I’ve got a big heavy box of menswear to get in my car.

lifting shirts again, Jamie?

I’ve really got to bag up all of this confectionery ready to send out.

packing fudge again, Jamie?

My dog keeps sniffing people’s bottoms.

Bums against the wall when you’re around eh, Jamie?

This is the structure of the “joke”. The context makes it no better.

Well, from your list, I’ve advise you to get somewhere:

1. In the catchment area of a good school,
2. big enough for the family,
3. in good condition,
4. that you can afford.

My invoice is in the post 😀

Sorry.

Your list of requirements is very generic (nothing wrong with that) so I suspect you’ll get some very generic advice too.

Generic advice from me:
Off street parking
Not on a flood plain
Garden big enough to pitch a tent/play football
Potential for man cave (garage, shed, box room)
Dining kitchen (makes cooking a social, not a solitary, experience)

The most important factor would be the location, because it’s the one thing you can’t change later.

Well, I guess it comes down to how you pronounce the word ‘fail’.
I could be in a minority group here because of my accent, but it comes out in two syllables…

I think Shakespeare has set a precedent here 😀

LADY MACBETH
[…]And dash’d the brains out, had I so sworn as you
Have done to this.
MACBETH
If we should fail?
LADY MACBETH
We fail!

This scene is written in iambic pentameter. That is, there are ten syllables to each line. In this scene, to increase the tension, Shakespeare has Macbeth and Lady Macbeth say a bit of a pentametric line each. In short, the speech in bold (my bold) should add up to ten syllables. If “fail” is pronounced as a single syllable each time, there are ten syllables in total and the metre of the play is preserved. If “fail” is pronounced as two syllables, the metre is disrupted and the speech becomes prose.

Conclusion: By assuming “fail” to be a single-syllable word, whoever wrote that haiku is merely following in the footsteps of The Bard of Stratford 😀

CM, I agree with you. “Poo pusher” is an unpleasant playground insult for gay men, and I think it has no place on here. Mods, I think you made the wrong call by letting it go.

I’m a teacher. Playground homophobia is thankfully dying. The kids in my fairly rough-arsed West Yorkshire school rarely use “gay” epithets as terms of abuse. There are even gay students and teachers who are “out”.

I think the attitudes that see “poo pusher” as acceptable public discourse only exist now among the middle-aged. Once we’re gone, perhaps gay people can enter a public conversation, in person or online, without running the risk of hearing strangers making crude jokes about their [assumed] sex lives. When that day comes, perhaps the rates of depression and suicide among gay people will decrease.

Unfortunately, CM, most people are very conservative by nature and will instinctively wish to preserve the status quo. So when you take a stand, some will try to accuse you of hypocrisy, or of being “PC”, or of being unable to take a “joke”. Others will try to muddy the waters by altering reality, suggesting that what was said was never said, or that x actually means y. But most will diminish your point by simply jeering from the sidelines.

We had this on a transgender thread a few months back. A simple news story about not referring to TG people by their birth gender attracted exactly the same pattern of responses you’ve been getting here.

This has been the best thread ever.

It reminds me of the great Tritalk.co.uk forum meltdown of 2006.

Yes I listen to Pink Floyd. Yes the psychedelic imagery and simple melodies captured my imagination as a teenager.

Yes I appreciate they’re about as niche as Justin Bieber.

But I just like them.

And I’m 41.

Set the controls for the heart of the sun.

when they do reprehensible things they deserve it and a campaign of intimidation outside abortion clinics at legally operating hunts is reprehensible

when they do reprehensible things they deserve it and a campaign of intimidation outside abortion clinics a political party conference reprehensible

Does it only apply to certain a certain category of “campaign of intimidation”?
Praying certainly seems less reprehensible than spitting at, punching, ripping shit up and wearing balaclavas.

Sorry man but you are a mile away from a decent analogy here.

To suggest that women having abortions are legitimate targets for protest is mind-boggling.

telling them how stupid believing in a Sky man is

😀 😀 😀

And we’re off!

If someone else is talking she jumps into any split-second pause saying “changing the subject..”

Oh my God – my mother does that too.

The mad old witch.

Mine is an unpredictable, insecure narcissist who never missed an opportunity to make me feel scared and worthless.

One Man and His Bike by Mike Carter is brilliant stuff about a guy who cycled round Britain on a whim.

The Secret Race by Tyler Hamilton is in my opinion the best of the books about Armstrong.

Mark Beaumont’s one about cycling round the world is good.

Graeme Obree’s autobiography is absolutely compelling, honest stuff.

I think it would depend on your intended use. If you’re going to be pootling about town, I personally would avoid a diesel if I had the choice.

But for up and down the motorway, crack on.

Good job mate. Is that bed long enough to lie flat in?

Your Dad. He’s the best bloke you know right…

No.

Pleasant enough day to day, did all of the “Dad things” like taking me to the football and the library and all that, but a spineless coward who never defended his kids from our abusive, bullying mother.

We have a cordial enough relationship now but if I needed help or advice, or someone I could trust or rely on, I wouldn’t be going to him.

As stated earlier in the thread, I live in Ripponden. I heard someone refer to it today as a “Poundshop Chipping Norton” 😀

On the other they were gifted wealth and decided to spend most of their life shoving class a drugs up their hooter.

It’s a tricky one

Well which bit is “tricky” when deciding whether to show a modicum of respect when learning of the death of someone? Is it that she’s taken drugs? Because most people have. Or is it that her dad is rich? Because what’s the threshold of wealth, above which you’re fair game for snarky, judgemental ****?

Aaaand… this thread turned ugly quickly.

I’m not asking for gushing sentiment, but maybe just a little decorum?

Officially “unexplained” but the police say that about every death at home until there’s a post mortem.

Apparently she had a brain tumour.

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Yep. My girlfriend had it proper nasty – 2 weeks in bed sweating and shivering followed by chest infection. She’s gone back to work today.

I’ve had a head cold (lost my voice last week) followed by three days of headachey-constantly-tired-man-flu.

There are lots of little places you won’t see by having a drive through.

I’m in Ripponden. It ticks all of your boxes apart from the train links (you’d have to drive/ride to Sowerby Bridge station).

If you’re eyeing up the Ryburn Valley, as well as Ripponden I would be looking at all of the surrounding villages and hamlets: Greetland, Stainland, Barkisland, Soyland, Sowerby village, even parts of Elland.

Calder Valley-wise, your money goes MUCH further in Todmorden. There are lots of nice properties out of town and up the valley sides. See also Harvelin Park, Lumbutts and Mankinholes. Mytholmyroyd and Luddenden Foot too are all cheaper than the Ryburn Valley; cheaper than Hebden too. If you are loaded, look at Midgeley and Booth.

As for Hebden itself, well, I lived there for 15ish years. Let’s just say the traffic, the parking and the antisocial yoofs get you down after a while 😉 If you want peace, quiet and space, then look a bit further afield.

I went to the cinema to see this and Graeme did a Q&A at the end. A very engaging chap.

I believe the current crop of small turbo petrol engines have a surprising amount of real-world power but the fuel consumption suffers badly when you inevitably work them hard. Explanation here:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/cars/news/age-engine-downsizing-says-volkswagen/

I wouldn’t rely on a Volkswagen press release as an authoritative source on emissions 😀

I have a big car with a 1l turbo petrol engine. I drive it up Ripponden Bank every morning, and it’s never struggled to keep up with anything in front of it.

Brio wooden train set

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What happens if I am not satisfied?
If you are still not satisfied then you should refer to the Managing Director at the regional office with which you have been dealing.
The Managing Director will acknowledge all complaints within 2 working days. They will either reply fully within 7 working days of receipt or reply within 7 working days to advise you of the steps they are taking and giving a date by which they will be able to reply fully.

Complain via Taylor Wimpey complaints process. Escalate as required.

No, you shouldn’t have to, but…

do I legally have to pay them anymore

Tell you what, I’ll come and have a tinker with it, shall I? Then when I fail to fix it, present you with my bill anyway?

I assume that somewhere in this “agreed/signed” piece of paper there’s an expectation that they will actually fix your boiler?

The work was not carried out to your satisfaction. You don’t have to pay people for things they haven’t done.

I assume their work is warrantied?

Given that since paying you’ve then discovered that your boiler is not in fully working order, I would be making a claim against that warranty.

If they will not refund you, I would be making a chargeback via my credit card company. If this fails, I would sue them.

In the meantime, get someone else to come and put your boiler right, and write a full report on what was wrong with it and what the original company did wrong.

At risk of trying to get beyond the stock 1970s

Eeeh women, eh?

responses 😀

Contempt is completely destructive to a relationship.

It is reasonable for people to expect to be treated with respect by their partners. We do not have to put up with The Silent Treatment for hours/days/weeks. It’s borderline abusive.

If there’s a problem, she should tell you what it is in a civilised manner, and you should respond in a civilised manner.

Once you’ve got to the stage of chucking stuff around in front of the kids, it’s probably time for a deep breath and a chat 😉

Wow, they’re a vicious bunch aren’t they?

No.

The Daily Mail are a “vicious bunch” and Sarah Vine is an utter car crash of self-loathing-turned-outward.

Morrissey!

noisily flouncing around the house and not speaking.

Creep up behind her and put your penis in her ear.

It won’t make things better, but…

…

Well, just put your penis in her ear.

I remember a similar incident when our youngest was a baby. Stupid argument with my wife, porridge bowl thrown in sink, porridge everywhere.

I’d like to say it was the stress of having young children, it was pressure at work, or it was a bad patch.

But it wasn’t. It was because we were fundamentally unsuited as a couple, had irreconcilable differences, and are now much happier apart 😀

They are good quality cotton shirts.

The problem is that you have to buy 4 or 5 shirts to get the discount, and you sometimes end up getting a colour/pattern that you don’t really like in order to make up the numbers.

But if you can avoid that trap you’re good.

Well this has turned out to be an interesting thread, and fairly free of bigotry too. Perhaps there is hope for humanity after all 🙂

I love the idea that there’s a forum for British muslims somewhere where there’s an equivalent bunch of bored middle-aged men having the exact same debate but the other way round:

“Why do we have to let those dog-owning, alcohol-drinking, fornicating bastards into our place of worship on Sunday?”

“It’s for community relations. Stop being such a bigot and open your mind.”

“But what are we going to talk to them about?”

“Just keep giving them cakes and maybe they won’t talk to us”

etc

it doesn’t appear accepting of folk who think differently

I think you’re the ideal candidate for a mosque visit 🙂

Funkmaster the FAQ says tea, biscuits and cakes 😀

Saxonrider I think you’re being over sensitive.

To think of some of the comments that pass for acceptable on this forum and you take exception to “sky fairy”.

I started this thread in the spirit of promoting tolerance and friendship. I’m sorry if I’ve offended you.

It’s that kind of behaviour* that…blah

I think you’re mistaking yourself for some sort of forum cop. Or my dad.

I can’t be arsed walking you through the clear context but I was responding to another poster’s point about sky fairies.

It was a nice discussion about a nice thing some nice people are doing. Couldn’t it just have stayed like that without you jumping in with both feet and starting a pissing contest?

If you keep talking about ‘sky fairies’ instead of using the term religious people use, you won’t be renewing any bonds of friendship.

You don’t have to believe in God to say ‘God’, as opposed to insulting people who do by deploying derisory names.

Aaaand…
…
…
35 posts before someone tries to start an argument.

It was nice while it lasted.