Announcement

Collapse
No announcement yet.

Have we done nominative determinism?

Collapse
X
 
  • Filter
  • Time
  • Show
Clear All
new posts

  • Patrick Thistle
    replied
    It's an unpleasant story, but the name of the Barrister conducting an independent review into emotional and spiritual abuse at a big church in the UK is called Fiona Scolding.

    https://www.watfordobserver.co.uk/ne...-come-forward/

    Leave a comment:


  • The Awesome Berbaslug!!!
    replied
    Originally posted by Sheep View Post

    Maybe EIM too, but I announced this plan here.
    You think that by spouting all that virtuous sounding jibber jabber, we won't notice that it's all just leading up to your real agenda, more grazing land for sheep!

    Leave a comment:


  • Duncan Gardner
    replied

    Leave a comment:


  • Sheep
    replied
    Originally posted by Etienne View Post
    Doesn't EIM want to re-purpose all golf courses? Seems sound to me.
    Maybe EIM too, but I announced this plan here.

    Leave a comment:


  • George C.
    replied
    How so?

    Leave a comment:


  • Duncan Gardner
    replied
    You would know

    Leave a comment:


  • George C.
    replied
    Does 'surly' work?

    Leave a comment:


  • Duncan Gardner
    replied
    Please don't call me Surely

    Leave a comment:


  • Evariste Euler Gauss
    replied
    Originally posted by Duncan Gardner View Post
    Nobody here hates golf
    Joke, surely?

    Leave a comment:


  • Jah Womble
    replied
    Originally posted by Duncan Gardner View Post
    Nobody here hates golf...
    I wouldn't be wagering too much on that particular assertion.

    Leave a comment:


  • beak
    replied
    Fuck golf!

    Leave a comment:


  • Etienne
    replied
    Doesn't EIM want to re-purpose all golf courses? Seems sound to me.

    Leave a comment:


  • Duncan Gardner
    replied
    Nobody here hates golf though McIlroy sounds ridiculous

    Leave a comment:


  • Nocturnal Submission
    replied
    One for the golf-haters: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/golf/67933919

    Leave a comment:


  • ursus arctos
    replied
    Appears to run in the family (from a long FT piece on a remarkably obvious fraud)


    Tingo’s founder also enlisted the services of Chris Cleverly, a barrister in the UK with experience working on “white-collar fraud and organised transnational crime cases”, according to his chambers. The cousin of UK Home Secretary James Cleverly became Tingo’s president and board member.

    Bilal Brahim, chief executive at Fame, a farmers network in Nigeria, said Chris Cleverly had approached him to buy software, offering to trade about £20mn of Tingo shares. Chris Cleverly declined to comment.

    Hindenburg’s Anderson said he had “never seen anything like” Tingo. “For a decent fraud case, there might be a couple of material misrepresentations where management will try to lie about a big thing or two,” said Anderson. Here what was faked was “an entire conglomerate”.​

    Leave a comment:


  • Evariste Euler Gauss
    replied
    Our new Home Sec continues to live out the counter example life, this time with his drink spiking "joke".

    Leave a comment:


  • Nocturnal Submission
    replied
    Get well soon Charlie and all that, but I'm obviously hoping for the involvement of a taser: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-67804344

    Leave a comment:


  • Evariste Euler Gauss
    replied
    Originally posted by Balderdasha View Post

    This is like the sham vote to rename the polar scientific research vessel in 2016. By far the most popular choice was "Boaty McBoatface" but those in charge instead named it the RRS Sir David Attenborough. In a slight nod to democracy, one of the attached robotic subs is now called Boaty McBoatface: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boaty_McBoatface
    That's awful. It should have been called Subby McSubface.

    Anyway, we should also have a thread on nominative determinism near misses. (Observation of pedantically logical stand-up comedian I heard once: that expression should actually be "near hits"). Because I've just discovered that the music of Grover Washington, Jr is really groovy.

    Leave a comment:


  • Walter Knight
    replied
    Originally posted by Amor de Cosmos View Post

    Why not? What sort of humourless factotum decides these things?
    Maybe 'advised' would be more appropriate than 'told'. That'll teach me for trusting Wikipedia as a source...

    https://stories.swns.com/news/sir-mi...rd-lord-10641/

    Leave a comment:


  • Balderdasha
    replied
    Originally posted by Amor de Cosmos View Post

    Why not? What sort of humourless factotum decides these things?

    Similarly some years ago, here in Canada, residents of the western North West Territories had a referendum to choose a new name — the eastern NWT had recently become Nunavut. They decided it should be called Bob. But, yet again, the wishes of the public were overruled so, boringly, it remains the North West Territories.
    This is like the sham vote to rename the polar scientific research vessel in 2016. By far the most popular choice was "Boaty McBoatface" but those in charge instead named it the RRS Sir David Attenborough. In a slight nod to democracy, one of the attached robotic subs is now called Boaty McBoatface: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boaty_McBoatface

    Leave a comment:


  • Gangster Octopus
    replied
    It should've been Territory McTerritory Face, surely...

    Leave a comment:


  • Amor de Cosmos
    replied
    Originally posted by Walter Knight View Post

    This chap could have been Lord Lord, but was told he couldn't be, disappointingly...

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Lord
    Why not? What sort of humourless factotum decides these things?

    Similarly some years ago, here in Canada, residents of the western North West Territories had a referendum to choose a new name — the eastern NWT had recently become Nunavut. They decided it should be called Bob. But, yet again, the wishes of the public were overruled so, boringly, it remains the North West Territories.

    Leave a comment:


  • Walter Knight
    replied
    Originally posted by Gangster Octopus View Post
    With the recent death of Judge Judge (latterly Lord Judge), has there ever been a Lord Lord or a Baron Baron etc.
    This chap could have been Lord Lord, but was told he couldn't be, disappointingly...

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Lord

    Leave a comment:


  • Jah Womble
    replied
    As an aside: a former agent of mine rejoiced in the title of 'Baron Young' - which made for one or two obvious earworms.

    Leave a comment:


  • Gangster Octopus
    replied
    With the recent death of Judge Judge (latterly Lord Judge), has there ever been a Lord Lord or a Baron Baron etc.

    Leave a comment:

Working...
X