The Ranting Room

Jim Garten wrote: OK - just a quick rant. Pete Docherty! How the hell has he avoided prison - this is a guy who is constantly being arrested on charges of class A drug possession (most recently yesterday), yet he only gets warned that if this continues, he may face prison, yet a friend of mine was arrested for possession, 1st offence & spent 4 months inside! Why is Pete Docherty not in ing prison?

mystic fred wrote: Jim Garten wrote: OK - just a quick rant. Pete Docherty! How the hell has he avoided prison - this is a guy who is constantly being arrested on charges of class A drug possession (most recently yesterday), yet he only gets warned that if this continues, he may face prison, yet a friend of mine was arrested for possession, 1st offence & spent 4 months inside! Why is Pete Docherty not in ing prison?    ££££££££ might have something to do with it! no judge would put him in prison - they'd have a lot of fun with him in there...

Luckily, most retailers in this country no longer accept cheques, but they still insist on accepting coupons cut from old persons' magazines ("Wee & Cabbage Weekly" or some such...), so whereas we don't get the cheque queue, we do get people waiting until the cashier has rung up & totalled the bill, then producing a wad of coupons, most of which are out of date and/or irrelevant, in order to get 3 pence off a can of cat food... then they have to work out how to use the chip & PIN machine, by which time the brain dead 3 year old drone of a cashier needs his nappy changed.

You've never got an Uzi when you want one, have you?

Syzygy wrote: Jim Garten wrote: OK - just a quick rant. Pete Docherty! How the hell has he avoided prison - this is a guy who is constantly being arrested on charges of class A drug possession (most recently yesterday), yet he only gets warned that if this continues, he may face prison, yet a friend of mine was arrested for possession, 1st offence & spent 4 months inside! Why is Pete Docherty not in ing prison? I don't particularly have a problem with Pete Doherty. As a fan of Lou Reed, Iggy Pop, Nick Cave and Shane MacGowan I can hardly hold his lifestyle against him. Having said that, I don't understand why he's rated so highly, either as a performer or a songwriter (the guy's not totally talentless, but there's nothing I can see to elevate him above plenty of other indie scene hopefuls of recent years) - at least the wasters I mentioned had made some decent music while they were self destructing.

Believe me Chris, I have no problem with his lifestyle; the problem I have is the sheer injustice when one person (not in the public view) gets to stay at one of the Queen's hotels for a first offence, whereas the worst that PD seems to get for repeat offending is a dodgy picture of himself on the front page of yet another tabloid.

Tea would be lovely.  Milk no sugar, ta muchly!

Ice in a cup of tea? 

Jim Garten wrote: Geck0 wrote: Tea would be lovely given you're a woman and that is therefore your job...  Milk no sugar, ta muchly! James - you do like the thin ice, don't you?

Edited by mystic fred - August 23 2007 at 12:23

Can you drop it round?  I'm going out in an hour or so.  Thanks! 

Well, I'm in a good mood most of the time.

Of course, PC, the problem to which I was referring was strictly an American one...something that naturally wouldn't apply to a modern, intelligent, technologically savvy Englishwoman as yourself.  

I just had to go back and read your post NS, no worries, I don't use a cheque book..... my rant was about soemthing else, I was just letting off a little steam in here.......I'm better now!


Although on the subject of cheque books, I know when my father died and my mother took over the household accounts for the first time, she used cheques for practically everything, it meant that she had a good record of her spends and could trace stuff easily and keep the accounting in order easier..... I have managed to get her using a debit card now, but she has a little hard backed note book that she whips out at the check out to write things down...... or she gets into a pickle! (she's an old half blind lady, who for over 40 years had all such things done for her by my Dad....and NO I wouldn't like to get stuck behind her in a queue!)

But thanks for the pointless flattery..... first e-dub and now you...I could get used to this!!!

Why does my teenage son and all his gormless mates walk around town with their ing trousers so low that their crotch is down by the ing ankles. This must be the most ridiculous, idiotic fashion trend in the whole of human history . Bring back the birch