Quote: sootyj @ 28th March 2014, 10:16 PM GMTFunny how many yiddish words slip into the English language.
I find it more amusing the other way, like when you're watching a foreign film or television show with subtitles and then all of a sudden you hear a bizarre English word or phrase like 'photocopier' or 'needle in a haystack'.
Quote: zooo @ 28th March 2014, 10:23 PM GMTGive us the facts and f**k off.
Thisly.
Not translating needle in a haystack is just lazy.
I like facts in news, Charlie Brooker used to rail against this bullshit, from the unopened door in Pria De Louse to weeping Chinese and Malaysian bereaved relatives.
With all this emolient weepy, soggy, emotive presenting.
Bleurgh.
Also, if they stopped telling us to "wrap up warm", the weather presenters could tell us a lot more about the actual weather.
How about plastic patriots? The sort of mugs who claim to be English and proud (usually football fans). These tattooed jerks get all misty eyed around Remembrance Sunday and bang on about "these foreigners". All of our brave service men and women made the ultimate sacrifice to ensure our liberty. In the weeks leading up to Remembrance Sunday do you ever see any of these "patriots" standing in draughty supermarket doorways doing their bit for the Royal British Legion? Answer-NO! They show far more allegiance to second rate poxy football teams and pubs. Would it really hurt to give up a couple of Saturday afternoons and make a very minor sacrifice to show their respect and patriotism? A pound in a collecting tin doth not a sacrifice make...... Moral frauds everywhere!
Quote: paulted @ 29th March 2014, 10:29 AM GMTIn the weeks leading up to Remembrance Sunday do you ever see any of these "patriots" standing in draughty supermarket doorways doing their bit for the Royal British Legion? Answer-NO!
Hmm, should I point out to paulted that a lot of the 'plastic patriots', the England waving football fans, actually join the army, go to war and get killed - and are then commemorated for their sacrifices on Remembrance Sunday?
TTPYO: Kate Bush whiners. Yep, it's started, all of those who couldn't get tickets for her London gig are already crying and moaning on Facebook. Putting messages on Kate's FB page that are entirely too personal and filled with unsubstantiated anger -
'Dear Kate, you are my world, my most favouritist singer of all time, but I was too young to catch you in concert the first time round. Now I will never see you because I didn't get a ticket. It's so unfair...die, bitch, die!'
Well, you know what they say, it's not over until the fat lady sings...oops.
Quote: Renegade Carpark @ 29th March 2014, 2:41 PM GMTHmm, should I point out to paulted that a lot of the 'plastic patriots', the England waving football fans, actually join the army, go to war and get killed - and are then commemorated for their sacrifices on Remembrance Sunday?
TTPYO: Kate Bush whiners. Yep, it's started, all of those who couldn't get tickets for her London gig are already crying and moaning on Facebook. Putting messages on Kate's FB page that are entirely too personal and filled with unsubstantiated anger -
'Dear Kate, you are my world, my most favouritist singer of all time, but I was too young to catch you in concert the first time round. Now I will never see you because I didn't get a ticket. It's so unfair...die, bitch, die!'
Well, you know what they say, it's not over until the fat lady sings...oops.
Errr yeah. You missed the point. I never said that any soldiers were plastic patriots. I'm talking about all the armchair "heroes".
Quote: paulted @ 29th March 2014, 5:04 PM GMTErrr yeah. You missed the point. I never said that any soldiers were plastic patriots. I'm talking about all the armchair "heroes".
And I think you're missing the point, whenever November comes round, just about everyone is sporting a red poppy. The reason you don't see people with collecting tins is because they sell poppies all over the place, people like myself often buy two or three because they inevitably get mashed or lost.
I also wouldn't single out football fans either, they seem to donate to charities of one sort or another all season long including 'Help For Heroes'.
But because you personally don't see young people holding collecting tins outside the train station near your house, doesn't mean that people aren't donating or being supportive.
Arseholes who are so up themselves they almost burst out of their own mouths.
Anyone who does a service I didn't ask for, and expects payment.
For example, in a bar or club, two nanoseconds under the cold tap and drying your hands on the sides of your jeans should suffice (assuming you had managed not to piss all over your hands).
However, apparently what you really need is a smartly-dressed guy (even in a shit-hole, dive of a bar) handing you a scented wet cloth you neither want nor need, and if you don't slip him a few quid you feel like a cheap arsehole.
Quote: SimonWing @ 29th March 2014, 8:49 PM GMTAnyone who does a service I didn't ask for, and expects payment.
For example, in a bar/club a quick 2 nanoseconds under the cold tap and wiping-dry on the jeans should suffice (assuming you managed not to piss all over your hands).
However, apparently what you really need is a smartly-dressed guy (even in a shit-hole, dive of a bar) handing you a scented wet cloth you neither want nor need, and if you don't slip him a few quid you feel like a cheap arsehole.
Do the club know he's there??
They pay rent to the club I think.
Quote: SimonWing @ 29th March 2014, 8:49 PM GMTAnyone who does a service I didn't ask for, and expects payment.
For example, in a bar or club, two nanoseconds under the cold tap and drying your hands on the sides of your jeans should suffice (assuming you had managed not to piss all over your hands).
However, apparently what you really need is a smartly-dressed guy (even in a shit-hole, dive of a bar) handing you a scented wet cloth you neither want nor need, and if you don't slip him a few quid you feel like a cheap arsehole.
You pay MONEY for such shite?
Quote: keewik @ 29th March 2014, 9:07 PM GMTYou pay MONEY for such shite?
Nope, I normally leave feeling like a cheap arsehole.
Quote: SimonWing @ 29th March 2014, 8:49 PM GMTAnyone who does a service I didn't ask for, and expects payment.
For example, in a bar or club, two nanoseconds under the cold tap and drying your hands on the sides of your jeans should suffice (assuming you had managed not to piss all over your hands).
However, apparently what you really need is a smartly-dressed guy (even in a shit-hole, dive of a bar) handing you a scented wet cloth you neither want nor need, and if you don't slip him a few quid you feel like a cheap arsehole.
Is this the only 'service' he offers?
This isn't Wolverhampton Rocker.