I’m glad at least one of you realised I was jokingdinny_g wrote: ↑Thu May 28, 2020 10:01 amThanks lads, that made me laugh...
By the way, “Sorry for your troubles” is pretty much the standard default Irish expression of sympathy...
Perfectly apt Zed...
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To be fair the Irish term "troubles" has been swapped out across the UK for the term "this shit" when referring to coronavirus. It would be amusing to hear Irish folk talk candidly about COVID-19 as "the troubles", it would confuse a few people who thought we'd moved on past that decades ago
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What is with us and these names...
WW2 was know as “The Emergency”
WW2 was know as “The Emergency”
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It's already the case, isn't it? Scotland and Wales are different to England. Why not make it smaller scale, so if an outbreak occurs in Weston-super-Mare, for instance (not taking a random example, the hospital there was overrun with new COVID19 admissions last weekend and apparently 40% of the medical staff have it now) then everything in Weston shuts down for 14 days.
Of course, quite how you stop people in Wandsworth doing a Gordon Ramsey if a new outbreak started in London, I don't know.
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My tired brain couldn’t tell if Rev was winding me up so I decided to play it safe
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You know it...
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Great time for making jokes.NotoriousREV wrote: ↑Thu May 28, 2020 10:07 amI’m glad at least one of you realised I was joking
Sad news, I expect a lot will be experiencing similar I’ve the next few months...
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In a technical planning session I once used the term "the final solution" and a non-Jewish person took great offence. There was general bemusement in the room.
And no, it wasn't a planning session about how to commit religious genocide. I think it was about putting some new voice authentication technology in place.
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Dinny appreciated the joke. Are you getting offended on someone else’s behalf?
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We watched a funeral on the laptop it's not good especially when it freezes and you miss the end.
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Pretty sure he is showing how empathetic he is!NotoriousREV wrote: ↑Thu May 28, 2020 10:50 amDinny appreciated the joke. Are you getting offended on someone else’s behalf?
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Well at least you managed to get Zedleg all worried he’d upset others by not knowing every bit of slang out there.
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Meh, there’s nothing wrong with apologising for offending someone.
Unneeded in this instance admittedly
Unneeded in this instance admittedly
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You made me feel guilty by feeling guilty...
Edit - which you don’t have to apologise for, just in case anyone gets offended
Edit - which you don’t have to apologise for, just in case anyone gets offended
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Its strange times indeed and I really feel for anybody who has lost someone they know recently and couldn't get to a funeral, console loved ones etc.
That said, will we just assume that everybody has made the joke in their heads about all knowing the end to that show, spoiler alert etc and move on?
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It’s fine lads really
She fought the good fight against MS for 50 Odd years, the last 40 confined to a wheelchair. Still played cards in the community hall every Friday night
She was a proper old Skool Irish farm women.
She fought the good fight against MS for 50 Odd years, the last 40 confined to a wheelchair. Still played cards in the community hall every Friday night
She was a proper old Skool Irish farm women.
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Got to laugh!Ascender wrote: ↑Thu May 28, 2020 11:26 amIts strange times indeed and I really feel for anybody who has lost someone they know recently and couldn't get to a funeral, console loved ones etc.
That said, will we just assume that everybody has made the joke in their heads about all knowing the end to that show, spoiler alert etc and move on?