Random Daily Banter

[Ian H]

I don't mind Kirstie Allsop mostly but she has a lot of luxury beliefs. She lives in a little bubble of poshness with not much of an idea about ordinary people's lives. It's true that young people maybe aren't as willing to sacrifice as much as we were to get on the property ladder but I can understand that because it was feasible for people my age to scrimp and save for a while to get a deposit. Depending on where you live now you're looking at having to save for years and years and need 2 incomes.

I went off her mate Phil when I saw a photo of him with a deer he'd shot. Very tragic how his parents died though.

She has houses around here and her favourite antique shop* is a short walk away. Other than that I know mercifully little about her.

*for certain definitions of 'antique'.

 

[BoldonLad]

Why are Black Friday sales starting two weeks early?
I'm getting pee'd off with all the emails.

Why are Black Friday Sales, not on a Friday? I just received an Email telling me about one which starts on Thursday 20th November

 

[Pblakeney]

Why are Black Friday Sales, not on a Friday? I just received an Email telling me about one which starts on Thursday 20th November

Meh, mine started on Monday 10th.

 

[BoldonLad]

I’m amazed anyone can spend that in Starbucks (I’m amazed anyone who likes coffee would go to Starbucks too!). Surely you would be aware of spending £20 a day anywhere though and realise it’s a big expenditure?

you are joking?, you need an introduction to the world of my "children" 😂

 

[briantrumpet]

FFS, can they stop doing this stuff? It makes I feel old.

Mind you, if I subtract my age from my year of birth, I end up in 1903. Don't tell @BoldonLad and @Ian H, but I think they'll end up in the 19th century on the same calculation (even if they both look half their ages).

 

[Ian H]

FFS, can they stop doing this stuff? It makes I feel old.

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Mind you, if I subtract my age from my year of birth, I end up in 1903. Don't tell @BoldonLad and @Ian H, but I think they'll end up in the 19th century on the same calculation (even if they both look half their ages).

Gladstone was in No10.
What is Gladstone trying to tell us? Through the matted undergrowth of his prose, with its vatic pronouncements, its interminable subordinate clauses, its ponderous hesitations and protestations, its sudden whimsical excursions and conjectures, something – not a message exactly but not a philosophy either, perhaps the only word would be a mind – is struggling to declare itself. A mind, moreover, that insists on its continuing vivacity, and claims our attention not merely as a brilliant relic of its own time but as an unstilled voice in the conversation of ours. We may explore and even admire the minds of Gladstone’s mentors and contemporaries: Peel’s earnest reforming zeal, Palmerston’s gung-ho gunboat liberalism, Disraeli’s sugar castles of empire – though each is splendid in its way, they do not speak to us directly. But Gladstone haunts us still; he is the greatest of the undead.
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v27/n04/ferdinand-mount/masses-and-classes

 

[Rusty Nails]

FFS, can they stop doing this stuff? It makes I feel old.

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Mind you, if I subtract my age from my year of birth, I end up in 1903. Don't tell @BoldonLad and @Ian H, but I think they'll end up in the 19th century on the same calculation (even if they both look half their ages).

Bloody Hell!

1869

 

[briantrumpet]

Bloody Hell!

1869

Oops, sorry!

 

[briantrumpet]

Obviously this is a sneaky way for me to harvest DoB's so that I can steal identities and raid bank accounts.

 

[Rusty Nails]

Obviously this is a sneaky way for me to harvest DoB's so that I can steal identities and raid bank accounts.

To make it easier for you RN is my real name, I was born in 2000 and I'm 131.

Edit: curses, that doesn't work!!

 

[briantrumpet]

To make it easier for you RN is my real name, I was born in 2000 and I'm 131.

Thanks. It's no wonder you are rusty, Mr Nails.

 

[briantrumpet]

To make it easier for you RN is my real name, I was born in 2000 and I'm 131.

Edit: curses, that doesn't work!!

Maths worked differently in 1869 (with a nod to Manc33 for this info)

 

[briantrumpet]

The mothership thread on clipless pedals is classic CC - how many different ways can everyone turn their own personal anecdotes & opinions into such pointless drivel?

https://www.cyclechat.net/threads/clipless-pedals-do-i-really-need-them.308187/

 

[briantrumpet]

Can't remember what thread it was in, but @PurplePenguin will be shocked to learn that the Merriam Webster dictionary has picked up and documented the new meaning of 'ratioed'. The OED will get there eventually, but then they did take a couple of decades to recognise 'laggy' as a real word.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/words-were-watching-ratio-ratioed-ratioing

 

[briantrumpet]

A bit surprised that this chancer over in the mothership hasn't been forced to include a translation... though the name seems kinda familiar...