Comment & snippets

[Wilpshire Blue]

I would add "do you smoke / vape" to the list

 

[Drog]

plus 'have you ever paid for a tattoo'?

 

[OnlyOneTugay]

 

[Drog]

This is a shocking stat from The Times ...... "Since 1950 more than a tonne of plastic has been produced for every person alive today". Makes one ponder just how much our generation has fucked up the planet doesn't it?

 

[Drog]

"Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people that you wouldn't have in your living room". David Frost

 

[Drog]

"There is no sense dying on a small cross" Joe Biden

 

[Drog]

"There are lots of ways of being miserable, but there's only one way of being comfortable, and that is to stop running around after happiness". Edith Wharton US Novellist.

 

[The Mask]

"So many of our problems are the consequence of affluence rather than poverty" Ron Liddle

 

[The Mask]

"Fun is like insurance: the older you get the more it costs." Readers Digest

 

[The Mask]

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it" Edith Wharton

 

[The Mask]

Rather topical.
"There is nothing more pathetic than a former President" John Quincy Adams (6th US President).

 

[Drog]

Slippery slope for the Beeb?

The proportion of over 55's with a positive impression of the BBC has fallen to 62% from 64% in 2018.
87% of the population now use BBC services, down from 92% three years ago.
54% of adults believe the BBC provides impartial news while almost 20% rate the corporation badly for impartiality.
69% now feel the radio 2 offers something other radio stations do not, down from 75% a year ago.
Ofcom/The Daily Telegraph

 

[The Mask]

"The average amount of sleep required by the average person is five minutes more" Philadelphia Enquirer.

 

[The Mask]

"The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom"

Isaac Asimov (1920-1992) What would he think now?

 

[Drog]

Very good I'm sure ...... But as the traffic on our roads swells back to pre-covid levels and as vapour trails criss cross in the sky full of package holiday trippers are those 32% trying to do anything about it?

 

[The Mask]

"You lose some, you draw some" Jasper Carrott on life as a Birmingham City fan.

 

[The Mask]

"If you invite a bear to dance it is not you who decides when the dance is over, it is the bear". Russian Proverb / New York Times.

 

[Old Darwen Blue]

Where’ve you been?

 

[The Mask]

Around Old Darwen Blue, here and there even.


The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable. Ezra Solomon

 

[The Mask]

I think God in creating man, somewhat over estimated his ability. Oscar wilde