Pointless But It Does My Head In

STN

STN

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Mr. Tea said:
I think the culprit here is 'Dave' (formerly UK Gold or whatever it was called), which now plugs itself as "the home of witty banter". Mainly meaning Top Gear repeats, apparently.
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indeed, but Faber have just released a book about banter and it's always a complaint on pub review websites that the staff were unfriendly 'we weren't expecting much, just some light banter', which i always unfairly interpret as 'you told the barmaid to cheer up it might never happen, and somehow that didn't do the trick'.
 
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I have this little tinselly artificial tree that's been kept in the cupboard under the sink for the past year. When I went to retrieve it the other day I discovered that it had become covered in Co-Op brand non-bio washing powder. It was like an inadvertent winter wonderland. Actually that made me chuckle more than doing my head in.
 
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Slothrop said:
The pc brigade are trying to ban christmas!!!!
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No, really, the idea that people used to have real candles on Christmas trees is incredible...all those nice dry, oil-rich pine needles? Christmas in Victorian times must have been a regular holocaust.

But now, thanks to the PC Nanny State Killjoy Brigade, you can't even have a family picnic in the fast lane of the M4 any more in case it offends a passing Sikh. :(

/Stewart Lee
 
mos dan

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STN said:
indeed, but Faber have just released a book about banter and it's always a complaint on pub review websites that the staff were unfriendly 'we weren't expecting much, just some light banter', which i always unfairly interpret as 'you told the barmaid to cheer up it might never happen, and somehow that didn't do the trick'.
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to me the word 'banter' has horrendous connotations. banter=the dribblings of brainless, sexually repressed, misogynistic, lager-swilling, rugby-playing, public schoolboy tory cunts. yes, i went to oxford.
 
mos dan

mos dan

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STN said:
indeed, but Faber have just released a book about banter and it's always a complaint on pub review websites that the staff were unfriendly 'we weren't expecting much, just some light banter', which i always unfairly interpret as 'you told the barmaid to cheer up it might never happen, and somehow that didn't do the trick'.
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i really don't understand the publishing industry.. i just checked out the book you mean: http://www.faber.co.uk/work/qi-advanced-banter/9780571233724/

it's just a book of quotations. it's got nothing to do with q.i. or the concept of 'banter', whatever that would involve. the quotes on the cover are the same ones i've seen a thousand times before.

pointless, but it does my head in.
 
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mos dan said:
i really don't understand the publishing industry.. i just checked out the book you mean: http://www.faber.co.uk/work/qi-advanced-banter/9780571233724/

it's just a book of quotations. it's got nothing to do with q.i. or the concept of 'banter', whatever that would involve. the quotes on the cover are the same ones i've seen a thousand times before.

pointless, but it does my head in.
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Haha, brand values! These books remind me of the graffiti books from back in the day.
 
Mr. Tea

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Where would books of quotations be without Winston Churchill and Oscar Wilde? I'm sure they said most of the quotes that have been said by anyone, ever, between them.
 
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Mr. Tea said:
No, really, the idea that people used to have real candles on Christmas trees is incredible...all those nice dry, oil-rich pine needles? Christmas in Victorian times must have been a regular holocaust.

But now, thanks to the PC Nanny State Killjoy Brigade, you can't even have a family picnic in the fast lane of the M4 any more in case it offends a passing Sikh. :(

/Stewart Lee
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we still have candles on our tree every year

they're obviously not always lit

i think when we run out of candles every few years or so my mum has to mail order them from germany or something, it's long. but we're committed.
 
Mr. Tea

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nomadthesecond said:
I'm guessing Yogi Berra isn't familiar?
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Oh yeah, he's good for those too. I particularly like the one about a beach or picnic spot or something: "More people would come here if it wasn't so crowded" and one that's close to my heart, "In theory, there's no difference between practice and theory: in practice, there is." :)
 
STN

STN

sou'wester
I can't believe that there are three people in London who are such immense bell-ends that they would not stop for me on a zebra crossing when it was pouring with rain, but, judging by Saturday evening, there are.
 
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STN said:
I can't believe that there are three people in London who are such immense bell-ends that they would not stop for me on a zebra crossing when it was pouring with rain, but, judging by Saturday evening, there are.
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Have you tried stepping out determinedly whilst improvising a 'stop' signal with your umbrella? It works for my mum.
 
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