Popular Post GarethRDR Posted November 7, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted November 7, 2020 30 minutes ago, Genie said: My boss is **** useless. I could email or “chat message” his boss, or his boss’s boss (senior director) and get a quicker reply. My boss does all the tricks in the book to appear busy whilst hiding from his responsibilities. That's terrible, really shoddy stuff there. Just to check, what are those tricks? 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genie Posted November 7, 2020 Share Posted November 7, 2020 Just now, GarethRDR said: That's terrible, really shoddy stuff there. Just to check, what are those tricks? I’ll tell you one, when his boss is on holiday he puts it in his calendar that he is on holiday too but isn’t. So reducing the chance of being dragged into stuff his boss would normally sort. He’s done it twice this year. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Follyfoot Posted November 7, 2020 VT Supporter Share Posted November 7, 2020 13 hours ago, MCU said: **** off with your fireworks scaring the animals. So you wanted Guy Fawkes to win eh, Not very good is it ? What’s your plans for the two minute doorstep silence, if any?? But you don’t even wear your poppy till November Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seat68 Posted November 7, 2020 Share Posted November 7, 2020 My dog was a mess last night and it has been like that for nearly 2 weeks. **** fireworks. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davkaus Posted November 7, 2020 Share Posted November 7, 2020 4 minutes ago, Follyfoot said: So you wanted Guy Fawkes to win eh, Not very good is it ? If resurrection were possible, with this lot I'd bring him back and let him have another go Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted November 7, 2020 VT Supporter Share Posted November 7, 2020 (edited) 30 minutes ago, Genie said: I’ll tell you one, when his boss is on holiday he puts it in his calendar that he is on holiday too but isn’t. So reducing the chance of being dragged into stuff his boss would normally sort. He’s done it twice this year. Must admit, our group diary always showed me as being 'in a meeting', and thus unavailable on Friday afternoons. Edited November 7, 2020 by mjmooney Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tegis Posted November 7, 2020 VT Supporter Share Posted November 7, 2020 30 minutes ago, mjmooney said: Must admit, our group diary always showed me as being 'in a meeting', and thus unavailable on Friday afternoons. Ah yes, the good old sales-department standing calendar appointment. "Client meeting every Friday 1pm-5pm" 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted November 7, 2020 VT Supporter Share Posted November 7, 2020 If anybody had really needed to find me in an emergency, they'd have known what pub I was in, regardless. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HanoiVillan Posted November 7, 2020 Share Posted November 7, 2020 On 05/11/2020 at 21:14, bickster said: Isn't that a completely incorrect use of the already bogus term staycation? isn't a staycation effectively STAYing at home during a holiday (vaCATION) but going on day trips out each day to places but returning to your own home at night. You don't go on a staycation you have one Have I got this completely wrong? This is my understanding as well. And I hope you're right, because we used to use a reading text about staycations based on this meaning in advanced language classes, so if it's not right, I've misled about fifty European language learners over the last few years. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Albrighton Posted November 7, 2020 VT Supporter Share Posted November 7, 2020 2 hours ago, Follyfoot said: So you wanted Guy Fawkes to win eh, Not very good is it ? This has inadvertently got me thinking. If they had succeeded in the plot, how would the occasion be acknowledged? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted November 7, 2020 VT Supporter Share Posted November 7, 2020 1 minute ago, Mark Albrighton said: This has inadvertently got me thinking. If they had succeeded in the plot, how would the occasion be acknowledged? With a thanksgiving mass. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted November 7, 2020 Share Posted November 7, 2020 I love the detail of the gunpowder plot. Digging and tunnelling for all that time. Only to pop up in the wrong place, which transpired to be a large empty room, which was for rent. So having dug a tunnel, they then rented the room they’d reached within Westminster. Like a corny old comedy. (I’ve stayed in the hotel in Bromsgrove where a couple of them hid once the plot was rumbled) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted November 7, 2020 VT Supporter Share Posted November 7, 2020 9 minutes ago, chrisp65 said: I love the detail of the gunpowder plot. Digging and tunnelling for all that time. Only to pop up in the wrong place, which transpired to be a large empty room, which was for rent. So having dug a tunnel, they then rented the room they’d reached within Westminster. Like a corny old comedy. (I’ve stayed in the hotel in Bromsgrove where a couple of them hid once the plot was rumbled) Interesting that Fawkes has become the only name that most people know to do with the plot, when he was only one of the gang - the ex-military explosives expert who built the bomb and got caught in the raid. November 5th should really be called Catesby Night. The real dramatic stuff was the pursuit of the gang and the final shoot-out at Holbeche House - always amazes me that this isn't the main focus of the legend. At least the recent-ish TV film about it ('Gunpowder') was pretty good, and covered all this stuff. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Albrighton Posted November 7, 2020 VT Supporter Share Posted November 7, 2020 (edited) 11 minutes ago, mjmooney said: Interesting that Fawkes has become the only name that most people know to do with the plot, when he was only one of the gang - the ex-military explosives expert who built the bomb and got caught in the raid. November 5th should really be called Catesby Night. The real dramatic stuff was the pursuit of the gang and the final shoot-out at Holbeche House - always amazes me that this isn't the main focus of the legend. At least the recent-ish TV film about it ('Gunpowder') was pretty good, and covered all this stuff. I remember making the comparison before, for the gun powder plot and the great train robbery, people should be more familiar with the names Robert Catesby and Bruce Reynolds, but they’ve been upstaged massively by supporting cast of messrs Fawkes and Biggs respectively. Edited November 7, 2020 by Mark Albrighton 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted November 7, 2020 Share Posted November 7, 2020 (edited) 1 hour ago, Mark Albrighton said: I remember making the comparison before, for the gun powder plot and the great train robbery, people should be more familiar with the names Robert Catesby and Bruce Reynolds, but they’ve been upstaged massively by supporting cast of messrs Fawkes and Biggs respectively. I believe @Xann of this very parish is on the slightest of nodding terms with Bruce Reynolds son. Just to go off on a total tangent. Edited November 7, 2020 by chrisp65 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xann Posted November 7, 2020 Share Posted November 7, 2020 12 minutes ago, chrisp65 said: I believe @Xann of this very parish is on the slightest of nodding terms with Bruce Reynolds son. It would be nice to get up to Archway to see him again, but I guess this year hasn't been great for making indie Westerns? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Xela Posted November 7, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted November 7, 2020 (edited) The amount of adverts in YouTube. Multiplying like a wet gremlin over the last few months. I don't mind the odd advert but having one or two every couple of minutes on a video. GTFO. Edited November 7, 2020 by Xela 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted November 7, 2020 Moderator Share Posted November 7, 2020 10 minutes ago, Xela said: The amount of adverts in YouTube. Multiplying like a wet gremlin over the last few months. I don't mind the odd advert but having one or two every couple of minutes on a video. GTFO. Do you want to sign in to YouTube? No I sodding don't 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xela Posted November 7, 2020 Share Posted November 7, 2020 25 minutes ago, bickster said: Do you want to sign in to YouTube? No I sodding don't Are you still watching? Yes I am, now piss off! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted November 7, 2020 Moderator Share Posted November 7, 2020 The missus is having a mad pre-xmas tidy up / re-arrange Her: "Do you still want this box of postcards?" Me: "Thats a limited edition (250) set of art prints signed by the Artist (Will Sergeant)" Her: "But do you still want it?" Me: "Remember when you suggested I get rid of my vinyl and how you changed your mind?, well this is one of those times again" Her: "So are we keeping it?" 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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