I realised the similarities a few days ago but today has been so hot I’ve become a bit slow at processing basic functions like getting a beer
Philosophically speaking, aren’t they both a kind of vegetable stock, except beer is fermented?
Anyway, proof if proof were needed that vegetarianism is dangerous: this wouldn’t happen with bacon!
Mmmmm… Bacon… 
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Guilty as charged.
Completely irrelevant (to this thread and in all other respects), but ‘For he’s a jolly good fellow’ stirred a memory I’d long forgotten.
Having been raised as a Roman Catholic (which ultimately made me the conflicted atheist I am today), quite a few of my friends are of similar experience (recovering indoctrinees). Back in the days when we used to go out drinking together (an activity heartily encouraged by the pope and enthusiastically adhered to by most of the RC clergy - at least, it was back then), we would often reach the level of inebriation required to engage in the singing of certain Roman Catholic drinking songs (yes, weirdly, that’s an actual thing).
My favourite (of the ones I could share without fear of investigation for religious watchamacallit) was this one:
There is a green hill far away
Outside a city Wall
Where the dear lord was crucified
Who died to save us all
(everyone else in the pub staring in disbelief/bemusement/fear at this point).
(sudden change of rhythm/increase in tempo)
Who died to save us all
Who died to save us all
(dramatic pause)
(with proper gusto)
For he’s a jolly good fellow
For he’s a jolly good fellow
Etc etc
There’s more, but it probably warrants its own thread.
Or maybe not.
My point? you don’t necessarily need to go to a public school in order to end up with ‘For he’s a jolly good fellow’ in your repertoire.
Roman Catholicism: a bit shit, but still probably the coolest (and defo the most forgiving) of the many Christian denominations.
Insert humorous concluding sentence here.
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Bullshit.
Vegetable stock in a can is just fucking wrong.
For the reason that it just fucking is.
It will never catch on because of this.
I am right. Move on.
(I appreciate that you weren’t advocating it, I’m just angry about the very concept of it, for no good reason other than that it’s total bollocks).
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Headlined by Rt. Hon. J. Enoch Powell MP?
You cant be fcking serious
There must be some Irish in you!
Read what I wrote you thick twat. It’s a collection of essays by a very wide range of different authors included to summarise the spectrum of thought at the time it was published (1964).
Sixty years ago Powell wasn’t considered toxic (he’d been vehemntly anti-Nazi from 1933, fought throughout WW2, argued strongly for de-colonisation and the end of empire, and argued against Britain continuing to be a global power in the US’s pocket), and in 1964 he’d just finished a spell as Minister of Health - four years before what was in point-of-fact the highly uncharacteristic, brainfart ‘Rivers of Blood’ speech - so bagging him as a contributor would have been par for the course in compiling such essay collections. Even afterwards, expelled by the tories, he refused to have anything to do with the National Front - albeit the Ulster Unionists weren’t a whole lot better!
Since incomprehencsion is the name, let me spell it out - I’m only on the side of accuracy here: from '68 on Powell was 100% irredeemably toxic, but a knee-jerk reaction to a single name in a 60YO book is cretinous - history is about winners and losers, Powell was a loser, and this book is nothing more than a historical artefact.
And while we’re at it, let’s be grateful that Powell is long-dead, because his views six decades ago, exactly chime with ‘Reform’ now, but he was a MASSIVELY cleverer, more popular, charismatic and harder-working person than the cunt Farage can dream of being. In some ways it’s fortunate that politics mainly attracts human dross nowadays…
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It’s International Left Handers day 
Fcuk all you righty weirdos with your neat handwriting and being able to use scissors.
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Not even before 23 years of typing everything into Excel instead of writing.
Mrs horace and I are both lefties.
We once thought about sending cards to other lefthanders we know, but decided it was pointless as no fucker would be able to read our smudged spidery scrawl.
My wife is also seriously dyslexic. Now that’s a doozy of a combo, I can tell you…
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When’s International Left-handed Dyslexics Day?
The 43rd of Janvember.
Probably.
Sinistrals unite! Rulers the right (left) way round now! Join the LGBTQLH collective!
Chortling at the chattering classes moaning like twats as someone tagged a Banksy rhino, itself just fleeting grafiti.
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Forum tagline. 
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So keeping a book with him as the lead figure is a bit like still keeping your Dilbert calendar on your desk at work, no?
There is also a copy of this, definitely more appropriate, but with an author’s name that I had to read twice.
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No. Or rather, it has in-common being dated, but it’s not as irrelevant since it is a historical artefact, plus only one author held racist views, and even those were not as one-dimensional as Scott Adams’.
The presence of such a book in a rental property is in any case meaningless - people flytip stuff in rentals that really should have gone to a charity shop decades ago - books, decor, appliances… Doubt a moment of thought went into it, FWVLIW…
I think in this case that, given the other decor that is quite personal in terms of photos, it is probably part of a personal library acquired over time so it looks like it was bought new and then kept.
In any case, the presence of stuff like the Sithole does indicate a more positive view of the world than the initial headline indicated.
