Agree. It must be a reeeeocurring thing.

Until covid those lucky enough to be child free would post “hey we’re now off on holiday where there won’t be screaming children ruining it for everyone” in a smug manner.

:p

paedogeddon.

Had a brief 4 day break down in warsash near Southampton last week , and the amount of roadworks en route was horrendous. Why do they start these projects in the summer when the roads are jam packed with holiday traffic ??

:D were you late for your picnic

Threw it out of the window for the tarmac guys .. Was the quickest they'd moved all week ..:D

There was actually someone working???

That we spent £37 BILLION on the test and trace app. That failed and could have wiped out homelessness in one go !

Roughly the same os our 'divorce' bill for Brexit which raised such a furore from mainly Tory MPs.

One would hope that that they are equally keen to investigate those responsible and those who benefited from this huge waste of public money on test and trace.

We spent (nd continue to spend) most of that on actual testing.

Ahh thanks. Makes me less angry. So if that’s the case how much has the other part cost

Do you have a link to support that number?

£37 billion is a crazy number that must equate to about £2 billion a month (or £65 million a day) which seems basically impossible to comprehend.

P.S. How do you define "wiped out homelessness in one go"? That's a lot of bullets.

Edit: I guess Adlerhorst's post makes it more comprehensible.

I think I've done this one before, but when you're drinking a large glass of water with ice in it and you get near to the bottom. You tip the glass back and all the ice lets go and along with the remaining water goes all over your face and down the front of your shirt!

Needless to say, I just did this...

Good link... thanks A.

Hire the Taliban.

Throw some sandwich and they will appear as proved by Strolling :)

I am laughing here Hedgy sorry hahaha

Acme Taliban removals :)

Slough.

Everything about the place is shit …and i have to go there tomorrow.

Yea thanks

Yay another poetry reference on the BBS today.

There’s hope yet for the old girl.

What was the poem David Brent reads in the Office about Slough ?

My son is Eurasian. Playing under 8 football the opposition coach screamed at his players to "get the f***ing chinky."

He dropped out of the team. I began to think emigration was not a bad idea after all.

It's called Slough.

Don't have ice. Hth.

I don’t live in an English pub. HTH

Must have thought hard about that title. Went to Slough once, if ever a name reflects the place Slough is it.

I really hate ice in my drink and even more so a slice of lemon or lime when I've ordered a coke or brandy and coke, especially when I've not asked for it, or indeed have specifically not asked for it!

Am I also allowed to say BBS members who jump up and down when they don't like the wording of a specific thread cos they don't agree with it's content and mods who then change it's title as they fear it might offend!!

I refer to my Has the Wilf situation become Toxic thread of course!!.

People who think that’s “it’s“ is the possessive of “it”.

That's gets on my nerves too.

Its appalling.

Sounds terrible...

The whole poem, by John Betjeman, is as follows:

Slough

Come friendly bombs and fall on Slough!
It isn’t fit for humans now,
There isn’t grass to graze a cow.
Swarm over, Death!

Come, bombs and blow to smithereens
Those air -conditioned, bright canteens,
Tinned fruit, tinned meat, tinned milk, tinned beans,
Tinned minds, tinned breath.

Mess up the mess they call a town-
A house for ninety-seven down
And once a week a half a crown
For twenty years.

And get that man with double chin
Who’ll always cheat and always win,
Who washes his repulsive skin
In women’s tears:

And smash his desk of polished oak
And smash his hands so used to stroke
And stop his boring dirty joke
And make him yell.

But spare the bald young clerks who add
The profits of the stinking cad;
It’s not their fault that they are mad,
They’ve tasted Hell.

It’s not their fault they do not know
The birdsong from the radio,
It’s not their fault they often go
To Maidenhead

And talk of sport and makes of cars
In various bogus-Tudor bars
And daren’t look up and see the stars
But belch instead.

In labour-saving homes, with care
Their wives frizz out peroxide hair
And dry it in synthetic air
And paint their nails.

Come, friendly bombs and fall on Slough
To get it ready for the plough.
The cabbages are coming now;
The earth exhales.

5.00pm meeting ?

No, thankfully.


4:30.

Me neither. HTHEM

Is this where I'm supposed to ask you what the EM stands for?

Apparently I'm a loud American, so demand ice in my drinks... lots of ice. :rolleyes:

Even More?

They was me thinking it was "Eagle's Mate"... :sob:

When you need to tack a small nail in and you think " I mustn't hit my thumb, I mustn't hit my thumb, I mustn't hit my thumb " and you hit your finger.

People saying ‘you’ll sleep well tonight’.

No i won’t. Fvck off.

Use a piece of cardboard with the tack/nail pushed through, and hold that instead.

For people reaching retirement age it means Evening Milk ;)

People who think it’s fine without asking to feed your dog in a pub with whatever crap they’re shoving down their own obese gobs.

Do they think that the owner doesn’t feed it or what? FFS. :veryangry

It is called having a ‘Thor moment’

These are the times a man wishes he had his gun with him…….I can relate to this BE

Horlicks?

Fuxkwits who bang on their brakes at a speed camera that is facing opposite direction.

That’s MM. Malted Milk and OM is Ovaltine.

Wow. Ask is it ok? I get but without asking! They could fking cause huge issues:mad:

People also do this with horses. Disgraceful

You really shouldn't take your horse into the pub.... :rolleyes:

Why the long face?

Bloke called Colin used to bring his horse inside the Hatch Inn* when it was raining back in the 80’s. He’d been banned for drink driving so he just used his horse and cart, ended up getting fined for being drunk in charge of a horse and cart. :D

* anyone who knows this pub in Colman’s Hatch will know just how small the pub is, it was hard to even get to the front of the bar with a bloody horse standing there.

Fuxkwits who are driving much faster than the speed limit.

Fuckwits who won’t move over from the outside lane, despite it being perfectly safe to do so, holding up the Fuxkwits who are driving much faster than the speed limit.

Both are wrong, but if I have to choose, I prefer the former to the latter.

Poor bloke was only trying to get away from some angry blind ****** with a gun. All he did was give the dog a bit of crackling.

If you're making the assumption that I was driving much faster than the speed limit you are wrong. When any twat bangs their brakes on for no good reason it is very dangerous especially when they were exceeding the speed limit.

:supergrin:

Simple but genius! :p

If they’re exceeding the speed limit and you’re not, then the gap between you and him was more than safe when he hit his brakes surely? It would have initially been the safe stopping distance for travelling at 70mph, with an ever increasing stopping distance the longer you followed him. :)

As an aside, id suggest banging on your brakes when you suddenly spot a speed camera is seen as a good reason to hit the brakes by half the bloody drivers out there. Down here in God’s waiting room they do it even when they aren’t doing the limit.

I didn't assume anything, and had a hunch that you would reply to me like you did. I agree with you.

I got a message put on my rear number plate that says "IF YOU CAN READ THIS YOU'RE TOO F*CKING CLOSE!"


Can't stand people driving up my arse!!

And you may have a point there... ;)

If you demand the ice, why do you find it annoying when it hits you in your outraged face?

Amazing how many people do bang their brakes on when they see a speed camera.

Surely they have already hit you if the message is on your number plate? Have a bigger one on your rear windscreen then they don't need to get that close.:D

Road Closed signs.

Half the time they aren't anywhere close to where the actual road is closed, leaving a last-minute decision of whether you'll find a dead end or can get to your turn off/destination before it's closed. They need a sign that goes with it saying 50m/100m/200m etc... gets right on my tits, especially in the mornings where everyone is doing the same thing.

Recycle your cardboard box to save the planet. Tick.

Then get into your gas guzzling 4x4 and take your precious kids 3/4 mile to school, clogging up the roads because neither of you can be arsed to walk.

That's some grade A stalking.

:D

That a macbook air cost $999 so with 7% tax is £774. Even if the tax was 20% like the UK it's still £871. Someones profiteering.

The tax man (people) and the delivery company

Over £100 to deliver one ??? They charge me delivery in top. Even if the Americans had the same sales tax rate it’s bloody expensive

Import taxes, VAT, handling and delivery costs (to get it into the country).

You assumed I was in the same lane as the driver who slammed on his brakes and not in the inside lane minding my own business till someone trying to avoid said c*nt swerved in to my lane nearly causing a major RTA.

With you on this.

Does the USA not have import duties ? I allowed for vat. Shipping must be the same from China to Uk as the USA. I think Apple are simply creaming it

We maybe talking apples and oranges here (no pun intended), but I recently ordered a new iPad online from Apple and it came to us direct from China.

There was no obvious additional charges beyond stand taxes and shipping as far as I recall.

Edit: I just found the receipt email... shipping was free.

The Daily Express... we only like immigrants if they're good at tennis

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E-y0W-BWEAUPAGL.jpg

Apple prices outside the US are always more expensive , in any country. Just like a load of other products.
In my experience the US is the cheapest place on the planet to buy cars for example, or clothes, household electronics, in fact most high street goods. It’s never a good idea to compare retail prices with those in the US. Just gets the blood up.

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House two door down from us has just sold and today there was an Aston Martin DB11 parked outside. Apparently it belongs to the Estate Agent handling the sale.

Talk about taking the piss...

A mate once fed half his kebab to a horse in Dublin.

That went down well.

How was it's shit afterwards though?

Could well have caused colic and killed the horse

The circle of life.

He gave it Ivermectin after that ,kills the kebab virus.

Look on the bright side, it could have ended up as beef burgers in Tesco…..

Drivers with no awareness of other drivers

Shirley you mean Realtor?
(Made up American word, probably)

Surely you would want to use a successful agent to act for you in a sale ? Obviously you live in a very smart neighbourhood, so the car is commensurate, but thanks for letting us know. Selhurst Celtic will be along shortly.

That is what the horse owner was shouting after us as we were running down the road.

Something about having to sit behind it's back end the next day..

Go and have a lie down. It will pass.

We just live in a suburbia tract home, nothing too fancy.

Most "realtors" (for strawberry mivi) around here don't drive overly fancy cars, maybe a Mercedes or a Lexus tops.

I MISS SELHURST CELTIC

So do I - the incorrigible old scamp.