Mornin' everyone!
It's very cold...
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I was just going to write, and ask how it was without the heating, Smorgie! Hellish, I suppose.
Hot water is something we take for granted, till we can't get it.
Sympathy.
Thanks Muckty,
There's a frost this morning as well, just boiled a kettle for last nights washing up.
Looking forward to going to work today!!!
At least it's diminished my carbon footprint.
I hope he sends someone today - otherwise I will have to evacuate the kids to warmer houses.
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...sat in work, looking my worst, security guard comes up and says "someone at the desk calling himself McTaggart, says he knows you"!!!
Saw McT!!!
It was lovely...
Bought him a machine coffee, did a brief tour, chatted about his forthcoming holiday to the states... and that was it. Ended far too soon.
He's a great bloke.
Looking forward to the next one, Muckty!
Sarah
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spendius wrote:Well- it was the British Broadcasting Corporation, the voice you can trust I have been brought up to believe, and you can't get more British than the British Broadcating Corporation everybody always said and seeing as how this is a British thread what could be more appropriate than a statement from the latest up-to-the-minure British hot news which implies that having babies in 2006 will require the little darlings, instead of ordering their conservatories, canapes and ringing up the emergency gas services, to hot-foot it to a launching pad in Chorlton-come Wedlock and, the blue touch-paper having been touched, to hope for the best.
I love feminism. It is the funniest thing I have ever seen in my entire life.
That has to be one of the most extraordinary non-sequiturs I've seen.
What is it with you and feminism, spendius? Can't you deal with the concept that women are equal to men or have you just had a bad experience with a self-proclaimed feminist?
smorgs wrote:...sat in work, looking my worst, security guard comes up and says "someone at the desk calling himself McTaggart, says he knows you"!!!
Saw McT!!!
It was lovely...
Bought him a machine coffee, did a brief tour, chatted about his forthcoming holiday to the states... and that was it. Ended far too soon.
He's a great bloke.
Looking forward to the next one, Muckty!
Sarah
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yeah but did you get him a job?
kitchenpete wrote:spendius wrote:Well- it was the British Broadcasting Corporation, the voice you can trust I have been brought up to believe, and you can't get more British than the British Broadcating Corporation everybody always said and seeing as how this is a British thread what could be more appropriate than a statement from the latest up-to-the-minure British hot news which implies that having babies in 2006 will require the little darlings, instead of ordering their conservatories, canapes and ringing up the emergency gas services, to hot-foot it to a launching pad in Chorlton-come Wedlock and, the blue touch-paper having been touched, to hope for the best.
I love feminism. It is the funniest thing I have ever seen in my entire life.
That has to be one of the most extraordinary non-sequiturs I've seen.
What is it with you and feminism, spendius? Can't you deal with the concept that women are equal to men or have you just had a bad experience with a self-proclaimed feminist?
Spendy is of the opinion that the BBC and other organs of a hitherto male preserve have been taken over and emascualted by wailing hordes of women bemoaning the fate of mother earth. He is of course entitled to his opinion.
I suppose, you're opinion is deeply influenced (if not manipulated) by (two) females! :wink:
Steve 41oo wrote:smorgs wrote:...sat in work, looking my worst, security guard comes up and says "someone at the desk calling himself McTaggart, says he knows you"!!!
Saw McT!!!
It was lovely...
Bought him a machine coffee, did a brief tour, chatted about his forthcoming holiday to the states... and that was it. Ended far too soon.
He's a great bloke.
Looking forward to the next one, Muckty!
Sarah
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yeah but did you get him a job?
No job was offered, and now I've got to explain to her indoors how the scent of (another) woman got onto my person.
Oh well, you can't beat the truth, I suppose....but will she buy it?
Meantime, looking forward to hearing good news about the Chorlton gas fitters.
...it'll be even harder to explain why you have brought another woman home to partake of your bath!
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Walter Hinteler wrote:I suppose, you're opinion is deeply influenced (if not manipulated) by (two) females! :wink:
I have no opinion. I say yes or no as appropriate.
spendi is not of that opinion at all.
It is an observable fact that the BBC and other organs of a hitherto male preserve have been taken over and emascualted by wailing hordes of women bemoaning the fate of mother earth and henpecked husbands, usually with daughters, along with other assorted trouble makers and malcontents all of whom are lumped in by AA Gill under the title "Tristrams".
VIZ is the only organ resisting this now that pubs are in a very sad decline because money could be better spent on fashions, fripperies, consoling creams etc and other gee-gaws.
No opinion is needed although one expects plenty to be offered by members of the above mentioned cartel of corruption, incompetance and embarrassment.
Only SKY SPORTS will I excuse which is staffed by an honourable bunch of boozers, betting men and beachcombers and who probably have their doors barricaded.
The idea that women are equal to men is patently ridiculous. Women are miles superior to men in every respect except boozing and betting and fixing cranes in the snow. They can comb the beach with a curryingcomb.
I don't know how women can take it when they are equated to men.
I have never had a bad experience with a feminist because I keep them at a decent distance preferring instead those who hate feminists more than I do. I have had a bad experience with them in a huddle though. They have made a right mess of television which I see very little of these days and I gave up newspapers years ago when The Telegraph succumbed.
I have seen some signs recently of a foundering in the project, and it was a project, and even the odd move into reverse. And in the pub as well which is a view I place more trust in.
It is a real non-sequitur to think that an objective, scientific observation on the matter should be thought of as being subjectively determined by any experience I may have had and which, in this case, I haven't. That calls into question my scientific integrity and I naturally take grave exception to it.
It can only have been suggested by someone who normally allows his own experiences to determine his positions and who also thinks that is normal and that other threaders are the same and that he can use this logical weakness, understandable though it is, to rally them to his cause which is grossly insulting to all those lovely ladies who have always had the capacity to twist me round their little finger as if I was as thick as a few short planks. How else could it have entered his misogynistic head. It is not the sort of thing I go around doing.
I'm only interested in where I'm going. Where I've been is only a training experience for that. An old man who had been severly injured in the trenches and wouldn't attend the Nov photo-call poppy bullshit opportunities which the armchair warriors are so fond of being more interested in his marrows and his racing pigeons.
McTag wrote:Meantime, looking forward to hearing good news about the Chorlton gas fitters.
yeah I heard they were playing Stockport Plumbers...away win?
If you're interested, Sarah, here's a link for a copy of the 2004 Housing Act.
It may be handy to print off, for future reference, or simply save the link as one of your "favourites"
http://www.opsi.gov.uk/acts/acts2004/20040034.htm
Oh yeah!
Bob Dylan has it too.
"Leave your stepping stones behind, something calls for you.
Forget the dead you've left, they will not follow you."
That old man would have loved Dylan. And his Mrs was a wonderful woman. Her dumplings were fantastic. I have to use an assertion there because science can't describe dumplings except in a way that makes the ones in the NAFFI just the same as hers.
Oopsi-gov.uk sounds like a Frank Spencer invention, Lord Elp.
Spendi, I think I'll have some of whatever you're on.
I will agree with one thing though...althought you never actually said this: I think the term "female comedian" is an oxymoron. They don't seem to get it. Take away Joan Rivers, oh, and I'll grant you Julie Walters' pal wotserface, and there aren't any.
Two gasmen are here - they are on the phone to the landlord telling him the CO levels are dangerously high...
I get the gist from the conversation that he has asked if it's repairable...
Keep you posted...
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