Especially on a phone screen!
Will Gary Lineker be presenting Motd on Saturday?
- Thread starter Bingoman
- Start date
Spymaster
Plastic Paddy
Yep. Scrolled straight past it.
existentialist
Tired and unemotional
It's worth a read. I had to open it in a new window and zoom the fuck out of it to make it readable, though <--- points at aged eyes.
Some time ago ( 2015 ? ) there were only 15 boys named ‘Gary’ in the UK.
You mean christened that?
strung out
💩 🤣 🍆 💦 🧐 👻 🐝 🐈⬛
It's David Squires for the Guardian, and yes, it looks crap when posted as a single image like that.
Much easier to read on the Guardian website, and he's generally very good at commenting on football related news and scandal.
David Squires on … Gary Lineker, the BBC and a bleak alternative MOTD
Our resident cartoonist on the crisis swirling around the Match of the Day presenter, GB News’ hot take and Tory footy analogies
I dunno how the process works for legally registering a human baby,
My mate was in a club/bar once and was talking to a woman who asked him his name.
He said, “it’s really shit from the 70s”
She replied, “Garry?”
(His passes the spymaster spelling test.)
He said, “it’s really shit from the 70s”
She replied, “Garry?”
(His passes the spymaster spelling test.)
Aiming high
It sounded like only 15 boys in the uk were called Gary. Ok fair enough you meant registered that year.
I have a suspicion there’s more than 15 on this site
I only know of one I think. Who I definitely won’t be naming.
I remember getting tons of mileage ripping the name ‘ Gawwy ‘ 20 years ago in the pub. Not a person present, just the name in general.
It tends to get shortened to Gal in London. Must be wheeze when in the US.
Gal is cool
American for female tho?
Names often transcend the word’s other meanings I guess, depending on context Gal will always mean that person.
Plus gender being a social construct an all that
friedaweed
Me and me girl named Jane
Pronounced Gail.
MickiQ
In My Defence I was left Unsupervised
I believe you can do it online now but I did it by going to the registry office and saying
"My wife has just had a baby I would like to register the birth please"
"Congratulations Mr Q we will just ask you a few simple questions"
10 mins later I handed over a small fee (I think it was £5 for the first three and might have been a tenner for Youngest) and left clutching a birth certificate.
At no point was I required to produce an actual baby as physical proof.
I went straight away because up until no more than a few weeks ago I always thought I had only 2 weeks to do it but apparently I was wrong and I actually had 6 weeks though that discovery has come almost 21 years too late to be useful. And also recently (all this new knowledge came from an Urban thread) I discovered the hospital registers the birth as well so I presume someone must crosscheck the lists at some point.
Funnily enough we used to call my mate Gail. Not because he was called Garry but because he looked like Gail Tilsley.
Same person though.
8ball
Decolonise colons!
Funnily enough we used to call my mate Gail. Not because he was called Garry but because he looked like Gail Tilsley.
Isn’t Gail one of those names that was originally masculine anyway?
<not that it’s even remotely relevant>
Last edited:
No idea. Might be. And he didn’t really look like her, he just had similar hair.Isn’t Gail one of those names that was originally masculine anyway?
<not that it’s even remotely relevant>
/blokey bantz
hitmouse
music obfuscation technology
I used to work with a Garry. When he started, another coworker told us all "you should never trust a Garry with two Rs".
Can't remember if I've ever mentioned it on here, but at one point in my life I worked on quite a small team, less than ten people, that had two ex-coppers on it, in a line of work that had no obvious connection to the police. The first ex-copper, the Freemason one who was my line manager, was genuinely a pretty pleasant person to work with, even if I didn't see eye to eye with him on everything. Garry-with-two-Rs less so.
He was notoriously racist and sexist, and also known for doing tremendously smelly farts. In that team there was a thing where every piece of work had to be checked by a second person before being sent off, which in most cases just meant doing basic proofreading, but it was broadly accepted that "checking" Garry's work might well mean having to rewrite the whole thing almost from scratch to get it up to an acceptable standard.
Perhaps the most notable aspect of our time working together was that, just as the anti-racist, quite good at his job Gary-with-one-R shat himself at work during the 1990 world cup, the racist, rubbish at his job Garry-with-two-Rs was rumoured to have shat himself at work one day. Whether that actually happened or if it was just a particularly noxious fart is something that Garry or God could say for sure, but certainly the above-mentioned coworker strongly believed it to be true, and would often mention it to us as proof of why you should never trust a Garry with two Rs, and from that day forth anyone who had to sit in what became known as Garry's shart chair would always feel a bit uneasy about it.
Anyway, if that's a representative sample of Garrys, it hardly seems like the sort of thing we should be encouraging.
friedaweed
Me and me girl named Jane
Very Strange did you say?
Sweet FA
✪ Three rounds Lord, in my .44 ✪
"Don't you miss it, Gal?" I say, "What, England? Nah. Fucking place. It's a dump. Don't make me laugh. Grey, grimy, sooty. What a shit hole. What a toilet. Every cunt with a long face shuffling about, moaning, all worried. No thanks, not for me." They say, "What's it like, then, Spain?" And I'll say, "It's hot. Hot. Oh, it's fucking hot. Too hot? Not for me, I love it."
Elpenor
a clown’s heart and a mandolin
Penny Lane
Similar threads
