Robin Evans Posted January 25, 2017 Share Posted January 25, 2017 Going back to work after 3 weeks off.... Bag o' sheeite Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Posted January 25, 2017 Share Posted January 25, 2017 Right! Lets cut through this Orwellian news speak. Rough sleepers = the homeless Alt-right = nazis Alt-facts =lies Economic plan post brexit = "WE'VE NOT GOT A FECKIN CLUE ON WHAT WE'RE DOING" Rebel fighters =just a murderous as isis and the Saud regime. Fit for work =we know you were buried /cremated before our decision, but that's no excuse. 1 "Freedom without socialism is privilege and injustice, socialism without freedom is slavery and brutality" - Mikhail Bakunin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ckn Posted January 25, 2017 Author Share Posted January 25, 2017 7 minutes ago, Phil said: Right! Lets cut through this Orwellian news speak. Rough sleepers = the homeless Alt-right = nazis Alt-facts =lies Economic plan post brexit = "WE'VE NOT GOT A FECKIN CLUE ON WHAT WE'RE DOING" Rebel fighters =just a murderous as isis and the Saud regime. Fit for work =we know you were buried /cremated before our decision, but that's no excuse. Ah, a fitting subject for the Rant Thread. Here's mine based on the last few weeks: Consultation: how you reward staff for their hard work over the last three years of persistent change to meet the needs of an idiot imposed 5% pay budget cut "We're standing up for the people of Britain" (said in either May or Corbyn's drone) - "We're standing up for people like me and the rest of the country can go fornicate with themselves" "Look ..." (when said by any politician) - "you've annoyed me by actually daring to quote facts or what I said last week but now I need to do the opposite because it suits me" Joined-up care - where you've run out of money to safely care for patients and try to partner with another organisation with a vague hope they'll have money to bail you out. "When in deadly danger, when beset by doubt; run in little circles, wave your arms and shout" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Futtocks Posted January 25, 2017 Share Posted January 25, 2017 5 hours ago, Old Frightful said: I experienced a slight variation on this theme in my local Tesco once. I'd finished my shopping and made my way to one of the conveyor belt tills. It was quite busy and I started placing my stuff on the conveyor behind the divider thing that the people in front of me had put down to separate their shopping from everyone else's. It was then I noticed that they had two dividers placed on the belt with nothing between them. As the till assistant was about to finish with the customer in front of them, and they obviously had no shopping, I asked them what were they doing. They calmly explained that their daughter was shopping and they were saving her a place in the queue. For one of the first times in my life I was speechless. I then recovered from my dumbfoundedness and said "Don't be bloody stupid" and reached over to remove the dividers so my shopping would move to the till, just as their daughter arrived and placed a couple of items in between them. My anger and instant mood change was palpable. The till assistant had noticed all this and gave me a nice smile which I think was intended to calm me down. After the irritating threesome had left she said "If their daughter hadn't arrived just in time, I'd have done the same as you and served you next". I spent the rest of the day trying to get my head round what sort of people felt it was okay to do this? That's only happened to me once, and I wasn't the only one to get served ahead of the place-holders before the person with the actual shopping arrived. It didn't stop their indignation that the rest of us weren't forced to wait 'til they'd been served. Nitwits with a warped sense of over-entitlement. If someone with shopping needs to go and replace an item that is damaged or because they've accidentally picked up the wrong thing, well, that's fine as long as they hurry. These things happen. "We are easily breakable, by illness or falling, or a million other ways of leaving this earthly life. We are just so much mashed potato." Don Estelle Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob8 Posted January 25, 2017 Share Posted January 25, 2017 8 minutes ago, Farmduck said: I never thought we'd see Trigglypuff on this site. Now she is officially famous. Conspiracy theories!!?W?#?%?$?F?G?^?&?*??*?*?^? There's an OZ guy who's done something like 30 YT vids where he's interviewed about his Freeman/Sovereign Citizen-type ######. I left a debunking comment on another OZ conspiracy vid and one of the commenters suggested I watch it. How can 1 human being fit so much DUMB into an 8-minute vid? How can someone, who appears to have been able to dress themselves, fail to understand so many simple, easily explainable concepts? Why is the blatant inability to grasp the obvious taken as conclusive proof of the truth of a conspiracy theory? I had never come across this meme before. Good to know. Farmduck, you're a brave soul venturing into the comments section of YouTube. "You clearly have never met Bob8 then, he's like a veritable Bryan Ferry of RL." - Johnoco 19 Jul 2014 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Posted January 25, 2017 Share Posted January 25, 2017 1 minute ago, Johnoco said: Conspiracy theories? I used to work with a guy into all this. It's funny for a while but soon begins to do your head in, I mean really. It's them illuminatuses innit? "Freedom without socialism is privilege and injustice, socialism without freedom is slavery and brutality" - Mikhail Bakunin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farmduck Posted January 25, 2017 Share Posted January 25, 2017 2 minutes ago, Johnoco said: Or...faked moon landings, flat earth, new world order.....Jesus No, Jesus was definitely fake. These days, conspiracy theories include every mass shooting in the last 5 years. All those kids at Sandy Hook were apparently actors and they're all still alive. The big one now is Pizzagate which still generate 40+ videos/day on YT. Flat Earth is making a big comeback, believe it or not. The old favourites are still hanging in: Rothschilds, Banking, Da Jooz, Clinton anything, Obama's birth certificate just got a new shot in the arm, 9/11 (goes without saying). I'm starting a new one about gravity. That Newton family has been holding us down for centuries. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob8 Posted January 25, 2017 Share Posted January 25, 2017 1 minute ago, Farmduck said: No, Jesus was definitely fake. These days, conspiracy theories include every mass shooting in the last 5 years. All those kids at Sandy Hook were apparently actors and they're all still alive. The big one now is Pizzagate which still generate 40+ videos/day on YT. Flat Earth is making a big comeback, believe it or not. The old favourites are still hanging in: Rothschilds, Banking, Da Jooz, Clinton anything, Obama's birth certificate just got a new shot in the arm, 9/11 (goes without saying). I'm starting a new one about gravity. That Newton family has been holding us down for centuries. The Rothschilds thing is making a comeback on my Facebook feed. As anti-Semitism has lost its original meaning in the UK, I think many do not realize that anti-Jewish racism is still a real thing in places in the USA and do not recognize it. "You clearly have never met Bob8 then, he's like a veritable Bryan Ferry of RL." - Johnoco 19 Jul 2014 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDINTHEHIZZOUSE Posted January 25, 2017 Share Posted January 25, 2017 When I'm at the supermarket,strictly sticking to "the list" as instructed by our peg when she rings up,usually for obscure hard to find items like quark,wtf? Just as I've taken my place at the checkout,she has radar that girl Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnM Posted January 25, 2017 Share Posted January 25, 2017 Quark is good! Looking for something like a leaf blower....but for people. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyXIII Posted January 25, 2017 Share Posted January 25, 2017 4 hours ago, Johnoco said: ... But yeah, gravity, it doesn't really exist. ... I've trimmed your post to just the bit I'm interested in, sorry. I know I'm going to regret this, but. I watched a serious science program on BBC4 recently (I used catch-up, so it could have been ancient. It might have been "Inside the mind of Einstein", but I can't remember) and it made the case for gravity not existing. They tried to explain this position as (paraphrasing), It's not gravity, it's acceleration. To me, it sounds like someone is confusing cause and effect. In my world, gravity causes acceleration. In his world, acceleration causes us to infer gravity. Please don't ask me to explain it, it did my head in. The basis for his argument went like this. Imagine a box floating in space with a man inside it. The man cannot see out of the box (think of a traditional lift carriage) so he cannot tell if he is moving. He will not know if he is in a gravity field (falling at the same speed as the box) or not. Until the box begins to accelerate (let's say upward) . At this point, he will not know if he is in a gravity field or just a box accelerating upwards, because the effect on him would be the same (the floor pushing up on him). There is no way of telling the difference. I would suggest you think about it, but there aren't enough psychiatric beds available in the country to deal with the consequences. In other news, centrifugal force really doesn't exist. It is just Newton's first law of motion. Now, Newton I get. Einstein, on the other hand, is completely beyond me. 2 Rethymno Rugby League Appreciation Society Founder (and, so far, only) member. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyXIII Posted January 25, 2017 Share Posted January 25, 2017 1 hour ago, JohnM said: Quark is good! Quorn is better! At least if your making a curry. Rethymno Rugby League Appreciation Society Founder (and, so far, only) member. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Futtocks Posted January 25, 2017 Share Posted January 25, 2017 2 hours ago, JDINTHEHIZZOUSE said: When I'm at the supermarket,strictly sticking to "the list" as instructed by our peg when she rings up,usually for obscure hard to find items like quark,wtf? Just as I've taken my place at the checkout,she has radar that girl [spoddy physicist joke]She's a woman of strangeness and charm.[/spoddy physicist joke] That joke also works with Hawkwind fans. Insert Venn diagram here. "We are easily breakable, by illness or falling, or a million other ways of leaving this earthly life. We are just so much mashed potato." Don Estelle Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDINTHEHIZZOUSE Posted January 25, 2017 Share Posted January 25, 2017 26 minutes ago, tonyXIII said: I've trimmed your post to just the bit I'm interested in, sorry. I know I'm going to regret this, but. I watched a serious science program on BBC4 recently (I used catch-up, so it could have been ancient. It might have been "Inside the mind of Einstein", but I can't remember) and it made the case for gravity not existing. They tried to explain this position as (paraphrasing), It's not gravity, it's acceleration. To me, it sounds like someone is confusing cause and effect. In my world, gravity causes acceleration. In his world, acceleration causes us to infer gravity. Please don't ask me to explain it, it did my head in. The basis for his argument went like this. Imagine a box floating in space with a man inside it. The man cannot see out of the box (think of a traditional lift carriage) so he cannot tell if he is moving. He will not know if he is in a gravity field (falling at the same speed as the box) or not. Until the box begins to accelerate (let's say upward) . At this point, he will not know if he is in a gravity field or just a box accelerating upwards, because the effect on him would be the same (the floor pushing up on him). There is no way of telling the difference. I would suggest you think about it, but there aren't enough psychiatric beds available in the country to deal with the consequences. In other news, centrifugal force really doesn't exist. It is just Newton's first law of motion. Now, Newton I get. Einstein, on the other hand, is completely beyond me. Tony,consider this a triple like a,for actually making that relatively easy to understand and b,for having the time and energy to type all that out! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bearman Posted January 25, 2017 Share Posted January 25, 2017 (edited) 46 minutes ago, tonyXIII said: I've trimmed your post to just the bit I'm interested in, sorry. I know I'm going to regret this, but. I watched a serious science program on BBC4 recently (I used catch-up, so it could have been ancient. It might have been "Inside the mind of Einstein", but I can't remember) and it made the case for gravity not existing. They tried to explain this position as (paraphrasing), It's not gravity, it's acceleration. To me, it sounds like someone is confusing cause and effect. In my world, gravity causes acceleration. In his world, acceleration causes us to infer gravity. Please don't ask me to explain it, it did my head in. The basis for his argument went like this. Imagine a box floating in space with a man inside it. The man cannot see out of the box (think of a traditional lift carriage) so he cannot tell if he is moving. He will not know if he is in a gravity field (falling at the same speed as the box) or not. Until the box begins to accelerate (let's say upward) . At this point, he will not know if he is in a gravity field or just a box accelerating upwards, because the effect on him would be the same (the floor pushing up on him). There is no way of telling the difference. I would suggest you think about it, but there aren't enough psychiatric beds available in the country to deal with the consequences. In other news, centrifugal force really doesn't exist. It is just Newton's first law of motion. Now, Newton I get. Einstein, on the other hand, is completely beyond me. Apples don't fall to earth. They stay put, but the Earth rushes up to meet it. (according to Brian Cox) Edited January 25, 2017 by Bearman 1 Ron Banks Midlands Hurricanes and Barrow Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnM Posted January 25, 2017 Share Posted January 25, 2017 1 hour ago, tonyXIII said: I've trimmed your post to just the bit I'm interested in, sorry. I know I'm going to regret this, but. I watched a serious science program on BBC4 recently (I used catch-up, so it could have been ancient. It might have been "Inside the mind of Einstein", but I can't remember) and it made the case for gravity not existing. They tried to explain this position as (paraphrasing), It's not gravity, it's acceleration. To me, it sounds like someone is confusing cause and effect. In my world, gravity causes acceleration. In his world, acceleration causes us to infer gravity. Please don't ask me to explain it, it did my head in. The basis for his argument went like this. Imagine a box floating in space with a man inside it. The man cannot see out of the box (think of a traditional lift carriage) so he cannot tell if he is moving. He will not know if he is in a gravity field (falling at the same speed as the box) or not. Until the box begins to accelerate (let's say upward) . At this point, he will not know if he is in a gravity field or just a box accelerating upwards, because the effect on him would be the same (the floor pushing up on him). There is no way of telling the difference. I would suggest you think about it, but there aren't enough psychiatric beds available in the country to deal with the consequences. In other news, centrifugal force really doesn't exist. It is just Newton's first law of motion. Now, Newton I get. Einstein, on the other hand, is completely beyond me. I guess it all depends on what is meant by "exist" Great explanation by the way. For your next challenge, have a go at this : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_chromodynamics 1 Looking for something like a leaf blower....but for people. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadow Posted January 25, 2017 Share Posted January 25, 2017 (edited) 1 hour ago, Futtocks said: [spoddy physicist joke]She's a woman of strangeness and charm.[/spoddy physicist joke] That joke also works with Hawkwind fans. Insert Venn diagram here. Ask her what's up? Edited January 25, 2017 by Shadow Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Posted January 25, 2017 Share Posted January 25, 2017 41 minutes ago, JohnM said: I guess it all depends on what is meant by "exist" Great explanation by the way. For your next challenge, have a go at this : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_chromodynamics ?????? "Freedom without socialism is privilege and injustice, socialism without freedom is slavery and brutality" - Mikhail Bakunin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mumby Magic Posted January 25, 2017 Share Posted January 25, 2017 Small talk. There's a woman at work who'll always say "you alright?" as a greeting in a cheery but monotone like sound, Everytime she sees you. You can answer anything back and she'll say "good" because shes not listening and going through the motions of conversation. "no my cats died, my penis may need chopping off and the wifes has had 3 affairs in a month!" Reply? "good" In addition when people moan about being ill and someone says "there's something going around". No tish Sherlock else they WOULDN'T HAVE IT. Like poor jokes? Thejoketeller@mullymessiah Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnM Posted January 25, 2017 Share Posted January 25, 2017 33 minutes ago, Phil said: ?????? exactly....and we had to make a video about it! Looking for something like a leaf blower....but for people. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farmduck Posted January 26, 2017 Share Posted January 26, 2017 9 hours ago, tonyXIII said: I've trimmed your post to just the bit I'm interested in, sorry. I know I'm going to regret this, but. I watched a serious science program on BBC4 recently (I used catch-up, so it could have been ancient. It might have been "Inside the mind of Einstein", but I can't remember) and it made the case for gravity not existing. They tried to explain this position as (paraphrasing), It's not gravity, it's acceleration. To me, it sounds like someone is confusing cause and effect. In my world, gravity causes acceleration. In his world, acceleration causes us to infer gravity. Please don't ask me to explain it, it did my head in. The basis for his argument went like this. Imagine a box floating in space with a man inside it. The man cannot see out of the box (think of a traditional lift carriage) so he cannot tell if he is moving. He will not know if he is in a gravity field (falling at the same speed as the box) or not. Until the box begins to accelerate (let's say upward) . At this point, he will not know if he is in a gravity field or just a box accelerating upwards, because the effect on him would be the same (the floor pushing up on him). There is no way of telling the difference. I would suggest you think about it, but there aren't enough psychiatric beds available in the country to deal with the consequences. In other news, centrifugal force really doesn't exist. It is just Newton's first law of motion. Now, Newton I get. Einstein, on the other hand, is completely beyond me. To where is the Earth accelerating? Since acceleration is a product of velocity and velocity requires a direction (vector) what is the Earth's vector? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnM Posted January 26, 2017 Share Posted January 26, 2017 What's the vector, Victor? Looking for something like a leaf blower....but for people. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farmduck Posted January 26, 2017 Share Posted January 26, 2017 22 minutes ago, Johnoco said: Those ridiculous ads/links at the bottom of internet pages....'This is what the lead singer of Chicory Tip looks like now - its jaw dropping'. Or maybe 'man dropped his trousers, what happened next is unbelievable'. Stop it. Ads on the internet? What are you talking about? Never heard of AdBlocker? It's been around so long that even Apple finally "invented" it last year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derwent Posted January 26, 2017 Share Posted January 26, 2017 Having to fill in FATCA forms and send back to the bank to prove that I, a British citizen running a Company that operates purely in the UK , am not liable to pay American federal taxes. I’m not prejudiced, I hate everybody equally Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Griff9of13 Posted January 26, 2017 Share Posted January 26, 2017 51 minutes ago, Derwent said: Having to fill in FATCA forms and send back to the bank to prove that I, a British citizen running a Company that operates purely in the UK , am not liable to pay American federal taxes. I had to do mine last week. What a load of total male genitals. I don't know who you bank with, but the one Santander sent me was incomprehensible - I had to phone their help line to get their assistance in filling it out. my Santander business manager told me it's the same for everyone. "it is a well known fact that those people who most want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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