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milton75

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  1. I liked the 90s Star Trek with Picard and that. Not really bothered about the rest of it. I kind of think I'd like to be super into something, as a hobby would be good, but then I remember I'm incredibly lazy.
  2. Jennifer, Alison, Phillipa, Sue, Deborah, Annabel, too
  3. Agree on professions as names. Always makes me think of ghastly middle-class American families trying to hark back to a history they actually lack. Some stepford wives looking boot shouting out to the garden "Hunter, Carter, time for supper. Can you tell Piper to come f or her supper too?" Also, even though the names themselves are inoffensive, I get annoyed by over-popular names. Half the kids in my son's class seem to be Jack or Max or some shit. I don't want parents to go for overly obscure either, but try and name your kid something different from his 12 cousins, you twat.
  4. Another vote for April and May. Not just because of the end of winter, but often we get sustained lovely weather. June and July ought to be nicer, but many years we have crappy summer washouts and have to wait until August and September for another proper batch of loveliness. So after April and May I'd vote for August to October. The winter here can GTF. It isn't even proper winter; just an extended dark miasma of dreich shite.
  5. One more. As I appreciate that I'm just laughing at slightly dim pensioners. Being the decent people my husband and myself are (unlike the thief), and against our better judgement we are prepared to give the thief a chance to return our recycling box back into our front garden from where the thief stole it from to where it belongs. We shall see. FFS
  6. And Alan Mudge doesn't like Tories that stabbed Johnson in the back. Again, shocking surprise. https://www.lynnnews.co.uk/news/your-letters-on-developments-planned-for-town-9350371/
  7. I've been having fun searching the names of the manics writing the letters. I do this occasionally with the Daily Mail letters that make it on to Twitter. The ones from retired officers are usually the most entertainingly deranged. First one I searched was this: And first ping that came up in google was this: https://www.theargus.co.uk/news/19717583.pensioner-burgess-hill-amasses-biggest-handkerchief-collection-uk/ I can't say I'm surprised.
  8. F-ck me that Creed band suck. Suck-suck-suckaaaaaaaaa. I heard they were lame, but seriously.
  9. I don't think I'd like it. I don't like the idea of all the people, and I'd rather just book a villa somewhere. That said, I suppose it'd be nice to see a dozen different port towns that I might otherwise never go to. The dancing and live shows would be totally wasted on me though. They look gash. As far as I'm concerned on-board entertainment on ships reached its pinnacle when the 4-player Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles games were on Cal Mac ferries around 1989.
  10. I don't think I've met many famous people. Engaged with quite a lot of politicians through work, but that doesn't count. I met Billy Connolly and Robbie Coltrane quite a few times, but that was because a family friend travelled in showbiz circles, so again probably doesn't count. I think the closest I get is that I have a photo of myself with my arms around Richard Whitely and Jo Guest after we got drunk in Edinburgh. Whitely was a gent and wouldn't let anyone else pay. One of the few celebrities that caused me to be genuinely very saddened when they died.
  11. The old favourite "performing a sex act" gets an outing there.
  12. By the looks of things various Rangers and Celtic types, generally speaking those in the complete fanny category, have spent the last week doxxing each other on twitter.
  13. Firstly, I didn't make any claim specific to Christianity. If you think I did, feel free to quote it. Unless this is just another case of ‘narrative of the make something up’, to be filed alongside the many others that exist amongst deism. Secondly, if I had wanted to single out the way Christianity started and spread, rather than make a general comment about the rise and fall of religions, I would have been considerably harsher: Word-of-mouth and apocryphal tales that spread half a century (by the reckoning of the time 2x generations) after the critical event is supposed to have occurred. Followed swiftly up with the subsuming of pre-existing festival periods to soften the blow of conversion across the Roman Empire and beyond. A cynical approach.
  14. The Clyde fans prefer hysteria over rumination.
  15. If it was the middle ages you might not have needed more info on the fairy GoD though. Just as you wouldn't have needed more info on a pantheon of Greek Gods, or on a thousand other now-defunct deities. Just as a cult can graduate into a religion given time and popularity, a religion can become a cultural footnote when things go in the opposite direction. Nothing's unique. Nothing's special. The only constant is our capacity for conceited delusion.
  16. I can see that being alright, but I'd rather just a pain aux raisins / cinnamon tbh
  17. Bagels are shit. People need to accept this truth into their lives.
  18. When I have cold roast chicken leftovers (basically twice a week - I know the kids will eat chicken above all else) this is my better half's absolute top pleasure. Crusty bread, salted butter, roast chicken. Anything else is a complication and annoying apparently. I like a messy complicated sandwich, but I can get behind this one.
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