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Quote from: K_Dubb on September 11, 2022, 09:42:50 AMThat is difficult to swallow. 

What is not? BOB BOOM BOOM BOB-NEIL BOOM? I'll admit that sounds like a mouthful... it isn't.

I'm sure her tardiness was caused by climate change.

https://youtu.be/jfAHfomlMeA

Quote from: Juan on September 11, 2022, 10:44:13 AMI'm sure her tardiness was caused by climate change.

How can you be so certain with all those cocksmarbles in your mouth?

Quote from: Yorkshire pud on September 11, 2022, 09:50:47 AMShe died at her favourite residence and if the locals had had any desire to burn it down, they'd have done it by now.

I cannot explain the tardiness in getting her to Edinburgh 30 minutes later than expected. Perhaps a few of the tarten dressed subjects threw themselves in front of the convoy as a mark of respect?

I live near that residence; I have spent a lot of my life getting stoned in the hills around Balmoral. Most Scots would be mildly amused if the royals burned, but not if they were in Deeside at the time.

Unfortunately, my own sister - otherwise an intelligent, free-thinking being - disappointed me by following part of the route this morning in her car. An accumulation of such morons probably clogged our shitty two-lane roads and caused the delay. 

Quote from: BobGrau on September 11, 2022, 10:56:32 AMI live near that residence; I have spent a lot of my life getting stoned in the hills around Balmoral. Most Scots would be mildly amused if the royals burned, but not if they were in Deeside at the time.

Unfortunately, my own sister - otherwise an intelligent, free-thinking being - disappointed me by following part of the route this morning in her car. An accumulation of such morons probably clogged our shitty two-lane roads and caused the delay. 

Didn't Philip once quip to a driving instructor up there in Bonny Scotland 'how do you keep the locals off the booze?' And also commented that some junction box 'looked like it was put in by an Indian?' The former comment ironic since I think he decided, or had to, give up his driver's license after a crash.
I loved that guy, RIP. Isn't Balmoral also a brand of cigarettes and cheap cigars?

Quote from: albrecht on September 11, 2022, 11:33:15 AMDidn't Philip once quip to a driving instructor up there in Bonny Scotland 'how do you keep the locals off the booze?' And also commented that some junction box 'looked like it was put in by an Indian?' The former comment ironic since I think he decided, or had to, give up his driver's license after a crash.
I loved that guy, RIP. Isn't Balmoral also a brand of cigarettes and cheap cigars?

1) You will never keep the locals off the booze.
2) Yes... ever been to India?
3) I enjoyed his sense of humour, but grudged paying him to be rich.
4) ...Apparently yes, can't say they're popular around here, though.

Let's all boo hoo because the richest person who owns the most land in the entire world and indulged and supported Britain's biggest pedophile for decades (not to mention her sons) died at 96. Yeah, OK...NOT!

Quote from: BobGrau on September 11, 2022, 01:53:27 PM1) You will never keep the locals off the booze.
2) Yes... ever been to India?
3) I enjoyed his sense of humour, but grudged paying him to be rich.
4) ...Apparently yes, can't say they're popular around here, though.

The whole Royal deal is sorta weird. Though I've seen some defense of the institution as 'holding the countries and Common-Wealth together in nostalgia' and without the politics (at least in modern era.) There could be some valid point to this, as government come and go etc. But it is weird how many Americans are fascinated and follow all the Royal goings-on.

Enjoy the Buckfast and cheap cider and watch out for those wielding Stanley knives!

Quote from: albrecht on September 11, 2022, 02:11:16 PMThe whole Royal deal is sorta weird.

I'm sworn to secrecy, but... yeah. It is "sort'a weird."

I'm just glad I don't have a sister, at this point. *whistles nonchalantly in blood,Royal*

Quote from: BobGrau on September 11, 2022, 01:53:27 PM1) You will never keep the locals off the booze.
2) Yes... ever been to India?
3) I enjoyed his sense of humour, but grudged paying him to be rich.
4) ...Apparently yes, can't say they're popular around here, though.

5) I quit. Bureau of Ethanol, Landmines, and Timeportals can kiss my ass (tears up badge with incisors).

Quote from: Jackstar on September 11, 2022, 02:21:02 PM5) I quit. Bureau of Ethanol, Landmines, and Timeportals can kiss my ass (tears up badge with incisors).

Ah, come on. You'll never quit.

Quote from: albrecht on September 11, 2022, 02:11:16 PMThe whole Royal deal is sorta weird. Though I've seen some defense of the institution as 'holding the countries and Common-Wealth together in nostalgia' and without the politics (at least in modern era.) There could be some valid point to this, as government come and go etc. But it is weird how many Americans are fascinated and follow all the Royal goings-on.

Enjoy the Buckfast and cheap cider and watch out for those wielding Stanley knives!

It's as if when you win the ultra-capitalist game you get to benefit from a rather narrow-focused version of socialism.

Quote from: BobGrau on September 11, 2022, 03:11:11 PMAh, come on. You'll never quit.

I like this movie!

Quote from: BobGrau on September 11, 2022, 03:12:13 PMIt's as if when you win the ultra-capitalist game you get to benefit from a rather narrow-focused version of socialism.

Yep. Once you 'got yers' it is time to switch the game and keep it. And as you point a narrow-focused socialism helps keep the hoi polloi inline. Just enough to not get too rowdy. And dumb enough to not question things. And give them bread and circuses if they need to get some aggro out: Old Firm match. Go! Fight each other....meanwhile all of your houses are leased and I own them. Your farms are mine, you simply croft them. And I'll tax everything you do- even your tv that subdues you!

Quote from: BobGrau on September 11, 2022, 03:11:11 PMAh, come on. You'll never quit.

For a short window there was a, sorta, version of Buckfast here called Four Loko. A cheap caffeinated highly alcohol-by-volume drink. Highly popular in certain circles (high school kids and bums.) And, surprisingly, the side-effects to communities. It got banned and they settled with some government agencies after making $$$ and then produce it without the caffeine and 'energy' components. 

Quote from: albrecht on September 11, 2022, 03:27:43 PMFor a short window there was a, sorta, version of Buckfast here called Four Loko. A cheap caffeinated highly alcohol-by-volume drink. Highly popular in certain circles (high school kids and bums.) And, surprisingly, the side-effects to communities. It got banned and they settled with some government agencies after making $$$ and then produce it without the caffeine and 'energy' components. 

An English friend with a very distinctive accent (think Arnold Rimmer from Red Dwarf) went to University in Glasgow - he said he always carried a bottle of Buckie, so he could make friends with the various nutcases who wanted to kill him.

Quote from: albrecht on September 11, 2022, 03:24:31 PMYep. Once you 'got yers' it is time to switch the game and keep it. And as you point a narrow-focused socialism helps keep the hoi polloi inline. Just enough to not get too rowdy. And dumb enough to not question things. And give them bread and circuses if they need to get some aggro out: Old Firm match. Go! Fight each other....meanwhile all of your houses are leased and I own them. Your farms are mine, you simply croft them. And I'll tax everything you do- even your tv that subdues you!

I more meant the weird socialism of rich people living off the state, but you're on the right track.
Free the slaves! ...why should we feed them?

Quote from: BobGrau on September 11, 2022, 03:49:25 PMAn English friend with a very distinctive accent (think Arnold Rimmer from Red Dwarf) went to University in Glasgow - he said he always carried a bottle of Buckie, so he could make friends with the various nutcases who wanted to kill him.

HA! I once saw a kid trying to peddle a box (obviously stolen) bottles of booze on the street, right off George Square. HOURS later I saw him on the train swilling a bottle of Tia Maria pilfered but not able to sell, apparently. I'm thinking "kid you gonna have the worst hangover ever." I will give full credit to your land. The only place I ever felt a bit of danger was Scotland. Been all over Europe and UK but Scotland had a vibe. Not only like an old horror-movie with the rain, stone buildings, and dark but then the drunken kids, possible knife attacks, and hooligans. I loved it!

Quote from: BobGrau on September 11, 2022, 03:51:10 PM I more meant the weird socialism of rich people living off the state, but you're on the right track.
Free the slaves! ...why should we feed them?

This was done here with leased convict labor and indentured servitude. The logical progress of instead of slaves we must feed or house let us lease people and then socialize the costs of maintenance for their limited life-spans to the tax payer! A win-win!

Quote from: albrecht on September 11, 2022, 03:27:43 PMFor a short window there was a, sorta, version of Buckfast here called Four Loko. A cheap caffeinated highly alcohol-by-volume drink. Highly popular in certain circles (high school kids and bums.) And, surprisingly, the side-effects to communities. It got banned and they settled with some government agencies after making $$$ and then produce it without the caffeine and 'energy' components.

The night I got drunk on (four/for|4)Loko and had the worst vomiting experience of my entire life was the day before it got banned, and I had never heard of it before. I saw the story on the news and said "I got to get me some of that!!!" so I bought four of them (they were available down at the corner gas station that pollutes the creek so I knew they'd have some left, even though you think that with the band going off the next day they'd be hard to find, like collectors items, but no they had plenty.) and I didn't make it through even the first third of the third one before I was puking my guts out all over the floor and it was the most disgusting time I've ever had in my entire life.

Just ask my ex. By the way I am really remorseful for that. I'm sorry I put you through that, we are even forever due to that one moment, TOLL paid UP for everything you ever did. I'm so sorry you don't have to come back to me or anything but I do apologize, that was terrible. I'm very sorry. I still think of it to this day and it is one of the main reasons why I don't overindulge on the many things that I could be over indulging on: I don't want to end up like that ever again.

Quote from: BobGrau on September 11, 2022, 03:49:25 PMAn English friend with a very distinctive accent (think Arnold Rimmer from Red Dwarf) went to University in Glasgow - he said he always carried a bottle of Buckie, so he could make friends with the various nutcases who wanted to kill him.

Isn't Buckfast that dreadful concoction, brewed by the monks at Buckfastleigh in Devon? That abbey took centuries to build with no more than about a dozen working on it at any one time..Though the time was probably more to do with the pious masons being to use the vernacular "Out of their tree".

Reminds me a little of one of SV's acquaintances; Hailed from Dumbarton or a similar forsaken hole. A thin, bearded bachelor, Crispen Gandoon his name, who I believe could speak several languages and versed in Ancient Greek. And no slouch in the arts of Taekwondo, Karate and Judo. Naturally a black belt second dan in all three. He also surprisingly (His father being a Presbyterian minister) drank like a fish, and Buckfast was his favourite tipple. I think that was the demise of the relationship with SV because being 'a light weight' SV either wouldn't nor could keep apace of the rapidly inebriating Crispin.

Quote from: Yorkshire pud on September 11, 2022, 06:32:13 PM...Reminds me a little of one of SV's acquaintances; Hailed from Dumbarton or a similar forsaken hole. A thin, bearded bachelor, Crispen Gandoon his name, who I believe could speak several languages and versed in Ancient Greek. And no slouch in the arts of Taekwondo, Karate and Judo. Naturally a black belt second dan in all three. He also surprisingly (His father being a Presbyterian minister) drank like a fish, and Buckfast was his favourite tipple. I think that was the demise of the relationship with SV because being 'a light weight' SV either wouldn't nor could keep apace of the rapidly inebriating Crispin.

This is the sort of paragraph that a person on Buckfast will try to express to you. On the bus. When you're going to work. In your police uniform.

It's like meth that makes you sleepy, too.

Quote from: BobGrau on September 11, 2022, 07:07:34 PMThis is the sort of paragraph that a person on Buckfast will try to express to you. On the bus. When you're going to work. In your police uniform.

It's like meth that makes you sleepy, too.

Do the police routinely go to work on the bus? In the 70's Jasper Carrot did a thing about 'the nutter on the bus'. Oh those wuz the dayz.

Quote from: Yorkshire pud on September 11, 2022, 09:50:47 AMShe died at her favourite residence and if the locals had had any desire to burn it down, they'd have done it by now.

I cannot explain the tardiness in getting her to Edinburgh 30 minutes later than expected. Perhaps a few of the tarten dressed subjects threw themselves in front of the convoy as a mark of respect?

Oh well the locals liked her there because they could sell tea towels to tourists; it's the highlanders you have to worry about.  Fingers crossed for a rising of the clans!

Quote from: SredniVashtar on September 09, 2022, 04:47:27 AMThis is just brilliant. I'm already tired of the sanctimonious bullshit and we need people like this to give a sense of perspective.

What I found interesting was the take by our present PM (justine) vs. previous PM's and governor general's. All of the later focused on who they perceived her to be as a person or a leader (kind, funny, courageous) and the loss to the world. (Agree with them or not.)

However, our sniveling little skidmark of a PM took the opportunity to talk about how he will miss her, how he was feeling, and their talks. In the end, he even managed to twist her death into being about him.

*I would like to believe that "your people" at least had the good taste to not cry over how her death will affect them personally?

Quote from: WOTR on September 11, 2022, 11:59:40 PMWhat I found interesting was the take by our present PM (justine) vs. previous PM's and governor general's. All of the later focused on who they perceived her to be as a person or a leader (kind, funny, courageous) and the loss to the world. (Agree with them or not.)

However, our sniveling little skidmark of a PM took the opportunity to talk about how he will miss her, how he was feeling, and their talks. In the end, he even managed to twist her death into being about him.

*I would like to believe that "your people" at least had the good taste to not cry over how her death will affect them personally?

Am I allowed to cry over how her death will affect my wallet personally?

Quote from: BobGrau on September 12, 2022, 02:55:33 AMAm I allowed to cry over how her death will affect my wallet personally?

You mean that moth sanctuary you call a wallet?

Quote from: K_Dubb on September 11, 2022, 09:42:50 AMThat is difficult to swallow.

And it's not often we hear you say that!

Quote from: albrecht on September 11, 2022, 11:33:15 AMDidn't Philip once quip to a driving instructor up there in Bonny Scotland 'how do you keep the locals off the booze?' And also commented that some junction box 'looked like it was put in by an Indian?' The former comment ironic since I think he decided, or had to, give up his driver's license after a crash.
I loved that guy, RIP. Isn't Balmoral also a brand of cigarettes and cheap cigars?

Also, 'you cant' be Hungarian, you haven't got a pot belly.'
I think the full comment was, 'how do you keep the locals off the booze long enough to pass the test?'

I think it's safe to say that Prince Philip was your spirit animal. Yes, they do have Balmoral cigars, but they don't look particularly cheap to me. https://www.simplycigars.co.uk/dominican-cigars-balmoral-cigars-c-267_279_212.html

Quote from: SredniVashtar on September 12, 2022, 04:26:45 AMYou mean that moth sanctuary you call a wallet?

Well, I've got to feed you somehow. Anything more substantial just won't fit through the bars, also I'm not sure your delicate constitution could stand up to real meat.