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Beau Peep Notice Board => Outpourings => Topic started by: Mince on March 30, 2008, 10:30:58 PM

Title: Most Haunted
Post by: Mince on March 30, 2008, 10:30:58 PM
This programme should be honestly titled: "Stupid gullible t*&%s walking around in the dark."
Title: Re: Most Haunted
Post by: Roger Kettle on March 30, 2008, 10:47:42 PM
And what should the people who watch it be called?
Title: Re: Most Haunted
Post by: The Peepmaster on March 30, 2008, 10:55:50 PM
And what should the people who watch it be called?

"Mince and colleagues".

At least Mince isn't a "tw*t walking about in the dark". I hear he keeps the lights on.
Title: Re: Most Haunted
Post by: Mince on March 30, 2008, 11:00:39 PM
I watched it until boredom set in, which was about three minutes.
Title: Re: Most Haunted
Post by: Mince on March 30, 2008, 11:01:11 PM
It's as bad as that Loch Ness rubbish.
Title: Re: Most Haunted
Post by: The Peepmaster on March 30, 2008, 11:05:19 PM
I watched it until boredom set in, which was about three minutes.

The TV became bored and switched itself off?
Title: Re: Most Haunted
Post by: Mince on March 30, 2008, 11:11:19 PM
The TV became bored and switched itself off?

Yes, try to keep up.

The television has a low boredom threshold.
Title: Re: Most Haunted
Post by: The Peepmaster on March 30, 2008, 11:16:28 PM
The TV became bored and switched itself off?

Yes, try to keep up.

The television has a low boredom threshold.

If I was the TV in your house, I'd elope.
Title: Re: Most Haunted
Post by: Mince on March 30, 2008, 11:18:54 PM
Yes, but we already have one. You'll have to play "televisions" somewhere else. Don't you have a cardboard box to keep you quiet?
Title: Re: Most Haunted
Post by: Tarquin Thunderthighs lll on March 31, 2008, 12:06:49 AM
It's as bad as that Loch Ness rubbish.

And what rubbish might that be?
Title: Re: Most Haunted
Post by: Mince on March 31, 2008, 12:16:30 AM
It's as bad as that Loch Ness rubbish.

And what rubbish might that be?

Apparently there are some complete dimwits who think there is a monster in there.
Title: Re: Most Haunted
Post by: Tarquin Thunderthighs lll on March 31, 2008, 12:30:20 AM
But of course, you've had a good look and you didn't find one.
Title: Re: Most Haunted
Post by: Mince on March 31, 2008, 12:32:07 AM
No, actually, I have found loads of dimwits.
Title: Re: Most Haunted
Post by: Tarquin Thunderthighs lll on March 31, 2008, 12:33:21 AM
I don't believe in dimwits, because I've never seen one.
Title: Re: Most Haunted
Post by: Mince on March 31, 2008, 12:39:29 AM
I bet everyone you've met has met at least one.

Seriously, though, inability to prove its absence is not a good enough reason for believing in its existence.
Title: Re: Most Haunted
Post by: Tarquin Thunderthighs lll on March 31, 2008, 12:40:37 AM
What about having seen it?
Title: Re: Most Haunted
Post by: Mince on March 31, 2008, 12:46:51 AM
Can you prove that this person is not lying and is not mistaken?
Title: Re: Most Haunted
Post by: Tarquin Thunderthighs lll on March 31, 2008, 12:49:26 AM
Some people I trust, Mincey (not many).
Title: Re: Most Haunted
Post by: Mince on March 31, 2008, 12:52:08 AM
That's the first dealt with.
Title: Re: Most Haunted
Post by: Tarquin Thunderthighs lll on March 31, 2008, 01:01:41 AM
She's in her sixties, confined to a wheelchair these days, a devout Christian and retired teacher of children, adults and guests of Her Majesty, with a razor-sharp wit and sense of justice far beyond the norm. She is also one of the most honest people I have ever met, occasionally brutally so.

She saw the beastie, and is in no doubt whatsoever about what she witnessed. 
Title: Re: Most Haunted
Post by: Malc on March 31, 2008, 04:47:40 AM
Yeah, shut up, you poof.
Title: Re: Most Haunted
Post by: The Peepmaster on March 31, 2008, 06:00:25 AM
She's in her sixties, confined to a wheelchair these days, a devout Christian and retired teacher of children, adults and guests of Her Majesty, with a razor-sharp wit and sense of justice far beyond the norm. She is also one of the most honest people I have ever met, occasionally brutally so.

She saw the beastie, and is in no doubt whatsoever about what she witnessed. 

And she also has a highly respectable job working for the Tourist Board.
Title: Re: Most Haunted
Post by: Tarquin Thunderthighs lll on March 31, 2008, 10:55:14 AM
And she also has a highly respectable job working for the Tourist Board.

 ::)
Title: Re: Most Haunted
Post by: The Peepmaster on March 31, 2008, 11:31:45 AM
Hey, those are reserved for Mince.
Title: Re: Most Haunted
Post by: Tarquin Thunderthighs lll on March 31, 2008, 11:55:59 AM
Hey, those are reserved for Mince.

Or general Minci(Loch)ness.  ::)
Title: Re: Most Haunted
Post by: The Peepmaster on March 31, 2008, 12:05:57 PM
Don't compare me with Mince! That'd be like comparing a coconut macaroon with a cow pat.  ::)
Title: Re: Most Haunted
Post by: Mince on March 31, 2008, 12:33:27 PM
Peepmaster, you're bad, but you're not a cow pat.
Title: Re: Most Haunted
Post by: The Peepmaster on March 31, 2008, 12:37:59 PM
Peepmaster, you're bad, but you're not a cow pat.
Chronological order, Mince - chronological order...  ::)
Title: Re: Most Haunted
Post by: Mince on March 31, 2008, 03:21:45 PM
Chronological order, Mince - chronological order...  ::)

Oh, so you started out as a cow pat and went downhill from there. I see.

(By the way, it's syntactical order.)
Title: Re: Most Haunted
Post by: A Woman on March 31, 2008, 09:59:58 PM
Loch Ness Monster is a load of tosh! I think I met the woman in question who tarq's reckons has seen 'it'..... mmmm! Tosh. She's popped too many pain killers if you ask me.... or was the wacky backy I recall she liberally was known to take to numb the pain - senses more like!

Nessie is just a ploy to get folk to drive up and down a oversized lake whilst polluting the air with car fumes...  Tourist board should be ashamed of themselves.

Pretty little lake though!  ;D
Title: Re: Most Haunted
Post by: Mince on March 31, 2008, 10:08:41 PM
Loch Ness Monster is a load of tosh! I think I met the woman in question who tarq's reckons has seen 'it'..... mmmm! Tosh. She's popped too many pain killers if you ask me.... or was the wacky backy I recall she liberally was known to take to numb the pain - senses more like!

There's nothing like a woman to destroy credibility.  ;D
Title: Re: Most Haunted
Post by: Roger Kettle on March 31, 2008, 11:02:10 PM
As we've discussed all this before, I was reluctant to go over old ground but.....
There are/have been animals in Loch Ness which should not be there. They were first reported in the 5th century when---I'm pretty sure---tourism was not an influencing factor. To say, simply, that "The Monster" doesn't exist is to say that over 3,000 witnesses---including doctors, lawyers, monks, M.P.s, policemen, gamekeepers and fishermen who have lived there all their lives---are either liars or mistaken. As G.K. Chesterton once said, " Many people have been hung on less evidence than there is for the "Loch Ness Monster".
Title: Re: Most Haunted
Post by: Mince on March 31, 2008, 11:08:32 PM
A lot of people used to think the world was flat. They were wrong.

A lot of people still think that time is constant, and would scoff at the idea that time is slowed down by something like gravity. They also are wrong.

But I am sure they also believed they were not mistaken concerning the evidence with which they arrive at their conclusion.

The sheer number of sightings that have occurred without any of them producing incontrovertible proof of Nessie's existence to me indicates that something else is causing these sightings.
Title: Re: Most Haunted
Post by: The Peepmaster on March 31, 2008, 11:24:49 PM
I thought you were going to correct Roger's "hung".
Title: Re: Most Haunted
Post by: Mince on March 31, 2008, 11:35:49 PM
I thought you were going to correct Roger's "hung".

Why? Did he mean "hug"? That makes no sense.
Title: Re: Most Haunted
Post by: Tarquin Thunderthighs lll on April 01, 2008, 12:54:02 AM
A lot of people used to think the world was flat. They were wrong.

A lot of people still think that time is constant, and would scoff at the idea that time is slowed down by something like gravity. They also are wrong.


Science proved them wrong. As it will the cynics who seek to brand those with open minds as cranks, drunks and ne'er-do-wells.

You'll be telling me next there is no God.
Title: Re: Most Haunted
Post by: The Peepmaster on April 01, 2008, 08:17:01 AM
I thought you were going to correct Roger's "hung".

Why? Did he mean "hug"? That makes no sense.

It should have been "hanged".  ::)
Title: Re: Most Haunted
Post by: Roger Kettle on April 01, 2008, 09:46:56 AM
I was quoting G.K. Chesterton. It was him what said it.
Title: Re: Most Haunted
Post by: The Peepmaster on April 01, 2008, 09:59:24 AM
I was quoting G.K. Chesterton. It was him what said it.

I realised that, Roger, but I was trying to be pedantic before Mince had a chance.