Bits and Bobs 47

Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49232

MaliA wrote:

Why do places in India keep changing their names? I spent a good few minutes uses being confused as the graun said she was from Kalkuta which it turns out is Calcutta.

Usually because we give them their country back.

MaliA · **Posted:** Fri Sep 02, 2016 15:25

Cras wrote:

MaliA wrote:

Why do places in India keep changing their names? I spent a good few minutes uses being confused as the graun said she was from Kalkuta which it turns out is Calcutta.

Usually because we give them their country back.

Not recently. When did Calcutta and Bombay get renamed?

Kern · **Posted:** Fri Sep 02, 2016 15:27

MaliA wrote:

Not recently. When did Calcutta and Bombay get renamed?

Around 2000 I think.

myp · **Posted:** Fri Sep 02, 2016 15:30

MaliA a decade and a half behind the times, as his dress sense shows.

And it's Kolkata not Kalkuta, colonialist scum

Kern · **Posted:** Fri Sep 02, 2016 15:32

Lonewolves wrote:

MaliA a decade and a half behind the times, as his dress sense shows.

And it's Kolkata not Kalkuta, colonialist scum

কলকাতা , surely?

Kern · **Posted:** Fri Sep 02, 2016 15:34

I'm off to Poland next month. I keep on having to remind myself that I'm going to Gdansk, not Danzig.

MaliA · **Posted:** Fri Sep 02, 2016 15:39

Lonewolves wrote:

MaliA a decade and a half behind the times, as his dress sense shows.

And it's Kolkata not Kalkuta, colonialist scum

Not really, I don't follow Indian news frequently enough to work out that places names have changed and happened to notice because Mummy T is being sanctified.

myp · **Posted:** Fri Sep 02, 2016 15:44

MaliA wrote:

Lonewolves wrote:

MaliA a decade and a half behind the times, as his dress sense shows.

And it's Kolkata not Kalkuta, colonialist scum

Not really, I don't follow Indian news frequently enough to work out that places names have changed and happened to notice because Mummy T is being sanctified.

It's probably because I'm just better read. Madras is now Chennai and Bangalore is Bengaluru, if that helps.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renaming_ ... s_in_India

TheVision · **Posted:** Fri Sep 02, 2016 15:46

I made it onto Google Maps.

myp · **Posted:** Fri Sep 02, 2016 15:47

Are you the traffic light?

MaliA · **Posted:** Fri Sep 02, 2016 16:01

Lonewolves wrote:

MaliA wrote:

Lonewolves wrote:

MaliA a decade and a half behind the times, as his dress sense shows.

And it's Kolkata not Kalkuta, colonialist scum

Not really, I don't follow Indian news frequently enough to work out that places names have changed and happened to notice because Mummy T is being sanctified.

It's probably because I'm just better read. Madras is now Chennai and Bangalore is Bengaluru, if that helps.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renaming_ ... s_in_India

If it pleases you to think that way. I just thought they were different cities. Like there was one called Bombay and one called Mumbai but nothing newsworthy ever happened in Bombay anymore.

myp · **Posted:** Fri Sep 02, 2016 16:03

MaliA wrote:

If it pleases you to think that way. I just thought they were different cities. Like there was one called Bombay and one called Mumbai but nothing newsworthy ever happened in Bombay anymore.

MaliA · **Posted:** Fri Sep 02, 2016 16:15

Lonewolves wrote:

MaliA wrote:

If it pleases you to think that way. I just thought they were different cities. Like there was one called Bombay and one called Mumbai but nothing newsworthy ever happened in Bombay anymore.

It's not an unreasonable assumption to make if goings on in the sub continent is of only a passing interest to you. I'd struggle, for example, to name 3 things of note that happened in Norwich in the past few years.

Dr Zoidberg · **Joined:** 15th Oct, 2010 **Posts:** 5157

Lonewolves wrote:

Are you the traffic light?

I believe he's the Cube.

ApplePieOfDestiny · **Joined:** 17th Dec, 2008 **Posts:** 8293

MaliA wrote:

Lonewolves wrote:

MaliA wrote:

If it pleases you to think that way. I just thought they were different cities. Like there was one called Bombay and one called Mumbai but nothing newsworthy ever happened in Bombay anymore.

It's not an unreasonable assumption to make if goings on in the sub continent is of only a passing interest to you. I'd struggle, for example, to name 3 things of note that happened in Norwich in the past few years.

Letsby Avenue
Dead prostitutes
Probably a flood of some sort.

Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49232

The dead prostitutes was like 2005

ApplePieOfDestiny · **Joined:** 17th Dec, 2008 **Posts:** 8293

Cras wrote:

The dead prostitutes was like 2005

I was using few in a Brian cox sense.

Warhead · Noob as of 6/8/10

Mimi wrote:

Lonewolves wrote:

I assumed you and your lover were the centre of your world, with the centrifugal force in the song taking you away from each other.

That's not how centrifugal force works, though. If you were moving away from each other, then you weren't the true centre of the force, and just because you are moving away from the centre doesn't mean you are moving in opposing directions to each other. You could both be moving together away from the centre.

But really, I think Grim... Is right, and centripetal works better.

I don't think that the singer knows what she's singing.

Centriviggle.

Lyrics were by Beth Nielsen Chapman. Maybe she didn't tell Ms. Hill what they meant.

Lots of lyrics are rubbish anyway.

What I want to know why this filthy song wasn't banned by the Beeb.

What can I do to make light
Of this dull dull day
What switch can I pull
To illuminate the way

Show me one direction
I will not question again
For a warm injection
Is all I need to calm the pain

We all need a love
(resurrection, just a little divine intervention)
We all need a love
(resurrection just a little divine intervention)

What seed must I sow
To replenish this barren land
Teach me to harvest,
I want you to grow in my hand

Let's be optimistic,
Let's say that we won't toil in vain
If we pull together
We'll never fall apart again

lasermink · **Joined:** 31st Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 1883

Warhead wrote:

Mimi wrote:

Lonewolves wrote:

I assumed you and your lover were the centre of your world, with the centrifugal force in the song taking you away from each other.

That's not how centrifugal force works, though. If you were moving away from each other, then you weren't the true centre of the force, and just because you are moving away from the centre doesn't mean you are moving in opposing directions to each other. You could both be moving together away from the centre.

But really, I think Grim... Is right, and centripetal works better.

I don't think that the singer knows what she's singing.

Centriviggle.

Lyrics were by Beth Nielsen Chapman. Maybe she didn't tell Ms. Hill what they meant.

Lots of lyrics are rubbish anyway.

What I want to know why this filthy song wasn't banned by the Beeb.

What can I do to make light
Of this dull dull day
What switch can I pull
To illuminate the way

Show me one direction
I will not question again
For a warm injection
Is all I need to calm the pain

We all need a love
(resurrection, just a little divine intervention)
We all need a love
(resurrection just a little divine intervention)

What seed must I sow
To replenish this barren land
Teach me to harvest,
I want you to grow in my hand

Let's be optimistic,
Let's say that we won't toil in vain
If we pull together
We'll never fall apart again

Love the juxtaposition of those lyrics with your sig.

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 38464

It turns out that Americans pronounce centrifugal as sen-triff-ee-gull

Weird

Warhead · Noob as of 6/8/10

..... And 'nuclear' as 'newkuler.'

Tossers

Warhead · Noob as of 6/8/10

lasermink wrote:

Warhead wrote:

Mimi wrote:

Lonewolves wrote:

I assumed you and your lover were the centre of your world, with the centrifugal force in the song taking you away from each other.

That's not how centrifugal force works, though. If you were moving away from each other, then you weren't the true centre of the force, and just because you are moving away from the centre doesn't mean you are moving in opposing directions to each other. You could both be moving together away from the centre.

But really, I think Grim... Is right, and centripetal works better.

I don't think that the singer knows what she's singing.

Centriviggle.

Lyrics were by Beth Nielsen Chapman. Maybe she didn't tell Ms. Hill what they meant.

Lots of lyrics are rubbish anyway.

What I want to know why this filthy song wasn't banned by the Beeb.

What can I do to make light
Of this dull dull day
What switch can I pull
To illuminate the way

Show me one direction
I will not question again
For a warm injection
Is all I need to calm the pain

We all need a love
(resurrection, just a little divine intervention)
We all need a love
(resurrection just a little divine intervention)

What seed must I sow
To replenish this barren land
Teach me to harvest,
I want you to grow in my hand

Let's be optimistic,
Let's say that we won't toil in vain
If we pull together
We'll never fall apart again

Love the juxtaposition of those lyrics with your sig.

I hadn't noticed.

ApplePieOfDestiny · **Joined:** 17th Dec, 2008 **Posts:** 8293

So accidental night out to a vengaboys gig tonighht.

So much mental.

Mimi · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 25594

Russell has been away fur the evening and j am at Russell grandad house drinking with Russel grandad.

So drunk

Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49232

ApplePieOfDestiny wrote:

So accidental night out to a vengaboys gig tonighht.

So much mental.

I think my life has actually peaked.

Mimi · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 25594

Pesked!!!

Atrocious onthe vengabuus?

Mimi · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 25594

I'm
The fiuth most drunk ever

Mimi · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 25594

Have f go t to go t o the hairdresser at6:30 for baby first haircut lol and my first hair cut

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 38464

Mimi wrote:

Have f go t to go t o the hairdresser at6:30 for baby first haircut lol and my first hair cut

AM?

No chance

Mimi · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 25594

Russell's grandad can drink more than any of you little wimps Evers . Seriously, like to drink you under the table. I'm go

OMG till bring him to the cottage :DD

xxxx

Mimi · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 25594

Yes am what hair redder is open at nights.

Oh, tha seta s are Rav g cars. But only for babies

Boooooooooooo.

Mimi · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 25594

Anyway. I am going to go to bed and die now.
Good nights I live you X all X X nx

Warhead · Noob as of 6/8/10

Live you too, Mimi. Sleep well and don't die.

myp · **Posted:** Sat Sep 03, 2016 1:20

Mimi wrote:

Have f go t to go t o the hairdresser at6:30 for baby first haircut lol and my first hair cut

You've definitely had your hair cut before. I was there!

Mimi · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 25594

Urgh. Unsurprised X not bead.

Russell was at a wedding, so I was visiting Russell's grandad with Darwin, and Russell was going to join us later in the night. So we had a good day, playing, visiting the market and enjoying grandad's ace cooking, but when Darwin went to bed grandad noticed the tie and realised he's not had his medicine (medicine means a whiskey). I agreed to a drink to appease him. I said ok to Bacardi. I wanted 1cm, but he's not metric, so I just said half an inch of spirits, but he said it was the last of the bottle so put 3" of spirits in the glass, and apparently Coke but there was so much alcohol that it still looked clear.

Then I said I'd have a gin, but just half an inch. It was a new bottle, but after. Grandad's house measure it was 2" of gin, then again a burger drink, then another. So strong drinks . Then very drunk I kept trying to excurse myself as Russell was now home and he could try and out drink his navy drinking grandad, and I could go to bed, but no o should stay and now my head is going to fall off

Mimi · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 25594

I think my brain is pulling my eyeballs into it

Dr Zoidberg · **Joined:** 15th Oct, 2010 **Posts:** 5157

Drunk Mimi posts are a great way to start the weekend. Hope your head feels better soon Meems.

Mimi · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 25594

I thought I could shower the pain away, but I just got shampoo in my left eye. I have to go to tha hairdresser where I will be forced to sit at a mirror and contemplate my decisions and why I look so much like death this morning

MaliA · **Posted:** Sat Sep 03, 2016 7:16

Oh god London types will be arriving in droves

JBR · **Joined:** 2nd Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 3214

Maybe they'll get distracted on the way by the National Forest. Seriously, it's bloody fabulous here - and on a rainy weekend, too. Big project to re-forest an area, just the sort of grand thing I didn't think 'we' did any more. Parks everywhere you turn, paths, greenery; completely excellent.

MaliA · **Posted:** Mon Sep 05, 2016 15:06

Apropo cows

Malia wrote:

As their front legs are shorter than their back legs, moving downhill could help you escape[

I took a photo of a bull (called Fernando) at the weekend and it clearly shows how the short front legs would place the centre of gravity far enough forward to make it very tricky to proceed at pace downhill.

Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49232

I'm glad you came back to that conversation, it was very much a cliffhanger that needed a part two.

MaliA · **Posted:** Mon Sep 05, 2016 15:12

Cras wrote:

I'm glad you came back to that conversation, it was very much a cliffhanger that needed a part two.

It would probably fall over at this point.

markg · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 16560

They're well shit at climbing trees as well. If you see a tree get up there!

MaliA · **Posted:** Tue Sep 06, 2016 11:39

markg wrote:

They're well shit at climbing trees as well. If you see a tree get up there!

But they live for 200 years and only need to feed once a month. They will starve you out. Unless it is a plum tree. They are allergic to plums.

Warhead · Noob as of 6/8/10

Presumably the black one in the foreground has fallen flat while heading down a gentle gradient. QED.

MaliA · **Posted:** Tue Sep 06, 2016 23:17

Warhead wrote:

Presumably the black one in the foreground has fallen flat while heading down a gentle gradient. QED.

It..it didn't end well.

MaliA · **Posted:** Wed Sep 07, 2016 7:08

Stupid trains. I need to be in Bracknell for 11am and my train was cancelled. Now going to be late and there are 3 trains worth of people on one train. Looking for Corbyn.

MaliA · **Posted:** Wed Sep 07, 2016 10:06

On train number 4 now. Still an hour from my destination

Mimi · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 25594

Darwin has eaten the family artwork as it fell of the wall, (family scrabble mural, made with tiles I got from Beex Secret Santa).

I've painted a moustache on him as revenge whilst he sleeps.

Be Excellent To Each Other

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