Quote: Oldrocker @ 3rd November 2013, 1:08 AM GMTFeckin' hell ! What next in this hellish weather?
Artist David Pearce, who lives just outside Swansea, said his daughter's 11ft trampoline was blown across the garden in high winds.
"The roof nearly got torn completely off our shed and our daughter's trampoline took off. It smashed her garden swings and ended up in our hedge," he said.
That's at least two euphemisms too many.
Thought it was all giraffes?...in the trend?
Quote: Oldrocker @ 3rd November 2013, 1:08 AM GMTFeckin' hell ! What next in this hellish weather?
Artist David Pearce, who lives just outside Swansea, said his daughter's 11ft trampoline was blown across the garden in high winds.
"The roof nearly got torn completely off our shed and our daughter's trampoline took off. It smashed her garden swings and ended up in our hedge," he said.
So Mr Pearce, you put the equivalent of a sail in a light metal frame and you don't peg it down to the ground, yet you wonder and complain when the wind propels it some-place else? And you live near the sea so you should see sails from time to time.
Get a life man, or get some common sense.
Windy here- but only garden chair over? bloody leaves on car and piling up?...
Your use of question marks perplexes me, dellas! Are you unsure if the leaves are piling up and asking us?
Dellas has her own unique take on the English language...doesn't she?
As if each sentence ends on a question...usually it does doesn't it?
Kind of like Gollum in Lord of the Rings, doesn't she? Yes she does my precious? Is the nasty Hobbit questioning how we writes is it?
I like to think that the extra question marks are a way of denoting an Australian-style rising inflection to the end of the sentences.
Surely no-one could be annoyed by that.
There just HAS to be life out there . .
http://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/nov/04/planets-galaxy-life-kepler
There just has to be life in here
Don't get all sophophilical on me when I've had a couple . . .
Quote: Lazzard @ 2nd November 2013, 10:57 AM GMTI do find all this mock horror and outrage at people's behaviour - in a time when attitudes were 100% different to those held today - a little self-indulgent.
Talking of attitudes being different in the 60s and 70s to what they are today, and as this is a comedy web site this seems rather relevant.
I was watching a Benny Hill tribute program on TV the other day (Gold I think) and they showed a short sketch.
It featured a girl tied to a red Indian totem pole, with her clothes all ripped and torn, and showing a fair amount of flesh.
Benny Hill came walking on dressed as a cowboy.
"What's the problem" he asked
"Help" says the girl " I have just been ravaged by a dozen red Indians".
Benny Hill looks at her for a moment, and then begins to take his trousers off and says "Not your lucky day is it".
Can you imagine them making and showing a sketch like this today, there would be an outcry, virtually condoning rape.
I must admit it rather shocked me, seeing it after all these years and remembering what was shown as entertainment back then.
A side from how offensive and nasty that joke.
The real sadness is Benny Hill was actually a bloody good comic, who wrote or sometimes borrowed great gags.
This cheap nasty stuff is just filler, that satisfies prejudice and doesn't really amuse.
Quote: Guilbert @ 5th November 2013, 3:01 PM GMTTalking of attitudes being different in the 60s and 70s to what they are today, and as this is a comedy web site this seems rather relevant.
I was watching a Benny Hill tribute program on TV the other day (Gold I think) and they showed a short sketch.
It featured a girl tied to a red Indian totem pole, with her clothes all ripped and torn, and showing a fair amount of flesh.
Benny Hill came walking on dressed as a cowboy.
"What's the problem" he asked
"Help" says the girl " I have just been ravaged by a dozen red Indians".
Benny Hill looks at her for a moment, and then begins to take his trousers off and says "Not your lucky day is it".
Can you imagine them making and showing a sketch like this today, there would be an outcry, virtually condoning rape.
I must admit it rather shocked me, seeing it after all these years and remembering what was shown as entertainment back then.
That is quite shocking, isn't it. Has made me feel a bit sick.
As ever, I'm very glad I wasn't around in the 70s.
Didn't we all assume that's what had happened anyway? I can't remember now...
So many child kidnap stories, so little time.
eh?
and welcome!