Early Risers.

[BR60103]

18 hours ago, monkeysarefun said:

 

 

Huh?  The sign might say "floor 5" but there's no getting around the fact that you are still on the 4th floor!

 

The only surefire remedy would be to seal it off.

IIRC one building I worked in used the 13th floor for building purposes and it wasn't accessible from the public elevators.

 

[monkeysarefun]

24 minutes ago, Ozexpatriate said:

What's uglier than a Tesla Cybertruck?

 

A Tesla Cybertruck covered in a garish vinyl wrap.

 

 

 

Yay for living in a right hand drive market with Design Rules that don't cater for drive by wire..   As a result we save 3 car parking spots per vehicle!

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[monkeysarefun]

12 minutes ago, Ozexpatriate said:

I'm surprised none of you suggested live impalement. The Ottomans allegedly did it on stakes in the Bosporus. 

 

 

   .......let alone Tickle Torture.

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[Ozexpatriate]

14 minutes ago, monkeysarefun said:

   .......let alone Tickle Torture.

 

Cardinal Ximénez, to Cardinal Biggles:

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Biggles, fetch the cushions!

...

Fetch the comfy chair!

 

If anyone needs the reference 🙄 it is here or (skip a bit brother) here.

 

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[jjb1970]

I managed to survive last night's dinner, my friend who invited me clearly knows me well enough to suggest I sit next to an elderly Yorkshire man who went to Singapore 50 years ago to start his own oil company  and was delightful company. We passed the evening in a most pleasant way saying b*ll*x to everything, splendid!

 

The food was as expected.  Awards ceremony dinners are like Christmas party dinners, venues know most people are there to 'network' and be seen as up and coming go getters (or because they are expected to be there), or there to get drunk and act like asses as applicable.  So they don't really have to impress with the food. Made worse by the fact they all know that all the alternatives are in the same boat playing the same game. The Shangri La has some superb restaurants and eating there in other circumstances would be a real treat, but catering for several hundred guests at a gala dinner they just go through the motions.

 

The British High Commissioner was there, I did think about answering some of his questions about the state of the world and shipping honestly when we had a brief chat but decided otherwise. Not only might it have embarrassed my hosts, he seemed a nice fellow and gave the impression of being in the same boat I was, I.e. he would rather have been doing something else but had to be there.

 

The taxi home highlighted one of the downsides of Singapore. Taking a taxi in London is often an educational experience,  as passengers recieve a philosophical monologue on right wing politics and why they should be strung'up. Alas my driver last night just took me home.

[iL Dottore]

20 minutes ago, Ozexpatriate said:

I'm surprised none of you suggested live impalement. The Ottomans allegedly did it on stakes in the Bosporus. 

Hmm.

But thinking about it, as exemplary as these punishments may be, they don't have any real psychological impact. So I'm thinking "Disappearance" and state initiated rumour, as in "you know Fred Bloggs, up to his neck in the XXX scandal, but they couldn't prove anything? Well he's disappeared, the Police and the authorities say that they know nothing and his colleagues and family are going frantic"

 

Drop a few hints along the lines of "The regime is rumoured to be disappearing high profile miscreants - although this is strongly denied by PB's government department" and watch panic ensue in certain quarters..,

 

p.s. we can keep the entertaining punishments for the common or garden "nasty scrote"

[Chris Snowdon]

8 hours ago, polybear said:

Bear has a new acquisition:

 

"Poole Quay by Gaslight"

 

 

- a purchase from the Warehouse; I often look at the piccies and this one just grabbed me.  It's a big piccy (34" x 24" framed) - the frame does it no favours though, so if I decide I like it enough (likely) I'll re-frame it; it's unusual in that it has the appearance of an oil painting (it's unglazed accordingly) but I'm sure it isn't - different sized versions are available on the 'bay & net.

Can't get to sleep.  Can't get this image out of my mind's eye.  Am positively haunted by it.  The moon and clouds bit is good...

[jjb1970]

I might suggest flogging round the fleet, but that rather presupposes the existence of a fleet.

[monkeysarefun]

3 minutes ago, jjb1970 said:

Taking a taxi in London is often an educational experience,  as passengers recieve a philosophical monologue on right wing politics and why they should be strung'up. Alas my driver last night just took me home

 

Up until covid killed it it  was  traditional in Australia for solo  blokes  to ride in the front with the driver -  sitting in the back gave you an air of being up yourself, like you were being chauffeured around and the old-school  drivers could get a bit sarcastic about you!

 

Women were free to choose front or back. 

 

We still got right wing radio and hang' em high comments though,  along with  opinions on the body bits of various lady pedestrians we drove past.

[monkeysarefun]

9 minutes ago, iL Dottore said:

although this is strongly denied by PB's government department" and watch panic ensue in certain quarters

 

 

Isn't  he that bloke who's scared of spiders?  "everyone falls around laughing" would be more likely!

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[Chris Snowdon]

7 minutes ago, jjb1970 said:

I might suggest flogging round the fleet, but that rather presupposes the existence of a fleet.

We ain't got one here.  Not any more.  But anyway, you only need the one ship to do a keel-hauling.

[Chris Snowdon]

11 minutes ago, monkeysarefun said:

 

Up until covid killed it it  was  traditional in Australia for solo  blokes  to ride in the front with the driver -  sitting in the back gave you an air of being up yourself, like you were being chauffeured around and the old-school  drivers could get a bit sarcastic about you!

 

Women were free to choose front or back. 

 

We still got right wing radio and hang' em high comments though,  along with  opinions on the body bits of various lady pedestrians we drove past.

Over here we don't get much choice, at least not in The Metropolis - black cabs are still arranged so that passengers can only go in the back, and minicab/ private hire drivers always travel with the fron passnger seat pulled all the way forward.  The last two times I've gone in the front, have been occasions when I have seriously thought that it would be better to swap places with the driver and risk getting caught driving w/o insurance rather than to allow them to continue as they were.   Which brings me to my next...

[Chris Snowdon]

37 minutes ago, iL Dottore said:

Hmm.

But thinking about it, as exemplary as these punishments may be, they don't have any real psychological impact. So I'm thinking "Disappearance" and state initiated rumour, as in "you know Fred Bloggs, up to his neck in the XXX scandal, but they couldn't prove anything? Well he's disappeared, the Police and the authorities say that they know nothing and his colleagues and family are going frantic"

 

Drop a few hints along the lines of "The regime is rumoured to be disappearing high profile miscreants - although this is strongly denied by PB's government department" and watch panic ensue in certain quarters..,

 

p.s. we can keep the entertaining punishments for the common or garden "nasty scrote"

I apologise to all who do not follow The Archers, and anyone who does but listens at lunchtime should not read the rest of this.  Several blank lines entered below to force text down.

 

Edited - CARP!  Didn't realise you can't hide text that way.

 

Will resend that part of my rant after Sunday's Omnibus, if I remember.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited 53 minutes ago by Chris Snowdon

[Ozexpatriate]

44 minutes ago, monkeysarefun said:

Isn't  he that bloke who's scared of spiders?  "everyone falls around laughing" would be more likely!

Cardinal Ximénez: "Biggles, fetch the Daddy Longlegs!" 😉

[Ozexpatriate]

17 minutes ago, Chris Snowdon said:

Didn't realise you can't hide text that way.

Enter it and change the colour to white. Anyone who wants to read it can select it.

 

Hello

 

Like so

 

[iL Dottore]

59 minutes ago, monkeysarefun said:

 

 

Isn't  he that bloke who's scared of spiders?  "everyone falls around laughing" would be more likely!

Aren't you the Scofflaw, Chimpey.

 

Well, you're now obviously "on the list" then

 

ps PB's "dishing it out", not taking it. I am certain he will have enough LEOs around him to protect him from nutters armed with spiders and snakes