The Official Nonsense Thread

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It is the nation that brought us Bananas In Pyjamas & Round The Twist, but Ja'mie the private school girl was VERY disturbing. For the sake of one of us here being into it & going on Ollie's recommendation, I tried to watch two different episodes but could get no further than ten minutes in before bailing with the sort of queezy "bring me eye bleach" feeling I can only ever remember getting from the horse head scene in "The Tin Drum".

This middle aged guy pretending to be another schoolkid, in another school full of real kids, & ----- do I REALLY need to spell this out how downright skin crawling it is? It's not like they couldn't have got an actor nearer the kids own ages to do it otherwise Home & Away & Neighbours would have been scunnered for half their casts since they first went on air. Doing it once is "um,,,,," enough, but twice?

Maybe I'm getting old or prudish or something, but nothing's gonna convince me otherwise that some middle aged Bruce pretending to be a schoolkid & shouting smutty suggestions at real kids under the pretext of it being "comedy" is freaking dodgier than hiring Max Clifford as a child minder (he says being topical - made my week that did seeing that evil little man get his. I'll never forgive him for what he did to Gerry Hayes & tried to do to Gyles Brandreth. Evil, evil, EVIL excuse for a human being).

Don't worry about the squirrels - they're masters of balance. There's one using our trees that runs down a particular branch causing it to dip, & waits patiently for it to ping back upwards so it can leap onto the branch of the tree across.

The temptation to build one of these in the garden!





Glad to see Bristol Rovers getting relegated after their fans disgusting behaviour at Wycombe last week. The pitch invasion was a dirty trick to intimidate the Wanderers & officials as well as wind down the clock when it was to their advantage. If Wycombe had gone down they'd have had every right to protest last week's events, in the end a rough justice was served. I wonder if JK Rowling will be asked to put her money where her mouth is for the club she's meant to support, especially now it means their move to a new ground will have to be postponed.

Lucky Dundee won today. If they'd only drawn & thus Hamilton were promoted instead thanks to that 10-2 win over Morton (yes, ten-two!), I think UEFA would have got involved over what looked very suspicious, especially when one of the Hamilton goals was an own goal right at the end which meant they'd equalled Dundee on goal difference but would be above them on total goals scored for the season. There's miracles & then there's something highly fishy.