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- Sun Feb 12, 2012 2:12 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Has anyone else got chlamydia?
- Replies: 32
- Views: 6476
Re: Has anyone else got chlamydia?
What is chlamydia? I have lived a long, clean living life. Have I missed anything?
- Sat May 28, 2011 9:21 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Why do you wake up each day?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 3641
Re: Why do you wake up each day?
I couldn't face a sausageMatt Morrison wrote:Because there's always a sausage waiting for you?George F. Jenkins wrote:I am always surprised and very pleased when I wake up each day.Jon O'Neill wrote:I'm typing this in bed with a hangover and only sausages will rouse me today.
early in the morning Matt. It's just nice to be still alive.
- Sat May 28, 2011 11:39 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Why do you wake up each day?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 3641
Re: Why do you wake up each day?
I am always surprised and very pleased when I wake up each day.Jon O'Neill wrote:I'm typing this in bed with a hangover and only sausages will rouse me today.
Re: WEED
What is it about the people on this forum that set them apart from the rest of the human race? You don't, even when young, get succumbed by peer pressure and make your own decisions. Hardly any spliffs, not many smokers, you all see the dangers and don't join in with the crowd. Truly impressive. I ...
- Sun Mar 13, 2011 3:36 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Favourite mammal
- Replies: 42
- Views: 5094
Re: Favourite mammal
I love grey squirrels, they make lovely targets. :o :o :o :o :o :o YOU KILL SQUIRRELS???????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! noooooooooooooooooooo waaaaaaay!!!! ...not a vegetarian or anything...just an animal lover. still, NO CRUELTY TO ANIMALS IN MY WORLD, MISTER! :lol: :lol: :l...
- Wed Mar 09, 2011 12:15 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Favourite mammal
- Replies: 42
- Views: 5094
Re: Favourite mammal
I love grey squirrels, they make lovely targets.JackHurst wrote:My favourite mammal is Josh Hurst, closely followed by Jack Hurst.
- Wed Mar 09, 2011 12:05 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: 5 Random Songs
- Replies: 42
- Views: 6821
Re: 5 Random Songs
I don't understand modern songs which must be accompanied by frantic prancing round the stage. I don't understand this sentence. I think it is called the generation gap Ben. It was the same in my young days, when I was a locomotive fireman. The old Drivers couldn't stand our modern music in the 194...
- Sun Mar 06, 2011 10:57 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: 5 Random Songs
- Replies: 42
- Views: 6821
Re: 5 Random Songs
I don't understand modern songs which must be accompanied by frantic prancing round the stage. I think that it is an ugly style of so called musc
- Tue Mar 01, 2011 9:16 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Adolf Hitler
- Replies: 20
- Views: 2648
Re: Adolf Hitler
Soph K, Re. the story about death penalties in Nazi Germany. Not long after the war, we saw what happened to a woman living on her own in Germany. the war crimes invetigators reported the case. They even found the woman who reported the suspicious activities of the woman to the Gestapo. when the wom...
- Tue Mar 01, 2011 8:40 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: All of you will be very happy to read this
- Replies: 18
- Views: 3056
Re: All of you will be very happy to read this
Sorry lads and lasses. I posted the same subject twice and I don't know how I managed to do that. I think that it is an age thing.
- Tue Mar 01, 2011 8:36 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: All of you will be very happy to read this
- Replies: 18
- Views: 3056
Re: All of you will be very happy to read this
Jason, English humour is sometimes based on opposite situatuations. If it is pelting down with rain, I would say "lovely weather we're having aint we"". An American won't see the ironic humour and spoil it by saying, "no! I don't think it is". Well! we know bleeding well it'...
- Tue Mar 01, 2011 8:36 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: All of you will be very happy to read this
- Replies: 18
- Views: 3056
Re: All of you will be very happy to read this
Jason, English humour is sometimes based on opposite situatuations. If it is pelting down with rain, I would say "lovely weather we're having aint we"". An American won't see the ironic humour and spoil it by saying, "no! I don't think it is". Well! we know bleeding well it'...
- Mon Feb 28, 2011 3:15 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: the topic of FAMOUS PEOPLE - WEIRD and/or WONDERFUL!
- Replies: 33
- Views: 3348
Re: the topic of FAMOUS PEOPLE - WEIRD and/or WONDERFUL!
The Term FAMOUS PEOPLE is the wrong description for the people mentioned in these posts . they will all be forgotten in a few years when new generations come along. Real famous people are remembered in history.
- Sun Feb 27, 2011 1:06 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Adolf Hitler
- Replies: 20
- Views: 2648
Re: Adolf Hitler
Yes Soph K. In wartime Nazi Germany, Defeatism was a crime punishable by death. Mutti told me that neighbours were encouraged to spy on neighbours, and she told me that the Germans would never again vote for a man like Hitler.Soph K wrote:Is that a true story, George?
- Sat Feb 26, 2011 2:45 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Where can the country save money?
- Replies: 54
- Views: 4639
Re: Where can the country save money?
People assume alcohol's harmless because it's legal, and that's far from the case. Seriously Lesley, does anyone actually still believe that alcohol is harmless? For example, the average tobacco smoker dies at 64, the average cannabis smoker at 44 . I don't think even the most rabid anti-cannabis c...
- Sat Feb 26, 2011 2:04 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Adolf Hitler
- Replies: 20
- Views: 2648
Re: Adolf Hitler
My brother's German mother-in-law was terrified of Hitler and the Nazis. Her young daughter fell off her bike and was crippled. her mother wouldn't allow her to go into hospital for treatment because she would die of HEART FAILURE, as did all cripples, mental defectives etc. they did not fit in with...
Re: Wrestling
Wow. I used to study the carefully rehearsed set pieces of the televison version of wrestling. I loved the way a big man waited to be picked up and slammed down on his back. I admired his skill when he made sure that his feet hit the canvass first, thereby breaking his fall. Of course, the ladies l...
- Sat Feb 12, 2011 11:58 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Murderes to be allowed a Parliamentary vote?
- Replies: 33
- Views: 5483
Re: Murderes to be allowed a Parliamentary vote?
If prisoners can pay tax, they should be allowed to vote. Just to be clear, I don't mean just those with money, I mean all of them. Isn't the disenfranchisement permanent? So if you've served a 4-year prison sentence, you'll be banned from voting forever, but presumably you don't get an indefinite ...
- Sat Feb 12, 2011 12:30 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Murderes to be allowed a Parliamentary vote?
- Replies: 33
- Views: 5483
Re: Murderes to be allowed a Parliamentary vote?
I have struggled a bit to see the logic behind prisoners having the right to vote. Why should they have a say in the running of the prison they have no choice but to live in or of a society that they've been excluded from? The best argument I can come up with is that when prisoners get out of jail,...
- Thu Feb 10, 2011 11:39 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Murderes to be allowed a Parliamentary vote?
- Replies: 33
- Views: 5483
Re: Murderes to be allowed a Parliamentary vote?
Sorry Matt, spelling is not one of my strong points.Matt Morrison wrote:Who is the murderess in question? I think it makes a difference if she's hot.
- Thu Feb 10, 2011 11:34 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Murderes to be allowed a Parliamentary vote?
- Replies: 33
- Views: 5483
Re: Murderes to be allowed a Parliamentary vote?
Anyways, the commons voted quite convincingly against this. And so they should. No cons should ever vote. Ever. Ever ever! Perhaps with a bit of luck, the E.U. might expel us from their union for ignoring their order to grant killers their human rights. Or perhaps they will fine us millions of poun...
- Thu Feb 10, 2011 11:19 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Murderes to be allowed a Parliamentary vote?
- Replies: 33
- Views: 5483
Re: Murderes to be allowed a Parliamentary vote?
As to your suggestion that an entire British Government would frame me for a crime that I did not commit, the mind boggles. I suggest that if it was deemed necessary by the Government to effect my demise, I would quietly disposed of. Suppose they didn't want rid of you necessarily but wanted to use...
- Thu Feb 10, 2011 8:50 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Murderes to be allowed a Parliamentary vote?
- Replies: 33
- Views: 5483
Re: Murderes to be allowed a Parliamentary vote?
Suppose you've been framed and wrongly convicted for a murder by the current government and the only way to have any chance of clearing your name is if a new government was to be elected. I did expect that reply Mark, and there has been at least one miscarriage of justice in the past. He originally...
- Thu Feb 10, 2011 8:28 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Murderes to be allowed a Parliamentary vote?
- Replies: 33
- Views: 5483
Murderes to be allowed a Parliamentary vote?
Murderers to be allowed to vote in parliament elections? Their victims are not able to vote, so why should they be allowed to? Or is this the natural progression of a humane society, where murderers are allowed visits from their wives, or in the case of Killer Huntley, visits from his boy friend, ho...
- Sat Dec 04, 2010 11:12 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Do you think the subject section should have more
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1340
Re: Do you think the subject section should have more
Characters. I wanted to ask the question: Do you think it is wrong for your partner to issue you an ultimatum its me or the....................IN MY CASE ITS NON PAYING LODGERS If I can quote old fashioned words like love and respect for your partner, you should respect her feelings and send your p...
- Thu Nov 18, 2010 12:41 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Should C4Cbe closed due to the inner SANCTUM
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1626
Re: Should C4Cbe closed due to the inner SANCTUM
Thought I would share my FB profile with you all. If you is with me then show your solidarity by requesting me as friend Cannot believe how a few socially inept nerds on a countdown forum can be such shits....shame on the lot of you and a gypsy curse on all the families involved. I WAS GONNA SAY BA...
- Tue Nov 16, 2010 2:40 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Vagner or Wagner?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2050
Re: Vagner or Wagner?
No, not in that way Ryan. I meant the fact that she was Irish. You young blokes have no idea of the attitude to sex in my young days. Nobody talked about it, and if you wanted to buy condoms, only barber shops seemed to sell them. Now, you can go into the supermarkets and buy boxes of them laid out ...
- Mon Nov 15, 2010 11:59 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Vagner or Wagner?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2050
Re: Vagner or Wagner?
So am I Ryan, Part Irish anyway. It was my Grandmothers fault.
- Mon Nov 15, 2010 10:33 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Vagner or Wagner?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2050
Re: Vagner or Wagner?
No problem, the German W is pronounced like a V. The English -- Wagnerian, is also pronounced with V.
- Thu Oct 14, 2010 11:00 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Nose hairs
- Replies: 26
- Views: 4167
Re: Nose hairs
I think I can be the one to confirm that plutonium ginger isn't a "variety" of ginger. It's either ginger ot it isn't. I knew there was no such colour as "strawberry blonde." There must a reason for nasal and ear hair. Is it to act as strainers to prevent entry of floating matte...
- Wed Oct 13, 2010 9:16 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Growing old
- Replies: 21
- Views: 2442
Re: Growing old
A sad day today, I've lost my honourable position of being the oldest member on the forum. I'm 82, but new member Richard Snelling is 83. Now I'm just one of the mob. I didn't mention that I was 84 in March , not thinking it to be anything special :roll: Hello Peter, I don't feel so old now. We mus...
- Wed Oct 13, 2010 9:09 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Growing old
- Replies: 21
- Views: 2442
Re: Growing old
A sad day today, I've lost my honourable position of being the oldest member on the forum. I'm 82, but new member Richard Snelling is 83. Now I'm just one of the mob. Haha, you're excellent George. Although, how do you know his age? As far as I can see it's not mentioned on his profile. Is he your ...
- Wed Oct 13, 2010 9:07 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Growing old
- Replies: 21
- Views: 2442
Re: Growing old
A sad day today, I've lost my honourable position of being the oldest member on the forum. I'm 82, but new member Richard Snelling is 83. Now I'm just one of the mob.
- Mon Oct 11, 2010 5:14 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Science is Vital
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1731
Re: Science is Vital
I would have liked to like it, but that seems to have stopped working. Yeah, come on Charlie, what's going on here? I blame science. I'm glad funding is being cut. Why not cut science? Everything else British is now made overseas. That beautiful new British Liner was built in Italy. Most tools we b...
- Sun Oct 10, 2010 2:50 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Capitalism
- Replies: 22
- Views: 4652
Re: Capitalism
Any relation to Karl Marx? I resisted pointing this out, I thought the arguments presented were bad enough in themselves... I dunno, that argument is pretty much the standard union one. Given that Mr Jenkins is probably a trade unionist (no offence if I have this wrong) with the standard Marxist me...
- Sun Oct 10, 2010 12:50 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Capitalism
- Replies: 22
- Views: 4652
Re: Capitalism
Oops! Sorry Charlie, I had the English version of the name Karl in my mind, and do you mean that the subject was bad, or the answers it generated.Charlie Reams wrote:I resisted pointing this out, I thought the arguments presented were bad enough in themselves...David O'Donnell wrote:Any relation to Karl Marx?
- Sun Oct 10, 2010 12:41 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Growing old
- Replies: 21
- Views: 2442
Re: Growing old
I'm happy every morning when I wake up Andy, and not dead like my Doctor said I will soon be.
- Sun Oct 10, 2010 12:34 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Growing old
- Replies: 21
- Views: 2442
Re: Growing old
Don't be so hard on Charlie Gavin, I'm sure that he will mellow as he gets older and gains more experience of life. Just like we all did.
- Sat Oct 09, 2010 12:04 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Growing old
- Replies: 21
- Views: 2442
Re: Growing old
Thank you for your advice Matt. I put those photos on for practice, and to show you young blokes what you've got coming in fifty years time.
- Fri Oct 08, 2010 11:38 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Growing old
- Replies: 21
- Views: 2442
Re: Growing old
And I don't why my first photo came out so huge, but can be reduced with the zoom etc buttons
- Fri Oct 08, 2010 11:34 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Growing old
- Replies: 21
- Views: 2442
Re: Growing old
This is me now, and the ravages of years of hard work are etched on my face.
- Fri Oct 08, 2010 11:16 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Growing old
- Replies: 21
- Views: 2442
Growing old
I thought that I will show you young blokes what it's like to grow old. this me sixteen years old, 1944 in my National fire service messenger uniform. In theory, we were supposed to act as messengers if the telephone system was destroyed. Regretfully, I didn't have to carry any messages, and used to...
- Fri Oct 08, 2010 6:46 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Capitalism
- Replies: 22
- Views: 4652
Re: Capitalism
Carl Marx foretold that Capitalism, having no solid base, would collapse in itself. Capitalism must always generate growth, causing constantly rising prices coupled with currency losing value, which then generates the need to obtain more of it in order to live. Considering the financial plight of t...
- Fri Oct 08, 2010 6:46 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Capitalism
- Replies: 22
- Views: 4652
Re: Capitalism
Carl Marx foretold that Capitalism, having no solid base, would collapse in itself. Capitalism must always generate growth, causing constantly rising prices coupled with currency losing value, which then generates the need to obtain more of it in order to live. Considering the financial plight of t...
- Thu Oct 07, 2010 11:07 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Capitalism
- Replies: 22
- Views: 4652
Re: Capitalism
I believe that I read it somewhere Charlie, that in North Korea, Cocoa Cola was the most common advert. We mustn't let our contempt for a different Ideology get in the way of profit.Charlie Reams wrote:How's North Korea looking these days?
- Wed Oct 06, 2010 11:06 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Capitalism
- Replies: 22
- Views: 4652
Capitalism
Carl Marx foretold that Capitalism, having no solid base, would collapse in itself. Capitalism must always generate growth, causing constantly rising prices coupled with currency losing value, which then generates the need to obtain more of it in order to live. Considering the financial plight of th...
- Tue Oct 05, 2010 10:36 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Photos and pictures attached to posts
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2309
Re: Photos and pictures attached to posts
You are right Jon, I am not personally amused by most programmes, but there must be plenty of people who would watch anything who are. I was writing generally about what is available now, especially with the different ways of producing music for our entertainment. I remember Christopher Stone who ra...
- Mon Oct 04, 2010 11:18 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Photos and pictures attached to posts
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2309
Re: Photos and pictures attached to posts
I can still remember taking the wireless accumulator to the sweet shop to be charged up. The cost was sixpence. That's not so long ago, George. My Dad ran the little petrol generator that charged up people's radio batteries. A few years later he had a radio shop (and a few years later still it went...
- Sun Oct 03, 2010 12:59 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Photos and pictures attached to posts
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2309
Re: Photos and pictures attached to posts
Thank you Matt, there is more to it than I thought. I have the feeling that I am fifty years too late with this computer lark. I can still remember taking the wireles accumulater to the sweet shop to be charged up. The cost was sixpence.
- Sat Oct 02, 2010 12:00 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Photos and pictures attached to posts
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2309
Photos and pictures attached to posts
Can some kind person tell me how to attach photos to my posts? I can't understand why I can't do it. I used to be so clever, but I can't quite remember when that was.
- Fri Oct 01, 2010 10:37 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: American English
- Replies: 23
- Views: 2920
Re: American English
I wish that I was 65 years younger, I'd be there.Matt Morrison wrote:George F. Jenkins wrote:Has the word YES disappeared from our spoken vocabulary. All I hear on television is YEAH, which is American, and possibly came from the German word JA.
- Fri Oct 01, 2010 12:00 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: American English
- Replies: 23
- Views: 2920
Re: American English
In other weariness, apparently there's an episode of the Flintstones where Wilma described something as being "all bollixed up". I say "apparently", as whilst this seems quite plausible, this was something I read on the internet, so it could possibly be a bag o' shite. I believe...
- Tue Sep 21, 2010 11:22 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: A holiday in hostile country, Ireland?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2094
Re: A holiday in hostile country, Ireland?
We left the pub and went back to the boat, and the owner took us upriver to Loch Ree. We beached on a bank on which was a small farmhouse, and what a beautiful setting it was. We arranged to be supplied with a jug of milk every day, and it was straight from the cow and still warm. I found out why th...
- Sat Sep 18, 2010 1:15 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: A holiday in hostile country, Ireland?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2094
Re: A holiday in hostile country, Ireland?
The second week the boat owner took us upriver to Loch Ree, but before that he took us to a pub in Athlone. The pub was crowded and cosy with a peat fire, and the beer was straight from the barrel. My wife Olive was the only woman allowed in because she was English. No Irish women were allowed in pu...
- Sat Sep 18, 2010 1:15 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: A holiday in hostile country, Ireland?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2094
Re: A holiday in hostile country, Ireland?
The second week the boat owner took us upriver to Loch Ree, but before that he took us to a pub in Athlone. The pub was crowded and cosy with a peat fire, and the beer was straight from the barrel. My wife Olive was the only woman allowed in because she was English. No Irish women were allowed in pu...
- Thu Sep 16, 2010 10:54 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: A holiday in hostile country, Ireland?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2094
A holiday in hostile country, Ireland?
A holiday in Ireland. Reading the posts from a couple of Irish lads reminded me of a fishing holiday that me and my Wife enjoyed in Ireland years ago. I'd written to a fishing tackle shop in Athlone, in central Ireland, asking if a boat was available with living accommodation. I received a reply tel...
- Sat Sep 11, 2010 12:15 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: PLEASE HELP.
- Replies: 67
- Views: 5262
Re: PLEASE HELP.
Hi! James Doohan, the reason that I am so happy and contented is because every morning when I wake up, I say "hooray, I'm still here" . The Doctor has told me that I suffer from chronic renal failure, and when I asked him if that was bad, he said "yes, you'll soon be dead". I'm ...
- Sat Sep 11, 2010 12:35 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: PLEASE HELP.
- Replies: 67
- Views: 5262
Re: PLEASE HELP.
Hi! James Doohan, the reason that I am so happy and contented is because every morning when I wake up, I say "hooray, I'm still here" . The Doctor has told me that I suffer from chronic renal failure, and when I asked him if that was bad, he said "yes, you'll soon be dead". I'm h...
- Thu Sep 09, 2010 9:52 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: PLEASE HELP.
- Replies: 67
- Views: 5262
Re: PLEASE HELP.
I had a cure for bullying Jon, don't say anything or argue. A punch on the nose, and don't hold back. I found that the tough He-man bullies would then find easier targets. As a friend said to me when we were being hollered at from across the road, "they don't know what you are like". Of c...
- Wed Sep 08, 2010 4:56 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: PLEASE HELP.
- Replies: 67
- Views: 5262
Re: PLEASE HELP.
I had a cure for bullying Jon, don't say anything or argue. A punch on the nose, and don't hold back. I found that the tough He-man bullies would then find easier targets. As a friend said to me when we were being hollered at from across the road, "they don't know what you are like". Of co...