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Posted: 25 May 2010, 11:17
by mh
Hom_Corleone wrote:Down South they make pigs smoke. They feed beef burgers to swans. Theyhave big sheds, but nobody's allowed in. And in these sheds they have 20ft high chickens, and these chickens are scared because they don't know why they're so big, and they're going, "Oh why am I so massive?" and they're looking down at all the little chickens and they think they're in an aeroplane because all the other chickens are so small.
Okayyyyyyy Steve, whatever you say...
(backs away slowly, avoids eye contact)
Posted: 29 May 2010, 12:19
by moses
Stephen Griffiths - now there's a friendly Northerner.
Posted: 01 Jun 2010, 09:38
by MadameButterfly
Toaster Mantis wrote:MadameButterfly wrote:Can't comment for the UK, but globally the South are usually friendlier than the North!
Thinking of Korea?
no.
Posted: 02 Jun 2010, 17:53
by timsinister
I've got Londoner blood, but I was raised in Exile in deepest darkest East Yorkshire. It's a complex mix but means rather than having one or other subconscious attitude to people, I get to choose.
Which path I chose, you can decide amongst yourselves.
Posted: 02 Jun 2010, 18:31
by boudicca
You're in the North but not of it, Timothy...
Posted: 02 Jun 2010, 18:32
by boudicca
...apart from the drinking
Posted: 02 Jun 2010, 20:06
by weebleswobble
Today the North ain't so friendly
Posted: 02 Jun 2010, 22:11
by timsinister
boudicca wrote:...apart from the drinking
Just blending in, yer honnor!
Weebs wrote:Today the North ain't so friendly
Not liking the sound of this...
Posted: 03 Jun 2010, 07:41
by Norman Hunter
weebleswobble wrote:Today the North ain't so friendly
My brother-in-law saw the first, I've met the solicitor
Posted: 03 Jun 2010, 08:15
by weebleswobble
timsinister wrote:
Weebs wrote:Today the North ain't so friendly
Not liking the sound of this...
I'm fine Tim, it's what was on the news. My father in law was working up there and Tamsin couldn't get in touch. Turns out he was in a diffeent area but the woman he was working with, her father was shot and injured.
Norman Hunter wrote:weebleswobble wrote:Today the North ain't so friendly
My brother-in-law saw the first, I've met the solicitor
Aye man, dreadful news indeed.
Posted: 03 Jun 2010, 09:14
by markfiend
Just waiting on the Daily Fail, what are they going to demand is banned now?
Posted: 03 Jun 2010, 09:45
by Norman Hunter
weebleswobble wrote:Aye man, dreadful news indeed.
I mean, just how much more can West Cumbria take FFS?
Posted: 03 Jun 2010, 09:56
by emilystrange
thoughts are most definitely there with families, today.
and especially with your BIL, and everyone else who witnessed.
Posted: 03 Jun 2010, 11:10
by Norman Hunter
emilystrange wrote:thoughts are most definitely there with families, today.
and especially with your BIL, and everyone else who witnessed.
Dunno if he gave a statement or not. I
do know he ran like f**k to get away.
Posted: 03 Jun 2010, 11:11
by emilystrange
an VERY reasonable reaction.
Posted: 03 Jun 2010, 11:11
by markfiend
Scratch my last comment. It wasn't really appropriate given the circumstances. Sorry.
It is all a bit scary though.
Posted: 03 Jun 2010, 12:01
by MadameButterfly
like ems said thoughts go out to the people involved, family and friends.
it is scary, this way of violence is everywhere though. few months ago in belgium when the idiot opened fire at a creche, killing innocent babies and small kids, in china a few times not so long ago, south africa on a daily basis and america.
it hits harder when closer to home doesn't it?
Posted: 03 Jun 2010, 12:25
by boudicca
Aye... it's terrible. I just went through Dunblane on the train last weekend, and as I did I realised that I saw it more as an event than a place. And that's 14 years on. The spectre of these things hangs around in people's minds, especially in such small, rural communities.
Posted: 03 Jun 2010, 19:55
by timsinister
markfiend wrote:Scratch my last comment. It wasn't really appropriate given the circumstances. Sorry.
It is all a bit scary though.
PM-Dave seems to agree with you, he's urging no knee-jerk reactions. I'm going to wait and see what else is going to come out of this tragedy before I start pontificating on solutions...