Cold Ale - The Blokes' Thread!

[Paulclem]

I took pictures of our roses a couple of weeks ago, but the micro sd sticky in the computer thingy has gone walkies - probably into someone's computer.

Tour De France update - Wiggins the great Brit hope is out with a collarbone fracture, and cavendish took a second stage on the same day.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWT8yeHGA0U

Spectacular crash today. They were lucky to get away with - thirty stitches! They both carried on, but Fletcher wasn't in too good a shape. The fence Hoogaland landed on was barbed wire - hence the stitches. Tough guys!

I laughed Emil.

[MarkBastable]

I'm fond of feverfew, even if it is often regarded as a weed.

Currently we're trying to revive one of these.....




It's a rather old-fashioned rose, which I like, and pink, which I don't - but the whole thing is just so Miss Haversham that I've been rather seduced by it. Also it smells fantastic.

[soundofmusic]

In the highest regards of course.

Oh, you're so sweet, thanks.

It's an Alfa, which means, as I understand it, that the conventional rules of physics don't apply.

I'm so jealous, I have an 11 year old mitsubushi with a caroded hood

That's so obvious I'm amazed nobody had ever thought about it. It would obviously make it stick like **** to a blanket.

I could get used to the front for the speed and handling.


No mate, that's a Real Bloke's car!

Those horror 4WD things that housewives drop their kids off to school from don't count, but a Landrover with mud underneath definitely qualifies.

Speed isn't everything.

The problem with cars with speed is that they are really low, I just about got rug burned buns when I used to ride in my sisters corvette.

I have got a Vespa 50 cc if anyone is interested.

I have to look that one up, it has to be better than my car though...

It was getting quite a bit of play here as well. The missus was paying much more attention to the trial than I was. Not sure where you stand on the case, but my wife was very frustrated with the outcome.



Still riding the Vespa with the Hoover strapped to the bars.
That brings a tear of joy to my eye.

Here's a pic of my Ford Ranger, the smaller gray truck, in front of the El Comedor restaurant in Moriarty New Mexico along old Route 66; the greatest Huevos Rancheros west of the Pecos!



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I'm with Mrs G, actually, I haven't heard one person who approves of the verdict.
Wow, it looks like you live in the old west; I'm coming out to see Gene Autry and John Wayne, and Wyatt Earp...ye..how...

It's ok but it seems to have left me with a stretchy tendon. It seems to get caught on something, if I move in a particular way, and then snaps back into place. An odd sensation.

Elongated testicles? I wonder if it will affect the cycling in time...

And, as Mick has said already, you should be regarded highly for putting up with us chaps.

By the way I ride.. sorry drive, a sleek black number...

I think the old fellws tie their man parts to the front handles in South Florida when they go bike riding Like that ride of yours...and a gas saver too!
Thank you Paul, I think it's more that you fellows put up with me.

[prendrelemick]

I'm fond of feverfew, even if it is often regarded as a weed.

Currently we're trying to revive one of these.....




It's a rather old-fashioned rose, which I like, and pink, which I don't - but the whole thing is just so Miss Haversham that I've been rather seduced by it. Also it smells fantastic.

Looks like the roses My Mum used to have in her garden, I still remember the extravagant smell when they were slightly decaying. She used to make rose water out of them, explaining "it was something we did during the war"

[Paulclem]

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I think the old fellws tie their man parts to the front handles in South Florida when they go bike riding Like that ride of yours...and a gas saver too!
Thank you Paul, I think it's more that you fellows put up with me.

It's to be hoped they don't come off..............of the bike I mean. I'd better rephrase...It's to be hoped they don't fall off and give themselves a nasty pull.........no it's not working. The hole I'm digging is getting bigger...

[The Atheist]

I see jocky's been showing his philanthropic side:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-14152092

[jocky]

I see jocky's been showing his philanthropic side:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-14152092

Have we done with the flower thing, apart from Mark's groovy Andrew Marvel reference it died a thoroughly deserved death. Don't get me started on Jane Austen you know it is not good for my blood pressure, when it comes to her I can turn misanthropic in an instant. Imagine her sitting in your garden under the shade of the connifer tree privately sniggering because you poured the tea incorrectly. Thank God her unfinished novel remained unfinished as the literary critics would have agonised over the verbiage forever. Now I am retiring upstairs to read my DC Action Comic from 1938 which was well worth the $1.5, and it has pictures.

[The Atheist]

I thought that might drag you out of the woodwork!

Don't get me started on Jane Austen you know it is not good for my blood pressure, when it comes to her I can turn misanthropic in an instant. Imagine her sitting in your garden under the shade of the connifer tree privately sniggering because you poured the tea incorrectly. Thank God her unfinished novel remained unfinished as the literary critics would have agonised over the verbiage forever. Now I am retiring upstairs to read my DC Action Comic from 1938 which was well worth the $1.5, and it has pictures.

I'm with you - I'd certainly rather read comics than Jane A, but preferably Commando comics!

[soundofmusic]

I've discovered a text to speech animation tool on Youtube, so I though I'd make a video about our thread.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bI3xBB513Bg

It's pretty easy to use.

Brilliant, Paul, I went over and subscribed...

I was just about to post a video but it pales into insignificance compared with that. I will see you down at the Curmudgeons later on.

Well you know no one but you could do a video on bagpipe playing...maybe you'll even do a lovely dance with mrs J on the table!

That is brilliant Paul. But technology will never replace Gilliat.

Did you post that cacti, it was gorgeous.

My 1000 post, and I couldn't imagine a better place to spend it.

Paul, that is priceless !!
“…after all, at their age they’re not getting too much else”
We must have that displayed prominently on the bar wall of shame!

Well chaps, it is July 8th…






http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQlpACCcq4Y



I spent the night on the roof searching the heavens for the annual return and all I got were mosquito bites and a couple of chemtrails.
Maybe next year.

In honor of Paul’s creativity, my 1000th post and extra-terrestrials, all drinks are on me for the duration of the weekend.


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I heard it was the Southern Comfort that killed those little green men...

Alright - enough petrolheadedness. That's probably the longest conversation about cars I've ever had.

Last Monday, the Yank and I went to the Preview Evening of the Hampton Court Flower Show. Say what you like about the monarchy - and I'm very ambivalent myself - but if it weren't for the avaricious unreasonableness of Henry VIII, we wouldn't have this to play with today.

The Preview Evening - in fact the whole week-long event - is an incredibly civilised and polite occasion, attendance at which undermines any subsequent claims one might make to still being working-class at heart. The Yank and I found a spot for our picnic blanket, dumped our wine and stuff on it in full view of the passing throng, and wandered off, confident that the bourgeois honesty rife at the show would ensure that it'd all still be there when we got back two hours later. Which it was.

The weather was putting on one of those balmy, golden evenings that contrives to make you feel that everything's really jolly pleasant in a way that only the English can manage, and that, gosh, isn't the BBC a good idea, and strawberries too, and also Pimm's and big fat sausages. This is a feeling that can carry you right through to the ill-organised and bad-tempered Destruction Derby which results from trying to get eight thousand cars out of a nine foot gate onto a main road, which, frankly, is a typical British screw-up, just like the smug bloody BBC, tasteless supermarket strawberries, poncey bloody Pimm's and God knows what goes into sausages, but whatever it is, it'll take you down before you hit fifty-five.

We bought a lot of dahlias. Buying dahlias is pretty much tantamount to wearing a t-shirt that reads, "At my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near. And I'm not getting my leg over that often either." It's like designing your own wreath.

So, blokes - we've done pictures of our cars. Now let's do pictures of our flowers.

This week round at Bastable Towers, we're keen on this one...

I'm more of a rose person myself, I was particularly fond of a rather fuzzy burgundy colored rose I was growing called "The Don Juan Rose". Some nasty black mold started attacking his petals though.

Just when you think this is the best thread the entire internet has ever seen, it gets better!

More win than Manchester United.

Hats off to the bloke who started it...what was his name again?

Gilliat I'm sure those aliens meant to put in an appearence, but got held up in a cosmological version of mark's 8000 cars through a 9 ft gate.

Talking of gardens, I have discovered a great new wheeze this year re mowing the lawn. In the past I,ve "accidently" let in a few sheep, but Mrs P will no longer put up with that as they rampage over her soft friuts as well.

So this year somewhere around the beginning of june, as I approached the foot high grass with a coughing lawnmower I had a brainwave, I just cut a few paths through this jungle, and created a maze for the Grandchildren ! I was done in minutes, and they love it. All I have to do is shove the mower round the paths once a week and job done. Proving that necessity isn't the mother of invention, indolence is.

Oh god, yes, we have some wonderful night blooming jasmine that are thankfully covering the bits of chipping paint at the bottom, they smell divine and have such lovely waxy dark green leaves and little white blooms; but I itch all over when I get anywhere near them.

I'll have a" Little Green Man over Scotland" 25 parts Drambuie to one Creme de menthe.

What do you suggest for a blond, blue eyed, 30 year old chap in south florida...preferably, in sounds bedroom haha

Thats funny 'cos its true. It's the same as looking in the Damart catalogue and thinking "Mmm nice Cardigan."


Meanwhile our Garden is lacking flowers at this time of year, but this feverfew has poked its head above the confusion.

They grow wild in my yard, they can be very pretty; but the bees love them.

[The Atheist]

You've just encouraged me to go floral again!

NZ's flora and fauna are both unique, due to our desire to break off from the rest of the planet early on.

We have the most amazing diversity of plants, and the entire country was more or less dense foliage until man arrived only a few centuries ago, but very few of the plants are the flowering kind.

Lots of shades of green, but natural floral shows here are few and far between.

When I was a lot younger, I used to spend hours making sure our garden was both a riot of colour and a fridge full of vegetables.]

Ah, the misspent hours of youth.

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

Been away from the saloon for too long, but I see you boys and gal are keeping the stools warm.

Thanks to whoever posted the Fast Johnny painter clip a few pages back. My son has been cycling through the videos on that and getting a good laugh.

The Feverfew is beautiful, would love to have some of that growing around here.

Paul, what's the latest on the Tour? or is it finished? Shows you how out of touch I've been lately.
What am I saying?...I've been out of touch most of my life!

You've just encouraged me to go floral again!

NZ's flora and fauna are both unique, due to our desire to break off from the rest of the planet early on.

We have the most amazing diversity of plants, and the entire country was more or less dense foliage until man arrived only a few centuries ago, but very few of the plants are the flowering kind....

Maybe we can see some of that flora?

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[jocky]

Since there appears to be a form of faunaticism taking root I might as well join in;

There was a young lady from Croatia
who planted all types of Herbacea
They grew gigantically vast
and spread blindingly fast
In no time they had invaded Dalmatia.

[The Atheist]

Been away from the saloon for too long, but I see you boys and gal are keeping the stools warm....

Maybe we can see some of that flora?

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I'm not sure making comments about warm stools is a good thing around here, but I'll search out some photos of the scenery by all means!

Since there appears to be a form of faunaticism taking root I might as well join in....

That is brilliant!

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

I'm not sure making comments about warm stools is a good thing around here...

Hehe. I figured it wouldn't take long for a Bloke to scoop that one up.

Speaking of roses:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WO4wcNVbYOQ


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[jocky]

Hehe. I figured it wouldn't take long for a Bloke to scoop that one up.

Speaking of roses:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WO4wcNVbYOQ


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You have been barrel scraping in that lab of yours again Gilliatt.

Now this is more like it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcBh9IgMz5U.