intellectual twat you are, or is it just an internet thing?

Indeed.

^^

Having now done the search myself it is comforting to know I am not alone.

Well, indeed.

People who are too lazy to write 'well quite' using '^^' instead.

Quite

Arrows.

^^

Just an internet thing. :(

I say it in real life, too.

Absolutely.

Spot on.

This.

Guilty.

Guilty.

Guilty.

^

(quite, not well)

180

Wanker.:D

Finishing the washing up, emptying the bowl and wiping up the mess only to look across to the frying pan sitting there, laughing at me.

Every time :grrr:

Yup.

****

:lux:

Indeed.

Ditto

Same

Has anyone watched Hinterland? Just started watching and the characters just seem to stare at each other for large parts of the time. They don't say anything, just stare. In real life one of them would say "what the f**k are you looking at" but they don't. I know it's supposed to be atmospheric but it means I've had to stop watching.

I assume you aren't talking about the former Page 3 Stunna?

On the Comedy Central Roast, the comedian she was up against (Alex Booker) said possibly the most politically incorrect joke I have ever heard.

"I think of Rosie as being the Rose West of female comedy. By that, I mean that she is likely to die before she finishes her sentence".

In the context of the event, it was ******* funny but drew a proper gasp from the audience.

Just had a guy from yodel knock, he was part of the investigations team. Apparently the driver managed not to deliver 5 other wine order that day, he’s been suspended. What a cock.

Check your rep.

What a drunken "cock" :lux:

Sky's Beth Rigby, as bad as Kay Burley.

The BBC news headline this morning is the 100th birthday of Captain Tom.
The BBC used to report important news from over the world, now it is reduced to this pointless shite.

Oh and Naga Munchetty. So fking smug .

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Colonel Tom.

I wouldn't suggest you put on ITV.

... and yesterday it was Boris' new sprog.

They obviously have a brief to report and emphasise the less depressing news element during the crisis. sort of "cheer up it ain't all bad news, we're still plucky Brits, and at times like this the problems of the rest of the world don't matter so much".

To be honest, I've stopped watching BBC news at the moment, purely & simply because they are not reporting all the news: everything is shot through the prism of the UK (and primarily England's) response to the coronavirus.

I know it's the single most important issue facing us at the moment, but there are things - important things that will affect us sooner or later - going on elsewhere in the world, and I'd like to hear about them as well.

The BBC is totally biased. Even the Panorama programme from Monday was a shambles. All the NHS staff featured have links to the Labour party. No balance at all.

If it happens everytime why not either get it whilst collecting everything to be washed or cut down on fried food?

Thats because NHS staff have seen what the tories have done yo the NHS.

And Labour before that, and the coilation. They all do it.
The one thing I would love to see coming out of this is the NHS put into a cross party management, so it can't ever again be used as a political football.

Remind me again which party members cheered when the nurses pay rise was rejected?

When did I say they were right?

Update - I just used 'Well, quite' in a work exchange & got a 'Thanks!' in response. :p

Normally I would say indeed, but perhaps it’s better to say that these are my feelings entirely.

Petty, I know, but I've just listened to the new charity recording of "Times like These" and it's the singing method of many current singers, both male and female. That croaky, over emotional, forced, mumbly, baby-like way of "emoting" makes Chris Martin's last line of the song a haven of understated class. It just really annoys me.
But a great song and a more than worthy cause.

When you started to use whataboutism to defend them.

Ohhh. You can't sat that Pete.

I got called a wanker bys some Tory prick who thinks he knows everything because his wife works at the NHS.

Strangely I have found that I get called these terms all the time, and many times others say the same thing and don't get abused in this way.

I might have mentioned on that CV1 thread that the UK had more deaths than italy. I was accused of all sorts on that. I think another govt defender asked me if I could see in the future.

I won't hold my breath waiting for any apologies.

I saw a piece (albiet The Sun again) suggesting the Chinese CCP were sending their diplomats out to come down hard on anyone criticising them. Latest having a go at Australia for asking how the virus really came about.

Apparantly that's a no no to talk about as well. Can't talk about them trying to position themselves to control the world.

My ex wife was a midwife, I saw what she had to put up with. Flat cap tories do my nut in.

Well quite. :p


I took a look at COV1 the last couple of pages. They seem to be saying the same shit they were saying two days back. It's like a 24 hr news channel with nothing to report. The Tory backing deniers have got their control on it though.

Best they stay there.

Pete, I watched all those AEF videos to the end of the story as well. We have access to al the downloadables and videos for all the series.

I get given free Oxford online courses which is nice. Seriously, the next one coming up is Teaching people with Special Needs. I should walk that with my experience of the plums on here.

We have all the material loaded onto our computers, we also have Cambridge and Oxford access. :D

However, I also found a lot of the videos are on youtube.

Never mind love.

Emma Thompson.

That’s right Al. Attack the programme not the totally unchallenged truths within it.

It was me that asked if you could see into the future but I am no defender of this government in any shape or form.

I too won't hold my breath waiting for any apologies. :)

Ta. I'd never heard of the "comedian".

:supergrin::supergrin::lux::lux:

There were a few people sitting around chatting about the start of lockdown a few weeks ago and someone mentioned that at least we can have a drink and Dan Walker and the others laughed but she said as long as you don't breach government guidelines. Smug and miserable.

Is that because he can't?

Cracking comeback, tory boy.

Bless:hi:

I never saw it, I only read about the contributors.

Shit drizzly weather all of a sudden

In the tory press? Nice unbiased opinions....still, at least they watched it.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/st...nzsSm4HJ1Sw914

Things that annoy you
 

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Question or statement?

I never said where I read it, if thats any help.

if its only drizzly you are lucky ,been out working in it all day in wiltshire and it was proper pissing down there.

People that install those pointless 3 round pin lighting sockets. Something that absolutely know ones needs or is likely to ever use.

Keep digging, tory boy.

Though I think your advice is excellent if a tad extreme (cutting down on fried food.. wow!!) , there is a third option and that is to place all dirty cutlery in the frying pan.

Bored of people’s domestic backdrops in video calls now. Becoming way too forced. Plain black is the new plain black.

Ordinary people.

I expect to see them on u-tube and out-and-about, but it pisses me off seeing them in such large numbers on my television set.

Avoiding all video calls like the plague.

Got invited to one by good friends that had to be organised around the clapalong. Mmmmm pass, thanks.

There have been five or six with my team at work. Haven't signed on to any of them.

Here it is B list Chilean TV celebs from their homes. Being asked their take on the virus and the like, as though they have the faintest idea. Often on 3 of the five channels at once.

They probably get paid for appearances as well.

The charities are going hell for leather on daytime TV currently, too. Ohhh look at them at home with a headset on in front of their bedroom wardrobe......here’s £10 a month to you all.....

Over here, it's mostly advertisers using the heroism of ordinary people to sell crap.

I put the TV on once a day to have a news round up. Then it gets switched off.

Yep, here not so bad. Bank of Chile a bit. But they have suspended credit repayments and the like, and their owner has made a lot of donations. They get a pass.

Sounds a bit like the way I watch “specialist” movies for the first 5 minutes only.....

The bookcases have been doing my head in.

I will also add the advertising by some of the journalist in the daily press conference

It annoys me when the Coronavirus thread slips to about 8th in rank in General Chit Chat and there isn’t a final post saying “done, gone, over”
Roll on the day....

I might do one with my DVD collection behind me, or better all my Palace stuff.

Such a poignant post.

The frying pan is left on the hob with a layer of hot water to soak whilst everything else is submerged in the sink, but despite being less than a few feet away I still manage to forget about it.

Low-calorie cooking spray has been a staple for a number of years now :p

You have my sympathies.

The phrase the “new normal” which appears to be spoken by just about everyone on TV at the moment. I understand why life will have to be different for the next few months but none of what is happening, or will happen in the next few months, is in any way “normal”. And whilst I am sure it isn’t the intention, it does sound rather Orwellian.

It will become normal and it will be new. HTH!

Look at it positively.

For lots of people new normal will mean less money and hours wasted on commuting for the rest of their careers.

It will mean less asthma for kids in cities as pollution is dramatically reduced and hopefully won’t spring all the way back.

Plus it provides a really good excuse for not seeing family members you don’t want to for at least a few years.

That’s a doubleplusgood post.

Wonder how the police and Trump would respond if demonstrators were young, black and carrying guns.

Elvis. They call him 'The King' but I've listened to his Greatest Hits today and it's just covers. Not an original work anywhere.

F*ck me, next you'll be saying Frank Sinatra is shit because he never wrote a song!