Nice People Thread No. 15, a Cyber Summer

PasturesNew

Generali wrote: »

LOL. Brexit will fill the North Sea with fish!

I don't really know anything about it, but over the years the issues have sounded like:

- the EU "gave away" the English fishing grounds
- little English fishermen would often find super-fishing-tankers had scooped up what was there
- they can only go out to sea a few days/month
- even if they catch stuff, it's the wrong stuff and have to throw it back (even though it's damaged and will just die/rot once thrown).

It's a bit like you turning up for work to find a fat geezer sitting in your chair and being told to go home .... the next day turning up to be told you can only come on Thursdays .... and the next Thursday turning up to have half your day's work tossed in the bin and you're told you'll only get paid for what's not in the bin.

On the other hand, at one point, the EU paid fishermen NOT to fish for X years. I personally saw some flash motors in one harbour I knew, owned by a few boat owners who were paid cash sums not to fish.

Those who work on the boats get paid a %age of the catch value, so it's hit/miss if they earn much when they do go out to sea for 3-5 days at a time. And there's no job if the boat owner's been paid not to fish.

Generali

mystic_trev wrote: »

That'll be a nice surprise for Carmen.

I used to work with a woman called Carmen. The only reason I can think of going to see her would be to punch her stupid, pudgy, annoying face in. It would never be a nice surprise to see Carmen.

PasturesNew

Generali wrote: »

I used to work with a woman called Carmen. The only reason I can think of going to see her would be to punch her stupid, pudgy, annoying face in. It would never be a nice surprise to see Carmen.

That's not like you! Please tell us what she did to really p155 you off so much

Generali

PasturesNew wrote: »

That's not like you! Please tell us what she did to really p155 you off so much

You know how most people are kinda okay and then there's a few that you find great for whatever reason and then some that just annoy you?

She was right down at the annoying end of the bell curve. Every single time she opened her mouth I just had this overwhelming desire to punch her (I resisted).

PasturesNew

Generali wrote: »

You know how most people are kinda okay and then there's a few that you find great for whatever reason and then some that just annoy you?

She was right down at the annoying end of the bell curve. Every single time she opened her mouth I just had this overwhelming desire to punch her (I resisted).

Loud people do that for me.
Loud people that "flick" their hair a lot.
Loud people that tell you how to enjoy yourself and insist that the only way to "not be boring" is to be as annoying and pointless as they are.
Loud people with odd/bizarre/extended finger nails super-varnished who poke at their screen while thick blobs of mascara hang from their eyelashes like bulls-eyes indicating exactly where to punch them.



And people who misrepresent everything you say/mean in order to win some "battle to win" they turn every conversation into, but only they are part of. .... they've usually got flicky hair and long pointy nails .... and too much makeup.

Pyxis

There's a lot of violence on the thread today! :eek:

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PasturesNew

A few days ago all the papers were saying heatwave, heatwave, heatwave... gonna be the hottest summer ever.

Now they're saying it'll be rain, rain, rain, wettest June ever.

Wheezy_2

PasturesNew wrote: »

Loud people do that for me.
Loud people that "flick" their hair a lot.

Loud people that "flick" their hair a lot and block access to the yellow sticker shelves. :mad:

Pyxis

Does anyone know a good joke?

(Clean, clever and funny?)

Pyxis

Here's one.......

After a talking sheepdog gets all the sheep in the pen, he reports back to the farmer: “All 40 accounted for.”

“But I only have 36 sheep,” says the farmer.

“I know,” says the sheepdog. “But I rounded them up.”