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The Thread For Much Puzzlement and Surprise

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Tryphena Absent

14:25 / 27.04.04

Today in the supermarket I was gazing wonderingly at the reduced Harry Potter easter eggs when a man came up to me, picked one up himself and said something along the lines of 'you've got to keep the kids happy, huh?' His tone assumed that I was getting a Potter egg for my children too. Now I'm 22 and even if I did have a child I would have had to reproduce pretty young to have one that appreciated easter eggs so you can understand my surprise when I passed for someone (quite) a bit older than I am. That's about all I have to say really, I just needed to share...

sleazenation

14:33 / 27.04.04

If you'd had a child at 15, which is by no means unusual nowadays your child would now be a 7-year-old chocolate muncher - even if you had waited to the advanced age of 18 your offspring would be 4 and likely to be demanding some kind of branded chocolate egg for easter - face it kid - your peer group includes parents...

Tryphena Absent

15:09 / 27.04.04

Not that many and it's a bit of a leap to make (except for a cynic like you!!!!!

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Jub

18:25 / 27.04.04

The man was probably (like you) wanting a Harry Potter Egg, but seeing a young lady - far too young to have a child of chocolate munching age - there, by the display, who might have thought it strange that a man as old as he were buying the thing for himself, he lied, to save face.

gingerbop

18:26 / 27.04.04

I was nearly shocked when on a bus the other day- when I was certain I saw a Pedigree Chum shop. But on closer inspection it was Money Gram or something, which made me quite scared as to the degree to which dog food branding (the yellow background with a red circle) has infiltrated my brain, when I have never owned a dog.

flufeemunk effluvia

18:53 / 27.04.04

That is scary. I forget the exact number on it, but people see somewhere around 5000 logos a day. Absolutely crazy. The system must be destroyed so I can have a clear mind and consider important things all day like daisies and chocolate. BRING ON THE FLUFFY REVOLUTION!

Grey Area

07:41 / 28.04.04

5000 logos is quite possible. From where I am sitting I can see Saskia, Rapesco, Panadol, TDK, Fujitsu-Siemens, Hewlett Packard, Royal Mail, Kodak, Parker, Fujifilm, Swiftcall, Pilot, Bic, Rotring, Staedtler, Rexel, Berol, Ivax, Microsoft, Smart, Toyota, Jiffy, Nalgene, Cambridge Soundworks, Sony, Umax, Caselogic, Iomega, Vitafit, Maxtor, Matsui, Homebase, Imation, Maxell, Packard Bell, Toshiba, Logitech and Gudang Garam.

That's 39. In five minutes within two square metres. Scary.

foot long subbacultcha

08:07 / 28.04.04

I don't get it. At what point did he suggest that you also have kids?

Bed Head

01:16 / 23.09.04

Hunt supporters can topple Blair, says Lucy Ferry!

Don't understand. Why are these people so proud of this pervy *thing* they have for watching animals be torn to bits? Why aren’t they apologetic? I’m puzzled as to why they’re cluttering up the front pages with their braying when they should be begging for indulgence.

higuita

12:48 / 23.09.04

It's the level of amazement they showed when the police started hitting them that amused me. I believe these are the same people who advocated capital punishment for those involved in reclaim the streets.
'Aren't the police supposed to be on our side? But we're white and we have range rovers!'
I can't be the only one who was urging the police to really get stuck in...

Benny the Ball

13:46 / 23.09.04

I was especially cheering on the ginger one who lost his helmet mid-thwack.

Tryphena Absent

14:22 / 23.09.04

I love that because they're so in to conservatism they've hardly made a fuss about being beaten by police at all (who must have been pretty provoked. Apparently some guy picked up a railing and attacked a policeman with it. Stupid twat!). With that in mind how do they think they're going to topple Blair? In actual fact this might save our Prime Minister from the level of criticism he's been receiving because who the fuck wants to agree with that vile woman?

I do find their love of killing small, red mammals both confusing and abhorrent.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

22:50 / 23.09.04

I can't be the only one who was urging the police to really get stuck in...

Nope. Feels weird, doesn't it?

Bed Head

23:45 / 23.09.04

Gahh, yes. But I was relying on radio for my news and missed it all. If *only* I’d thought to get someone to video it for me. I’m hoping that the pictures of chunky toffs getting their faces stoved in will yet make those ‘end of year’ news compilation programmes, and that I can look forward to settling down on boxing day and enjoying it in the company of my family. A few brandies inside me, rosy glows all round, merriment and laughter, etc.

Triplets

00:20 / 24.09.04

He clearly digged you Anna, it was a plan, see. Think about it, but he wanted know if you had kids. 'Hi there, gotta get one to keep the kids happy, huh?', 'no, sorry, I don't have children', 'oh, me neither, want to get a coffee?'

I did not say this plan was constructed with any craftsman like care. It was the ship in a bottle made using glue and a lot of hopeful shaking type plan.

w1rebaby

00:35 / 24.09.04

Apart from the general revulsion over people trying to kill things for a laugh, and the irritation at toffs and their insistence that they have a right to ride over people's land for a laugh too, I don't really give a monkey's about fox-hunting. But it does do my laughing-glands good to see the shocked expressions as batons rain down.

Of course, if they'd been smelly anti-capitalist types, miners or other anarchists, the cops would have been out in double numbers and beaten the shit out of them at the first opportunity.

There's an obvious disconnect when considering the idea that you're fine with Blair lying to the country about Iraq, but hell, bring the government down about fucking foxes... but I suspect that was included merely to make them seem more ridiculous.

imaginary mice

07:18 / 24.09.04

At a recent Morrissey gig someone asked me if I had ever seen the Smiths live. Scared the shit out of me - I was 9 years old when they split up! I must look really old.

And on the subject of hunting...

Persephone

08:58 / 24.09.04

In the past week I've read two different articles in two different magazines about ...how to wash your face. Is this a difficult thing?

And why am I up at four in the morning?

_Boboss

12:02 / 24.09.04

rotta

thanks for the hunting link mice - i can hear it trip-trapping, trip-trapping over my bridge at this very moment.

Myshka

13:53 / 24.09.04

Mmmm Gudang Garam,
arent those the funny tasting Indonesian cigarettes?
Know if you can buy them in London ?

Bed Head

22:06 / 12.01.05

So.

How fucking thick is Prince Harry?

An Ugh! Fuck! response will probably follow. But at the moment my mind is all-a-boggle.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

22:22 / 12.01.05

I thought he was just upholding a long-standing family tradition...

...but Jesus, yes. What an odious little shit.

Benny the Ball

22:46 / 12.01.05

Yes, it's a bit of a lame thing - 'in hindsight it probably wasn't the best choice of costume' HINDSIGHT! HEy, or maybe the gigner one is just showing a very unusual sense of humour, and the whole colonials thing is a little nod to his families roots etc blah, what ever.

He's a little cock.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

22:49 / 12.01.05

I'd like to see the little fucker walk down the street in London dressed like that, and see how long it is before someone gives him a well-deserved kicking.

Tryphena Absent

07:13 / 13.01.05

His lack of PR sense amazes me- he was brought up in the public eye! Someone send him to Paris Hilton for training!

Jub

08:17 / 13.01.05

The theme of the party was "colonials and natives". Which when you think about it was pretty stupid in itself. I wonder what the others dressed up as?

ONLY NICE THINGS

08:23 / 13.01.05

Or, depending on whom you talk to, "Out of Africa", although that was also the them e of the party the Comedy Terrorist creashed, so may be a misunderstanding or a sign of lack of invention. Apparently William came as a lion.

Mind you, if any family is going to have an Afrika Korps uniform kicking around in the dressing-up box, it'll be the Royals. The last Edward probably forgot it when he was packing...

Olulabelle

08:23 / 13.01.05

I am neither puzzled nor surprised. He is, after all, related to Prince Edward.

Bed Head

08:45 / 13.01.05

I just thought the Thread for much puzzlement and surprise was probably the closest we had. Too stunned to hold a snarl, and the barb doesn’t yet have a Woah! Man! thread for being, like, kinda blown away does it?

To clarify, I’m not at all surprised he’s vile or dull. It’s just the PR thing. A photo like this is worth a thousand horrid Prince Phillip quotes.

ONLY NICE THINGS

08:48 / 13.01.05

Prince Edward, on the other hand, will be present at the memorial ceremony on the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, representing the Queen.

You know you're in trouble when your idiot uncle is handling an issue better than you are...

Seth

09:35 / 13.01.05

He clearly digged you Anna, it was a plan, see. Think about it, but he wanted know if you had kids. 'Hi there, gotta get one to keep the kids happy, huh?', 'no, sorry, I don't have children', 'oh, me neither, want to get a coffee?'

As a chat up line this rivals my personal favourite of "Do you like dicks?"

Tryphena Absent

09:53 / 13.01.05

Prince Edward, on the other hand, will be present at the memorial ceremony on the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, representing the Queen

She's sending Edward in her place. Jeez, he's hardly even got a title.

Cat Chant

10:52 / 13.01.05

Afrika Korps uniform

Prince Harry = The Desert Peach?

ONLY NICE THINGS

11:14 / 13.01.05

Don't ruin it for me, please.

Cat Chant

11:40 / 13.01.05

Sorry, Haus - my brain has an automatic 'search-and-replace' function which replaces Prince Harry with Harry Potter, so Harry + Afrika Corps puts me in a happier place than it should. 'Mischievous little wizard fetishist reading too much Donna Barr', rather than, well, 'Nazi'.

I now return you to the actual real world, rather than the inside of my brane.

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