Things you want to share with P&B

[GordonD]

6 hours ago, BFTD said:

Also, was it @Hedgecutter who was worried about doing spontaneous daft things without meaning to a few pages back? When I was a teenager, I kept getting the feeling that I was going to skelp a passer-by without consciously thinking about it. It never actually happened, but a couple of times I had to divert my arm in motion, as it had started moving towards some poor b*****d without my permission. Genuinely worrying for a while.

Never got quite as far as my arm moving but one time I was standing in a bus queue behind a man with big sticky-out ears and was sorely tempted to flick one of them. 

[Nkomo-A-Gogo]

whenever someone is talking to me face to face and they are close enough then ALL i can think about is punching them right in the face.

doesnt matter if its an old man or lady with a kind face.

 

[Zen Archer (Raconteur)]

3 hours ago, Hedgecutter said:

Aye.  Had a feeling of wanting to do something stupid in a conference call just yesterday.  As fun as it would be, now is really not the time to be job hunting.

2 years ago at a meeting, a colleague kept wittering on about a load of nonsense and without breaking for breath, reiterated the same information.

My inside voice was saying 'shut the f**k up' several times then I thought, what was that sound? I had actually told them to shut the f**k up.

After a bit of laughter round the table, the meeting went on as if nothing had happened, much to my relief.

[ICTChris]

I’d not thought about Noels House Party for many years but then I read this article which gets quite close to reflecting the strange, uncanny, bullying horror of 1990s entertainment television 

https://franticplanet.wordpress.com/2018/10/24/noels-house-party-first-last/

[Sergeant Wilson]

1 hour ago, Nkomo-A-Gogo said:

whenever someone is talking to me face to face and they are close enough then ALL i can think about is punching them right in the face.

doesnt matter if its an old man or lady with a kind face.

 

And the least surprising post of 2021 goes to...

[tamthebam]

[Miguel Sanchez]

4 hours ago, ICTChris said:

I’d not thought about Noels House Party for many years but then I read this article which gets quite close to reflecting the strange, uncanny, bullying horror of 1990s entertainment television 

https://franticplanet.wordpress.com/2018/10/24/noels-house-party-first-last/

Enjoyable as this is, the dark colours and tiny writing is making my eyes itch. 

Also when I watched TV in the 90s I always wanted to be gunged. Am I a deviant?

[ICTChris]

5 minutes ago, Miguel Sanchez said:

Enjoyable as this is, the dark colours and tiny writing is making my eyes itch. 

Also when I watched TV in the 90s I always wanted to be gunged. Am I a deviant?

Ah, it didn't look like that on my phone.

Yes, it means you are a deviant.  Please report for re-education immediately.

[Funky Nosejob]

4 hours ago, tamthebam said:

Similar to people who immediately went out of their way to douse polymer bank notes in sulphuric acid and throw them in a furnace just to prove that the notes were not indestructible as claimed.
This is also why if anyone was immortal they’d keep bloody quiet about it, for fear of nutcases trying to prove otherwise.

[beefybake]

26 minutes ago, Funky Nosejob said:

Similar to people who immediately went out of their way to douse polymer bank notes in sulphuric acid and throw them in a furnace just to prove that the notes were not indestructible as claimed.
This is also why if anyone was immortal they’d keep bloody quiet about it, for fear of nutcases trying to prove otherwise.

But if they were immortal, they'd have nothing to be worried about.

[Funky Nosejob]

Just now, beefybake said:

But if they were immortal, they'd have nothing to be worried about.

Just because you’re immortal doesn’t mean your limbs can’t be chopped off.

Or so I’d imagine.

[welshbairn]

2 minutes ago, Funky Nosejob said:

Just because you’re immortal doesn’t mean your limbs can’t be chopped off.

Or so I’d imagine.

They grow back but it's a bit of a pain if someone does it when you're trying to get the shopping done.

[welshbairn]

1 hour ago, MixuFruit said:

Astonishing statistic.

 

 

Gets to the crux of the transparency versus privacy thing. Serious dangers each side. I don't really get what they mean by "online child abuse reports" though. Presumably most reports are made by someone phoning the cops.

[Granny Danger]

One of these occasions when the sentences seem too lenient.  39 deaths in the pursuit of profit and one of the four offenders will be back out in nine years.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/essex-lorry-deaths-vietnam-migrants-jail-b1791171.html

 

[Funky Nosejob]

5 minutes ago, welshbairn said:

They grow back but it's a bit of a pain if someone does it when you're trying to get the shopping done.

1. Ramirez
2. Kurgan
3. Connor
4. Fasil
5. Welshbairn

There can be only one!

[bennett]

 

 

 

[Shotgun]

1 hour ago, Funky Nosejob said:

Just because you’re immortal doesn’t mean your limbs can’t be chopped off.

Or so I’d imagine.

You'd still experience pain I should think.

Also, given in the increase in security over the last 20 years, in would be a monumental pain in the arse having to create a new identity every few years Otherwise, you'd have friends wondering why you still look like you're 20 and are out pumping wee dirties every weekend while they're been spoon-fed creamed corn in the rest home.

Plus, if it's anything like the TV show, you'd have Roger Daltrey showing up every few weeks which would make anyone suicidal.

[Shotgun]

1 minute ago, bennett said:

 

 

 

I was living in Phoenix, Arizona during the 90's (hiya @BFTD) and the local fishwrap invested a lot of time and energy trying to convince us all that the Internet would be gone soon, so there was no point in signing up for it. One columnist argued that parents who allow their children to use the Internet should be charged with child abuse. On Dec 31, 1999 they published a list of predictions for the next 10 years. Number 1 was that the Internet would have disappeared by 2003  and the only people who would miss it would be drug dealers and child-molesters. 

[Sergeant Wilson]

16 minutes ago, bennett said:

 

 

 

I said the same about ATM's and have been proven right.

 

For dramatically different reasons I'll grant you, but numbers are declining rapidly.

[BFTD]

"The future of online shopping is limited"  

That is superb. I know that's from the Mail, but I remember the Arizona Republic's writers coming across as so dim that I'd be more likely to take posts on P&B seriously. I might look up some of those internet articles if I can be arsed/they aren't behind a paywall.

James Chapman rose to become the Daily Heil's Political Editor and worked for the government in the Fucking Up Leaving the EU department. To be fair to him, all that probably means is that he's good at writing whatever his boss asks him to, even if it's "this internet thing is old news; move on, people".