Be Excellent To Each Other

Yes dad.

And sit up straight and tuck that shirt in!

I want this this,and also this.

I want wine!

But am still in the office.

And will be until at least 11pm.

Why the sad face, that was a pretty good whine I thought...

To counter that, they are buying me dinner, so silver lining win!

(oooh, AND I hit double time in 15 minutes. That's the 2013 cottage fund sorted then.)

Got my beer in time for the footba-. Oh. Ok. Breaking bad it is

Winter is knocking on the door in Bradford. Wore my coat today.

I am surprised you have taken it off!

It's a very smart coat.

Aren't you worried about getting arrested for impersonating an RAF officer again?

It's a new coat. A red one. Wivvanood.

And I was berated by a bus driver. I'm not sure where that coat is, but i'll make special efforts to have photos of me striding through the snow in it. Snow so deep you southerners wouldn't leave the house for weeks.

You don't know what real snow it

Luckily, I grew up in Cornwall.

Page impressions down? No worries, let's increase them by trolling our readership. Let's go with "Tattoos you regret", some more about the fur trade and to keep us relevant, and then type some shit about the political relevance of Twitter and how it will defeat Romney. That'll get the comments buzzing and the click throughs working.

Amazing.

Informus

A licky Boom Boom Down.

That's cause he prefers Sky News.

They also had an excellent series on why everyone in the west is an evil racist because they don't like some aspects of fundamentalist islam and because all the commenters picked on this islamic dude who said that all non muslims were no better than animals.

Oh, and every article ever on CiF belief.

I hate the Guardian these days.

I actively read it so I can dislike it more. Although, I often buy it on a Saturday as the TV guide used to be OK, and there's enough paper for kindling. Weekday paper is The Times now.

Oh "All companies that play by the rules and don't pay tax are bad!" annoys me. And "it isn't fair to nuclear bomb people, let's go whale watching instead."

it's beyond parody. Everyone stop buying Autotrader and let's kill it good and dead.

EDIT: I don't want to read the Indy because of Lebedev, i because I'm not a moron, and the Torygraph is the wrong size.

Yeah, Telegraph or Times for me also, when I can even be bothered with a paper at all.

Cannot stand the Guardian and never have been able to, either. Toynbee alone sees to that, let alone the rest of it - far too much "right on", naive, left-wing-claptrap-PC-bullshit for my taste, usually from people who are clueless and never having done an honest day's work in their entire, mollycoddled Middle Class lives.

Frankly, I'd be far more comfortable with a copy of The Sun in my hand (obligatory fag and/or steaming mug of Builders' Brew in the other), than the Guardian. Hey, at least the Sports section is good and the telly guide is most comprehensive (among certain other aesthetic delights ).

I only buy newspapers for Lego offers and Alton Towers tokens.

I read the Metro, which is awful, but it is free and convenient. It downloads overnight to my iPad and is there when I sit down on the train of a morning.
I do like to keep up with what the situation with Katie and Tom is, apparently Katie rides the subway and Tom went to a birthday party last night. Oh and Little Mix are wearing PVC in their new pop video, and dinosaurs are related to birds.

Yeah, we get the Times now. It can be a bit irritating (the blonde columnist is annoying, and Matthew Parris can feck off), but it's got Giles Coren so it wins.



"The west is to blame for everything, dark-coloured dictators are all good" (Seamus Milne)



Aye.


What's wrong with Lebedev?

I won't read the indy these days because they still pay Hari and Fisk money.

Lebedev is one of those people I have an irrational prejudiced dislike of. cf. james milner.

I still like The Guardian, and it has pretty much indisputably the best sports team.

The chief sports writer for The Sun, being asked about England vs Poland, couldn't even name any of the Polish team. I mean, how spectacularly ignorant is that? It's worse than the god awful MOTD pundits.

I don't really read papers anymore, but a couple of weeks ago I picked up a colleagues Daily Mail. Urghh.

We should track who purchases that rag, and we should be asking people who take any sort of important job whether they 'are or have ever been a practicing Daily Mail reader'. With an answer of 'yes' instantly disqualifying them.

I only buy newspapers when the guinea pig's house needs cleaning and there's none left to steal from the work shredding pile. I delight in buying the Mail or Sun knowing that I won't even glance at the content and will merely place it beneath a furry creature for it to piss and shit on.

... Guinea pigs? Rock and roll, dude, rock and roll.
Yeah, I think I'll stick to going to see The Stones, life insurance and all.

When MrsA goes to Baltimore next week, she's been given the option of taking an iPad or an iPhone and wants to know which is best. I have no idea, but suggested iPad and to use Skype if she needs to do calls, as iPad is probably better when doing a conference. Or soemthing I don't know. I don't get to go to things like that. I turn up at eight and leave at four with an hour for lunch and do my stuff. Quietly. Then return home, and do the washing up. And sit by the door waiting for her to return. Faithful hound that I am. Sometimes, I mnake the oven hot. or put some washing on.

Does she need something to make phone calls on or send text messages with? If the answer is yes: take the iPhone. If she's got that covered some other way then take the iPad.

is the iPad wifi only? Who will be paying for the data charges?

The company will pay for data charges, I think the iPad is 3G. However, I'm 99% sure they have wifi networks in conference centers in the States.

Twitter, eh? I thought the Graun thought 'Second Life' was the future.
They ought to get readers to write to residents of a small county in the backwoods of Ohio again; the fallout was hilarious when they tried it in 2004.

Take both, that's what I do

She's only allowed the one for reasons I can't fathom at all.

Police taze blind man after mistaking white cane for Samuria sword.

Fucking idiots.

"We have launched an urgent investigation to understand what lessons can be learned."

Maybe that your officers are imbeciles because sticks look fuck all like swords, especially when you are close enough to tase someone. That it's a fucking good job they don't have guns.

Absolutely unbelievable. The guy is 61, blind, and has had two strokes FFS - very lucky they didn't kill him outright!

Terrible.

But great word usage here:

Excellent.

Just as well they aren't routinely armed. Yet.

Oh, markg made the same point. But, worth making again. The whole table leg thing really scared me, and still does.

No doubt the enquiry will tells us that 'lessons have been learned' etc etc.

Pfft, they hardly ever win anything.

Dimrill has a tribe of pigs and is the most metal of us all, so (It was intended as a dig at the Stones more than you, for the record)

There was a delegate at my AGM rehearsal today called Mr Alswank.

I have no idea how I kept a straight face. Or why I'm posting it in this thread, but I damn we'll had to share it with someone!

I tried to find out the detection rates around here. I seem to have downloaded a FOI request summay. The first request is "How many prostitutes are there in the Leeds area and who are they?".

Enter your postcode at http://www.police.uk . It doesn't give you the names of the local fallen women, but does answer some of your questions.

Could have been All-swank. Was he particularly well dressed?