Leisurely Scribbles (Part 2)

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If I hear “BlackFriday” mentioned any more I’ll go round the bend. :angry:

This new swindle sneaked in a few years ago and now it’s gone from being a one day event into a month long orgy of retail greed. It’s been advertised since the end of September, now we’re almost into December and it’s still going on.

Do folks actually think that they are going to get cheaper stuff during the black Lieday season?

Does anybody really think companies are going to reduce the price of their goods just a couple of weeks before Christmas, what with all the transport problems they’ve had getting it in from China, and don’t be fooled 95% of the goods are made in China.

Sure enough some will pick up a bargain on the odd carrot dangling items, but that’ll be made up for on other items, there’s no such thing as something for nothing.

And just when you’ve finished your Christmas dinner, you think it’s all over, and sit back to enjoy a good film, you turn on the TV and what do you get…Ads for the January sales!! :astonished:

Big retailers today have no morals, no decency or respect for their customers anymore it’s just grab grab grab.

Sorry about that rant, but I hate greed and it’s a shame to see hard working honest people fall for such snake oil salesmen promotional tricks.

The old folks annual Christmas party in the local was cancelled last year and a decision will be been taken on Tuesday night whether to go ahead this year, it’ll be based on the latest information from the government.
I hope it goes ahead as I missed it last year because I never got to sing me party piece, It’s the only place where I can ’sing’ it, the family have barred me from performing it at home. it drives the pub regulars up the wall when I belt out “I know an old lady who swallowed a fly”, some of them fly off the handle and make a bee line for the jacks. :smiley:

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The weather was miserable here yesterday, we got a good coal and log fire going and watched Ben Hur on a DVD, almost 4 hours long.
I couldn’t get Romans out of me mind as I tried to sleep last night, finally I managed to drop off.

I dreamt I was having a pint with Julius Caesar in a pub, he asked me to have a look out of the window and tell him what the weather was like, absentmindedly I said “Hail, Caeser, with strong gusts of wind”
Amazing how films play on your mind. :wink: :smiley:

Five of us old lads were having a conversation in the local today, we were talking about the benefits of long john underwear as the Winter days and nights get colder.

Out of pure curiosity I was asked old macho Ollie if he would wear a pink pair of long johns seeing that lots of men wear pink stuff these days as there’s supposed to be no differences between males and females anymore.

He said he has never worn anything pink in his life, not even a tie, dickie-bow, or carnation at a wedding, and he’s not going to start now, equality or not. Fair enough says I, neither would I.

Then it suddenly struck me that if my own pair or white johns were ancidently washed together with my red ones they might turn out pink! Oh the shame of it, imagine if I was knocked down by a bus and taken into hospital wearing pink long johns. :wink: :smiley:

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That was always my mother’s threat to make me keep my under wear clean.
“What if you were knocked down by a bus?”
I suspect she was thinking more of her reputation than my welfare.

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Let it snow!
Let it snow!
Let it snowwwwwww! :snowman:

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My mother used to say that too P.Smith. :smiley:

Bratti, we had an American Aunt over with us for a holiday, this was back in the 1950’s when I was a wee lad, she was helping in the kitchen one morning and spotted my mother’s slip showing, then she made the remark “Kathy, it’s snowing down South”, it took me a while to figure it out but I never forgot it. :smiley:

Viagra for Dogs.

My little dog has never been sexually interested in other dogs either female or male, sins of the fur seemed to pass him by. I think he was cut out to be a monk dog, sometimes when I look at him with his head bowed and his paws joined I could swear he was praying, faithful old fella that he is.

He’s 12 now and sex never bothered him, a real pious holy dog if ever there was one, God bless him, if there is a heaven for dogs he’s well and truly booked in.

Back to the point, I see here that Viagra is a useful drug for other doggie complaints, this extract is just a small section of a long article.

“For many ailments, dogs can be prescribed human medications to treat or manage their condition. This is known as “off-licence” or “extra-label” prescribing, as the medication is not licenced for use in animals by the FDA. On many occasions, off-licence medications are used for similar ailments as their use in humans, but this is not always the case. Viagra, for example, is a classic example.Viagra may seem an unusual choice of treatment, however it is remarkably effective at improving the quality of life in dogs with a certain heart and lung condition: pulmonary hypertension” Source: Canada Pharmacy Online.

So it doesn’t do unto others as it does to us no matter what de holy bible say.
Off licence eh? can you imagine the reaction I’d get if I went into an off licence and asked for some Viagra “It’s for a sick old dog you see” “Your sick alright mate, this is an off licence not a brothel” :laughing:

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My Interest was “aroused” when I saw “Off-Licence” :beer: :grin:

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Good on ya Australia, by all means bar all the trolls from the internet, cut off their oxygen supply.

Some folks are very weary of posting photos of their family on the internet, and I can understand why.
However I never had any fear of that, what the heck, I’m not on any wanted list nor are/were they, rest our dear departed ones.

So publish and be damned.

Here’s Paw
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And here’s Grand Paw.

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Sorry if they are not up to scratch, they were lying down when the snaps were taken and I didn’t want to disturb them.

The wife was looking over my shoulder while I was posting this, she said:
“But your Paw and Grand Paw are dead Jem.”
“Oh no they are not my dear, they are only sleeping”
“What were they then, Vampires?, I always knew I married into a weirdo family”
And she walked away sniggering.
Women, they have an answer for everything don’t they. :wink: :smiley:

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Yes, but, sometimes it is not the correct (logical) answer, but, us geezers know the unspoken logic, don’t we. :grin:

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I read that this new variant of bug has shown up in several different countries separated by thousands of miles and found in some rural folks who have never travelled from their homeland nor mixed with strangers, very odd that don’t you think?

As it’s a form of life, a living thing, that mutilates into something else in order to survive, and survival and reproduction are the first rules of all life forms, how does it convey the new genetic code message to it’s fellow bugs to mutate at the other side of the World?, is this proof of quantum physics at work?
So many questions. :exploding_head:

We cannot deny that these bugs are not intelligent, as it is they seem to be more intelligent than our top scientists, for as soon as we develop a way to kill them they change into something else and we have to start all over again, not bad for something that can’t be seen with the human eye, Lord help us if anything bigger than a grain of rice invaded the Earth. :laughing:

It also begs the question of where mankind originated, or if you prefer mutilated from apes, in the middle east we are told, I’m sceptic now and think it happened all over the globe at the same time just like this new virus.

Maybe the scientists may learn something new and useful from all this mayhem, as long as they use it to benefit everyone and not let the military near it or we’re all doomed, the old game of “I gotta bigger bomb than you have” will change to “I have a smarter bug than you have” same old same old national macho shit. :wink: :smiley:

Perhaps they have already learnt something remarkable and are keeping mum till they figure out what they are going to do next, I’ve already seen on the BBC news site how they have developed a brand new form of artificial life with an entirely new method of reproduction.

Good or bad, only time will tell, but I have a feeling we’re in for something good. :smiley:

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What ever happens, I just want to RIP, not just have it on a headstone. :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes: :biking_man:

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Dreams. Ah well I have had a few, although I might wake up and remember them, but like most people I would forget them again after a short period.
It’s something to do with the brain not transferring short term rememberaries to the long term remembery part of the brainiac.

Sometimes I could relate them to something that had happened, or something I had seen on TV, but not since I started my heart meds. Now I have very vivid random dreams that bear no relation to anything that has happened.

When I say they are random dreams. I mean they are completely hat-stand.

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I used to get some great ideas for jewellery when I was dreaming Fruity, of course that was in me younger days. :wink:

Spitty the wife and me opted for cremation, so they’ll be no headstone, it’s all paid for, I was just wondering what would happen if the undertaker went bust? I suppose then we’d both have a state funeral, meaning the state would have to pay for it :smiley:, either that or dig a big hole in the back garden.
But then again, who ever heard of an undertaker going bust.

The missus gets our little dog (Rocky) treats from Lidl, they are just under an inch long and shaped like small bones. Over the years he has lost a few teeth and finds it hard to chew the large treats, these are a perfect size for him.

They are not the ones advertised on the “Yum yum” TV ad, but the wife only has to say the words “Yum yum” and he’s up like a flash looking for his treat.

However a small problem has arisen, every time the yum yum ad comes on he hops out of his basket thing and starts barking for his treats when he’s not due any. It’s no good muting the TV as the cat is out of the bag, once he hears yum yum that’s it, he won’t shut up till he gets some yum yum yum.

So be warned fellow pet owners, don’t let your dog listen to that yum yum ad, you won’t have a minutes peace if you do.

I’m sure if he could talk he’d be saying to the wife “Baby give me some of that yum yum yum”

Fat chance Rocky old chap, big Mama don’t give out much yum yum yum these days. :wink: :smiley:

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So much happened in a small amount of time, will have to work it all out in the portable Tardis. :icon_wink: :+1:

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Ya know Jembo, one of the best decisions we made, although it did not make financial sense at the time was, to have my Mothers Sister, cryogenically frozen. We did it having had a sneaking premonition that one day, we may have to do an Auntie-Body Test. :laughing: :icon_wink: :bike:

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So your Auntie has acquired celebrity status, all the big knobs get frozen now and stored away till they find a cure for death, good luck to them, who wants to live forever.

What will they do to your Auntie if you lapse on the payments?, thaw her out bit by bit, two months payments unpaid= 1leg, three months= a leg and an arm, and so on, if you are a real bad payer you’ll be lucky to get a big toe back when they eventually dry her out. :wink: :smiley:

Walt Disney was one of the first to have that done, I heard it was a disaster, the machine conked out after a few years, when they went to check on him all was left of old Walt was a big ball of slush, it was a Mickey Mouse freezer anyway. :smiley:

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Just made the last pot of tea of the night, I dislike waste so, I told the Wife “its the pot, the whole pot and nothing but the pot”, she was mystified. :grinning: :icon_wink:

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Tea!, what happened Spitty? run out of beer? :wink: :smiley:

You may have noticed over the years that I’m keeping a sharp eye on everything that happens on the Moon as well as with the Hadron Collider, both are very dear to me heart. :wink:

So you can imagine how excited I got when I saw this photo on the Sky news site this morning, a building standing all alone on the far side of the Moon, wow!!!, what could it possibly be!

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It’s only 80 metres from the Chinese Rover but it will take it two days to get to it, looks an ideal spot to build a mother-in-law granny flat if she was a dominating old bird.
But it could be a J. P. Mooney’s traditional Irish pub, they have pubs everywhere. :laughing:

In the meantime I’ll just have to wait and see, I’m beside myself in anticipation, exciting times wot!

When one is beside oneself there is always the danger of pushing oneself off the same armchair, one has to be careful about that as most accidents happen in the home, best to distance yourself from yourself as much as possible especially with covid around, one could become infected twice at the same time when one is beside oneself. :wink: :smiley:

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I always make tea, just after my last “Run Out”, and I never finish my last Beer, just incase there is an emergency, in the middle of the night :grinning:

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We have a little dog who only gets little treats according to his size.

What you call Yum Yums sounds very much like the Gravy Bones our doggie gets, if he has been good on a day when we are having gravy too.

During the rest of the week he gets a house shaped boneo if he has been in the dog house, a star shaped boneo if he has been good, a fishy shaped boneo when I do a fish-dish, a heart shape because we loves him, or a bone shape any other day of the week.

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If you want to find out about buildings on the Moon and Mars you should consult the Daily Express.Nearly every week their ace reporters seem to find something.