Posts by Sarah Bee

Re: 'Astounded'

>>PH angle - too obvious?

I think you'd be lucky if Paris could generate enough to boil a small travel kettle.

Yeah, it's wrong, but you people are warping my brain.

Re: @ Sarah, Re: Neil

42 days is a world of wrong, but there's still no comparison if you look at what is happening right now. Sorry.

Re: ZanuLabour

Yes. And yes. It's offensive and I'm not letting it through any more.

Re: @Sarah Bee

Sorry, Dan, but I was being facetious.

I mean, it's Zimbabwe, ffs. There is no comparison to be made.

Re: @ neil

>>Zimbabwe? No, Gordon Brown's appointment just 12 months back.

I don't know that Gordy authorised the breaking of the arms and legs of Tory supporters, did he?

Still, I think that's an entirely apposite comparison, and sensitively made.

Re: Life in Prison

Maybe I've missed it but if not, I am staggered no one has done the 'Got wood?' one yet.

Re: @ Sarah Bee

Yeah, but spare me the folksy stuff. I grew up in Yorkshire. It were crap.

Mayhap I'm a prematurely grouchy old sod, but personally I prefer the benign silence of the tube, punctuated with subtle little occasional exchanges once in a while, to the intrusive witterings of 'friendly' (i.e. bored and attention-seeking for the most part) loons on Bradfordian buses. Although to be honest the only public transport chumminess I ever saw anywhere int norf was on night buses and other places involving the drunk. (Ah tis the great leveller.)

Anyway, I have nosy neighbours here in London, but also really helpful and pleasant ones - I know three of my immediate neighbours by name. Good enough for me.

But then I suppose I'm less likely to be accused of being a paedo. I do have a devil dog though.

Re: Paraoia Country

I think that sort of thing isn't so much a product of modern paranoia as old-school village paranoia. That whole "he's not from round here, he looks shifty" mentality. Also, given my experience of both 'ends' of the country, I'd say it's a lot more likely to happen up north where everyone thinks everyone's business is their business.

Re: "If you tolerate this...

Gee, thanks for that earworm. From the band's magnificent, epic beige phase.

Re: @Sarah Bee

It's nice to be appreciated.

Re: So, Sarah...

Both.

Re: Headline

If you think the headline is misleading you have no sense of humour nor understanding of tabloid convention, much less of irony. This is, according to my paper to be published forthwith, due to a smallening of your prefrontal cortex.

Simon Holt, consider yourself nixed

Right. Anyone else attempting to quibble with the headline here (which knows what it's doing and is officially very amusing, and no I don't take credit for this one) is on comment probation.

It's gonna be a long day.

Re: @Those who are against chipping dogs don't own dogs.

I'm a bit surprised this is even being debated. Chipping's just an injection in the scruff, which is the bit mother dogs pick up their puppies by, so kind of built not to be too sensitive.

Re: Dog? Gun?

Heh. I'd love to see the kind of moronic swaggering scumfucks who give GSD/Rottweiler/Akita etc. owners a bad name restricted to owning Shih-Tzus and Pugs (topknot ribbons and ickle Pucci designer bodywarmers optional).

Re: @Sarah Bee & David

It's less the content, more the rhetoric.

Anyway, show me where I dubbed anyone a Daily Mail reader. I was just relating my disturbing dream, wasn't I?

Re: Don't believe the short title

Yep, and they slipped in a couple of other things about making it illegal to protest within a mile of Parliament without seven days' notice. It was used for that too.

Re: @Pete James

There's a difference between people who are for animal rights and those who are for animal welfare, generally.

I had this terrible dream last night

that I was moderating the comments on the Daily Mail website.

I woke up sweating.

Re: @Japanese thoughts on this (list of naughty naughtiness) - Sarah Bee

You mean the Playmobil? That's Lester's look-out. I can confirm however that I consented to be represented in plastic toy form.

I think they might have to add in an extra section for that.

Re: Re : Beyond Reasonable Doubt...

>>What I'd rather hear is "tough on crime, and bollocks to the causes of it."

How sensible. Treat the symptoms, not the disease - win!

Really, though, you don't have to be a hoodie-hugger to realise that raising happy and secure individuals means less crime. Contented people don't fuck other people over, on the whole (buy-to-let landlords aside, etc etc). It's nothing to do with being a bleeding-heart twat, it's just bald practicality. But then, spluttering outrage and retro fist-swinging is way more fun, I concede.

Re: @Japanese thoughts on this (list of naughty naughtiness)

Tentacle stuff goes way back, doesn't it (that list was very interesting, gosh, the Japanese are amazing, aren't they). A lot of books on the history of naughty art will be on the iffy list. Or will they? All of this extreme pron stuff is so hilariously (if disturbingly) woolly. You can't pin it down to what is intended to cause arousal, if people being aroused is what you are legislating to avoid (is it? I don't even know any more) - anything can do that.

That's something to take comfort in, anyway - it'll be very, very hard to police a grey area like this which is the size of ooh, a million football pitches, I'd say. They're just setting themselves up to make fools of themselves, the govt.

Thought - what if you had your first orgasm when Roobarb & Custard happened to be on, and now embarrassingly you just can't get off unless you're looking at a wibbly wobbly felt tip pen green dog? I think this is a legal point we must urgently address.

Re: What is wrong with you people?

But... they are pictures. Doesn't matter what of. Doesn't matter how people feel when they look at them, either way. You route around these things in a free society. You don't ban. It is absurd.

Re: @ Inspector_Morse

Don't you mean pedants' corner?

Re: The title

Heh. You'll never take me alive.

Anyway, in this case it was necessary - 'handset sales drop for first time in history' would have drawn a deluge of quips about how the ancient Egyptians didn't buy many handsets either. And I don't think anyone wants that.

MOBE.

Re: @ all 'thief!' comments

I think Ford might have words with you if you decided to make a copy of one of their cars. Unless you made it out of cake. But even then.