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Ah,The Goodies!Quote:
Originally Posted by prendrelemick
I used to watch that religiously. I thought the Goodies radio station was one of the funniest things I'd ever seen.
I'm happy not to be in Australia, Brazil or Minnesota all the time!Quote:
Originally Posted by gbrekken
'cept for mosquitos, you and your family would love a winter vacation in the long days summer land of 10,000 plus lakes. in the nw, you'd have a new definition of flat!Quote:
Originally Posted by The Atheist
That's probably good news! Mosquitoes don't bother me at all - I never get bitten, but my kids & Mrs Atheist get eaten alive by the little suckers, so they'd have to stay home!Quote:
Originally Posted by gbrekken
10,000 lakes? I'll bring my rods!
Thank you, I guess I'll stay in sunny, hot, humid florida...Quote:
Originally Posted by The Atheist
I must admit, it is really difficult to pass a raised flag without saluting...I guess I spend too much time in military hospitals...Quote:
Originally Posted by OrphanPip
I think one of the problems with the sexual harassment of men is that there are too many guys out there promoting the idea that guys, particularly between 18 and 35, are happy to jump on anybody who offer. In my experience, men are just as selective as women and even, occasionally, feign a headache:nod:
I never heard that one....Quote:
Originally Posted by prendrelemick
Yeah, Bertha butt...she's part of the butt sisters....Quote:
Originally Posted by gbrekken
I just found it: Troglodyte by Jim CAstor bunch...I don't know how to do address thingies...:frown5:
How's this for Sabbatarianism gone wild ? Stornoway Golf Club in the Western Isles of Scotland have been granted a licence to sell alcohol on a Sunday after years of unsuccessful applications. Progress one might think, until it is pointed out that the members are not allowed to play golf on a Sunday. That should do wonders for the Hebridean tourist trade. Honestly, you couldn't make it up.
Will the local chaps be telling their wives that they are off to the local course to "get a round in".Quote:
Originally Posted by jocky
It's so much more civilised than it used to be generally though. Just remember what it used to be like - no telly after 10.30, pubs shut all hours instead of open - everywhere shut on a sunday - bloody hell it was difficult to get a pint of milk until the Asian open all hours traders came and saved our hides - you couldn't get your money unless it was bank opening - frustration at every turn unless you happened to know a local for lock-ins.
and here i thought being Scot meant better. geezQuote:
Originally Posted by jocky
That is priceless!Quote:
Originally Posted by jocky
Yes, it's funny how fast things change and how quickly we forget.Quote:
Originally Posted by Paulclem
We used to actually have to think ahead more than six minutes and make sure we had enough bread, milk, booze and petrol to last until Monday morning.
Just don't get me started on mobile phones!
That's right. I can remember Mrs P saying that she didn't want one on the grounds that she didn't want to be reachable if she didn't feel like it.Quote:
Originally Posted by The Atheist
Yet now she texts like teen, and has conversations with a friend she hasn't seen yet for 20 years.
Yes it used to be "meet by the clock at four".
Now it's an instantaneous "where r u?"
Yep, where are the new Luddites when you need em ?Quote:
Originally Posted by Paulclem
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Originally Posted by The Atheist
Remember the rotary dial phones?Quote:
Originally Posted by Paulclem
There was nothing quite like the soothing sound produced by the rotating dial as it returned to the neutral position.
Here, take a listen to this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ddcf...x=0&playnext=1
I've often wondered if they could equip these fancy mobile phones with a rotary dial for us old timers.
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Rotary dial phones? You young whippersnapper.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gilliatt Gurgle
The first phone I can remember using was a party line with different rings in morse for different people. You could dial other people on your party line by creating the right ring with a crank handle on the side of the phone. No dial, no numbers. Anyone not on the party line, you had to give three long cranks for three long rings - "O" for operator.
Our number was M, so the operator used to send two long rings when we had a call. Phone calls to UK and overseas had to be booked, and I can recall at about age 7 or 8 being staggered by a phone call to UK costing three pounds ($6) for three minutes. Three pounds was a fortune to a kid, with one penny being enough to buy lollies for a football team. Taking inflation since then, it means that call now would cost around $200 for the same 3 minutes.
We've been left with the legacy of those old phones in the language.Dialling a number makes no common sense given the design of phones now. Nor does givind you a ring with the multitudes of ringtones now.
Back in my day if you wanted to talk to someone you had to type it into a machine and it sends it via satellite to someone where it reaches them instantly.
It's not my fault I'm only 16....
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Originally Posted by Paulclem
Wasn't the popularity of "Hello" as a greeting, a telephone thing?
I remember having a telephone without a dialer. We were told we were never to touch it - so of course we did, lifting the receiver and annoying the operator. She used to dob us in, that meant straight to bed and no pobbies (bread and milk) for supper.
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Originally Posted by Big Dante
My kids are the same. Like you, they will never know a time without instant communication.
Did you used to steal the phone batteries? Those old crankers and even dial phones for a few years had no power supply, so the phone people used to put this huge battery hidden away inside the wall where kids with evil intent couldn't get to them?Quote:
Originally Posted by prendrelemick
The batteries were huge and would power a torch, a radio and scientific experiements for years! Then, when they finally died, you could open them up and use the carbon rods for black chalk.
Huh, nostalgia. That got me thinking about the weird stuff we used to play with as kids - the OSH people would have heart failure nowadays.
Mercury was a good one. I used to carry around quicksilver in a matchbox in my pocket so I could show it off, then run it around my hands, then eat lunch.
Nowadays they'd have a full biohazard team in airtight suits to confiscate it.
I used to get my batteries from Dad's electric fencer. Those cows were always getting out.Quote:
Originally Posted by The Atheist
I remember playing dare with an electric fence when I was 10-ish. An unpleasant feeling.Quote:
Originally Posted by prendrelemick
never piss a solid stream on an electric fence. never be the last person holding hands in line when the fist in line decides to grab the wire.Quote:
Originally Posted by Paulclem
before we hit 2-1-11, i have some wishes for the new year:
more close-ups in lingerie football on mtv2
playing golf, and drinking at the same time on a public course in Scotland
an ex-wife who doesn't need to be told to shut her pie-hole
we're all holding our breath now eh?
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Originally Posted by gbrekken
I have a suggestion.
Enrol the ex-wife into lingerie football. She is now away from you and does not need to shut her pie-hole. Also get a season ticket to it and sit front row, can't get much closer than that.
Build a mini-golf course in your backyard and you can do all the :party: ing you want
Lingerie football? Sounds interesting. They ought to start a sunday league in the Hebrides.
They already have my old pineapple, you want to see Bella MacCutcheon steaming down the touchline in her whalebone corset and Harris Tweed stockings. It is enough to make your eyes water. :eek6:Quote:
Originally Posted by prendrelemick
Eh? It's 23/1/11 already. You're 21 days late.Quote:
Originally Posted by gbrekken
And introduce lingerie netball. Sharelle McMahon.Quote:
Originally Posted by gbrekken
:smilielol5:Quote:
Originally Posted by prendrelemick
I know what you're thinking.
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Originally Posted by Big Dante
Gives a whole new meaning to "Bare...oops Bear Down Chicago Bears"Quote:
Originally Posted by prendrelemick
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqFf-...eature=related
Good luck to the Bears tomorrow.
(My Cowboys are out so I may as well support my brother in law)
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Now, Heaven forbid that I should seem a little Cricket obsessed. But recent events in Australia have restored my sense that all is well with the world .To see the England boys steadfastly clutching defeat from the hands of victory agin the Aussies is so comforting,- Unlike all that winning malawkey that went on before.
Looking ok in the third so far.Quote:
Originally Posted by prendrelemick
I think it's great, because they really don't care about the ODIs at all, which is a giant slap in the face for "modern cricket".
In 20, 30 and 100 years' time, nobody will even know an ODI series was played this year, but the Ashes win will be engraved in history.
And T20? What's that?
Never the less, a good win for your chaps against Pakistan.
I'm Australian but I still think the Bangladesh cricket team is where it's at.
Sure they are hit and miss but they have a ton of potential and some exciting young players.
Australia winning the third ODI, sure it was okay but the ashes is what matters. I admire Cook's series, he is one of my favourite players.
I must own up to complete ignorance of the state of Bangladeshi cricket, but I hope what you say is true. Anything that shakes up the status quo is good.
That first Ashes match was the key to the series, you blokes should've won that one - and then who knows?
[QUOTE=The Atheist;1001325]Eh? It's 23/1/11 already. You're 21 days late.
the states haven't caught on to international habits. perhaps arrogance, but ignorance for sure. 1/2/11 would've been proper here
A rare win, even.Quote:
Originally Posted by prendrelemick
Touching on the 'Deshis - they beat us 5 -zip, but that's not much of a recommendation since St Swithins' Girls XI beat us 3 - nothing.
I know - I just like to get my little digs in about dates, distances and spellings from that odd place you live in!Quote:
Originally Posted by gbrekken
:D
Oh dear....Quote:
Originally Posted by The Atheist
World Cup soon, who do you think will win it?
I think South Africa have the team to go all the way this year.
like either of us had choice.Quote:
Originally Posted by The Atheist
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Originally Posted by Big Dante
I really want a "third world" team to do it this time. We Brits love the under-dog. But I have to agree that South Africa are looking good. Don't discount your lot (the Aussies), if Brett Lee can get it together for one more year, who knows.
Unlike most Aussie driven Australian supporters I'm also a fan of the underdog and it would be great to see that happen.Quote:
Originally Posted by prendrelemick
The media over cricket in Australia is one of the worst things I've seen during my short time on this Earth. After a non stop assault on every cricketer apart from Mike Hussey during the entire Ashes series after winning the first ODI they couldn't talk enough about how great the team is and how it is redemption for the Ashes. Lately I've gotten a little over the Aussie cricket team and prefer to watch younger more exciting teams play. Or just Chris Gayle.
Definitely. They are in good form at the right time, have a complete side and travel well, which is pretty essential.Quote:
Originally Posted by Big Dante
Sri Lanka will be enormously hard to beat and I can easily see RSA/SL final - if the draw is worked that way; I haven't even looked!
Yeah, damn on that. Parents should consult their kids about where they want to be born. Bloody inconsiderate, really. Not that I'd swap - being dual British/NZ citizen, I can go anywhere I feel like!Quote:
Originally Posted by gbrekken
You can't discount them entirely, but I think Brett Lee is one of those straws drowning people grasp at. I will definitely discount England, though. Like us, you have no chance.Quote:
Originally Posted by prendrelemick
I haven't even considered England, they can't handle the slightest pressure. Sri Lanka, and India and to some extent Bangladesh (being home the sides)will have bucket loads of pressure on them, plus all those illegal betting syndicates buzzing around them like flies on a dunghill..
The West Indies are second string at the moment, and who knows what the Pakistanis are going to do.
All of that is true. Out of the three home sides I think Sri Lanka will do the best. They will most likely prove me wrong but I think India will struggle this campaign.Quote:
Originally Posted by prendrelemick
The West Indies are having a rough patch but they do have some talented players like Gayle and Pollard. They are just missing their fast bowling attack that took them to the top.
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Originally Posted by Gilliatt Gurgle
How did that go Gilliat? Is it the superthingy soon?