SeanMacGabhann

WHAT is? Apart froma general insult you throw out all the time, WHAT is snobbery?

WTF is going on here? Are people GENUINELY saying that the salt/water/fat products of Greggs are genuinely tasty and no worse for you than some well made bread, olive oil and salad? Can you not - with no guidance from anything but your tastebuds - tell the difference between a sausage roll from EDD and one from Greggs If you genuinely think there is no difference or Greggs is better, it is not snobbish at all to suggest you are deluded. A suasage roll from Greggs is a thing made from balance sheets, of hate for it's customer, from the bowels of hell. Cut one open. Look for the suasage meat. If you find some... LOOK AT IT! What the hell do you think that stuff is??????? now, shite can hit the spot. By all means say it's your favourite thing. That's not an issue. But don't say it's no worse than a well made sausage roll. Because it emphatically is Stop hiding behind puerile insults at sandal-wearing Guardian readers, get over the chip on your shoulder and use your senses for the love of god

come on snorky - you have taken leave of your senses today

How does it sit? Not very coherently snorky. Who is talking about banning anything? And concentrating on fat content alone isn't especially useful either

yep - that's what I thought too when I reread it - but hey, I can't rewrite the past!

PGC - I don't know if this helps, but I went back to what I worte at the start of this thread and I think it might address some of your concerns ---- QUOTE Now I KNOW it's just a TV show and I would normally not bother starting a thread on it But then again it isn't just a TV show. It isn't even what it looks like it is ("what... some kind of US cop show with lot's of drug dealers and I can't understand what anyone is saying") - yes it looks like that but if you still think that after series 1 then you have been watching something else I like my entertainment. Heroes, for example, is keping me royally amused at the moment. But The Wire is simply Not. Like. Any. Thing. Else Someone once said that having seen it, watching The Sopranos was like watching The Waltons The other downside is that some people think "Oh if you like The Wire you will like..... [insert some other show here - The Shield is a common one]" - which is nice of them but never right It's not episodic. Each series is like one big show. Comparing the show to a novel has been overdone but no less accurate for that. Many people will not make it past episode 2 at best. Having heard so much about it, it won't have sunk in yet and it will be dismissed as "meh" You will see characters you ignored, or despised, or loved all become so darn personal to you, you will wonder why other shows can't do this You will get to THAT scene in episode 4, series 1 and a) laugh b) realise why this is different It isn't about good guys or bad guys it's about all of us and the systems we have to operate in, be it in our personal lives or our work lives. And how no matter how bad things get, changing them is nigh on impossible (bleak message - funny show. A bit like life I guess)

I especially like the "so many complaints" bit - redefining "so many" to mean "a small handful" For what it's worth I have bought largeish items in Mrs Robinson about 5 times in my 8 years here. I have had to go back just once. Every single time they have been friendly & helpful

TP18 - I may well take you up on that. See you at the next drinks?

see the "walks in south east" thread for details - let's leave this one footie related T ;-)

Oh I think it's only fair to let them come forward themselves, don't you? BTW do you have some auto-insert-graphic into every post thing going on CC?

Arrseted Development is on my todo list - I know too many people of taste who recommend this but I have just never got around to it. I will consider this thread a useful reminder. And will get back to it..

I'm aware of a number....

I can listen to only 3 U2 albums (Achtung Baby, Zooropa and some of the much-maligned Pop) Bono the persona is beyond annoying Bono the person seems more than aware of this and seems happy to dump his worst character traits into the persona, whilst remaining pretty solid himself. There are facets basically. Chris Martin just seems to be Chris Martin. WYSIWYG. One dimensional.

and this, ladies and gentlemen is ratty and quids Grown Up! What were they like before eh? (just teasing guys...)

Yesterday , hot and sunny, a ramble in rural Kent, followed by a couple of pints in Hoopers with Jah Lush watching Spurs beat Villa, putting the cap on a great weekend of results I'm sure there are better ways to spend a Sunday - I just can't think of them

We ended up following Eliza.D's suggestion of Eynsford yesterday - half an hour on the train (a fiver) and a great spot to pootle around. The day ended up being much warmer than we genuinely believed it would so excessive layers meant we didn't walk as much as planned but we will be back. And checking out the other suggestions on here too

As i read this i am chomping on said ham. Thumbs up from me

I just saw that dive this morning as well. Outrageous it was I want to add my tuppence to the liverpool praise as well. Any week where you stick 8 goals past real madrid and man u has to be a week to bask a little bit. Plus i think man u can lose it. . Keep believing

I dont think auntie has scheduled it yet. . They have just acquired the rights. I know they are stripping it across week nights tho.

I was there on thursday rosie. I didnt play anything but i know 2 guys who did.

Albion? Hibernia surely

Quids Like Huguenot earlier I balance that trip last weekend with the fact that I generally fly very little, and don't own a car. Nor do I subscribe to an idea that people should never drive. Or fly. Or whatever... I'm not anti any of these things (a point I often make but is rarely referred to) But when the demand for these things becomes a rallying cry (we must be allowed to do these things at any cost and no matter how congested it makes things) is when I pipe up and say "come on... it's easy enough to do without" by the by, it would have been more interesting if, in our earlier chat you had brought the subject up then, rather than chat merrily then come on here and have a pop ;-)

L Ron I'm merely suggesting that whilst you wait for monica to come back (if she does) you could read here previous answers to that very question in previous threads

I agree totally - all of THAT effort for an amount of money which equates to a week or two of lottery spend. You would think from the hoopla that it was nigh on impossible to pull that much money from the british public any other way

L Ron Hubble To be fair to monica here, you are merely asking the same set of questions many of the rest of us have asked here in the past. The same accusations of "magic" and "woo" have all been bandied about and it has become frequently fraught - and monica has, at length, set out here stall Now, I don't agree with her stall but it seems unfair to make her go through all the same hoops again - you can read here responses on previous (loooong) threads Here is one... monica answers plenty on here and we sceptics give plenty back As to the question why do some of us get so upset by people who believe in homeopathy - for me, it's not the homeopathy itself. It's the ability that humans have to suspend rationale which bothers me so - the ability to be led by what we WANT to believe rather than what is true and real. So, apart from practitioners of homeopathy, we have many people saying "what harm does it do .. leave them be". Well, I would argue that believing what we want to believe has historically (and hysterically) been very harmful So whether it's homeopathy, religion, the belief that the country is "flooded" with immigrants who all get priority housing, McCarthyism, witchcraft trials, Tobacco companies, pharma companies, national socialism yadda yadda yadda - it's not so much the perpetrators of these things that bothers me - it's the ability for large numbers of people to be suckered in and believe whatever they are told. Saying something isn't true doesn't make it so. Do people get better after homeopathic treatment? Absolutely! Is it that homeopathic treatment and the memory of whatver substance that caused the recovery? As opposed to the many other likely factors (natural regression to the mean, kindly human contact, more time with same etc) - I very much doubt it. But I'm open to being proved wrong. And that means tests and trials - just saying it is not good enough