*Bob*

Yes.. c'mon, Louisa. Let's have some more stuff about 'Yummies' or 'people with more money than sense'.. and then tell us honestly you don't enjoy popping your spoon in for just a leeetle bit of a stir from time to time?

it's the Tinkers you've gotta watch out for.

cobblers

Such is the efficiency of cowbearuk's STIR, the fallout has now found its way onto a thread... about stirring. Hats off!

The honours should go to cowbearuk on this one. Top stir.

Perhaps the Admin could fashion a new button (on the home page somewhere) to save 'stirrers' the tedium of having to register etc. If clicked, it would randomly generate some bit of inflammatory guff guaranteed to elicit a tonne of middle-class self-righteous indignation. Which isn't to say I didn't enjoy it all. Because I did.

1. Choose a topic guaranteed to mobilise a sizable portion of forum-readers. Houseprices, for example, is always a fave. Or incomers. Or children. Or, let's say, breastfeeding. 2. Retire to a safe distance and play no part in the ensuing debate, chuckling as a load of people who essentially agree become more and more polarised as the ante is upped with each posting. 3. Put the kettle on. Job done!

i like tits too

It's fantastically wanky. Mrs *Bob* and I say it. But only in mocking tones.

No programme of films as of yet - 'classic movies' is all that it says. Though due to the proximity of residential housing to the boundary of The Herne I'm guessing 'Pulp Fiction' is off the agenda. Other stuff they're doing: a couple of beer festivals; Punch & Judy (good, clean, wifebeating fun for all the family), Village Fete and Pig Roast.

From a glossy flyer, courtesy of The Herne: They're going to be doing (amongst other things) 'Screen in the garden': showing classic movies outside during summer and serving 'film food' to the viewers. Any thoughts? I imagine opinion will divide along the usual battle-lines of old ED v new ED etc etc This important and up-to-the minute information has been brought to you thanks to the magic of "working from home", ie being immediately distracted the instant anything drops through the letterbox. Possibly followed by half an hour of Jeremy Kyle on the goggle-box

James, As I think someone quite rightly pointed-out earlier in this thread: most men couldn't care less. It's women really seem to take offence.

Nice one, Damien.

This whole thread is pointlessly polarised. No-one here has said breastfeeding is a bad thing, nor should breastfeeding Mums hide themselves (and their jubblies) away from the stares of the hoi polloi. Just that someone who (apparently) is making a point of 'being seen breastfeeding' - by as many people as possible - is perhaps being a bit of a tit. Personally I couldn't give tinker's cuss!

How true, Ganapati. My guess would be that, on the one hand, men see knockers as a bit of fun. Jugs are paraded in front of them on a daily basis in the tabloids. Girls in the street are happy to display the lions share of their melons in skimpy clothing for all the see.. and many a simple fella has been cheered by way of a sideways glipse of some finely-shaped hooters (through a pair of mirrored sunglasses) I dunno. Maybe women are just less mature about these things.

batdog Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > The point is that hoax or not any site that > promotes cruelty against animals and exploitation > should be considered illegal and criminal.... (td) I would have thought the main point is that whilst 'Bonsai Kitten' is not "a hobby of some rich families in the far East" nor is the site "based in New York and owned by a Chinese man", millions of people were still happy to believe it with no other evidence other than a spam email sent by a group of students - and sign a petition to that effect. To me, this is the interesting / worrying thing.

batdog Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > This aint a joke !!! > The www.bonsaikitten.com site Good news, Batdog Bonsai Kitten is (and always has been) a bit of online japery. It's a hoax.

In a few years.. of course.. Which reminds me - I must creosote that fence. Next summer. Or the one after.

Indeed. But then there is the small matter of having some vision, designing it, financing it, sourcing the right materials and seeing a potentially nightmarish build through to completion. These things explain why most people don't 'just build their own'. Otherwise, we'd all be millionaire property developers by now. Andyng Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > didnt it cost ?800k to build both on grand > designs? If so I would rather build my own > rather pay full price.

Technically, I think that would be 'flashing' as opposed to 'indiscretion'. Give it a go - the police will let you know.

I don't deny that there may be a blatant boobfeeder in Nero. Can anyone confirm the WR story? What about the attempted "Rabbit Snatch" from Upland Road? I'm sure you can see why I might a tad bemused. And amused - they did make me laff. More please, Cowbear. On the subject of public breastfeeding (since we're on it), there are always extremes. Mrs *Bob* would not have sat in the window of Nero with both jugs a-swingin' for all to see - but seeing it wouldn't offend me. I should imagine I'd probably be trying not to laugh. And such women at least help 'push the envelope' so that most people can these days breastfeed publicly but with discretion without being burned at the stake.

I'm at a total loss to explain how a series of amusing (and obvious) comedy postings have managed to generate 'face value' reponses. Get a grip!

Muttley Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Substitute Japanese/Jap for > American/Yank in the various comments around this > forum and most people would probably feel a bit > uncomfortable. I agree. But only because it wouldn't make any sense. Japanese baitery would call for a different set of references. But both are infinitely baitable. The Japanese get it less because they are quietly strange. Americans get it more because they are omnipresently irritating. Broadly speaking, of course. But then that's what national stereotyping is all about.. Broad strokes.

Twas just to make the point, really - not because I think it'll happen. The point being, that if you let Shop A bend the rules just because a chunk of people like the place and they've tidied up a bit of shop front, then you've already lost the battle when Shop B comes along and does the same thing. And there are a lot worse chains than Nero and TWS out there..

Have to say I agree with iamyamyam Nero this time. Who next? The Colonel? Ronald?