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Lock-On promo

Oh and a kid at my wife’s school was called Lloyd Banks

And I’ve encountered at least two black girls called Bianca

There’s a farm near Gisburn Forest called Cocklick End

And there used to be a gynaecologist at Lancaster Infirmary called Dr Kunte

Came off my road bike on a patch of ice on a sharp downhill left-hand bend. While I lay stunned in the road, maybe a dozen cars drove carefully round me and my bike.

When I dragged myself off the tarmac and onto the pavement, several pedestrians carefully stepped over me and went about their business.

People of Carnforth, thanks for absolutely nothing!

Looking at that picture of FAS facial symptoms is very disturbing. Barak Obama seems to have at least some of those features

And a couple of my colleagues at work have several

And looking in the mirror, I see a couple in me!

Is it scientific, or is it bollox?

Premiere Elements here -its incredibly powerful but really easy to use

I made this little machinima promo with it

Lock-On promo

Hello CountZero

appropriate name!

look at the list of people sheldona’s listening to

Actually, old boy, if YOU read his post properly you’ll find he asks for

something else

So (DURRRR – that’s a reference to The Simpsons) recommending something like he’s already listening to is not a helpful response

and he may be

old enough to have heard of most as well

but that doesn’t mean he’s been adventurous enough to listen to them, does it now?

Not impressed by your claim:

I even have recorded works by a number of them

Most of the people I know have CDs (“recorded works” LOL!) by all of them – often multiple versions by different orchestras/conductors/soloists

Welcome to the world of middle class, educated people with musical tastes which extend beyond the popular

Go and expose your proletarian education somewhere else, there’s a good boy. I think this topic has gone beyond your intellectual capacity.

😉

From the old hymn

“Gladly, my cross-eyed bear”

U lot!

look at da post title – it say “new stuff”

me guessing dat sheldona nevva hurd ov any ov dese guys listed below – dey will all be “new” to him:

beethoven
mozart
handel
schubert
bach
chopin
schumann
telemann
grieg
elgar
britten

check dem out man – dey might just be “new” 2 U!!!

This is a meaningless, utterly solipsistic post

Playoffs in which activity, game or sport – curling? table tennis?synchronised masturbation?

I just about recognise:
Newcastle, Bath and Leicester as towns
Wasps as insects
Irish as a nationality
Quins as five children born at the same time to the same mother
Worc as Worcester or Worcestershire
O’Leary as the name of the appalling CEO of Ryanair
Sarries as utterly meaningless

What makes you think that the average STW member has any interest at all in whatever pointless sport you are trying to promote here?

Barbarian means “a person who can’t speak your language properly”

In other words a foreigner, an alien, an outsider, someone who doesn’t belong to the mainstream culture

So Welsh, North of Ireland, Scottish, Scouse and Geordie players are over-represented

Mind you, at the public school I went to, the Barbarians were all the rugby tossers who weren’t good enough for the 1st XV

And they certainly couldn’t speak English properly

LOL @ Sgt Papper!

I meant Sgt Pooper

The Beatles – Within You, Without You (Sgt Papper)

Little white rectangles with little red crosses here – have they been modded?

Saw a weasel and a handsaw the other day. No bluebells yet tho

OMG you are so right to be concerned if they are talking “some survived and fought their way back home” cos IIRC in the book only one survived and he went native, cos he helps the hero and his mate to escape with the eagle

Oh sorry just looked two posts up!

So that’s two votes for febreze

Someone told me he’d got good results with Febreze or similar “fabric deodorisers”

He said dry them thoroughly first, then febreze them until they surrender.

Not tried it on my skiboots yet, cos they were new last season and don’t honk that much yet, but it’s got to be worth a try

and fatally assaulted an innocent railway employee

Actually grizzlygus you are right. All they did was hit him on the head with an iron bar.

So that’s all right then

However:

something which he did over 40 years ago

Thirty years of which should have been served in jail, but weren’t, because he escaped, so he’s still got some time to do however old he may be

What’s the difference between a Nigerian email and an ebay transaction?

The Nigerian email only has a scammer at one end

upper class bellend boveys

LOL @ “upper class”

Anyone who equates class with money just hasn’t met enough people

The Boveys are upper class in the same sense that Alan Sugar is

MTFU and send the wife out to work

FFS being “foreign” is hardly a barrier to meaningful employment these days, legal or illegal!

Last night I dreamed I escorted the Prime Minister of India (a raven-haired MILF) to the premiere of Slumdog Millionaire. God it was the best dream I’ve had in ages

But where TF do these dreams come from? I’ve not seen Slumdog, I’ve no idea who is PM of India

But it was a beautiful, beautiful dream

‘Well I’ll go t’foot of our stairs’

A perfect example of an idiom – utterly impossible to work out the intended meaning by examining the actual words

[pedant mode] this actually should read “well I’ll go t’t’foot…”, because the full expression requires “to the” and therefore two apostrophes of omission are needed [/pedant mode]

Next time she asks your opinion, tell her it’s not up to you, it’s down to her.

[pedant mode] Most of the “idioms” on the idiomsite seem to be straight metaphors or even just aphorisms/truisms. The essence of a true idiom is that the listener/reader can’t possibly work out the intended meaning from the actual words, e.g “hard cheese” to mean bad luck [/pedant mode]

PE teacher?

10,000 words?

Someone’s havin a laff!

He’s still the same person. And it’s not ignoble to respect old people because of who they were when they were young, rather than who they become because of ageing

when you look at older people, what IS there to respect ? Greedy, self-centred, knowitall grumpy gits

My (still living) father-in-law served on HMS Indomitable when it was aircraft carrier support on Operation Pedestal, the convoy taking desperately needed supplies to an Axis-airforce beseiged Malta (Google it to find out just what a desperate situation this was at the time)

He then served in the Pacific against the Japanese

What is there to respect? If you don’t know, you’re very badly-informed

what’s the difference between tacos, fajitas and chimminchangos?

under a flag of parlay?

no white flags, or other considerations of “truce” were in operation at the time

If you hold a gun to someone’s head, you give that person, or someone acting on his/her behalf, permission to kill you

Most gratifying to see this principle in action

No footie talk tonight?

No until you came along, no – thank God!

Most of us were thinking about what draws us TOGETHER as human beings, namely our grief about the tragic waste of lives at Hillsborough

Rather than celebrating what divides us from each other, which is the unthinking tribal support of football teams

Only the usual.

Religion

Football

Shag/marry/divorce this or that

Brown/Bliar/Thatcha

What do do with old electric drills

What’s it like having kids

In other words, exactly as it was before, a massive collective search for the meaning of life

If during your absence you have learned anything about this, please post ASAP

this thread is useless without pictures

I remember school Geography lessons enlivened by the revelation that somewhere in the heart of Australia there is a place called Wankie

Hi GrahamS

I know this is a bit late, but FGS the guy who gets washed off the rocks is a complete moron. Huge waves are washing across the shelf he is standing on and by some freak of good luck it’s several minutes before he’s knocked into the sea – minutes which he should have used to work out that where he was standing wasn’t safe and he shouldn’t be there. He wasn’t plucked off the land by a freak wave – you can see, even in the distorted tiltshift view, that several similar waves had already passed over that rock shelf. He was an idiot who put other people’s lives at risk to get him rescued

To suggest that the supremely competent, well-equipped, well-trained, brave SAR people are

toys just like him and just as vulnerable

is utter rubbish. Their skill, experience, training and courage make them utterly different from him, most notably in their assessment and acceptance of risk

Back to film-making 101 I’m afraid – the duty to make it clear to your audience which characters deserve your empathy, and which don’t

You’ll know it’s gone through correctly if, withing 24 hours, you receive a spoof PayPal email asking you to re-confirm your bank account and credit card details

Corrupt staff at PayPal sell on details of recent transactions to scammers who then generate these emails in the hope that people who’ve recently dealt with PayPal will be less sceptical about emails from “PayPal”

Exactly the same thing happens if you contact the UK Income tax people

I think the idea is that the hours are compulsory but the area where you put them in is subject to some degree of choice

50 hours by the age of 19 is a staggeringly modest ambition

The youth demographic at whom this is aimed can easily put in 50 hours of aimlessly hanging around outside the local offie harrassing pensioners and little kids within the space of one Easter weekend!

And what choices will they be offered about where/how the hours are served?

50 hours building more MTB trails in Grizedale Forest? Great idea!
50 hours cleaning up chewing gum, dogshit and food wrappers outside Kendal McDonalds? Great idea!
50 hours shelving books in Kendal library/ That’s what I’d go for

with my wife and daughter, sleeping.

You’re not Austrian, are you? Named Fritzl?

“Mit meine Frau und Tochter schlafen”

Some phrases translate badly, I know

This is turning into what Americans would refer to as “Fimmaking 101”!

If you want to “emphasise the skill and bravery of the SAR team” you don’t film them using the same techniques that “show us as toys and insignificant specks”, because that way the SAR teams end up looking like toys and insignificant specks! LOL

Hi Pauly

Yes you are right – I missed that bit and I apologise for implying that copyright was not properly obtained.

Sorry if you felt my response was motivated by anger.

Where I come from, you can say that you absolutely, completely and totally disagree with someone, without actually being angry with them.

I hope you will accept that complete disagreement is not the same as anger.

I still hold to the view that the video treatment of this subject, including the soundtrack, is utterly inappropriate and amateurish.

But I’m really, really not angry about it 🙂