Not The Annoyingly Trivial Things-Bitches be cray cray week.

PeterParker957 · 14-12-2017 09:56AM

Ave Sodalis wrote: »

I'd understand it if that was the case, but we live beside my grandparents and that house has been passed down for hundreds of years so not only am I not from a different country, none of my direct descendants have settled anywhere other than the top of this hill :pac: That's on my mother's side, my father also only lives about half a mile away from his home house.

Then that is very odd!! Poor you, wonder why ? People are mad though sometimes!

erica74 · 14-12-2017 10:30AM

Ave Sodalis wrote: »

I don't know why people think I'm foreign... I used to be asked all the time when I worked in a shop, to the point that the other staff were thinking of getting a map of all the places people thought I was from. Now complete strangers are asking me as I go about my own business! It's not that it's offensive, but it's a bit cheeky and weird. Even if I wasn't Irish (which I completely am, as far back as records can tell), being asked out of the blue if I was foreign as I am trying to get into my car is odd. I don't like interacting with people unnecessarily as it is!

Once a guy in a car park shouted at my sister "go back to your home country of Poland" because he tried to steal the space she was waiting on and she managed to stop him. She's Irish and looks as Irish as we come. Very bizarre.

jimgoose · 14-12-2017 10:46AM

I'd like to think that it's the last sting of a dying wasp, but Hipsterism is getting on my nerves again lately. The Sports & Social club here at the office kindly offered brownies yesterday morning, the problem being they were made with "beans" of some sort and were consequently an insipid, rough and overall slightly horrid affair. These of course were accompanied by "smoothies" (Hipster code for a mixture of several fruit-juices, apparently) and protein bars, presumably to prevent that handful of souls who were reared on proper food from collapsing.

Now, I'm no expert but I had long believed that the whole point of brownies was that they are sweet, delicious, and more than a tad naughty. Does the joie de vivre really have to go out of everything to appease these people? Is this really useful? If they have some sort of point to make, would it not be better made by avoiding things that don't conform to whatever notions of the ideal they have, while leaving us stolid, normal folk alone?

Later that night we went out for beer and pizza at a popular watering-hole in the city, where I was utterly flummoxed by the restrooms. I entered to be met with a sort of ante-area that contained what looked to me very like a large stainless-steel urinal. I politely ignored that and made my way to the Gentlemen's Department, where I attended to business and then looked around for the wash-basin, which turned out to be conspicuous in it's absence. It transpired that the urinal aforementioned is actually the basin, with several taps placed at intervals along it's length and activated by kneeing a large control placed below waist-height. Can you people please, please stop this? What was so offensive about ordinary, Christian wash-basins placed IN the restroom area? I really don't know how much more of this sort of carry-on I'm able to put up with before doing a "Falling Down". :pac:

Boom_Bap · 14-12-2017 11:00AM

I love you jimgoose.

Pac1Man · 14-12-2017 11:12AM

Ah that reminds me! When you mean to send a PM and end up posting it in a thread. :P

Boom_Bap wrote: »

I love you jimgoose.

Jrop · 14-12-2017 11:22AM

TA that it's been so long since jimgoose posted cos the man is a rock of sense in this crazy world

qo2cj1dsne8y4k · 14-12-2017 11:23AM

Ave Sodalis wrote: »

I don't know why people think I'm foreign... I used to be asked all the time when I worked in a shop, to the point that the other staff were thinking of getting a map of all the places people thought I was from. Now complete strangers are asking me as I go about my own business! It's not that it's offensive, but it's a bit cheeky and weird. Even if I wasn't Irish (which I completely am, as far back as records can tell), being asked out of the blue if I was foreign as I am trying to get into my car is odd. I don't like interacting with people unnecessarily as it is!

Get this ALL the time. I get asked am I Latino (dafuq im the colour of gone off ham), Italian, and once got told I looked like a Roma gypsy!! I thought it was my name that was making people think I was foreign but people still assume before they know my name. I'm very pale with very dark hair but I'm not pink pale like most Irish people I've a hint of yellow tones in my skin. Maybe that's why

Jrop · 14-12-2017 11:23AM

TA that any female in the public who is the same size as a normal woman is referred to as curvy.

jimgoose · 14-12-2017 11:25AM

Jrop wrote: »

TA that it's been so long since jimgoose posted cos the man is a rock of sense in this crazy world

I've been doing a lot of dining out with New Woman - well, Woman of about six months now - and enjoying horrifying the weird-beard, woolly-hat-wearing, lentil-worrying little fuckers by tucking into a couple of rare filet mignons like polar-bears.

Your Face · 14-12-2017 11:26AM

Ave Sodalis wrote: »

I don't know why people think I'm foreign... I used to be asked all the time when I worked in a shop, to the point that the other staff were thinking of getting a map of all the places people thought I was from. Now complete strangers are asking me as I go about my own business! It's not that it's offensive, but it's a bit cheeky and weird. Even if I wasn't Irish (which I completely am, as far back as records can tell), being asked out of the blue if I was foreign as I am trying to get into my car is odd. I don't like interacting with people unnecessarily as it is!

I'm Irish and most of the foreign people at work have convinced themselves Im from Sicily.

I dunno.

Jrop · 14-12-2017 11:26AM

I'm delighted jimgoose is annoying Vegans. I'm vegetarian and vegans really annoy me

jimgoose · 14-12-2017 11:28AM

Jrop wrote: »

I'm delighted jimgoose is annoying Vegans. I'm vegetarian and vegans really annoy me

It came to my attention lately that a lot of them are buying buckets of oul' whey-powder, like you give to yearling piglets on pig-farms, to compensate for their stupid fucken diets. I want to kill them. I seem to be turning into the vegan/Hipster equivalent of Mick "Bull" Daly. :pac::pac::pac:

Jrop · 14-12-2017 11:33AM

TA'd this protein shake and bar nonense. You only need 9 grams of protein a day. Too much protein causes kidney failure.

On second thoughts ....Vegans

retro:electro · 14-12-2017 11:34AM

When you have a really nice cup of tea, so nice that you go for a second one- but the second one isn't as nice. Meh.
That'll teach me for being a glutton

PeterParker957 · 14-12-2017 11:34AM

jimgoose wrote: »

I've been doing a lot of dining out with New Woman - well, Woman of about six months now - and enjoying horrifying the weird-beard, woolly-hat-wearing, lentil-worrying little fuckers by tucking into a couple of rare filet mignons like polar-bears.

Boom_Bap, I'll fight you for him!!!!

jimgoose · 14-12-2017 11:40AM

Jrop wrote: »

TA'd this protein shake and bar nonense. You only need 9 grams of protein a day. Too much protein causes kidney failure.

On second thoughts ....Vegans

Now hear this. I'm going to say this precisely once. This is a decent protein source:

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And this is cheap, bulk animal-feed:

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"Ultra premium lean muscle"... in the name a' Jaysis... :pac::pac::pac:

Jrop · 14-12-2017 12:08PM

TA that I'm not well off and have to work for a living

SusieBlue · 14-12-2017 12:12PM

Jrop wrote: »

TA that I'm not well off and have to work for a living

Its heartbreaking, isn't it.

PeterParker957 · 14-12-2017 12:16PM

I have lost the will to live. Can't share actual tweet as I've no idea how.... but this from someone called Grace Dyas (no idea):

Great morning with @DilW uniting in action. Making big plans. Watch this space. We believe you before you open your mouths. #IBelieveYou #metoo #metooMC #WakingTheMedia #WakingTheFeminists #OpenTheGate http://www.bit.ly/IBelieveYou

The bold bit has me in utter disbelief.

jamesbere · 14-12-2017 12:27PM

Ta is when your walking on a busy street and person in front of you stop suddenly making you walk into them.

Boom_Bap · 14-12-2017 12:30PM

Trying to sort out some servers in work that my team have left in a mess.
Pain in the hoop so it is.

Dial Hard · 14-12-2017 12:42PM

Jrop wrote: »

TA that I'm not well off and have to work for a living

I used to lament that I wasn't independently wealthy, but tbh, dependently wealthy would do me at this stage,

Bredabe · 14-12-2017 12:51PM

Feeling really low today, don't have any hormones I can blame it on. :mad:

Alf Veedersane · 14-12-2017 12:52PM

Jrop wrote: »

TA'd this protein shake and bar nonense. You only need 9 grams of protein a day. Too much protein causes kidney failure.

TA at this kind of misinformation.

jimgoose · 14-12-2017 01:02PM

Boom_Bap wrote: »

I love you jimgoose.

Oh, you! You're only saying that so I'll drop me knickers, innit!!

Boom_Bap · 14-12-2017 01:12PM

jimgoose wrote: »

Oh, you! You're only saying that so I'll drop me knickers, innit!!

Knickers!!
I'm expect you to be wearing handmade jocks from the cow pelt that you slaughtered and ate the night previous

jimgoose · 14-12-2017 01:13PM

Boom_Bap wrote: »

Knickers!!
I'm expect you to be wearing handmade jocks from the cow pelt that you slaughtered and ate the night previous

You would be amazed how uncomfortable leather jocks are.

Boom_Bap · 14-12-2017 01:14PM

jimgoose wrote: »

You would be amazed how uncomfortable leather jocks are.

PeterParker957 · 14-12-2017 01:16PM

Boom_Bap wrote: »

I feel like we're watching the start of a love affair......!!!

jimgoose · 14-12-2017 01:19PM

PeterParker957 wrote: »

I feel like we're watching the start of a love affair......!!!

Boom has been a concubine of mine for years, despite my having never actually met the chap. That doesn't matter, you see. :cool:

Not The Annoyingly Trivial Things-Bitches be cray cray week.

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