The observation and asides thread

Bruv · Post by **Bruv** » Thu Apr 27, 2017 5:09 am

spot;1508679 wrote: Who's Boy George?

George the 4th's son ?

Snowfire · Post by **Snowfire** » Thu Apr 27, 2017 11:06 am

LarsMac;1508675 wrote: Boy George was GAY?!?!?!?

Still is I'd say.

Bruv · Post by **Bruv** » Thu Apr 27, 2017 1:12 pm

Snowfire;1508685 wrote: Still is I'd say.

Didn't look too happy last time I saw him.

Post by **spot** » Thu Apr 27, 2017 3:08 pm

It is a curious label, gay. I have no idea what it's intended to describe.

Does it describe a behavior or a temperament?

If the former, does it imply a repetitive sexual practice or is it a label for life after a single event?

If it's temperamental it's obviously a scale, and yet it's used as an on-off truth. As labels go I think it causes more confusion than it clarifies.

I'll stick to my "would I invite that person to dinner" test and Boy George is welcome any time he's free. Unlike, for example, so-called David Cameron who is most definitely not, being as he is a self-obsessed pariah with the moral code of a minor amoebal infection.

Sexuality is only relevant on a dance floor and even then it's a pretty transient frisson. Been there, got the t-shirt.

Bruv · Post by **Bruv** » Thu Apr 27, 2017 3:33 pm

You are referring to the GAY word I suspect.

It has become an euphemism for homosexuality, which can be confusing.

You would invite someone to dinner that a few posts ago you claim not to know ?

Boy George once famously said he would rather have a cup of tea than sex.

And you think sexuality is only relevant on the dance floor ?

Funny dances you go to

Post by **spot** » Thu Apr 27, 2017 3:37 pm

Bruv;1508692 wrote: And you think sexuality is only relevant on the dance floor ?

Funny dances you go to

Once you're past the first minute of the first dance, who notices.

Bruv · Post by **Bruv** » Fri Apr 28, 2017 5:41 am

spot;1508694 wrote: Once you're past the first minute of the first dance, who notices.

You have confirmed what I just said, so I shall change it a little.

Funny dances you get involved with.

magentaflame · Post by **magentaflame** » Sat Apr 29, 2017 6:10 pm

My son goes to ....ummm...black light dances/disco/nightclub specific nights. You know those lights that make white look whiter? I wish the whole world was lit with those things, bleach would be a thing of the past......sorry i digress!

Anyway they dress in white clohes and during the night they draw on each othe with fluoro pens and powders. The photos he sends me makes it look awsome! I so wanna do that!....... apparently its a gay thing......but i believe in equality! Especially when its that much fun.

FourPart · Post by **FourPart** » Mon May 01, 2017 10:55 am

I'm more of a Hokey-Cokey man.

magentaflame · Post by **magentaflame** » Tue May 02, 2017 3:17 pm

Ive been singing. "Hokey-pokey" all these years. Hokey cokey eh? Hmmm okie dokie

magentaflame · Post by **magentaflame** » Wed May 03, 2017 2:44 pm

How to work out how bad your french is?.....watch the French debate..

Bruv · Post by **Bruv** » Wed May 03, 2017 3:40 pm

magentaflame;1508866 wrote: How to work out how bad your french is?.....watch the French debate..

Pourquoi ?

Les sous-titres.

magentaflame · Post by **magentaflame** » Wed May 03, 2017 7:00 pm

What are the odds eh?

Im so screwed!!!!

I pulled an all nighter last night.... making jacobs ladders.

Sun comes up this morning....gorgeous morning albeit cold.and a beautiful sunny autumn day.

So i in my wisdom....(or not) decide to have a port sitting in the sun this morning.....cringing right now because guess who turns up.???? The person who is giving me my suitability reference for my security guard license....... (insert expleitives here). Of all days.... 9 am. Drinking a glass of port......my body time clock says 10pm and ready to go to bed...... holy effing crap!

magentaflame · Post by **magentaflame** » Wed May 03, 2017 7:13 pm

And now its lunch time and im still not asleep because im effing ****ting myself.. ill have to explain myself tomorrow. . Oh god!

Post by **LarsMac** » Wed May 03, 2017 7:20 pm

magentaflame;1508872 wrote: And now its lunch time and im still not asleep because im effing ****ting myself.. ill have to explain myself tomorrow. . Oh god!

You of course mentioned to the person that you had just got off work and were enjoying the morning Sun before going to sleep. Right?

magentaflame · Post by **magentaflame** » Thu May 04, 2017 2:17 pm

Ummm....no.

But i did tell the electricity pole inspector that turned up afterward. Nobody EVER comes here and then the place suddenly hits peak hour wt!

I get all my documents signed today so hopefully ill have a bit of a laugh about it after lunch.

magentaflame · Post by **magentaflame** » Thu May 04, 2017 3:39 pm

So (Sir) Prince Philly is not dead just retired.

They are looking over his many public gaffs this morning. Its a bit funny but a bit cringy too.

Before i die though i want to know what the queen holds in her handbag...... i hear shes still a bit of a crack shot.

magentaflame · Post by **magentaflame** » Thu May 04, 2017 4:48 pm

Watching Trump and Turnbull.......awwkward!!!!

Post by **spot** » Tue May 16, 2017 12:56 pm

I've just been listening to a report on the World Blind Tennis Championship in... Spain, I think. They mentioned a Grand or Costa something which had a Spanish sound to it.

Anyway. The report left me puzzled. Is this just blind players, or is the format intended for blind audiences to follow as well? Is there a blind umpire? Blind ball boys? I'm sure they're not meant to be called ball boys these days but I'm buggered if I know what the right term is.

Not the most informative radio report of all time.

Ahso! · Post by **Ahso!** » Tue May 16, 2017 1:12 pm

Might the event be to benefit the blind?

Post by **spot** » Tue May 16, 2017 1:14 pm

No no, I did get the essential aspect that the players, at least, are blind. Their balls tinkle when they bounce.

Bruv · Post by **Bruv** » Tue May 16, 2017 1:14 pm

The balls have bells in I believe.

You can hardly complain it wasn't informative enough when weren't listening enough to know if it was Costa or Grand.

Please don't use the words buggered and ball boys in the same sentence.......it's not very PC

Ahso! · Post by **Ahso!** » Tue May 16, 2017 2:50 pm

This is the first I've heard of such an event.

Post by **spot** » Tue May 16, 2017 3:38 pm

Benidorm, that'll be the Costa del Sol or somesuch.

International Blind Tennis Association » International Blind Tennis Tournament: Spain 2017

Post by **spot** » Tue May 16, 2017 3:38 pm

Benidorm, that'll be the Costa del Sol or somesuch.

International Blind Tennis Association » International Blind Tennis Tournament: Spain 2017

magentaflame · Post by **magentaflame** » Tue May 16, 2017 4:14 pm

spot;1481148 wrote: You have evidently found a typo - it should have related to "give it a bash".

Maybe the question was set by an American.

Common slang term here. "Lets give it a bash"..... meaning , just go for it, just do it. Actually..... "You could give it a bash, but i dont know how youll go." Used only a month ago to my son.

magentaflame · Post by **magentaflame** » Tue May 16, 2017 4:25 pm

Watched a doco on Nixon the other week made during Obama's first term (sowell before Trump). It concentrated on the years leading up to his impeachment and the way he left the white house. What struck me was news footage and interviews with people on the street, the denials of politicians, the sackings of important members of government and the clandenstine requests of cover ups.

I thought yesterday history is repeating itself.

magentaflame · Post by **magentaflame** » Mon May 22, 2017 3:48 pm

Fatalities? Watching footage,arent there a lot of kids at that concert?

This isnt good!

magentaflame · Post by **magentaflame** » Mon May 22, 2017 5:25 pm

From the footage im seeing , that was my first thought.

I was wondering if the UK has the same rules as Oz? Concert organizes supply and pay for their own security.

Getting reports of a nail bomb,( hospitals reporting injuries are consistent) then suicide bomber??? Lots of leg injuries

19 dead and over 50 injured.

It would be pretty revolting to think that someone would target a concert with lots of kids at it.

Bruv · Post by **Bruv** » Fri May 26, 2017 12:19 pm

What's James Herriot doing in Eastenders ?

Post by **spot** » Fri May 26, 2017 12:37 pm

Bruv;1509653 wrote: What's James Herriot doing in Eastenders ?

I had to look to find out. You have mistaken an actor, Christopher Timothy, for the protagonist of an autobiographical collection of veterinarian reminiscences, James Herriot, whom he apparently played back in the days of black and white 405 line TV. I'm sure Dirk Bogarde played him too opposite James Robertson Justice.

Bruv · Post by **Bruv** » Fri May 26, 2017 2:29 pm

spot;1509656 wrote: I had to look to find out. You have mistaken an actor, Christopher Timothy, for the protagonist of an autobiographical collection of veterinarian reminiscences, James Herriot, whom he apparently played back in the days of black and white 405 line TV. I'm sure Dirk Bogarde played him too opposite James Robertson Justice.

And Eastenders ........?

Look it up

Snowfire · Post by **Snowfire** » Fri May 26, 2017 2:41 pm

Bruv;1509663 wrote: And Eastenders ........?

Look it up

He's loose again. Tether him !

Post by **spot** » Sun May 28, 2017 8:27 am

"We made a mistake there. We fully apologise to her for that. We should not have issued any form of penalty to her personally as a temporary worker."

He said the officer was new and will now have "proper training".

Woman, 70, fined £180 over sandwich wrapper - BBC News

It is some years since I last regretted the discontinuation of the stocks.

"Douglas Rattray, head of safer neighbourhoods with Canterbury City Council" is an obvious contender, partly for hiring his goons in the first place and partly for then hiding behind their allegedly untrained backs.

OED: goon - A person hired (esp. by racketeers) to terrorize workers; a thug.

Bruv · Post by **Bruv** » Sun May 28, 2017 12:27 pm

There is no protection against idiocy.

Can hardly blame Mr Rattray, the offending officers, like traffic wardens have to be thick skinned not thick headed.

Whatever training they were given didn't lobotomize common sense, to go 'off street' into a retail establishment for a sandwich wrapper was not in their remit shirley.

Post by **spot** » Sun May 28, 2017 12:45 pm

Pah. Putting Douglas Rattray in the pillory from nine to five will give him a day out in the sunshine, discover how many Canterbury residents would like to lob squishy tomatoes at his head and bring about a remarkable transformation in the quality of management decisions at the council for years after. I think it should come out of his holiday entitlement too.

Bruv · Post by **Bruv** » Sun May 28, 2017 1:21 pm

spot;1509707 wrote: Pah. Putting Douglas Rattray in the pillory from nine to five will give him a day out in the sunshine, discover how many Canterbury residents would like to lob squishy tomatoes at his head and bring about a remarkable transformation in the quality of management decisions at the council for years after. I think it should come out of his holiday entitlement too.

And of course, raise a lot of revenue in fines for on street littering.

magentaflame · Post by **magentaflame** » Mon May 29, 2017 4:09 am

Sitting here watching. 'Taxi Driver'....... i thought it was a classic? I thought it was supppsed to be a great movie? Its boring and quite tedious. And if thats NewYork in the seventies? Wow! What a horrible place.

Bruv · Post by **Bruv** » Mon May 29, 2017 12:39 pm

I found the analogy Paul Nuttall used tonight in his interview with Andrew Neil when asked about the relevance of UKIP after the Brexit result.

He said they were needed to push the government in the exit negotiations......and that..........to do that........"You have to be on the field "

I nearly choked on my coffee....................am I strange ?

magentaflame · Post by **magentaflame** » Mon May 29, 2017 1:19 pm

No.....ive choked on a coffee before

Post by **spot** » Mon May 29, 2017 1:39 pm

I'd be happy to see UKIP get more votes in this general election than it's ever had in its life before, if it take most of those votes from Conservative candidates. Besides, Paul Nuttall is a self-implosion just waiting for an opportunity.

magentaflame · Post by **magentaflame** » Mon May 29, 2017 1:43 pm

As some of you have worked out, i mostly come here whilst watching the early morning news..... two rare things have happened. A man was attacked by a tiger in Britain and a police officer was shot and killed in Australia.

Weird morning.

And apparently there is a need for automatic brakes in cars.......because nobody wants to learn to drive anymore. Brakes that i have no control over? Bloody hell...... oh correction....its because drivers get distracted...... ffs.... yes, that distraction should be the thing on the road that you have to break for!

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh:-5

magentaflame · Post by **magentaflame** » Mon May 29, 2017 1:54 pm

Why isnt anything being done about North Korea? If what is being said true....ie nuclear weapons to reach over 10,000 km away within two years... whats the reason for not taking care of the issue?

Post by **spot** » Mon May 29, 2017 1:56 pm

magentaflame;1509737 wrote: Why isnt anything being done about North Korea? If what is being said true....ie nuclear weapons to reach over 10,000 km away within two years... whats the reason for not taking care of the issue?

Why isn't the same thing being done about India? They've had a nuclear arsenal for decades, they have a Space Program, they can deliver warheads anywhere on the nearest three planets beside this one. What's the reason for not taking care of the issue?

That's not a deflection, by the way, it's the beginning of a sensible conversation about your question.

magentaflame · Post by **magentaflame** » Mon May 29, 2017 2:21 pm

India isnt threatening the rest of the world. Granted, one of their reasons was self defense. But N Korea has openly threatened and aimed at surrounding countries and openly threatened America and her allies. Coupled with whats happening in the South China sea in the last couple of years its disconcerting.

magentaflame · Post by **magentaflame** » Mon May 29, 2017 3:02 pm

EEeewwwhhhh..... a very good film if youre into that kind of genre.... 'Hounds of love'

Not for me, too gut churning, and so well done apparently that many wont go to see it. sometimes directors and actors can do too good of a job.

Post by **spot** » Mon May 29, 2017 4:36 pm

magentaflame;1509739 wrote: India isnt threatening the rest of the world. Granted, one of their reasons was self defense. But N Korea has openly threatened and aimed at surrounding countries and openly threatened America and her allies. Coupled with whats happening in the South China sea in the last couple of years its disconcerting.

Every country on earth which possesses nuclear weapons has reserved the self-declared right of first use with no warning against anyone it chooses to go to war with. Do you think this paragraph is false in any respect?

North Korea has invariably expressed conditions which would bring it to make a nuclear first strike, it has never said it will attack any country without making that threat conditional on some future event. The conditional event it most often some foreign action which North Korea would consider to be an act of war. Do you think this paragraph is false in any respect?

When has North Korea aimed anything more powerful than a field gun at any country other than the immediate vicinity of the Demilitarized Zone in South Korea, and then only when it claimed to be responding to fire from South Korea? Is that any different to what Israel does across the Lebanese border, or India or Pakistan in Kashmir? Your "aimed at surrounding countries" in a North Korean nuclear context needs explaining - what do you mean? Which country has North Korea aimed at, with what? Did it aim and not fire? Did it fire and intentionally miss?

You mistrust the North Korean leadership, yes, I get that bit. I don't see that as a reason why North Korea should cease to exist, or that some more powerful country should "take care of the issue".

Post by **LarsMac** » Mon May 29, 2017 9:29 pm

magentaflame;1509737 wrote: Why isnt anything being done about North Korea? If what is being said true....ie nuclear weapons to reach over 10,000 km away within two years... whats the reason for not taking care of the issue?

We need for China, or Russia, to step up and set this little guy straight.

Besides, he is mostly just talking trash. If he does actually have material to make bombs, he doesn't have enough to take out more than one City, and he has to realize that if he dares to push the button it will be a matter of minutes before he and his little country cease to exist. More important, there has to be some people within his circle of influence that have figured this out, as well.

Post by **LarsMac** » Mon May 29, 2017 9:30 pm

spot;1509749 wrote: Every country on earth which possesses nuclear weapons has reserved the self-declared right of first use with no warning against anyone it chooses to go to war with. Do you think this paragraph is false in any respect?

North Korea has invariably expressed conditions which would bring it to make a nuclear first strike, it has never said it will attack any country without making that threat conditional on some future event. The conditional event it most often some foreign action which North Korea would consider to be an act of war. Do you think this paragraph is false in any respect?

When has North Korea aimed anything more powerful than a field gun at any country other than the immediate vicinity of the Demilitarized Zone in South Korea, and then only when it claimed to be responding to fire from South Korea? Is that any different to what Israel does across the Lebanese border, or India or Pakistan in Kashmir? Your "aimed at surrounding countries" in a North Korean nuclear context needs explaining - what do you mean? Which country has North Korea aimed at, with what? Did it aim and not fire? Did it fire and intentionally miss?

You mistrust the North Korean leadership, yes, I get that bit. I don't see that as a reason why North Korea should cease to exist, or that some more powerful country should "take care of the issue".

India and Pakistan both have the bomb. They hate each other with a passion, but they have never talked about bombing each other. At least not in public.

Ahso! · Post by **Ahso!** » Tue May 30, 2017 4:26 am

LarsMac;1509752 wrote: India and Pakistan both have the bomb. They hate each other with a passion, but they have never talked about bombing each other. At least not in public.https://duckduckgo.com/?q=india+threate ... cal&ia=web

Responding to India’s latest strikes, Defence Minister Khawaja Asif said: “We will destroy India if it dares to impose war on us.

“Pakistan army is fully prepared to answer any misadventure of India.

“We have not made atomic device to display in a showcase.

“If a such a situation arises we will use it and eliminate India. https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/1883306/p ... nk-of-war/

The chairman of India’s National Security Advisory Board, Shayam Saran, has warned Pakistan that if it ever uses tactical, i.e. battlefield, nuclear weapons against Indian forces, it will be the target of an all-out Indian nuclear attack.

In an April 24 lecture titled “Is India’s nuclear deterrent credible?, Saran declared, “f [India] is attacked with such [tactical nuclear] weapons, it would engage in nuclear retaliation which will be massive and designed to inflict unacceptable damage on its adversary. He continues, “From the Indian perspective¦the label on a nuclear weapon used for attacking India, strategic or tactical, is irrelevant. https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/0 ... y-m10.html