UK 2020: What’s Not Shit?

[Captain Turdseye]

Gala Casino sent me an email today offering me some free spins from which I won thirteen pounds and ninety two pence. It doesn’t get much better than that. 

[YorkshireRed]

3 minutes ago, Tony Moanero said:

I’m not on Facebook, could you call Stevie Bennett a “CUNT” from me, please?

I shouldn’t be, it offers me nothing positive. There’s little point engaging with anyone on FB, you should see the state of some of the breakfasts I see posted, however, he does need telling. 

[YorkshireRed]

6 minutes ago, PestiRed said:

I’m choosing to believe that he wants to ensure that immigrants receive adequate social distancing in the accommodation provided for them

A worthy half glass full approach. Perhaps I’ve misjudged old Stevie. 

[YorkshireRed]

6 minutes ago, Captain Turdseye said:

Gala Casino sent me an email today offering me some free spins from which I won thirteen pounds and ninety two pence. It doesn’t get much better than that. 

A green an pleasant land for you then. 

[Tony Moanero]

5 minutes ago, YorkshireRed said:

I shouldn’t be, it offers me nothing positive. There’s little point engaging with anyone on FB, you should see the state of some of the breakfasts I see posted, however, he does need telling. 

I bet the scruffy twat has Rustlers microwavable burgers for breakfast.

[Champ]

There’s a lot to love about our landscape, and the changing seasons but the ‘people’ bit is definitely more problematic 

[cloggypop]

48 minutes ago, Colonel Kurtz said:

I go there a lot with work. There is a strange cultural phenomena whereby nobody shuts their front room curtains or blinds in the evenings so you walk around seeing people eating their dinner and watching tv etc. I have asked my Dutch friends about this and they say to close your curtains is a sign you are doing something shifty.   

Yes, they can be very strange. Never go to a Dutch person's birthday party at their home. 

[Aventus]

35 minutes ago, Tony Moanero said:

I bet the scruffy twat has Rustlers microwavable burgers for breakfast.

I feel attacked 

[mattyq]

4 minutes ago, Colonel Kurtz said:

You cant leave us hanging like that ! Why not ??

They'll bum you 

Well known Dutch tradition of bumming forins on their birthdays

Sometimes Herrings are involved

[Bjornebye]

Just now, mattyq said:

They'll bum you 

Well known Dutch tradition of bumming forins on their birthdays

Sometimes Herrings are involved

I know cloggy was a dip-shit, I didn't know he had his shit dipped. Probably prefers it. 

[mattyq]

1 minute ago, Bjornebye said:

I know cloggy was a dip-shit, I didn't know he had his shit dipped. Probably prefers it. 

It's probably why he moved there

[A Red]

1 hour ago, Colonel Kurtz said:

You cant leave us hanging like that ! Why not ??

You have to bring a present

[Dave D]

4 hours ago, Colonel Kurtz said:

No not all. It’s very easy to become a councillor, join a party, start your own party, hold a rally, write a petition to get an issue debated, submit freedom of information requests even see your MP in person at their weekly surgery including the pm himself every Friday afternoon . Very few world leaders take weekly questions on live Tv.
 

These mechanisms dont exist everywhere else believe me. The fact is people are too fucking lazy to get involved but the mechanisms for scrutiny and challenge  are there.

 

Look at the Gina Miller success in challenging the Government over Brexit. One individual using the courts to challenge and change the entire parliamentary process. She wouldn’t have been successful in many other countries. 

Enormous wealth contributed greatly in this particular instance

[Dave D]

4 hours ago, Colonel Kurtz said:

In Denmark the Government maintains a central list of what you can call your own kid. Any other names not on the list are illegal.
Freedom is relative and to my mind, this is a very free country. 

To some extent this should be implemented globally. Too many utter utter fools on all levels of society who see naming their child as a desperate form of identity,trend,  or they are just whacked off their face    

[cloggypop]

2 hours ago, Colonel Kurtz said:

You cant leave us hanging like that ! Why not ??

It's just not very exciting. Everyone sits in a circle of chairs facing each other. You meet everyone when you arrive and then congratulate all of them because they are related to the birthdayee. You then sit there politely with a small piece of cake and a coffee while everybody goes "Ah, gezellig!" repeatedly. For ages. The Dutch will tell you that "gezellig" does not translate into any language but this is because most of them don't know the word convivial. I am actually convinced that gezellig is the description of Dutch people pretending to enjoy themselves in a traditional manner. 

[cloggypop]

1 hour ago, mattyq said:

They'll bum you 

Well known Dutch tradition of bumming forins on their birthdays

Sometimes Herrings are involved

That's only in Katwijk. They have to extend the gene pool somehow. Probably Urk as well. 

[VladimirIlyich]

Becoming a Grandad has eclipsed anything else that has happened this year,including the unmentionable on the other forum.

[mattyq]

32 minutes ago, cloggypop said:

That's only in Katwijk. They have to extend the gene pool somehow. Probably Urk as well. 

So much like Wigan then?

Is Urk a real place?

[cloggypop]

14 minutes ago, mattyq said:

So much like Wigan then?

Is Urk a real place?

Fishing villages so more like Fleetwood. Urk exists and the Urkers, who speak Urkish,  believe that babies come from the Ommelebommelestien. 

 

[VladimirIlyich]

3 hours ago, cloggypop said:

Yes, they can be very strange. Never go to a Dutch person's birthday party at their home. 

 

[Gav]

Beer ...UK beer is at its very best right now .Some of the micro breweries are doing fantastic work ( until December & Hops vanish )

[Evelyn Tentions]

9 hours ago, Bjornebye said:

I wish they had a list of names here. Our kids agreed to let his bird call the baby 'Aurora' for fuck sake. 

A Vietnamese couple I know named their son Putin. Think yourself lucky

[Remmie]

If there were government approved names I don't think I would be called Zebedee Kavanagh-Grover. 

 

Make of that what you will 

[PestiRed]

You could be Zebadias (pronounced zebedee-osh) in Hungary

 

list of approved names for boys, browsing it is interesting and shows that approved name lists are not as restrictive as people think. In Hungary it serves two purposes. Firstly to preserve Hungarian spelling (Jessica is Dzsesszika) and secondly to prevent anything that might be considered abusive to the child.

http://www.nytud.hu/oszt/nyelvmuvelo/utonevek/osszesffi.pdf

 

[Remmie]

I think we still have laws preventing certain names in the UK, Adolf being one. 

Preserving language is one thing but what of one or more of the parents are from another country and want to preserve their language on their own child's name?