I use one too.....

Yeah, but only to grout the bathroom.

:)


Tried to post a link to Ronnie Corbett sketch about Apple and blackberry but didn’t work

Says something for the solidity of them.

My Mrs.

Christ....that’s three, then.

The Guardian, on a daily basis. I only read this smug arse paper on line now. They plead for subscriptions. They can f*ck off. So far behind every curve that it’s laughable, so desperate to be on trend, treat the working class as an anthropological study, 100 year old music critics, aching to be relevant, journalists all desperate to crowbar their own sad, dull experiences into their articles, don’t trust their readers to comment on ‘controversial’ subjects, but you can say what you like about recipes, handbags and villas in Provence. They actually published an article today on ‘What to wear to your vaccine appointment’. C*nts.

Preventing comments on certain articles is something all the papers now do. By all accounts, the Telegraph doctors the number of 'likes' if the comment doesn't fit their agenda.

I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve had comments removed on the BBC and Guardian sites.

Well perhaps you should be more polite.

Oh, I’ve tried that. It’s generally the opinion that gets you chopped, not the way it’s expressed. And sometimes it just appears random. I was a reader for decades, but it’s disappeared right up its own arse.

I do know what you mean about The Guardian. It has gone downhill. And that was a very polite reply to my pompous message!

From Stella's description it sounds like The Evening Standard - the paper for all Londoners.

I wore some tracksuit bottoms with a baggy T-shirt with a pair of $39.99 trainers from Costco.

From what I read on here the Morning Star, the People's Daily at your local Tennis club in Sanderstead, Coulsdon and on ;)

Nah. The Champagne Socialists thinking the world was built for them, and everyone lives their lifestyle and aspire to it. Stella's comments about Provence sum that up.

The property pages in the Standard were just adverts for people who could get a million pound mortgage, and that was 25 years ago. I remember them looking, albeit briefly, into South Norwood to see if it was an up and comer for gentrification - and describing the poor quality housing stock.

They treated London like a group of villages, and assumed their readership all left the city at the weekends for the second homes.

None of these sites deserve a comments section. They are the same as celebs, journalists, talkshite hosts etc having a twitter (or somesuch) page, and banning anyone that disagrees with what they are saying (or even calling the race card). It's loud, opinionated people who like the sound of their own voice, who show their insecurity and lack of emotional intelligence when called up to explain their opinions.

They are right to block anyone being outright offensive. But the drop their dummies when people are being reasonable and polite in their responses.

They just want to preach to the converted.

If you commented on one of those BBC pages dedicated to the best Chelsea vs Liverpool 11, and you asked why the BBC only ran those when the big teams were playing each other - you would likely get your post removed. That's just censorship.

The Archers. Found myself listening to an episode today for the first time. F*cking hell. Do people listen to this shite regularly? The episode appeared to be about addiction, with one of the yokels admitting to his crackhead past. I’d suggest a prescription for the rest of the characters, to liven it up a tad.

Was it on your wireless?

PMSL !!!:D

With good reason, since when are chelsea a 'big team'?

I think they have a similar 'online' business model to the mail. Swap strawberries and chocolate and it's still all cream.

I like cream.

We all do, Peter.

My man :love:

I still think the Guardian is as good as it gets for free football journalism in this country.

Everything else though, agreed.

Do they take it in turns?

No idea what they were doing. Not earning money from driving cabs, and probably complaining about it.

Me to. Thought Disraeli Gears was a great album

CDs that are too big and won’t fit into my CD rack. Springsteen and Fleet Foxes - I’m looking at you. Cream are OK...

Of course, you're all wrong.

Cue a hipster to sneer something about "what's a cd!?"

What's a CD ?

Some years ago a bloke at work used to get a taxi from East Croydon station to the office about half a mile around the corner. Of course the Black Cabbies used to moan like buggery at him, because they would then have to go to the back of the queue at the rank back at East Croydon.

But if there was only three of them, in your case, it doesn't really make too much sense.

Black cab drivers moaning?

Surely not.:)

Many years ago saw a black cabbie fling all the coins in a tip back at the passenger.

I have two words for you. "Barney" and "Ronay".

The bloke I used to work with would tip them 20p :eek: One of them called him a rotten tight bastard and he reported him to the Hackney Licence authority people. He was a c***.

I’ve never really understood concept of tipping a self employed cabby, I usually do but they are over charging Danny Dyer wannabes

You're not a hipster so that's just a sneer.

Used to wear them, does that count ?

Black cab drivers don’t set their own fares.

I'm sorry, I didn't realise you were that old, I shall speak a bit louder from now on.

I waited 15 minutes for one to arrive that would take. In that time, two of them had not got a customer. They could have done my job and got back, and still been first in line for the next job.

Thank you. That is wonderful.

It used to be in NY if you drank in a bar in which the owner served, you weren't expected to leave him a tip. Let's face it, he's already making a profit on each beer he's selling. The reason tipping was introduced was that the owners never paid their workers a living wage and they made up for it by allowing them to throw a few drinks away on the house in order to obtain tips. In other words the customer has to make up the wages of the employee because the employer is a cheap bastard.

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Tipping was actually imported into the US from the UK, and boy did they hate it.In the 1890s, the Washington Post pronounced tipping to be "One of the most insidious and one of the most malignant evils". And then there was a fabulous anti-tipping tract called “The Itching Palm” which was written by a Mr William R. Scott in 1916 – ““Tipping, and the aristocratic idea it exemplifies, is what we left Europe to escape”. Tipping was not, he argued, merely an indication of a morally corrupt society, it was positively dangerous to freedom – “Every tip given in the United States”, he wrote, “is a blow at our experiment in democracy”.

Then there was the Anti-Tipping Society of America, formed in 1904, growing to a membership of 100,000 members, all of whom signed pledges not to tip anyone for a year.

And five years later the pressure had paid off, and Washington itself was one of six states to pass an anti-tipping law, (laws which were eventually repealed in 1926 because they could not be made to hold up in court).

It was, and I was reading an interesting article about a bar owner in 1890's NY who decided to recruit barmaid from London. It was met with uproar by the Bar Associations all male members who didn't want female competition. They tried using the Alien Contract Labour Law to try and prevent it.
Apparently according to newspaper reports the move was a success with the proprietor opening up three more bars all equipped with cockney barmaids. A newspaper quote from the owner said, " the drinking public takes very kindly to the barmaid. Drinkers," he declared, "seem to find an additional excellence in being served by fair hands, and the bar receipts have more than doubled since the barmaids assumed charge of the counter."
As to the barmaid themselves, they pronounced Americans more sociable, and I regret to add, more courteous than Englishmen. "They like to chat to us while they drink," the fair ones say.

All very informative chaps. Thanks.

Returning home on the M4 on Sunday. The M4 was closed before the M25, for miles out there were signs informing everyone of this. Then, with signs indicating that the outside three lanes were closing, we were told to move into the inside lane. While many did, hundreds and hundreds did not. Did these people not believe that the M4 was closed, or are they just so self-entitled and selfish. I hope their rabbits die.

The 3 lanes eventually close. It's pathetic the way everyone causes a huge tailback by getting over half a mile early. I shot down the outside and it merges with no drama. Feel free to sit queueing for an additional half hour though.

I think I will just put this here...

https://www.bbc.com/reel/video/p09fv...or-the-british

I have it saved for our pedants.

Having gotten it from the internet, I realize that many BBSers are actually ultracrepidatorion mumpsimi that need to skeddadle off and apply some flexibility cream to that stiif upper lip.

Well not wishing to make a big thing of it, its because of you lot that there is a tailback in the first place. Have you got a rabbit? :supergrin:

Lol no I don't. I do drive that M4 M25 junction regularly though. Even when the M4 isn't shut there is a huge queue to join the M25 that can be avoided by staying on the M4 until it's genuinely time to come off. I don't see what the panic is about. :supergrin:

Let's call it evens. As long as we have the Palace at heart.

:p

It is, isn't it. :p

You do know the rules of the BBS, don't you ? You could face a ban for being conciliatory here.

Personally, I think those who wait to the last opportunity to cut in are selfish bastards that are a major contributor to traffic jams where lane reductions happen.

I'm with you Dicky.

Yep

That last minute on the washing machine timer ...... it's about 6 minutes long yeah?

Our old one was like that. Our new one is almost the opposite - the last 2 minutes on the timer take about 10 seconds.

Always pisses me off. Apparently the timer doesn't include the spin.

That applies to most downloads, updates and installs etc. The last 1% when the computer has already supposedly got to 99% is nearly as long as what went before.

I guess we are forgetting that the 99% is the first part of the process, and the 1% is setting up the kick in the teeth which is the actual install.

Not sure what the 99% on Netflix is all about, though.

Children either slam doors of leave them open, there does not seem to be any other response.

Lights only have on switches and it's a common belief that the fairies wash around the sink and put things away. ..... Then there are the kids :)

Yes, I have 3 children including the wife.

Booked tickets to go to the cinema to see Peter Rabbit 2. 2 adults and 1 child.

46 ******* QUID! bloody Nora

Wow! Which cinema is that? The Vue in my town charges £4.99 a person for any film at anytime.

If it’s any consolation, my kids really enjoyed it (and I thought it was alright too!).

Yeah, bet it's worth every penny.

I tried some Pickled Onion Monster Munch yesterday and I get what posters here mean. Tastes all wrong. Why mess with a good thing?

But I still ate them all though.

If its any consolation, we went to see it at Vue for just under £18 incl booking fees for the same number of people

It’s at Everyman in CP triangle. Christ. I know they need to try and make up for lost time but come on!

Better be a bloody good film…

Great cinema. But the burgers will cost you...

Went to a Bar & Grill last night and they didn't have menus but a QR Code on the table that linked you to the menu. Good idea I'm thinking... lot of places are doing this post COVID.

Anyway, I scan it, and it takes me to Messenger with a link to their website with the menu. I didn't think too much of it at the time, but today I have had two messages from them on Messenger. First with a "special offer" for a free pretzel (!) next visit, and a second with a link to a survey.

Both duly ignored, but find it rather annoying that they have taken advantage of me (the customer) by gaining access to me personally. I appreciate these places are hurting and and trying everything to regain customers, but this does not feel like the right way of going about it.

I also appreciate I can delete of block them from sending future messages, but....

Stopped at a bar in an American airport the other week. Had time for a quick pint, but when I went to the bar the counter was lined with Ipads which you ordered your food or drink off. Fair enough. We were warned by Tomorrows World in 1977 that this would happen. But what they didn't tell us was that a pint of I.P.A (16oz) would cost $20.63. You expect to pay silly money at airports but that was completely extracting the piss. Needless to say the poor Ipad took some verbal before I departed the lounge, as thirsty as I'd gone in.

How does fingering a communal iPad help with COVID prevention?

Good question. I didn’t think of that

It doesn't.

It took me a while, but I seem to remember now seeing something like this at Houston Airport about 4 or 5 years ago. They had one at each table or seating area.

Seemed too much trouble at the time and I gave them a miss. If that was the prices for the beer, I'm glad I did.

It doesn't, same as when you press the button thingy on the hand dryer in the bogs after washing your hands. Co-vid has been an excuse to make a lot of these gadgets become mainstream and I've a feeling they're here to stay. Cuts down the wage bill.

Hopefully I’ve said this before but -
Standing in a queue to buy a cup of tea while the waitress makes cups of coffee.
First measure the coffee into the cup on a handle thing.
Then use a plastic thing to tamper the coffee in place.
Fix the cup thing into a machine.
Wait whilst it SLOWLY trickles the weather through.
Add milk.
Do something wizzy with a steam pipe.
Get some chocolate powder and sprinkle it onto the coffee froth.
Repeat for the next cup.

2 teas?
Grab 2 teabags
Put into 2 cups.
Add hot water.
Serve.

Pretentious coffee drinking walkers.

Coffee - scoop of powder in the polystyrene cup, add boiling water, a scoop of sugar and some milk and you are done in 30 seconds. No pissing around waiting for it to 'brew'.

#teacunst ;)

I never drink anything out of a polystyrene cup

#polystyrenewankers

:D

You can make some interesting things with polystyrene.

Houses painted grey.

I not one for violence but I would happily punch the “don’t hold
Back on me Peleton” girl if it meant I would never have to hear that ******* phrase again

I believe the correct term is a "Barista" and it seems like you've not found a very good one.

I can imagine a line of people like in "Airplane". I'll be the one with the baseball bat.

Frying pan for me please

Extra large pink strap on for me.

Possibly, but this isn't just restricted to coffee shops.
Every cafe or tea-shop (LOL) uses the same equipment, forced to have one installed by the all the coffee wamkers.

Maybe the question should be if they go to all that trouble to make a cup of coffee why can't they do it with tea and make it properly with fresh boiled water, loose leaf tea and a pot.

If someone used to write that on the landing cards we used to use I'd ask them to explain exactly what they did and then reply 'so you make coffee in a cafe then '.

Nice job where you get to belittle people.

Wow, I bet that made you feel important.

Glad you have realised how unsuitable this person is to be both judge and jury

A neighbour's dog. One day . . .