Today I'm angry about.....

Winter Hill White · Post by **Winter Hill White** » Tue Apr 27, 2010 12:41 pm

Prufrock wrote:Well, apart from Strangeways and Anderton, I've never even heard of all these wonderful old named places, and would have no idea where they were, now I'd be fairly confident, so I guess so people know where they is 'what they acheive' and I'd suggest that mightly a slightly more valuable attribute than nostalgia when it comes to place names....

P1ss off with your logical line of thinking, Prufrock - that's not what this thread is about.

Prufrock · Post by **Prufrock** » Tue Apr 27, 2010 12:44 pm

Winter Hill White wrote:
Prufrock wrote:Well, apart from Strangeways and Anderton, I've never even heard of all these wonderful old named places, and would have no idea where they were, now I'd be fairly confident, so I guess so people know where they is 'what they acheive' and I'd suggest that mightly a slightly more valuable attribute than nostalgia when it comes to place names....
P1ss off with your logical line of thinking, Prufrock - that's not what this thread is about.

This thread is about what I say it's about, since I started it, I'm terribly sorry if I gave the impression it was a democracy

Though you are right, my apologies. Those bastards! Down with change, keep things the same, down with change, keep things the same!

TANGODANCER · Post by **TANGODANCER** » Tue Apr 27, 2010 1:59 pm

It's an employment thing: Keeps the Prufrock-type thinkers in work. Government make new departments for inventing politically correct names, sign makers set up to make the plates and council workers go on overtime fitting them. Good government obviously. Tradition has no place in the new English way of life. "The New Churchgate Pasty Establishment" anyone

Lord Kangana · Post by **Lord Kangana** » Tue Apr 27, 2010 11:51 pm

Winter Hill White wrote:. . . . the standardisation / anonymisation (is this a word?) of names of places. All the evocative and comforting real names are disappearing.

I want to stop at Forton Services, not Lancaster Services. "London Gateway Services"? F*ck off - it's Scratchwood Services.

Strangeways isn't allowed any more - it's HMP Manchester. "HMP Manchester, Here We Come" doesn't quite have the same Smithsonian ring to it, does it?
And no longer can you scale the wall at Parkhurst - you have to escape from HMP Isle of Wight.

What does it achieve? Changing the perfectly acceptable "Anderton" to "Bolton West" doesn't make it any less of a sh1thole. I'm not more or less likely to need to stop for a slash because it's called "Northampton Services" rather then "Rothersthorpe". I'm not suddenly going to stop nicking stuff from the Bullring because I'll be locked up in HMP Birmingham rather than Winson Green.

That's all.

Yes yes and thrice yes. I can't have imagined that Salford Central station now has Manchester somewhere in the title, have I? Is this for the hard of understanding? How long is it before we have Bolton (near Manchester innit) station?

Verbal · Post by **Verbal** » Wed Apr 28, 2010 2:26 am

Lord Kangana wrote:
Winter Hill White wrote:. . . . the standardisation / anonymisation (is this a word?) of names of places. All the evocative and comforting real names are disappearing.

I want to stop at Forton Services, not Lancaster Services. "London Gateway Services"? F*ck off - it's Scratchwood Services.

Strangeways isn't allowed any more - it's HMP Manchester. "HMP Manchester, Here We Come" doesn't quite have the same Smithsonian ring to it, does it?
And no longer can you scale the wall at Parkhurst - you have to escape from HMP Isle of Wight.

What does it achieve? Changing the perfectly acceptable "Anderton" to "Bolton West" doesn't make it any less of a sh1thole. I'm not more or less likely to need to stop for a slash because it's called "Northampton Services" rather then "Rothersthorpe". I'm not suddenly going to stop nicking stuff from the Bullring because I'll be locked up in HMP Birmingham rather than Winson Green.

That's all.
Yes yes and thrice yes. I can't have imagined that Salford Central station now has Manchester somewhere in the title, have I? Is this for the hard of understanding? How long is it before we have Bolton (near Manchester innit) station?

I'm pretty sure you've imagined that, LK.

jimbo · Post by **jimbo** » Wed Apr 28, 2010 9:50 am

Having to get up early for a tutorial which is then cancelled as the tutor is on the other side of the world.

thebish · Post by **thebish** » Wed Apr 28, 2010 2:37 pm

Prufrock wrote:Right, away from Politics for a bit, and reminded by the Doctor Who discussion on t'other thread....right during the big epic climax to the show, the cliffhanger, "THere is one thing you never put in a trap if you are smart, if you value your continued existence. If you have any plans about seeing tomorrow, there is one thing you never, ever, put in a trap" "What's that?" "Me" *causes a big explosion.....title music*, an animated fecking Graham Norton advertising the Over the Rainbow thingy, which was on NEXT. Adverts between programmes for stuff on in the future I can deal with, adverts between programmes for what is on next drive me nuts, you're advertising what is on next, but if you weren't advertising it, it would be on NOW, and I could see that it was on, without wasting my time your time and every f*cker involveds time. A programme telling me what is on next right in the middle of what is on now is beyond stupid. Even if I did want to watch it, it'd be pointless, coz as soon as any good bits came on, you'd start telling me what came after them.

And....breathe.

you'll like this then, Pru....

http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/arts ... 004262675/

Prufrock · Post by **Prufrock** » Wed Apr 28, 2010 3:04 pm

I read that this morning, it did bring a smile

Puskas · Post by **Puskas** » Thu Apr 29, 2010 12:39 pm

Today I am angry about:
1) The idiot roller skater on the pavement when I went for my dinner just now. He was roller-skating backwards, doing some sort of "Ooh, look at me, I'm dancing" thing. F*ck off. If I want to watch children being idiots, I'll, I don't know, hang out in some area with high knife crime and watch them stab each other. And expecting others to move out of the way for him, because he was going backwards and couldn't see them is particularly c*ntish.

2) Children in general. Little bastards. Why can't they be packed in boxes and not let out until they're in their, I don't know, mid-twenties? Eh? If any political party offers a solution to the Child Problem, they have my vote.

3) Things. By which I mean situations, mostly, but some objects, too.

4) People. Most of them, anyway. I've included all of them, because I'd rather accuse some unfairly than let any get away.

5) The pain in my neck. A literal pain in the neck. Meaning I can't move my head to the right very far. I'm currently hoping it's meningitis, because that would be a blessed end to this misery of existence.

Raven · Post by **Raven** » Thu Apr 29, 2010 12:41 pm

Puskas what you actually mean is people and I'm with you on that.

Bastards the lot of them.

boltonboris · Post by **boltonboris** » Thu Apr 29, 2010 12:49 pm

Prufrock wrote:I read that this morning, it did bring a smile

Did you enjoy the final paragraph?

thebish · Post by **thebish** » Thu Apr 29, 2010 12:53 pm

a few pages back someone ranted about the media adding "gate" to anything that was slightly scandalous - after Watergate...

well - today I heard Brown's gaffe described as "Bigot-gate"

aggghhhhhhhhhhh!!!

Zulus Thousand of em · Post by **Zulus Thousand of em** » Thu Apr 29, 2010 1:05 pm

thebish wrote:a few pages back someone ranted about the media adding "gate" to anything that was slightly scandalous - after Watergate...

well - today I heard Brown's gaffe described as "Bigot-gate"

aggghhhhhhhhhhh!!!

Rochdalegate - shurely?

Prufrock · Post by **Prufrock** » Thu Apr 29, 2010 1:11 pm

boltonboris wrote:
Prufrock wrote:I read that this morning, it did bring a smile
Did you enjoy the final paragraph?

haha yep, though in fairness I was ranting about it as an example of them doing it over everything, so I'm not counting myself amongst that lot

Raven · Post by **Raven** » Thu Apr 29, 2010 1:56 pm

Depression...fecking hate it.

Should be a "celeb" and get some of those naughty drugs they seem to be the cure for all these poor depressed "celebs"

Gary the Enfield · Post by **Gary the Enfield** » Thu Apr 29, 2010 2:27 pm

Zulus Thousand of em wrote:
thebish wrote:a few pages back someone ranted about the media adding "gate" to anything that was slightly scandalous - after Watergate...

well - today I heard Brown's gaffe described as "Bigot-gate"

aggghhhhhhhhhhh!!!
Rochdalegate - shurely?

Cow and...?

Gary the Enfield · Post by **Gary the Enfield** » Thu Apr 29, 2010 2:31 pm

Raven wrote:Depression...fecking hate it.

Should be a "celeb" and get some of those naughty drugs they seem to be the cure for all these poor depressed "celebs"

Depression is what we mortals get. It is an awful, debilitating illness.

The 'celebs' who suffer from 'depression' and, laughably, 'exhaustion' can generally be cured by a stroke of the ego.

Bruce Rioja · Post by **Bruce Rioja** » Thu Apr 29, 2010 6:27 pm

thebish wrote:a few pages back someone ranted about the media adding "gate" to anything that was slightly scandalous - after Watergate...

well - today I heard Brown's gaffe described as "Bigot-gate"

aggghhhhhhhhhhh!!!

Oh, see, I'm actually rather hoping that one day something mildly untowards happens in Bradshaw.

Puskas · Post by **Puskas** » Thu Apr 29, 2010 6:29 pm

Bruce Rioja wrote:
thebish wrote:a few pages back someone ranted about the media adding "gate" to anything that was slightly scandalous - after Watergate...

well - today I heard Brown's gaffe described as "Bigot-gate"

aggghhhhhhhhhhh!!!
Oh, see, I'm actually rather hoping that one day something mildly untowards happens in Bradshaw.

Maybe it's the just the fact that I'm stuck in work, waiting for folk to finish, before I can knack off, but that amused me.

Have a small round of applause. But don't let it go to your head...

Prufrock · Post by **Prufrock** » Thu Apr 29, 2010 6:31 pm

Bruce Rioja wrote:
thebish wrote:a few pages back someone ranted about the media adding "gate" to anything that was slightly scandalous - after Watergate...

well - today I heard Brown's gaffe described as "Bigot-gate"

aggghhhhhhhhhhh!!!
Oh, see, I'm actually rather hoping that one day something mildly untowards happens in Bradshaw.

Involving Messrs Holdsworth, Gaffney and Windass.

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