Cold Ale - The Blokes' Thread!

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Originally Posted by dafydd manton

...and shamelessly throw about abbreviations that mean little or nothing. 2 degrees BTDC, that kind of thing. CDs and DVDs are more for the non-cognescenti, ...

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"2 degrees BTDC" - My timing may be a bit off, but I always keep a bottle of Wild Turkey 101 top dead center of my liquor cabinet. The "B" threw me for a moment...B for British?(maybe it was a metric approach), B for "before" ? I'll wager it's "before"

My formative years were spent in a 1966 Volkswagen Beatle. Our German neighbors brought it with them form the homeland. It eventually made it's way into our hands.

Gilliatt

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Originally Posted by dafydd manton

Ah, yes, well, the Brotherhood of the Spark Plug is a sort of Masonic Conglomerate for car geeks, where we can swap stories in arcane language that nobody else can understand, and shamelessly throw about abbreviations that mean little or nothing. 2 degrees BTDC, that kind of thing. CDs and DVDs are more for the non-cognescenti, although we don't eschew them, once it has got too dark/cold/frustrating to work on the car, doing jobs that don't need doing, so that we can go back and correct it the following week.

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I remember two blokes in our steet when I was a kid. They spent the weekend faffing with and revving the engine, only to be back again next week dong the same. I don't know why they had cars - they never seemed to go out in them.

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That's probably because they messed around with them so much, they wouldn't have run even if you'd wanted them to. Gilliat, you're dead right, "before". I have no idea what Wild Turkey is, although I can take a guess, and it sounds a sight more interesting than carburettors and ignition timing. After a sufficient amount of something 70 proof, you can talk about engines all night without knowing the first thing about them. I've built a reputation on it!!

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Originally Posted by soundofmusic

You've either got the greatest mom alive; or she is using reverse psychology.
Have you ever told her you were serious about a woman? I found my parents liked all my boyfriends until they became husbands...

Very nice Edward look alike...and better hair...I wonder how much it'll cost to send him by crate to Florida:lol:

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Haha maybe she is just acting nice, until I marry someone.

I have already packed him up ready to send him to you:lol:

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Originally Posted by TheAtheist

That gets my vote as well!

I have always had a weakness for blondes. That's possibly why I'm married to one.

Gentlemen prefer blondes.

And as I always say, so do dirty old men!

Can you guess which group I'm in?

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Maybe gentleman by day, and dirty old man by night :P

Gentlemen prefer blondes (and I'm married to one), but do blondes prefer gentlemen? Would I class myself as a gentleman? Hmmmmm

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Originally Posted by prendrelemick

Ahh the Austin Allegro, the Morris Marina. How did they get away with it for so long?


Mind you, I had some interesting times on the back seat of an Austin 1100.:thumbsup:

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I've owned all three of those in my life, and a Morris 1800, which just happens to be one the best cars ever made. I used to kill my mates' Cortinas and Capris in the dirt - front wheel drive rules!

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Originally Posted by Jesterhead

Maybe gentleman by day, and dirty old man by night :P

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The latter all the time!

:D

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Originally Posted by dafydd manton

Gentlemen prefer blondes (and I'm married to one), but do blondes prefer gentlemen? Would I class myself as a gentleman? Hmmmmm

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I think they actually prefer non-gentlemen.

As evidence, I offer, Marilyn Monroe and Jack Kennedy, Rod Stewart and all his blonde wives, Bonnie Parker & Clyde Barrow...

I must note that I spent yesterday afternoon preparing dinner while Mrs Atheist sat and chatted to guests.

Home made steak and vegetable pies, as it happens, and bloody delicious they were!

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Originally Posted by Jesterhead

Haha maybe she is just acting nice, until I marry someone.

I have already packed him up ready to send him to you:lol:

Maybe gentleman by day, and dirty old man by night :P

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It's hard to say; my daughter tells me that it was a good thing I never had a biological son; that I would have chaperoned him on every date...I think she's being a little harsh. I have noticed, having married eldest sons twice, there always seemed a bit of wierd competition between mother and daughter in law: they had this wierd timing: calling at dinner time or when we were in bed:flare:

My very own Edward; I don't know whether I'll ever leave the house again:lol:

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Originally Posted by dafydd manton

Gentlemen prefer blondes (and I'm married to one), but do blondes prefer gentlemen? Would I class myself as a gentleman? Hmmmmm

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I don't know if they would notice whether you're a gentleman; I find I'm utterly dazzled by your vocabulary...you could steal a ladies garter with that stuff:willy_nilly::ihih:

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Originally Posted by The Atheist

I think they actually prefer non-gentlemen.

As evidence, I offer, Marilyn Monroe and Jack Kennedy, Rod Stewart and all his blonde wives, Bonnie Parker & Clyde Barrow...

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I think the thing with cads is they are disarmingly sweet and gentlemanly at first meeting
Dirty old ladies prefer blonds too:drool5:

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Originally Posted by The Atheist

I must note that I spent yesterday afternoon preparing dinner while Mrs Atheist sat and chatted to guests.

Home made steak and vegetable pies, as it happens, and bloody delicious they were!

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Sounds excellent...did you want to talk to the guests or were you retreating to the kitchen. I used to hide in my kitchen when my husband brought his friends with wives who wanted to discuss birthing methods:thumbsup:

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Originally Posted by soundofmusic

I think the thing with cads is they are disarmingly sweet and gentlemanly at first meeting
Dirty old ladies prefer blonds too:drool5:

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Haha!

When my cloning machine is fully operational, I'll clone a few of your avatar bloke for you!

They come in designer options like "No vocal chords", "Housework lover" and that kind of thing.

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Originally Posted by soundofmusic

Sounds excellent...did you want to talk to the guests or were you retreating to the kitchen. I used to hide in my kitchen when my husband brought his friends with wives who wanted to discuss birthing methods:thumbsup:

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I get the best of both worlds, the kitchen is only separated by a bar from the lounge, so I was mixing pastry and chatting.

To be honest, I am a bit of a show-off Gordon Ramsay type in the kitchen.

The language can be similar as well!

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:( Mrs P doesn't consider any social event a success unless at least one good childbirth horror story has been graphically retold.:(

There's something about the female of the species, and especially in Yorkshire, where a day without, as you say, a childbirth incident, a discussion about somebody's health, ('e's not bin well, t'lad) or a graphic account of an operation has been wasted. Tha knows.

Aye - fistula an' piles they 'ad. T'wer a terrible shame when the' got ''thrush an' all...

Nah den, luv, does that want ter see me operation scar? Ah 'ad one o' them hysterical rectums, tha knows!

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Originally Posted by soundofmusic

It's hard to say; my daughter tells me that it was a good thing I never had a biological son; that I would have chaperoned him on every date...I think she's being a little harsh. I have noticed, having married eldest sons twice, there always seemed a bit of wierd competition between mother and daughter in law: they had this wierd timing: calling at dinner time or when we were in bed:flare:

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haha that was on purpose xD

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Originally Posted by soundofmusic

My very own Edward; I don't know whether I'll ever leave the house again:lol

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He will make you feel like Bella.. by that I mean stare at you while you are sleeping.

Two old Yorkshire lasses chatting.
"Our Elsie's 'ad t'babby, burrit weren't a real 'un. She 'ad one o' them Caesarean Sexuals, tha knows."
"Is that what thiy do ter mek t'cattle pregnant?"
"Nao, luv, that's called Artifical Incrimination. Thiy do it wi' a syringe!"
"Nivver!"
"Ar, straight up, no Bull!"