Another PR disaster. There will be some long faces at Findus this week.

Nice one! Made me chuckle anyway.

Absolutely loved Bladerunner when I was younger.
Find it poor in most apects now.

English Disco Lovers or EDL are putting the jive back into STW hive.
Go EDL, go English Disco Lovers go!

The problem for me has always been that I love cars and want to watch any car-related programmes on TV.

Unfortunately with Top Gear it means I have to watch a cross between a car programme and Last of the Summer Wine type humour.
Some of you obviously like that and are lucky to have your sense of humour catered for with some cars mixed in too.

For the rest if us it will always be a painfully cringing experience.

Do you seriously think a Tarantino film is meant to be a historical representation of the slave trade era?

No, I understand it’s a bit of throw away trash fun and not a historical documentary.
I’d still like to see him use SLJ for more than doing indignant, menacing, Jools-type speeches interspersed with “mf”.

The part where “Steven” psychically worked out that Django was connected to his wife at the dinner table was just lazy.
Also, QT’s accent went from Dick van Dyke, to Crocodile Dundee in two sentences.

Usually like Tarantino’s stuff but jeez that was poor.

Seemed to me to be a typically white version of slavery. Too much joyful shock-use of the N word.
Blazing Saddles type bit was painful.

Samuel L Jackson doing his usual S L J stuff. “Mutha-f*****”‘s completely out of context and period.
And ridiculous last half hour.

Woeful.

When we visited the Dalwhinnie distillery they told us to drink it how we liked, with or without water.
They also reckon it goes really well with Maltesers.

They ain’t wrong!

£140 combined per month.

I laughed a lot at that…… until I realized you weren’t joking

I guess you’re at the “kittens are cute” stage of your life.
Wait around, it’ll get even more beautiful.

Humans are great.
We’ve made the world we live in so interesting and beautiful.
We destroy beauty but also manipulate our environment to create astounding beauty.

A baked bean tin has as much intrinsic beauty as an untouched forest or glacial valley.

It’s a matter of opinion, not FACT.

No, no you are right, you are a wild-eyed loner standing at the gates of Oblivion. You need to hitch a ride on the last freedom moped out of Nowhere City. Either that or just grow up.

Made me chuckle.
Top work, sir!

I did well in a small-time way at online poker years back (multi-tabling on Pokerstars)
That equated to grinding out about £1500 over 6 months of tediously cautious play.
It paid for a few nice things but quickly became boring, even though I was ony playing on my time off between work shifts.

I still play occasionally but often find it too boring, become reckless and inevitably lose money.

Best: Stewart Lee
Worst: Frankie Boyle

We’ve got an in-line magnetic filter on our system.
It was a joy, recently, seeing the grey sludge around the core of the filter that could have collected in the boiler’s heat exchanger.

Plants vs Zombies.

Full, intuitive speech recognition that can understand the non-perfect sentences we use with each other.
For all aspects of our sedentary lives, e.g. Tv control, Google, Email, etc.

So, if I run the boiler at 50c for longer it will use less gas than running at higher temperatures for a shorter period of time?
(This is assuming the same room stat setpoint and good insulation)

33 degrees? Was that during a Provencale winter or an english Summer? 😉

As a kid I used to regularly come home from school and scoff a bowl of weetabix smothered in sugar before I had my dinner.

That didn’t make me fat.

Too true.

No point getting uppity about it, it’s only once a year!
Otherwise you risk sounding like a staunch teetotaller who glares with disdain when someone sips a small sherry.

To make it more punchy, what about:

“Standard. Maybe.”?

Yep. It’s called the off button.

…and that lets me see the cars how exactly?

First (mild) haterz post of 2013:

Is there an app for skipping all the “news” and studio bits and just seeing the cars? And if not, why not?

Awesomesauce! Kwallitty!!

U is well jel cos i is bare amazeballs, get me.

Ahem, a friend of mine did this until he was about eight years old. Then my friend had to go on a school field trip and stay in a room with friends for 3 nights.
Miraculously my friend stopped wetting the bed at this point.

The sequence from The Sound of Music when the father starts to warm to Maria and agrees to sing a song, and then sings “Edelweiss”.

Love that bit. *sniff*

I do wonder about the placebo effect on the taste difference between the veg from supermarkets and local greengrocers etc.
I’ve eaten veg from my own garden, from greengrocers and from Tescos.
Can’t say I’ve noticed a big difference. Maybe my palate isn’t as refined as some on here.

The thick of it is much better than any episode of YPM and I would prefer if the BBC didn’t squander my Licence fee on un-funny slapstick ‘comedy’ such as Mrs Brown’s boys – total utter tripe

I’d prefer it if they didn’t employ Clarkson and Hammond on Top Gear but it seems I’m in the minority.
Different folk like different stuff to you shocka!

Mind you, that doesn’t explain how Mrs Brown’s boys got aired.

…because it’s hugely popular?

Not my cup of tea but seems to attract decent viewing figures.

A lot of people seem to be really really hung up on the more generally proportioned. I don’t have an issue with them personally

So we can send the fatty council estate dwellers out as cannon fodder?

You do seem hung up on the generalisation that poor and being fat go hand in hand though.

Another +1 for Temple Grandin.
Wonderful film.

Good point! 🙂

Slight tangent. Does anyone else remember when it was the norm to talk quietly in restaurants?
Even in the Bernie Inns there seemed to be only quietly spoken diners.

Hate loud restaurants, ruins the experience.

Was it really aimed at “retards”? Are you sure it wasn’t for “spazzies” or “mongs”?

What are you, six years old?

the man was a machine on a bike

The man was (the best drugs taking) machine on a bike

***runs for cover***

From a ridiculously out-dated macho perspective:

Whenever I see a man driving a people carrier, I always imagine there’s a wife next to him keeping his balls in her handbag.

Sorry, but makes me chuckle and yes, I know it’s a stupid generalisation.

If you don’t care about cars (and I’m not saying you should) then get a people carrier.
They are generally bland utilitarian things.

With 2 kids there isn’t really a need for one…

Charlie Big Bananas.

Love that phrase! I will be using it for the whole of 2013 as if it’s my own.

Next stuff is so blaaaand though. Or is that just the stuff for men?

People are comfortable at different temperatures; it’s as simple as that.

I don’t want to sit in a (for me) cold house with six layers on.

People are also intolerant no matter what the temperature. 😉