Ronnie

1 hour ago, Carbomb said:

It's so weird seeing her as an old girl now, given that you posted a photo of her as a puppy (at least, I could've sworn you did). Doesn't seem that long ago.

Yes, I have the same memory, and it really doesn't feel such a long time ago.

That's something which has got me down, to be honest. UKFF years seem to match those of dogs, and Manny having died three years ago seems a counterfactual: not possible because it doesn't feel to me that three years have passed since I was previously reading about him!

I also recall when Margot was a new addition to @Sergio Mendacious's family, and she must be senior now.

It's a real downer, isn't it, how short the lives of our four-legged family members are. I try not to think about it (they're both a picture of good health) but the fact that my girls are now 12 and 13 causes me some uncomfortable reflection increasingly often.

3 minutes ago, BomberPat said:

they care about women's sports while never expressing a single opinion about them when there isn't a trans woman involved

I don't think you have to be some sort of participant in something to believe that something isn't right. I have no interest at all in beauty pageants or frisbee competitions but I've no doubt I'd find it very wrong if news broke that people with a certain melanin content per cell were excluded. I'd have an opinion on that irrespective of my customary lack of interest.

Given that most sports are single-sex presumably because of biological advantages that come with male bodies in certain environments, it shouldn't be hard to credit why plenty of people think it unfair if cis women are competing with trans women. "This woman trained with dedication for this event but was denied her gold medal because a [man/trans woman who would've been unimpressive against cis men] was allowed to compete" is an opinion which would be easy to have even if you wouldn't normally be found on your settee watching the boxing or a marathon, regardless of which part of the the parenthesised text you'd strike out. 

1 hour ago, DavidB6937 said:

"Hi Sheila! I've posted you something. I hope you got it!"

Either on their feed or adding it as a status. Fuck off. Why you doing that on there?

I have an aunt who routinely wishes people a happy birthday by posting a status update on her own timeline.

The use of all-time with regards to very narrow temporal spans or limited to a tiny pool of possibilities gets on my nerves.

I'm perfectly happy with this line from Wikipedia:

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The blue whale is the largest mammal of all time, with the largest known specimen being 33.6 m (110.2 ft) long and the largest weighted specimen being 190 tonnes.

There's been life on Earth of some sort for over 3 billion years. The dinosaurs made their appearance 225 million years ago. We're talking a considerable stretch. Fine by me.

But then we get expressions thrown around such as "the greatest Wrestlemania of all time" or its sibling, "the greatest Wrestlemania in history". There have only been forty years' worth of them! The alternatives "the greatest Wrestlemania [of all]" and "the best match in Wrestlemania history" perfectly suffice.

It's not actually wrestling which has got me posting, though: it's that recently I heard of the score from Close Encounters of the Third Kind as being "uniquely one of John Williams's greatest works of all time". All-time is doing a bit of heavy lifting there, constrained to one person and around 70 years.

4 hours ago, gmoney said:

How does Loki fit in with that? 

I can't speak on Chris's behalf but I suspect you've carried out the same process of elimination that I have to pair off two names and two trademarks, leaving Loki and "those ridiculous high grounds and bullshit opinions". So that, I presume.

Edit: Chris is a friend in real life and has informed me that my speculation of three names and three traits means one apiece isn't correct. Loki doesn't get the tag about "ridiculous high grounds and bullshit opinions".

15 minutes ago, gmoney said:

so its very odd those three would be singled out.

  I suspect it's because he associates each of those three with one of these trademarks he mentioned:

5 hours ago, Chris B said:

So yeah, those repeated jokes, those interminable responding-by-breaking-posts-into-multiple-quotes, those ridiculous high grounds and bullshit opinions? None of them are in good faith.

If a fourth participant over there happened to have a trademark trolling characteristic over here, I imagine that he and it would've got a mention, too.

16 minutes ago, Carbomb said:

Or does presidential pardon extend to the federal level?

It's limited purely to the federal level. It's one of the reasons Mark Meadows was trying to move one of Trump's trials from Georgia to the federal level; the president can't issue a pardon or a commutation unless a federal court issued the verdict. Those powers otherwise rest with states and their governors. (I suppose Trump could make a run for Governor of Georgia, New York, and so on from his prison cell should the election be stolen from him he lose again.)

8 minutes ago, JLM said:

I thought “I could care less” was infuriating enough

I can't make up my mind how I feel about it. The inflexion is the same as "I should be so lucky", and it probably has the same Yiddish origins, where it would have been used ironically. I have no problem with every-day English's "I love how you [do something which I really don't like]", which never seems to cause anybody to bat an eyelid: it's used to mean the opposite, we know it's used to mean the opposite, and we all seem to use it ironically. The same with: "Wow, such a great post, Ronnie."

On the other hand ... plenty of people who say "I could care less" don't seem to be aware that the sentence and its meaning are the opposites. It's not that they know it's ironic; they haven't analysed it at all. And my pernickitiness gets me looking down my nose at them ... until I think back to a colleague of mine (a dictionary compiler, as it happens) bemoaning that "flammable" had to be invented because so many people believed that "inflammable" meant ... well, "non-inflammable", I suppose, although I wanted to type "non-flammable". And I'd gone my whole life being unaware of what "inflammable" actually meant.

But then I remember an additional definition of "literally" having to be added to dictionaries because so many people used it to mean its opposite, and my blood literally starts to boil again.

1 hour ago, Keith Houchen said:

Wishful thinking I know but that’s what got us here in the first place, people not voting for who they believe in the most. 
 

“Yeah this guys sound but round here it’s either vote for a massive cunt or a not so massive cunt”. Either way, you’re voting for a cunt however it’s sugarcoated. 

I voted as I wanted to from 1997 until 2017, when reducing the majority of a Tory government beholden to a far-right faction within it became the most important issue for me. Needless to say, my vote has never counted, whether I've voted as I would do if I were the deciding figure at the ballot box, or held my nose and attempted to be a tactician. 

27 minutes ago, Keith Houchen said:

It’s replace them with something I find palatable.

Less unpalatable is perhaps more appropriate for most people. That's certainly my position. I wish my preferred Green or LD vote meant something but it doesn't. The only tool I have at my disposal to try to remove the post-truth charlatans is to try to oust our Blue with a Red. At least Labour won't be so keen to see children starve.

3 hours ago, Dead Mike said:

The record of Murdoch never backing a loser has less to do with his direct influence (which I believe is significantly less than it was) and more to do with him following the crowd but shouting loudly. Contrasting stories in Scottish & English versions of the same paper show this. 

 

Yep. It's not hard to always back the winner when you routinely endorse whichever candidate is going to come first. These are from either side of the border a week before Polling Day 2015:

I can't shoot straight.

I don't understand why because nothing about it seems mysterious: get the sight pointing at the target; keep the gun steady; pull the trigger. But try as I might, I just couldn't get my Master-at-Arms badge when I was a scout. From memory, I think we had a period of 8 or 12 weeks to obtain it, with an attempt once per week. All we had to do is graze the target's bull's-eye using an air rifle. And I couldn't, no matter how many attempts I had in a given night.

My mate had no problem. I imagine he did it first time round, and then just turned up every week for the fun of it, as did the other lads after they'd passed. But one of us was there for the full duration, utterly incapable, to the derision of his unbelieving colleagues. (I don't recall not actually getting the badge, though, so I suppose I got my mate to take the shot for me at the final attempt. It's the sort of thing we'd have done: it's only cheating if you get caught.)

My incapacity isn't limited to air rifles, only. I could never shoot anybody at Laser Quest, either! Not even when I decided to unsportingly stalk my brother (seven years younger) and pretty much shoot him from point-blank range. And still I missed! And then -- ZOW ZOW ZOW! -- whilst I'm bullying this cornered child, some do-gooder's shot me from a million miles away!

If I'm ever required to use a gun in defence, I'll be wielding it as a club ...

On 9/27/2023 at 5:17 PM, Carbomb said:

What does "cena" mean in Polish? I know in Latin it means "meal" or "dinner".

"Price" in the Slavic languages; "dinner" if you happen to pop by Italy.

I'm home alone for a few hours, which means I can engage in some debauchery.

I would've normally considered £10.50 too much for a chippy (I find it far too easy to use prices from decades past as a reference) but I think most would consider that fair game for small chips, a mini cod, battered sausage, and a curry sauce. I was apprehensive about a small portion of chips being too little but can now confirm that it was spot on: I've avoided the customary compulsion to sleep which usually curses me after one of my rare trips to the chippy, Croft Fisheries in Nuneaton.

Now to dispose of the evidence ...

On 8/9/2023 at 10:29 PM, Loki said:

It will be extremely easy to prove that Trump was trying to overturn the election results.  But the defence will argue that he GENUINELY believed the election had been stolen from him, and try and make the case about that - whether his belief was genuine. 

That will be where people who have heard him acknowledge the loss come in. That's one of a few I've read about since the election was apparently stolen from him.

5 hours ago, Carbomb said:

Is that Heidi Honeycoat?

Blimey, do you work for MI5? If not, you've got an outstanding memory since I've never used her full name since she was very young!

Here's (comparatively, because she's 12) little sister Pebbles, aka The Genius:

Here's a fairly recent shot, the ĉaption to which is: "This looks like a nice place to work. It'd be a shame if you couldn't get any done."

That looks really good, @lars85!

I arranged something like that for my big girl (for me, really) a few Christmases ago. She seemed to really take to it!

I know, it's daft to do something like this but how can you not become smitten with this beauty?

She turned thirteen a couple of weeks ago. Still as good as ever!

53 minutes ago, wandshogun09 said:

Three generations committing suicide. What a horrible tragic story.

It was FOUR, sadly, Everybody thinks of Eddie, and he was followed by Steven (Mike's son) and Mike. But B. Brian Blair pointed out in the episode that both Eddie's father and his brother, Skip, had taken their own lives earlier, too.

19 hours ago, air_raid said:

Although I believe "smashed his cousin's pasty" was the official title in the depravity KOTR tournament that someone knocked up. It was Ian, right? Who did the bracket, not smashed the pasty.

Ah, Ian's Bound for Gory tournament! That expression has certainly left its mark on you!

https://ukff.com/topic/128465-best-ukff-threadmoment-of-the-decade/#comment-2496879

1 hour ago, Merzbow said:

She's apparently blocked me and I don't think I've ever interacted with her.

Glad to see you're the pro-active sort, @Merzbow:

https://twitter.com/alanlucas61/status/1655534845857087488

Checking the phone through bleary eyes as soon as the alarm goes off is usually a waste of time. Occasionally, however, it gets the day off to a cracking start:

1 hour ago, Keith Houchen said:

Isn’t he a Villa fan? Or did he forget which claret and blue team he said he supports?

I read (and then disposed of) his For The Record, and that sorry saga is in there, about how he is genuinely a Villa fan but had something of a brainfart. I can't remember the details from the book but I've seen Cameron comment elsewhere that he had West Indies on his mind because England was playing a test over there.

23 hours ago, Frankie Crisp said:

It was someone shagging their cousin at a family funeral, wasn’t it?

Yep:

I searched for that post years ago when somebody asked about it. It should've been an easy find: I'd memorised part of that final sentence, and so specifically requested that Google show hits on this site containing those final two words, written in quote marks. And then I immediately shit myself because rather than return the standard Google listing, some other, official-looking page appeared warning me about the illegal content I was apparently trying to access. I was nervous for days afterwards: how do you explain something like that away, especially when you can't even locate the post to prove it? All these times we talk about wrong'uns on here, and I could've ended up the one making headlines for inadvertently exceeding anything the worst of them had done 😢

(Lesson learned: this time the search expression was site:ukff.com mrk. Fifth hit.)

6 minutes ago, Frankie Crisp said:

Well, here’s us, 10 months later.

You're killing your gimmick, @Frankie Crisp! Kayfabe!

Here's us at a family meal recently:

It's been a whopping sixteen years together now. Blimey!

On 10/13/2022 at 9:42 PM, Tommy! said:

As far as I can tell herb muchnick is the only truly impartial wrestling journalist, and he's so obscure on the net i can't even spell check his name.

It helps if you know that his name is Irv

There was a Herb related to wrestling journalism; that was the name of Meltzer's father. For some reason, Dave has always used his father's email address rather than have one of his own, which is why you see him post:

The gimmick is completed by this juno.com being a provider of ... dial-up internet services.