Mortgage for Life

Here's a quote from Paul McCartney, who generally is fairly laissez-faire viz music piracy, on the news today that illegal file-sharers are getting £120 billion of material for free.

“I think the problem is you get a lot of young bands coming up and some of them aren’t going to last forever so if they have a massive hit, that’s going to pay their mortgage forever and if they don’t see that money, I think that’s a bit of a pity.”

It's a pity then, he's contending, that bands who have a single hit aren't going to get their mortgage paid. Forever. 

This at a time when thousands upon thousands of families are struggling to pay their mortgage this month. What a colossally stupid comment.  

Generation915

Ok, New Look, I appreciate that you need to have branding. You've branded you're kids clothing as 'Generation915'. That's fine. You can do what the fuck you want. I doubt, however, that the term 'Generation915' will ever replace the term 'Kids Clothing' as one universally used to describe, er, kids clothing.

Or, for example, NuShooz817 (yours for free if you want it) is unlikely to find it's way into the lexicon in preference to 'Shoes'.

So, please, keep your signage brand neutral would you? There's a love.

zetecDon

The Focus Group is a bit like the Hotel California. You can check out but you can never leave. 

I really like old zetecDon. I think he's lovely.
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Holy crap, I just read through the other threads he created and thought to myself. Who would be the perfect spokesman for this guy and I had instantly thought of Elmer Fudd the way he spelled the words and all. So everytime you read one of his posts just think in that Elmer Fudd voice so you can basically decipher the code that he is typing in. Do us all a favor muster, removed your stereo so you don't have any problems with it anymore. Learn to hum some show tunes to keep yourself entertained lol

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does this mean im aloud to stay?

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For some odd reason I can understand most of what you're typing which completely bewilders me. I have plenty of friends who are from Ireland that don't sound nor type like you do. Just take careful consideration into what you are spelling so that way it will be understandable by the masses and not taken as some childish antics. You are welcome to stay on the forums as long as the mod's say it's ok. But if you have that moment to where you can't log in you will know what happened lol

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grate, i kno my spellin is not top-tip but i feel i am raysing sum impotent points to the focus cumunity. thanks 4 ure patients.

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What's the Score?

It was with great pleasure last night that I watched the great Messi, Iniesta and Co. out class, out play, out think a gloriously lacklustre Man Ure. They were on a different level entirely. One small thing annoyed me though. I took this picture off the telly. From the ITV coverage. Can you see what's missing from the top left of the screen?

Yes, the score. Where is it? Are we to assume that this is a money saving measure that ITV decided to essay during the most important sporting event of the year?

In the olden times they didn't used to put the score up on the screen. And people used to walk into the room and say "What's the score?". Then, about ten years ago, they started putting it up there in the top left corner. And people would walk into the room and say "Is that the score?". And you'd say "Yes it is, numbnuts, that's why it says it on the screen".

Can we have it back again please?

Michael O'Brien

This 'question' on RTE's Questions and Answers is from  Michael O'Brien, a victim of clerical abuse. It's truly remarkable. 

I heard it repeated on the radio yesterday and assumed it was a piece of theatre. It's incredibly articulate and it's patent truth serves as a perfect counterpoint to the mealy-mouthed maundering of some in the Catholic Church. 

Sadly this is not theatre. It's a real life tragedy being played out in Ireland. Shakespeare scholar Bernard Beckerman's generic definition of theatre, however, never seemed more apt.

occurs when one or more persons, isolated in time and/or space, present themselves to another or others

cah eats CD

Spent yet more time on the Focus Group here.

My dash board ate a CD and didn't try to play it. Then zetecDon ruined everything with his irrefutable logic and common sense:

What would having a CD shoved into the dashboard have to do with how the CD would work when it's put into the correct slot?

Think I may stop all this now. I'm on the verge of being kicked off anyway.

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guys, i need to ask a quik question. Has ne1 ever had there focus eat a cd? Let me explain...
Tonite, I was collectin my father (in-law) at the airporte - his plain had flowne in from nachville. he got in the cah and even tho we had nevah seen each other 4 (for) 4 (four) yeers we had very lyttle to talk about so i ask'd him to put in a cd - of waylon jennins who i know we both digg. he put it in-to the cd and nothin play'd. we look'd and nothin seem'd to be wrong but nothin play'd. then i saw that hed put the cd in the slot 'bove the playah and it had taken it. but it didn't play it!!! the cah had just eaten the cd.
we kinda jist looked at each other and laffed but really im kinda pissed with the old galoot. an idears?

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i was having a varuety of similar issues with my stock unit. it would read cd error, or it would spit out a cd it had been playing for an hour and display "bad disc".
the solution was to order a new head unit from crutchfield and dynamite the old one.

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THX JJEHUD. this is difffrnt tho cos he didnt put the cd in the stock unit ... he put it in sum kind-of gap in the dash(brd) and the dash(brd) swallowed it. no cd error was dipslayed bcos he toattally missed the cd-playah.
would 'crutchfield and dynamite' hav sum-kinda tule i cood use dat i cood order to get it outta-der?

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Wow dude. I can hardly understand what you are typing.. English?

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Hukt on Fonix werkt fer me! Nd I thnk it cud hilp u 2. Damn, I feel my IQ dropping fourty points typing like that. Do us a favor, make some sense when you post something if you're wanting help. Other than that I wouldn't take this legitimately. If he shoved it into the dashboard all you have to do is remove the head unit and get the CD out. And as long as you don't try to shove anymore CD's into the dash again you won't have any problems. What would having a CD shoved into the dashboard have to do with how the CD would work when it's put into the correct slot? I mean if you have a CD player it has a slot that you put the CD in right? I swear I wonder how people live in this world with the skills they apply to even posting on here.

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Hey! Im still inda room yknow!!!

NEway i think the CD is lost. i jist thowt it was kinda funny how the slot in the dash kinda pulled the CD in (like a mechy-nism). (the old galoot didnt push it in that hard). made me think mibby the dash(brd) is sumhow sharing the same attry-butes as the CD playa. has this not happn'd to NE1 else?

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Everything's Broken

A once beautiful piece of precision engineering photographed outside my local Centra. Smashed up to all hell, broken and useless. Stuck, forever, at 2 bar. Or 30 lbf/in², if you prefer.

For The Way We Live Today.

Tsunami

Today was very hard. But you have to just get on with it. What else?

But spare a thought for Newcastle? I feel sorry for them. It's fairly momentous them going down. An absolute disaster, really. Too big a club and so on.

Far to big. Should never of happened. Too many good players. So why? Can anyone tell me why?

Is it anything, anything at all, to do with them appointing a manager with absolutely no experience whatsoever? Just an idea. I'm a mere child in these matters...

Morrissey on Criticism

In June's edition of The Word Magazine, Morrissey is asked whether any writer has ever captured him in a way that he found pleasing. He replies:

No, never ... the modern writer feels they must make everything seem wrong. Yes, criticism moves everything on, but as a writer you might find yourself criticising people for something that you yourself have never mastered. It would be quite acceptable if everybody who wrote about music had themselves made music for many, many years. But it's never the case.

What, like Chris De Burgh or Neil Sedaka? What a preposterous notion. Perhaps he's also suggesting that politicians should only be criticised by other politicians. Or the catholic church by people who've had first hand experience of child abuse.

birdz lanin pon cah

Spent some more time on the Focus Group here.

Why do birds suddenly appear? Every time you're here. And why did roosterst end up pulling down my pants and spanking me about the arse?

Here's what happned:

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birds keep landing pon my wing (mirror) is ne1 elz haveing this problem? only on my focus i aslo have a vulva 2 but no burds land there. any idear?

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Uhm... wtf?

Are you talking about birds coming and laying down on your mirror?
What does this has to do with I.C.E.?

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Yea thats what I was wondering too... I read this earlier and didn't reply cause I was like....

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nah, buddy, not LAYIN down on da mirror (no EGGS) jist flyin in'n peckin on da mirror bit NEVER on da Vulva why? all the time dat i take da focus out evry day. Nufin to do wif ICE its summer time!!! NE1 see teh poblem?

heres a picture i took off my sell fone:
http://s663.photobucket.com/albums/u...rrent=bird.jpg

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no what they meant bye I.C.E. was your interior custom electronics i believe. is the name of your stereo, woofers, speakers. i think you put it in the wrong forum

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ah is dis da ICU forum ?i thowt id started an new 1 on birds lanin pon car. even again 2day in da villlage when drivin slow i had 2 (i fink) mockin birds on wing (each mirrors) and only when i got fast on da duel carridgeway (free way?) did they fly up. focus agin my wife had da vulva again.

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I think this guy is playing games with everyone.

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exqueues me this a real porblem id say u can prolly drive to work evry day unmolest'd by wing'd CRITTERS ure lucki. IM NOT PLAYIN GAMES STOP SPANKIN ME.

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Is there any food in the car they can smell and possibly want? Maybe they just like the color of the car.

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u wood-nt beleeve the amownt of food in da cah its an absolut disaster-area. i cleen it evry month (sumtimes evry 2!!!) but my wife just lets da kidz mess it up with candy and corn chips and that so there-s no pownt. recently i fownd a very old peice of okra (ladees finger?) that was horrible to start wit but worse now!

even da burds wouldnt want that shoorely
the cah is blew
LOL im sorry, but try putting a bird FEEDER( a seed despenser) by a differnt area, and maybe they will go to that instead of your car and lan pon da mirror.

Or get a Co2 powered BB gun and open on there feathered Wings

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man - dis wood be a grate idear if da cah never mooved any-place but i have to goto work i can hardley posishun feeders down the hole way
gun im likin it, dude

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but anyways, you gota clean ur car, anad keep it clean...

you gotta start with your WIFE, if you don't get the pack leader to listen then how can you get the fallowers?

tell her whats up, put a trash Bag or bin/box to promote what ur trying to do. and then if that doesn't happen, then just cutt off everyone from eating in the car. car is made to ride in, not eat in... a house/resurrant is what we eat in/at.


SPELL CHECK ME PLEASE... ahah

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Birds like mirrors thats why they are landing on it and probably pecking at the mirror. Other than that, where are you from? I'm trying to understand the spelling.

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Everyone needs a little "rice" in life!

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hhhmmmmm

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I'm just sayin'!

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i cleened the cah this mornin and told my wife what u sayd toeycrack. she sayd she wood try harda in future and wood remmembur yoor wurds. i fink ure right. if we keep the cah cleen the birds will fly away and forrage sumwhere-else.

Yocrew evry single cah has mirrors but teh birds only fly to mine cah!!!
Teh spellin is from Galway/Ire-land.
THX

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