Moan, moan, moan----get it off your chest or have a chat

[David Nicholson]

Some of you may already have been emailed this by friends. For those who haven't, it's quite amusing re. common computer moans.....

Subject: GM and Bill Gates.........................................................

  I really liked that one and I'm still chuckling-how very apt!

[David Nicholson]

Did you see Michael Palin in Slovakia and Czech Republic on Sunday? Our workers, all Slovaks, are angry that the programme made them out to be Vodka drinking poor farmers while the Czech part of the programme showed very wealthy extravagant people

We thought the whole programme was very poor, not showing the Czechs very well either. Instead of showing "Our European Neighbours", in any kind of real and informative light, it was mostly a poorly concocted series of cheap ha-ha segments about local oddities and tourist attractions. A sixteen year old student could have done it. And Palin's heart didn't seem in it. I suspect he knew they were doing a botched job - one programme to cover three countries (Slovakia, Czech Republic and East Germany) ?!

We turned off before the East German segment, but I'll bet there was a tired bit about old Trabant cars being used to drive tourists around Berlin and a look at the last remaining bit of the Berlin Wall. Real in-depth stuff like that.

You were dead right Martin we got the old Trabant and the Berlin Wall. But, doesn't it fit very well with the current philosophy of the BBC, matched, if not vastly surpassed by ITV, in catering mainly for those unfortunates who have difficulty with words containing more than one syllable and an attention span measured in micro-seconds?

[David Nicholson]

I can imagine the hen harriers might attack the young partridges but the peasants? Or are they particularly small there, in Norfolk?

The pheasants most certainly are NOT small in Herefordshire and all of them have a massive death wish. We were up in Herefordshire yesterday on one of our monthly ma-in-law visiting trips and took a little car trip to look at the Autumn colour. Driving, fairly gently, around a tight bend and a cock pheasant strutted right out in front us, anchors were thrown on (luckily no-one behind us). Result: one very dead pheasant and one very cracked number plate. Not more than five miles further on the same happened again but this time pheasant was thrown up, hit the windscreen and crashed into the near side wing mirror. Result: one more very dead pheasant and one wing mirror dangling from a piece of wire. Final result: one new number plate-£12.50 (had to produce car log book, driving licence and cheque guarentee card-asked if they would also like a sperm sample to establish DNA-Maureen told me off for that in uncertain terms!!) one new wing mirror complete with all the electrical gizmos one gets with wing mirrors these days £102.48 with fitting-but we shall have to order it in Mate, will be about three weeks!!

I hate pheasants almost as much as blokes in Toyota main agents with the customer service skills of an undertaker in the plague.

[Maggi Young]

Yes.... but the two pheasants are now hanging in the pantry, I hope?

[David Nicholson]

Yes.... but the two pheasants are now hanging in the pantry, I hope?

Have you seen the pictures of the crash test dummy after a 25mph crash? There were lots of feathers and a substantial amount of mashed flesh and bone. Suppose it could have made a reasonable soup!

[David Shaw]

Driving technique problem there, David, I fear . When we hit pheasants we get a meal without damage to our cars.
Not the same as the roe deer that I stopped several years ago. Insurance for a new door - but plenty of venison.

[ranunculus]

Sorry to a little bit of a killjoy, but I do believe dear Lesley was making a play about the Lilliputian 'peasants' (sic), rather than the size of our game birds?
Strike me down with a deflated rugby ball please if I'm wrong.....

[David Nicholson]

Driving technique problem there, David, I fear . When we hit pheasants we get a meal without damage to our cars.
Not the same as the roe deer that I stopped several years ago. Insurance for a new door - but plenty of venison.

Story of my life-there are those of us who, if they fell off the Town Hall roof, would land in a hay cart, there are others who would land in a muck cart!!

[David Nicholson]

Sorry to a little bit of a killjoy, but I do believe dear Lesley was making a play about the Lilliputian 'peasants' (sic), rather than the size of our game birds?
Strike me down with a deflated rugby ball please if I'm wrong.....

Don't you just hate literary Lancastrians? 

[ranunculus]

Thank the Bulb Despot in his Heaven that I'm ACTUALLY from the deep South....West Sussex.

Have we all noticed that the 'Moan, Moan, Moan' topic is getting the most postings?   I blame the Government, the Royals, the South African rugby team, squirrels and their accomplices, slugs, rap musicians (sorry, an anomaly there) and Genghis Khan (or that other boxer from Bolton).  Maggi....you remain exempt from any blame on this occasion.

[David Nicholson]

Thank the Bulb Despot in his Heaven that I'm ACTUALLY from the deep South....West Sussex.

Have we all noticed that the 'Moan, Moan, Moan' topic is getting the most postings?   I blame the Government, the Royals, the South African rugby team, squirrels and their accomplices, slugs, rap musicians (sorry, an anomaly there) and Genghis Khan (or that other boxer from Bolton).  Maggi....you remain exempt from any blame on this occasion.

1: crawler

2: not another b****y southerner, AND you can't get away with 'I'm doing missionary work'

[Maggi Young]

Maggi....you remain exempt from any blame on this occasion.

Thank gawd for that, makes a change!


Have I told you, a propos very little, that the Bulb Despot's mother is from Leeds?
( it may have been the mention of Lilliputians that set me off)

[Maggi Young]

Sorry to a little bit of a killjoy, but I do believe dear Lesley was making a play about the Lilliputian 'peasants' (sic), rather than the size of our game birds?
Strike me down with a deflated rugby ball please if I'm wrong.....

Ooh, er, yes, I've just gone back a page or two to look and it was 'peasants' not pheasants...... a case of putting two and two together and getting it completely wrong, eh?
All together now "I'm not a pheasant plucker, I'm a pheasant plucker's son and I'm only plucking pheasants till the pheasant plucking's done" 

[David Nicholson]

Maggi....you remain exempt from any blame on this occasion.

Have I told you, a propos very little, that the Bulb Despot's mother is from Leeds?

I knew, I just knew he had Yorkshire blood in him

[David Nicholson]

Sorry to a little bit of a killjoy, but I do believe dear Lesley was making a play about the Lilliputian 'peasants' (sic), rather than the size of our game birds?
Strike me down with a deflated rugby ball please if I'm wrong.....

Ooh, er, yes, I've just gone back a page or two to look and it was 'peasants' not pheasants...... a case of putting two and two together and getting it completely wrong, eh?
All together now "I'm not a pheasant plucker, I'm a pheasant plucker's son and I'm only plucking pheasants till the pheasant plucking's done" 

You have to have the right teeth in to say that quickly!