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see! the cold hard reality hits, and suddenly no-one wants to deal with the monstrous turds!
😁That could be your new hardcore punk band name: "The Monstrous Turds".
I don't use Tw@tter but someone pointed this out to me - https://mobile.twitter.com/johnpeelba...
Edit. Oops, sorry, forgot it was "no music allowed" thread. Forgive me. :-(
the monstrous turds? they're a load of sh*te!
Tech XXIII wrote: "the monstrous turds? they're a load of sh*te!"Apropos of which this was an example of a research budget well spent;
https://www.theguardian.com/world/202...
Helen The Melon wrote: "Sera69 wrote: "I see Totoro! Why are we not funding this??!!"I don't want it made into a film, Sera, I want it made real! I need a giant cat companion. A giant fluffy bird companion would be acce..."
No need to worry, cats can climb trees, dogs can't. Minnie was having a good goat climbing in some local woods when the many squirrels beat a hasty retreat at her approach. When you've got little legs it's a definite handicap in the tree rat-catching stakes.
Brass Neck wrote: "Tech XXIII wrote: "the monstrous turds? they're a load of sh*te!"Apropos of which this was an example of a research budget well spent;
https://www.theguardian.com/world/202......"
What a horrible word 'euthanised' is.
Brass Neck wrote: "No need to worry, cats can climb trees, dogs can't."Yes, this is what worried me! P was quite old at this point & I didn't want her getting chased & stuck up a tree, some distance from home & outside of her territory, for hours. Poor little sausage. It was only as she got older that she used to follow me for a walk.
Lez wrote: "What a horrible word 'euthanised' is"Acceptable alternatives? Mercifully murdered? Kindly killed?
Helen The Melon wrote: "Brass Neck wrote: "No need to worry, cats can climb trees, dogs can't."Yes, this is what worried me! P was quite old at this point & I didn't want her getting chased & stuck up a tree, some dista..."
A well-fed domesticated dog would lose interest or be distracted by something else moving, cat wouldn't be stuck for long? Most dogs aren't that intelligent or diligent - Minnie has yet to realise that frenzied high-pitched barking doesn't entice the squirrel back down from its lofty perch from where it regards her with a weary unconcerned eye.
Brass Neck wrote: "Lez wrote: "What a horrible word 'euthanised' is"Acceptable alternatives? Mercifully murdered? Kindly killed?"
It's relatively recent - it used to be 'put down' or 'put to sleep'
Helen The Melon wrote: "Tech XXIII wrote: ""a lovely, magical, peaceful place".........gauny need a big shovel fur the poops!"
Umm yes, I did wonder about that. It's a fantasy world so I think the giant animals could o..."
If it's a fantasy world, surely nobody (and no animal) ever has to go to the toilet. Just like on TV, where it's very rare.
Val wrote: "This is a cute story of a Tasmanian couple who found an abandoned cygnet and raised it.https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=370..."
I liked that Val, especially the "ungrateful" comments at the end. When I was a kid, we used to have doves (?) nesting at the top of our garage. One day they had some young ones, and one of them had fallen and injured itself. My Mum took it in and nursed it back to health for a few days until it could fly. There is a cool photo of her making scrambled eggs whilst the dove, (we called him Woodstock) perched on the saucepan. When the day came to let him free, we opened the window and off he flew. The next day we had a tap on the window, when we opened it he flew in circled the kitchen and flew straight out again. I like to think he was saying thanks and goodbye, because he never returned.
Lez wrote: "He was hoping for more scrambled eggs!"More than likely. :-)
Helen The Melon wrote: "This seems to be making the news this year even though it's been "a thing" for a long time now. Here in Scotland the snowploughs/gritters have all been given names. There's even a map where you can..."I saw my favourite gritter name so far yesterday :
Charles Rennie Mackinslush
And shouldn't there be one for his wife, Margrit MacDonald Mackinslush?
nocheese wrote: "I saw my favourite gritter name so far yesterday :Charles Rennie Mackinslush"
😀
nearby, we have 'Troonraker' and 'Robert Brrrrns'
Isabella wrote: "And shouldn't there be one for his wife, Margrit MacDonald Mackinslush?"The way my jokes (don't) work on here, I shan't be doing standup any time soon ;o)
Isabella wrote: "Isabella wrote: "And shouldn't there be one for his wife, Margrit MacDonald Mackinslush?"The way my jokes (don't) work on here, I shan't be doing standup any time soon ;o)"
FWIW I thought it was very witty, not LOL but amusing.
Thanks, I'll take amusing! (LOL is way out of my league).
I don't do LOLs but you got a big 'HAH' from me!
"(LOL is way out of my league)"go on, seeing as you're not everybody, - very poor!
Anyway, enough of this fishing for compliments (which is an outcome not even within the realms of possibility from Tech)!!
Not so much QAnon as queue of none!
mmmmm, a queue of nuns? ooooooh, matron!
Isabella wrote: "And shouldn't there be one for his wife, Margrit MacDonald Mackinslush?"I too laughed aloud. A clever and cultivated joke, but the trouble is we're all too lazy in the absence of one of those response buttons they have on FB, and we used to have on the old zon, where I could have indicated that I thought your post added to the discussion.
What nocheese said. Actually, my little smiley was directed at both of you. A "like" button on posts would be good, sometimes.
Some musical additions to our lovely Scottish gritters:Spreddie Van Halen
Sweet Child O' Brine
nocheese wrote: "Some musical additions to our lovely Scottish gritters:Spreddie Van Halen
Sweet Child O' Brine"
:o)
Brass Neck wrote: "Footie;Ole Gunnar Saltshire?"
Clue, please? (I'm not football savvy) ;o)
Dictators - Adolf GritlerClassical - Sir George Salti
Pop - Simply Spread, Spread Or Alive, Spread Can Dance
Literature - Spreader Gabler, The Secret Life of Salter Gritty
Film - Tippi Spreadron, Gritter Garbo, Salt Disney (Disnae?), Gritt Eklund
Art - Rene Magritter, Salterdor Dali
Footie - Alan Clearer
Rap - De-Ice T, Grit The Jewels
Isabella wrote: "nocheese wrote: "Some musical additions to our lovely Scottish gritters:Spreddie Van Halen
Sweet Child O' Brine"
:o)"
Thanks Isabella, on behalf of whoever thought of them :)
I was interested to read that it started as a winter safety campaign for schoolchildren in the Highlands.
We have got eight new Gritters out on the Streets of Manchester this year - all with names put forward and voted on by residents ...Basil Salty, Grit Astley, Gritter Thunberg, Slushay Away, Snowbi-Gone Kenobi, Snowel Gallagher, Spreaddie Flintoff and Spreaddie Mercury ;o>
Some of the runner up names that didn't make the cut included: David Plowie, Gritney Spears, Gritty Gritty Bang Bang, Hat Ancoats, Lionel Gritchie, Nicole Saltslinger and Gritty McGritface.
Talking of 'Gritney Spears' did anyone see this latest farce of a Parish Meeting in Handforth go viral the other week? ;o> ...https://news.sky.com/story/foul-tempe...
... It's not really news to us that almost all of the local Councillors, only just a couple of miles up the Road from us, don't get on with each other - but I do so love the idea of Britney Spears, sat somewhere in the USA staring in utter bewilderment at the Internet and Google Maps, asking ... "where on Earth is Handforth?! - I don't remember ever attending one of their Parish Council Meetings?!!"
... LOL!!! ;o>
suzysunshine7 wrote: "Talking of 'Gritney Spears' did anyone see this latest farce of a Parish Meeting in Handforth go viral the other week? ;o> ...https://news.sky.com/story/foul-tempe......"
I did see that Suzy. What I can't get my head around is why this Jackie Weaver has come out of this as some sort of hero/feminist icon. From where I'm sat, she came across as a complete bitch.
Edit - the link you provided looks like she was bullied but if you watch it from the start, it shows how frustrating she was as she refused to listen to the chairman, and rather than answer his reasonable questions, she just kicked him out of the meeting. Very poor attitude imo, akin to a toddler stamping their feet because they can't get their own way.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6n7mB...
Ahhh, well what you need to know is the backstory to this, Nick.Yes, Jackie Weaver is indeed showing zero tolerance to the Chair and his abusive Sidekick - but she was there, as directed to by the East Cheshire Council, to set up and to see through a Parish Meeting from start to finish that had failed to take place for almost two years because of those Councillors who have repeatedly abused and bullied, and belittled and banned almost everyone else from attending the Meetings or getting to have a voice or a vote on anything.
This particular Meeting was to discuss this with them, and they knew it, so they were trying as usual to prevent it from taking place - to get the upper-hand and to dominate by declaring the Meeting to be 'illegal' - because they, themselves, hadn't called for it to come together and because they didn't want to be called on to account for all of their previous appalling behaviour.
There has been almost two years now of Parish Council Meetings carrying on the seemingly endless argument for the entire time about nothing more than who is in overall charge of each Meeting and who can speak or have a vote - and as a result, several other Councillors have been bullied out or have given up and quit because these particular Councillors always go all out to ensure that absolutely nothing to do with the Parish or with the Council ever gets discussed.
The Meeting was being held to officially inform and to discuss with these Councillors that they have been reported for bringing the East Cheshire Council and their roles within it into disrepute. The Mayor of the Council who also attended has since received a vote of no confidence for his own part in the Meetings and for his failure to prevent the extreme levels of bullying behaviour that have been taking place.
The Student who filmed it was a member of the public who decided to start filming after they had already wasted the best part of an hour in trying to prevent the Meeting from starting by arguing with Jackie Weaver over being obliged by the Council to attend a Meeting that they hadn't called and didn't want to be present at.
she was on 'loose women' by zoom, of course, the first thing she said was 'you have no authority here, ruth langsford' - it did raise a moderate guffaw from me - everybody got to have a catch phrase!
I think it's all got a bit mad, to be honest, with how many Interviews she has done and all of the Memes that are being created ... but we're all stuck in Lock-down, aren't we? - and most of us are feeling really depressed and down with it all this time around what with the Infection and Death Rate still being far too high ... so it's a bit of fun that everyone was needing as a welcome distraction and it's also helped to expose a rather nasty situation on a local level of Politics in Handforth that really did need to be taken on and dealt with ;o> We only live a couple of miles away and so we've known all about for a while now - but nothing was ever seeming to be done about it until now.
Tech XXIII wrote: "she was on 'loose women' by zoom, of course, the first thing she said was 'you have no authority here, ruth langsford' - it did raise a moderate guffaw from me - everybody got to have a catch phrase!"You actually watch 'Loose Women' ... ! ? ! ? ! ! ... ;oO
Did you think you were going to be seeing Women with no clothes on?!! - LOL!!! ;o>
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.........gauny need a big shovel fur the poops!"
Umm yes, I did wonder about that. It's a fantasy world so I think the giant animals could only need to eat the same amount as regular size animals & therefore they'd just do normal size poos. And normal size furballs, cat sick etc.