MaliA wrote:
DavPaz wrote:
MaliA wrote:
I would love to own a machine gun.
And there's the problem. Games and movies have made guns so... sexy. They're cool.
A cool, sleek, deadly, easy to use, sexy, child murdering instrument of horror.
Probably told this before:
When I was in Iowa, we'd been out drinking the night before and I wss chatting to the daughter of a baptist preacher. Anyways, the next day we're down at her dad's place riding horses and stuff, and he asks if we like to shoot. We agreed it would be most excellent, so he said "Boy, get the guns". Tje 12 year old disappeared into the house and reappeared a couple of minutes later. Over one shoulder was a shotgun, and the other was a rifle. We spent a most enjoyable hour with this preacher lobbing dinner plates into the air and us trying to shoot them. With the shotgun. Given the range, success was low. Turns out, we were shooting slugs, not shot, and the background foliage was getting a pasting. With the remainder of the plates, we plinked at them with the semi automatic rifle. We also had lemonade and listed to the guy's high opinion of Thatcher and how none of his guns were registered as he didn't trust the state. It was great!
A few days later, the daughter talked away us skinny dipping in a gravel pit to 3am to a policeman on the grounds of our nationality ("They're British. They..they do that") and as I left, she gave me lots of bumpf about being a better person. Which I totally read.
Was this before or after your stint as a Grime DJ?
In other news, Oxford City Council removes Aung San Suu Kyi's 'freedom of the city' award. Her star has really fallen over the past few months.
TheVision wrote:
MaliA wrote:
DavPaz wrote:
MaliA wrote:
I would love to own a machine gun.
And there's the problem. Games and movies have made guns so... sexy. They're cool.
A cool, sleek, deadly, easy to use, sexy, child murdering instrument of horror.
Probably told this before:
When I was in Iowa, we'd been out drinking the night before and I wss chatting to the daughter of a baptist preacher. Anyways, the next day we're down at her dad's place riding horses and stuff, and he asks if we like to shoot. We agreed it would be most excellent, so he said "Boy, get the guns". Tje 12 year old disappeared into the house and reappeared a couple of minutes later. Over one shoulder was a shotgun, and the other was a rifle. We spent a most enjoyable hour with this preacher lobbing dinner plates into the air and us trying to shoot them. With the shotgun. Given the range, success was low. Turns out, we were shooting slugs, not shot, and the background foliage was getting a pasting. With the remainder of the plates, we plinked at them with the semi automatic rifle. We also had lemonade and listed to the guy's high opinion of Thatcher and how none of his guns were registered as he didn't trust the state. It was great!
A few days later, the daughter talked away us skinny dipping in a gravel pit to 3am to a policeman on the grounds of our nationality ("They're British. They..they do that") and as I left, she gave me lots of bumpf about being a better person. Which I totally read.
Was this before or after your stint as a Grime DJ?
It was before the world went mad. I landed at Heathrow and the front page of the newspaper was Jeffery Archer imprisoned. A day later, my friend got married at the church at Windsor castle. I sat in a cardinal's seat at the back.
Happy Birthday to Zlatan Ibrahimovic. Oh and Grim... too.
Happy birthday Grim...! Hope you're not too drunk at work. 
Happy Birthday Grim...!
<KF2KLEEK> Three and a half fucking grand... </KF2KLEEK>
devilman wrote:
Happy Birthday to Zlatan Ibrahimovic. Oh and Grim... too.
I hope he didn't have to clean his own anus yesterday.
Zlatan, I mean.
Red Leicester Mini Cheddars are awesome.
surely they are mini red Leicesters.
Happy Birthday Grim...
AND also Siri!
AND also Siri!
Happy Birthday Grim...!
(I thought he was one of the December lot)
(I thought he was one of the December lot)
GazChap wrote:
devilman wrote:
Happy Birthday to Zlatan Ibrahimovic. Oh and Grim... too.
I hope he didn't have to clean his own anus yesterday.
Zlatan, I mean.
He did unfortunately. Phil Jones and the gang were too busy cleaning Grim...'s.
Thanks, gang!
Quiet today.
Sorry been working.
All was quiet here till a few minutes ago. Mum text me to say their car has broken down on the hospital grounds, so I've been speaking to the garage on their behalf. Unfortunately, this is where my lack of car knowledge lets me down
"What make or car is it?"
"Er, it begins with 'I'?"
"Ibiza? Insignia?"
"Insignia! That's the one"
.. on to where they've broken down..
"And is that opposite the Pinkstones Garage?"
"Er.. I've no idea where that is"
Thankfully they're on their way to my parents now, so fingers crossed it's getting sorted.
"What make or car is it?"
"Er, it begins with 'I'?"
"Ibiza? Insignia?"
"Insignia! That's the one"
.. on to where they've broken down..
"And is that opposite the Pinkstones Garage?"
"Er.. I've no idea where that is"
Thankfully they're on their way to my parents now, so fingers crossed it's getting sorted.
Zardoz wrote:
<KF2KLEEK> Three and a half fucking grand... </KF2KLEEK>
Dunno about anyone else, but I have no idea what you are referring to.
I imagine that's becausse yo're not part of the kleek that plays Killing floor 2.
Absolutely.
To be fair, I don't know either. But knowing Zardoz as I do, I'm fairly sure he's talking about how many times he's been arrested for public indecency.
My workplace has just hired someone called <boring first name> Calrissian - presumably Lando's more sensible older brother who did his PRINCE2 and became a project manager after the family business running Cloud City fell apart.
Call him Blando.
He'll love it.
Read the below article about 'the Hertfordshire big cat', see the images of dismembered deer. Then watch the video of the big cat someone managed to capture.
Graphic images within
http://www.hertsad.co.uk/news/graphic-p ... -1-5225784
Graphic images within
http://www.hertsad.co.uk/news/graphic-p ... -1-5225784
KovacsC wrote:
Sorry been working.
9 to 5?
That is absolutely no way to earn a living.
MS skyp IM thingy is the pits. So, whenever anyone just sends me an IM just saying "Hello"(which they do because they're twats) my response is to send a reply, a single word at a time, repeating the Lionel Richie song lyrics. It usually takes maybe 20 words before I get a STOP IT response.
This is also something that infuriates me. It's nothing to do with Skype though, it's people. People are terrible.
It would be terrible if someone DMed me Kissyfurs Skype IM details.
People do that with Whatsapp messages too. Send a sentence or two at a time.
Proper annoying.
Proper annoying.
Oxford Mail:Oxford artist fined £1,300 for killing pigeon in neighbour's garden
The accompanying photo is brilliant.
The accompanying photo is brilliant.
Kern wrote:
Oxford Mail:Oxford artist fined £1,300 for killing pigeon in neighbour's garden
The accompanying photo is brilliant.
The accompanying photo is brilliant.
that pose is copyrighted by Liam Gallagher surely?
Really busy at work at the moment, so much so that they've agreed for me to work on a project at home in the evenings for overtime. Looks like this will be ongoing for some time.
In todays post came a letter for me to attend jury service at the end of November.
In todays post came a letter for me to attend jury service at the end of November.
If they're really struggling then you can defer it once if your work can provide a letter stating that.
Yeah, we're aware of that, ta. Think they're just going to bite the bullet and let me go on the date mentioned.
There's a business case for us taking on a junior designer (something I bring up regularly when I'm due to go on holidays etc), hopefully this situation will add more weight.
There's a business case for us taking on a junior designer (something I bring up regularly when I'm due to go on holidays etc), hopefully this situation will add more weight.
I'm glad of the overtime at the moment too.
Kern wrote:
Oxford Mail:Oxford artist fined £1,300 for killing pigeon in neighbour's garden
The accompanying photo is brilliant.
The accompanying photo is brilliant.
Interesting how they just throw in the paedophilia at the end as an afterthought.
Perhaps he's acting out all the Tom Lehrer songs. For reasons of Art.
Erm, I really don’t understand the “controversy” of this “racist” Dove advert at all. It just reminds me of the end of Michael Jackson’s Black or White video.
Kern wrote:
Oxford Mail:Oxford artist fined £1,300 for killing pigeon in neighbour's garden
The accompanying photo is brilliant.
The accompanying photo is brilliant.
So is the issue him killing the bird or killing the bird when it was in the garden next door?
EDIT: Think the issue was he was a twat with the Police so they prosecuted him under some little-used law ( at least for pigeons)
I looked this up you can kill a large array of wildlife in your garden using a "general license" you don't need to apply for this just follow the guidelines.
This is what you can dispatch ...
Quote:
General licences
You can use a general licence to kill or capture certain wild birds (including removing or destroying their eggs and nests) to:
prevent the spread of disease
stop serious damage to livestock, food, crops, growing timber, fisheries or inland water
preserve public health and safety
conserve other wild birds
A general licence is for killing or capturing these wild birds:
feral pigeon
crow
collared dove
lesser black-backed gull
jackdaw
jay
magpie
rook
woodpigeon
Canada goose
monk parakeet
ring-necked parakeet
Egyptian goose
Satsuma wrote:
Erm, I really don’t understand the “controversy” of this “racist” Dove advert at all. It just reminds me of the end of Michael Jackson’s Black or White video.
I can see how it can be viewed as "use Dove and you too can become nice and clean like a white person". Whoever gave it the green light was an idiot.
asfish wrote:
So is the issue him killing the bird or killing the bird when it was in the garden next door?
If the bird was not in his garden and he shot it with an air rifle, he's lucky he's not gone to prison for 5 years. Firing outside of his boundary, or within 15 metres of the centre of a public highway, would be treated as a firearms offence (even though it's an airgun) and is strict liability - no defense. Punishable by 5 years in prison (minimum).
Cras wrote:
Satsuma wrote:
Erm, I really don’t understand the “controversy” of this “racist” Dove advert at all. It just reminds me of the end of Michael Jackson’s Black or White video.
I can see how it can be viewed as "use Dove and you too can become nice and clean like a white person". Whoever gave it the green light was an idiot.
I could watch it a hundred times and still wouldn’t get that impression. Not least because the white person immediately turns into someone else.
Satsuma wrote:
Cras wrote:
Satsuma wrote:
Erm, I really don’t understand the “controversy” of this “racist” Dove advert at all. It just reminds me of the end of Michael Jackson’s Black or White video.
I can see how it can be viewed as "use Dove and you too can become nice and clean like a white person". Whoever gave it the green light was an idiot.
I could watch it a hundred times and still wouldn’t get that impression. Not least because the white person immediately turns into someone else.
Sure. But if 10 people do have that reaction then it's a shitty ad campaign.
Cras wrote:
Satsuma wrote:
Cras wrote:
Satsuma wrote:
Erm, I really don’t understand the “controversy” of this “racist” Dove advert at all. It just reminds me of the end of Michael Jackson’s Black or White video.
I can see how it can be viewed as "use Dove and you too can become nice and clean like a white person". Whoever gave it the green light was an idiot.
I could watch it a hundred times and still wouldn’t get that impression. Not least because the white person immediately turns into someone else.
Sure. But if 10 people do have that reaction then it's a shitty ad campaign.
hundreds of people complained about that KFC ad where the call centre people spoke with their mouths full (for reasons ranging from it will encourage kids to speak with their mouth full to its insulting to call centre workers). Doesn't make the complainants any less stupid
I can only find a photo, is there supposed to be a video?
I had a look on Google Videos and found myself on a channel of some twat who was filming himself in his living room.
He couldn't describe who Dove was or what they sold but got straight into the fact everything was racist.
I suspect that 16900 of the 17000 views he had were people like me searching for some info and context
I didn't think (what I saw) was offensive, not sure if there was more to follow that may have given more context?
Did read Dove had run a positive campaign for some 13 years called Real Beauty
Sad thing is this will be a forgotten story by Wednesday as Trump will say something offensive or Boris maybe !
I had a look on Google Videos and found myself on a channel of some twat who was filming himself in his living room.
He couldn't describe who Dove was or what they sold but got straight into the fact everything was racist.
I suspect that 16900 of the 17000 views he had were people like me searching for some info and context
I didn't think (what I saw) was offensive, not sure if there was more to follow that may have given more context?
Did read Dove had run a positive campaign for some 13 years called Real Beauty
Quote:
"Real Beauty" ads have long centred around rejecting standard, racially insular notions of beauty while vowing to feature "real women of different ages, sizes, ethnicities, hair color, type or style."
Sad thing is this will be a forgotten story by Wednesday as Trump will say something offensive or Boris maybe !