maxxi

???? Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Let's scrap global sport - terrible thing hey > Maxxii. You have a crap summer too. > > Huzzah for the Olympics. Hilarious! That's what I said is it? Let's scrap global sport? I am more than happy to have any amount of global sports events on my doorstep but also reserve the right to have a whinge if the staging of them pisses me off - even a little. The two things are NOT mutually exclusive, it aint an either/or thing y'see? What REALLY gets my goat is the bleating and bloody whinging of the so-called enthusiasts who bang on about miserablists spoiling their fun. If your fun can be spoiled so easily then it must be built on sandy foundations old son. If I was a huge fan of the games I would not let any amount of curmudgeonly groaning spoil one iota of it for me much less spend time attacking those responsible. I should smile at them and say "Fuck you mate, I don't care what you think I'M gonna have fun!" I might even go so far as drawing a biro tattoo of three rings on my forearm (not the whole five in case LOCOG was watching and not four 'cause Audi might want a piece of me) and wave a flag and cheer as a thousand grinning locals exhort us once more to rejoice and join in the collective grinning whilst watching the facial muscles of every newsreader and tv presentr go into a permanent rictus as they tell us all yet again how fucking amazing it all is and wheel on a 6 year old to show us all what the spirit of the games is truly all about. In short then - love the sport, think the women did a splendid job of kicking things off against the kiwis - hate the oppressive moaning of the 'Don't-spoil-it-for-me! Just rejoice' brigade. But then some people are only ever truly happy when they can point at other people and shout "There's one! He's a Games Denier!" That is how they measure the level of fun they are having.

I wondered how long it would be before the 'well-it's-here-now-so-let's-make-the-best-of-it' legions were out in force proclaiming "Just Rejoice!" And pointing fingers at those who said it was bread and circuses ("So what? Just Rejoice!") or that it cost billions too much ("So What? Rejoice you miserable fucker!") or that it was really all being run for the benefit of the Olympic Sponsors Family ("Now look sonny. I told you to fucking rejoice and stop trying to spoil it for decent honest ordinary folk!!"). Yes it will be 'fun' but so are a lot of things that are not about selling 'brand GB'. However in the spirit of not wanting to be singled out burned as an miserablist witch I agree, I'm drinking the Kool Aid, the Emperor's new wardrobe is stunning and the Mittal mess tower is beautiful and all the running and jumping will be splendid (and largely won by drug cheats). ("Don't get sarcy mate, it's for the kiddies!") Sorry, I meant... Huzzah.

All new cars should be fitted with a flashing brown light and 'raspberry' siren to alert other roasd users when such a calamity is in the offing - it wouldn't be confused with an emergency vehicle and it would help prevent road rage and facilitate a more courteous and understanding relationship between the city's thousands of motorists: "No, no, let him go. He's got his brown light on, he needs to pass more than I do the poor chap."

I shall be heading to SMB for a shito experience very soon...

El Pibe Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > You can get tailors in sainsbos as it goes. Yes, I used to get it at DKH but they haven't stocked it there for a while now. Maybe other branches still do.

I think the birds are all busy gorging on flying ants and the insectile mist that the recent warm weather has unleashed - when the mizzle returns then your feeders will be popular again - like the oppposite of an outdoor seating area at a pub. I had a coal tit coming to drink out of the top of a watering can yesterday and think that at the moment it's of more value to provide the local birds with some water for bathing/drinking and just cooling off.

Salsaboy Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I have a left hand. Does it know what your right hand is doing?

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Gingerbeer Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > So... > Does the UK have > anything similar to this? A challenging > walk/race/ride that *normal* people do just to see > if they can? Plenty of arduous and semi-arduouos treks to do - (though not many in the masses-of-folk-doing-it-together vein unless you have a large group of friends) - like the Penine Way, Three Peaks Challenge, Offa's Dyke, Hadrian's Wall etc. ... or if you have a few years to spare you could try doing The Munros. There are some 500 peaks in Scotland over 3000ft in height and climbing all of them counts as having 'done' the Munros. Like stamp collecting for people with iron thighs.

Just Flying Goose (red top) and Taylors Mustard but I use them all the time so hardly a 'treat'. Like the look of that pickle though...

Well if she doesn't fancy making money out of someone else's needs then maybe she should sell the flat and save herself grief. (just put in to pre-empt the deluge of "there are more landlord scams than tenant scams" posts this thread will prompt).

We've always danced on the edge of the flames - Kate Pierson

Annette Curtain Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Ms B Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > The man sitting next to me with his legs apart > by > > more than a 90-degree angle and his size 15 > feet > > centimeters from my bare toes in flip flops. > Why > > must they do that? > > > It's a male cooling issue Just be thankful he wasn't 'wafting'.

After all the high-fiving and back-slapping enthusiasm on here by local performers I am expecting it to be spectacular - or have you all just been told to say that?

This is only with regard to milk sold as fresh milk though and not milk bought to make supermarket cheese and other recipes - they have apparently not upped the price for that, so the protest will continue.

It is still Friday as long as you can manage to stand up and- *falls with a thud

Wait until your lease is renewed for the time you need - then give her both barrels and demand it is serviced by a gas safe engineer because without that SHE is breaking the law.

I think I'd rather have a chain than another overpriced tat shop like Old Villa... though I don't know if many food/drink outlets would relish opening up next to a funeral director... ooh, maybe a Nandos.

TillieTrotter Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > It had great pubs as I remember. Frog and > Nightgown, Dun Cow, Green Man, The Vic (Pages > Walk), Dogguns. Happy days! The Thomas-a-Beckett after the refurb - old boxing films on a big screen in the corner and the landlord and his wife doing mentalist tricks ("What am I holding?" "A set of car keys!") for the customers ...oh, and the occasional 'warehouse' party in the boarded-up fire station.

KidKruger Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Jah - yeah that's what I meant, Maxxi's > description when he mentioned the 'the original' > sounded like he/she was on about C&P. My fault - I should have been clearer. I meant the original short story by EAP which I first came across thanks to a tv adaptation back in 1975 by Andrew Davies (who adapted Micael Dobbs' "House of Cards" amongst other tv and film scripts). He was lecturing at Warwick University at the time and was a friend of my then English teacher (Coventry circa 1975) who exorted us all to watch - I did and that's when I got my first real taste (outside of the Roger Corman epics) of Poe - and I think that particular title stuck.

Impettes of the perverse?

KidKruger Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Maxxi - 'the original' you speak of sounds like > Roskalnikov. > > I think the best IoPs are when it's the urge to DO > something (which 'normally' is just not done). It's more like another of Poe's 'unnamed' narrators (like the narrator in The Imp Of The Perverse) in the Tell Tale Heart. The IoP being: "an impulse in human beings that impels them to act irrationally, without apparent motive. This strange whim or caprice may be irresistible and may cause a person to carry out an annoying or embarrassing act?or even an act that can result in death.

steveb Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > The Old Kent Road and Bermondsey at weekends in > the eighties Rounded off by DJ Dan Dare at the Harp Club in New Cross (before it became 'The Venue')

Handing over a nice crisp ?20 to buy some drinks in a pub and finding out it isn't enough.

KidKruger Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I think the Imp is the urge and the perverseness > of the urge, rather than the dishonesty/honesty > around admitting the deed, if the urge leads to a > deed. Anyway I was always straight with the > gifted one. Yes I was being a bit too literal - in the original the protagonist gets away with a heinous murder but the imp of the perverse keeps prompting him to do that which he really shouldn't, that which it would be crazy to do, i.e. confess to the crime. I think it's an urging to do not just that which is wrong but that which will cause the 'doer' great harm if they do do the thing they feel an urge to do (be do). A bit like posting something on this forum that would surely lead to an immediate ban. The urge is there - however strongly suppressed - in all of us; some succumb and some even do so on a regular basis leading to multiple re-entry personalities all of which end in expulsion. The I of the P is working overtime in some areas of Nunhead East Dulwich. B)