Today I'm neither Angry nor Happy about....

[Gooner Girl]

it was a bit of a fluke - and you did leave yourself rather temptingly exposed!

I assume we are still talking scrabble here?!

are we? oh - errr.......

Have you been spying on me in the shower again Bish?!

i was just checking the paintwork...

[Bruce Rioja]

i was just checking the paintwork...

For erm...... clock springs, shall we say?! You said you would. And?

[Verbal]

I dunno what I am, really. But I've come to the conclusion that the internet has destroyed my love of discussing stuff.

I've done it a few times now when I've opened the politics thread on here, or another thread on another board I go on (hang the traitor etc), or with every ex-Students' Union n00b who's absurd partisan opinion obliterates my facebook wall. I've got through half a reply and just thought...what's the point? Nobody's going to listen really, are they? Just shouting into an empty cave.

Inevitably it just ends up with people on both sides baiting each other, taking their respective moral high grounds and then smugly smiling at themselves thinking "it's ok, because I'm RIGHT'. Or sutin, idk. It certainly how it feels most of the time.

I don't know what's happened to me. I used to love shit like this. Now I just abhor people involved who just trot out party lines, evoke Godwins law and offer feck all else. Obviously there are some exceptions but in the little corner of the internet I pervade it rarely happens.

That's it really. I'm kinda happy i don't do that anymore, but I'm sad that it stopped giving me joy. I'm just going to go home and sit in a corner, light a book and read a candle. And then realise that I meant to do it the other way around.

NB. It probably sounds like I'm having a go at everyone for no apparent reason. I'm not. It's just how the world looks these days. Even everytime I try and watch parliamentary debates I squirm. It's mirroring the internet. It's a cavernous vacuum. There's just feck all there.

[Prufrock]

Jebus wept Verbs! Belts and shoelaces.

Look at your avatar, that'll cheer you up. There is unbridled joy out there.

Me, I'm almost very happy. 18 hours 35mins away from being free after 9 days of the most intense examinations I have ever had by some distance. Bloody GCSEs and A-Level kids don't know they are born! My brain is mush, today I think I set a new low for drivel, (including at one point finding myself using the phrase 'no jury in the land would convict', in a fecking exam. Cross out and write something less ludicrous) and I'm trying to get my head around the joys of equitable tracing rules. S'all fun.

I'm going to be in a gutter in Manchester from around 12.32 tomorrow. Bring. It. On.

[bobo the clown]

I dunno what I am, really. But I've come to the conclusion that the internet has destroyed my love of discussing stuff.

I've done it a few times now when I've opened the politics thread on here, or another thread on another board I go on (hang the traitor etc), or with every ex-Students' Union n00b who's absurd partisan opinion obliterates my facebook wall. I've got through half a reply and just thought...what's the point? Nobody's going to listen really, are they? Just shouting into an empty cave.

Inevitably it just ends up with people on both sides baiting each other, taking their respective moral high grounds and then smugly smiling at themselves thinking "it's ok, because I'm RIGHT'. Or sutin, idk. It certainly how it feels most of the time.

Bravo.

This is precisely why I rarely intervene in the politics thread ... despite having a great interest in the topics.

You will never change a persons view, wind many up, certainly wind yourself up & still everyone, & that's EVERYONE talks fckg drivel whilst MY views are deep, thorough and impeccable.

[mummywhycantieatcrayons]

I dunno what I am, really. But I've come to the conclusion that the internet has destroyed my love of discussing stuff.

I've done it a few times now when I've opened the politics thread on here, or another thread on another board I go on (hang the traitor etc), or with every ex-Students' Union n00b who's absurd partisan opinion obliterates my facebook wall. I've got through half a reply and just thought...what's the point? Nobody's going to listen really, are they? Just shouting into an empty cave.

Inevitably it just ends up with people on both sides baiting each other, taking their respective moral high grounds and then smugly smiling at themselves thinking "it's ok, because I'm RIGHT'. Or sutin, idk. It certainly how it feels most of the time.

I don't know what's happened to me. I used to love shit like this. Now I just abhor people involved who just trot out party lines, evoke Godwins law and offer feck all else. Obviously there are some exceptions but in the little corner of the internet I pervade it rarely happens.

That's it really. I'm kinda happy i don't do that anymore, but I'm sad that it stopped giving me joy. I'm just going to go home and sit in a corner, light a book and read a candle. And then realise that I meant to do it the other way around.

NB. It probably sounds like I'm having a go at everyone for no apparent reason. I'm not. It's just how the world looks these days. Even everytime I try and watch parliamentary debates I squirm. It's mirroring the internet. It's a cavernous vacuum. There's just feck all there.

I share your frustration at what passes for political debate in this country. (Although I can't think of many shining examples of countries who do it better...)

I don't think it's too bad on here, incidentally - I have a few regular adversaries whom I know (or, at least, strongly suspect) to be decent people and not WUMs. Equally I generally find it pretty easy to ignore those I have no interest in discussing anything with.

I say don't throw in the towel. As long as whenever you discuss something it's for the right reasons and not just pointscoring, then I say we're all better off if you keep at it.

[TANGODANCER]

Bemused. "Community enforcement officer"....Traffic warden?

[thebish]

Bemused. "Community enforcement officer"....Traffic warden?

they work for councils "enforcing" stuff that councils have authority over and residents don't do..

environmental health, noisy neighbours, hedge wars, air pollution (bonfires!), graffiti, abandoned cars, owners of dogs that poo on playing fields, fly tipping... the list is endless...

[Bijou Bob]

I've always had a bit of a feeling I could write a book. Some time ago now, I started a novel, got chapter one out of the way and wrote chapter 2. Chapter one is safe and sound, printed version in a folder, but chapter 2, which took me a good week or more to write and a lot of time editing, is nowhere to be found. Strangely, I feel quite ambivalent about it whereas I really should be majorly pished off. Perhaps I'm just trying to tell me it wasn't very good

[Lord Kangana]

Wasn't it Dr Johnson who advised to strike through any of your own sentences that impressed you?

Or its something he might have said, anyway.

[William the White]

Wasn't it Dr Johnson who advised to strike through any of your own sentences that impressed you?

Or its something he might have said, anyway.

I bet he remembered every line he ever wrote, and gave his favourites a good stroking and fond pat every night before dropping off to sleep, and dream of dictionaries...

[Hoboh]

Wasn't it Dr Johnson who advised to strike through any of your own sentences that impressed you?

Or its something he might have said, anyway.

I bet he remembered every line he ever wrote, and gave his favourites a good stroking and fond pat every night before dropping off to sleep, and dream of dictionaries...

Did he write on his d**k?

[William the White]

Wasn't it Dr Johnson who advised to strike through any of your own sentences that impressed you?

Or its something he might have said, anyway.

I bet he remembered every line he ever wrote, and gave his favourites a good stroking and fond pat every night before dropping off to sleep, and dream of dictionaries...

Did he write on his d**k?

Is that short for dictionary?

[Hoboh]

Wasn't it Dr Johnson who advised to strike through any of your own sentences that impressed you?

Or its something he might have said, anyway.

I bet he remembered every line he ever wrote, and gave his favourites a good stroking and fond pat every night before dropping off to sleep, and dream of dictionaries...

Did he write on his d**k?

Is that short for dictionary?

You wouldn't stroke a dictionary......would you?

[William the White]

Wasn't it Dr Johnson who advised to strike through any of your own sentences that impressed you?

Or its something he might have said, anyway.

I bet he remembered every line he ever wrote, and gave his favourites a good stroking and fond pat every night before dropping off to sleep, and dream of dictionaries...

Did he write on his d**k?

Is that short for dictionary?

You wouldn't stroke a dictionary......would you?

Dr Johnson, I'm sure, regarded his dictionary very, very fondly, and with much pride...

[Hoboh]

Dr Johnson, I'm sure, regarded his dictionary very, very fondly, and with much pride...

Was that why he invented baby oil to stop his hands getting rough?

[William the White]

Dr Johnson, I'm sure, regarded his dictionary very, very fondly, and with much pride...

Was that why he invented baby oil to stop his hands getting rough?

I'm sure he had a premonition of the birth of hoboh when he got to the letter 'Z'...

ZA’NY. n.s. [Probably of zanei.] The contraction of Gio-
vanni or sanna, a scoff, according to Skinner.] One em-
ployed to raise laughter by his gestures, actions and speeches;
a merry Andrew; a buffoon.
Some carrytale, some pleaseman, some slight zany,
Some mumblenews, some trencher knight, some Dick.

[Lord Kangana]

Yeah, but he missed sausage, didn't he, eh?

[Hoboh]

Dr Johnson, I'm sure, regarded his dictionary very, very fondly, and with much pride...

Was that why he invented baby oil to stop his hands getting rough?

I'm sure he had a premonition of the birth of hoboh when he got to the letter 'Z'...

ZA’NY. n.s. [Probably of zanei.] The contraction of Gio-
vanni or sanna, a scoff, according to Skinner.] One em-
ployed to raise laughter by his gestures, actions and speeches;
a merry Andrew; a buffoon.
Some carrytale, some pleaseman, some slight zany,
Some mumblenews, some trencher knight, some Dick.

He needed help if if wrote like that!

[thebish]

Yeah, but he missed sausage, didn't he, eh?

Oh, I'm sorry, sir. I'm anispeptic, frasmotic, even compunctuous to have caused you such pericombobulation.