Bits & Bobs 39

Kern · **Posted:** Tue Jun 25, 2013 13:39

I called into the local modern art museum over my lunch break today. The main exhibit was four large CRT screens showing footage of streetlamps, with an ambient electric hum blaring out from hidden speakers in the ceiling.

I'd like to say that it opened my mind into new insights on the human condition or showed something of the world in a different and unexplored manner. But it was just footage of streetlamps.

Mr Russell · **Joined:** 6th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 12334

Kern wrote:

I called into the local modern art museum over my lunch break today. The main exhibit was four large CRT screens showing footage of streetlamps, with an ambient electric hum blaring out from hidden speakers in the ceiling.

I'd like to say that it opened my mind into new insights on the human condition or showed something of the world in a different and unexplored manner. But it was just footage of streetlamps.

Not illuminating enough.

MrChris · **Joined:** 1st Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 30498

Saturnalian wrote:

Tru dat. They've been recognised as an ethnic group for yonks.

Hmmmm.

sdg · **Posted:** Tue Jun 25, 2013 13:52

Cras wrote:

Haggis, cheese, and bacon toastie. In your FACE, Curio.

That looks incredible. Which reminds me, I need to find gluten free haggis on the Internet and order some, I've not had any for ages and so I need to find a version I can eat.

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 38638

So it's the gluten that makes haggis inedible?

TheVision · **Posted:** Tue Jun 25, 2013 14:03

**Gypsy Update**

I think they've gone. I've heard rumours that they said they'd go if we gave them £60 worth of Diesel... and I think the bosses did!

chinnyhill10 · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 15695

TheVision wrote:

**Gypsy update**

There's now 11 vehicles blocking our entrance way made up of vans and cars. The Gypsys are hanging around saying that they'll just come back at night.

Place I worked auctioned off a big receiving dish. 10 metres I think. On the day of the auction held on site some "gentleman" turned up who were quite keen to get hold of it and rival bidders were "encouraged" not to bid.

chinnyhill10 · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 15695

TheVision wrote:

**Gypsy Update**

I think they've gone. I've heard rumours that they said they'd go if we gave them £60 worth of Diesel... and I think the bosses did!

And as you have no gate, guess who will be back tonight?

MaliA · **Posted:** Tue Jun 25, 2013 14:11

chinnyhill10 wrote:

TheVision wrote:

**Gypsy Update**

I think they've gone. I've heard rumours that they said they'd go if we gave them £60 worth of Diesel... and I think the bosses did!

And as you have no gate, guess who will be back tonight?

50 Cent?

TheVision · **Posted:** Tue Jun 25, 2013 14:11

chinnyhill10 wrote:

TheVision wrote:

**Gypsy Update**

I think they've gone. I've heard rumours that they said they'd go if we gave them £60 worth of Diesel... and I think the bosses did!

And as you have no gate, guess who will be back tonight?

The real slim shady?

Grim... · **Posted:** Tue Jun 25, 2013 14:12

chinnyhill10 wrote:

TheVision wrote:

**Gypsy Update**

I think they've gone. I've heard rumours that they said they'd go if we gave them £60 worth of Diesel... and I think the bosses did!

And as you have no gate, guess who will be back tonight?

Maddie?

Grim... · **Posted:** Tue Jun 25, 2013 14:13

chinnyhill10 wrote:

TheVision wrote:

**Gypsy Update**

I think they've gone. I've heard rumours that they said they'd go if we gave them £60 worth of Diesel... and I think the bosses did!

And as you have no gate, guess who will be back tonight?

Cavey?

chinnyhill10 · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 15695

MaliA wrote:

chinnyhill10 wrote:

TheVision wrote:

**Gypsy Update**

I think they've gone. I've heard rumours that they said they'd go if we gave them £60 worth of Diesel... and I think the bosses did!

And as you have no gate, guess who will be back tonight?

50 Cent?

Go away with your young persons music and your hipperty hop.

Curiosity · **Posted:** Tue Jun 25, 2013 14:22

Grim... wrote:

chinnyhill10 wrote:

TheVision wrote:

**Gypsy Update**

I think they've gone. I've heard rumours that they said they'd go if we gave them £60 worth of Diesel... and I think the bosses did!

And as you have no gate, guess who will be back tonight?

Cavey?

AE would just drive him away again.

Curiosity · **Posted:** Tue Jun 25, 2013 14:23

Good coffee makes me happy.

MaliA · **Posted:** Tue Jun 25, 2013 14:25

Tequila amakes me happy.

GazChap · **Posted:** Tue Jun 25, 2013 14:37

chinnyhill10 wrote:

TheVision wrote:

**Gypsy Update**

I think they've gone. I've heard rumours that they said they'd go if we gave them £60 worth of Diesel... and I think the bosses did!

And as you have no gate, guess who will be back tonight?

Arnie?

Satsuma · **Joined:** 20th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14415

Stimpy's Invention makes me happy.

MrChris · **Joined:** 1st Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 30498

Your mum makes me happy.

Grim... · **Posted:** Tue Jun 25, 2013 22:16

I make your mum happy.

MrChris · **Joined:** 1st Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 30498

my mum makes your mum happy.

Grim... · **Posted:** Tue Jun 25, 2013 22:19

Only because I wasn't a crushing disappointment.

MrChris · **Joined:** 1st Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 30498

You were a disappointment to everyone's mum.

Grim... · **Posted:** Tue Jun 25, 2013 22:32

I'd certainly crush a few

MrChris · **Joined:** 1st Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 30498

heh.

Warhead · Noob as of 6/8/10

chinnyhill10 wrote:

TheVision wrote:

**Gypsy Update**

I think they've gone. I've heard rumours that they said they'd go if we gave them £60 worth of Diesel... and I think the bosses did!

And as you have no gate, guess who will be back tonight?

Mimi · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 26011

MaliA wrote:

Non judgementally of anyone here: It has always struck me as a bit odd that it's seemingly acceptable to discriminate against gypsies, but not other racial groups.

If a group of Chinese people, or Swedes, or people from Preston turned up in caravans and squatted on public or privately owned land in large numbers, often blocking access to that site from the public they'd invoke the same ire and bad feeling. People don't discriminate against them because of racial differences but be side of their action. Any other group displaying the same actions would be similarly disliked.

Mimi · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 26011

Mr Russell wrote:

TheVision wrote:

Mr Russell wrote:

TheVision wrote:

More Gypsys have turned up.. A load of staff have had to put their cars across the drive to stop more coming on.

How exciting!

I would not be using my car as a physical barrier for gypsys.

If it was my car I'd be thinking the same. Fortunately the majority of cars here are company cars!

Mimi can tell the story better than I can, but she remembers a time when some travellers moved in near her mother's place, and they used diggers to pile up great mounds of dirt around their squat to keep anyone else out.

Eventually the council built them all houses for free.

Aye, it was a bad time. Unfortunately that group was very threatening. One shot at my brother Paul with an air rifle. Caught him in the leg when he wasn't yet two years old.

Anyway, that aside, they did eventually end up building them a small estate around the back of Brent Park Tesco, to get them off the land.

Mimi · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 26011

Mr Kissyfur wrote:

MaliA wrote:

Non judgementally of anyone here: It has always struck me as a bit odd that it's seemingly acceptable to discriminate against gypsies, but not other racial groups.

There's the fact they're not a racial group, for one thing.

Hasn't it now been made law that they are now a recognised racial group within the UK? I think it was also on the most recent census.

Mimi · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 26011

TheVision wrote:

**Gypsy Update**

I think they've gone. I've heard rumours that they said they'd go if we gave them £60 worth of Diesel... and I think the bosses did!

What the what?!

Kern · **Posted:** Wed Jun 26, 2013 7:09

Mimi wrote:

Mr Kissyfur wrote:

MaliA wrote:

Non judgementally of anyone here: It has always struck me as a bit odd that it's seemingly acceptable to discriminate against gypsies, but not other racial groups.

There's the fact they're not a racial group, for one thing.

Hasn't it now been made law that they are now a recognised racial group within the UK? I think it was also on the most recent census.

Gypsy and Irish Traveller is a category in the census. And as discussed above, they are considered an ethnic group for the purposes of the Equality Act, by case law I think.

Curiosity · **Posted:** Wed Jun 26, 2013 7:14

Mimi wrote:

TheVision wrote:

**Gypsy Update**

I think they've gone. I've heard rumours that they said they'd go if we gave them £60 worth of Diesel... and I think the bosses did!

What the what?!

Ah yeah, baby.

Mr Russell · **Joined:** 6th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 12334

I'll be interested to see what TheVisions's workplace looks like today.

TheVision · **Posted:** Wed Jun 26, 2013 8:06

Apparently the diesel was the stuff used in the printing machines so it would have been pretty low grade stuff.

And yes Mr Russ... for the first time ever, I'm looking forward to going to work... Almost.

MrChris · **Joined:** 1st Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 30498

Kern wrote:

Mimi wrote:

Mr Kissyfur wrote:

MaliA wrote:

Non judgementally of anyone here: It has always struck me as a bit odd that it's seemingly acceptable to discriminate against gypsies, but not other racial groups.

There's the fact they're not a racial group, for one thing.

Hasn't it now been made law that they are now a recognised racial group within the UK? I think it was also on the most recent census.

Gypsy and Irish Traveller is a category in the census. And as discussed above, they are considered an ethnic group for the purposes of the Equality Act, by case law I think.

Just because the government says something doesn't make it true, of course.

Jedi was on the census results as a religion, if you recall.

As I mentioned before on Irish vs "Irish Traveller", they can't possibly be considered different races/ethnicities without suggesting something unsavoury WRT the latter's breeding pool.

They're just a subset of people from (or with antecedents from) a particular country who, oftentimes, behave in a certain way - and that behaviour is all that really differentiates them from the rest of their fellow countrymen. Same applies to Arsenal supporters, doesn't make them an ethnic grouping.

Kern · **Posted:** Wed Jun 26, 2013 8:49

I'm of the opinion that classification by race is both outdated and instinctively dodgy. Country of birth is a more useful measure for studying where people are from these days, I think.

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 38638

Kern wrote:

I'm of the opinion that classification by race is both outdated and instinctively dodgy. Country of birth is a more useful measure for studying where people are from these days, I think.

Especially when so many people can't even decide between White (British), White (English) and White (Other).

TheVision · **Posted:** Wed Jun 26, 2013 8:58

I've made it into work and we've now got massive concrete baricades across the drive. There's a gap big enough for a car to get through and at the moment, there's a guy in a van moving backwards and forwards to let people in.

Bizarre.

MrChris · **Joined:** 1st Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 30498

Are you expecting a zombie horde?

Mr Russell · **Joined:** 6th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 12334

Kern wrote:

I'm of the opinion that classification by race is both outdated and instinctively dodgy. Country of birth is a more useful measure for studying where people are from these days, I think.

MaliA · **Posted:** Wed Jun 26, 2013 9:11

Another job interview next week! Hurrah! Hope springs, once more.

TheVision · **Posted:** Wed Jun 26, 2013 9:13

Mr Kissyfur wrote:

Are you expecting a zombie horde?

It certainly looks that way. I wouldn't be surprised to see a mounted machine gun on there by the end of the day.

MaliA · **Posted:** Wed Jun 26, 2013 9:21

Busy night in Texas/ Fillibusting should be stopped, really, it is soemwhat undemocratic.

Grim... · **Posted:** Wed Jun 26, 2013 9:22

Non-moderator-sanctioned announcement:

ANYBODY SPAMMING THE CRAP OUT OF PAGE 99 WILL BE BANNED UNTIL WE GET TO PAGE 100.

MaliA · **Posted:** Wed Jun 26, 2013 9:23

Grim... wrote:

Non-moderator-sanctioned announcement:

ANYBODY SPAMMING THE CRAP OUT OF PAGE 99 WILL BE BANNED UNTIL WE GET TO PAGE 100.

Doing that is totally 2009.

Kern · **Posted:** Wed Jun 26, 2013 9:25

MaliA wrote:

Busy night in Texas/ Fillibusting should be stopped, really, it is soemwhat undemocratic.

If there are no rules on the length of a speech, it's part of the game. Makes you look a bit childish, though, although not as silly as failing to show up en masse to make a meeting inquorate.

Trooper · **Joined:** 4th Mar, 2010 **Posts:** 22387

Grim... wrote:

Non-moderator-sanctioned announcement:

ANYBODY SPAMMING THE CRAP OUT OF PAGE 99 WILL BE BANNED UNTIL WE GET TO PAGE 100.

Banned until this page 100, or the next one?

TheVision · **Posted:** Wed Jun 26, 2013 9:30

Can I make a non moderator sanctioned announcement then? I'm a non moderator?

Although...I haven't got an announcement to make... So that's that then.

Satsuma · **Joined:** 20th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14415

"Winning" Bits & Bobs has always been a dream of mine.

Bamba · **Joined:** 25th Jul, 2010 **Posts:** 11128

Grim... wrote:

Non-moderator-sanctioned announcement

Is this an announcement that hasn't been sanctioned by moderators or a sanctioned announcement coming from a non-moderator?

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