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'Science makes you fly to the moon. Religion makes you fly into buildings'
What great quotes have you heard recently?
(, Tue 10 May 2011, 9:33, 216 replies, latest was 15 years ago)
"The trouble with quotes on the internet is that you can never be 100% sure they're orthentic" - Abraham Lincon, 1746.

(, Tue 10 May 2011, 9:35, Reply)
click

(, Tue 10 May 2011, 9:35, Reply)
I disagree though, and I think the anti-religion crowd can be just as dull as the fundamentalists.
There is no where in any religious text that tells anyone to fly into a building.
(, Tue 10 May 2011, 9:36, Reply)
Superman's diary has this in

(, Tue 10 May 2011, 9:37, Reply)
And there's my first click of the day!

(, Tue 10 May 2011, 9:43, Reply)
Morning our kid
Still smug as fuck, I assume
(, Tue 10 May 2011, 9:51, Reply)
Wish I'd put Maxi into my FFL team
The big faced muppet
(, Tue 10 May 2011, 9:52, Reply)
To be fair, until a month ago he was just a big faced muppet

(, Tue 10 May 2011, 9:58, Reply)
Extraordinarily so!

(, Tue 10 May 2011, 10:07, Reply)
And science has only actually sent a few people to the moon
Fucking HUNDREDS of people have flown into buildings. And if that pilot hadn't managed to land his plane in the Hudson, science (or a failure thereof) would have flown a few more people into building than it has to the moon.
(, Tue 10 May 2011, 9:42, Reply)
That was the only successful landing on water of a passenger jet
All others have crashed and killed most of the passengers
(, Tue 10 May 2011, 9:48, Reply)
That guy was a fucking legend
I reckon that sort of achievement would buy him about 5 minutes of grudging respect on B3ta before everyone got stuck in
(, Tue 10 May 2011, 9:49, Reply)
This^
One of the lads in here has his private pilot's license and knows a shedload about planes and such. He bigs the guy up for landing it
(, Tue 10 May 2011, 9:51, Reply)
Is this lad also a great swimmer with a supermodel girlfriend?

(, Tue 10 May 2011, 9:52, Reply)
Yes
His Accord is parked outside, guarded by Mike Tyson
(, Tue 10 May 2011, 9:52, Reply)
He got an award from BALPA
who recognised what a legend he is.

Some of the people on that flight went to the airport and flew home!
(, Tue 10 May 2011, 9:57, Reply)
Was that Al pretending to be BUPA?
Was the award an empty pie tin with a magenta cock scrawled on it?
(, Tue 10 May 2011, 10:48, Reply)
He had stupid facial hair.

(, Tue 10 May 2011, 9:53, Reply)
But it was his understanding of science that meant he was
(a) able to take responsible action
(b) able to stay in control of the 'plane
and
(c) know that landing it in the river would greatly improve their chances over landing it on solid ground or the upper storeys of a building

(, Tue 10 May 2011, 10:20, Reply)
Alternative and far more facetious response:
And how many of those "Fucking HUNDREDS of people" believed in "God," eh? Eh?
(, Tue 10 May 2011, 10:26, Reply)
I think the difference here is intent
People have inadvertently flown into buildings as a result of technology, but the religious nutcases did it on purpose.
(, Tue 10 May 2011, 9:53, Reply)
"When God said brains, you thought he said trains
so you asked for a small, slow one"
(, Tue 10 May 2011, 9:52, Reply)
"One-track and dirty"

(, Tue 10 May 2011, 10:14, Reply)
Nice

(, Tue 10 May 2011, 10:17, Reply)
While we're on the subject
I'd rather have my mail delivered by Boeing than fly in a plane built by The Post Office.
(, Tue 10 May 2011, 9:54, Reply)
Who said that?

(, Tue 10 May 2011, 9:55, Reply)
Fister
Just there..... Look ^
(, Tue 10 May 2011, 10:03, Reply)
Yeah - I just wasn't sure what it meant?

(, Tue 10 May 2011, 10:09, Reply)
Sheesh well if I have to explain everything...
OK here we go. Boeing and The Post Office - 2 totally different companies operating in totally different areas.

Both have came in for varying degrees of criticism over their lifetimes. However, what Boeing does is hugely more complicated than what The Post Office does.

Basically, what I'm saying is that The Post Office do a relatively simple job badly, so I wouldn't trust them to do anything complicated.
(, Tue 10 May 2011, 10:23, Reply)
I see.
Thanks.
(, Tue 10 May 2011, 10:33, Reply)
No probs
And I have no idea where it comes from. It's just something I heard years ago.
(, Tue 10 May 2011, 10:34, Reply)
"Wanking's not a crime"
Guy Martin, one of his many brilliant lines in Cloer To The Edge, which also had the best 3D I have ever seen. It was awesome. vroooommmmm
(, Tue 10 May 2011, 9:55, Reply)
A personal favourite, for obvious reasons, is this one from Ginger Rogers;
"I do everything Fred does, but backwards and in high heels"

Which practically every female dancer will reel off at the slightest opportunity. Except it's not quite true, she didn't have to lead, did she.
(, Tue 10 May 2011, 9:57, Reply)
Sounds like the women that work for me.

(, Tue 10 May 2011, 9:58, Reply)
I just went to the warehouse where one of our suppliers was making a delivery
The guy joked "are you here to help then?"
me: "No, I'm just a small weak women I couldn't possible lift those heavy things"
driver: "So much for equal rights I see!"
me: "Only when it suits us"
Driver laughed so much he fell over a toilet
(, Tue 10 May 2011, 10:02, Reply)
This is a bit embarrassing,
but one of my favourite quotes on the subject of girls comes from a film, Sliding Doors.

"I'm a woman! We don't say what we actually want. But we reserve the right to be pissed off when we don't get it. That's what makes us so fascinating. And not a little bit scary."
(, Tue 10 May 2011, 10:18, Reply)
It would be embarrassing for a man
You're fine
(, Tue 10 May 2011, 10:23, Reply)
You're so lovely to me

(, Tue 10 May 2011, 10:28, Reply)
I saw your newslettered qotw answer
good job
(, Tue 10 May 2011, 10:32, Reply)
Don't encourage him

(, Tue 10 May 2011, 10:36, Reply)
I would like to second this
Very good, sir, very good.
(, Tue 10 May 2011, 10:38, Reply)
Oh, cheers :-)
And to you, Vippers

Edit: modesty prevents me from taking any actual credit, the whole thing came from my best mate
(, Tue 10 May 2011, 10:39, Reply)
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it. "
- Evelyn Beatrice Hall

Interestingly not Voltaire as most think, but her summary of Voltaire's essay On Tolerance.
(, Tue 10 May 2011, 10:18, Reply)
I also like
"Those are my opinions. If you don't like them, I have others" - Groucho Marx
(, Tue 10 May 2011, 10:20, Reply)

If I want your opinion I'll slap it out of you.

(to women) If I want your opinion I'll give it to you.
(, Tue 10 May 2011, 10:22, Reply)
Oscar Wilde.
The only thing to do with good advice is pass it on. It is never any use to oneself.

This seems to have been my mantra through life.
(, Tue 10 May 2011, 10:19, Reply)
Some of Oscar Wilde's stuff was absolute gold
"My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go."
(, Tue 10 May 2011, 10:25, Reply)
Most of the quotes I've seen recently have been Python quotes
as apparently it's Monty Python Status Day on Facebook.
(, Tue 10 May 2011, 10:21, Reply)
"Furthermore Susan,
I wouldn't be the least bit surprised to learn that all four of them habitually smoke marijuana cigarettes....Reefers!"
(, Tue 10 May 2011, 10:27, Reply)
Beyond the Valley of the Dolls
I had to look that up.
(, Tue 10 May 2011, 10:34, Reply)
it's also at the beginning of Sublime's version of Smoke Two Joints

(, Tue 10 May 2011, 10:35, Reply)
*That's* where I remember it from
confused it with The Pot Song. Can't imagine why.
(, Tue 10 May 2011, 10:52, Reply)
let's all smoke some pot!

(, Tue 10 May 2011, 10:42, Reply)
One of my favorite Mae West quotes.
A hard man is good to find.
(, Tue 10 May 2011, 10:32, Reply)
As true today as it ever was.

(, Tue 10 May 2011, 10:34, Reply)
Marriage isn't a word, it's a sentence.

(, Tue 10 May 2011, 10:35, Reply)
Of every 10 people who watch tv
5 are half of them.

(Les Luthiers)
(, Tue 10 May 2011, 10:37, Reply)
"The buck stops here."
Uncle Buck, I think.
(, Tue 10 May 2011, 10:38, Reply)
Also Ice Age 3: Dawn of the Dinosaurs

(, Tue 10 May 2011, 10:39, Reply)
I can't take those films seriously.
Dinosaurs and mammoths. FFS.
(, Tue 10 May 2011, 10:41, Reply)
I know, right?
Talking saber-toother tigers with celebrity voices, fine, but at let's keep it realistic
(, Tue 10 May 2011, 10:43, Reply)
I would leave all the trailers as they are,
But when the human swine went to see the film, it would be a nice BBC2 documentry about the ice age. I'd lock the doors too, just leave a bucket in the corner.
(, Tue 10 May 2011, 10:50, Reply)
I like this

(, Tue 10 May 2011, 11:00, Reply)
I hate the cunt who does the voice of the mammoth

(, Tue 10 May 2011, 10:43, Reply)
Everybody Hates Raymond is a three-joke show
1) His brother's really tall
2) His mother likes things clean
3) His wife could probably do a bit better than him

NINE SEASONS they made that last
(, Tue 10 May 2011, 10:45, Reply)
I've only watched a few chapters
and found it really boring. And his mum gets me to my nerves, stupid shouting manipulative bitch.
(, Tue 10 May 2011, 10:49, Reply)
Both his parents are absolutely nightmarish
but at least his Dad is funny. The programme isn't true to life enough to draw cringeworthy "ooh I know someone like that" comedy out of a character so his Mum is just awful
(, Tue 10 May 2011, 10:54, Reply)
I just think
everytime I go zapping and find it, that if my mum was like that, I would break all contact with her. Easy like that. I hate her.
(, Tue 10 May 2011, 10:57, Reply)
You should make your Mum watch an episode and tell her so
Just to make sure she knows what you expect from her in her dotage
(, Tue 10 May 2011, 11:00, Reply)
Hahaha
That's a good idea. Fortunately, my mum is too insecure, which is usually a bad thing, but means that if you tell her off once she takes offence and never does it again.
(, Tue 10 May 2011, 11:07, Reply)
Oh my god
Your Mum's under your thumb!
(, Tue 10 May 2011, 11:08, Reply)
I have to suffer her things too
like her necessity to be the centre of attention and that.
(, Tue 10 May 2011, 11:27, Reply)
Your dynamic is backwards

(, Tue 10 May 2011, 11:36, Reply)
Don't.
"Based on the comedy of Ray Romano" is one of the credits.

I'd keep it fucking quiet if I was him.
(, Tue 10 May 2011, 10:50, Reply)
What does that even mean?
"The comedy" of Ray Romano. Either he had an idea for a series which got horribly out of control, or it stemmed from a drunken conversation about the worst possible idea for a sitcom.

Apart from Seinfeld, of course. What the fuck?
(, Tue 10 May 2011, 10:52, Reply)
It's all the worst things about yank comedy.
King of Queens - actually, is that your favourite?

/lazy.
(, Tue 10 May 2011, 10:55, Reply)
Hardly ever seen it actually
You bastard.

As you ask, The Simpsons is my favourite, and no I don't own the tie to prove it. Followed by Frasier and Arrested Development.
(, Tue 10 May 2011, 10:59, Reply)
I love Frasier
the series, not him. Although I had a crush on Niles.
(, Tue 10 May 2011, 11:09, Reply)
You're barking up the wrong tree there babe

(, Tue 10 May 2011, 11:21, Reply)
Why?
I don't like him anymore now. He's just kind of cute.
(, Tue 10 May 2011, 11:28, Reply)
Because he's a massive bender

(, Tue 10 May 2011, 11:35, Reply)
Really?
Oh, all boys are benders lately. Is it in fashion or something?
(, Tue 10 May 2011, 11:37, Reply)
Absolutely, darling
*snaps*
(, Tue 10 May 2011, 11:56, Reply)
I don't know who he is,
But I've looked at his Wiki page and he looks a twat. So I'll agree with you.
(, Tue 10 May 2011, 10:47, Reply)
100% agreed.
re the Mammoth voice-over. Props and 'nuff respect to John Leguizamo for his show-stealing sloth though.
(, Tue 10 May 2011, 11:05, Reply)
Somewhere in the world, a woman gives birth every 2 minutes
We must find this woman and stop her.
(, Tue 10 May 2011, 10:40, Reply)
Wizard'ssleevelols

(, Tue 10 May 2011, 10:42, Reply)
clown car lolz

(, Tue 10 May 2011, 10:43, Reply)
"World's Oldest Man Dies"
Why does this keep happening?
(, Tue 10 May 2011, 10:43, Reply)
Garth, marriage is punishment for shoplifting in some countries.

(, Tue 10 May 2011, 10:42, Reply)
Ah, birthplace of my favourite insult for a mental woman - "Psycho hose beast"
As the years pass, the looks I get for using that phrase get stranger and stranger
(, Tue 10 May 2011, 10:44, Reply)
I used to own www.psychohosebeast.com
I wish I still did
(, Tue 10 May 2011, 10:55, Reply)
Every time I speak to you
you seem to come up with a new reason why I should revere you as a geek god
(, Tue 10 May 2011, 10:56, Reply)
I bought up loads of cool domains around the year 2000
but they have all been snapped up. I also had moderaterock.com points for the reference.
(, Tue 10 May 2011, 11:10, Reply)
that's my favourite insult for a mental woman too
how odd
(, Tue 10 May 2011, 11:01, Reply)
I have this bad feeling
that should we ever meet, we're going to disagree on everything we talk about, and this will leave us feeling oddly disjointed.
(, Tue 10 May 2011, 11:05, Reply)
naa, I'm really very agreeable

(, Tue 10 May 2011, 11:07, Reply)
That's the thing
We agree on 90% of stuff on a website where people mostly bicker. So... ah, fuck it, this theory does not have legs.
(, Tue 10 May 2011, 11:10, Reply)
marriage used to be
a punishment for rape.
(, Tue 10 May 2011, 10:44, Reply)
Still is, in the bible

(, Tue 10 May 2011, 10:45, Reply)
Yeah
In very few places those rules of the Bible still apply. But I bet the woman is more than happy with the punishment the rapist is getting. I mean, what would I want more than spending my whole life with the man that's hurt me the most?
(, Tue 10 May 2011, 10:47, Reply)
and a large collection of knives

(, Tue 10 May 2011, 10:54, Reply)
That is true
I suppose she can do mean things to him for a long time. Poison him slowly and that.
(, Tue 10 May 2011, 10:58, Reply)
Chop his cock off and beat him to death with it
As long as he's The Mighty Badger, obv
(, Tue 10 May 2011, 11:01, Reply)
I don't think that's legal
her punishment would be a lot worse than what he got.
(, Tue 10 May 2011, 11:06, Reply)
Maybe she could skin him and assume his identity to escape punishment

(, Tue 10 May 2011, 11:10, Reply)
Yeah,
I can't see a flaw in that plan.
(, Tue 10 May 2011, 11:12, Reply)
As long as she's a tall lass
*looks at BGB with new fear*
(, Tue 10 May 2011, 11:18, Reply)
Pfft!
I'm a fucking pussy cat.
(, Tue 10 May 2011, 11:19, Reply)
It was more the height thing that I was a-fearin'

(, Tue 10 May 2011, 11:22, Reply)
"dude, when life hands you lemons.....
.... fuck the lemons, and bail."
(, Tue 10 May 2011, 10:44, Reply)
When God gives you lemons you FIND A NEW GOD.

(, Tue 10 May 2011, 10:46, Reply)
I keep meaning to point out to you
that this quote on your FB page has bail spelt incorrectly. Unless you have a fetish for shagging monkey-faced Welsh Tottenham Hotspur players with lemons.
(, Tue 10 May 2011, 10:46, Reply)
No wonder he is always injured.

(, Tue 10 May 2011, 10:49, Reply)
If life hands you lemons, put them in gin.

(, Tue 10 May 2011, 10:54, Reply)
i was drinking vodka, lemon and butterscotch cocktails the other night
fucking awesome.
(, Tue 10 May 2011, 10:55, Reply)
I'm contractually obliged to call that "well gay"
but actually it sounds pretty good. It would depend how much butterscotch.
(, Tue 10 May 2011, 10:57, Reply)
butterscotch just makes me think of angel delight
Which means my mental imagine of Swipes cocktail is all wrong.
(, Tue 10 May 2011, 11:00, Reply)
i don't like sweet creamy cocktails
this one was fresh and tangy, just a sweet hint of butterscotch. awesomeness.
(, Tue 10 May 2011, 11:03, Reply)
"Of all the thing's I've lost, I miss my mind the most."
Ozzy Osbourne, man! *throws horns*
(, Tue 10 May 2011, 10:47, Reply)
alright Cereal?

(, Tue 10 May 2011, 11:01, Reply)
About time someone spotted that.

(, Tue 10 May 2011, 11:04, Reply)
sorry, I've been working

(, Tue 10 May 2011, 11:05, Reply)
"Great words won't cover ugly actions
Good frames won't save bad paintings"
Refused - The New Noise
(, Tue 10 May 2011, 10:48, Reply)
Woo!

(, Tue 10 May 2011, 10:49, Reply)
That WOO! always makes me lol
Fucking awesome tune though.
(, Tue 10 May 2011, 10:50, Reply)
YOU DIDN'T REPLY TO MY HILARIOUS TEXT THE OTHER DAY
AS SUCH ALL OF TEAM AWESOME HATES YOU
(, Tue 10 May 2011, 10:57, Reply)
Beer. The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems.

(, Tue 10 May 2011, 10:49, Reply)
"You gotta have drugs"

(, Tue 10 May 2011, 10:51, Reply)
The only thing I regret about drugs is not doing more of them when I had the chance.
BGB 2011.
(, Tue 10 May 2011, 10:52, Reply)
It's never too late.
Monty.....
(, Tue 10 May 2011, 10:56, Reply)
Too late...
There is a world out there to discover and that's where my extra cash goes. Holidays FTW!
(, Tue 10 May 2011, 10:58, Reply)
Homer J. Simpson, I believe

(, Tue 10 May 2011, 10:55, Reply)
Correct.

(, Tue 10 May 2011, 10:56, Reply)
"Aim for the stars and you may just hit the moon"

Also "Darth you utter bender" NA 2011
(, Tue 10 May 2011, 10:49, Reply)
Have you tried to resume your former identity yet?

(, Tue 10 May 2011, 10:51, Reply)
Piss off and work.

(, Tue 10 May 2011, 10:52, Reply)
yes Miss

(, Tue 10 May 2011, 10:56, Reply)
Piss off

(, Tue 10 May 2011, 10:52, Reply)
Piss

(, Tue 10 May 2011, 10:55, Reply)
Hahaha
Massive officelol
(, Tue 10 May 2011, 10:55, Reply)
Not at all recently
but I'm generally fond of "Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt"

And, as a personal mantra, "a true scientist cannot conceal what he discovers out of fear for what mankind will do with it" - Oppenhiemer's quote after he perfected the first atomic bomb.
(, Tue 10 May 2011, 10:50, Reply)
Oppenheimer
was a commie megalomaniac. Truman gave him very short shrift.
(, Tue 10 May 2011, 10:57, Reply)
he most definitely wasn't a commie
The US witch-hunted him for daring to suggest that blowing the fuck out of a few hundred thousand people wasn't really morally right. He lost everything, all his degrees, all his esteem, because the McCarthy era US was a pile of absolute cunts.

Mind, he did say "I have become as death, shatterer of worlds" after they dropped the first one, so he might be a bit of a megalomaniac. And also someone who doesn't read quotes properly.
(, Tue 10 May 2011, 11:01, Reply)
His wife was a self-professed Marxist
and his security clearance was revoked in '45 after it became apparent that he'd lied about his meetings with fellow communists during his Los Alamos phase.
He was a preening peacock and drama-queen.
(, Tue 10 May 2011, 11:14, Reply)
He was one of the greatest physicists to walk the earth
that earns him the right to be a drama-queen.

And those "meetings" were supposedly the odd social event, although since neither of us were there, I don't think either of us can be sure.

Incidentally, he couldn't have had his security clearance revoked. He never had security clearance at Los Alamos.
(, Tue 10 May 2011, 11:22, Reply)
But, but
he was the one who persuaded the US goverernment to BUY Los Alamos because it was near his New Mexico bolt-hole. He was head of weapons development there - of course he had security clearance. Still, meh. I've just got a chip because Enrico Fermi should really be the household name that Oppenheimer became.
(, Tue 10 May 2011, 15:18, Reply)
You great... soft... sissy... girlie... nancy... French... bender... Man-United supporting POOF!

(, Tue 10 May 2011, 10:52, Reply)
This is driving me mental
Where's it from?
(, Tue 10 May 2011, 11:11, Reply)
Gene Hunt

(, Tue 10 May 2011, 11:11, Reply)
Correct (again)

(, Tue 10 May 2011, 11:15, Reply)
Thank you!

(, Tue 10 May 2011, 11:18, Reply)
"The best laid plans of mice and men seldom coincide"

(, Tue 10 May 2011, 10:52, Reply)
"unless they involve cheese"

(, Tue 10 May 2011, 10:53, Reply)
mmmmm cheese

(, Tue 10 May 2011, 10:58, Reply)
I have a cheese at home called Red hot dutch......I kid you not.
It chock full of chillies. Nom nom!
(, Tue 10 May 2011, 10:59, Reply)
I call that stuff Attack Cheese

(, Tue 10 May 2011, 11:01, Reply)
I went into a cheese shop in Derbyshire on Sunday and demanded Sage Derby.
The assistant asked if I wanted modern or traditional. I said "Both please."

I was quite ashamed.
(, Tue 10 May 2011, 11:03, Reply)
What the FUCK were you doing in Derbyshire?!
The only acceptable answer is "mocking the local troglodytes, wearing a full HazMat suit so I couldn't catch it".
(, Tue 10 May 2011, 11:04, Reply)
Weekend break with my GF.
It was good, except for the rain. We went to Arbor Low.
(, Tue 10 May 2011, 11:06, Reply)
*shuns*
(Hope you had a good time)
(, Tue 10 May 2011, 11:12, Reply)
We went to a B&B recommended by a b3tan.
It must have been a small one, as the bed was too short for me.
(, Tue 10 May 2011, 11:18, Reply)
You mean...
More than one B3tan has been to D***yshire?!

*looks around, terrified*
(, Tue 10 May 2011, 11:23, Reply)
I'm only 1 town over.

(, Tue 10 May 2011, 11:36, Reply)
No you're not
You can't be

*cries*
(, Tue 10 May 2011, 11:38, Reply)
Christ, I even live on the road to Buxton!

(, Tue 10 May 2011, 11:44, Reply)
Yeah but I like you
so am unprepared to accept this colossal geographical flaw in your character
(, Tue 10 May 2011, 11:54, Reply)
I went to university in Derby
*opens can of worms*
(, Tue 10 May 2011, 11:36, Reply)
That first sentence is so paradoxical as to tear a hole in the space-time continuum
Last time a hole that bleak and godless was created, settlers built a town on it and called it Derby
(, Tue 10 May 2011, 11:38, Reply)
It was home to one of the finest club nights in the midlands at the time
I'm sure there were other plus points about the place but I appear to have forgotten them.
(, Tue 10 May 2011, 11:43, Reply)
I must have missed that by virtue of never setting foot in Derby for well-established reasons

(, Tue 10 May 2011, 11:55, Reply)
I bet Dutch Schteve eats a lot of that
to put the fire in his fuck-juish, yesh?
(, Tue 10 May 2011, 11:03, Reply)
Ashk Monty.

(, Tue 10 May 2011, 11:11, Reply)
I often quote myself
...it adds spice to my conversation. (George Bernard Shaw)
(, Tue 10 May 2011, 10:59, Reply)
"Drop and give me infinity!"
"Dude, there's no way I can do infinity push ups"
(, Tue 10 May 2011, 11:01, Reply)
Bogus!

(, Tue 10 May 2011, 11:03, Reply)
Be excellent to each other

(, Tue 10 May 2011, 11:04, Reply)
I'd be very excellent given half the chance.

(, Tue 10 May 2011, 11:05, Reply)
*drops monocle*
oh I say!
(, Tue 10 May 2011, 11:05, Reply)
I didn't mean you.

(, Tue 10 May 2011, 11:06, Reply)
you did
you just aren't prepared to admit it
(, Tue 10 May 2011, 11:08, Reply)
Well yes but I meant anyone available.

(, Tue 10 May 2011, 11:08, Reply)
You like those "silky boys".

(, Tue 10 May 2011, 11:22, Reply)
Do I?

(, Tue 10 May 2011, 11:26, Reply)
He's still on Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey babe

(, Tue 10 May 2011, 11:34, Reply)
Was I?

(, Tue 10 May 2011, 11:39, Reply)
Yeah... the boot camp in Hell? When Colonel Oates tells them to "get down and give me... infinity"
"You're not strong! You're silky boys"

/may have too much time on my hands
(, Tue 10 May 2011, 11:54, Reply)
And...
PARTY ON DUDE!
(, Tue 10 May 2011, 11:10, Reply)
"We build too many walls and not enough bridges"
Isaac Newton
(, Tue 10 May 2011, 11:02, Reply)
"The distance between genius and insanity is measured only by success"
Adolf Hitler.
(, Tue 10 May 2011, 11:03, Reply)
Well he was Time magazine's man of the year
in 19.....3.....8?
(, Tue 10 May 2011, 11:07, Reply)
psst
it goes 1...2...3...4
(, Tue 10 May 2011, 11:07, Reply)
5 6 7 8
*dances*
(, Tue 10 May 2011, 11:16, Reply)
You utter fucking bender

(, Tue 10 May 2011, 11:25, Reply)
It was Bruce Feirstein, wasn't it?
I also like Nietzsche's "Insanity is rare in individuals, but amongst groups, parties and nations it is the rule"
(, Tue 10 May 2011, 11:11, Reply)
Possibly, my source on the matter is not reliable
Nice bit o' Nietzsche, there.
(, Tue 10 May 2011, 11:12, Reply)
one of my favourite "little chuckle" moments in literature
is in Carl Hiassen's Christopher Brookmyre's* "Not the End of the World" when they have a deep-sea research boat over the Marinas Trench called "Gazes Also"

*I get confused now I'm WELL OLD.
(, Tue 10 May 2011, 11:18, Reply)
This is too clever for me
Can you relate it to football or dancing somehow?
(, Tue 10 May 2011, 11:25, Reply)
Sorry
it's probably the most famous of Nietzsche's lines. It's about how those who deal with and study evil cannot avoid being tainted by it.

"Battle not with monsters, lest you become a monster, and if you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you"
(, Tue 10 May 2011, 11:28, Reply)
Oh I have heard that... must admit I didn't make the connection
Not seeing the football or dancing references though, so let's call it a draw.

*flees*
(, Tue 10 May 2011, 11:33, Reply)
I like a bit of Hiassen
Currently reading 'SCAT', but I've also read 'Not The End of The World'.

I got into reading him after I ran out of Christopher Brookmyre's.
(, Tue 10 May 2011, 11:31, Reply)
I think I went the other way round
but your post has reminded me that "NTEofTW" is actually Brookmyre and not Hiassen. Schoolboy.
(, Tue 10 May 2011, 11:41, Reply)
Ah, of course it is. So we both like Hiassen and Brookmyre then!

(, Tue 10 May 2011, 11:58, Reply)
"the world is everything which is the case"
too bloody right
(, Tue 10 May 2011, 11:04, Reply)
But who said this?
"You, you little cunt, when I tell you to do something, and you, you fucking big cunt, when I tell you to do something, do it. And if you come back at me, we'll have a fucking right sort-out in here. All right? And you can pair up if you like, and you can fucking pick someone else to help you, and you can bring your fucking dinner. 'Cos by the time I've finished with you, you'll fucking need it."
(, Tue 10 May 2011, 11:08, Reply)
My mum?

(, Tue 10 May 2011, 11:09, Reply)
Sounds a bit Guy Ritchie to me.

(, Tue 10 May 2011, 11:09, Reply)
That sounds like it should be rhyming slang...

(, Tue 10 May 2011, 11:14, Reply)
John Sitton

(, Tue 10 May 2011, 11:09, Reply)
Correct!
The maddest of all the managers.
(, Tue 10 May 2011, 11:10, Reply)
NSFW owing to one or two choice words by Mr Sitton.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YE5mEDcjM6s
(, Tue 10 May 2011, 11:11, Reply)
"We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never...go near the Germans"

(, Tue 10 May 2011, 11:13, Reply)
This generation. Rules the nation. With version.

(, Tue 10 May 2011, 11:16, Reply)
Rastafari!

(, Tue 10 May 2011, 11:18, Reply)
Ting!

(, Tue 10 May 2011, 11:21, Reply)
Men are from bars
women have no penis
(, Tue 10 May 2011, 11:26, Reply)

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