Now, this IS something that irks me.

ROOG

Nor have I heard them lay claim to them, they have been on the planet long enough to know that there are procedures for this sort of thing.

Phil_aka_Pip

ROOG said:

I'll tell you what Irks me,

Dolphins, that's who,

Swimming about the sea all day, eating our fish, all smug as you like, proper giggly and making a noise like the internet used to, to add insult to injury.

Man thought he was the most intelligent being on the planet because of what he'd achieved - the wheel, New York, wars, and so on, whereas the dolphins had just been mucking about in the water having a good time. Others thought the dolphins were the most intelligent for precisely the same reason.

(slightly paraphrased from HHGTTG)

ROOG

My view on life was irrevocably changed by those writings, Douglas has a lot to answer for. 

Or put another way, I've not been right since.

Phil_aka_Pip

His views on who should be president of the galaxy are straight out of Thomas More's Utopia

bertie

ROOG said:

I'll tell you what Irks me,

Dolphins, that's who,

Swimming about the sea all day, eating our fish, all smug as you like, proper giggly and making a noise like the internet used to, to add insult to injury.

indeed,  they just seem to go about with no porpoise in life

mike_l

WTF are you lot talking about?

Squeaking computers. Dolphins squeaking like computers. Computers eating fish without paying.

 

You lot are a bit mad.

VimFuego

so's your face.

mike_l

I was hit with a frying pan as a kid.

Happy now???

 

Eh, eh?

>:D<

VimFuego

oddly enough, and on some deep seated level, it does help. A lot. Thanks.