Random Rant

[bluemoon]

1 hour ago, Bigmarc said:

It gets quiet aggressive in there, scares the c**p out of me (probably my point tho)

Dominoes is serious business.

[GoldDiggerDave]

3 hours ago, flyingveepixie said:

I've been noticing the lack of people's attention span for years now, and all joking aside, I really did notice it when I first started to put out these long musical pieces.  That kind of stuff was what I grew up with in the 70s when one song could take up the entire side of an LP and lots of people loved it back then. I still love listening to longer epic pieces of music and am particularly partial in my old age to certain operas like The Magic Flute for example which is a three hour extravaganza in German with elements of colloquial Austrian dialect chucked in - a real challenge !   Nowadays if a song is longer than two minutes and if it contains any real instruments rather than a load of computer generated c**p and a robotic repetitious lyric line it's too complicated for most of the simpletons out there.

With regard to ticktock and instagram I'm afraid I've led a very sheltered life and have never once looked at them..😅  I don't regret it!

Lol I'm glad we are just out of touch, or not controlled MSM.   Mate I accidentally turn on Radio 1 in the car at times and the utter dross they play, the  pseudo-urban da dam, da dam, ya mam!  It all has the exactly the same  quasi-english almost subliminal repetitions. Any hook they can make up that will fit into the next tick-tock 20 second video.  

 

[SidS]

2 minutes ago, GoldDiggerDave said:

Lol I'm glad we are just out of touch, or not controlled MSM.   Mate I accidentally turn on Radio 1 in the car at times and the utter dross they play, the  pseudo-urban da dam, da dam, ya mam!  It all has the exactly the same  quasi-english almost subliminal repetitions. Any hook they can make up that will fit into the next tick-tock 20 second video.  

 

Do they still make music? I thought they gave up in about 2000 or so.

[GoldDiggerDave]

7 minutes ago, SidS said:

Do they still make music? I thought they gave up in about 2000 or so.

We are truly showing our age!   🤣

[flyingveepixie]

18 minutes ago, GoldDiggerDave said:

I accidentally turn on Radio 1 in the car at times and the utter dross they play, the  pseudo-urban da dam, da dam, ya mam!  It all has the exactly the same  quasi-english almost subliminal repetitions. Any hook they can make up that will fit into the next tick-tock 20 second video.  

 

Hideous.

[ZRPMs]

I've even tried to listen to Radio 4. Had to turn it off, I think they run the perpetual ladies hours now. Every ones a victim unless the person happens to be a white male. My eldest daughter, now in Uni, having not done an hours worth of work in her life. Seems to be intent on collecting as many letters behind her name as possible, not the academic type mind you. ADHD, PTSD,...... etc. To be honest I'm probably best left in the solitude of my own company in my hermitage. However, I have found some kindred spirits on the forum. Whilst surrounded by the ever increasing madness of the world I've found it easier not to interact. 

Just as a recent funny I nearly found myself thrown out of spec savers the last time I went for my check up. In short I got sat down at a desk to fill out the preliminary questionnaire by a young girl with multi-coloured hair, blue, pink, yellow can't really remember now but she asked my name, I answered, then she asked my gender. "Can't you tell" I said. then came "what pronouns do you use?" I couldn't help myself, I said " I'm very sorry but I don't subscribe to this sort of b0l0ck$. If you have any questions that relate to my eye test continue." I thought she was going to cry she looked at the main desk and at that point I thought, Oh great I'm getting thrown out.  Anyway I was called away and with in a few seconds shoved in to an area to wait for my eye test.

 

 

[bluemoon]

12 minutes ago, ZRPMs said:

I've even tried to listen to Radio 4. Had to turn it off, I think they run the perpetual ladies hours now. Every ones a victim unless the person happens to be a white male. My eldest daughter, now in Uni, having not done an hours worth of work in her life. Seems to be intent on collecting as many letters behind her name as possible, not the academic type mind you. ADHD, PTSD,...... etc. To be honest I'm probably best left in the solitude of my own company in my hermitage. However, I have found some kindred spirits on the forum. Whilst surrounded by the ever increasing madness of the world I've found it easier not to interact. 

Just as a recent funny I nearly found myself thrown out of spec savers the last time I went for my check up. In short I got sat down at a desk to fill out the preliminary questionnaire by a young girl with multi-coloured hair, blue, pink, yellow can't really remember now but she asked my name, I answered, then she asked my gender. "Can't you tell" I said. then came "what pronouns do you use?" I couldn't help myself, I said " I'm very sorry but I don't subscribe to this sort of b0l0ck$. If you have any questions that relate to my eye test continue." I thought she was going to cry she looked at the main desk and at that point I thought, Oh great I'm getting thrown out.  Anyway I was called away and with in a few seconds shoved in to an area to wait for my eye test.

 

That is actually quite a scary story, because it means the sheep will follow literally anything these days. It makes me wonder what else these same sheep would be capable of doing to you.

Remember how people ratted on you for leaving your house more than once a day.

Then there is all the people who lost their livelihoods for saying something innocuous but makes the sheep's hair catch fire. Even got convicted, in some cases. The same "crimes" would have been thought perfectly reasonable just 7 or 8 years ago.

[SidS]

23 minutes ago, ZRPMs said:

Then came "what pronouns do you use?"

I don't use pronouns I need to be addressed in full. I use the title esquire. 😁

Sid Silver esquire. It's got a ring to it.

Edited March 25, 2023 by SidS

[GoldDiggerDave]

23 minutes ago, ZRPMs said:

I've even tried to listen to Radio 4. Had to turn it off, I think they run the perpetual ladies hours now. Every ones a victim unless the person happens to be a white male. My eldest daughter, now in Uni, having not done an hours worth of work in her life. Seems to be intent on collecting as many letters behind her name as possible, not the academic type mind you. ADHD, PTSD,...... etc. To be honest I'm probably best left in the solitude of my own company in my hermitage. However, I have found some kindred spirits on the forum. Whilst surrounded by the ever increasing madness of the world I've found it easier not to interact. 

Just as a recent funny I nearly found myself thrown out of spec savers the last time I went for my check up. In short I got sat down at a desk to fill out the preliminary questionnaire by a young girl with multi-coloured hair, blue, pink, yellow can't really remember now but she asked my name, I answered, then she asked my gender. "Can't you tell" I said. then came "what pronouns do you use?" I couldn't help myself, I said " I'm very sorry but I don't subscribe to this sort of b0l0ck$. If you have any questions that relate to my eye test continue." I thought she was going to cry she looked at the main desk and at that point I thought, Oh great I'm getting thrown out.  Anyway I was called away and with in a few seconds shoved in to an area to wait for my eye test.

 

 

Companies falling over themselves to tick and many boxes as they can even if it diminishes their primary role or services.   It's almost like they can justify higher prices and poorer services just as long they have signed up to a movement or agenda. 

@ZRPMs All we can do is grab the popcorn and watch companies and people devour themselves with this nonsense. 

 

 

 

[ZRPMs]

5 minutes ago, bluemoon said:

That is actually quite a scary story, because it means the sheep will follow literally anything these days. It makes me wonder what else these same sheep would be capable of doing to you.

Remember how people ratted on you for leaving your house more than once a day.

Then there is all the people who lost their livelihoods for saying something innocuous but makes the sheep's hair catch fire. Even got convicted, in some cases. The same "crimes" would have been thought perfectly reasonable just 7 or 8 years ago.

Your right. What crimes have been committed by those that have prefaced their actions with "I'm sorry but it's my job I have to do it."

How many people were made social lepers because they didn't clap for the NHS. My own family shunned me until they needed the A&E department recently. They couldn't get an ambulance and when they eventually got there, They had a nearly 18 hours to get seen to. As you can imagine. I couldn't help but say" good job you clapped so enthusiastically " 

[SidS]

I never clapped. As soon as I was told I had to do it, made me not want to do it.

[Fenlander1]

I never clapped for the NHS but did get it from a nurse in my younger days. Does that count.

[MonkeysUncle]

5 hours ago, Bigmarc said:

I had an apprentice who listened to pink Floyd's pulse album on my recommendation. The only thing he said was the songs were too long. Those days are gone. 

The only comment?

Bullets are a fantastic invention when used appropriately!

[MonkeysUncle]

2 hours ago, ZRPMs said:

Your right. What crimes have been committed by those that have prefaced their actions with "I'm sorry but it's my job I have to do it."

How many people were made social lepers because they didn't clap for the NHS. My own family shunned me until they needed the A&E department recently. They couldn't get an ambulance and when they eventually got there, They had a nearly 18 hours to get seen to. As you can imagine. I couldn't help but say" good job you clapped so enthusiastically " 

Frolics to the NHS. I'll possibly die of something simple and easily curable as their is no way on God's clean earth I go near the Quackery again. I'm a bit bitter still at a prognosis of game over by the weekend.

Ticking towards 9 years later...

[bluemoon]

5 minutes ago, MonkeysUncle said:

Frolics to the NHS. I'll possibly die of something simple and easily curable as their is no way on God's clean earth I go near the Quackery again. I'm a bit bitter still at a prognosis of game over by the weekend.

Ticking towards 9 years later...

I've had major misdiagnoses too as have members of my family. Then of course there is the Covid debacle. With so many instances of this, Occam's Razor is telling me NHS doctors are stupid, dangerous and ignorant - This has gone well beyond a bit of bad luck here or there.

Worst is when people are trusting the NHS enough that they may never know they were misdiagnosed, they just believe what they were told.

[NGMD]

3 hours ago, ZRPMs said:

I've even tried to listen to Radio 4. Had to turn it off, I think they run the perpetual ladies hours now. Every ones a victim unless the person happens to be a white male. My eldest daughter, now in Uni, having not done an hours worth of work in her life. Seems to be intent on collecting as many letters behind her name as possible, not the academic type mind you. ADHD, PTSD,...... etc. To be honest I'm probably best left in the solitude of my own company in my hermitage. However, I have found some kindred spirits on the forum. Whilst surrounded by the ever increasing madness of the world I've found it easier not to interact. 

Just as a recent funny I nearly found myself thrown out of spec savers the last time I went for my check up. In short I got sat down at a desk to fill out the preliminary questionnaire by a young girl with multi-coloured hair, blue, pink, yellow can't really remember now but she asked my name, I answered, then she asked my gender. "Can't you tell" I said. then came "what pronouns do you use?" I couldn't help myself, I said " I'm very sorry but I don't subscribe to this sort of b0l0ck$. If you have any questions that relate to my eye test continue." I thought she was going to cry she looked at the main desk and at that point I thought, Oh great I'm getting thrown out.  Anyway I was called away and with in a few seconds shoved in to an area to wait for my eye test.

 

 

We are brothers from another mother. I could have wrote every word about myself.

I like to remind them that without this heterosexual, middle aged, white, tax paying man who goes by the pronouns- geezer, fella or bloke, they’d be in a tent, eating dirt praying to Broccoli. The real world is gonna really scare them.

They help keep bully’s in employment. 

 

[MonkeysUncle]

23 minutes ago, NGMD said:

praying to Broccoli.

 

I think you've hit on a great money making opportunity here... no such thing as a poor religion after all.

And Broccoli can be thanked for it's tasty goodness, as opposed to thanking fictitious characters in c**p stories.

[Bogart]

Cannot wait until I am next in Specsavers and asked my gender. Must remember to get my wife to lend a set of stockings and suspenders. Different to my usual ones😜

[ZRPMs]

3 minutes ago, Bigmarc said:

How is it that it's ok to spell out blowjob and not s***.

We all need to have our hair done sometimes. Well may be not me so much with my Hamlet comb over

[MonkeysUncle]

1 hour ago, Bogart said:

Cannot wait until I am next in Specsavers and asked my gender. Must remember to get my wife to lend a set of stockings and suspenders. Different to my usual ones😜

Don't forget the mini skirt! 

[Bigmarc]

40 minutes ago, ZRPMs said:

We all need to have our hair done sometimes. Well may be not me so much with my Hamlet comb over

The majority of the messages on this forum probably come from someone sitting on the toilet at home doing a s&it

[ChrisSilver]

Locked this as it’s gone off topic and last recent posts completely not about gold at all.

Please keep the non PM topics and posts strictly to the non PM section.