Jon

On ‎11‎/‎01‎/‎2016 at 20:28, Rugeley Villa said:

so it pays to die 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZXzMDKEwqI

I used to be a fan of 69, but now I am not!!!!

I'd have great trouble in signing GSTQ (or K). I'm not religious and don't believe in 'God'. I'm also anti-monarchy. So the idea of asking 'God' to save her Maj really doesn't appeal to me. Plus, it's a shit tune.

Jerusalem, for me, ticks many of the right boxes. It still has the (more slight) religious aspect, but at least it's not actually asking 'God' to do something for 'us'. Plus it's a better tune.

2 hours ago, wazzap24 said:

New Kanye in less than a month and a new LCD Soundsystem record later in the year. 

That's all I need 

 

Surely those 2 things are totally incompatible?  Kuntyay West is a prick and peddler of shite bland music.  LCD soundsytem the polar opposite

7 hours ago, rjw63 said:

Isn't that its actual face? 

37 minutes ago, Demitri_C said:

London is friggin awful. All you hear is stabbings. when i was in school if we had a problem we would have  fistfight and then 9/10 we would make up an hour later. These days kids are just insecure wimps thats why they carry knives. They do need to be tougher on those who are caught carrying knives. Make prisons as horrible as south africa then people would actually be scared to go there instead of the soft touch we have here.

 

I herad on the radio the other day they were thinking of allowing in-mates access to tablets to help with "their education" what a bloody joke

"The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons."

• Fyodor Dostoevsky, The House of the Dead (1862)

15 hours ago, chrisp65 said:

Can't tell if this is genuine or not. I live round the corner from there though, so will take a gander (before it gets graffitied/vandalised). I know the due who bought it was planning to turn it into a Joy Division action centre (aka museum).

I've got a usb in my car stereo,  and also 1 in my stereo at home.  

11 hours ago, mjmooney said:

People over the age of twelve going completely offline for several days so as to avoid Star Wars spoilers. FFS.

Agreed.  I'll probably watch it,  at some point,  though the missus won't be interested.  Not that bothered though,  I have to say,  and yet back when I was a kid in the 70s and 80s I was massively into star wars.  Grown out of it I guess. 

Rugeley's Xmas nativity scene:

3 hours ago, Demitri_C said:

Don't agree with you. I think he would make a good labour leader. 

I'm not sure you get a vote on that Dem. I sincerely doubt you're a Labour member ... or even paid the £3 last time to get Jez in.

7 hours ago, Mantis said:

From a Labour perspective, Hilary Benn is starting to look like a very good potential leader right about now.

Seeing as how the labour membership has recently voted overwhelmingly for a proper left wing socialist as leader,  I very much doubt a right wing blairite hawk fits the bill.  Maybe he could cross the floor and apply for the job over there?  I hear there's an opening coming up soon. 

1 hour ago, maqroll said:

Sad days here. My sister won't let my nephew go to see star wars on opening night because she's afraid of a random shooting...and I don't think she's overreacting. But THE TERRORISTS are more of a danger, if you believe what you're told on TV. This country is ****.

She'll be ok.  Just tell her to take a gun with her for safety

1 minute ago, CarewsEyebrowDesigner said:

Dead troops cost votes.

whereas dead Syrians, ISIS or not, don't. Sad state of affairs.

8 hours ago, chrisp65 said:

with headphones, if they aren't the new sennheiser orpheus I ain't interested

I keep a set in the house and a set in the office and a set in my bag.

He he.  Had to mooney.  £35,000 a go.  

In normal circs I would say she was a gonner, but these days you do seem to be able to get away with almost anything when in parliament/the Tory party

Tory MP Lucy Allan fakes abusive email from constituent. She has since removed the post from her facebook account and claimed 'It wasn't her that edited it'. Think she's in trouble:

23 hours ago, mjmooney said:

Dunno, don't watch it. I believe she's in "Capital" though.

In other news, we have bats nesting in our eaves. Mrs. M is appalled, I think it's great. Had to rescue one from inside the house a couple of weeks ago.

Had to Mooney:

"The eaves are the edges of the roof which overhang the face of a wall and, normally, project beyond the side of a building.^[1] The eaves form an overhang to throw water clear of the walls and may be highly decorated as part of an architectural style".

You learn something new on VT every day

On ‎28‎/‎11‎/‎2015‎ ‎08‎:‎45‎:‎21, snowychap said:

I don't know what categories you'd be expecting on the cards but I think she'd take some beating in the 'biggest gobshite' one.

I guess she'd score quite strongly on the Length of Service category (coming up to 30 years soon!)

11 minutes ago, The_Rev said:

 

I can just see a floating red cup and a baseball cap. 

floating next to a necklace.

22 minutes ago, Stevo985 said:

Yep, absolutely.

It's ludicrous here.
The official line from senior management is that everybody should work from home at least one day a week, and that they fully support it.

But when you actually try and do it there is resistance.

When I actually need to get stuff done, I'm much better working from home than in the office. 

We have similar here, although WFH is not really encouraged, but more occasionally tolerated. Having said that, I'm much less productive at home. AT work, I have 2 screens and a faster PC, at home a lappy. Time savings are there for the commute, but I wouldn't like to do WFH very often. Prefer to have some human interaction.