Today I'm happy about......

[Worthy4England]

I was actually thinking of someone who was in attendance...someone had posted ringside seats for £750 each. £80 per second?

[Burnden Paddock]

I was actually thinking of someone who was in attendance...someone had posted ringside seats for £750 each. £80 per second?

Are you using Bobo's calculator?

[Worthy4England]

I was actually thinking of someone who was in attendance...someone had posted ringside seats for £750 each. £80 per second?

Are you using Bobo's calculator?

It was a question, as denoted by having a question mark on the end. You've passed the test.

[malcd1]

Not that I watch the boxing particularly, but I'd be pi$$ed off if I'd paid to see the Joshua title fight....92 seconds to beat the World Champion.

Do you not mean 92 seconds of Round 2? That would make it 272 seconds. Better value for money now, don't you think?

[Worthy4England]

There's an outside possibility, I might have had some sort of brainfart this morning..

[Montreal Wanderer]

There's an outside possibility, I might have had some sort of brainfart this morning..

Surely not. Weren't you just using the new decimal clock?

[malcd1]

There's an outside possibility, I might have had some sort of brainfart this morning..

Still crap value though.

[Prufrock]

Been pissing myself laughing the last couple of days at a bit of graffiti I have to walk past walking to and from the bud stop.

Some houses are being done up and the builders have put up those big white wooden screen/walls and someone has scrawled "down with cis" in massive red letters and then drawn an amalgam of those little male and female symbols (the circle with an arrow coming out and another with a cross).

That, ladies and gentlemen, is gentrification! That plus the artisan cheese and wine shop that had just opened must be doing wonders for house prices!

[Little Green Man]

Been pissing myself laughing the last couple of days at a bit of graffiti I have to walk past walking to and from the bud stop.

Some houses are being done up and the builders have put up those big white wooden screen/walls and someone has scrawled "down with cis" in massive red letters and then drawn an amalgam of those little male and female symbols (the circle with an arrow coming out and another with a cross).

You should scribble 'Kim/Roy was here' next to it.

[thebish]

little things can bring much joy...

today I bought a new kettle - I plugged it in, boiled some water and then poured some boiling water into my mug to make tea... and IT DIDN'T DRIBBLE HOT WATER EVERWHERE!! I have been so used to a dribbling piss-artist of a kettle, that I'd forgotten the simple pleasure of a kettle spout that does exactly what it should do!

[thebish]

on a more sublime note...

lovely sunset beckoning this evening - so took the missus and the dog and strolled down to the Babbacombe inn on the rocky shore of babbacombe bay and sat on the terrace with a pint of Otter (the missus with a large G&T) and watched the seal swimming around the pier...

[malcd1]

on a more sublime note...

lovely sunset beckoning this evening - so took the missus and the dog and strolled down to the Babbacombe inn on the rocky shore of babbacombe bay and sat on the terrace with a pint of Otter (the missus with a large G&T) and watched the seal swimming around the pier...

The simple things in life are the best Bish. Sounds great.

[Bruce Rioja]

little things can bring much joy...

today I bought a new kettle - I plugged it in, boiled some water and then poured some boiling water into my mug to make tea... and IT DIDN'T DRIBBLE HOT WATER EVERWHERE!! I have been so used to a dribbling piss-artist of a kettle, that I'd forgotten the simple pleasure of a kettle spout that does exactly what it should do!

You should pull in at a motorway service station for a cup of tea sometime, Bish. Dribble? Luxury. Those little metal tea pots that they serve your brew in there come with their own field of fecking gravity.

[bobo the clown]

Been pissing myself laughing the last couple of days at a bit of graffiti I have to walk past walking to and from the bud stop.

Some houses are being done up and the builders have put up those big white wooden screen/walls and someone has scrawled "down with cis" in massive red letters and then drawn an amalgam of those little male and female symbols (the circle with an arrow coming out and another with a cross).

That, ladies and gentlemen, is gentrification! That plus the artisan cheese and wine shop that had just opened must be doing wonders for house prices!

I'm guessing it's funnier than you're telling it. Maybe a photo will help.

Who/what is CIS , (other than the Co-op's insurance arm) and how does an amalgam of the two symbols look and how is it funny ?

We need to know.

[Gary the Enfield]

Been pissing myself laughing the last couple of days at a bit of graffiti I have to walk past walking to and from the bud stop.

Some houses are being done up and the builders have put up those big white wooden screen/walls and someone has scrawled "down with cis" in massive red letters and then drawn an amalgam of those little male and female symbols (the circle with an arrow coming out and another with a cross).

That, ladies and gentlemen, is gentrification! That plus the artisan cheese and wine shop that had just opened must be doing wonders for house prices!

I'm guessing it's funnier than you're telling it. Maybe a photo will help.

Who/what is CIS , (other than the Co-op's insurance arm) and how does an amalgam of the two symbols look and how is it funny ?

We need to know.

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Not a clue. Parisian balconies?

[LeverEnd]

Militant tranny joke presumably.
Cisgender being the opposite of transgender i.e. a pointless made up pc term for 99.9% of the population according to Google.

What I don't get is the humour to be found in it, and I'm someone who really likes Stewart Lee.

Anyway up yours Bobo you cis bastard!

[bobo the clown]

Aaaaah. A North London 'joke'.

Nurse ..... new undercrackers please.

[Gary the Enfield]

Aaaaah. A North London 'joke'.

Nurse ..... new undercrackers please.

Nope. Not here.

[thebish]

Been pissing myself laughing the last couple of days at a bit of graffiti I have to walk past walking to and from the bud stop.

Some houses are being done up and the builders have put up those big white wooden screen/walls and someone has scrawled "down with cis" in massive red letters and then drawn an amalgam of those little male and female symbols (the circle with an arrow coming out and another with a cross).

That, ladies and gentlemen, is gentrification! That plus the artisan cheese and wine shop that had just opened must be doing wonders for house prices!

I'm guessing it's funnier than you're telling it. Maybe a photo will help.

Who/what is CIS , (other than the Co-op's insurance arm) and how does an amalgam of the two symbols look and how is it funny ?

We need to know.

I'm not sure the graffiti is meant to BE a joke - or be funny in itself

(Pru finds all sorts of stuff hilarious lately!)

Cis is a term I have got used to in our household for some time now - my daughter uses it a lot. It means, simply, people who identify with the sex they were born into. People use it because other alternatives would be words like "normal" - which would carry the suggestion that other people are abnormal (which is rarely helpful psychologically).

It crops up in my household because I have one child (not so much a child now) who is gender dysphoric - a term referring to those people who feel there is a mismatch between the sex they were born into and the gender they perceive themselves to be.

if you were reaching for some kind of parallel - you could think back to the times when being gay was against the law and many people believed there were only a tiny number of gay people - and so what was the point of even having a word for people who are not gay - they are just normal people... I suspect nowadays you wouldn't describe people as gay or normal as you might have done back then (not that those are the only two choices - just by way of illustration!) So - we have the words "straight" and "heterosexual". At first, people thought it very odd that there needed to be such a word to describe "normal people" - and some were even cross when people called them "heterosexual".. "I'm not heterosexual, I'm just normal!" (etc.) - but we've kinda got used to it - it's no biggie, surely?

similarly, I suspect, with cis.

[Prufrock]

I have a picture but I can't upload it and I'm not creating a flikr account for you set of bastards.

It's funny because 1) I guarantee whoever wrote it is v middle-class, probably one of the students from the several halls of residence around here. There's nothing wrong with being middle class, or being a lefty student, or at least I hope not(!), but middle class graffiti just is funny.

2) "Down with cis". What is that? It's both stupid (down with cis? Really? Not down with transphobia, but down with cis. And not "cis people" but the adjective "cis") and unimaginative. Who says "down with" anything anymore. It's a bit too Father Ted.

Also, the little drawing is wank, but I appreciate you can't see that.

I've then been chuckling away to myself because I'm sure that anyone who wrote that slogan is also a person who believes in all the other student leftie idees de nos jours. Yet, as a middle class person, he or she has culturally appropriated the working class art form of graffiti AND violated my safe space as I have to walk past that sign, which, by the way, wishes doom on the gender that I self-identify as, every day on my way home to work.

So it's on many levels. Mainly the painful student earnestness of it though.