Big Bad Bob

Put this one to bed Push Back Blue Sky Thinking Think outside of the box

Totally love Office Space, it should be on every office workers "to watch" list. I hate buzz words and refuse to use them.

Even @sickpediabot must read this fred sickipediabot ‏@sickipediabot3m Jokes about herbs and fish - there's a thyme and a plaice!

He's not as sage as he likes to think he is

Ask him another hard question and see him stew in his own juices.

I was going to ask if you worked for a Poole based mobile phone call centre company but then I remembered you mentioning banking in your last thread. This company sounds exactly like the company in Poole, high turnove of call centre staff and demoralising work regimes. And, if you are going to use IM to talk to your buddy, be careful what you say, if it's a work based IM package what you say *WILL* be recorded and used in evidence against you..

Didn't you know, they're no longer together, do keep up....

Depends if she's bending over the sink or not....

You are right, after much head pain I resolved the issue in my head. However, if you were from Pompey, your sister-in-law's Husband would probably be your dad

oops http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/24479224

Sorry to be a pedant but that adds up to £686 and then add another £38 for the ticket tax (if you get all your tickets online) so you could save up to £120!!

Brilliant, had the office in stitches

Even worse, his house overlooks Poole harbour where commercial fishing ain't not allowed..... Actually he must have been hearing me as I go on my regular speedboat drive bys, seeing if I can spot a suitable area to throw my molotov cocktail...

My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius, commander of the Armies of the North, General of the Felix Legions and loyal servant to the TRUE emperor, Marcus Aurelius. Father to a murdered son, husband to a murdered wife. And I will have my vengeance, in this life or the next.

Can you deny, given the dearth of English talent, that Hodgson is doing a good job? What could Harry (or any manager) do differently?

To be honest Chapel End Charlie what I'm driving at is why the use of the word Yid is considered anti-Semitic. Used on it's own (Yiddo, Yiddo), or in the chant "Yid Army, Yid Army" it can't be! To be fair even if I were to call a Jew a "****ing stupid Yid" would that really be anti-Semitic? Now if I were to start a poster/Facebook campaign to have the local Jewish community targeted for abuse or were to leave a cut of bacon outside the local Synagogue then that would be anti-Semitic. And yes it works the other way, if a black person were to call me a "****ing stupid Honkey" would I be mortified? Not really, I'd be upset that he's doubting my intelligence but not at the use of the word Honkey. Are we now supposed to start a campaign to stop the Americans calling us Limeys or the Australians using POHMs or the French using Roast Beef......

Looks more like Herbert the Pervert :-

Is that a new character in Michael Bay's next film?

What I guess I'm driving at is your use of the word "abhorrent", quite a powerful and extreme word. What is it about the word Yid that raises these extreme feelings in you? Yid has been in existence and used since well before the holocaust so why is it such a vile word? And why is it fatuous to say that if a person of the Jewish faith can call another a Yid or a black person another black a ****** or a gay person another gay a queer then why can't a non Jew/black/gay do the same? Sauce for the goose and all that!

I don't get the "abhorrent behaviour" bit, as far as I am aware Yid is a shortening of Yiddish, the same as Paki is short for Pakistani, and Scot is short for Scottish. I've been trying to find why Yid is considered anti-Semitic and, the ever reliable, Wikipedia gave me this :- So from that I get that Yid can be both derogatory and not and that Jews have been using it themselves for years, even before the World Wars. Have you ever seen the Mel Brooks film History of the World Part I, if you ever did I should imagine you would be apoplectic with rage at the amount of self-deprecating Jewish humour contained within! (for the younger listeners Mel Brooks is definitely Jewish and takes the piss out of Jews a fair bit!!). So, I fail to see how the word Yid can be called abhorrent. The hissing of Chelsea and Arsenal fans to, supposedly, emulate the gas chambers is a completely different thing and is vile.

and how does David Beckham feel knowing that his wife likes sodomy?

A lot of chants at football are intended to mock the opposing fans so why single out a, supposedly, homophobic one? Diame is not, to my knowledge, gay so how is him being likened to a lump of gristly meat homophobic?

I was going to ask you about la Saux yesterday but work got in the way! To be honest I'd forgotten the rumours about Matt Taylor and to be fair he gets dogs abuse because he's an ex-Skate! I don't remember any reaction from the terraces to Graham la Saux's or Matt Taylor's rumoured sexuality, none. Not even screams of "get up you faggot" when they've been tackled. So where is this perceived homophobia coming from? As for the chant thrown at Brighton fans, it's a perfectly valid question given the demographic of the area they come from, maybe instead of getting all offended they could throw back "Does your WAG know you're here?". Or are we not allowed to sign "sign on" to the Everton and Liverpool fans. In my mind the whole "English football fan is homophobic" argument is coming from the fact that Brighton fans are chanted at, nothing more. Going back to the PFA statement that players fear the reaction from the media and the fans I would strongly suggest that they are more afraid of being made a Champion for the Gay rights movement. Isn't there a heterosexual sports star who is lauded as a Gay icon by the LGBT movement. Can't remember who it is or whether I'm making it up...

Not directed at a player or a person in particular, the chant is directed at the Brighton fans and given that they live in an area that is perceived to contain a majority of LGTB it could be argued that it is a perfectly valid question.

Heaven forfend we don't want to be accused of being sectarian now do we....