I don't understand
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TOWIES
Chair Lift operators at ski resorts.
Especially the superior Australian resorts such as Falls Creek.
"Excuse me, but may I ask what you're called?"
"We're Towies."
"Are you ever referred to as Lifties?"
"Sometimes, but only by idiots."
TOWIES
Chair Lift operators at ski resorts.
Especially the superior Australian resorts such as Falls Creek.
"Excuse me, but may I ask what you're called?"
"We're Towies."
"Are you ever referred to as Lifties?"
"Sometimes, but only by idiots."
I use my laptop to listen to the radio (BBC Radio 4) and each morning I listen to various interviewees talking in what can only be called 'newspeak'. A while back I started to type down some of the more irritating examples, these are they...
"provide a persistent security effect"
"key-enabler"
"undermining community cohesion"
"life-chances"
"continuum of civilianality"
"step-changes"
"effectuality indicators"
"Housing Market Renewal Pathfinders"
"an honest mistake"
"stabilization efforts"
"transfer of population"
"elimination of unreliable elements"
"rectification of frontiers"
"pain compliant technique"
"progress-resistant cultural influences"
"head-count surplus"
"ballistic tool kit"
"drive coordination"
"healthy schools curriculum initiative"
"topslice"
"recognization"
"life chances indicators"
"information dominance"
"asymmetric threats"
"false realities"
"complicit enablers"
"health outcomes"
"capability gap"
"provide a persistent security effect"
"key-enabler"
"undermining community cohesion"
"life-chances"
"continuum of civilianality"
"step-changes"
"effectuality indicators"
"Housing Market Renewal Pathfinders"
"an honest mistake"
"stabilization efforts"
"transfer of population"
"elimination of unreliable elements"
"rectification of frontiers"
"pain compliant technique"
"progress-resistant cultural influences"
"head-count surplus"
"ballistic tool kit"
"drive coordination"
"healthy schools curriculum initiative"
"topslice"
"recognization"
"life chances indicators"
"information dominance"
"asymmetric threats"
"false realities"
"complicit enablers"
"health outcomes"
"capability gap"
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WOW! That must have taken a fair while to compose. I really enjoy listening to Radio 4 in the car, it is my favourite radio station without seriously dumbed down news.
I have actually seen one of these, I got a tour round one of our Vanguard class submarines recently and strapped to the back of one of the missile tubes was a big brown briefcase with those exact words on a small label on it. I was reliably informed that any further attempts to "borrow" it would result in my being shredded
I'm still waiting for an explanation of talc-free talc
Talc-free talcum powder is cornstarch. Talc is a mineral (magnesium silicate) that some people are allergic to, hence the talc-free version. It's basically the same as the primary mineral in soapstone.
Damn beat me to it! make your own with cornflour and a few drops of lavender oil, very good and not a known carcinogenic like real talc...
Glad I am not alone in this one, I cant understand this celebrity culture.....who cares what colour socks David Beckham is wearing or who is kissing who and then its them that become the role models and set the trends for everyone....almost turning people into clones. I admit I do like watching a bit of TV but nowadays its just DVDs and certain programs (Dr Who ) I watch as the rest of it is just reality stuff...now if they had the jungle celebrity (not that I have watched more than a minute or 2 of it) one and threw in a few wild animals such as wolves and took away anything modern stuff and the last person alive wins...now that may be interesting.
As for these silly warnings, they are beyond me.....yes if you pour hot water into a cup it is still going to be hot I do not need a label to tell me that. The best one I have seen yet is at our meet up here, I think it was Chaz that spotted on his Tesco bottle of water: Suitable for Vegetarians. Now I am pretty sure vegetarians could drink water before.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/markhillary/3236899820/
On our sugar sachets at work: Warning may contain milk.
Meh morning rant over.
) I watch as the rest of it is just reality stuff...now if they had the jungle celebrity (not that I have watched more than a minute or 2 of it) one and threw in a few wild animals such as wolves and took away anything modern stuff and the last person alive wins...now that may be interesting.As for these silly warnings, they are beyond me.....yes if you pour hot water into a cup it is still going to be hot I do not need a label to tell me that. The best one I have seen yet is at our meet up here, I think it was Chaz that spotted on his Tesco bottle of water: Suitable for Vegetarians. Now I am pretty sure vegetarians could drink water before.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/markhillary/3236899820/
On our sugar sachets at work: Warning may contain milk.
Meh morning rant over.
What really gets my goat is that people will cheerfully spend silly money on food, then, when they find that they're obese, spend even more silly money on slimming plans.
There weren't a lot of slimming plans to be had in the middle of the 20th century.
There weren't a lot of slimming plans to be had in the middle of the 20th century.
Yes, all very funny. Very witty. Very true.
But.
There is a bit of snootiness to this thread - all those silly people with their silly trivial lives.
Some of us may (very well) disdain 'celebrity culture'. But we still have our celebrities who we adore - Ray, Mors, Lars, Lofty...even...Bear?
So, some of you don't care what the celebrities in those magazines are wearing and doing. Well...Ray is wearing a very good Swandri, have you seen the style of knife that Mors uses..?
TOWIE?
What about FAK, BOB, PSK, SAK?
You think all the 'normal' people couldn't survive in your chosen environment? Seems to me like some of you couldn't live in theirs. Ah, but you probably don't care for their world and their lives. But I dare say they feel the same about yours.
There's no difference between you and them, no matter how hard you try to con yourself otherwise.
But.
There is a bit of snootiness to this thread - all those silly people with their silly trivial lives.
Some of us may (very well) disdain 'celebrity culture'. But we still have our celebrities who we adore - Ray, Mors, Lars, Lofty...even...Bear?
So, some of you don't care what the celebrities in those magazines are wearing and doing. Well...Ray is wearing a very good Swandri, have you seen the style of knife that Mors uses..?
TOWIE?
What about FAK, BOB, PSK, SAK?
You think all the 'normal' people couldn't survive in your chosen environment? Seems to me like some of you couldn't live in theirs. Ah, but you probably don't care for their world and their lives. But I dare say they feel the same about yours.
There's no difference between you and them, no matter how hard you try to con yourself otherwise.
This post is exactly how I feel.
Before taking the micky out of others, take a good look at yourself.
resnikov
Bushcrafter (boy, I've got a lot to say!)
Well thats actually a sensible warning as peanuts are not nuts, they are in the legume (bean) family. The peanuts will probably be processed in a factory that also processes nuts so a warning on the packet is ok so people with a nut allergy are aware of the risk.
Speak for yourself. I'm not into adoring celebrities.
Well I'll grant you that there's not enough difference for my complete comfort, but none? No, I don't think that's right. For starters I don't have a television, I buy no magazines or newspapers, and on the rare occasion that I listen to the radio it's because there's a budget speech or something like that. When I take the dogs round Pennytown ponds I also often take a bin liner to put all the beer cans and bottles that my fellow inhabitants cheerfully throw all around the place and I do actually make an effort to minimize my carbon footprint. My electricity comes from renewable fuels, for example, but most importantly I have no children. The buck stops here.
