Hi Pauly

Thanks – I read all that on the original post

I do not doubt your sincere wish to pay tribute to the amazing work of SAR services. I just think the video treatment is artistically misguided. The use of video gimmicks (like tiltshift) detracts from the seriousness of the message. Making the SAR helo look like a demented wasp waiting to be hit with a rolled-up newspaper does not in any way add dignity or drama to its mission.

And FYI, I have the ability to handle complicated ideas without the need for relaxation and breathing exercises – it’s called “being intelligent and well-educated”! 😉

A great idea – but you just know that when you’d nearly finished the puzzle, you’d find some vital pieces missing. In her case, just around the heart

Hi ton

Sorry I should have defined “reading”

It means “passing the eyes rapidly from left to right and from top to bottom over a printed text, so as to absorb its meaning”

and not

moving the hand rapidly upwards and downwards while holding the penis, while staring vacantly at idealised images of (to you) impossibly unattainable females

That was so awful I don’t know where to begin!

Tiltshift is utter amateur video cheese – why TF would you want decent video footage to be subjected to that treatment?

The work of coastal SAR teams is deadly serious – why on earth would anyone want to make a Lego version of it in the hope of making it more serious?

And as for lazily choosing your favourite vaguely-relevant music track, and then bunging it on irrespective of copyright issues and actual relevance?

This video demeans, trivialises and devalues the real heroism of the SAR people

15 posts in and still only one vote (mine) in favour of reading!

other than bikes and family

Skiing (I got my instructor licence in Jan)

and… (I know I could get banned from STW for being deliberately provocative here)

reading books

I don’t see why the whole thread doesn’t get deleted

I guess because the mods, quite rightly, want to educate us. They want to show how initially reasonable posts can get distorted and hijacked, and they want to show us the point at which we go over the boundaries. If the whole thread was deleted, you’d never be able to trace the progress of a post from reasonable to unreasonable content.

They stop it just before it become potentially intolerable, and I for one am grateful for their difficult balancing job

Ahah! Sorry – I sort of missed that bit

Yes I can see that if you want to keep the nutters at bay, you’ve got to close the whole thread

Apologies

a passion for german poetry of the 16th century

Now you’re talking, woffle.

If this post had been headed

Hans Sachs you beaaaaaauty!

I’d have had no cause to complain.

Sounds like a real Mensch, your grandfather

I forgive him for liking football

Getting back to grub for a moment…

http://theglenkindiearmshotel.com/

This is from their website:

Over 20 Malt whiskies and a comprehensive selectio of soft and non-alcoholic drinks.

This is also the main dining area , but should you so desire somewhere slightly quieter we do have a small separate dining room.

Menu
We offer a selection of homemade soups including Cullen Skink, Scotch Broth, Broccoli and Stilton, Mushroom, Onion, Chicken and Vegetable, Game Broth . (subject to change)

Starters include Prawn cocktail, Garlic mushrooms with garlic mayonnaise ,Venison patties, Crispy potato skins, Japanese prawns with a sweet chilli sauce plus many many more to choose from .

Main courses include Haggis, neeps and tatties , mince and tatties, Steak and ale Pie, mushroom and chicken pie, traditional Scottish steak and whisky and mushroom stroganoff, rib eye and sirloin steaks, again this is just a snippet of the main menu. There are also Fish and vegetarian dishes available in addition to a range of curries and spicy dishes.

Desserts include, Belgian chocolate waffle meltdown, clootie dumpling, mixed berry sponge, spotted dick and sticky toffee pudding.”

Originality of dishes and proofreading of menus presumably not included in this exclusive (and oh so typical) Scottish dining “experience”

a media chattel to be manipulated and exploited

LOL LOL at Parky!

He’s founded his entire career on manipulating and exploiting media chattels like film stars and soap actors

And of course he himself has been exploited as a media chattel by his agents and production companies

But then professional Yorkshiremen are not famous for self-awareness

Hi Woffle

I know this is much too late but:

The thing I don’t get is the compulsion/need to comment on things you profess to have no interest in

I have no interest in being a Nazi, but I’d like to be able to comment on Nazi ideology

I have no interest in football, but I’d like to be able to comment on the ideology of football

For example, the references in the above post to

the filth

Beelzebub’s lot

the scum

scumchester

I’d love it if he took them down, I’d love it!

shows that football is a violent and brutish sport, and those who slavishly follow it are prone to partisan attitudes which are ultimately highly undesirable

it’s mildly amusing

mild amusement isn’t really a contructive approach to the appalling problem of violence in football

the Chat Forum can be about anything that doesn’t belong on the Bike Forum

OK – so long as it doesn’t encourage users to view other users as “scum” or “filth”

But I know this is a hopeless appeal, because you like football

Ahhh … Nottingham!

How stupid of me not to have worked it out from the post title.

So it’s Nottingham Panthers

So who are the Steelers?

And the Blaze?

And where does Coventry come into it?

And how do they choose these ridiculous, posturing team names?

And what exactly is “panther”-ish about Nottingham?

Hi Boba

LOL again!

You’ve still not made the connection between your copious dictionary definitions and the band name “Pearl Jam”

Give in and I’ll tell you!

andywhit

I don’t believe football supporters wear purple pubic wigs!

Anyway, the hole’s too big

Wrong forum lads (I assume you are all lads – God forbid any female would want to post on this thread)

This belongs on the:

Inarticulate, cliche-ridden, poorly spelt and punctuated, written-as-spoken, macho-aggressive football bollox Forum

I know there isn’t yet such a forum on STW

No doubt one day there will be

Until then, please shut TFU

Steelers?

Panthers?

These pathetic attempts to mimic American team names are utterly nauseating – and confusing

So which one is Manchester? And which one is Coventry? And who are the Blaze?

Coventry Steelers? Manchester Panthers? Coventry Panthers? Manchester Steelers? Or is one (or both) of them the Blaze?

WTF is the EIHL?

And its ICE HOCKEY in this country (this is not Canada)

Spare us your solipsistic sports bollx – if you want to celebrate achievements in the sport you are interested in, don’t assume the rest of us are equally interested

As an attempt to promote your sport on this forum – FAIL

Brief Encounter

Taught me, too early, that women don’t want sex, they want security

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LOL @ Boba Fatt

A seminal album

Priceless!!!

Using PayPal is like posting your bank account details in your Facebook profile

Every time I’ve used it (3 times) within 24 hours I have received a spoof email asking me to confirm my bank details – i.e there are corrupt staff at PayPal who pass on details of recent transactions to criminals who then generate the “confirm your account details” emails

Also the Inland Revenue (or whatever the tax people call themselves nowadays)

The last 2 times I rang them about tax issues (because I owed them money), within two days I received a spoof Inland Revenue email confirming that I was due a tax rebate and asking for details of the account that the amount should be credited to – i.e there are corrupt staff at the Inland Revenue who pass on details of recent transactions to criminals who then generate the “confirm your account details” emails

No amount of internet account security measures can protect you against corruption amongst the staff of the organisations who are supposed to protect you

LOL at samuri

sorry to hear your cock is an eyesore – but if it makes a vagina sore, who’s looking?

sorry to hear your bollocks are ugly – make sure she can’t see them by making it impossible for her to look downwards

grizzlygus you are busted!

you are a total troll!

you know what “N e fule noe” means, because you linked it with Latin!

because you know about the importance of Latin to Nigel Molesworth, utterer of the immortal phrase “any fule kno”

Why would you want to disguise your intellect?

It’s like pretending you haven’t got an 8″ dick

Paying MPs a wage, was one of the great reforms of British democracy

I don’t dispute the need for a wage for MPs. Just like I don’t dispute the need for a wage for Starbucks baristas

I just think that they should be subject to the same economic principles

No shortage of applicants for Starbucks baristas = low pay
No shortage of applicants for MPs should also equal low pay

When the low pay starts acting as a deterrent to applicants, then it has to be raised to a level where people are once again attracted by the money

This is called market forces

Our MPs are very keen on these

It was your mental dimensions I was referring to

Sorry, you’ve lost me mate

Q E effing D!

For your information : Six foot one and, if I’ve had a hot bath and done me stretches, five-eighths.

Hi again grizzlygus

It was your mental dimensions I was referring to

It’s rubbish innit …

I never get it with poetry put it this way.

It’s not rubbish, but it is difficult sometimes!

Find a good teacher who can let you in on the secret.

You wil be forever grateful

zaskar that’s brilliant

just what I’ve found

birds love to think a bloke’s most important organ is his brain

until you introduce them to the other one

straight over my head

Obviously we wouldn’t have aim very far above the ground to do that

Hi grizz

Sorry I was trying to be polite

“puffs” being maybe a bit less gratuitous than poofs

or poufs

or pouffes

Is there an “authorised” spelling of the word as applied to a derogatory reference to homosexual men?

I’m Northern, you see. And the remark came from a pupil of mine, in my first year of teaching, in “an area of social deprivation” in the NW of England

he deffo said “Puffs”, with the “u” as in “up”

Bet you say “scowne” rather than “sconn”!

pk-ripper

didn’t you used to be the-yorkshire-pk-ripper?

why did you decide to “sever” your connection with Yorkshire?

Are you unworthy of that diginified origin?

There is no shortage of people wanting to be MPs

We need to apply to them the same economic logic society applies to people wanting to be bar staff – pay them as little as possible until the supply starts to dry up, then slowly increase their wages until just enough people are applying to fill the vacancies

So about £8 an hour should do it – with no expenses for spouses, socialite sons, parents’ houses or porn flix

my wife and daughters insisted because they said grey hairs poking up above a t-shirt neck was disgusting

so they did it – with wax strips, pissing themselves while I screamed with every tearing agonising moment

looked a lot better afterwards though

mind you that was last year

it’s grown back and we’re approaching t-shirt time again!

aaaaaarghghhh

Hi Winston

Yes I have read the book – I have had the pleasure of teaching it to A-level students

Orwell portrays Winston Smith not as a “gullible idiot”, but as an ordinary citizen, dominated by an all-powerful state apparatus, but driven by a sense that things could be better

Orwell’s point is that Winston’s perfectly reasonable, ordinary aspirations (keeping a diary, having sex with someone you love, doing an honest day’s work, smoking a decent cigarette) are subversive to the controlling state apparatus…..

I’m bored with giving this Politics 101 class

Go read the book yourself

nations where dissent is far more likely to result in death.

Like NI/NoI on Bloody Sunday?

LOL – I cannot believe that an STW member with the name WinstonSmith is sceptical about the ability of the state to control our lives. LOL LOL

Hi Stoner

So your name is Blair Peach and I am a police officer on riot patrol and I now smash your skull in with my baton

Or you are a NI/NoI citizen at a civil rights demo and I take both your eyes out with a baton round

Not very deadly?

OK Stoner

“willing to die” means

taking part in a perfectly legal street demo which the police and other paramilitary security organisations then decide to deal with under various bits of “anti-terrorism” legislation

and if you think that’s an exaggeration, Google “Blair Peach” or just look at what happened to civil rights demonstrators in Northern Ireland/the North of Ireland during the troubles

Would it hurt to pop down to the polling station?

That’s not what hurts.

It’s the feeling that I’m voting for someone to enrich himself/herself at my expense that hurts.

It’s the feeling that, because my wife has to work in London during the week, we have to bear the full cost of two homes, when MPs line their pockets by claiming ludicrous amounts for living with their sisters or claiming for their parents’ house.

People may have died for the right to vote, but I bet if you told them it was only the right to choose between Gordon Brown and David Cameron, they’d ask for their lives back.