TMO Talk: BLACK MASK YOU SLACKER!

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Posted by dance margarita (Member # 848) on :

you missed this gem

Posted by omikin (Member # 37) on :

quote:
One of the cards read: "RIP Little Baby. Safe in the arms of Jesus. From someone who is a loving mother xxxx."

Merseyside Police told the community on Monday to "stop grieving, it's only a chicken".

lol

Posted by omikin (Member # 37) on :

also, what is "a loving mother xxxx"?

is it a ruder version of a motherfucker?

Posted by Waynster (Member # 56) on :

I had to double check the URL to make sure it was not a spoof site.

It wasn't [Roll Eyes]

Posted by ralph (Member # 773) on :

quote:
Originally posted by omikin:
also, what is "a loving mother xxxx"?

is it a ruder version of a motherfucker?

I believe the xxxx signifies kisses. o's would be used for hugs. And there's nothing wrong with mourning the death of a chicken.

xoxoxox

[ 26.10.2005, 09:32: Message edited by: ralph ]

Posted by omikin (Member # 37) on :

quote:
Originally posted by ralph:

quote:
Originally posted by omikin:
also, what is "a loving mother xxxx"?

is it a ruder version of a motherfucker?
I believe the xxxx signifies kisses. o's would be used for hugs. And there's nothing wrong with mourning the death of a chicken.

xoxoxox

so it should read:

"a lhugving mhugther kisskisskisskiss"

i'm still none the wiser.

Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :

quote:
Conservative MP and editor of The Spectator Boris Johnson was criticised last year after commenting in the magazine that Liverpudlians were "hooked on grief".

I think I'm a bit hooked on grief recently. Or at least getting into cycles of sadness or guilt for being alive. It's damn addictive stuff.

Posted by ralph (Member # 773) on :

quote:
Originally posted by omikin:
i'm still none the wiser.

It should read like this:

RIP Little Baby. Safe in the arms of Jesus.

From someone who is a loving mother

kiss kiss kiss kiss

Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :

Gosh! That came out much worse than it sounded. What I meant to say is that I actually felt sad at the thought of my girlfriends knitting unravelling after all the effort she'd put it. Which is of course completely spacky and therefore funny as fuck.

Posted by omikin (Member # 37) on :

but it's not a baby it's a chicken!

plus! boris should be grateful liverpudlians are hooked on grief now.

instead of skag.

Posted by ralph (Member # 773) on :

But the woman who wrote the note didn't know it was a chicken at the time she wrote it.

Skag???

Posted by Endemic (Member # 821) on :

I sent this to OJ yesterday. I love Liverpool. Everytime someone attempts to defend it it simply ups the ante and does something even more cliched than ever before.

[ 26.10.2005, 09:40: Message edited by: Endemic ]

Posted by Waynster (Member # 56) on :

quote:
Originally posted by ralph:
xoxoxox

Shouldn't that be

[ 26.10.2005, 09:40: Message edited by: Waynster ]

Posted by omikin (Member # 37) on :

has ralph been hitting himself in the face today or something? he's plenty much stupider than usual.

Posted by ralph (Member # 773) on :

quote:
Originally posted by omikin:
has ralph been hitting himself in the face today or something? he's plenty much stupider than usual.

no, i'm my usual amount of stupid. i've just never heard of skag. i don't think name-calling is the answer.

Posted by not... (Member # 25) on :

LoxoL

Posted by omikin (Member # 37) on :

quote:
Originally posted by ralph:
i've just never heard of skag. i don't think name-calling is the answer.

skag = smack.

shows how much you know.

Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :

quote:
Originally posted by ralph:
no, i'm my usual amount of stupid.

I dunno, I've just been reading the thread where you chastise roys American history by saying that the white folks were insulted by the black folks using their buses. So really, knowing this Martin Luther King could have probably saved himself the effort of the 381 day boycott that led to making segregation on buses illegal in the state of Alabama.

Posted by Dr. Benway (Member # 20) on :

That is a pretty strange thing to happen. Is that just Liverpool though? And how does a city develop a 'mentality'?

Posted by ralph (Member # 773) on :

quote:
Originally posted by omikin:
skag = smack.

shows how much you know.

Was that so hard? Was it? And where was I trying to show how much I know? I'm fairly certain I was admitting my lack of knowledge on the topic by asking for an answer in the first place.

Would it be ok if I stalked you for a bit, omikin? I don't currently have a stalkee, as I can no longer bring myself to torment Endemic.

Posted by omikin (Member # 37) on :

stalk away, lo$er.

Posted by ralph (Member # 773) on :

quote:
Originally posted by omikin:
stalk away, lo$er.

xoxox

Posted by Endemic (Member # 821) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Dr. Benway:
That is a pretty strange thing to happen. Is that just Liverpool though? And how does a city develop a 'mentality'?

Inbreeding concentrating on developing collective arrogance.

Posted by omikin (Member # 37) on :

also, the "shows how much you know" bit was not a reference to your ignorance of the skag = smack thing (although there are three year olds rolling their eyes at that one), it was a response to your name-calling remark. like i'd ever said name calling was the answer. i didn't call you a name, i merely asked if you'd been punching yourself in the face.

if i'd been name calling, i'd have said something like "ralph you knob-shiner" or "ralph you splitarse".

something like that.

Posted by ralph (Member # 773) on :

quote:
Originally posted by omikin:
like i'd ever said name calling was the answer. i didn't call you a name, i merely asked if you'd been punching yourself in the face.

if i'd been name calling, i'd have said something like "ralph you knob-shiner" or "ralph you splitarse".

something like that.

You called me stupid. How is that not name calling?

Posted by omikin (Member # 37) on :

i didn't call you stupid, i said to the rest of the forum that you were much stupider than usual.

i was talking about you, not to you.

jesus ralph, does it always have to be this hard?

Posted by omikin (Member # 37) on :

Posted by ben (Member # 13) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Endemic:
I sent this to OJ yesterday. I love Liverpool. Everytime someone attempts to defend it it simply ups the ante and does something even more cliched than ever before.

Fair do's - Manchester certainly pulls its weight in the 'reinforcing stereotypes' department.

quote:
Five boys and a girl, all aged 15 and 16, were charged with the murder [...]

All were armed at some point with either a spanner, stick or bottle.

The youths were also armed with weapons, including a garden spade, a garden hoe, sticks, a branch and large wooden stakes.

Not to mention 'Scotland'... [*]

quote:
Defence advocate Jane Farquharson told Lord Abernethy they would contest the claim that DNA found on the student's clothes matched Robert Greens.

"Another explanation for the DNA may be that it is his identical twin brother because, of course, twin brothers share the same DNA," she told the court.

Posted by ralph (Member # 773) on :

quote:
Originally posted by omikin:
i didn't call you stupid, i said to the rest of the forum that you were much stupider than usual.

i was talking about you, not to you.

jesus ralph, does it always have to be this hard?

I see. Obviously my fault.

Hey forum, that omikin character sure is an ass, eh?

[ 26.10.2005, 10:11: Message edited by: ralph ]

Posted by omikin (Member # 37) on :

lol now you're getting the idea!

[omnikin? who's that?]

Posted by ralph (Member # 773) on :

quote:
Originally posted by omikin:
lol now you're getting the idea!

[omnikin? who's that?]

Don't try that old distract ralph by being nice to him routine. It won't work.

I don't recall ever using the word omnikin in any post.

Posted by omikin (Member # 37) on :

quote:
Originally posted by ralph:

quote:
Originally posted by omikin:
lol now you're getting the idea!

[omnikin? who's that?]
Don't try that old distract ralph by being nice to him routine. It won't work.

I don't recall ever using the word omnikin in any post.

so not only a **** but a liar too, eh ralph?

[ 26.10.2005, 10:16: Message edited by: omikin ]

Posted by ralph (Member # 773) on :

quote:
Originally posted by omikin:
so not only a **** but a liar too, eh ralph?

I can't deny or confirm being a ****.

I can confirm that I'm a liar.

Posted by Endemic (Member # 821) on :

quote:
Originally posted by ben:
Fair do's - Manchester certainly pulls its weight in the 'reinforcing stereotypes' department.

quote:
Five boys and a girl, all aged 15 and 16, were charged with the murder [...]

All were armed at some point with either a spanner, stick or bottle.

The youths were also armed with weapons, including a garden spade, a garden hoe, sticks, a branch and large wooden stakes.
Not to mention 'Scotland'... [*]

quote:
Defence advocate Jane Farquharson told Lord Abernethy they would contest the claim that DNA found on the student's clothes matched Robert Greens.

"Another explanation for the DNA may be that it is his identical twin brother because, of course, twin brothers share the same DNA," she told the court.

Ben, you've lost me. Liverpool has a reputation for public displays of grief. That's a least a part of it's stereotypical reputation. I don't see how those seemingly randomly selected news stories are reinforccing stereotypes of Manchester and Scotland? For a start the first one you reference is about a murder which actually took place in Wigan. Surely if this was all about reinforcing stereotypes you'd have picked a story about pies and piers? I'm not sure if that was a throwaway post in the middle of a busy afternoon but it did seem to be saying ha! other places conform to their stereotypical images! in a rather random fashion, given that at no point did I actually say hmm, let's laugh at Liverpool, the only place in the world where the people behave in a predictable fashion and wholly according to their outside image. :confuzzled:

[ 26.10.2005, 10:40: Message edited by: Endemic ]

Posted by Abby (Member # 582) on :

quote:
Five boys and a girl, all aged 15 and 16, were charged with the murder [...]

All were armed at some point with either a spanner, stick or bottle.

Three of my friends were chased by an armed mob (armed with pipes, bats etc) on Saturday, near Hackney. They fled down an ally, over a very high wall and across a few gardens. The sight three hysterical 'youth' in his garden caused one old man to have an epileptic fit. Having established that they were no threat (by holding a note saying armed gang chasing us - help!) the old couple took them into the house in order to call the police. Meanwhile the gang could be heard roaming up and down the road outside. The police did not arrive after an hour so they got a taxi to a friends house.

This is a true story.

[ 26.10.2005, 10:39: Message edited by: Abby ]

Posted by Dr. Benway (Member # 20) on :

are your friends paedos?

Posted by ben (Member # 13) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Endemic:
I don't see how those seemingly randomly selected news stories are reinforccing stereotypes of Manchester and Scotland?

Both have a reputation for barbaric, even sub-human, violence - especially Manchester?

Posted by Endemic (Member # 821) on :

quote:
Originally posted by ben:
Both have a reputation for barbaric, even sub-human, violence - especially Manchester?

I'd contest that, actually. Firstly because I don't think either have that reputation - or at least not any more so than Newcastle and Birmingham and Liverpool and London. You can yank out stories about barbaric violence from all of these cities/places and people would barely be shocked by it. You're also making a point completely different from the one which I was making. Mine was lol at Liverpool living up to a silly stereotype. You're saying look at Manchester and Scotland being violent - which everyone knows they are! It was, like, totally out of left field. Plus the news story you posted wasn't from Manchester, which doesn't really help much.

Posted by OJ (Member # 752) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Endemic:
I sent this to OJ yesterday. I love Liverpool. Everytime someone attempts to defend it it simply ups the ante and does something even more cliched than ever before.

She did. I LOLed.

Then I submitted a grant application to the Arts Council for a performance piece in which Boris Johnson is forced to crawl the length of Hope Street eating 2008 of his own words with a silver spoon once owned by a slave merchant.

Posted by ben (Member # 13) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Endemic:
I'd contest that, actually. Firstly because I don't think either have that reputation - or at least not any more so than Newcastle and Birmingham and Liverpool and London. You can yank out stories about barbaric violence from all of these cities/places and people would barely be shocked by it.

Mmmm. Well, you see, I just did a search for "Manchester murder" on BBC News and that called up 1,729 results, compared to Newcastle's 173, Birmingham's 417 and Liverpool's 336. Only London got more (1,987) but, you know, London's a bit bigger than Manchester.

Scientific? No - but perhaps there's something about the sort of murders that get committed in Manchester that make them more than usually horrifying. I don't know.

As for Scotland: Irvine Welsh and the UN reckon it's the most violent place in the developed world.

Hard facts for our tormented brothers and sisters in Scotland and Manchester to bear, but the sooner they - you, Louche - admit they (you) have a problem, the sooner the healing can begin.

[Frown]

Posted by OJ (Member # 752) on :

Obviously Endemic/Louche is well capable of arguing about Manchester all by her very self.

However, the pedant in me has to tell you that the case you quote took place in Wigan, Greater Manchester. If you're going to include all the parts of what most of us commonly think of as Lancashire and Cheshire, that come under the administrative umbrella of Greater Manchester, then you probably are talking about a conurbation the size of London.

This is also the reason your BBC search might yield so many stories for "Manchester". Greater Manchester stories will be handled by the Manchester newsroom, which will be reflected in the URL and the metadata.

Sorry boring.

*slinks off to re-read Mary Barton, all full of coarse Mancunian menace and ready to smite*

Posted by Endemic (Member # 821) on :

quote:
Originally posted by ben:
Well, you see, I just did a search for "Manchester murder" on BBC News and that called up 1,729 results, compared to Newcastle's 173, Birmingham's 417 and Liverpool's 336. Only London got more (1,987) but, you know, London's a bit bigger than Manchester.

If you repeat that on Google news the results are:

Newcastle: 126
Manchester: 346
Glasgow: 482
Birmingham: 822
London: 5,310

And at least half of the Manchester results I blame on Shipman. Similarly unscientific. Totally different result. Oh, and Liverpool gets 487 for murder and only 39 for grief - perhaps I was wrong about that sterotype. :grin:

quote:
As for Scotland: Irvine Welsh and the UN reckon it's the most violent place in the developed world.

That's Bamba's fault, though.

quote:
Hard facts for our tormented brothers and sisters in Scotland and Manchester to bear, but the sooner they - you, Louche - admit they (you) have a problem, the sooner the healing can begin.

We must try so much harder to be like our peaceable southern brethren. i whisper it to myself every night, you know.

Posted by ben (Member # 13) on :

In fairness, Google news harvests stories from a much shorter period than those still on the BBC news site - it might be that Manchester's currently having a comparatively quiet period as the nuts and torturers stock up for Bonfire Night.

Is okay, btw, Louche - I'm not actually accusing you yourself of being a murderer! Think Dang 65's probably not the murdering type, either.

And I'm faaaiirly sure Lucid never kept anyone prisoner in his basement before murdering them.

Posted by Endemic (Member # 821) on :

quote:
Originally posted by ben:
In fairness, Google news harvests stories from a much shorter period than those still on the BBC news site - it might be that Manchester's currently having a comparatively quiet period as the nuts and torturers stock up for Bonfire Night.

Perhaps it's been quieter on the muder front in Manchester since you left? Not that I'm accusing you of being a murderer, Ben!

Posted by ben (Member # 13) on :

lol - seriously: if I was to go on a three month killing spree, bumping off almost a dozen prostitutes and homeless people in a five mile wide corridor either side of the M60 there's no way anyone would ever find out! Do you see

Posted by Boy Racer (Member # 498) on :

Ah, London's fashionable Eastend.

Posted by vikram (Member # 98) on :

Alphabet City

Posted by vikram (Member # 98) on :

Baghdad

Posted by vikram (Member # 98) on :

Tres kool.

I overheard this guy in a fashuny restaurant once, bellowing that he'd moved to 'the warzone'. Did he mean Mogadishu? An appalling Ray Winstone film?

Harlesden. I'v never been there. Is it bad? I've never been to Wood Green either, which is meant to be bad too. Lived in Deptford for ages - twas lovely.

Posted by Dr. Benway (Member # 20) on :

wood green gets a lot of bad press, which is fair.

Posted by vikram (Member # 98) on :

The Warzone is the only movie I ever walked out of.

Posted by vikram (Member # 98) on :

I mean out of the cinema. Not the actual movie, Arnie Last Action Hero style.

Posted by Dr. Benway (Member # 20) on :

I see what you did there.

I've never left a cinema in the middle of a fim, but I would have done so during Izo, if anybody else had first. I'm no leader.

[ 27.10.2005, 06:59: Message edited by: Dr. Benway ]

Posted by vikram (Member # 98) on :

came close to leaving during boxing helena but decided it was a comedy and enjoyed thoroughly.

gummo was a fucking trial though. and some stupid joanna lumley / kirsten dunce 20s blah blh blah film.

Posted by Jack Vincennes (Member # 814) on :

quote:
Originally posted by vikram:
Harlesden. I'v never been there. Is it bad?

It has a club called 'Time' as far as I remember -so rarely an indicator of quality.

I left in the middle of this by Harmony Korrine, it still makes me feel nauseous to think that I paid money to watch it. I think I watched an entire series of 'Spaced' afterwards to flush it out of my mind.

Posted by vikram (Member # 98) on :

i watched kids with a pretty sixteen year old junkie once. i was seventeen mind.

Posted by Dr. Benway (Member # 20) on :

did you see sean bateman as you left, but it might have been that dick victor johnson, who is rumoured to have given you a blowjob last week?

Posted by vikram (Member # 98) on :

you know victor? small world!

and i only let him blow me cuz i owed him money.

Posted by vikram (Member # 98) on :

um, no.

[ 27.10.2005, 08:08: Message edited by: vikram ]