The one with the best memories pleeeeeze:lol:
Oh, it’s just coloured 95% water and a few other bobs and bits in it. Well, there are other names for the cloudy, floaty, lumpy bits in some brews.
Now then, this yoochoob malarkey. I can post links but I cannot post the big picture jobby. I can on other fora, but not here. I have know-eye-dear why. Frankly I can’t be bottomed to work I out.
As for that there mathematicals, I’m not too bad at it, even the long division or multliplication stuff, as long as it is writ down. I cannot for the life of me do it in my head, not even the simple stuff.
Oh well, there are much more important things to do, like drink 95% coloured water with bits in it.
Interesting little clip here Fruity.
“The invention of bread and beer has been argued to be responsible for humanity’s ability to develop technology and build civilization.[5][6][7] The earliest chemically confirmed barley beer to date was discovered at Godin Tepe in the central Zagros Mountains of Iran, where fragments of a jug, from between 5400 and 5000 years ago was found to be coated with beerstone, a by-product of the brewing process.[8]
Beer may have been known in Neolithic Europe as far back as 5,000 years ago,[9] and was mainly brewed on a domestic scale” (wiki)
Acording to that beer is way up there with the wheel and the smelting of iron ore, is it any wonder most men have the highest respect for it.;-)
All my long distance travelling was done in my sleep, I’m not a good traveller in the flesh.
I stopped off in Thailand on the way home from Sydney and brought back a few nice ties, got a lovely laptop when I was in Lapland, if you like pot holing there are plenty of pot holes in Rhodes.
I didn’t like the birds in Turkey so we had a roast beef that Christmas if my memory serves me right.
My granny once said that if you told a lie and it wasn’t expected to be believed then it wasn’t a lie, like an ugly comedian would say on stage “On my way here today I met a beautiful blonde lady and she invited me back to her flat…” or a politician when he says you will be better off when you vote for him, only a fool would believe that, you are not expected to believe it but he’ll say it anyway in order to achieve his aims
She should never have said that while the brother and me were in earshot, as kids this opened up a whole new field of excuse composing for the pair of us.
“Why didn’t you pair clip the hedge before you went off swimming?”
“Well Nan when we said we would do it we didn’t expect you to believe it”
“You said you’d be in for your supper at 9 it’s 10 now”
“Ah well you were not expected to believe it”
On and on we went until she got so fed up with it that called us together and in a stern voice said “Listen here good me boyo’s, from now on a lie is a lie and that’s it, got it?’
We got it. It was a short lived but enjoyable episode in a boys life.
God rest her soul, she had the patience of Job, a truly remarkable woman, I never forget her.
There is a shop in a seaside town I sometimes visit called Proper Job. That’s the name of the shop by the way, not the name of the town. It’s a very apt name for a hardware shop in the West Country, where something good, or eggcellent, or done kreckly will earn you the accolade, Proper job!
I don’t know if the shop owner is called Job, or is at all patient, or is even a patient (in or out), or if his first name is Proper (although he probably does have a proper name) but it is possible to purchase all sorts of things from his emporium from four candles to 'ose and peas.
Speaking of four candles, it is a traddition during a funeral service at Westminster Abbey for someone to follow the coffin carrying two lighted candles. When Ronnie Barker’s service was had there, no words to the extra-ordinary were said, but his coffin was followed by people bearing four candles.
Proper Job!
I so love this thread:lol:
I have just returned home from visiting my BIL in Bedlam, a place that I have doubted my own sanity at times. It quite wears me out!
Charles Dickens birthplace was Pompey, also the birthplace of my twins. Just an hours drive from me, not that I ever get to see Pompey much, my BIL is quite err…
Oh never mind, I will return tomorrow when I have found all my marbles:-D
ah well that’s easy the place you too would like to visit HK or Honkers as it is fondly known by the ex-pats. but when I resided there HK was still cheap - NOW expensive so take plenty of money. It blends the old with the new but again today it is harder to find the old - they are knocking it all down. I have plenty of movie film 8mm you understand - you know reels and threads etc which I could show you if i could only learn the technics of transfering it all to gluetube!
HK now is a bustling expensive city so I would hesitate to advise on a visit - in the late 70’s early 80’s taxis were cheap and I would oft jump on the Star Ferry for 40 cents to take me across to the island as I lived in Kowloon on the mainland - they now have an underground tunnel right under the harbour - an amazing fete of building and may have stopped the services of the ferries - that would be a shame.
If you have the time to wander off the beaten track in the sweaty humid weather you may still find remnants of old HK but do hurry it is fast disappearing in the mad craze to build build in concrete and steel.
yes if I were to head back there I would want to get out of the hustle and bustle of HK island and Kowloon and get a taxi out to the duck farms closer to the border with mainland China.
HK now would be a look a like of Singapore [and I always thought Singapore was sterile compared to HK] San Fransisco ; London; New York etc. get the idea - it always sounds exotic but is no longer. A short visit can be very frustrating - living there for 3 years gave time to explore - and they were the days when I worked;kids went to school and the wife stayed home and explored and came home with cheap shirts; dresses; and various bric a brac!
yes I am glad I experienced it before it threw away the old mistress!
Oh, gumbud thank-you that was lovely.
Transferring 8mm film? I will ask a friend, as I know he has done this - Leave it with me:lol:
I found this - Sorry it is so large
https://steemit-production-imageproxy-thumbnail.s3.amazonaws.com/U5dtQxfr1uRihQgwAYwS465qxK7QCF8_1680x8400
that wasn’t there when I was!!!
can it expand at all??
Gimme a glimpse of you in your spandex tutu…then stand back,gumbud!
Expansion to the point of causing the recipient discomfort,poppet-luckily,Vaseline’s cheap.
Geezers usually compare the size of Cocks, when they can’t prove definitely what came first, the Chicken or the Egg.
well I went out wiv dis chick de uvver night and said ‘wanna see me cock’ - and she said - " stop eggin me on"!!
heh Pugsie ever heard of this one - power law
-r
P (k) ~ k
I’ll give you a clue - scale free small networks with lots of nodes but few hubs??
nb: the -r should be beyond the second k but the website won’t do it!!
Ooh R. I need a P. Give us a kiss kido?
I have now totally lost where I was on here.
One night in Bangkok and the world’s gone crazy!:shock:
Awwe, it must have been very cold in your part of the world Pugsie.
My good friend Father O’Malley had a look in here earlier, he said he hopes to see all the boasting naughty cock-a-doodles in confession next Saturday evening, he assures me that severe penances are on the cards.:-)
has he got a big one too??
A had a good friend called FatherO’Malley
Who gave out penances just like the Old Bailey
Once he had you in that big wooden box
He insisted on seeing the size of ya sins!!