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  • Probably quite a few, especially those who keep shouting, "we won, get over it."

    It would seem Putin did did the winning. I also heard that on Twitter 63,000 accounts have appeared with names like @DavidJo52951945.  The names are followed by eight random numbers. The majority of them tweet anti-migrant and pro-right wing opinions, intriguingly only during Moscow office hours.

    Apparently, they're "astro-turfing". This is the practice of flooding social media with certain opinions and trying to shut down anyone who has opposite views to them.

    Investigative journalists started investigating these accounts when they noticed that an enormous number of pro-Brexit and pro-Trump accounts were anonymous.

    The will of the people must be respected! image

  • "Astro-turfing", never heard that one before.

    I imagine Putin wanted his revenge.  America and Britain were instrumental in the breaking up of the USSR, so, I suspect, this former KGB man wasn't going to forget it.

    The whole world seems restless, nervous and fearing another catastrophic war.  Nature is adding to the whole misery too.

    I wish I could think of something that would make me smile today. image

  • It's rather depressing, I agree.  The Donald inviting war and Putin seeming to control what happens in Europe and America makes all of us anxious, I think.

    I wish Mrs May hadn't banished (!) Boris from the country.  He could appear on our screens daily, tickling his own thatch and talking nost amusing nonsense, as he did when he said, when we get out of the EU. we'll be in charge of our own laws and get rid of ridiculous EU laws, like the one that regulates... the size and shape of bananas!!!

    You have to smile, though sadly, when you think that some people actually believe such a law exists!

  • Ah, the lies of Boris Johnson, not only how much more the NHS would get but even how the shape of our bananas would be affected.

    Remind me, on which side the EU campaign  was he?

  • Perhaps the IN side didn't tell lies as such, but they seemed to exaggerate, which put some people's backs up.

    Many of us knew Rothermere and Murdoch (the one who "done it"!!) told the masses for whom to vote for a very ling time, but this Putin involvement is particularly unsettling.

    It's admirable that Remainers are trying very hard to, as they see it, avert a disaster.  There was a march in London today: Exit the Brexit.

    Perhaps we will all wake up one morning and find that all this was just a nasty dream.

    In my ...dreams.

  • Oh dear!

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  • And then we shall have "Midnight's Children 2019"?  image

  • Perhaps Salman Rushdie could bring out his pen again, and this time he might even get the Nobel prize.  But, I suspect, he would need to return to Britain and be here in person to qualify. image

    It would seem, though, some wounds never heal; touch them and they bleed.

  • The teacher of my Pilates class, whilst driving back home last week, broke down and had to call for assistance. 

    When the mechanic arrived, he looked to her about 17 and she became worried and a bit stressed that he wouldn't be able to help her on the spot.

    However, the first thing he asked her after she had explained the situation was, "Where's home?"

    She told him, "O, I'm so relieved! it's just a 20 minute drive from here and there are no buses I can get."

    He did drive her home and then took her car away for repair.  It was a while later, after she had recovered her equinimity that she realised what exactly he had asked her. 

    She was still giggling when she was telling us in class yesterday.

  • The last incident here reminded me of something fairly similar that happened to my uncle's French wife a long time ago, but she hasn't yet forgotten it!  They met at university in Paris and in 1965 they got married and came to England.  They lived in Chislehurst, Kent.  She was just 21.

    She was a post graduate student in London - where my uncle was a lecturer-  with excellent English and a beautiful accent, which she still has.

    Once a week she used to do her shopping at the same local butchers, fish mongers and green grocers, and always bought a fresh chicken for Sunday lunch; so after a while the shop keepers came to know her.

    One day she went to the butcher's for the usual stuff but when it came to the chicken the man told her, "No, no chicken today.  Tell her, chickens no good this week."            

    My aunt didn't understand, so she asked, "Tell whom?"

    The butcher just smiled and winked at her.

    She couldn't wait to tell her husband the story and of her inability to understand what the butcher meant.  Uncle understood at once.  "You have a foreign accent, so the butcher thinks you're an au pair!"

    Needless to say, my aunt never set foot in that "ridiculous" butcher's shop again!

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