Bob Jones you are awesome and I hate you

[limbimtimwim]

http://stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3836570a10,00.html

If there were a show like 'The Osbournes' but 'The Jones'' we'd have the best television ever.

[apteryx_haasti]

http://stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3836570a10,00.html

If there were a show like 'The Osbournes' but 'The Jones'' we'd have the best television ever.

Oh my! That is fantastic - and I have to say I agree...who hasn't been on a bus with some jerk screaming into their cell phone about nothing?

Ah - thanks limbimtimwim, you've just added another reason to why I love my bike....hardly ever need the bus now!

:love:

[Colapop]

Bob is a cool guy. Like most people that have a little bit of money he's an arrogant son-of-a-bitch though. In my opin... :mobile: wait a minute, I have to take this....

[Wasp]

he lives just down the road from me, cool house, cool driveway, cool 'lectric gates.

i wouldnt want to have lunch with someone who was on their cell phone the whole time either.

[trumpy]

Totally agree with Bob.
I love new technology. I had one of the first cell phones in town, never mind "the brick", this one had a separate handpiece like to the main unit and took up 3/4 of my (rather large) briefcase!!
But there is a time and place for everything and civility is still important. My pet dislike is for those people who insist on answering texts while I'm trying to have a conversation with them. Nowdays, I immediately stop talking (usually mid sentence) and walk away. Interesting thing is I am often the one accused of being rude!
As for those dorks who insist on wearing their blue tooth earpieces absoulutely everywhere, like they are that busy and important they need such a device every moment of the day?? Seem to see heaps of them driving around Aucks in Nissan Cedrics, Toyota Coronas etc.

Sorry..........it's Sunday morning, it's raining, there are things to do and I would rather be riding...........= grumpy.

[Beemer]

Have to agree with him - most people use their cellphones to 'prove' how important they are. What they don't realise is that if they WERE that important, they wouldn't be answering their own phones! I bet Bill Gates doesn't wander around with one pressed to his ear all day. As far as I am concerned, the only time you have a legitimate reason to leave your phone on night and day is if a member of your family is close to death and you will need to arrange to get there when the inevitable happens. Or you are on call, etc. Anyone else can and should turn it off when meeting other people or having a meal, it's just rude not to.

I like the way Bob gives the others arseholes on Dragon's Den - it's worth watching for that alone! I hate that young guy and Annette Presley - that voice of hers could strip paint at 50 paces and she laughs like a bloody witch!

[limbimtimwim]

I hate that young guy and Annette Presley - that voice of hers could strip paint at 50 paces and she laughs like a bloody witch!She is quite a looser. See more of Annette being a fool: http://youtube.com/watch?v=BGuPK4-q_08 .

[Hitcher]

Like Bob Jones, I resent the rudeness many cellphone users exhibit. And inappropriate timing of texting is just as bad. How did people manage multiple relationships before these things were invented?

[limbimtimwim]

How did people manage multiple relationships before these things were invented?I'm wondering, because you asked that question in a kind of rhetorical sense, do you really mean you are some kind of expert?

[Colapop]

He'd have to be in some sort of national manager of communications type role to ask questions like that wouldn't he?

[Swoop]

Much like "call waiting" on the land line.
"I have another call coming in - hang on a second..." so I hang up.
They call back, "I think we got cut off?..." me - "No, I hung up on you". Morons.

[Skyryder]

As for those dorks who insist on wearing their blue tooth earpieces absoulutely everywhere, like they are that busy and important they need such a device every moment of the day?? Seem to see heaps of them driving around Aucks in Nissan Cedrics, Toyota Coronas etc.

It's an image thing. Like look at me..........I'm a wheeler dealer and so important that people need my decision making expertise......... etc etc.


I just see them as modern day Maxwell Smart's. Fuckwits with a shoe phone complex.

Skyryder

[apteryx_haasti]

SPeaking of people being rude fuckwits - how about going to a concert, yeah it's in a small venue (pub) but does that mean you have to talk all the way through it - you dumb bitch!!! Some of us are here because we actually want to listen to the singer....

[James Deuce]

Nah, Pub gigs are fair game. No one playing in a band expects anyone except their immediate coterie to pay any attention at all, and even then the coterie are usually bored to death with the same old, same old.

Phones though. Don't be surprised to wear a drum stick in the middle of a set if you answer your phone during an acoustic piece and then proceed to laugh loudly. I always throw them so the stick is spinning at about 300rpm and can be mistaken for an "oops, slipped" moment.

Still smarts though.

I've always like Bob Jones' style. Punching media up while being stalked when fishing was another great Bob Jones moment.

[apteryx_haasti]

What about when the singer actually asks people to take it outside or shut up? She asked "nicely"...

[James Deuce]

*shrug*. That's what bouncers are for. Or sometimes drummers who have nothing to do in the quiet bits. PLaying in London was an education. If it said "No Cameras" they meant no cameras. Flash goes off, Brutus moves into the crowd, there's a yell, the sound that plastic and metal make when it is unmanufactured, and some inverse crowd surfing as a punter slides out the door on his/her belly.

Bob is definitely right in this instance though. They entered a contract and then blew him off. I turn my phone off when I go to meetings. Being a BOFH means I can disable a client's Blackberry system before I go to a meeting with them to ensure it isn't interrupted.

[Lou Girardin]

Bob Jones is good with stuff like that.
I've got so sick of customers taking calls while we're talking, that I now just walk away and serve someone with manners.

[Beemer]

SPeaking of people being rude fuckwits - how about going to a concert, yeah it's in a small venue (pub) but does that mean you have to talk all the way through it - you dumb bitch!!! Some of us are here because we actually want to listen to the singer....

We had two ditsy cows behind us at Th' Dudes concert. They obviously weren't Hammond Gamble fans but when they carried on talking through Hello Sailor, I got fed up! I turned around and stared at her but just got a vacant look in return, so in the end I said - loudly - "did you come here to listen to the music or just bloody talk?" Thankfully that did shut her up but it really annoys me, just like people who talk all through movies. Or answer calls... or take three-month-old babies to movies with loud soundtracks and then go "sshh" all the time!

[Blackbird]

Go into a second hand bookshop and look for Bob Jone's "Letters" or "More Letters" books. I have one of them and I'll guarantee that you'll wet yourself. They are a collection of his letters which he's written to people over the years who richly deserve a good bollocking. The mix of articulate prose and gutter language is a joy to read.

[Maha]

Cool guy.....no doubt about it, two things that stick in my mind are..
1... He got rid an 'out of control' National Party.....:bye:
2... While fishing in Turangi, punched a reported on the nose....:Punk:

[Hitcher]

Bob Jones is a self-absorbed bully who uses his "status" to leverage his bullying. The books of his letters demonstrate this less-than-savoury characteristic very clearly. He also used to be able to rally support from his merchant wanking friends to help assassinate the character of people to whom he took a dislike, such as female police officers and folks who pissed him off while he was out driving in his Jag. He may sometimes be amusing, as many pricks often are.

[crazybigal]

are you telling me you wouldnt do her? so what if shes an air head! got great tits!


She is quite a looser. See more of Annette being a fool: http://youtube.com/watch?v=BGuPK4-q_08 .

[Blackbird]

Bob Jones is a self-absorbed bully who uses his "status" to leverage his bullying. The books of his letters demonstrate this less-than-savoury characteristic very clearly. He also used to be able to rally support from his merchant wanking friends to help assassinate the character of people to whom he took a dislike, such as female police officers and folks who pissed him off while he was out driving in his Jag. He may sometimes be amusing, as many pricks often are.

Most characters of worth throughout history are flawed - Churchill for example. It is their idiosyncracies that raise them from the dross. I agree with what you say but he is stilll a great character. Give me characters every day over mediocracy.

[limbimtimwim]

are you telling me you wouldnt do her? so what if shes an air head! got great tits!AARARAGAGAGHhhhhhhhhhhhhhh That's disgusting.

[James Deuce]

AARARAGAGAGHhhhhhhhhhhhhhh That's disgusting.


Agreed, she's horrible.