| callie_ross
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The Mods shut down the other Bachelor thread, people didn't like it so they start up a similar thread with the same type of posts. This can only happen on FT!
Reply #121. Apr 28 12, 11:59 PM
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playmate1111 
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And why not, it's giving me such a laugh reading this ;)
Reply #122. Apr 29 12, 12:19 AM
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| C30
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Very wise of the bulls Daver! "Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned"...always reminds me (bullfighting that is) of when my ship went to Catargena and we were giving free tiokets to the local bull fight. The Spaniards were not impressed by us cheering for the bull!
Reply #123. Apr 29 12, 1:15 AM
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Creedy
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I think that "sport" is absolutely barbaric, along with any other sport that tortures and kills animals for entertainment value. How could they do that?
Reply #124. Apr 29 12, 2:36 AM
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Creedy
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But Daver, re "Creedy, you are correct that there are very few women matadors, but this is because bulls, being both male and wise, refuse to enter the ring when they see an armed woman waving a cape at them. The figure they have a better chance at the knackers"
Male and wise?? What a wonderful ox-ymoron.
Reply #125. Apr 29 12, 2:40 AM
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| lesley153
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Callie (did you see my post 109?) I posted this thread because Daver's thread had made me fall about laughing, and I was sorry to see it go. I had no idea it would take off! It's been as funny as the first one, but arguably a bit more restrained. If it carries on like this, I am optimistic that it will survive. Anything that allows me to express my feelings about the behaviour of persons of the male persuasion has got to be welcome.
I agree about bull-fighting - Ray, I'd have loved to see you cheering for the bull! - but it's still better than the ancient Roman equivalent. They used people. So that was worse - unless you think bulls are more important than people? |
Reply #126. Apr 29 12, 5:39 AM
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MikeMaster99
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Due to a few recent computer hiccups at work, I've been exposed to the word 'malware'. It would seem to make a great puzzle for wordwise! What would you all write for the clue, keeping in mind this wonderful thread?
Reply #127. Apr 29 12, 6:49 AM
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| lesley153
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| Clothes for a Scottish King? Feeble. Sorry. Anyone? |
Reply #128. Apr 29 12, 7:12 AM
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| trojan11
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Agree completely about the awfulness of bullfighting. There used to be a lot of it here. I only ever attended such an event once, up in Gautemala. Observing closely the bull throughout the entire proceedings, left me feeling sick to my stomach. Torment barely describes the animal's suffering.
As for driving like a maniac down mountain roads. I have a cousin like that. He considers himself to be a *wonderful* driver. You know the type, puts on those silly racing driver gloves whenever he drives. Screeching rubber around every bend, little in the way of any safety barriers, a hell ride for any passenger - and great amusement for him. The difference between us, is that I know that I'm a god awful driver - he thinks that he's god when behind a wheel.
I got my own back, 'tho. I was able to give him a taste of his own medicine when his car broke down at San Sebastian and I went out to pick him up. You've never heard a man shriek so loud, so high, nor witnessed such utter terror on a human face unless you saw his at that moment. Entreaties for me to slow down, "Your too close! Can't you see...look....look!" and so on. I realise that that little adventure makes me equally as bad as he, but I did truly enjoy the experience.
Reply #129. Apr 29 12, 7:16 AM
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| lesley153
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I certainly enjoyed reading about it. Did he change his ways after that, or did he continue to think he was the only person fit to be on the roads?
I've never understood the point of driving gloves. Perhaps they were invented by the same people who created go-faster furry dice. |
Reply #130. Apr 29 12, 7:21 AM
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| trojan11
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Don't forget the go faster stripe, lesley, and the ultimate......"let's paint the bonnet black - yeh?"
No, he didn't change. I don't see too much of him these days.
Reply #131. Apr 29 12, 7:28 AM
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| lesley153
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Black bonnet? that's a new one on me! Do the dice, and the go-faster stripes, and the inordinately silly gloves, all have to match?
Shame about the cousin. I have a few I will never speak to again, two male and one female, but that's because of their morals, not their driving - although the woman offered to drive my SIL's automatic car, put one foot on the brake and the other foot on the accelerator, and asked "What's that burning smell?" |
Reply #132. Apr 29 12, 7:43 AM
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Creedy
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How about this, Mike:
Malware = male dishwashing attire?
Reply #133. Apr 29 12, 8:29 AM
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Creedy
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Trojan, we once picked up a hitchhiker when my husband was driving. Off we sped with this innocent victim on board. Shortly after I noticed that he was clinging to the sides of the car, face white with terror.
When we pulled up fifty or so kilometres later at the bottom of the range to get petrol, the hitchhiker got out of the car as quickly as he could and staggered away.
Mr Creedy got back in the car and tore after him. "Oi!" he shouted jovially, "We're still going your way - get back in!"
And "No thanks, mate" was the terrified response, "I feel like walking for a while. My legs were getting cramps."
Now I know that his legs were getting cramps from being braced in horror against the back seat. The reason I know this is that my mother often walked the same way whenever she got out of a car driven by Mr Creedy. And her fingers were often to be seen clenching spasmodically from being gripped into the head rests. In delicious anticipation of being clasped around his throat.
My daughter, when she was small, once unbelted her seat belt, leaned forward - and vomited on his head. In that brief moment, just before he began swerving blindly all over the road, I knew the joy of sweet revenge.
Reply #134. Apr 29 12, 8:47 AM
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| C30
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Talking of cars (as we are), do all cars have "passenger emergency footbrake" fitted? If I am passenger in car, and driver doesn't do EXACTLY what I would do in any given situation......down goes my right foot!
Apparently, according to "dearly beloved", whenever she has been passenger in any vehicle I am driving, the "passenger brake" gets used often!
Joking apart, I think all people who have ever driven a vehicle do that, you never just sit there in passenger seat, mentally you "drive"......and if you think braking is called form down goes right foot!
Reply #135. Apr 29 12, 9:00 AM
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| C30
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for "form", read "for"..........typos strike again!
Reply #136. Apr 29 12, 9:02 AM
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daver852
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Malware = Flip-flops, bermuda shorts, t-shirt.
I am definitely not guilty of driving too fast. I probably would, but I am terrified of all the women drivers out there. Just yesterday I was driving downtown to pick up some wine. I was driving on Monroe Street, one of our main thoroughfares. On the way there, a car (driven by a woman) passed me on the right, and the driver made a rude gesture as she sped past. My crime was only doing 35mph in a 35mph zone. Here, speed limits, lights, traffic signs, etc., seem to be regarded more as suggestions than matters of law. If you do not drive 10 or 15 miles per hour over the speed limit, you are taking your life into your hands.
Reply #137. Apr 29 12, 9:10 AM
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| honeybee4
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I was driving on a winding road in the mountains going down hill A man was on the same road going uphill. I rolled down my window and yelled pig. He rolled down his window and yelled B...H. He continued around the curve and hit the pig. (joke)
Reply #138. Apr 29 12, 9:36 AM
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Creedy
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Lol!
Reply #139. Apr 29 12, 9:57 AM
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Creedy
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You want dangerous drivers? Come to this country. They're all nuts.
Reply #140. Apr 29 12, 9:58 AM
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