En Passant

Is what Thatcher would or wouldn't have thought or done actually germane? She was about as divisive a figure as we have ever had as a PM. I mean if we could dig up dead ex-leaders for their take on current politics where would we stop exactly? Would Winston have been pro or anti Brexit? Now you've got me wondering...Hm, EU....Probably not in fairness if Germany were in it.....

To be honest? I washed my hands of Tyson as a member of the human race after he chewed Holyfields ear off. And I still want him to beat some you tube asswipe. Go figure.

I'm of an age where everyone lost from The Blues Brothers really hurts, almost viscerally. Ugh.

How could we tell? I've been off fags and on vapes for 10 years now. Not impressed with the budget naturally but understand it's not aimed at old farts like me. I guess I'm still somewhat addicted to nicotine, but less so than previously without a doubt. Have to see if I can be forced to quit vaping as well due to feeling fuck'd by the budget.

I bought one, then I couldn't find the fucker.

Probably Jim Fixx (1984). That was widely reported (and probably chortled at by unkind couch potatoes) at the time.

Well, back to me not being serious really. Just a joke. FWIW I'd assume a prosecution of the sex worker would be quite tricky on the basis that she'd been paid and thus Spencer knew exactly what he was doing (or at any rate trying to learn). I realise 'consent' isn't really the issue where underage is concerned. But I'm fairly sure most pro's don't go asking for photo proof of age ID's?

Stuff chips. Baked potato king - 10 mins microwave - 10 mins air fryer (maybe a little longer both, depending on size). No cleaning needed. Result. Mainly as AFB says, its just an oven. But its a fkn sight cheaper to run, most ovens are about 7KW or something awful which is ok if there's 5 of you I suppose but terrible for one.

So, if I read this right, had that 'young female assistant matron' just managed to contain her impulses for around 12 months she'd be fine legally speaking AND 15 quid better off?

Well, if I can manage to be serious long enough and you aren't just taking the piss, both of which can hardly be guaranteed.... In reality, I have zero time for religion and think they are all dangerous. If you need a supreme being of any description to ensure you "do as you would be done by" you're saying that by default you'd hurt others without this fear and at best I'm unimpressed. I also have zero time for paying for the advertising, that I hate, for a product that is no better and often worse than the own brand alternative. If you are actually saying what you appear to be saying that both religion and own brand are fucking madness, then I'm 50% with you. On reflection, I'm not serious, and you are taking the piss.

Same, minus the aware of the product (I wasn't). It's practically a religion with me to buy nothing but own brand, I skip ads as if my life depended on it too.

I'm absolutely not going to say I told you so. No sirree. Never. It's childish. Edit: Ok technically it was about it ruining the continuity, but same thing really.

Surely there should be some sort of @TQR namecheck here?

I had to facking look it up. Normally never consider I've led a sheltered life - but sometimes....

Or as he would put it, 35 over 55.

Frank Drebin

Bill Gates dad is eagerly anticipating meeting him.

No worries, I scanned it a couple of times cause I can appear caustic and not mean it too. Hence my question mark style response. I've fallen foul of something I've written in jest just not appearing that way to others too often (Iirc I may have done it once too often about Basildon as an example, mea culpa). As far as I can tell It's a hazard because the alternative is spelling it out in a long diatribe to avoid any chance of misinterpretation at which point its very length removes any pretence of the initial punchy humour you intended in the first place...a bit like this sentence. Text is a crappy medium for nuance, at least if you are trying to be brief and making snappy gags can be quite hit and miss.

Um, isn't that what I was alluding to his posts being anyway? I thought I was. Aaaaanyway, the only reason I've not blocked him, and some others really, is you then just get holes in continuity and other people reply to them regardless making it slower to skim the contents of a thread than just to leave as is (for me anyway).

Carefully selected and cropped quotes I know - but, even so. We're all probably guilty of being opinionated occasionally - and even of expecting others to listen, I know I bloody am. But you really fucking abuse the privilege.

Oh cmon, guns, health care only if you can afford it - a slew of other longstanding indignities related to America being a great place to live providing you were born rich in the first place....... Trump? Possibly for a 2nd term? After the first??? The tories have indeed been trying their damndest to have us 'going to shit', but faster than you? Pfft.

Crop up? Horst?, Neigh.

Plus ca change. Eurovision is about politics not songs* *which are universally crap anyway imo

I'd have said definitely not, Deathers was occasionally very amusing (intentionally or otherwise) where mango really isn't (at least thus far) but then he mentions zorders (as noted by ulitzer) which does rather kick being a random newbie into the long grass. Mods have also caught and banned every deathray sock in less time than this ordinarily. Tis a poser - Shrug.