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  • Someone tells you Santa isn't real
  • Stig said:
    Watching Hootenanny tonight. Bob Geldof, Roger Taylor and Kathy Sledge all looked so old and Jools was bumbling about like a fat uncle at a wedding. Surely that's not my generation.


    I know that feeling... I was watching a new Clint Eastwood film 'Juror 2' starring Nicholas Hoult last weekend. I knew Hoult from 'About A Boy' and he was always just that little boy in my head - I had seen him in the X-Men franchise so I sort of knew he had grown up. Then after watching Juror 2, I looked him up and was surprised to find he was only 2 years younger than myself. The little boy is now 35 years old, which is a bit of a shocking fact to me.... So I'm approaching 40 now. Scary... :D
  • Jessie said:
    Stig said:
    Watching Hootenanny tonight. Bob Geldof, Roger Taylor and Kathy Sledge all looked so old and Jools was bumbling about like a fat uncle at a wedding. Surely that's not my generation.


    I know that feeling... I was watching a new Clint Eastwood film 'Juror 2' starring Nicholas Hoult last weekend. I knew Hoult from 'About A Boy' and he was always just that little boy in my head - I had seen him in the X-Men franchise so I sort of knew he had grown up. Then after watching Juror 2, I looked him up and was surprised to find he was only 2 years younger than myself. The little boy is now 35 years old, which is a bit of a shocking fact to me.... So I'm approaching 40 now. Scary... :D
    You should watch The Great, he is brilliant in it!
  • muppetman said:
    Jessie said:
    Stig said:
    Watching Hootenanny tonight. Bob Geldof, Roger Taylor and Kathy Sledge all looked so old and Jools was bumbling about like a fat uncle at a wedding. Surely that's not my generation.


    I know that feeling... I was watching a new Clint Eastwood film 'Juror 2' starring Nicholas Hoult last weekend. I knew Hoult from 'About A Boy' and he was always just that little boy in my head - I had seen him in the X-Men franchise so I sort of knew he had grown up. Then after watching Juror 2, I looked him up and was surprised to find he was only 2 years younger than myself. The little boy is now 35 years old, which is a bit of a shocking fact to me.... So I'm approaching 40 now. Scary... :D
    You should watch The Great, he is brilliant in it!
    Thanks. I'll check it out. Didn't know he was in it.
  • Stig said:
    Watching Hootenanny tonight. Bob Geldof, Roger Taylor and Kathy Sledge all looked so old and Jools was bumbling about like a fat uncle at a wedding. Surely that's not my generation.


    I noticed - even before the announcement - that Gilson Lavis the drummer was missing - it had me scrambling to google his name and was much relieved to find he had simply retired - phew.

    Jools and Gilson must've worked together for 40 years or so.  I recall one interview where Gilson was asked about Jools.  He simply replied, "I've seen the best of him, I've seen the worst of him ... there are no surprises".  It is a quote I've shamelessly nicked and used on several occasions. 
  • noticed - even before the announcement - that Gilson Lavis the drummer was missing - it had me scrambling to google his name and was much relieved to find he had simply retired - phew.

    Same here Raith , and when I googled him it said he had cancer !!! I thought Noooo .
    I started looking up everything , and found absolutely nothing to support .
    Hope he enjoys his retirement .
    I find Google reasonably accurate , but seeing that , made me think why do they not check their headlines.
  • Thank gawd he's ok, used to love Squeeze I remember a great concert on TV with them live in New York Central Park.
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  • edited January 2
    Jools personally made a noise complaint about my wedding. A bridesmaid gave him the middle finger and told him where to go! 
    Maybe in hindsight setting up the marquee in his back garden was tempting fate
    Actually not that far from the truth!
  • Jools personally made a noise complaint about my wedding. A bridesmaid gave him the middle finger and told him where to go! 
    Maybe in hindsight setting up the marquee in his back garden was tempting fate
    Actually not that far from the truth!
    That'll be Cooling Castle Barn then...
  • When you say about 15 years ago and it was 1992.
  • Jools personally made a noise complaint about my wedding. A bridesmaid gave him the middle finger and told him where to go! 
    Maybe in hindsight setting up the marquee in his back garden was tempting fate
    Actually not that far from the truth!
    That'll be Cooling Castle Barn then...
    Yeah I assumed that too. My nephew got married there 15 years ago. 
  • You’re the last person to know what having an upside down pineapple in your trolley is all about and you hear about it on radio 4 as though it’s something normal. 
    You're definitely not the last person.  When I googled it I also found this. 

    An upside-down pineapple: You're a swinger looking for a couple. Putting a peach in someone's trolley: You're basically flirting. Lettuce: You're looking for a one night stand. Lentils: You want something long-term.

    Beware all ye who enter the fruit and veg aisle  :#  
    There is a house up Brockley Rise, probably early 1900's, with four upside down pineapple statues on the front wall, I always have a snigger as I walk past
  • edited January 2
    Jools personally made a noise complaint about my wedding. A bridesmaid gave him the middle finger and told him where to go! 
    Coolings Castle? Son was best man there last year.
    Edit - just read subsequent comments that agree.
  • Kap10 said:
    You’re the last person to know what having an upside down pineapple in your trolley is all about and you hear about it on radio 4 as though it’s something normal. 
    You're definitely not the last person.  When I googled it I also found this. 

    An upside-down pineapple: You're a swinger looking for a couple. Putting a peach in someone's trolley: You're basically flirting. Lettuce: You're looking for a one night stand. Lentils: You want something long-term.

    Beware all ye who enter the fruit and veg aisle  :#  
    There is a house up Brockley Rise, probably early 1900's, with four upside down pineapple statues on the front wall, I always have a snigger as I walk past
    I used to live on Brockley Rise. I vaguely remember pineapples. But not outside my house.
  • When the fact that 1975 is 50 years ago means something.
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  • MAybe she wants to be your human hot water bottle?
  • Everyone holds the doors (mainly toilet) open for you, instead of letting them slam in your face.
  • People offer up their seat to you on the tube.
  • bobmunro said:
    People offer up their seat to you on the tube.
    Blimey, you must be old Bob. I've not had that yet (though I have reached the point where I no longer feel guilty about not giving up my seat for someone else). 
  • Going shopping and chatting with the checkout lady. 
  • Stig said:
    bobmunro said:
    People offer up their seat to you on the tube.
    Blimey, you must be old Bob. I've not had that yet (though I have reached the point where I no longer feel guilty about not giving up my seat for someone else). 
    I'm getting it sometimes now.
    What intrigues me is what happens over the course of let's say say one week where no one holds the door or offers a seat, to where most do.
    I mean did I age a few years over the course of a week?
  • edited January 3
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  • as in heroin?
  • as in heroin?
    As in Hector’s House
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