saintbletch

The Thick of it. - One of my favourite comedies featuring probably my favourite comic character ever - Malcolm Tucker. The acid-tongued Labour spin doctor has spent 2 years in opposition to the coalition and now has a leader who he needs to get rid of and a coalition to kill. When this series was delayed I thought they might not be making another one as all the main characters and stories revolved around a Labour government. But it turns out that the creator - Anando Iammucci had just been busy in the US with Veep. I was also wondering how they'd handle Tucker having little influence in opposition and also how they'd portray the coalition. They've done it very well with Tucker having been almost depressed over his lack of power. But now he's reborn and on a mission to get rid of one Labour leader and replace her with another. The portrayal of the bickering and in-fighting in the coalition is infantile and very funny - probably very true to life. Industrial language warning. Not suitable for, well anywhere really.

I'd love for a little bit of me to rub off on you Tokyo-Saint. And that's what happens if an entire phrase can have more than one meaning. I'll let you decide which meaning I intended. Here endeth saintbletch's Fun With Words lesson for today.

Yes. Was it not obvious? I thought it was a hilarious sign-off to a hilarious post. Just me then? Oh. Anyway, I've got a feeling that my anal Muppet Show persona experiment isn't going so well. When you're told to get back on topic in The Muppet Show you've seriously misread the audience. Either that or bored them s**tless - one of the two.

I like the way you're thinking Window Cleaner, and sorry to do this, but I think the phrase is "woosh".

Jonnyboy, you're a stupid tvvat... ...If our language contained another word that sounded exactly like tvvat (a homonym), or it had another word that was written the same way as tvvat but pronounced differently (homograph), then the jolly confusion I would have created would be hilarious to word-types like me. But as our language has neither a homonym nor a homograph for tvvat, I've just called you a stupid tvvat. Harsh. But fare.

Yes I think it is English Tokyo-Saint. I've noticed it too and it's funny you mention Downtown Abbey because when I post in The Muppet Show I hear the words spoken in my mind by the fat butler (the Mrs watches it). I think I might be possessed - going to thumb through the yellow pages for an exorcist. I'm also reading a lot of weird stuff at the moment and I think it's made me think too much about words and the sounds they make and how precious they are and how they shouldn't be wasted or abused and that anyone that does waste or abuse words should die! die! die! Love you too, just not in a bestial or three-way-with-Bearsy sort of way.

To Scummer, I got the picture from http://www.katemiddletontopless.co.uk/. To Tokyo-Saint, it was an attempt at a homonymic joke. Perhaps it was a bit too convoluted and subtle and crap. Two nuns in the bath. The first one says "Where's the soap"; the second replies "Not if you use a dildo it doesn't".

Does it?

The very same (but let's not get caught discussing literary figures in The Muppet Show - coffee was bad enough). Now that boy could wield an expletive with style... http://loveletters.tribe.net/thread/fce72385-b146-4bf2-9d2e-0dfa6ac7142d

As with most things on Android, it's up to you. The various music players available treat the music files as exactly that - they are just files on the android file system. There's no hidden repositories and indexing to worry about. You don't need a complex program like iTunes to maintain the library. So you can just transfer the files via USB or wirelessly using Samsung's bundled Kies software. Incidentally, you don't actually need an iTunes equivalent for Android phones. After registering your phone, you just vist http://play.google.com; make 'purchases' of apps, books, videos, etc. and they are sent to your phone wirelessly. No software, connection or syncing required. It works quite well. I actually bought a 32GB microSD for about £20 and a USB adapter for a couple of quid that lets you plug the microSD card directly into a PC. This was much quicker as 30GB of music transferred wirelessly can take a while. Formats shouldn't be a problem as you have a wide choice of free music players that work with mp3 and aac files natively.

cunny?

The date's in the quoted part Tokyo-Saint - 1909. Dublin and Jim are clues too. But the wonderfully filthy language is the biggest clue.

Yes that's right Tokyo-Saint. Terry Shakespeare.

You set me thinking about ballocks (if you see what I mean) - it's how it was once spelt I believe Tokyo-Saint. Anyway, I've got just the thing to test the swear filter and still make me look intellectual and snooty. How's this for a love letter?

As my role on here is to be the Edwardian schoolmaster sent forward in time to keep an eye on you and Bearsy, I might struggle with this. Anyway, I'll give it my best effort. Here goes. You queer old josser Sweaty ballocks.

Thank you tpbury for your concern and the wholesome praise - detached libertarian - I like that. And personally I don't think your use of the term 'genius' goes quite far enough - but it'll do for the time being. But this isn't about me. This issue is bigger than me. It's bigger than you. It's bigger than all of us and whilst I'm not given to hyperbole, we are talking about the very future of The Muppet Show here. With the government relaxing planning laws, and with this site's current owners being only interested in curry evenings and fivers, unless we each take some sort of positive action now, The Muppet Show will likely be concreted over and turned into overflow parking for busy match day threads. I feel the weight of history on my shoulders and the needs of generations to come in my gut. I've been passed a baton tpbury, a pink baton - admittedly covered in Bearsy's KY Jelly and ribbed for pleasure, but it's now my job to get that baton round the track until someone takes it off me or trips and falls in a comic way such that the baton enters and disappears up their anal cavity. That baton is an obligation. An obligation to keep this place going. And despite your concerns over my posting frequency - I'm not dropping that baton tpbury. Do you think I don't realise that I'm out of place here? I feel like an Edwardian schoolmaster sent from the past to keep an eye on Bearsy and Tokyo-Saint. As I alluded to the other day, the Muppet Show shouldn't be a place for faux-intellectuals like me. I should be petrified to be here with my pedantry and pompousness. I should come in here and instantly get myself ripped a new one - whether I particularly wanted a new one or not - ripped or otherwise. And by the way, don't worry about Bearsy and Tokyo-Saint, I've met up with them. They're not edgy youths sporting tattoos and trousers that don't quite stay around their waists but instead cling to they public bones and buttocks. Far from it. Tokyo-Saint is 58 and drives a milk float - to work where he is employed as a gynaecologist. Bearsy is 67 and is a retired communication consultant specialising in the sensitive handling of issues surrounding female emotions. We've all agreed to keep The Muppet Show going until we can find some younger posters who are keen to rip people new ones. So thanks for your concern tpbury, but instead please join the fight. Do you know that irreverent football forums are dying at a rate of 1 per week (probably). With your help we can keep this one alive. All it would take is for everyone to commit to making 3 posts a day in The Muppet Show.

Yeah, sorry about that bear. What can I say? I was bored. Who calls their dog "graham" anyway?

Consider this thread well and truly deppocated. They won't be bringing their caffeine-based beverage discussions here again in a hurry. Glad to see you've still got it Bearsy and from where I'm standing this morning, you're no longer the Nick Clegg of the moderator team. You're more Michael Gove now - "I've got some power so I better do something with it". (Not that I'm making a serious political point in TMS you understand).

Personally, I think that's fair enough. Give that you understandably have little feelings towards the disaster, I'm intrigued why you felt compelled to to post 'pass' in response to the OP's post.

My wife has this phone - excellent value for money. Highly recommended.

I might be over-analysing this buctootim, but if he swapped hands he wouldn't be able to use the royal pollex to protect the Duchess's crevice from the worst effects of the sun. At first I thought it was photshopery but no - there is only one possible explanation with an arm that shape and so grotesquely out of proportion. He's back.

You're a queer bear Bearsy. I think I speak for most men when I say that the thought of another person's ejaculate leaving its hairy muzzle and arcing towards our loved one's mouth would fill us with horror. But not you. You queer bear. P.S. People are still taking the p*** out of your (admittedly self-appointed) moderatorship of The Muppet Show. They're still talking about teas and coffees. Get this back to the Lounge or you'll have a leadership challenge on your hands. You're fast becoming the Nick Clegg of the moderator team.

I suspect Jimbo knew there were no brackets in the original but put them in to show the order he THOUGHT it should be evaluated in Whitey Grandad. And thanks, I knew there was a formal way of explaining it with through the commutative/associative/distributive laws. You're taking me back to Mr. Noonan's maths class in the 80s there. It appears that lots of people simply didn't learn about the priority of operators (or soon forgot it after their O Levels/GCSEs (other than with brackets)). (See what I did with the brackets there? Clever, eh? - by the way, how is that calculation for sexual achievement coming along?) Some of the subtleties of the BODMAS mnemonic haven't been explained Jimbo, so here, goes. When you have a calculation like 6-1*0+2/2 the order in which you do the different steps is important - as the various answers on here have shown. BODMAS provides that order. To your question about whether addition should be before subtraction, you're right it is confusing and it should more properly be written as (B)(O)(DM)(AS) the Division and Multiplication are actually as important as each other - as are Addition and Subtraction. Which means when we have just multiplication and division in a part of a calculation, we do them from left to right. Same for addition and subtraction. So when you look at the calculation 6 - 1 * 0 + 2 / 2, BODMAS effectively goes through putting in imaginary brackets for the symbols from B..O..D..M..A to S. So we look for Brackets, but there is none. We look for Orders (numbers raised to powers - i.e. 10 to the power 2 = 100, fractional powers - roots, etc.), but again there is none. Then we look for Divisions and Multiplications - remember they have the same precedence so we can go from left to right. So putting brackets around the Ds or Ms and the calculation becomes. 6 - (1 x 0) + (2 / 2) Which is the same as 6 - 0 + 1 So as we're left with only the A and S of BODMAS, and we know they are the same priority, we can simply evaluate the calculation from left to right. Which is how you get to Deano6's 6 oranges take away no oranges and add one more orange. So we get the answer -9 oranges. Well we've had every other answer on this thread.

I have to say I've been thinking the same. It's difficult to judge due to the quality of opposition in 3 of the last 4 games, but I can't help thinking that he should be doing better against some of those shots.

OK, to bring this back on topic.... Is it me, or is there something wrong with the arm and hand being used to rub sun tan cream into the Duchess' derrière in this picture? Either William was the model for the statue of Ted Bates, or there was a secret service bloke in the bushes having a quick grope. It's too long surely?