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Post by Grecian on Dec 27, 2014 22:49:31 GMT 2
Fecking Kindles for a start.
And if I see anyone in Exeter with a bastard Selfie Stick, I will do time in jail for them.
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Post by quixote on Dec 28, 2014 16:54:40 GMT 2
I'm not keen on kindles either.
I profess total ignorance over what a "selfie stick" is.
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Post by Grecian on Dec 28, 2014 21:12:16 GMT 2
I would normally reply with words to the effect "Well, fecking google is probably quicker than me having to tell you what it is, you lazy bastard!" but, as it's "Goodwill to all Men" time including Gay's, Lesbians, Bisexuals and those who are undecided, I will give you a massive fecking clue! You can thank me later!   I hope you get the idea now? |
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Post by quixote on Dec 31, 2014 18:48:00 GMT 2
Yes, I knew I could Google it but, thought it more entertaining and interesting to see/hear it from you in an effort to engage in what I believe to be another plague on our culture.
When I did see the pics of it, I was equally appalled and despairing of the route social media and culture has gone.
Do you have children? I do not. Therefore, I don't want to be too opinionated when I am not a parent.
It would be extremely difficult for me to try and impose my ideals and opinions on an adolescent when peer pressure and the current social trends
prevail.
There is no road map that I know of as to which route to go with this.
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Post by Grecian on Dec 31, 2014 22:30:58 GMT 2
"appalled and despairing of the route social media and culture has gone." A brilliant Line there..
Where will it all end?? In my day, if you got a Tenner (£10) from Father Christmas, it was a result and a good Christmas - these days, if you don't get an XBox/PS4 at 300 notes (£300) then it's been a waste of time waking up!
I have a 20 year old Son so he's lived through the maelstrom of the Internet Age and he's well into all the Guff and Shite connected with it - he just got an iPhone 5 yesterday for £150 when his last phone was fine.
Luckily he's studying IT and Business at University so at least he'll have a job in the Future.
He's at University but as thick as pig shite - no way would I take him on a Quiz show like Pointless and expect to win.
Kids these days - apart from those Brain Boxes on University Challenge - don't have a bastard clue about General Knowledge. And they will do well to even learn to write let alone anything else.
I wish you a Happy New Year, quixote and for the likes of you and me, there is nothing to worry about in 2015..x
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Post by quixote on Jan 1, 2015 2:01:09 GMT 2
And the same to you and yours,
It;s so very difficult when truly I get at a point of "there;s no hope": , as optimistic as I try to be.
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Post by Grecian on Jan 1, 2015 2:13:42 GMT 2
There's always Hope, Ms Q...
You have Memories that will last forever and you do know that you and me lived in the best Period on this Planet of ours as it's all down hill from here!
The Internet etc has Fecked it all up for generations.
Happy New Year!
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Post by quixote on Jan 2, 2015 22:33:11 GMT 2
All the people in the park where I ride my bike every morning who have apparently made their New Year's resolution to exercise more.
They have clogged up the cycling lane, creating a hazard.
By March they'll be gone.
It happens every year...
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Post by Grecian on Jan 4, 2015 20:20:02 GMT 2
If I was you, I would bring 'March' forward' 2 months and do your cycling but chuck out a box of various tacks and Drawing Pins on the cycling lane.
Assuming they are part time cyclists as you suggest, they will get a puncture and then give up until next year.
No one mends punctures these days as they just get a new inner tube and I will hope that they will forget and not bother.
Another one into Room 101 is Female Comedians. Just not funny and they all cack on about cakes and being fat.
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Post by quixote on Jan 4, 2015 20:43:53 GMT 2
The problem isn't with cyclists clogging up the cycling lane, it's "walkers", joggers, people with baby strollers who somehow can't comprehend the
signs and symbols clearly designating what each lane is for.
So, tacks etc. would not be a solution.
I'm sorry you misunderstood.
It's more of an entitlement issue because this particular park is in a very affluent section nearby.
My solution for now is to alter my route until the f's go away,back to their comfy, cushy abodes.
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Post by Grecian on Jan 4, 2015 21:20:56 GMT 2
What is a baby stroller? I assume it is a 3 wheeled pram? Those Feckers can go into Room 101 as well as what is wrong with Traditional prams like in Mary Poppins?...
4 great, spoked, wheels and a massive hood to cover the wee bain from the elements - and some Feck Tard had to make a 3 wheeler that everyone buys now - because it is different - not better!
I assume you have a bell? Well, ring the Fecker all the time to clear the debris from your path and if they still want to 'stroll' in your lane then plant your front wheel RIGHT between their Butt Cheaks and give them a tyre mark on their affluent bleached Bum Hole - that will make them think twice!
Good luck!
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Post by outside cat @wino on Jan 4, 2015 23:50:14 GMT 2
McLaren make three wheel strollers for a gazillion quid a piece.....agree with geekman on most of the above and a pox on anyone who interferes with bike lanes.
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Post by quixote on Jan 5, 2015 0:16:40 GMT 2
They are mostly the 3 wheeled lightweight f'n canvas seated prams or strollers whatever the F. (I always did prefer the word/term pram but rarely hear it so didn't use it.
Anyway, you get the drift of what I'm saying I hope by now, past the semantics, a breed of culture that deceide that the park they rarely use is now taken over because it's theirs and it's f'n with my f'n what has been my daily solitary routine until they deceide it's theirs.
There is no enforcement by the park "police" and so, there you have it.
F'n gentrifrication interfering with my attempt at starting my day in a peaceful, solitary mode.
It doesn't work for me.
I'll get around it.
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Post by Grecian on Jan 5, 2015 21:59:59 GMT 2
So you have mentioned the downside of Gentrification but the upside must be the increase on property prices?
It sounds like you have had your Personal Daily Routine (PDR) interuppted as the local Park is a hive of activity and I must admit I am with them!
Far better that they gout out of the house and enjoyed the Park than stay indoors and play computer games and just let the young kid spin some coloured shapes on the wire in front of them?
You may just have to Embrace the Change, Q!
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Post by quixote on Jan 6, 2015 0:30:35 GMT 2
You miss the point I was making about safety and entitlement.
I'm all for everyone embracing the wide open spaces and appreciating the beautiful municipal parks.
I'm talking about playing by the rules like everyone else including myself.
Point in case; several years ago a good friend of mine was walking in the proper lane in same said park when she got mowed down by an online skater, rollerblader whatever they call them. There is an all together separate lane that he should have been in.
Shattered her wrist to pieces and didn't even stop!!!!!
There were eyewitnesses and with some diligent sleuthing she was able to nail the F.
In the meantime, she was slammed with medical costs and loss of work (she is a RN).
The F hired some high powered attorney and she was able to get some compensation but nothing compared to what she had lost on top of the gravity of the situation, criminal depravity in leaving the scene.
If I were to mow down one of these prams that suddenly veered into the cycling lane, first off, I would stop, but, you can be assured that I would be held responsible for any bodily harm done and very likely be sued.
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Post by Grecian on Jan 6, 2015 20:54:29 GMT 2
A ha! I assumed that you had a personal experience to cloud your reasoning!
That's shite for your Friend there but you must realise by now that there are Feck Tards all over this Planet of ours so even if it says something on the Pavement, it doesn't mean they are going to do it!
We have dual Pedestrian/Cyclist paths over here and I would hope that ALL cyclists would have a bell and just ring it out of courtesy about 20 foot behind just to let them know that there's a cyclist behind them.
If only everybody was like me, eh!
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Post by quixote on Jan 6, 2015 23:13:06 GMT 2
I don't think my reasoning is clouded at all.
I would feel the same way regardless of my friends unfortunate situation.
Don't try and assume what I'm thinking or feeling, it's pompous and haughty, hence, unbecoming.
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Post by Grecian on Jan 7, 2015 20:58:00 GMT 2
Oh well...I'll stop assuming and then, maybe, you will stop being a To55er, ok?
My reply was genuine - if you took/take it the wrong way then so be it. Up to you.
Time for a comical interlude as regards the above (The translation may not work!)
This Black Tarmac walked into a Pub and shouted "I'll take any of you on as I am the Hardest bit of tarmac around!"
Everyone in the pub cowered and went about their business in hushed tones not wanting to cause attention...
In walks a piece of Green tarmac and he sits at the bar, orders a pint and flicks the 'V' sign at the Black Tarmac...
The barman says to the Black Tarmac "Come on! He's di55ed you! You have to take him on?"
The Black Tarmac says "No way! he's a Cyclepath!"
(I reckon that only 50% will get that)
The good news is that today, Tottenham Hotspur (Spurs) have banned the Selfie Stick from White Hart Lane (Their home ground)! Hurrah!
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Post by quixote on Jan 7, 2015 22:20:33 GMT 2
LOL!!! That is funny!!!!
And, the banning of the selfie sick (sic) is a great triumph for mankind!
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Post by Grecian on Jan 7, 2015 22:31:26 GMT 2
Hurrah! Looks like you and me are Cool again....
I so dislike falling out with people for no reason...
Next thing into Room 101 is?...
Black Friday...
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Post by pepecura on Jan 10, 2015 11:56:00 GMT 2
Nice legs...
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Post by Grecian on Jan 10, 2015 20:39:51 GMT 2
Quixote's Avatar or the tart in the back of the car?
Another into Room 101 is Twitter.
All it does is provide Thick Fuc-kers to interact when they should just STFU....
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Post by quixote on Jan 11, 2015 16:32:45 GMT 2
Twitter is for Twats who are either bored or think so highly of themselves or are so insecure that they think that whatever they have to say is that important they have to share it with the world.
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Post by Grecian on Jan 11, 2015 20:57:55 GMT 2
Feck!
I can't disagree with any of your words - is that a first?!
Twitter has let the Thick Kunts instant access to The World. Before, you used to have to send an e-mail or write to the relevant paper to vent your bile and anger and they are so thick that they didn't bother..
Now? Any sad Fecker can make an account and be 'out there' to The World.
It really is the invention of the Devil.
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Post by quixote on Jan 11, 2015 21:14:26 GMT 2
Well, gratefully there are people like you and I that share the same sentiment.
In the meantime, I choose to ignore them and put them in the same category being a plague on society and the route social media has taken.
Unfortunately,we are surrounded, but, that doesn't mean we have to succumb.
I felt the same way about Facebook but, I do have dear friends that have embraced it, and, my disdain for much of the plague of social media that has risen seems to have taken a twist in a direction I cannot abide.
It's disconcerting, but, worse , the avenue it has taken amongst the youth that is so far out of my reach as to make any difference no matter how much I detest it.
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Post by Grecian on Jan 11, 2015 23:29:32 GMT 2
Hurrah! I totally agree..Facewank is the lesser of so many Evils...
I really do think that you and me have lived through the Best that the World, to us, has to offer and when the inevitable comes to us; it's only downhill for the Human Race from hereon in..
Quite sad in a way..
Are we just cynical 'Old Bastards' or being realistic?...
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Post by quixote on Jan 12, 2015 2:05:32 GMT 2
Yes, cynical I am, and it's probably a good thing I don't have children or at this point grandchildren because my disdain for the direction that today's technology has taken this generation,and,for that matter the previous generation, is something I would have a personal and very likely extreme disdain for and have to impose on loved ones.
So, as impressive and useful this technology may have steered us in a positive direction,it has unfortunately become a tool toward a vapidness that will surely come back and bite us in the ass at some point.
For young people not ever knowing what the value a library may hold, or, just taking for granted that everything knowledge wise be it literature, music, science and most of all the exploration of nature in the wild be surpassed because of being enslaved to an electronic device is so very saddening, I have no other way of expressing myself for the loss of the very experiences these generations will never ever know.
I see it every day when I go out for my morning walk or bike ride,
Young people, the ones that are out, glued to their Iphone 7 or 8's, oblivious to their surroundings, devoid of what is going on in their immediate surroundings....and, the enabling the vast majority of parents who don't have any clue as to the damage being done as a result of their giving in to the whole monstrous thing.
Perhaps the Amish were/are on the right track all along.
I just don't know or profess to have any solution in mind.
I volunteer several hours a week at a school in my neighborhood for a literacy program called STAIR, (Start The Adventure In Reading) and although the attendance is active, more and more, the children I tutor want to have more access to online internet connected social media driven programs whereas a few years ago they were content to books. It's troubling for many of us who have been involved in this endeavor and I fear what direction we will ultimately have to go with this lest we lose the incentive that these children have had or will have in the upcoming future. So, where to go, what to do? I will prevail the best I can. Thanks for listening.
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Post by pepecura on Jan 12, 2015 16:14:03 GMT 2
The legs of the lady in the back of the minivan.
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Post by quixote on Jan 12, 2015 19:49:12 GMT 2
Oh, I am crestfallen.... (actually, I knew that was what you were referring to but, at my age, one can only hope they receive such a compliment, so, no hard feelings there). |
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Post by quixote on Jan 12, 2015 19:50:18 GMT 2
The legs of the lady in the back of the minivan. See above post. F'd up my response. See? I'm old and weary..... |
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