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Point Blank: The meanest, roughest, toughest watch-through-your-hands that’s ever crossed the Knavesmire

Whatever it means its gotta be one of those words you hear and then have to force in somewhere to make you sound like an intellectual.

I doubt it rolls of the tongue of your average Irish man in general conversation.
 
Slim said:
This one gets an assist from the forum. All of the ideas started here.
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That's what places like this are there for.

You start off floating a concept in a room above a pub and if it has legs you can end up kicking Ant & Dec out of their prime time ITV Saturday Night slot.

Another enthralling read - I only actually winced once, either I'm becoming more robust or the author is mellowing - it's a million the latter, so it must be No Offers the former.
 
Ian_Davies said:
That's what places like this are there for.

You start off floating a concept in a room above a pub and if it has legs you can end up kicking Ant & Dec out of their prime time ITV Saturday Night slot.

Another enthralling read - I only actually winced once, either I'm becoming more robust or the author is mellowing - it's a million the latter, so it must be No Offers the former.
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I’m looking forward to the two-minute silence to commemorate the bombing of Dresden the next time a German horse runs at Ascot.
 
One minor point of pedantry: 'VJ Day', August 15, isn't the same day as the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Those were the 6th and 9th August. The surrender was signed on the 15th.

(At least the emperor spared his citizens further catastrophe after misguidedly enthusing the nation's young men into a mission of conquest that reflected his belief in his own deity.)
 
Desert Orchid said:
One minor point of pedantry: 'VJ Day', August 15, isn't the same day as the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Those were the 6th and 9th August. The surrender was signed on the 15th.

(At least the emperor spared his citizens further catastrophe after misguidedly enthusing the nation's young men into a mission of conquest that reflected his belief in his own deity.)
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I never said it was that same day. You’ll struggle with anything I write on here or anywhere else if you’re looking for historical or factual accuracy.
 
Slim said:
I never said it was that same day. You’ll struggle with anything I write on here or anywhere else if you’re looking for historical or factual accuracy.
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"What amused me most was that, just last Friday, all the jockeys at Newbury observed a two-minute silence to commemorate VJ Day. I believe that was the day the Allies nuked a few hundred thousand Japanese people — but who in racing is counting?"
 
yorick said:
I think schadenfreude is the cold enjoyment of somebody else's misfortune.
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I think that’s schadenfreude (sp)? Please note. I failed German and in my German oral exam the examiner felt so sorry for me they told me the answers; I only took German because the German teacher played the guitar and was very nice. It was bad enough having two genders in French ( which I did like) but three absolutely floored me…
 

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