Shotgun

Oh, I'm not denying that. Put it in front of them, and there are people who will watch. "Ease of access" however, does not change that anyone who chooses, to watch footage of innocents being murdered is fucked up in the head.

I (briefly) had a boss who would forward emails with no comment other than "Shotgun?" or sometimes "Shotgun?????" You'd then have to wade through several pages of back and forth to try and intuit what exactly she was expecting by way of a reply.

Yes. Yes, I can.

Yes! The wife of the aforementioned boss would always find some ridiculously nit-picky "fault" and use it as an excuse to insist on something being knocked off the bill. One time they brought in a painter to do the outside of the shop and she stiffed him on his bill because she didn't like the colour of the undercoat he used. The undercoat. This was a small town and word got around so over time, the pool of tradesmen willing to work for them got smaller and smaller. Which of course, just fed into their Thatcherite belief that "people just don't want to work."

Yes, I used to know a lad who would drink orange juice (the mixer tap squirty stuff and water, not fresh) when it was his own round but pints of Guinness when other people were buying. Seems odd to me but as he didn't have a problem with anyone ordering what they wanted on his round, I suppose there was no harm in it.

I see it's been mentioned up-thread that it's invariably the most comfortably off who are the tightest-fisted. Now, you could make the argument that this is why they're comfortably off but in my experience, many of them seem to enjoy the game of cheating people with a fraction of their resources. Just because they can. A mate of mine was a self-employed builder/handyman and he said he hated working for rich people (specifically, the guy who was my boss at the time) because while he needed the work, it was always such a hassle trying to get paid afterwards. We also had a lad in our social circle for while (a friend of friend type deal), who would make a point of being the last to buy a round in the hopes that the barman would call time before his turn came up. Would he buy first the next time? Would he f**k. And yet he probably earned 2-3 times more than any of the rest of us. One time after he pulled this crap 3 or 4 nights in a row, I went up to get the drinks in and came back with one for everybody except him. He was absolutely livid and genuinely couldn't see why I was 'cheating him.' It was quite entertaining really and after that, everyone else just left him out of the round and he was forced to go to the bar by himself each time.

Lucky wee bass. Wish I could.

I think you're supposed to do it to other people. HTH.

If my Dad had still been alive, he would've voted for it too. And I'll bet to this day he would be arguing that black was white and up was down in order to avoid admitting he was wrong.

Speak for yourself.

Tough call but you made the right decision.

Snow dawgs

Buckfast?

Even though it's been almost 3 months since you posted this, can I just say it still makes me laugh out loud when I think of it.

Aye but by what and from what? By the goolies from a lamppost would be my vote.