Thought Id start this one going because its rather dead on this board at the moment and I suppose all my usual muckers are either at the Stella tennis event watching Dim Tim (lose again) or at Henly Regatta eating cucumber sandwiches (they wish,...NOT).

Anyway please feel free to just talk to yourself blast away and let it go on any company or subject you wish. Just wish Id thought of this one before.

cheers GF.

A.

I like a good pie and sometimes the beer.

But your tory this government seems to prefer to duck under the table when it gets too hot.


Perhaps, the orange sauce is too strong for the tory members.

When I think of this bunch organising a party in a brewery comes to mind.

Perhaps, they prefer coco-cola.


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N.

I must admit the "mark up", or corkage on wine, in restaurants generally infuriates me.


Over the years I have tended to eat out less and less, as I now enjoy attempting to "cook myself".

Edited for N (cook for others, or cook myself for others.)

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I thought that nowadays it was more "screwage" :-)

N,

I agree. I occasionally get burnt.

I think if you ate some of my earlier concoctions you would think that my action would be supported.

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8-)

Talk about take the p*ss - 'Urine power' tests at UWE in Bristol are successful

It is claimed the publication of a research paper into the viability of urine as a fuel for Microbial Fuel Cells (MFCs) is a world first.

They say tests have produced small amounts of energy, but more research could produce "useful" levels of power.

So in the future, if drunks buy a car powered by a Microbial Fuel Cell, drive to a pub, get really p****d, then relieved themselves into the fuel tank they could get home on the cheap.


Well I suppose it would make a change from p***ing in someones garden!

Foreign Office reveals weird requests to consulates

The British consulate offers welcome assistance to travellers who are in trouble abroad, but the Foreign Office is warning there are some things it just cannot help with.

In the last six months staff have been asked for a telephone number for Phil Collins and Prince Charles's shoe size.

Another request was from a man stranded at the airport by his dominatrix.

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Enter stage left :-)

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-15664009

Absolutely disgusting.

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Just shows what wimpy, easily lead, liberal lefty juries we have no days.
Poor lamb was suffering from PTS due to previous prison sentences, but he still admitted that the attack was pre-meditated.

To my mind, if you are in prison, you should suffer from depression, that shows prison works for you.

skinny Post 13087

Just read it.

V Funny,

I am sitting with 2 other geriatrics at the moment who recognised me.

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The Green Thing

In the queue at the store, the cashier told an older woman that she should bring her own grocery bags because plastic bags weren't good for the environment.

The woman apologized to him and explained, "We didn't have the green thing back in my day."

The clerk responded, "That's our problem today. Your generation did not care enough to save our environment."

He was right - our generation didn't have the green thing in its day.

Back then, we returned milk bottles, lemonade bottles and beer bottles to the shop. The shop sent them back to the plant to be washed and sterilized and refilled, so that the same bottles could be used over and over again. So they really were recycled. But we didn't have the green thing back in our day.

We walked up stairs, because we didn't have an escalator in every store and office building. We walked to the grocery store and didn't climb into a 300-horsepower machine every time we had to go two blocks. But she was right - we didn't have the green thing in our day.

Back then, we washed the baby's nappies because we didn't have the throw-away kind. We dried clothes on a line, not in an energy-gobbling machine burning up 220 volts - wind and solar power really did dry the clothes. Kids got hand-me-down clothes from their brothers or sisters, not always brand-new clothing. But that old lady is right - we didn't have the green thing back in our day.

Back then, we had one TV, or radio, in the house -- not a TV in every room. And the TV had a small screen the size of a handkerchief (remember them?), not a screen the size of the state of a shop window. In the kitchen, we blended and stirred by hand because we didn't have electric machines to do everything for us. When we packaged a fragile item to send in the mail, we used wadded up old newspaper to cushion it, not styrofoam or plastic bubble wrap. Back then, we didn't fire up an engine and burn gasoline just to cut the lawn. We used a push mower that ran on human power. We exercised by working so we didn't need to go to a health club to run on treadmills that operate on electricity. But she's right - we didn't have the green thing back then.

We drank from a fountain when we were thirsty instead of using a cup or a plastic bottle every time we had a drink of water. We refilled writing pens with ink instead of buying a new pen, and we replaced the razor blades in a razor instead of throwing away the whole razor just because the blade got dull. But we didn't have the green thing back then.

Back then, people took the bus and kids rode their bikes to school or walked instead of turning their mums into a 24-hour taxi service. We had one electrical outlet in a room, not an entire bank of sockets to power a dozen appliances. And we didn't need a computerized gadget to receive a signal beamed from satellites 2,000 miles out in space in order to find the nearest pizza joint.

But isn't it sad the current generation laments how wasteful we old folks were just because we didn't have the green thing back then?

Please forward this on to another selfish old person who needs a lesson in conservation from a smartass young person.

Remember: Don't make old People mad.

We don't like being old in the first place, so it doesn't take much to tick us off.