Be Excellent To Each Other

Heh, I did actually remember that story when I smelled it and ran to Google to check which brand it was about but no, it's an Acer and there doesn't seem to have been any similar reports about their machines.

Holly Willowboobs, does Surpris, Surpriae now?

What the fuck? Obviously I meant Surprise, Surprise so why in fucks name did autocorrect let that crap slide? Autocorrect has been rubbish since iOS8. Facking thing.

Oh and Surprise, Surprise is on TV. It has a terrible studio and is relatively soulless now.

Right... Give me a minute.

Where's that forum handbook?

Autocorrect never corrects proper nouns as far as I'm aware. Your fault for capitalising them and then not performing a cursory check of what you typed.

She has done for a couple of years now.

I did check and then I left it in cause I wanted to moan about autocorrect. That much should have been obvious.

You wanted to moan about it doing what it was meant to do. Righto.

Health visitor commented today how nice it was to be in a house without a Christmas tree.

It would be nice if we'd ever seen a health visitor.

Not now of course, we're overloaded with the fuckers. But between two weeks and last week we saw no one. Which meant that my musing on 'Would anyone know if I just dug a big hole in the garden' leads to a somewhat concerning conclusion.

Off to buy a Christmas tree now.

Looking forward to Christmas at home.

Hilarious libel action news.

Judge satisfied that Andrew Mitchell DID say pleb. Case lost. Will be ordered to pay costs rumoured by BBC to be £2-£3 milly!

Left my hat at home today. Going around bare-headed has felt a little odd and I keep on reaching for it when I get up to leave a building then realising that it's not there. Glad it's not raining.

I laughed myself silly when I heard that on the way home. Couldn't have happened to more of a complete and utter cunt.

Me, too. Superb

6pm tonight. Leadenhall market.

That is mental....

Worst people in that clip were the photographers gathered to capture the action. Not sure I'm comfortable sneering at a load of poor people fighting over scraps. But that's probably just because I'm some sort of insane Marxist.

They aren't poor if they can afford to waste money on a telly they don't need.

Or it's possible they can only justify spending money on luxuries for Christmas presents when they're deep-discounted.

Why are people sneering?

I'm doing this

I'm sneering at the idiot who didn't think to move the stack of baskets out of the way of the door.

I'm sneezing. Who's given me a cold?

And thats how Hilsbor... actually, it's probably too soon for that.

When Harrods opens the doors for the Boxing Day sales and people run in, is that going to be poor people fighting over scraps too? Because I'm unsure how we've reached that conclusion, unless we're income profiling people who shop at Asda, want a cheap telly or behave like twats.

How's your telly?

Fucking Massive.

However I now been made to realise that I must be impoverished, so the happiness effect of a new television is more than offset by my realisation that I'm part of the downtrodden underclass.

Nice strawman.

This game is fun.

I believe that you'll find that the strawmen were:

1) Making an assumption that people were laughing at people because they are poor, and not acting like twats
2) Assuming that the people rushing into shops must be poor.
3) Combining the two into a rushed and lazy political narrative that in itself is actually offensive to the putative poor people by highlighting that the people acting like twats must be poor.

That's a pretty fair assessment of what happened. I apologise for my part of it as long as Mark does too.

I sent pregnant MrsA to get me a telly from Asda last year. She got the security guard to carry the telly from the stack to the checkout ("that one, please") then to the car ("over there, please"). She also bought a gnome, although it was unclear how that got to the car. Stupid gnome.

Jesus. I hate the fucking gnome.

I'd agree up to a point. Not on here but there has been quite a bit of exactly what I was talking about. As for profiling I'm probably guilty of thinking of the Asda where we do the weekly shop in which case I'd be pretty confident in my assessment. I don't know about that North London branch or perhaps what we were seeing there in the clip was actually a coachful of cardiologists who stopped off at Asda on the way back from their symposium for some bargain flatscreens, I don't know.

Best apology ever.

That happens to be the Asda up the road from where I used to live. To be honest I knew it would be before I clicked the link, because it's next to a really rough estate (Chalkhill) and very close to St Raphael's, and in both live some of the poorest people in the country, in an area where the cost of living is really high.

Any time there's a story like this they send the news crews there because they bet that this will be the way people react. It's not good, it makes me feel miserable, both the way the media target the area and that the people act this way.

It makes me feel sad that this is the profile of the area to the fact that the media go there in the expectation that they will get these shots here. Is it judgemental, or experience? One of those two estates is where my family are from. I lived on one for a bit. My mother, and my two lovely bright intelligent brothers (I know some of you have met Peter at the Christmas quiz) all still live there. It's a very poor area. Overcrowded, poor quality of life, high unemployment, drink and drugs problem. Material possessions seem very important to a lot of people there. The Ikea sale in Wembley often gets similar news crew attention any time they hold a big sale with one of those media grabbing discounts that sees people fall and push over each other to grab things for a discount.

Why do theatres have a booking charge?

To make more money

It's how they pay the nurses. All the NHS bucks go to the surgeons and 'admin'

Takes the piss does that. Taking money from the state then charging a booking fee. Cut subsidies to them unless booking fees are removed.

And as it's subsidised by taxpayers, only people in work should be allowed to go to the theatre.

The 1.75 booking fee per transaction in one theatre near me would only bring in 700k a year if it were full every night of the year by individuals. It receives 2 million a year arts council funding.

Jimmy Bullard has had me in stitches. He's a treat and reminds me of my dad.

From local paper:

So I was picking up the Grimlet's Hudl from the Tesco Direct counter, and the chap in front of me had bagged a 50" TV on Black Friday, and had come to pick it up.

Unfortunately, what he actually bought was a stand for a 50" TV. He took a look at the webpage again, and realised his mistake.

Interestingly, he still took it.

I was playing a game on the PS4 earlier and after someone with a rubbish name was SOUNDLY DEFEATED they decided for reasons that I don't know or maybe i use a girl's name to send me a message saying "Blowjob? ". So I reported them because of ethics in games journalism and now they probably are SOUNDLY DEFEATED once again.

MrsA and I took Focaccia to the new bar earlier. It was pretty good, with four cask ales and three keg ales and a selection of bottles. A man cane in and asked for a lager. "We don't sell lager" said the owner "only ales". No apologies for it at all. I would probably go again and take Britishnervoso

January!