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  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 52,053
    edited January 2
    cantersaddick said:
    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.
  • Wheresmeticket
    Wheresmeticket Posts: 17,304
    Kap10 said:
    Raith_C_Chattonell said:
    Arsenetatters 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.
  • Valley Ant
    Valley Ant Posts: 469
    When the fact that 1975 is 50 years ago means something.
  • Redvaliant
    Redvaliant Posts: 515
    Valley Ant said:
    When the fact that 1975 is 50 years ago means something.

    Indeed so, 50 years since my dad died and I've missed him everyday since.
  • iaitch
    iaitch Posts: 10,243
    MAybe she wants to be your human hot water bottle?
  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 52,053
    Everyone holds the doors (mainly toilet) open for you, instead of letting them slam in your face.
  • bobmunro
    bobmunro Posts: 20,863
    People offer up their seat to you on the tube.
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,079
    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). 
  • usetobunkin
    usetobunkin Posts: 2,194
    Going shopping and chatting with the checkout lady. 

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  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 52,053
    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?
  • Arsenetatters
    Arsenetatters Posts: 5,987
    edited January 3
    H
  • Alwaysneil
    Alwaysneil Posts: 13,819
    as in heroin?
  • Arsenetatters
    Arsenetatters Posts: 5,987
    Alwaysneil said:
    as in heroin?
    As in Hector’s House
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,079

  • T_C_E
    T_C_E Posts: 16,423
    When the 11 year old shy young lady who you taught to handle large breeds of dogs, invites you back to the school she works at!


  • bobmunro
    bobmunro Posts: 20,863
    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). 

    It's happened a couple of times on the tube - I've politely declined the offer, muttering 'cheeky b*stard' under my breath.

    I'm 67!
  • Alwaysneil
    Alwaysneil Posts: 13,819
    bobmunro said:
    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). 

    It's happened a couple of times on the tube - I've politely declined the offer, muttering 'cheeky b*stard' under my breath.

    I'm 67!
    Hard paper round oop t'north?
  • Arsenetatters
    Arsenetatters Posts: 5,987
    When you go to cut your toenails and look at the clippers thinking that they’re not going to be strong enough. And then feel sorry for any future care worker who has to attempt to cut them if you end up in a home.
  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 52,053
    Arsenetatters said:
    When you go to cut your toenails and look at the clippers thinking that they’re not going to be strong enough. And then feel sorry for any future care worker who has to attempt to cut them if you end up in a home.
    Always have a shower or bath before cutting toe nails.

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  • Hal1x
    Hal1x Posts: 4,265
    edited January 4
    Arsenetatters said:
    When you go to cut your toenails and look at the clippers thinking that they’re not going to be strong enough. And then feel sorry for any future care worker who has to attempt to cut them if you end up in a home.
    I bought an rotating electric sander manicure drill thing, it saved me having to replace mirrors and eye glasses broken by sharp pieces of nail flying up when I clipped them, plus I couldn't reach my toenails over my huge gut, and when I could I couldn't see my nails to cut them with my poor eyesight.
  • Penfolds Perm
    Penfolds Perm Posts: 550
    When you own Jumpers older than the World Darts Champion. 
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,079
    Penfolds Perm said:
    When you own Jumpers older than the World Darts Champion. 
    When you look back at old family photographs and you're wearing the same clothes as when they were taken - and you still consider them as your best.
  • Alwaysneil
    Alwaysneil Posts: 13,819
    Stig said:
    Penfolds Perm said:
    When you own Jumpers older than the World Darts Champion. 
    When you look back at old family photographs and you're wearing the same clothes as when they were taken - and you still consider them as your best.
    When you have old family photograph albums with pictures printed off camera film and not just stored on your phone. 
  • letthegoodtimesroll
    letthegoodtimesroll Posts: 10,647
    Stig said:
    Penfolds Perm said:
    When you own Jumpers older than the World Darts Champion. 
    When you look back at old family photographs and you're wearing the same clothes as when they were taken - and you still consider them as your best.

    TBF, if you still have them then they probably are your best. Most clothes aren’t made to last these days and the quality isn’t always there. 

    Obviously, if your ‘best’ that you are referring to to are flares and tank tops then please disregard the above…
  • Sillybilly
    Sillybilly Posts: 9,238
    When you hear silly facts on the radio like todays classic:

    wham’s Wake Me Up Before You Go Go was released closer to Workd War 2 than today.  
  • Hal1x
    Hal1x Posts: 4,265
    edited January 4
    You are sitting up all cosy in bed, with a mug of tea, the treacle and the pooch, thinking do I really want to go out in this freezing weather to the football today? The roads might be a bit slippy and those pavements could be dodgy.....
  • oohaahmortimer
    oohaahmortimer Posts: 34,194
    you can’t wait to get home before you’ve even gone out 
  • Alwaysneil
    Alwaysneil Posts: 13,819
    The most exciting thing you got for christmas was a lap blanket
  • Algarveaddick
    Algarveaddick Posts: 21,173
    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 can't believe nobody told me Dead South were on! Just found the clip on Youtube. Marvellous!   

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