"Whilst Clarke may considerably piss me off, my dislike of him pales into insignificance compared with my permanent and utter contempt for you. Got It ? "
You're welcome here. I don't understand why you'd want to come to a new site, ignore the rules, deliberately antagonise the regulars, and just generally insult people. Some of the threads you've started have been genuinely interesting, but yes, you need to calm down a bit.
Not everything is a direct challenge - currently you're at us like a budgie at a mirror.
Choppers comes from a high perch of clerical compassion and awesome intellectual capacity. Occasionally he will bend down and reach out to poor lost souls like me, and gently point us back in the right direction. It's core gospel values. He's walkin the talk bro.
Please don't anybody set him correct about me on any of the things he's getting wrong. It's so much fun to watch!
Ok. I've been sitting here, biting my keyboard, trying not to correct IH.
Not easy to convey this without the entire context - perhaps it would be enough to explain it entails lace - but anyway, Lyda was priceless in Eccles ...
Pendragon in the Hell thread about Idiot Architecture,ventures a thought about over-rating creativity:
"To put it in practical terms, the designer, and especially the architect, should be aware of the difference between incremental change and excremental change."
Much obliged to Nick Tamen in the MW discussion in The Styx for:
"My grandmother always insisted that Jesus obviously had a great sense of humor. Otherwise, she said, he never would have gotten so many dinner invitations."
Nenya has the right idea about wine-tasting in the British thread in AS:
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... A couple of the people there are wine buffs and talk about the grape, the vintage, the nose, the aftertastes. The rest of us, like Mr Nen and me, go "It's white, from Sainsbury's." Sometimes I give the blurb off the back of the bottle to try to sound erudite.
The England team needs to realise that you have to get the ball towards the opponent's goal, and not just pass it around the half way line. A few old-fashioned long balls into the area would at least give Harry Kane the opportunity to flop to the ground and win a penalty.
I'm reminded of a cartoon of two statues which have been magically brought to life. One is saying to the other: "Now it's my turn: you hold the pigeon down, and I'll crap on it".
* A good rule of thumb is that if the phrase "unmarked mass graves" (plural) can accurately be applied to a situation, those involved may not be completely trustworthy.
@Crœsos being painfully accurate with regard to Residential Schools and the RCC.
Dafyd giving advice to new poster (who seems to make Martin intelligible in comparison) on the surreal 'Gold Standard' thread he started:
Your train of thought looks interesting but you really need to start it at a station where your intended readers can get onto it and then make sure you go through all the stations on the way.
British tradition. Work out how long it takes to drive somewhere in ideal conditions, leave five minutes late, then sit fuming in traffic deciding why it it's not your fault.
My theory about amateur sleuths like Miss Marple is that they do the murders then frame some other sap. Similarly, there's an undetected serial killer in Midsomer who pins his crimes on a series of other people.
My theory about amateur sleuths like Miss Marple is that they do the murders then frame some other sap. Similarly, there's an undetected serial killer in Midsomer who pins his crimes on a series of other people.
And never ever go on a holiday with Hercule Poirot.
Sandemaniac in AS on the subject of styes (at least that's what he says he's talking about):
... it's not usually me that's woken up by something engorged, purple and throbbing, though when it finally popped it was equally satisfying (that sentence is now, I note, even more innuendo-laden than I intended. I consider it a job well done).
North East Quine on differing work habits at Chez North East:
"Few things annoy him as much as finally completing a plan, complete with bullet-point lists and diagrams, only to discover I'd already finished whatever it was. Bonus annoyance points if he'd been researching the best screwdriver, and I'd used a teaspoon handle."
I'm pretty sure that right now if Biden spoke out in favour of motherhood and apple pie Fox would have talking heads calling it an attack on men and cattle ranchers within the hour
@KarlLB explains why he's not a big fan of singing the Psalms:
I do find the whole
This line | goes like this | and finishes like that
But this time | we sing so many syllables to this section and it seems to go on for a very long time ' and who knows why it's like that, not me that's for certain guv'nor, and how am I meant to know what these lines and apostrophes mean | Thank God it's changed.
This time | o- | nly one Syllable
Is sung to that bit | but this time it's lots again Oh God I've lost the will to live please shoot me now | how many more verses?
David loved Anglican Chant (indeed, he composed a few chants himself), and his enthusiasm eventually* rubbed off on me, and I enjoy a good bash at a psalm or two.
* it took a wee while: I never thought I'd get the hang of it at first.
There's a way around that Leorning Cniht. I buy socks from a range the has many different colours. My favourite combination is one dark purple and one bright pink. When I volunteered at a school the 5 to 7 year olds used to take a peek at my socks and run away giggling. I think the older kids just thought I was disorganised and politely ignored me.
Being a Church Musician, David always wore black socks, but of course, they were never exactly the same black, and I got really fed up of playing Pelmanism with them on laundry day. He solved the problem by getting a load of black socks which had coloured toes and heels (which obviously weren't on show), so all I had to do was match the colours.
Being a Church Musician, David always wore black socks, but of course, they were never exactly the same black, and I got really fed up of playing Pelmanism with them on laundry day. He solved the problem by getting a load of black socks which had coloured toes and heels (which obviously weren't on show), so all I had to do was match the colours.
Washing machines hate technology that is smarter than they are and do their best to destroy it.[
All machines, and especially computers, have got it in for humans because we've got souls and imagination and they have neither. They really resent us. That's why they are ever seeking the chance to get their revenge.
There's a way around that Leorning Cniht. I buy socks from a range the has many different colours. My favourite combination is one dark purple and one bright pink. When I volunteered at a school the 5 to 7 year olds used to take a peek at my socks and run away giggling. I think the older kids just thought I was disorganised and politely ignored me.
Back in the 80s (well, that's my excuse, anyway) I had a habit of wearing socks in dayglo colours. I bought red and green pairs, and would then habitually wear a green sock on my starboard foot and a red sock on my port foot.
Deemed worthy of the Quotes file during our Zoom social on Friday:
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I once gave Ma and Pa Reckondwyth "The Joy of Sex." My father's comment was, "That's all well and good if you don't have to get up for work the next morning."
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"Whilst Clarke may considerably piss me off, my dislike of him pales into insignificance compared with my permanent and utter contempt for you. Got It ? "
Deakin to Graves. Between the Lines
Don't know what the "great wave" is, but love Facepalm Sunday. I imagine Jesus celebrates it quite often when he deals with us.
Every Sunday is Facepalm Sunday to Jesus, I'll warrant. And yet he loves us and died for us. Greater love has no man.
Well, I'm not sure a celibate priest would be adept in the ways of lingerie either. Which could explain things.
"To put it in practical terms, the designer, and especially the architect, should be aware of the difference between incremental change and excremental change."
"My grandmother always insisted that Jesus obviously had a great sense of humor. Otherwise, she said, he never would have gotten so many dinner invitations."
Nen, I want to go to wine-tastings with you.
in a purgatory thread initially about The Brainwashing of my Dad* but with a slight detour into pets and heaven, made me hoot with laughter.
*A film, I understand, not my actual Dad.
@Crœsos being painfully accurate with regard to Residential Schools and the RCC.
Karl gets it right.
And never ever go on a holiday with Hercule Poirot.
Oo er, Matron!
"Few things annoy him as much as finally completing a plan, complete with bullet-point lists and diagrams, only to discover I'd already finished whatever it was. Bonus annoyance points if he'd been researching the best screwdriver, and I'd used a teaspoon handle."
David loved Anglican Chant (indeed, he composed a few chants himself), and his enthusiasm eventually* rubbed off on me, and I enjoy a good bash at a psalm or two.
* it took a wee while: I never thought I'd get the hang of it at first.
Are they also grumpy singletons with a grudge against happily-coupled socks?
Job done.
Indeed. Only priests have real black socks. https://youtu.be/wx8-mysJG2s
Back in the 80s (well, that's my excuse, anyway) I had a habit of wearing socks in dayglo colours. I bought red and green pairs, and would then habitually wear a green sock on my starboard foot and a red sock on my port foot.
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The best nickname.
What happens to them when the heart gets broken?