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Exactly. If she’s a vampire slayer……

Gathering firewood

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As a yorkshire women so would I 😂

Yep. And 8 quid for a pint. Bloody ridiculous

As a Yorkshireman mesen, I'd go full bore Yorkshire, South proper broad Yorkshire accent 'n'everything! The sort people not from Yorkshire would need subtitles and a dictionary jus to get the gist of it! "Eeh, chuffing 'eck, that's a bloody disgrace, I te'thee, a ruddy disgrace! Tha'c'n stuff tha food up tha jacksie, we're not cuming 'ere again, tha'n get stuffed!"

While I agree that not cheating is the bare minimum and should not be praised, I’d also say that someone who was a notorious cheater does deserve some praise for acknowledging their wrongdoing and changing their ways.

Yeah it's great to go from bad to fine. Especially when so many people that do bad stuff just stay there!

I don’t think that’s a fair assumption. Most people don’t ‘send thoughts and prayers’ to act like they did something; it’s just a generally accepted thing to say in certain situations. Do you have the same attitude towards people expressing their condolences? What about thanking people for their help just to feel like they did something in return instead of actually doing something instead?

​@@Acquittal.. generally non overly religious persons (or non stereotypical Americans) view... '..wishing thoughts & prayers to you/for them' ...as conceitedly shallow thinker's, offering a briefest moment of sincerity, before carrying on in their usual willfully callous ignorance. I am sorry if that offended you or your sensibilities, butt I feel, that most honest people whom are not blinded by fundamentalist religious ideologies, feel the same vibes from the religiously nutty fruitcakes, who use religion and religious language to hide their insulting tones & daemonic eyes, with abusive thoughts & intentions behind their kind sounding phrases.

@@sg-yq8pm of course it’s not the same thing, but the point I was making was that expressing condolences is a way to tell people you are thinking of them. The intention in that way is perfectly similar to sending thoughts and prayers. The idea of thanking people was just used as a thought exercise regarding at what point using words to express emotion (empathy in this case) becomes using words to feel like you did something, without doing anything. Another example are get well soon cards. What purpose do those serve other to act like you are doing something even though everyone knows get well soon cards offer nothing in terms of a quicker recovery? There really is no difference between sending a get well soon card, and sending thoughts and prayers. Why is one better than the other? Since it is completely unreasonable to label someone sending a get well soon card as putting on a show just to feel and act like they’re doing something when they are really not, and sending a card js no different to sending thoughts and prayers, it is absolutely not a fair assumption to label anyone sending thoughts and prayers as the exact same thing. Sure, sending cards, thoughts and prayers are inane, but it is not fair to say people do so just to act like they are doing something. People do so because they are thinking of people and want people to know that, and that is true in terms of what they feel regardless of the fact that it is really doing nothing.

'The offer of thoughts and prayers is a simple one, a quiet gift that requires absolutely nothing of the recipient. A gesture that says we see you. We care about you. We send our love and support from near and far, in the only way we know how.'

@markalexander3659 my thoughts and prayers are with you. I feel your pain.

Yeah but we don't all use trolleys, I just use two bags.

What do you put your shopping in when you are going around Aldis? Even if you used a basket then you could just take the empty basket and put the items in it and then pack your bags in the area set aside for it.

@@nathanthom8176 The bags, what's the matter with you?

@@vtbn53 okay, when you are selecting your items you just put them in the bags you brought? That would look shifty as hell (if I saw someone doing that I would assume they were shoplifting), that is why they provide baskets or trolleys. The reason why packing bags at Aldi is difficult is because they have the smallest packing area, and the quickest cashiers and everyone knows that when you are packing a bag you can't always pack them well and quickly. If your shop is small enough that you have no problems then that is good but it is still strange as hell that you don't use a basket or trolley when selecting your items

@@nathanthom8176 Well generally speaking we don't shoplift here in Australia, so it's not regarded as shifty, in any case you couldn't get out of the shop without someone seeing you, using the bags allows me to go straight to my car and I am done, the problem with trolleys is they don't have brakes so whilst you are unloading them they start wandering off potentially smashing into other cars, and no Aldi I have ever been to has baskets.

and they have to maintain it, exactly as it is

Didn't he do it as a protest, and that's why he didn't want it as a heritage site??.

I just had a quick look on its Wiki page, it's been there nearly 40 years now. It was put there in 1986.

My god - doesn't the time fly when you're having fun.@@JamesLMason

It is possible to stay in the shark house

That's amazing - I didn't know that. When I think of all the flak that was flying round at the time it went up I've got to smile😆@@sarahjoines9343

Sounds delicious

Abra-Kebabra has always been one of my fav food shop names.

In Essex/Anglia there used to be (or maybe still is) a burger van called Carl's Burgers, with appropriate font.

Ukraine*

While I understand why one would want to change the usual English spelling to match the Ukrainian pronunciation, I (in my humble and not asked for opinion) don't think it's that good of an idea and it's unlikely to catch on. For one, Kyiv is hard to read and pronounce to English speakers. Secondly, the writing Kiev is not the Russian name for the city but the English name, based it's true on the Russian pronunciation, and has been consecrated by use. It's a bit like wanting to change the name of Japan to Nihon because it's based on the Chinese pronunciation. But I'm arguing on nothing, and I don't think the subject is that important, and the public will follow the name that it wants eventually, if Kyiv catches on it's all right.

@@esmeltorlathWhat type of “Chinese” do you mean? Maybe in Cantonese or Hakka it sounds a bit like that but in Mandarin, by far the most widely spoken dialect it is pronounced rìběn.

@@esmeltorlath I dissagree... We danes are fed up with the callous and dissrespectfull way, english speakers violate our national pride, by calling our beautiful capitol city "Copenhagen", instead of it's actual name, København !, A name of rare beauty and sofistication....

Sorry people. I am not going to start pronouncing Paris as "Paree" ... 😂

I never try to bag in the shop. I sling most of my stuff back into the trolley & pack it into bags when I get back to my car.

Is that anywhere near Carlisle?..Just asking for a friend.

@@mikefarley8563 lol I was using predictive text didn't check the spelling but yeah its near there mate haha

During the war, the RAF Police stationed in our billet, taught our budgie to say "Ginger bugger, Gladys"..I remember clearing hearing it at just 4 yrs old!

I know my friend works in A & E and I hear increasing grotesque behaviour.

@MsClaudz Nottingham is pronounced "Shithole" !

@@robcrossgrove7927 🤣 I honestly can't argue with that statement.. Been there many times, have never been impressed with that place..

I don’t! It’s outside or outdoors

I am British and have never called the ground outside "the floor". On occasions when I have heard it, it has been said tongue in cheek.

Swearing is often not said in anger though and is often part of every day speech depending on the person. Some swear words are even used affectionately and often humourously.

I can buy this. Parrots are pretty smart birds; maybe not as smart as some covids, but still smarter than your average human baby.

@@faithpearlgenied-a5517 Yeah. what I mean is they contextually understand the meaning. Even when joking, when people swear they tend to put on a faux "angry voice". You hardly hear people saying "If you would be so kind as to fuck off gently, you absolute bellend" in a calm manner, and if you did a parrot wouldn't really pick out any of the words contextually. Whereas "FUCK OFF SHITCUNT!" stands out.

@@carltaylor6452 From what I remember they "reckon" that African Grey's have the vocabulary of a 5 year old, but the emotions of a 2 year old. Not as instinctively smart as Crows or Ravens, but I think you could teach some to be close to it. I've seen that Alex the African Grey could combine words he knew to make words he didn't. So for example, he liked bananas and cherries and knew their names, but didn't know the word for apple, so called them "banerry".

Yep! 💯👍🏻🤣

Probably York Stone

The pronunciation changed to match the Ukrainian way of saying it, whereas Key-ev is how Russians pronounce it (if memory serves me correctly).

Reminds me of lady in a cinema I worked in watching a Johnny depp movie stuck a cucumber up herself and it snapped and she had to go to hospital to remove it. 🤦‍♀️🤣

@@fayesouthall6604 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Wouldn't have taken that long. The warmth would have encouraged it

It is illegal to carry an axe in public unless a judge decides you have reasonable excuse

I think JJ needs to know that East Enders is a long-running soap opera that is very popular in the UK.

What brains?

With that sense of superiority and that dripping condescension for others, you must read the Guardian.

Yeah!!!!