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Post by Admin on Jan 21, 2020 22:12:24 GMT
 It's Wednesday. |
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Post by Chumbles on Jan 21, 2020 23:31:02 GMT
It certainly is...  Any relation MrTiddles ? The Ad*lt Wednesday A**ams Show is under a ban from the copyright holders, so here's a link |
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Post by crankcaller on Jan 21, 2020 23:40:28 GMT
I've just won my first game of Apex Legends. It was a team effort. Everyone played their part. I shot someone once and managed not to die.
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Post by RollingEscargot on Jan 22, 2020 6:43:56 GMT
I've just won my first game of Apex Legends. It was a team effort. Everyone played their part. I shot someone once and managed not to die. Nice one. Wait till you enjoy the thrill of winning a game without killing anyone and being totally carried by your teammates - ideally you get killed near the start and just watch. Are you playing on ps4? |
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Post by BabyfarkmcGeezak on Jan 22, 2020 8:20:55 GMT
I've just won my first game of Apex Legends. It was a team effort. Everyone played their part. I shot someone once and managed not to die. Crank's victory in pictures:  |
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Post by crankcaller on Jan 22, 2020 8:57:47 GMT
There's no hiding behind a rock in those pictures.
It was on the pc. Though I was using an xbone controller as I'm a disgrace. Need to get the kB/mouse binding sorted.
Today I'm off to my pal Kenny's Funeral. He was in his early 60s and should have been on the sick - but the DWP thought he was fit for work. Let's ignore the major respitory problems they thought.
Despite his lifelong hatred of the church his family (ok his sister) have gone full cafflic. His brothers will be going along with it not to upset her. TBF he's deed and won't know and it's more about the family I suppose. First burial I've ever attended as they've all been burnings before.
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Post by RollingEscargot on Jan 22, 2020 9:26:34 GMT
Sorry about your pal, crank. I have a friend in a similar work/health situation and he's terrified of the ridiculous work assessments they make him do (apparently a letter from the top surgeon for his condition is not enough).
Ganes: no.
Telly: no.
Ottm: I've walked half way across Dottingham this morning but was deprived of its architectural wonders by a right old pea souper. 4 stars.
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Post by cobblers on Jan 22, 2020 9:30:35 GMT
That sounds, if you don’t mind me saying, like a surefire recipe for your classic undead revenge from beyond the grave.
I give the priest 48hrs, the DWP assessor less than a week.
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Post by Faceless on Jan 22, 2020 10:19:14 GMT
Sorry to hear about your mate Crank.
I went to a Catholic funeral once. Fucking weird. The priest started going on about all the "sins" my mate had committed in his life which, although probably accurate, seemed a bit off.
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Post by Faceless on Jan 22, 2020 10:29:25 GMT
Ganes: Outer worlds. Went somewhere, spoke to someone, went somewhere else, spoke to someone else, done some shooting. Lots of fast travel and loading screens. Starting to get bored of it now.
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Post by BabyfarkmcGeezak on Jan 22, 2020 10:34:29 GMT
Sorry about the funeral Crank, I've only ever done burnings too.
I watched the last of Dracula (surprisingly good) and The Sopranos (Ralph is a filthy sod in bed) and we still have bad water here.
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Post by Chumbles on Jan 22, 2020 10:37:44 GMT
I was told I was fit for work two weeks before nearly dying of septic shock and spending 9 months in hospital. This was after having been assessed by a nurse working for ATOS who told me confidentially that the firm were incentivised to get folk off the sick and back to work. Dunno who does them now, but the wicked system is probably the same. Tips: don't admit you can walk 25 yards. Get sticks or crutches and display them; get your doctor to refer you to an occupational therapist. Best of all, if you can't reasonably get there and your medicos agree, get them to assess you at home and with a witness ... disclose every illness you've ever had. Don't lie about things that a documents check will expose. Do not feel guilty about this - the companies that carry out these have no conscience and trawl each application and assessment actively looking for any inconsistency so they can reject it. Mobility, Severity, Consistency. And remember the DWP can require you to attend an interview for a job up to 90 minutes away from home. They can ignore any health issues like massive ulceration of the legs and feet which carry a clinical requirement to keep them elevated as much as possible. There are folk out there who have lied and played the system for years; but the solution is to catch these bastards, not make it impossible for folk with genuine incapacity for work to claim the benefits that will keep them alive. In short the system is designed to fuck you over and managed / run by cunts. Another work shy corpse catching 4 buses on the way to his new job as a morgue technician ... |
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Post by RollingEscargot on Jan 22, 2020 10:59:09 GMT
The only Catholic funeral I've been to was surprisingly warm and uplifting, though it was for a child. I've been to some real fire and brimstone ones in the north and west, and that was the supposedly touchy feely C of Scotland. Proper Old Testament prophet stuff - absolutely terrifying, almost shat the atheism right out of me.
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Post by Sheep2 on Jan 22, 2020 11:01:39 GMT
Catholic funerals. These are normal. There is a mass and the priest says a few words about the deceased (assuming he knew the deceased). I always find non Catholic ceremonies uncomfortable. It is like they don't know the words properly and do things wrong.
There isn't much difference between a burial and a cremation, except that the interment will be outside.
There will be a few prayers and it will take about 15 minutes.
You are lucky with the weather. When my grandmother was buried it was below freezing and snowed during the interment. She would have enjoyed seeing her family freeze.
When I went to her sister's funeral in Ireland they made the mourners carry the coffin out of the church and walk the long way to the cemetery, which was about a mile and a half. On the plus side it went past my great-grandmother's house which is now part of a pub.
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Post by Shenguin on Jan 22, 2020 11:02:05 GMT
Sorry to hear that Crank. I'm not exactly happy with the idea of benefit fraud, but I accept that it is an inevitable consequence of a large-scale social security system. We should seek to minimise it, whilst accepting some instances of it does not make the system intrinsically flawed or bad. A system which refuses to pay those in need, and which is institutionally committed to dehumanising and mistreating people has no place in a civilised society.
One way of reducing fraud massively would be a genuine universal basic income for everyone. I'd put it at the level of about £12k a year, tax-free, for everyone, children and adults, without means testing, and with top-ups based on need for those with additional needs (e.g. disability). Clearly this would have to be funded through reduction to personal tax allowances and increasing income and other tax rates. It could be designed so that people on, say, 125% of average income would take home more or less the same, people on less would gain, and people on more would lose.
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Post by Shenguin on Jan 22, 2020 11:03:41 GMT
I'm finding it surprisingly easy to commit a sin over today's chat.
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Post by Sheep2 on Jan 22, 2020 11:12:52 GMT
I am still furious about the football as well.
I feel Middlesbrough abused the head injury protocols to get the game stopped for a player who was not injured.
The referee was very weak. He initially looked at the player and did not stop the game. He only stopped the game when we crossed the ball to score. His decision as to when to stop it was very poor. He had several seconds during which it would not have been controversial, but waited until it was.
Once it was clear that the cheat Tavernier was not injured the restart of the game was not equitable. It should have restarted from the goal. Or if he genuinely felt he had blown up before it went in (which was not at all clear) from a drop ball with us about to score. I thought Blues were too soft in accepting the restart n the wing. The player was not hurt and had simply abused the protocols to try to stop us scoring. Faking injury is very different from committing a foul to stop a goal. I think he should have been sent off as well.
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Post by Sheep2 on Jan 22, 2020 11:13:30 GMT
I'm finding it surprisingly easy to commit a sin over today's chat. Coveting thy neighbour's ass again? |
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Post by gongfarmer on Jan 22, 2020 11:23:30 GMT
Morning.
I appear to have woken up with Dennis Healey's eyebrows this morning.
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Post by Shenguin on Jan 22, 2020 11:25:38 GMT
Wow, I've been drunk and made some regrettable decisions about who or what to go to bed with, but even I've never sunk as low as that.
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Post by RollingEscargot on Jan 22, 2020 11:26:15 GMT
Hell of a threesome.
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Post by Shenguin on Jan 22, 2020 11:26:35 GMT
Bit slow there Rolling.
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Post by RollingEscargot on Jan 22, 2020 11:31:59 GMT
Gah.
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Post by BabyfarkmcGeezak on Jan 22, 2020 11:33:18 GMT
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Post by tenthenemy on Jan 22, 2020 11:45:53 GMT
Very sorry to hear of your friend, Crank. It is one thing to read the frightening statistics and another to actually know someone whose life has been cut short in this way.
Cafflic funerals: never been to one, only seen them on the telly (did I tell you that we are watching Father Brown? Loads of funerals in every episode). The funny (peculiar) thing is that both my mother and the Preferred Mammal are (very) lapsed Catholics. That is particularly surprising as my mother lives in a part of Germany that's dominated by Lutheran Protestants, which is how my brother and I were brought up. Less of a mini-reformation in the family, more like going with the flow.
The local Catholic church, desperate to keep their dwindling flock from dwindling any further, lost what was left of my mother's goodwill when they published a congratulatory message every year on her birthday in the local newspaper, thus spilling the beans on her age. Nowadays she very much enjoys the televised Sunday mass every other week which alternates with the Protestant Sunday service.
The Preferred Mammal's Catholicism is part of his Irish heritage. He and his siblings went to mass every Sunday, mostly as a ploy to give his father some peace. He also attended a Catholic school where frequently lessons would be cancelled so that the pupils could make up the numbers at an otherwise sparsely attended random funeral. Understandably, cynicism towards religion set in for him at a young age.
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