Been out all day. Fabulous.

Dimbo is still a tool.

Ah, the One Sentence Weasel wakes up. Ten words and three full stops, better than usual :p

EDIT. Actually I take back what I said above and apologize. I dont want to fight continuously, and I dont want to be nasty to anyone. Sometimes events get ahead of us and I know am very far from perfect. We have different ideals but perhaps that comes from the differing environments we inhabit. I hope you take this in the spirit it is intended

I think you miss what I am saying.

I will watch more of this round Britain travel show if I can catch it when it is :jerkit:on. I will wait for the hetro white male presenter to host an episode.

I am aware that a good amount of this kind of telly is presented by exactly that kind of profile...but it doesn't mean that the BBC needs to compensate for all other failings.

I guess I can file it in the same drawer as the Áfrican Footballer Awards...and their ridiculously commissioned and skewed Workplace articles.

He seemed a great bloke.

My point is...is diversity only acceptable if it is acceptable diversity that is not actually diverse.

I disagree that I am being a Dick...and I think I can find stuff to back up my argument against the BBC.

I feel the last year or so has seen a real knee jerk reaction from certain oeganisations in an attempt to correct injusticies. The clearest is the massive foot in the mouth BAFTA lifetime achievement award....I thought that was premature regardless of the scandal.

I am also not your BBS enemy Timbo.

Why would people want to be in a clique. It is very possible to have a view that racism is aborrent but overly pushing diversity is also wrong.

I feel questioning that is neither being a Dick or being narrow minded. More the opposite. Being narrow minded is not even questioning things because you are scared of being on the wrong side of the debate.

Is the the fella in the wheelchair the ex paralympian?

He is very good. A massively infectious personality. I enjoy listening to him which is what you want from a presenter.

Don’t give two hoots about diversity, he is great at what he does.

I always find that with certain loafs of bread you can't do sideways first either, as it's too long.

So i put it in normal first on low so the heat shrinks the bread up a bit then sideways.

Exactly.


And yet Peter seems to think first about his skin colour, and only second about his talent ; which is very Skint, but not very Peter.

Is that a yes?

People that stroll around the gym either in socks or barefoot.

Scummy cants.

Exactly. He has been on the programme before and is better than most of the bland presenters around. Plus appearances on other shows . More, please :p

I thought he first came to general notice as part of the Wheelchair Basketball team on one of those BBC snippets between programmes?

HMRC VAT Webchat - between Thursday and today two people combined wait time 11 hours in 2-3 hour burst. Not a fecking sniff at getting an adviser so, so tedious.

HMRC would have sufficed in the annoyance charts tbh

Yep Ade Adepitan UK Bronze medallist 2005 Olympics
Wheelchair basketballist

Really? God thats horrible.

I didn't say he wasn't. That wasn't the point I was making.

Why have people got denser during 'lockdown'.

I admit I have to see more shows....but I guess the time of the Michael Palin type of TV traveller is coming to an end.

At least for any 45 year old + white bloke (the source of all the world's problems) who fancies working for the BBC or The Guardián....personally I would call that exclusión.

You are making stuff up. I didn't say that.

You should retract that...I we can all just see you as a la
Iiar on here.

I thought the guy in question was great. I made an effortto tune in the next week expecting it to be the same presenter. I was disappointed it wasn't.

My observation was that the next presenter on the rotation, using the same vehicle, was also a minority. What are the odds that that is just casual chance with the population breakdown in the UK.

I am not advocating that the BBC commission Bernard Manning or Charlton Jim to do an episode....but I would be interested in their line up of presenters.

I retract nothing. I didn’t say that you said it ; I said it’s what you think, I.e. the essence of your posts. And your previous post to this one shows me to be right : it’s all about the white vs non-white guy.

You don't know what I think...I don't know what I think.

You are slandering my character in your post and suggesting to the feeble minded on here that I am a racist.

That is very naughty on your part. And makes you a liar.

A conniving liar. Because you know very well what you are doing. It means you are dishonest.

All because someone, Me, dares to suggest that certain media channels are perhaps pushing the woke ideal too far.

That doesn't mean I am offended by it. I won't avoid the programmes and look forward to more of the presenter.

If you can't have a grown up conversación about this without being a snide - why bother postíng - are you waiting for cavalry to show up?

Liar.

Article mentioned black women.

I will dip in tomorrow. Just to see how Mr Maztastics ideal world mind works.

Not very well coming into his dotage years. Pandemic has been tough.

How can you be so spot on on some subjects, but soft in the head on others. That's narrow mindedness - only your view is right.


I looked up the Travel Show presenters on wiki...and the senior whitey is described as a Guru.

Couldn't find the coming out of pandemic UK shows...Just waste of time 4 minute overseas programmes.

Peter, don’t be a long-winded fekwit.

I’m right ; the consolation you can take is that I twice mentioned that such racist thinking was most unlike you. It’s possibly just an ‘episode’. .

Andrew Lloyd Webber being a pathetic drama queen (on a BBC news report now) moaning about theatres not being able to open up and claiming “theatres are the life blood of towns and cities”.
Erm, no they’re not you idiot.
Which reminds me of another thing that annoys me : musicals. All of them.

The new Skoda radio adverts

The bitch says SSSHHHHkoda about 30 times, each time grating more than the last

socks and sandals.... dark grey socks at that.

EFA

more specific than that, people shuffling about in public wearing socks and sliders. not only is that the footwear equivalent of going out in public with your dressing gown, but they can't even be bothered to lift their feet clear of the ground when they walk.

Agree with you, especially when someone is simply making a statement and someone thinks they are being picked upon.

My mother-in-law used to walk up mountains in flip-flops. When I asked if this was entirely wise, the answer was it's an improvement on the bare feet she used to do it with as a young woman.

Van drivers. One parked in a long wheel base vw over the zig zags right by the crossing, another parked on the bend on top of the traffic lights so buses could not get past and then another decided he was not going to stop even though he had a row of parked cars on his side of the road.

Surely standing in line with, but in front of the sign is far inferior to standing in line with the sign, but at the edge of the platform?

I'm wondering if this is still a burning issue for Ralph.

Are they perhaps trying to redress the balance for the times when they've tried to cross the road when the light is red to traffic, but a cyclist has almost run them over by jumping the light?

Perhaps we shall see.

If it is, I do feel for him. A festering annoyance for 7 years might turn a man crazy.

Big problem for me, I seem to require 75% more gravy on my food than most human beings.

It has to cover every item of food completely, with an overflow reservoir on the plate, preferably with some left in reserve on the table.

Roast dinners with communal gravy boats are a psychological minefield for me, as I monitor everyone's gravy usage, calculating how much will be left by the time it gets to me. If I'm near the front of the line, I'm faced with the choice of ******* up everyone else's gravy allocation at the expense of safeguarding my own gravy requirements, or altruistically scaling back my gravy usage to socially acceptable levels, but to the detriment of my meal.

I usually choose to **** up everyone else's gravy allocation.

I prefered the Chili Peppers version.

Under the Putney Bridge?

This used to happen to about ten people a day on the BBS, back in the day - and always the same people, weirdly. Richard, Maidstoned, Dave, JohnA and Maz, if I recall corectly.

Luckily, nobody was ever hurt.

Still bloody does. I have worked out in they are wearing lycra, Beware. If on a mountain bike then you don't have to worry so much

Forums that turn a blind eye to misogynistic language such as "the bitch".

Don't give it away now.

r u the judge lol ?

No. But surely referring to any female as "bitch" is always misogynistic, isn't it. Surely we don't need a judge to decide that, do we ?

Thank goodness everyone who saw it was prepared to turn a a blind eye then

I always refer to one of the female’s in my life as the bitch.

Admittedly using the plural doesn’t go down quite as well.

My niece has not only just watched a youtube video showing her how to peel an egg, but then searched for a 'life hack' video showing her an easier way to do it!!
I get this if you're doing something complicated, but peeling an egg?

The key to easily peeling boiled eggs is to use the freshest ones for other methods of cooking, and the older ones for boiling. The shell comes off easier the older the eggs are

Still does, but stephek convinced me its ok because car drivers do it too.

For fecks sake, keep well away from the " Rap lyrics" thread in the Music Forum. Then again you'll probably see it as aspiring artists expressing their inner-cityness.

I think, given the subject of that thread, "bitch" is probably the nicest of things to say about her.

Call me old-fashioned but I don't think any woman should be referred to as "bitch", not even a woman who has a record of unpleasant comments, but in any event it was this thread that I had in mind.

I find the shell comes off easiest before boiling, especially when dropped from a height. :frown:

Our dog is a bitch. I will now just call her "dog".

However, when the f*cking bitch grabs the remote controls and takes them to the end of the garden to chew, she will get called what she gets called!

Is it ok for a man to be called a wanker?

Or Googleperving, or any thread/post involving Spangle.

Do you quaint traditional ways go back to the 70's and early 80s when Joan and Jackie Collins were at the top of their game?

And I call you on it.

'episode' is patronising.

So you are a patronising, arrogant, snidey liar.

Me, mentioning that I think the BBC is trying far too hard to tick boxes is not me having racist thoughts.

It's in everything the BBC do. Such as, the pushing of female commentators and pundits for male football. But, just the ones easy on the eye.

Although I am very impressed on how 'woke' this list seems to be...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct...ral_of_the_BBC

I am thinking you could call the whole organisation a top down bunch of hypocrites. Maybe a protest is due like the voting members of the Golden Globes.

I am happy to see a gay James Bond and a black female Doctor Who. Much of the stuff I watch is non-white stories - I have Ma Rainey and Small Axe downloaded to get through, and even that Kidhulthood stuff despite the honoured twat being a sex pest.

As I say, it is you being narrow minded if you are not even willing to see there are issues here. Not even open your mind to there being issues, but quick to throw your snide barbs about.

I wear socks with sandals. Almost knee length white, and beige short shorts where my testicles hang out.

I do wear socks with sandals. Bare feet are disgusting. And sandals cut into my heels.

Fashion police must lead shallow lives.

I saw some trick about putting them into ice cubes straight out of the pot, and you peel the top part off and can just squeeze the egg right out.

You don't have to do much. When the pan has finished boiling the eggs, take it off the heat and then immediately run it under cold water.

Give it a minute or so then take an egg out and smack it on the counter and roll it in the palm of your hand on the counter.

The shell is dead easy to peel off then so just pop it back in the pan to cool off.

Easy. :p

Parklife

Fella from British Gas (apparently) calls me about a complaint I had made earlier that day. I had asked that they e-mail me, not call me.

Him : I need to ask you a few security questions so you can prove who you are
Me : There are a lot of scams going on, you first need to prove that you are from British Gas.
Him : I just stated I'm from British Gas
Me : And I can similarly state that I am who you want to speak to
Him : That's not how it works for us
Me : Yeah, same for me, mate.

******* dickhead.

Nice one. Sticking it to the man.

Cold beans for tea? :)

:p

Yeah, I know. They have dicked me around so much, I was happy to be obtuse. But he didn’t seem to even understand the point I was making, that according to ‘his rules’ any old stranger could call me & expect me to provide him with loads of information whilst he could simply state ‘I’m from British Gas’ & I should believe him.

I'm highly adept with an egg, but still can't do 'omelets' to save my life

******* bluebottles. Can’t have the back door open for more than 5 mins without several of the ****ers coming in and turning my flat into their own personal buzzy party house.

In certain circumstances, such as if he supports Manchester United and has no connection to Manchester. Gents over the age of 65, however, can support Manchester United without any fear of criticism from me; their age makes it possible that they genuinely fell in love with the club when it was a club of genuinely talented, modest superstars.

Insect version of Wembley break in yobbos.

Depends. How many roads has he walked down?

Just buy one of those hanging blue element insect crematoriums. They're excellent. Sizzle, sizzle.

Olympics Opening Ceremonies: Competitors, leave your mobile 'phones in your pockets or the changing rooms. Any videos you take on them whilst you are supposed to the be object of the global audience's attentions are bound to be a bit rubbish, and you'll probably never watch them again. Just buy a DVD of the ceremony to remember it by.

Glad to hear I'm not the only one who just doesn't get the hype around these opening ceremonies. The biggest waste of a few hours TV programming.

60 minutes of boring and incomprehensible "interpretive dance", followed by the athletes parade (see above), followed by 60 minutes of tedious formalities, and rounded off with a fireworks display.

I'd gladly pass it all up for 5 minutes coverage of actual sport (almost any sport).

Jacques Pepin is your man for that

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I do wear socks with sandals. [/QUOTE]

FFS:moo:

I actually don't mind the ceremony itself - although it is one of those programmes you tend to have on in the background whilst doing something else - it's just the competitors holding their mobile 'phones aloft that I find annoying.

I don't even mind if a group of them want to take commemorative pictures of themselves and their mates at the (much less formal) closing ceremony - it's just the aimless videoing in the formal opening ceremony that makes me go a bit Stellavista.

One of the joys of the Olympics (summer and winter) is that you get watch some seriously marginal sports every fours years that you wouldn't otherwise have any interest in. I always think that curling is a good example of this.

He's probably busy

Wanker is non gender specific. The only thing you can call a bitch is a female dog!

I suggest you don't bite.

Not even Hatey Katey?

It is, however a pejorative term almost exclusively used for males, as is 'arsehole'.

And 'cock'.

Are you Charles Hawtrey?

They still speak of the legend that was Hawtrey in Deal to this day. As you were.

:D

Lamentably, men are also seemingly the sole target for being called pussies and *****

In fact, we seem to have cornered all genitalia, and the shitter

And tits

And 'Bollock Brain'

Hair dressing is an Olympic sport now:eek: Thought it was bad enough bringing skate boarding in.

In fairness all she did was correct you on the usage of the word 'Bitch'

All depends who uses the term..

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55835474-nightbitch

https://theplaylist.net/amy-adams-ni...urna-20200731/

I remember a guy who used to get on the same bus as me on the way to work in Croydon. One morning, I'd been at at Glastonbury the week before, and despite the lack of showering opportunities and being stuck out in a field for days on end, I still didn't smell even a tenth as bad as this guy did when I was at the festival.

Here's one for you all...and this must bug more than just me.


How long it will take the Mods, the Superwebmonkey or whatever to merge the EUROS thread back into the World of Football or somesuch.

Previous things of this type stayed on the main menu probably six months past it's shelf life date.

Probably when they remove the poll that informs us all that the majority of our fans want Steve Mandanda as our first choice shot stopper;)

Foxes setting my dogs off during the night. Again.