261 Responses to Weekend 21January 2023

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  1. Guest Who says:
    January 22, 2023 at 6:06 pm

    SNAFU.

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    • Docmarooned says:
      January 22, 2023 at 8:14 pm

      All I can say is thank god for eurosport. I used to like this when it was David Vine back in the day but these woke moron presenters have rendered it unwatchable now.

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  2. Up2snuff says:
    January 22, 2023 at 6:12 pm

    I know I shouldn’t laugh but really ……..

    One item in the news this morning at 7 a.m. and again at 8 a.m., read by Viji Alles, contained information about the overall tone of the Coronation Celebrations this year for the crowning of King Charles III. Special choirs, apparently, at which point Viji stumbled over his words or his script had been prepared by a young intern relying on spell check with predictive text.

    Viji Alles described the choir which seemed as the ultimate in wokery but stumbled referring to ‘purple’ before immediately correcting to ‘people’. So we now have, thanks to Viji, a suitable collective noun for the alphabet soupers and others; ‘Purple People’ and I share that with you now. Notwithstanding, of course, that many in those groupings have hair that is died more mauve than purple and others like to add a splash of various shades of turqoise and blue perhaps with some yellow or orange, too.

    Added in edit:
    Two adjacent posts on colour? Entirely coincidental, I assure you.

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    • Guest Who says:
      January 22, 2023 at 6:14 pm

      Been around a while: ‘Perps’.

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      • Up2snuff says:
        January 22, 2023 at 6:16 pm

        Guest, think that’s reserved for law enforcement is it not?

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        • Northern Voter says:
          January 22, 2023 at 7:04 pm

          If I remember correctly there was a song in the 50/60s called “The Purple People Eaters.”

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          • Up2snuff says:
            January 22, 2023 at 7:47 pm

            NV, correct. I remember a purple Chevy Camaro in my neighbourhood for a while which on its rear or flanks had in white the legend: ‘The Purple People Eater.’

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    • Fedup2 says:
      January 22, 2023 at 7:17 pm

      Up2 – I heard an approved mouth on the BBC say the palace was trying to be ‘inclusive ‘ ‘diverse’ and all that – but then she said it would be better than the “antiquated “ coronation ceremony …..
      Now being as a Luke warm Republican even I winced at “antiquated “ – and instantly imaged what a ‘modern’ ceremony would look and sound like …..

      Maybe it should be conducted in a McDonald’s – or old Trafford before kick off … or during half time ….. with a bob Marley medley and the first episode of ‘suits’…

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      • Up2snuff says:
        January 22, 2023 at 7:58 pm

        Fed, have you considered that it should be done in Bradford, by the archbishop of Wokenterbury, wearing a hijab instead of a Mitre, with a strict quota applied to the guests; a 50:50 split between BLM and XR/JSO/IB? (that is Extinction Rebellion, Just Stop Oil & Insulate Britain)

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        • Fedup2 says:
          January 22, 2023 at 8:20 pm

          Lol – I’m sure the recently ‘saved’ Channel 4 will do an ‘alternative coronation ‘ starring Owen Jones – that dusky commie girl with moustache and ….naga …. Vine ….. that nut job who used to be Blair’s’ mouthpiece …

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  3. Guest Who says:
    January 22, 2023 at 6:39 pm

    Mostly TMI.

    The pork roast beckons….

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    • Fedup2 says:
      January 22, 2023 at 9:04 pm

      The new week thread beckons – we face more BBC demands for inquiries and apologies and resignations ….. the theme for another year …

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  4. digg says:
    January 22, 2023 at 9:06 pm

    BBC going all out to celebrate Chinese Lunar New Year. What a shame they missed The Christian celebrations of Christmas and our own New Year. They were on 25th December and Jan 1st for any Beeboids reading this so suggest you mark it in your diaries for next year, both used to be quite popular in the Western World.

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