I’m not listening to that.

It might shatter a long held mental image. Kinda like a northern Barry White

It might shatter a long held mental image.

God I hope so.

Actually, if your mental image is that I sound like a thick Northern bastard, you won't be disappointed.

('Northern' being a relative term to a Scotlandshire person, of course.)

I’m not listening to that.

It might shatter a long held mental image. Kinda like a northern Barry White

Exactly.

May as well ask, is it about trousers?

Nah, that'd be pants.

Exactly.

Who are they?

In your defense, I think those who can think on their feet eloquently are few and far between. You only have to go on Radio 5 at about 10am to realise most general public people struggle to articulate when put on the spot.

Thank you, very kind.

I can think on my feet and I can be eloquent. Simultaneously though, not so much. At least half of my brain's CPU cycles were being dedicated to not accidentally dropping the f-bomb.

Did they make it clear that they were going to use what you were saying? That makes a difference as live or not if you know this is going out or potentially going out rather than just asking your opinion for their information you approach the problem differently.

Whoa.

Cougar. By day you keep the bad guys out... by night... you keep the bad guys out (or possibly in) you like to mix it up eh?

Is drac also in Sec-Ops?

I don't know how I expected Cougar to sound but that's not the voice I had in my head.

You came across well, unlike when I had a camera on me with my old job and I just went to shit. And when I did manage to talk out was just too cringe/cheesy to share 🤦🏻‍♂️

(‘Northern’ being a relative term to a Scotlandshire person, of course.)

Don't worry about perchy, his knowledge of the compass is limited to the west 😉

You were good- for no prep at all, that was much better than I could have done. Point was well made and explained clearly.

Keeping the bad guys out !!

No one gets past Absolute Alan

i've been stalked by sunglasses companies for weeks,
the missus last night playing some crossword app game she plays,
comments "that bloody melon opticians is harrassin me now"

I learned something there. Well done OP.

Don’t worry about perchy, his knowledge of the compass is limited to the west

I went to Harthill Services once and looked east.
Didn't like it.
Never went back.

Sec-Ops

I'm going to start telling people i work in Qua-Sur.

I was expecting a smooth-talking suave Roger Moore type, not quite what I got... 😀

Did a good job though, obviously not, err, a professional journalist, um, but made the point clearly.

I’m going to start telling people i work in Qua-Sur.

Tell em you work in sex ops like Cougar 👍

I’m going to start telling people i work in Qua-Sur.

Ah didn't you get the memo? The industry has specified

Bri-Cou

For your role.

Bri-Cou

What about the beans?

Is drac also in Sec-Ops?

No, I’m Am-Ser

smooth-talking suave Roger Moore type

Wrong side of the Pennines. 😉
RM.

Hang on - Alan?

Not a 45 year old blonde divorcee then?

I’s disappoint...!😀

It might shatter a long held mental image.

You're not joking. I genuinely thought Cougar was female.

Sexy accent 😂

I got interviewed on the spot for local telly, was in summer in a basement and not in my first (or even second) language. Wearing a grey T-shirt which changed to black over the course of the interview, from the pits outwards. There’s a drip off the end of my nose at one point.

Ah, I miss Pheonix nights!.

I was once interviewed coming out of a helicopter at McCarron airport by channel 8 news, a tourist chopper had gone down the day before killing all 6 poor souls on board.

Caught me completely by surprise tbh, I resorted to my broadest Ayrshire accent, the poor lass didn't have a clue what I was saying, which is just as well, cos I believe I even referred to the pilot as the driver. 🙂

I genuinely thought Cougar was female.

I would comment on this but then FB will start pushing cr@p my way, and I'm not even on FB!

What about the beans?

I thought you were beyond beans now.

Could we worse i am becoming increasingly suspicious i'm though of as a

CAD-MON

If you need a mental image to go with the voice this is what Cougar actually looks like

Kinda like a northern Barry White

I take it back.

Barry Chuckle.

In my head, Cougar has alway been a close approximation of Alan Rickman's Sherrif of Nottingham, except with a slight northern twang and a Farscape T-shirt.

Image shattered.

I totally need a Farscape tee-shirt.

Not a 45 year old blonde divorcee then?

I’s disappoint…!

As have been a number of hopeful teenage boys on Snapchat over the years.

I thought the origins of my nomenclature was well documented, it was originally lifted from the character in Top Gun back when I was still at college. Maybe we're due another 'where did your username come from?' thread.

Did they make it clear that they were going to use what you were saying?

Not as such, no.

I'm now imagining Top Gun dubbed with Northern accents 🤣🤣🤣

I take it back.

Barry Chuckle

Harry White, of Mark n Lard fame, fo sho.

Tha feels t'need....t'need for t'speed

"It's my job to keep the bad guys out"

So it is. 🙂

The things that pop up on Madame's Google feed tell me more about her interests and desires than she ever does herself. It's not that I use her phone but whenever she turns on her phone she starts talking about the stuff that pops up which is of course a reflection of her browsing.

I learned something from that - thanks Cougar - Coughs and sneezes spread diseases

I'm really lost now.
So Cougar ISN'T Brant despite both of them being on the radio?

So Cougar ISN’T Brant despite both of them being on the radio?

No, but I can see how you could get confused.

Brant makes the fetish trousers.
Cougar sells them in his sex shops.

Who else has a good job

Flasheart

Doo-Doo-Pap-Cli-Sel

Kayak

Woo-But

Me
Col-In

Coughs and sneezes spread diseases

Yeah, I've no idea where that came from. Nerves I think.

You know, I'd often wondered what Fred Dibnah would sound like after inhaling a helium balloon...

The question that strikes me is what are you doing listening to these 2 idiots on the radio?

Eddiebaby

I thought you were

Loc-Hac?

I thought he was a New-Hou ?

Alan? No, Cougar from on here is definitely female.

Alan?

His mum loves Easter.

Good stuff, I learned something there - ta. 🙂

I thought you were
Loc-Hac?

Used to be. More colouring in these days.

There was me thinking you'd said 'uncrossed knees, spread diseases'.  I think that says more about me than you, though I think I might use my misheard quote in the future 🙂

I've never listened to Absolute Radio’s Drivetime (obviously... as a graphic designer, I'm required to listen to 6 Music by law), but would I be right in picturing...

I am sure there was a poster on the wall of the convent that said that.

The question that strikes me is what are you doing listening to these 2 idiots on the radio?

In all honestly I wasn't doing so intentionally, it just happened to be on and it's inoffensive. The station I was turned to was Absolute Classic Rock, I listen to what the radio amusingly calls "Absolute CRock" when there's nowt better on Planet Rock. Pickings are thin on UK radio at the best of times.

I learned something from that – thanks Cougar – Coughs and sneezes spread disease

So, cougar is in sec ops and knows about coughs and sneezes.

is he the older woman we need to make somewhere covid secure?

Brant makes the fetish trousers.
Cougar sells them in his sex shops.

😀

Tha feels t’need….t’need for t’speed

😀 🤣🤣🤣

Class thread this.

I've had to go into my brain and re-wire the bit that has a mental image of Cougar so that the new image matched his 'new' voice. It wasn't an easy job.

If it's any consolation, so did I. You don't generally hear your own voice very often.

Just erm... is it only me that the fwd 30s button just goes back to the beginning? I have a phobia of radio DJs you see

You should go see a spin doctor.

I might give that a listen @Cougar thanks for sharing

Folks mentioned ads. I think it might have been on one of the various Wi-Fi or Internet threads on the forum that I heard about ‘Pi-hole’. I had a raspberry pi hanging around in a drawer and had it set up fairly quickly. Probably could’ve used my NAS but now I have more blinky lights in the cellar.

Pi-hole works as a local DNS server. It uses a mix of block/allow lists of internet domains and pattern-matching to stop machines on your LAN receiving data for their ad requests. Rather like a useful net nanny.

it doesn’t catch everything for various reasons. It has though changed so many sites from ‘😡 more 💩 space-filling ads’ to clean, empty space between content chunks.

lots of other ways to achieve the same result.

The piece starts at 11min 40s. @cougar is on at 15min 15s.

nice explanation. Brief. Liked your ‘coughs & sneezes’ response to their aphorism. Fairly common reaction in a tense situation where you try and fit in with the conversational norms.  Interesting that the guys jam together a few IT fears: ad targeting, mic surveillance, and webcam hacking.