GordonD Posted October 8, 2019 Share Posted October 8, 2019 19 minutes ago, hk blues said: No doubt the pay TV channels have the rights Same thing happened with the national Origami championships. They were all on pay-per-view. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pandarilla Posted October 8, 2019 Share Posted October 8, 2019 Same thing happened with the national Origami championships. They were all on pay-per-view.You've fucked up the punchline!!They were all on paper-view...surely!!!!!!! 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted October 8, 2019 Share Posted October 8, 2019 1 minute ago, pandarilla said: You've fucked up the punchline!! They were all on paper-view...surely!!!!!!! It's the kind of joke that's better read aloud. But you still understood it! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamthebam Posted October 8, 2019 Share Posted October 8, 2019 4 minutes ago, GordonD said: Same thing happened with the national Origami championships. They were all on pay-per-view. The Championships are no more- the World Origami Organisation folded. 12 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Moonster Posted October 8, 2019 Share Posted October 8, 2019 1 hour ago, hearthammer said: It's more that cretin Thomas appearing on every tv station and paper for months after his wife died, then, quelle surprise, he's winchin a new bint. What length of time is acceptable for these people to try and move on from such a tragic loss? Or should folk who lose their wife never try and find a partner again? You'll also find them "appearing in interviews" is probably more down to our morbid celebrity culture than anything Thomas or Ferdinand are doing. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Steele Posted October 8, 2019 Share Posted October 8, 2019 1 hour ago, staggy1929 said: 1 hour ago, DiegoDiego said: 1 hour ago, staggy1929 said: People who sneeze way too loud on purpose like it's some kind of show of strength People who don't use adverbs correctly. Touché Bless you. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hearthammer Posted October 8, 2019 Share Posted October 8, 2019 3 minutes ago, The Moonster said: What length of time is acceptable for these people to try and move on from such a tragic loss? Or should folk who lose their wife never try and find a partner again? You'll also find them "appearing in interviews" is probably more down to our morbid celebrity culture than anything Thomas or Ferdinand are doing. The key word there is "celebrity". It's the right of everyone in those circumstances to move on - we're all short term visitors to the planet - but, for me, too many famous people hawk their way round the media circuit at every opportunity. i agree there's maybe a public obsession culture though. It was just my view in the appropriate thread. I'm neither correct nor wrong in my assertions, as displayed by the opposite and differing views. We see things as we see them. Cheers 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daydream Posted October 8, 2019 Share Posted October 8, 2019 Accepted. But i'm not relenting on that Simon Thomas [emoji41]His wife died 3 days after her cancer diagnosis. Mental. Cut him some slack! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hearthammer Posted October 8, 2019 Share Posted October 8, 2019 1 minute ago, Daydream said: His wife died 3 days after her cancer diagnosis. Mental. Cut him some slack! See my reply to Mr Moonster above. I've relented somewhat with the general consensus 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hk blues Posted October 8, 2019 Share Posted October 8, 2019 1 hour ago, GordonD said: Same thing happened with the national Origami championships. They were all on pay-per-view. I'm pretty cut up to hear that 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melanius Mullarkey Posted October 8, 2019 Share Posted October 8, 2019 1 hour ago, tamthebam said: The Championships are no more- the World Origami Organisation folded. Creasing at this banter 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hearthammer Posted October 8, 2019 Share Posted October 8, 2019 4 minutes ago, Melanius Mullarkey said: Creasing at this banter Tears running down my face 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bairnardo Posted October 8, 2019 Share Posted October 8, 2019 Never give these people anything!Performative grief briskly followed by a Hello front cover smiling with your replacement model is distasteful.I am torn. I dont know how long grief would last me, and I have kids to consider too in terms of shipping in a replacement, but I dont think theres really any sort of wrong answer. I agree with you on the second bit. Appearing in a magazine, for money, where the story is clearly (regardless of whether its explicitly said) I am over the person I loved is crass as f**k. Any right thinking person who was getting serious with another person would integrate them into their lives carefully and with respect to the previous one and their family etc. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergeant Wilson Posted October 8, 2019 Share Posted October 8, 2019 7 minutes ago, Bairnardo said: I am torn. I dont know how long grief would last me, and I have kids to consider too in terms of shipping in a replacement, but I dont think theres really any sort of wrong answer. I agree with you on the second bit. Appearing in a magazine, for money, where the story is clearly (regardless of whether its explicitly said) I am over the person I loved is crass as f**k. Any right thinking person who was getting serious with another person would integrate them into their lives carefully and with respect to the previous one and their family etc. Unless she's got a few bob and you need to move quickly. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Moonster Posted October 8, 2019 Share Posted October 8, 2019 48 minutes ago, MixuFixit said: Never give these people anything! Performative grief briskly followed by a Hello front cover smiling with your replacement model is distasteful. It's the "performative grief" bit I have a problem with here. Different people have different ways of dealing with it. Would you say it was performative grief for Joe Public to post about their wife dying on Facebook, and subsequently mentioning it every year from that point on? Some folk need to hear others tell them they're thinking about them and that they're there for them, some folk like to be left in peace. I take the point about the magazine cover with their new girlfriend being distasteful, but again these folk are working in the media - it's their wee world and they probably have a different moral barometer for this stuff. If his family are happy and have moved on then good luck to them, I don't see a need for judging them. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bairnardo Posted October 8, 2019 Share Posted October 8, 2019 Aye but they want me to buy the magazine or watch the telly show then buy whatever is in the adverts. Their grief, however genuine, is being monetised just as much as their happy new girlfriend pictures, so I'm quite happy judging them, based on my non meeja moral barometer. Agreed. Whilst there is indeed no "need to judge them" they are inviting people to have opinions on it by putting out their for sale to the highest bidder for public consumptionIf we work together, I lose my wife then shack up with someone, and a colleague hears this through the grapevine and starts going on about it, that person is an arsehole. You cant apply that logic to some who passes comment on something which has been purposefully thrust into their knowledge in the pursuit of money. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Moonster Posted October 8, 2019 Share Posted October 8, 2019 1 hour ago, MixuFixit said: Aye but they want me to buy the magazine or watch the telly show then buy whatever is in the adverts. Their grief, however genuine, is being monetised just as much as their happy new girlfriend pictures, so I'm quite happy judging them, based on my non meeja moral barometer. I'm not sure Ferdinand cares if you buy the magazine, he's not earning commission. I take your point and I do agree it's distasteful, but I'm not sure it makes my opinion of Ferdinand or Thomas any lower. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cerberus Posted October 8, 2019 Share Posted October 8, 2019 The P&B desktop site makes a weird notification noise when someone quotes you. My dog hates it. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Kincardine Posted October 8, 2019 Share Posted October 8, 2019 Just now, Cerberus said: The P&B desktop site makes a weird notification noise when someone quotes you. My dog hates it. Hope this annoys you both 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Kincardine Posted October 8, 2019 Share Posted October 8, 2019 1 minute ago, Cerberus said: The P&B desktop site makes a weird notification noise when someone quotes you. My dog hates it. And again 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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