On 03/10/2010 10:45, Bruce wrote:
wrote:
The Peeler wrote:
wrote:
The Peeler wrote:

Did she look anything like Little Miss Jocelyn, then?

her attitude was very similar, but she was not amused when I got her
to watch that show. "What do you think I am, an A to Z?" was one
of my favourite lines.

A shame they took it off the air. Many clips are still available on
youtube, though.

It was incredibly offensive (to blacks, I thought) and some episodes
scarcely had a laugh, others were very good.


Why should a white person feel uncomfortable or even offended by a
black person making jokes about black people?

You can take political correctness too far.

This, surely is one of the "joys" of the ardent Guardiansti hard core
Socialist. You are there to "feel the pain" of the "less fortunate", but
only if they belong to a "minority group".

If you're white, straight and pay lots of tax you can go f*ck yourself
as you deserve no compassion whatsoever, regardless of what calamity may
fall on your head. Indeed, you probably deserve it.


Little Miss Jocelyn was both intelligent and hilarious - in my
opinion, one of the funniest comedy programmes of recent years!

However, the novelty wore off. The first series was nominated for a
BAFTA but the second series didn't attract such a big audience despite
being moved from BBC3 to BBC2. It got some poor reviews. Perhaps
there was too much carried over from the first series and not enough
new material.



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®i©ardo wrote:
On 03/10/2010 10:45, Bruce wrote:
wrote:
It was incredibly offensive (to blacks, I thought) and some episodes
scarcely had a laugh, others were very good.


Why should a white person feel uncomfortable or even offended by a
black person making jokes about black people?

You can take political correctness too far.

This, surely is one of the "joys" of the ardent Guardiansti hard core
Socialist. You are there to "feel the pain" of the "less fortunate", but
only if they belong to a "minority group".

If you're white, straight and pay lots of tax you can go f*ck yourself
as you deserve no compassion whatsoever, regardless of what calamity may
fall on your head. Indeed, you probably deserve it.


Sharply observed. ;-)

On 6 Oct, 11:57, Bruce wrote:
®i©ardo wrote:
On 03/10/2010 10:45, Bruce wrote:
*wrote:
It was incredibly offensive (to blacks, I thought) and some episodes
scarcely had a laugh, others were very good.

Why should a white person feel uncomfortable or even offended by a
black person making jokes about black people?

You can take political correctness too far.

This, surely is one of the "joys" of the ardent Guardiansti hard core
Socialist. You are there to "feel the pain" of the "less fortunate", but
only if they belong to a "minority group".

If you're white, straight and pay lots of tax you can go f*ck yourself
as you deserve no compassion whatsoever, regardless of what calamity may
fall on your head. Indeed, you probably deserve it.

Sharply observed. *;-)


Trainspotters are always inventing straw men.

On 06/10/2010 11:57, Bruce wrote:
wrote:
On 03/10/2010 10:45, Bruce wrote:
wrote:
It was incredibly offensive (to blacks, I thought) and some episodes
scarcely had a laugh, others were very good.


Why should a white person feel uncomfortable or even offended by a
black person making jokes about black people?

You can take political correctness too far.

This, surely is one of the "joys" of the ardent Guardiansti hard core
Socialist. You are there to "feel the pain" of the "less fortunate", but
only if they belong to a "minority group".

If you're white, straight and pay lots of tax you can go f*ck yourself
as you deserve no compassion whatsoever, regardless of what calamity may
fall on your head. Indeed, you probably deserve it.


Sharply observed. ;-)


Thank you. My only regret is that I omitted the word "champagne" between
"hard core" and "Socialist" from my description of the "feeler of pain".

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On 03/10/2010 17:50, Nigel Oldfield wrote:
It is more likely to do with the undue pressure from managers to keep to
timetables!!!

Yes, I believe that is major issue.

WM

Didn't Mussolini have an answer to that, or was that the trains?


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On 08/10/2010 21:38, ®i©ardo wrote:
On 03/10/2010 17:50, Nigel Oldfield wrote:
It is more likely to do with the undue pressure from managers to keep to
timetables!!!

Yes, I believe that is major issue.

WM

Didn't Mussolini have an answer to that, or was that the trains?


At least the trains ran on time, so the saying goes.

On 09/10/2010 00:29, wrote:
On 08/10/2010 21:38, ®i©ardo wrote:
On 03/10/2010 17:50, Nigel Oldfield wrote:
It is more likely to do with the undue pressure from managers to
keep to
timetables!!!

Yes, I believe that is major issue.

WM

Didn't Mussolini have an answer to that, or was that the trains?


At least the trains ran on time, so the saying goes.

Ah, yes. I wonder if the Italian train drivers felt that that
constituted "undue pressure", particularly as this was perceived to be a
"good thing" at the time?

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On 03/10/2010 19:51, Steve Firth wrote:
wrote:

On about one third of the London buses I travel on, I sense the driver
shows very poor appreciation of either passenger comfort or of the
passenger's sense of safety. There is real aggression shown to other
motorists. 'My big vehicle can intimidate you in that small car'.

Well, there's been an element of that for a long time. Bus drivers will
pull out without bothering to check mirrors in most instances and will
use the size of their vehicle to intimidate others.

I've got into this argument on YouTube... People remind about the "two
second rule" before overtaking anything?

And you shouldn't overtake a bus.

And you shouldn't overtake in broken cross hatchings.

And Bus Drivers are entitled to do what they want, they're professional
drivers...

It's also apparently perfectly acceptable according to the general
population for a bus driver to overtake a parked car on the wrong side
of the road against opposing traffic, cos you're "supposed to give way
to buses" in all circumstances.

It really is just shockingly bad education. Coupled with a lack of
traffic police wanting to do anything about bad driving.

Stagecoach drivers seem to be hitting some new low. I've noticed over
the last six months that they regularly break speed limits by a
considerable margin. It's not at all rare to find double decker buses
exceeding 50mph in 30 limits. The service through the village where I
live is frequently seen driving at a steady 50 through a succession of
30 and 40 mph limits. It's also not unusual to see the same bus being
driven at stupidly high speeds on narrow country lanes the drivers never
slow to pass other vehicles and seem to have an attitude of "get out of
my way!"

In message , "
writes

At least the trains ran on time, so the saying goes.

Mussolini liked to give that impression, but then he also had a media
ban on any reporting of train delays.
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Paul Terry

Paul Terry wrote:
In message , "
writes

At least the trains ran on time, so the saying goes.

Mussolini liked to give that impression, but then he also had a media
ban on any reporting of train delays.

According to QI, he only ever made *one* train run on time., the one taking
him to Rome to take up the post of Prime Minister:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QI_%28B....22Biscuits.22