The observation and asides thread

magentaflame · Post by **magentaflame** » Wed Mar 08, 2017 3:53 pm

I think i saw that on. "Horrible Histories"

Hmmph. I learnt something.

Post by **spot** » Thu Mar 09, 2017 12:39 pm

There's an unreconstructed Lancashire thread on today's Guardian, well written, I recommend it.

Pies are always fully encased in pastry, none of this slop with a crust only on top. They can be meat and potato or steak. If you’re vegetarian you can have a chicken pie, I suppose. You’re never more than 100 feet from a pie shop in Wigan.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... igan-kebab

magentaflame · Post by **magentaflame** » Tue Mar 14, 2017 1:31 pm

Ummm?...... Commonwealth games. The Gold Coast isnt a city . Its a strip of coast. Full of jap tourists. And NO! Melbourne does not want the 2022 games. Were broke already down here.!

magentaflame · Post by **magentaflame** » Tue Mar 14, 2017 1:35 pm

[QUOTE=spot;1507389]There's an unreconstructed Lancashire thread on today's Guardian, well written, I recommend it.

Pies are always fully encased in pastry, none of this slop with a crust only on top. They can be meat and potato or steak. If you’re vegetarian you can have a chicken pie, I suppose. You’re never more than 100 feet from a pie shop in Wigan.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... igan-kebab

Agree. And none of this fancy criss cross pastry strips on top and calling it an apple pie. If its not encased its a bloody tart !!!!

magentaflame · Post by **magentaflame** » Tue Mar 14, 2017 7:12 pm

Once i was "a people", then i was "a citizen" then i was "a consumer".......now im "an economical unit".

How did i find this out? Well there is a suggestion going round at the moment for a three or four day working week. That would take us from the longest hours working people to a people who have more of a balanced work life people.

But there were discussions about "the economical units" failing to keep up with something to do with wealth outcomes etc. Then a news reader explained that it wasnt to do with numbers but people. People are now economic units.

Thats disgusting! And i thought juat being a number was bad enough. Now im just a mechanism in a factory set of economics.

We're becoming less active and socialised since Auatralia did the turn around from the eight hour day....we work longer hours, sleep less,and eat badly. We need our 8 hours rest, 8 hours play and 8 hours work again. Be the people the world envied and loved.

Post by **spot** » Wed Mar 15, 2017 8:15 am

I'm trying to understand how an "artist", whatever that means in this context, can have put up a traffic red triangle road sign in Finsbury Park warning of Jews and then not understood why this was considered in poor taste.

No, I'm not making it up.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/201 ... ted-police

Bruv · Post by **Bruv** » Wed Mar 15, 2017 9:33 am

spot;1507548 wrote: I'm trying to understand how an "artist", whatever that means in this context, can have put up a traffic red triangle road sign in Finsbury Park warning of Jews and then not understood why this was considered in poor taste.

No, I'm not making it up.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/201 ... ted-police

Who was the 'artist' upsetting with the signs depicting a cat or a woman pulling a shopping trolley or a man pulling a wheelchair ?

Taken in combination with his other 'works' it is not as bad taste as in isolation.

magentaflame · Post by **magentaflame** » Thu Mar 16, 2017 3:58 pm

Can you be sexually molested on a cricket pitch?

Just watching the highlights of the test in India. Apart from the thigh bruising of the batsman catching a ball between them...... is the wicket keeper allowed to physically touch the batsman to retrieve the ball before it falls to the ground?

Post by **spot** » Thu Mar 16, 2017 6:07 pm

It's cricket, retrieving the ball before it falls to the ground is the whole point. Killing the batsman in the process isn't an infringement.

Post by **spot** » Fri Mar 17, 2017 9:57 am

...died when his iPhone charger made contact with the water at his home in Ealing, west London.

A coroner ruled his death was accidental and plans to send a report to Apple about taking action to prevent future deaths.

Man dies charging iPhone while in the bath - BBC News

What???

What has that to do with Apple!

For the last hundred years every child in Britain has been told over and over, don't put portable mains electricity in bathrooms. No electric fires, no hairdriers, no radio, nothing nothing nothing. It will kill you, you will die, it is lethal when water touches a bare live wire and you're soaking wet.

And this chap "plugged his charger into an extension cord from the hallway and rested it on his chest"? That's nothing to do with Apple, that's a Darwin Award entry, the article should win the All-England Stupid Death Of The Year Cup with room to spare just for bringing an extension cord near a filled bath.

And Apple gets blamed? APPLE?

The world's gone mad.

If there must be a written warning, let it be engraved on the face of every mains socket: "Connect anything from here to water you're touching and you will die". The reason it's not engraved there is that it's the best-known fact already.

Bruv · Post by **Bruv** » Fri Mar 17, 2017 11:51 am

I agree......................He was saving time.....but lost any he had left.

Post by **spot** » Fri Mar 17, 2017 12:06 pm

I'm amazed there's residences still without residual-current circuit breakers in this country. I'd book into the nearest hotel rather than stay in one.

Wandrin · Post by **Wandrin** » Fri Mar 17, 2017 12:27 pm

spot;1507603 wrote:

What???

What has that to do with Apple!

For the last hundred years every child in Britain has been told over and over, don't put portable mains electricity in bathrooms. No electric fires, no hairdriers, no radio, nothing nothing nothing. It will kill you, you will die, it is lethal when water touches a bare live wire and you're soaking wet.

And this chap "plugged his charger into an extension cord from the hallway and rested it on his chest"? That's nothing to do with Apple, that's a Darwin Award entry, the article should win the All-England Stupid Death Of The Year Cup with room to spare just for bringing an extension cord near a filled bath.

And Apple gets blamed? APPLE?

The world's gone mad.

.

And yet I can bet with absolute surety that one or more of the Microsoft-leaning PC magazines in the US will have an article with a headline something like: Are Apple chargers dangerous or even fatal? The following article will spout nonsense comparing Apple products to the Samsung disaster. It has become so predictable as to be almost humorous.

magentaflame · Post by **magentaflame** » Sun Mar 19, 2017 3:12 pm

Definately a "heres your sign "moment.

magentaflame · Post by **magentaflame** » Sun Mar 19, 2017 3:38 pm

Was filling out my application for my security lisence (apart from the cost of it all eg. National police and fingerprint check is $179.00 and the application itself is $447.00 ) i was having a discussion last night about one of the questions on the application. "In the past five years have you been treated for psychiatric or psychological problemss"

Is it just me or is that a very open ended non medical non scientific question? Normally when asked a question like that it has eg like stress or depression etc......... whats a "problem"?..... what if you are a complete nutter and dont have a problem with it??

magentaflame · Post by **magentaflame** » Sun Mar 19, 2017 3:49 pm

Just a heads up!

It was 'World naked bike riding day ' yesterday. Sorry you missed it!

Although given the time difference some of you may still be able to take part.

Dont forget to wear your helmet though!

Bruv · Post by **Bruv** » Sun Mar 19, 2017 4:09 pm

magentaflame;1507643 wrote: Just a heads up!

It was 'World naked bike riding day ' yesterday. Sorry you missed it!

Although given the time difference some of you may still be able to take part.

Dont forget to wear your helmet though!

I wont go anywhere without my helmet.

magentaflame · Post by **magentaflame** » Mon Mar 20, 2017 2:06 pm

Ive noticed men are very attached to their helmets. But then again i suppose Im pretty attached to mine.

magentaflame · Post by **magentaflame** » Mon Mar 20, 2017 2:15 pm

Although its more like a hood really. I wonder how i should respond the next time i walk into a bank and told to remove it?

Post by **spot** » Tue Mar 21, 2017 3:51 pm

spot;1504799 wrote: I'm delighted to say that my phone did update to Android 7 (Nougat) before the New Year - it was announced at lunchtime on New Year's Eve and installed itself before midnight. Well done OnePlus.

And twice since. I'm currently on the latest 7.1.1 release with the March 1st patches included, which is spiffing.

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Post by **spot** » Wed Mar 22, 2017 4:12 pm

Men may soon be able to measure their own sperm count and quality at home, using a smartphone app developed by scientists.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/201 ... ty-at-home

They knew what they were doing when they included a vibrate mode, then.

In the study, published in the journal Science Translational Medicine, the research team recruited 10 volunteers with no formal training

If it needed training, the human race would have died out long since.

magentaflame · Post by **magentaflame** » Wed Mar 22, 2017 4:13 pm

Post by **spot** » Wed Mar 22, 2017 4:20 pm

Let's just say that current laboratory assessment is, if we discard technical terminology, little more than a taste test. One can only applaud the innovation this new process offers.

magentaflame · Post by **magentaflame** » Wed Mar 22, 2017 5:51 pm

Nope, still dont get it. You walk into a clinic, cum into a sterile jar (ha just made myself laugh) they analyze it, show you what youre squigglies are doing on a computer screen and bobs your uncle...... home job now though.? How do you garantee a sterile enviroment?

Post by **spot** » Wed Mar 22, 2017 5:55 pm

magentaflame;1507721 wrote: home job now though.? How do you garantee a sterile enviroment?

That's what vets are for.

Post by **spot** » Sun Apr 02, 2017 3:28 am

Liu Department of yuan regulation, the character is, a cloud word is.

Salty people. Less pull out first. Nandu, for the Shi Yu history.

When the tiger Gao Qi for the phase, the right to the right, the number of anti-words, on the court, with the knowledge of Zhunwu Jun Jiedushi.

After the Ministry of Lang, the Department of the river, sitting in the exclusion.

Afterwards. Tianxing yuan, Chao to the North, I do not know the end.

Bruv · Post by **Bruv** » Sun Apr 02, 2017 3:47 am

spot;1508036 wrote: ................................ I do not know the end.

That's alright with me..............never mind.

Post by **spot** » Sun Apr 02, 2017 3:56 am

Inscrutable, I thought.

Bruv · Post by **Bruv** » Sun Apr 02, 2017 4:14 am

spot;1508038 wrote: Inscrutable, I thought.

Undeniably.........

Post by **spot** » Sun Apr 02, 2017 5:23 am

What in God's name persuaded me to buy Lemon-and-Ginger teabags last time I did an online Asda shop!

Bruv · Post by **Bruv** » Sun Apr 02, 2017 6:50 am

spot;1508045 wrote: What in God's name persuaded me to buy Lemon-and-Ginger teabags last time I did an online Asda shop!

Don't blame the almighty for your lack of taste.

Post by **spot** » Tue Apr 04, 2017 5:36 am

Playing Joey BadBottomDollarDollar on my stereophonic high fidelity boombox before the noon watershed has definitely messed my day up. I may need to hang with my homies later to refocus my mind.

FourPart · Post by **FourPart** » Tue Apr 04, 2017 3:52 pm

spot;1508045 wrote: What in God's name persuaded me to buy Lemon-and-Ginger teabags last time I did an online Asda shop!

I actually quite like Lemon & Ginger tea - although I do have to be in the mood for it.

Post by **spot** » Thu Apr 06, 2017 4:11 am

On Tuesday night English cooked dinner for his family – a 1980s rural Kiwi classic: tinned spaghetti and pineapple pizza. Later, he posted a series of photos of his home-spun efforts on Facebook.

The photographs, blurry and un-retouched, caused a culinary uproar on Facebook and Twitter, with some Kiwis declaring they couldn’t vote for a prime minister who so wantonly bastardised Italian cuisine.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/ ... ous-recipe

How could anyone disapprove of a Prime Minister like Bill English. What a guy.

magentaflame · Post by **magentaflame** » Thu Apr 06, 2017 3:21 pm

In Aus its called wagging. I dont get it. A fine for taking your child out of school? I didnt realise there was a broken contract to be fined over.

But in other news, here we go again...... now we're going off to Syria to fight? Looks like saudi is going to achieve their idea of an enormous islamic collection of states. But if china and russia are on Bashad's side whats that war going to look like.

Someone else said WW3 by instalments. I tend to agree. I guess its more managable that way.

Post by **spot** » Thu Apr 06, 2017 3:25 pm

magentaflame;1508202 wrote: But in other news, here we go again...... now we're going off to Syria to fight?

You'll be as welcome there as you were with the Turks, I reckon.

The Australian gentleman who brought up the subject of ANZAC Day a couple of years ago, Scott McIntyre, looks like he had to go as far as Singapore to get re-employed. He should have had a round of applause instead for straight talking.

magentaflame · Post by **magentaflame** » Thu Apr 06, 2017 4:10 pm

Hmmm.... already been told not to travel to gallipoli for commemorations. Intelligence of a terrorist attack apparently. Now if i know Australians and their attitudes toward authority and being told where and when they should go......im tipping the factthat their forefathers had much worse travel arrangements and threats at their destination......it aint gunna phase em. I mean come on...slaughter by gasing, bullets and bombs....and if you survived that? You were rewarded with the western front. Our forefathers would be turning in their graves if we were afraid of a maybe suicide bomber.

I also dont understand your reference to a Scott Mcyntire?

But on a much lighter and happier note for the world..... the Night Parrot is back! Last heard and seen in 1912 recently its been heard and sighted. How bloody wonderful!!!! Now we just have to find a tiger and all will be well.

Post by **spot** » Thu Apr 06, 2017 4:48 pm

magentaflame;1508205 wrote: I also dont understand your reference to a Scott Mcyntire?

https://newmatilda.com/2016/04/11/sbs-d ... ay-tweets/

magentaflame · Post by **magentaflame** » Fri Apr 07, 2017 3:12 pm

spot;1508206 wrote: https://newmatilda.com/2016/04/11/sbs-d ... ay-tweets/

Ah now im with ya. "Football journalist"......... says it all really. Lol

magentaflame · Post by **magentaflame** » Fri Apr 07, 2017 3:14 pm

spot;1508204 wrote: You'll be as welcome there as you were with the Turks, I reckon.

Kind of funny really. Half hour after my statment they bombed the airport. That happens a lot.

magentaflame · Post by **magentaflame** » Fri Apr 07, 2017 7:17 pm

Actually, this Russian/ American stand off is as entertaining and excitingas the Cuban missle crisis......... Trump is shirtfronting Putin. Move the furniture out of the way..... Its on.lol

Post by **spot** » Sat Apr 08, 2017 4:47 am

spot;1507603 wrote: that's a Darwin Award entry, the article should win the All-England Stupid Death Of The Year Cup with room to spare

Stone the crows...

M4 death crash: Woman, 66, killed trying to save dog - BBC News

eta:

“A dog belonging to a female driver of a white VW Golf vehicle is believed to have entered the carriageway followed by the driver of the VW Golf vehicle, police said.

“A Ford Transit vehicle has collided with the 66-year-old female who was pronounced deceased at the scene. A police family liaison officer has been appointed and is supporting the next of kin.

“The motorway was closed for approximately five hours while police carried out initial investigations and recovered the vehicles. South Wales police would like to thank the people affected by the closure for their patience and understanding.

Connors’ husband and son, who were jailed last year following a high-profile modern slavery case, are applying for a temporary release from prison on compassionate grounds so they can attend her funeral.

Patrick Joseph Connors, 60, his son Patrick Dean Connors, 40, and nephew William Connors, 37, were all convicted of requiring a person to perform forced or compulsory labour between 2010 and 2013.

The men were found guilty of keeping their two victims – one of whom was identified as Michael Hughes, 47 – in “appalling conditions and paying them as little as £5. The judge at Cardiff crown court said the case could “only be described as modern-day slavery.

Connors senior received a 14-year sentence, and was also convicted of eight counts of assault, four of kidnap and one of conspiracy to kidnap. Patrick Dean received a six-and-a-half year sentence and William was jailed for four years.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/201 ... nors-wales

Post by **spot** » Sun Apr 09, 2017 10:54 am

Pick Of The Week has just replayed Eddie Mair's news report that Barry Manilow has declared himself gay. Mr Mair followed the news item with one from the BBC's Religious Affairs correspondent confirming the Pope to be Catholic, and a mid-West Professor of Ecology who announced the newly-discovered ability of bears to defecate in forested areas. I had not heard the original bulletin, I'm pleased I caught the repeat.

Bruv · Post by **Bruv** » Sun Apr 09, 2017 11:58 am

You are a card Spot....................did you hear about Rock Hudson ?

Post by **spot** » Sun Apr 09, 2017 12:33 pm

I was unaware that Mr Hudson had recently been in the news.

I didn't make up the news bulletin - BBC Radio 4 - PM, Barry Manilow comes out. Also: bear & Pope news. It's just on the tip of what a news program can get away with but the delivery is perfect, Absolutely deadpan.

Bruv · Post by **Bruv** » Sun Apr 09, 2017 1:08 pm

spot;1508261 wrote: I didn't make up the news bulletin - BBC Radio 4 - PM, Barry Manilow comes out. Also: bear & Pope news. It's just on the tip of what a news program can get away with but the delivery is perfect, Absolutely deadpan.

So you were reporting the news as it was told.

And I thought you were the wag.

To be fair the unnamed professors finding's and the Pope hadn't been very newsworthy recently either...........................no wonder Rock kept it under his hat.

Post by **spot** » Mon Apr 17, 2017 2:04 pm

I have checked the original sources and it turns out Ryanair Passenger Charged 15 Euro For Being Dragged Off Plane – Waterford Whispers News is untrue in every possible respect. I can't imagine how it fooled me for a while.

magentaflame · Post by **magentaflame** » Wed Apr 26, 2017 4:08 pm

Bruv;1508258 wrote: You are a card Spot....................did you hear about Rock Hudson ?

If finding out Boy George was gay wasn't shocking enough.

Post by **LarsMac** » Wed Apr 26, 2017 6:54 pm

magentaflame;1508666 wrote: If finding out Boy George was gay wasn't shocking enough.

Boy George was GAY?!?!?!?

Post by **spot** » Thu Apr 27, 2017 12:19 am

Who's Boy George?