Things that you just can't get your head around

[LABHA]

Zaha 15million

 

[Twinkle Toes]

How Alan Brazil still has - ney, ever got - a daily presenter's gig on a national radio station.

 

[Mo Gosfield]

1) Bottled water. The industry spent millions a few years back getting high profile entertainers and models to be seen with branded bottles of water. They then seduced and persuaded certain so-called health experts that we all needed vast amounts of water each day to stay ' hydrated ' Complete and utter bollocks. Our bodies tell us when we need a drink and if you want water...go to the tap...it won't kill you!
2) Rap Music....this is the modern equivalent of ' the Emperors new clothes ' Eventually people will start realising that these are con artists. They have no real musical ability. Its talking to music. Its one step on from ' Deck of Cards ' in the 50's. People are embarrassed to admit that they see through it so they keep on perpetuating the deceit. Shuffling...left foot, right foot, left foot right foot...hand somewhere near the genitalia...mumbling something that purports to be musical rhyme. Its garbage. It has no place in the pantheon of musical history. As you've probably realised...I DON'T GET IT!!!!
3) Climate change....its now a massive industry and certain people have built lucrative careers around it. They have an agenda. They want you to believe its man-made. ITS THE WEATHER! ITS CYCLICAL. IT CHANGES. STUDY THE PATTERNS. ITS NOT UNUSUAL.
IMHO, these are the three biggest cons of recent times.

 

[pasty]

1) Bottled water. The industry spent millions a few years back getting high profile entertainers and models to be seen with branded bottles of water. They then seduced and persuaded certain so-called health experts that we all needed vast amounts of water each day to stay ' hydrated ' Complete and utter bollocks. Our bodies tell us when we need a drink and if you want water...go to the tap...it won't kill you!

Absolutely this. Can't be a coincidence that Evian backwards is naive

 

[Last Summer]

Corrected for you.

Knew you wouldn't be able to resist!

 

[brakespear]

Mobile phones. You can, within reason, talk to anyone else, wherever you are, instantly, and also find out anything you want with mobile internet.

This - I know roughly howe they work etc but still to have a phone on your hand, be on NSC, touch the screen and within a few seconds the next page of posts appears still amazes me

Also how , in an apparently civilized country, people can be so taken with their own point of view plus other considerations (kickbacks etc) that they are willing to shut down an entire Government rather than let an opposition bill succeed.

 

[Baron Pepperpot]

Outsourcing call centres to Egypt.

Phillip Glass compositions

Working Class Tories

I don't know if you are aware of the rise of the socially-liberal Thatcherite Tories. Chilling.

 

[TheMajor]

How Palace got into the Premier League.

They were and are shit and are proving it on a weekly basis - However, the question remains how DID they get promoted ?

 

[Guinness Boy]

I don't know if you are aware of the rise of the socially-liberal Thatcherite Tories. Chilling.

E.g. Guido Fawkes?

 

[Baron Pepperpot]

E.g. Guido Fawkes?

I don't know Guido Fawkes, but I have seen them on Twitter and I get very confused. Give a blue-rinse Conservative from Mid Sommer Norton anyday, at least I know who I'm dealing with.

 

[Tricky Dicky]

Also how , in an apparently civilized country, people can be so taken with their own point of view plus other considerations (kickbacks etc) that they are willing to shut down an entire Government rather than let an opposition bill succeed.

I assume you're talking about the US here - the term "civilized" threw me for a few seconds - but I agree, I may not live there but their actions could have implications far beyond their own country. They are behaving like children, and if I could I'd ensure they all got de-elected next time round and banned from standing for public office again. Utterly irresponsible.

 

[Nibble]

Topman. I have never liked their clothing and am well out of their demograph now but I have once in a while purchased the odd t-shirt, smart shirt or pullover. Badly made, badly fitting pieces of crap made hastily to cash in on any current trend going. I know it's relatively inexpensive but their clothes literally fall apart. I have a particular bug bear with Arcadia anyway. Mainly because of Philip Green, The fat , greedy shit.

 

[spring hall convert]

Gay clubs and bars. If I was gay I wouldn't set foot in one why are they so shit?

Amen. The music policy is always scandalous, speeded up Brittney or speeded up Kylie or something. Unbeliveably patronising.

I've actually long thought there is a wide gap in the market in Brighton for a decent non-tacky gay club.

 

[John Bumlick]

Gay clubs and bars. If I was gay I wouldn't set foot in one why are they so shit?

So as a gay man you wouldn't go to a gay bar but as a straight man you apparently have. What were you doing? Testing the water?

 

[Goring-by-Seagull]

How someone can reach 30+ stone and only then think "I should lose some weight".

Haha this is a big one for me. I just don't get it. And when fat people go on a diet and don't lose weight they say "but I've hardly eaten a thing!" WELL YOU OBVIOUSLY HAVE.

 

[spring hall convert]

Absolutely this. Can't be a coincidence that Evian backwards is naive

I'm sure it is. I don't really think it's a sensible business model to take the p*ss openly of your customer base.

EDIT: And originally being a French company, why would they choose to do it in another language?

 

[The Antikythera Mechanism]

1) Bottled water. The industry spent millions a few years back getting high profile entertainers and models to be seen with branded bottles of water. They then seduced and persuaded certain so-called health experts that we all needed vast amounts of water each day to stay ' hydrated ' Complete and utter bollocks. Our bodies tell us when we need a drink and if you want water...go to the tap...it won't kill you!

Tap water certainly won't kill you but is full of chemicals that normal treatment cannot remove such as oestrogen and progesterone, all excreted in urine and recycled. I don't buy bottled water but have a water filtration system that provides 99% pure water. The taste difference is amazing.

 

[spring hall convert]

Mainly because of Philip Green, The fat , greedy shit.

You forgot tax avoiding.

 

[Mellotron]

So as a gay man you wouldn't go to a gay bar but as a straight man you apparently have. What were you doing? Testing the water?

Welcome to the 21st century.

 

[Nibble]

So as a gay man you wouldn't go to a gay bar but as a straight man you apparently have. What were you doing? Testing the water?

I have gay friends. Sometimes I go for a drink with them in their gay clubs. Though I haven't done so for years. I find the gays to be lacking in pub etiquette.