The BBC News channel (formally News 24, before the utterly pointless name
change, usually a prelude to embarrassing decline and then failure) is
currently showing trailers for a new drama show about archaeologists, which
looks as bad as it sounds. And it's called... "Bonekickers"...

What?

Sounds like a seriously non-vegetarian form of footwear.

Or something thought up by a committee of people who couldn't find their
own arse with an automated arse-finding machine.

Is there a German compound word for sheer disbelief at the route that
society is taking? Sort of the opposite of Schadenfreude.


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On Thu, 26 Jun 2008 12:13:46 +0100, Hot Badger Deluxe wrote:

> Is there a German compound word for sheer disbelief at the route that
> society is taking? Sort of the opposite of Schadenfreude.

M3 2.

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Hot Badger Deluxe explained on 26/06/2008 :
> The BBC News channel (formally News 24, before the utterly pointless name
> change, usually a prelude to embarrassing decline and then failure) is
> currently showing trailers for a new drama show about archaeologists, which
> looks as bad as it sounds. And it's called... "Bonekickers"...
>
> What?
>
> Sounds like a seriously non-vegetarian form of footwear.
>
> Or something thought up by a committee of people who couldn't find their
> own arse with an automated arse-finding machine.
>
> Is there a German compound word for sheer disbelief at the route that
> society is taking? Sort of the opposite of Schadenfreude.

I was talking to this archaeologist in South Wales who told me a funny 
story how he was short of space and had to keep very old human skulls 
in his living room.  Then apparently this social worker had to come and 
see him about some project he was working on and saw all the skulls and 
he said it was kind of surreal.  It was funny the way he told the 
story.

-- 
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On Thu, 26 Jun 2008 16:13:54 +0100, Baldoni wrote:

<snip>

> I was talking to this archaeologist in South Wales who told me a funny 
> story how he was short of space and had to keep very old human skulls 
> in his living room.  Then apparently this social worker had to come and 
> see him about some project he was working on and saw all the skulls and 
> he said it was kind of surreal.  It was funny the way he told the 
> story.

I was at a recording studio in a little village in Yorkshire with a mate.
We popped into the village on the Sunday for a pub lunch, as we entered the
pub, there was a pumpkin about three foot across. On entering the pub, it
was full of enormous pumpkins - turns out that there was a local pumpkin
competition. A very Twin Peaks moment.


-- 
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In article <1tm5olv23wz3f$.953nyj1fd3nj.dlg@40tude.net>,
 Hot Badger Deluxe  writes:
> The BBC News channel (formally News 24, before the utterly pointless name
> change

When did that happen?

> usually a prelude to embarrassing decline and then failure) is
> currently showing trailers for a new drama show about archaeologists, which
> looks as bad as it sounds. And it's called... "Bonekickers"...

The problem with `drama about job X' is that inevitably it quickly stops
having anything much to do with `job X' and becomes `soap about illicit
sex among people that happen to do job X'.

> Or something thought up by a committee of people who couldn't find their
> own arse with an automated arse-finding machine.

Such a machine would require considerable configuration and commissioning, as
well as an extensive test period and regular recalibration, I suspect.

> Is there a German compound word for sheer disbelief at the route that
> society is taking? Sort of the opposite of Schadenfreude.

There certainly should be.
-- 
SAm.

In article <jr7kj6j02lim.89mv0ierpw1k$.dlg@40tude.net>,
 Hot Badger Deluxe  writes:
> On Thu, 26 Jun 2008 16:13:54 +0100, Baldoni wrote:
> <snip>
> 
> > I was talking to this archaeologist in South Wales who told me a funny 
> > story how he was short of space and had to keep very old human skulls 
> > in his living room.  Then apparently this social worker had to come and 
> > see him about some project he was working on and saw all the skulls and 
> > he said it was kind of surreal.  It was funny the way he told the 
> > story.
> 
> I was at a recording studio in a little village in Yorkshire with a mate.
> We popped into the village on the Sunday for a pub lunch, as we entered the
> pub, there was a pumpkin about three foot across. On entering the pub, it
> was full of enormous pumpkins - turns out that there was a local pumpkin
> competition. A very Twin Peaks moment.

I know someone who knows someone who has a genuine fossilised 4.2m-long
ichthyosaur skeleton in his double garage.
-- 
SAm.

On Thu, 26 Jun 2008 16:59:55 +0100, Sam Nelson wrote:

> In article <1tm5olv23wz3f$.953nyj1fd3nj.dlg@40tude.net>,
>  Hot Badger Deluxe  writes:
>> The BBC News channel (formally News 24, before the utterly pointless name
>> change
> 
> When did that happen?

Whilst I was in the loony bin. I was in there for four weeks, and can't
remember when I came out, so... Anyway, there's still some very good
banter.

>> usually a prelude to embarrassing decline and then failure) is
>> currently showing trailers for a new drama show about archaeologists, which
>> looks as bad as it sounds. And it's called... "Bonekickers"...
> 
> The problem with `drama about job X' is that inevitably it quickly stops
> having anything much to do with `job X' and becomes `soap about illicit
> sex among people that happen to do job X'.

God, yes. Casualty started as a good drama series, as did The Bill. They
are now both dreadful soap operas. Some American series seem to avoid this
- Criminal Minds (despite the sad loss of the wonderful Mandy Patinkin),
Buffy, Angel, Numb3rs, Bones, and House (which is finding interesting ways
to dig itself out of the rut). All of the CSI series are dead, except CSI:
NY - but that's starting to look bad. The introduction of a series length
plot-vehicle tends to spell the end.

>> Or something thought up by a committee of people who couldn't find their
>> own arse with an automated arse-finding machine.
> 
> Such a machine would require considerable configuration and commissioning, as
> well as an extensive test period and regular recalibration, I suspect.
> 
>> Is there a German compound word for sheer disbelief at the route that
>> society is taking? Sort of the opposite of Schadenfreude.
> 
> There certainly should be.

Any Germans out there like to contribute?

Pre-Y2K, The Development Team (who thinks up these shit names) decided to
have a team motto. We'd all been lumped together when Y2K finally drilled
itself into what management call a brain (we'd actually been working on it
for some time). I found a good icon of St Jude (patron saint of lost
causes), and another bloke translated the following into Latin -
"responsibility without power".

Sadly I have no idea what the translation was.


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On Thu, 26 Jun 2008 17:04:36 +0100, Sam Nelson wrote:

> In article <jr7kj6j02lim.89mv0ierpw1k$.dlg@40tude.net>,
>  Hot Badger Deluxe  writes:
>> On Thu, 26 Jun 2008 16:13:54 +0100, Baldoni wrote:
>> <snip>
>> 
>>> I was talking to this archaeologist in South Wales who told me a funny 
>>> story how he was short of space and had to keep very old human skulls 
>>> in his living room.  Then apparently this social worker had to come and 
>>> see him about some project he was working on and saw all the skulls and 
>>> he said it was kind of surreal.  It was funny the way he told the 
>>> story.
>> 
>> I was at a recording studio in a little village in Yorkshire with a mate.
>> We popped into the village on the Sunday for a pub lunch, as we entered the
>> pub, there was a pumpkin about three foot across. On entering the pub, it
>> was full of enormous pumpkins - turns out that there was a local pumpkin
>> competition. A very Twin Peaks moment.
> 
> I know someone who knows someone who has a genuine fossilised 4.2m-long
> ichthyosaur skeleton in his double garage.

I've got a 4+ million year old fish fossil. Very small, but puts things
into perspective.


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And there is also chaos

On Thu, 26 Jun 2008 17:20:50 +0100, Hot Badger Deluxe
 wrote:

>> I know someone who knows someone who has a genuine fossilised 4.2m-long
>> ichthyosaur skeleton in his double garage.
>
>I've got a 4+ million year old fish fossil. Very small, but puts things
>into perspective.

You're still drinking like a fish, and it stopped some time ago.
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wrote

> You're still drinking like a fish

You're still a fucking nut job.

Anyway, fish don't drink alcohol so you fucked that up as well.

On Thu, 26 Jun 2008 17:26:42 +0100, MI5.Victim@privacy.net wrote:

<snip>

> You're still drinking like a fish, 

Yup - will undoubtedly die soon.


> and it stopped some time ago.

Everything stopped some time ago, or has started since.


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On Thu, 26 Jun 2008 17:30:55 +0100, Number Two wrote:

>  wrote
> 
>> You're still drinking like a fish
> 
> You're still a fucking nut job.

It's not his fault.


-- 
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Hot Badger Deluxe  writes:

> I've got a 4+ million year old fish fossil. Very small, but puts
> things into perspective.

I've got a Trilobite; it's also very small, and several hundred million
years old.  Somehow, it gives me hope, that time can be so long.

I've sure I've said this before.

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"Hot Badger Deluxe"  wrote

>>> You're still drinking like a fish
>>
>> You're still a fucking nut job.
>
> It's not his fault.

Well it certainly fucking well ain't mine.

On Thu, 26 Jun 2008 17:36:39 +0100, Number Two wrote:

> "Hot Badger Deluxe"  wrote
> 
>>>> You're still drinking like a fish
>>>
>>> You're still a fucking nut job.
>>
>> It's not his fault.
> 
> Well it certainly fucking well ain't mine.

Nope. I've met many delusional people. I was delusional once. It's probable
that his condition is irreversible - he'll just get worse and worse. Think
about what it's like inside that.

Fuck me, this is far too serious. Shaved you balls yet?


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In uk.misc,  (Hot Badger Deluxe) wrote in
<tzqhi327wrt8$.bd9fskbpmt4e$.dlg@40tude.net>::

>On Thu, 26 Jun 2008 16:59:55 +0100, Sam Nelson wrote:
>
>> In article <1tm5olv23wz3f$.953nyj1fd3nj.dlg@40tude.net>,
>>  Hot Badger Deluxe  writes:
>>> The BBC News channel (formally News 24, before the utterly pointless name
>>> change
>> 
>> When did that happen?
>
>Whilst I was in the loony bin. I was in there for four weeks, and can't
>remember when I came out, so... Anyway, there's still some very good
>banter.
>
>>> usually a prelude to embarrassing decline and then failure) is
>>> currently showing trailers for a new drama show about archaeologists, which
>>> looks as bad as it sounds. And it's called... "Bonekickers"...
>> 
>> The problem with `drama about job X' is that inevitably it quickly stops
>> having anything much to do with `job X' and becomes `soap about illicit
>> sex among people that happen to do job X'.
>
>God, yes. Casualty started as a good drama series, as did The Bill. They
>are now both dreadful soap operas. Some American series seem to avoid this
>- Criminal Minds (despite the sad loss of the wonderful Mandy Patinkin),
>Buffy, Angel, Numb3rs, Bones, and House (which is finding interesting ways
>to dig itself out of the rut). All of the CSI series are dead, except CSI:
>NY - but that's starting to look bad. The introduction of a series length
>plot-vehicle tends to spell the end.
>
>>> Or something thought up by a committee of people who couldn't find their
>>> own arse with an automated arse-finding machine.
>> 
>> Such a machine would require considerable configuration and commissioning, as
>> well as an extensive test period and regular recalibration, I suspect.
>> 
>>> Is there a German compound word for sheer disbelief at the route that
>>> society is taking? Sort of the opposite of Schadenfreude.
>> 
>> There certainly should be.
>
>Any Germans out there like to contribute?
>
>Pre-Y2K, The Development Team (who thinks up these shit names) decided to
>have a team motto. We'd all been lumped together when Y2K finally drilled
>itself into what management call a brain (we'd actually been working on it
>for some time). I found a good icon of St Jude (patron saint of lost
>causes), and another bloke translated the following into Latin -
>"responsibility without power".
>
>Sadly I have no idea what the translation was.

Curia sine potentam, or something like that.
-- 
Marc

Sometimes looking too long into another's mind
just feels like plunging the toilet with your bare hands. (Michael Rosen)

"Hot Badger Deluxe"  wrote

> Fuck me, this is far too serious. Shaved you balls yet?

Waxed 'em.

"Number Two"  writes:

> "Hot Badger Deluxe"  wrote
>
>> Fuck me, this is far too serious. Shaved you balls yet?
>
> Waxed 'em.

Rubbing alcohol?

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"August West"  wrote

>>> Fuck me, this is far too serious. Shaved you balls yet?
>>
>> Waxed 'em.
>
> Rubbing alcohol?

Yes, thanks, but warm your hands up first.

On Thu, 26 Jun 2008 17:48:34 +0100, Number Two wrote:

> "Hot Badger Deluxe"  wrote
> 
>> Fuck me, this is far too serious. Shaved you balls yet?
> 
> Waxed 'em.

Get a nice smooth finish?


-- 
You can't reason someone out of a position
they didn't reason themselves into.

"Hot Badger Deluxe"  wrote

>>> Fuck me, this is far too serious. Shaved you balls yet?
>>
>> Waxed 'em.
>
> Get a nice smooth finish?

Not yet; I'll sandpaper and varnish them at the weekend.

On Thu, 26 Jun 2008 18:01:18 +0100, Number Two wrote:

> "Hot Badger Deluxe"  wrote
> 
>>>> Fuck me, this is far too serious. Shaved you balls yet?
>>>
>>> Waxed 'em.
>>
>> Get a nice smooth finish?
> 
> Not yet; I'll sandpaper and varnish them at the weekend.

A good waxing would be better - and maybe a stain...


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"Hot Badger Deluxe"  wrote

>>>>> Fuck me, this is far too serious. Shaved you balls yet?
>>>>
>>>> Waxed 'em.
>>>
>>> Get a nice smooth finish?
>>
>> Not yet; I'll sandpaper and varnish them at the weekend.
>
> A good waxing would be better - and maybe a stain...

Ooh, I've got plenty of those.

"Hot Badger Deluxe"  wrote

> Shaved you balls yet?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVaz8ZZxoxo

On Thu, 26 Jun 2008 18:23:12 +0100, Number Two wrote:

> "Hot Badger Deluxe"  wrote
> 
>> Shaved you balls yet?
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVaz8ZZxoxo

OK - there's no way that I'm watching that...


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going back to God.

On Thu, 26 Jun 2008 12:13:46 +0100, Hot Badger Deluxe 
wrote the following to uk.misc:


> Is there a German compound word for sheer disbelief at the route that
> society is taking? Sort of the opposite of Schadenfreude.

Grossendismayunddisappointment?

mh.
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