Kate P wrote:

You expect me to believe that with Eddie Whatshisname's haircut and those specs?

Nah. Not falling for that particular story Riadach.

Maybe we should have a style thread...

johnfás wrote

Quote :

My mum still buys my socks...

Plain, I hope.

Anything else is unforgivable.

What an awful thing to say!

I was sporting a pair of these during the week...

Nice socks! Very Jon Snow.

Kate, Cactus Flower, thank you both for your concern. The 22-storey building in Moldova is becoming more and more concrete as a business idea. There has to be lots more like me who loathe IT with every fibre of their being. They would pay good money to push PCs, laptops, servers, Cisco routers and the whole dismal cornucopia of crap that constitutes the lifeblood of this awful phenomenon off the roof of a 22-storey building. I would consider it a theraputic exercise.

I could give his choice in neck ties a run for his money too.

Where do you buy them cookiemonster?

Slim Buddha wrote:

Kate, Cactus Flower, thank you both for your concern. The 22-storey building in Moldova is becoming more and more concrete as a business idea. There has to be lots more like me who loathe IT with every fibre of their being. They would pay good money to push PCs, laptops, servers, Cisco routers and the whole dismal cornucopia of crap that constitutes the lifeblood of this awful phenomenon off the roof of a 22-storey building. I would consider it a theraputic exercise.

I wouldn't mind fliging this horrid thing from the roof. It and it's poxy little red light. Red means danger and it ALWAYS delivers. 

johnfás wrote:

Where do you buy them cookiemonster?

In London town.

Brown Thomas stock them as well but they don't tend to have the really garish stuff (which I like) and they over charge. But their new men's department is much better than it used to be.

Slim Buddha wrote:

Kate, Cactus Flower, thank you both for your concern. The 22-storey building in Moldova is becoming more and more concrete as a business idea. There has to be lots more like me who loathe IT with every fibre of their being. They would pay good money to push PCs, laptops, servers, Cisco routers and the whole dismal cornucopia of crap that constitutes the lifeblood of this awful phenomenon off the roof of a 22-storey building. I would consider it a theraputic exercise.

Slim Buddha - born of bitter experience my only advice is back up every 3 hours onto a usb pen or similar. If it lets you down once it will let you down again. Or go back to paper and ink and line up a good typist.

I hate....the expression "utility room". It implies all the other rooms are useless.

cookiemonster wrote:

Kate P wrote:

You expect me to believe that with Eddie Whatshisname's haircut and those specs?

Nah. Not falling for that particular story Riadach.

Maybe we should have a style thread...

johnfás wrote

Quote :

My mum still buys my socks...

Plain, I hope.

Anything else is unforgivable.

What an awful thing to say!

I was sporting a pair of these during the week...

Why cm? Why oh why?

*puts on best pained expression*

They're amazing Kate... I couldn't afford 15 sterling a pair though. Why are you against us Irish men being fashionable

They are rather beautiful actually, and I've no objection at all to men being fashionable. I'm just not sure what the message is that they intend to deliver.

These too...

Kate P wrote:

They are rather beautiful actually, and I've no objection at all to men being fashionable. I'm just not sure what the message is that they intend to deliver.

Ah, the Declan Ganley of socks.

I think that second pair are the Michael Noonan of socks cm but it doesn't answer the question of 'why?'

Kate P wrote:

I think that second pair are the Michael Noonan of socks cm but it doesn't answer the question of 'why?'

I say why not. I'm forced to wear a suit and tie, so I defy convention a little by wearing some accessories that are a little more colourful than normal.



And on the days where I don't wear a tie at all somebody always comments on it.

cactus flower wrote:

I hate....the expression "utility room". It implies all the other rooms are useless.

I had a utility room until I flattened it with a sledge hammer and Kango one weekend. Great fun.

I hate when people adopt a victim attitude or that of a tiny minority when it usually unmerited.

An example: there are those who write the most stunted xenophobic drivel about immigrants and the imminent destruction of society and how these people are the scum of the earth, and then conclude with the line: 'but that makes me racist, right?' Ian O'Doherty is very fond of concluding some spiel about Muslims with that very line. Often no one has called them a racist but they claim that the reader is the bigoted one. A similar practice is seen in many denoucements of Israel which end in an entirely unwarranted 'but that makes me anti-Semetic, right?'

The other practice is pretending, or perhaps sincerely believing which is worse, that the whole world is against you and that you represent a tiny outcast minority. Kevin Myers is great for this sort of thing; conveniently forgetting that he is writing a prominent column in a widely read paper he acts as though he were an outcast preaching in the wilderness. To these people the world is dominated either by the Guardianista, Feminist Pinko-brigade or the Murdoch-NeoCon-Military propaganda machine.

I hate the fact that I hate Etihad doesn't form a palindrome, grrr!!!

Notlob.

cookiemonster wrote:

Notlob.

Bolton?

You not a fan of the Pythons, AT?

cookiemonster wrote:

You not a fan of the Pythons, AT?

Of course I am, it's just my brain don't work so well this evening!

905 wrote:

I hate when people adopt a victim attitude or that of a tiny minority when it usually unmerited.

An example: there are those who write the most stunted xenophobic drivel about immigrants and the imminent destruction of society and how these people are the scum of the earth, and then conclude with the line: 'but that makes me racist, right?' Ian O'Doherty is very fond of concluding some spiel about Muslims with that very line. Often no one has called them a racist but they claim that the reader is the bigoted one. A similar practice is seen in many denoucements of Israel which end in an entirely unwarranted 'but that makes me anti-Semetic, right?'

The other practice is pretending, or perhaps sincerely believing which is worse, that the whole world is against you and that you represent a tiny outcast minority. Kevin Myers is great for this sort of thing; conveniently forgetting that he is writing a prominent column in a widely read paper he acts as though he were an outcast preaching in the wilderness. To these people the world is dominated either by the Guardianista, Feminist Pinko-brigade or the Murdoch-NeoCon-Military propaganda machine.

Seconded.

ibis wrote:

905 wrote:

I hate when people adopt a victim attitude or that of a tiny minority when it usually unmerited.

An example: there are those who write the most stunted xenophobic drivel about immigrants and the imminent destruction of society and how these people are the scum of the earth, and then conclude with the line: 'but that makes me racist, right?' Ian O'Doherty is very fond of concluding some spiel about Muslims with that very line. Often no one has called them a racist but they claim that the reader is the bigoted one. A similar practice is seen in many denoucements of Israel which end in an entirely unwarranted 'but that makes me anti-Semetic, right?'

The other practice is pretending, or perhaps sincerely believing which is worse, that the whole world is against you and that you represent a tiny outcast minority. Kevin Myers is great for this sort of thing; conveniently forgetting that he is writing a prominent column in a widely read paper he acts as though he were an outcast preaching in the wilderness. To these people the world is dominated either by the Guardianista, Feminist Pinko-brigade or the Murdoch-NeoCon-Military propaganda machine.

Seconded.

+1.

Invariably, rants about how "the media" are so PC on any particular issue appear vastly more often in the media than any of the PC opinions that they are ranting against. They rarely include the merest reference or quote to demonstrate the existance of the phenomenon which so excites them. The notion that people should actually attempt to check whether the phenomenon exists - by trying to measure the prevalence of the PC opinion in the media against contrary opinions - before denouncing it to hundreds of thousands of people is so far off the radar that they would laugh at you if you suggested it.

I'm convinced that much of the time they just read about the existence of this PC media opinion on d'interweb and, enraged by the notion that anybody could possibly hold such a position, they rush off to denounce it post-haste.