[Andy McDandy]

Words have power, says Mr "Tomorrow's Fish Wrapper, Sticks and Stones Darlin'", when he gets called to account.

[Boiler]

I can't remember the last time fish and chips were wrapped in newspaper - 1970s, if that?

[Rosvanian]

I can't remember the last time fish and chips were wrapped in newspaper - 1970s, if that?

A mandatory requirement for fish and chips to be wrapped in newspaper is a Reform manifesto commitment. It will reduce chip shop overheads and save the local newspaper industry.

[Rosvanian]

I can't remember the last time fish and chips were wrapped in newspaper - 1970s, if that?

Actually, a mandatory requirement for fish and chips to be wrapped in newspaper is a Reform manifesto commitment. It will reduce chip shop overheads and save the local newspaper industry.

[Abernathy]

I can just about - sort of - remember chippies using newspaper as an outer, insulating wrapper for hot takeaway fish and chips , but I think it was only an outer wrapper (I might be remembering this incorrectly) - the paper that came into contact with your nosh was proper, hygienic food wrap.

And yet, and yet - you’ll get people today claiming not only that old newspaper was used directly to wrap up your chips, but that your fish and chips actually tasted better by being wrapped in newsprint - which is very obviously a load of old bollocks.

It’s part of the “proper binmen” faux nostalgia that grips some people - see also: drinking from garden hoses, no such thing as elf ‘n’ safety, other such cobblers - you know the drill.

[Rosvanian]

Yep, also on their way back big time when Reform take over are incandescent light bulbs for proper light and oil based gloss paint that takes two days to dry by which time your headache will have just about cleared up. And another thing, out of the window I can see Storm Amy battering Tyneside. Well, they'll be no more of these poncey named storms costing British tax payers millions when Reform get in.

[Youngian]

Has Christine’s dream been fulfilled yet?

This caller insisted we have to leave the EU to stop being forced to live under their rules. But when James O'Brien asked for one example, all she could say was being able to eat fish and chips out of newspaper again.
https://www.lbc.co.uk/article/brexit-ca ... -DWyS7g_2/

[Rosvanian]

In the linked story, O'Brien and others express sadness over how the caller has been manipulated. I say fuck her, she's a thick-as-mince grade A idiot and it absolutely boils my piss.

[Boiler]

Yep, also on their way back big time when Reform take over are incandescent light bulbs for proper light

Sadly, they last longer than LEDs in my light fittings because the electronics in the LEDs get cooked by the heat in the etched glass bowls...

I wonder how many realise it was David Cameron who pushed for lower energy lighting?

[Malcolm Armsteen]

If you get fish'n chips at a Hilton hotel it comes in specially printed 'newspaper' with olde-worlde news articles which are about as authentic as Dic Van Dyke's accent.

[RedSparrows]

Had absolutely superlative fish supper in Fife not too long ago. No newspaper in sight, just a good chippy.

Fancy that.

[davidjay]

Yep, also on their way back big time when Reform take over are incandescent light bulbs for proper light

Sadly, they last longer than LEDs in my light fittings because the electronics in the LEDs get cooked by the heat in the etched glass bowls...

I wonder how many realise it was David Cameron who pushed for lower energy lighting?

They don't last much longer anywhere in my experience. File alongside CDs, Indestructible in the list of technological style over substance.

[Youngian]

The tiny amount of current needed to operate LED lights means they can powered by gravity or a wind up cog. This is revolutionary for the rural developing world where fumes from kerosene lamps has cost the health and lives of millions.

[Abernathy]

File alongside CDs, Indestructible in the list of technological style over substance.

I remember when CDs were introduced (I was an early adopter). There was much talk of them being more or less indestructable, with telly folk using a CD to spread strawberry jam on their toast and claiming the disc would still play just fine (if you wiped the jam off). Which was bollocks.

[davidjay]

File alongside CDs, Indestructible in the list of technological style over substance.

I remember when CDs were introduced (I was an early adopter). There was much talk of them being more or less indestructable, with telly folk using a CD to spread strawberry jam on their toast and claiming the disc would still play just fine (if you wiped the jam off). Which was bollocks.

At least with vinyl and tape there was a chance you could repair the damage, after a fashion. CDs were just ruined.

[Youngian]

As I am not Judith Hann or Michael Rod, I didn't spend my days spreading jam on CDs and vinyl to make technical comparisons.

[Bones McCoy]

Yep, also on their way back big time when Reform take over are incandescent light bulbs for proper light and oil based gloss paint that takes two days to dry by which time your headache will have just about cleared up. And another thing, out of the window I can see Storm Amy battering Tyneside. Well, they'll be no more of these poncey named storms costing British tax payers millions when Reform get in.

All these new fangled windfarms, making extra wind.
I said no good would come of it.

[Malcolm Armsteen]

File alongside CDs, Indestructible in the list of technological style over substance.

I remember when CDs were introduced (I was an early adopter). There was much talk of them being more or less indestructable, with telly folk using a CD to spread strawberry jam on their toast and claiming the disc would still play just fine (if you wiped the jam off). Which was bollocks.

I believe it was marmalade.

[soulboy]

Ob-La-D...D...D...D...D...

[Andy McDandy]

https://www.smry.ai/proxy?url=https%3A% ... Y2suaHRtbA

Still on his high horse.

Players are still taking the knee to Black Lives Matter, five years after the death of George Floyd 4,000 miles away in Minnesota.

Rainbow laces, the murder of a child in Birmingham, No Room For Racism, Charlie Hebdo, floods in Libya, earthquakes in Morocco, war in Ukraine, the manager’s dog run over by a milk float – you name it, any excuse, they’ve got a minute’s silence.

While he regularly reminds us that what happens in America today will be here tomorrow, he belittles the murder of George Floyd as far away and irrelevant. As for Charlie Hebdo, who he seems to think is some French guy, you'd have thought this old Fleet Street warhorse, veteran of the golden age of journalism etc, would have some feeling for fellow journalists.

This was a national scandal, the first time in modern history that British Jews had been murdered simply for being Jews.

First time in modern history. That's a wonderfully meaningless phrase.

Anyway, the thing is, you can't accuse the FA of making pointless and facile gestures and then demand the same gestures for your pet cause. You can't say that these murders are terrible, but that guy got what was coming for him. Not without making the impression that you really don't care at all, but are just using one demographic group as a proxy for attacking another.

Well, unless you're a cunt.