Farmers want "couch potato" removed from the dictionary because they believe the expression is damaging the vegetable's image. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4108964.stm -- <8P Wizard Suzuki GS550 "I like that. Nicely shite" - TOG BMW 520i (to make Oldbloke jealous) ANORAK#17b BOMB#19 BOTAFOT#138 BREast#5 COFF#24 COSOC#8 DFV#11 STG#1 Remove location from email address to reply
It's just advertising. Nobody but the shock-horror rags will pay much attention, unless the anti-EU lot hijack it for their own ends.
platypus () says... <checks calendar> Of course! we're getting into the Silly Season! That wonderful time of year when politics shuts down for a while, Branson does something dangerous, and any half-arsed stunt can be guaranteed column inches! Has the Daily Telegraph done its annual story about killer bees yet? -- <8P Wizard Suzuki GS550 "I like that. Nicely shite" - TOG BMW 520i (to make Oldbloke jealous) ANORAK#17b BOMB#19 BOTAFOT#138 BREast#5 COFF#24 COSOC#8 DFV#11 STG#1 Remove location from email address to reply
It's the thin end of the wedge, I tell you. Next it'll be : 'spud gun' - "We don't want potatoes associated with gun-related crime. In fact, pototoes stopped being used as weapons in the 17th century (with the exception of Norfolk where the practice continues)" 'mashed' - "Potatoes are not drugs - and eating them in moderation does not induce the behaviour normally associated with drug-taking." 'chip-fat' - "Chips are not always fat - some are very long and skinny" 'half-baked' - "This associates potatoes with badly thought out ideas!"
platypus () says... <Puzzled> <Remembers> <Winks at Platy and taps nose in conspiratorial way> -- <8P Wizard Suzuki GS550 "I like that. Nicely shite" - TOG BMW 520i (to make Oldbloke jealous) ANORAK#17b BOMB#19 BOTAFOT#138 BREast#5 COFF#24 COSOC#8 DFV#11 STG#1 Remove location from email address to reply
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You'd think they'd approach the Union of Couch Makers in an attempt to present a 'united front' wouldn't you? Fuckin amateurs. What's it doing for fucking couches? that's what I want to know. Give *them* a bad image and before you know it we'll all be sitting on the floor like fucking Japs or summat and then where will it all end? Well the next step would be every fucker eating raw fish.........which isn't served with potatoes. Come on Farmers! get a grip ay?
No but the Sunday Telegraph had a story about bees, foreign mites, DEFRA and the EU, which seems to cover most of the ST's interests.
Potatoes are not inherently healthy, its that sort of thinking that makes people eat a baked potato for lunch then have a plate of chips for tea and wonder why they're so fat. -- Martin: "For a minute there, you bored me to death." VTR1000 Firestorm TDR250 http://ukrm.net/BIKES/Yamaha/tdr250.html martin dot smith nine zero three at ntlworld dot com
