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www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1346296/Why-men-North-need-a-hand-hygiene.html
What's the most pointless rivalry/feud you are aware of?
Alt Q: How long should a grudge be held for?
Edit - yes I'm aware it's a Daily Mail article.
(, Wed 12 Jan 2011, 11:01, 177 replies, latest was 15 years ago)
My mate was changing trains in Newcastle. On seeing a woman come up to him and starting to talk to him in a strong Geordie accent he waved his hands in front of her and said "I haven't got any money" when she was asking when the next train was.
(, Wed 12 Jan 2011, 11:07, Reply)
It's funny because of his predjudice.
(, Wed 12 Jan 2011, 11:15, Reply)
which is probably why I find it funny but you lot don't.
(, Wed 12 Jan 2011, 11:30, Reply)
aren't taken into account. If it's technically amusing it would probably win you over. Basically I'm calling you a soulless robot. With aids.
(, Wed 12 Jan 2011, 11:32, Reply)
One of the oldest jokes ever recorded still works today.
Man walks into a barbers and the barber says "how would you like your hair cut" the man says "in silence"
It's all about give expectation A, provide answer B
(, Wed 12 Jan 2011, 11:39, Reply)
For example bad jokes told by an excellent comedian will get more laughs than good jokes told by a robot. It's about SOUL Chompy, it's all about soul.
(, Wed 12 Jan 2011, 11:41, Reply)
hence my saying he SOUNDS like a dick, based entirely on that anecdote. You could point out to him that whilst his prejudice is absolutely hilarious when said to a woman, if he'd said the same thing to a bloke he'd still be in hospital now. Which makes it even sadder
(, Wed 12 Jan 2011, 11:37, Reply)
because they're scruffy cunts. It always annoys them.
(, Wed 12 Jan 2011, 12:45, Reply)
Why did Blackman start on Shamrock with a Kendo stick in the first place? Usually these things at least have a bit of a backstory, however soap opera it may be
(, Wed 12 Jan 2011, 11:12, Reply)
Blackman got out of the crowd didn't he in some WWE super stunt.
(, Wed 12 Jan 2011, 11:17, Reply)
All the way through his walk towards the ring I was thinking "what the fuck is he doing there?"
All it amounted to was the WWE wanting to pair off arguably the two hardest men - if you met them in real life - on their roster, and Blackman had zero personality so they couldn't get him to do a rant to camera about it
(, Wed 12 Jan 2011, 11:19, Reply)
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that a 'blackman' acts in an unprovoked and violent manner, I'll wager.
(, Wed 12 Jan 2011, 11:41, Reply)
I would like to give my opinion on your previous thread but it's so long I'll do it here.
My favourite disney film as a kid was 101 Dalmatians, the one with all of the dogs and none of the Princesses. It makes me cringe when girls my age are still into shit like that.
Me and my sister had barbies at that age, but we were never really interested. There's not a lot you can do with them really and the train sets, tool kits and duplo were always a hell of a lot more interesting. Plus my parents put more emphasis on books, and playing outside. By the age of about eight, I was reading Agatha Christie.
You can't force her interests, but just make sure she has more interesting, stimulating stuff available to her as well as shitty plastic stick figures, and I bet she'll lose interest in the dolls pretty fast.
(, Wed 12 Jan 2011, 11:55, Reply)
I'll throw my opinion in too. Disney princesses and Barbies are supremely shite. My sister's 6, and she hates all that stuff, being more into dinosaurs and space (as was I). However, her grandma insists on buying her 'girls toys', like pretend kitchens and stuff. It makes me want to cunt-punch her.
(, Wed 12 Jan 2011, 12:17, Reply)
Ken Shamrock just used to scream and beat his chest.
Those were the glory days of WW
(, Wed 12 Jan 2011, 11:21, Reply)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMrCFqJwXbI
(, Wed 12 Jan 2011, 11:36, Reply)
I forget timsecales but when Triple H and Rock were locking horns as leaders of D-Generation X and The Nation, that was fucking boss
(, Wed 12 Jan 2011, 11:35, Reply)
I still watch it now, after a break of about 5 years, fucking love it.
(, Wed 12 Jan 2011, 11:38, Reply)
and consequently have lost track of practically everyone. Am stunned to see that the 'Taker is still inspiring epic fear after all this time
(, Wed 12 Jan 2011, 11:50, Reply)
But after that, he's gone. HBK is gone, Triple H is nearly gone, Rock went years back, same with Stone Cold, there's pretty much none left that I grew up watching!
(, Wed 12 Jan 2011, 11:53, Reply)
Kevin Nash, Sting, Hulk Hogan, Rick Flair, etc
(, Wed 12 Jan 2011, 11:56, Reply)
Ric Flair hasn't looked like a wrestler for years. I remember him having a match against Vince McMahon a few years back and Vinnie Mac was twice the size of him.
HBK's return a few years ago was a bit sad, watching the likes of Jericho and the mighty Triple H lose to a burnt-out shell of a former legend was frankly laughable
(, Wed 12 Jan 2011, 12:04, Reply)
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PWI Match of the Year (2004) vs. Chris Benoit and Triple H at WrestleMania XX
PWI Match of the Year (2005) vs. Kurt Angle at WrestleMania 21
PWI Match of the Year (2006) vs. Vince McMahon in a No Holds Barred match at WrestleMania 22
PWI Match of the Year (2007) vs. John Cena on Raw on April 23
PWI Match of the Year (2008) vs. Ric Flair at WrestleMania XXIV
PWI Match of the Year (2009) vs. The Undertaker at WrestleMania XXV
I've seen most of these matches, and they were superb.
(, Wed 12 Jan 2011, 13:13, Reply)
'Men of god' battering seven shades of shite out of each other over someone moving a deckchair a few feet. It's quite funny really except that the place is falling into disrepair because they can't agree on anything.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/is-nothing-sacred-483526.html
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_the_Holy_Sepulchre#Status_quo
(, Wed 12 Jan 2011, 11:21, Reply)
Probably the English and the Welsh, or the English and the Scots, or the English and other English people. Damn English! *shakes fist at reflection*
(, Wed 12 Jan 2011, 11:22, Reply)
cos we're better than them
(, Wed 12 Jan 2011, 11:34, Reply)
I think they are about to beat us at playschool cricket, for a start. Unless this Woakes chap is some secret weapon.
(, Wed 12 Jan 2011, 11:36, Reply)
although I realise this means nowt in this "format". Ordinarily I wouldn't give a shit, with the Ashes and three innings victories in the bag, but as the T20 World Champions you know the Aussies will crow if they manage to beat us
EDIT: Woakes has just clattered Shaun Tait - Shaun Tait, mind you - off his second ball, and Bres is batting well. There's hope
(, Wed 12 Jan 2011, 11:38, Reply)
Still, 13 off 10 is possible as long as no more stumps clatter.
(, Wed 12 Jan 2011, 11:43, Reply)
Swanny's a slugger so that necessary boundary is still gettable #mockers
EDIT: FUCKING, FUCKING HELL
(, Wed 12 Jan 2011, 11:47, Reply)
Scores level with one ball left. What the FUCK am I doing posting on B3ta?!
(, Wed 12 Jan 2011, 11:51, Reply)
the first two are grudges the Welsh and Scottish hold with the English, not the other way round. The English don't, in general, care either way.
(, Wed 12 Jan 2011, 11:35, Reply)
as they try to swing their fists at it, getting more and more frustrated all the time.
(, Wed 12 Jan 2011, 11:37, Reply)
because I don't have an original thought in my head
(, Wed 12 Jan 2011, 11:43, Reply)
So do tell.
(, Wed 12 Jan 2011, 11:24, Reply)
that girls do, where little things annoy me but i don't say anything, however underneath the surface each one builds up into a tiny bit of resentment. then one big thing happens that blows it up into a mass of seething fury. i will then rant onto a friend all about that has happened and how i never want to see or speak to that person again EVER, they are cast out, excommunicated, doomed, finished, dismissed, finito benito.
2 days later, best of friends. ok not so much now i'm not 13 any more, but very occasionally...
(, Wed 12 Jan 2011, 11:27, Reply)
top comedy.
(, Wed 12 Jan 2011, 11:32, Reply)
Bullshit. We can't live in a completely clean and antimicrobial environment, its impossible, not to mention bad for you.
(, Wed 12 Jan 2011, 11:37, Reply)
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"...comes from a study of the hygiene of more than 300 men passing through train stations around the country."
There are so many things wrong with that you wonder how anyone had the gall to make an article of it in the first place.
(, Wed 12 Jan 2011, 11:39, Reply)
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Sorry if it appears to be getting under my bonnet unduly, but they do have a famously bad track record for extrapolating wildly from tentative studies - making mountains of medical molehills, as it were. So really, I shouldn't be surprised by this article.
(, Wed 12 Jan 2011, 11:42, Reply)
it's just getting from there to the assumptions made in that article is wrong.
You could as easily say, Birmingham is the cleanest station.
(, Wed 12 Jan 2011, 11:45, Reply)
It's more that this is a field investigation and the other variables haven't (I assume, mail never links it's sources) properly been accounted for. Loads of excellent studies have been done with smaller sample sizes.
(, Wed 12 Jan 2011, 11:51, Reply)
(and this is a small sample size) for a very definite single or dual-conclusion study. And even then it depends upon the statistical relevance. If you studied 300 people, 150 southern and 150 northern, and said that 57% of the northerners didn't wash their hands whereas only 43% of the southerners did, you're talking about an actual difference of 10 washers/non washers in each case. Statistically as good as useless.
(, Wed 12 Jan 2011, 11:57, Reply)
that would give me a big enough data set to do some statistical analysis.
The analysis would be useless though, because they haven't chosen the subjects specifically enough or randomly enough.
(, Wed 12 Jan 2011, 12:04, Reply)
In this situation, it's little better than throwing some papers with random conclusions in the air and then catching one blindfold
(, Wed 12 Jan 2011, 11:48, Reply)
That, and major train statons are always going to be filthy. It's not the sample size I take issue with in this case, it's - as you rightly point out - all the assumptions that have to be made to get anywhere near that conclusion. Particularly the way they take a tenuous shred of evidence to declare a brand new North/South divide.
(, Wed 12 Jan 2011, 11:49, Reply)
I mean, I know you knew that, but I felt I should emphasise
(, Wed 12 Jan 2011, 11:47, Reply)
that way they won't get sick.
(, Wed 12 Jan 2011, 11:41, Reply)
I refused to take it and just held the scanner and scowled at him.
I was assuming he was a local, as it's a known phenomenon - but generally only with local scallies and not your average scouse bloke or student.
BUT HE WAS SOUTHERN! Now I'm not using this to say "See, Southerners are dirty too." because I don;t want to get into all that, and besides, I've never seen it happen anywhere but here. I can only assume he's either learnt this behaviour, or it was a contrived effort to fit in with the locals, the lowest locals of all, because decent men don't do it.
Walking around with your hand on your bare knob then going to hand me money? Fuck off.
(, Wed 12 Jan 2011, 11:44, Reply)
Do people actually do that? I've seen scallies/chavs/knuckle-draggers walking round openly cupping themselves, but at least their hands were outside their PE kit. Who decided it was a good look to walk around with your hand in your pants? Is it suddenly fashionable to give the appearance of openly masturbating in public?
(, Wed 12 Jan 2011, 11:47, Reply)
Sometimes you see them having a surreptitious sniff afterwards. They really fiddle down there.
(, Wed 12 Jan 2011, 11:50, Reply)
WHY? What, in the name of all that is sacred and profane, do they think that does for other people's perception of them?
(, Wed 12 Jan 2011, 11:52, Reply)
Their peers are usually next to them doing the same.
So when your mate is passing you a ciggy, you're touching flakes of his knob, you gayer.
(, Wed 12 Jan 2011, 11:55, Reply)
Don't they realise GAY is contagious?
Edit: 'Flakes' is probably the right word. If that article's to be believed then they aren't washing enough and so they probably have pubic dandruff.
(, Wed 12 Jan 2011, 11:55, Reply)
I'd be more concerned about cheesey smegma flakes, if I were you.
(, Wed 12 Jan 2011, 11:59, Reply)
I can assure you I attract a much cleaner clientele on Clapham Common. And if there is any doubt I at least make them wipe it on the grass.
(, Wed 12 Jan 2011, 12:00, Reply)
But it doesn't explain why this otherwise normal student boy 'not from round ere' was doing it.
i'm genuinely puzzled.
(, Wed 12 Jan 2011, 12:02, Reply)
We have plenty of PE-kit-wearing chavs round these parts gripping their...erm...parts. If he sounded like a Popped-Collar-Rupert then that would be far harder to understand.
(, Wed 12 Jan 2011, 12:04, Reply)
Is that Generic Southern Laahndan Student Accent or Generic Southern 'Gap Yah' Student Accent?
(, Wed 12 Jan 2011, 12:08, Reply)
"Too bloody raaaaight, rude not to!" and "Yeah we-uwl aahv got vees bukz raait..."
(, Wed 12 Jan 2011, 12:11, Reply)
"Too bloody raaaaight, rude not to!" and "Yeah we-uwl aahv got vees bukz raait..."
Racist!
(, Wed 12 Jan 2011, 12:13, Reply)
*shudders further*
Generic Southern Student-Pretending-To-Be-An-Essex-Wideboy Accent (TM).
Just thinking about it sends a shiver of horror down my spine. Roota, you have my sympathies. For future reference: if in doubt, cut their throats.
(, Wed 12 Jan 2011, 12:13, Reply)
and he never stops going on about his family daahn saaaf.
Guess where he's from...
(, Wed 12 Jan 2011, 12:17, Reply)
in which people tend to be quite well spoken, but feel the need to disguise this by speaking like Jamie 'Ooh what a fucking big tongue I've got' Oliver.
I realise I'm coming across as a dreadful snob here, but when they put it on like that it just looks so fucking pretentious.
(, Wed 12 Jan 2011, 12:20, Reply)
He could at least have the decency to admit he sounds a bit West Country and have done with it.
(, Wed 12 Jan 2011, 12:22, Reply)
He's lived up North for 17 years.
I think he worked in London for a few months once.
(, Wed 12 Jan 2011, 12:27, Reply)
no such thing! was he West Country, Cornish? Janner? Cockney?
(, Wed 12 Jan 2011, 12:09, Reply)
We have alot of wishy-washy accents going round.
People don't stay in their own parish any more Bob.
(, Wed 12 Jan 2011, 12:12, Reply)
So how come he gets away with it and I get banned from working as a Lollypop man?
(, Wed 12 Jan 2011, 11:48, Reply)
"not appropriate behaviour" apparently
(, Wed 12 Jan 2011, 11:54, Reply)
when I was taken down the station for a kicking in the cells
(, Wed 12 Jan 2011, 12:09, Reply)
Are they worried it's going to fall off? Does it comfort them? Are they worried about leg-crossing abrasions?
I don't understand. I am comfortable enough in having a nob that I don't feel the need to fucking cradle it.
(, Wed 12 Jan 2011, 11:49, Reply)
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but getting your micropenis out in public - so that it could be seen by someone in the bushes - is OK?
You sicken me.
(, Wed 12 Jan 2011, 11:54, Reply)
If I want to walk around with my admittedly tiny penis out in public, that is a matter between me and the Police.
Simply because a man walks around with his nob out is not sufficient justification for you to hide in bushes and watch, you utter pervert.
(, Wed 12 Jan 2011, 11:57, Reply)
They're up there with grudges. The more pointless the better, I say.
The England/France thing is a source of great, great pleasure to me, it's like a hobby.
(, Wed 12 Jan 2011, 11:53, Reply)
would just GET OVER IT already.
(, Wed 12 Jan 2011, 11:54, Reply)
in sickening, bloody combat. Bunch of barbaric, medieval cunts. In a bad way.
(, Wed 12 Jan 2011, 11:57, Reply)
Oh, rape and pillage you they would, but at least they did the job properly...
(, Wed 12 Jan 2011, 11:59, Reply)
You knew where ya stood wiv 'em.
*sheds Cockney faux-sentimental tear*
(, Wed 12 Jan 2011, 12:02, Reply)
They really are behaving terribly childishly.
(, Wed 12 Jan 2011, 11:59, Reply)
They've ruined house prices round my way.
(, Wed 12 Jan 2011, 12:05, Reply)
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I just thought you were being a Deacon. Based on previous posts you can't blame me.
(, Wed 12 Jan 2011, 12:14, Reply)
*Does the mong clap, where the hands are incapable of meeting to make any noise*
(, Wed 12 Jan 2011, 12:08, Reply)
have the old 'bet you can't lick your elbow' trick to get someone to act like a spastic, at your school. Fucking classic.
(, Wed 12 Jan 2011, 12:10, Reply)
Oh for those simpler, happier times....
(, Wed 12 Jan 2011, 12:12, Reply)
Just so you could watch them go round in circles until the pain subsided?
(, Wed 12 Jan 2011, 12:15, Reply)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlSxF4klHms
(, Wed 12 Jan 2011, 12:12, Reply)
With the other Remmy-cases.
(, Wed 12 Jan 2011, 12:14, Reply)
We had a teacher who'd say 'don't give me a hard time, boys, I've just spent an hour with 'the zoo'
(, Wed 12 Jan 2011, 12:17, Reply)
The remmies only joined the main-streams for art and PE, so in addition to being thick, a couple of times a week, they'd either get drawn on, or attacked by some rugby loving lunatic.
I wonder what became of them?
(, Wed 12 Jan 2011, 12:20, Reply)
Almost as good as telling someone they have something stuck to the heel of their shoe. When they lift up their heel and look over their shoulder, say "HELLO SAILOR!"
(, Wed 12 Jan 2011, 12:14, Reply)
if anyone looks up just tell them to get back to work. Perhaps call them a "minion".
(, Wed 12 Jan 2011, 12:30, Reply)
Is the People's Front of Judea v the Romans.
(, Wed 12 Jan 2011, 12:02, Reply)
You can't beat a good grudge, especially if nobody can even remember what it started over.
'Ning autisms, you flailing spastic mong shitcunts.
(, Wed 12 Jan 2011, 12:16, Reply)
It's also inaccurate as it is afternoon.
(, Wed 12 Jan 2011, 12:22, Reply)
This is a feud started at the age of 6 when some gorgonzola "accidentally" found it's way onto my pizza.
(, Wed 12 Jan 2011, 12:28, Reply)
Don't ignore each other. Life's too short.
(, Wed 12 Jan 2011, 12:41, Reply)
Those places ming to the nth.
(, Wed 12 Jan 2011, 15:34, Reply)
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