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The complete bo**ocks, talk tripe, no music allowed thread
There are a couple of freestanding 700mm options available as well, Val - but I've no idea if they are a reasonable price or any good as a Brand? ...https://www.appliancesonline.com.au/f...
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https://www.billyguyatts.com.au/smeg-...
Grrr... I kept on finding that I was following discussions without wanting to. It puzzled me for a long time. I discovered today that it happens when I try to reply to a post on my phone rather than my computer. The reply button is very close to the Notify me when people comment button and because the touch screen is small I was hitting it instead of the reply button! At least I know now it's not some evil gremlin that's out to get me!
A leaflet with the Radio Times advertising Duracell Project Solar UK. All sounds wonderful till you get to:'Project Solar UK. A real alternative to energy saving'
Is this really what was intended?
M&D buy themselves a Radio and a TV Times every Christmas ;o>
Gordon wrote: "People still buy the Radio Times?"There's been a discussion about this on the Radio 3 Forum and it seems to be just a couple of us!
I've never missed a Radio Times, even on holiday, same for my sister. We always got it at home too. I'd be lost without it! I admit the quality went down when the Beeb sold it and it's full of Poldark drooling but I like the background info and cast lists. So far as I know there's no other printed version of R3 music and artists.
I just use this, https://www.freeview.co.uk/tv-guide but then my tv and computer screen are mounted on the wall one above the other. That way I can have two reasons for going square-eyed both at the same time.
I like to read what's on the next week and mark in green ink what I want to listen to. Can only do that on paper!
I do that with the Guardian weekend TV guide every Saturday morning. It's anything but comprehensive but there's still enough to nearly fill the Virgin TIVO box with unwatched crap that will probably stay that way. All those recorded progs are the main reason we haven't switched providers when we could get a much better deal!
Even the Guardian doesn't give details of Radio 3, just 'Afternoon Concert' or 'Composer of the Week', not what's going to be played. Even the TV listings are useless as we have different programmes on different times or different days. BBC Alba and BBC Scotland don't seem to exist but E4, ITV2 and Film4 do!
Hotel Chocolat boss offers five years free Chocolate and a Tour of the Company’s “Inventing Room” in return for help recovering stolen Ice Cream Van ...
... http://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/...
suzysunshine7 wrote: "Hotel Chocolat boss offers five years free Chocolate and a Tour of the Company’s “Inventing Room” in return for help recovering stolen Ice Cream Van ...."Did you return it yet?
:P
Me?!! ;oO... (*adjusts Tarpaulin and closes Garage Door quickly*) ...
I don't know nuffin' about it? ;o>
Five years free Chocolate is a bit vague. Is that one square a day for five years? Is it one big box every year for five years?I'd find this out before you return the van suzy or you might be better off keeping it. How much chocolate does it have in it anyway?
"How much chocolate does it have in it anyway?"
By now, bugger all!! :)
By now, bugger all!! :)
Oyyy?! - there are no Prizes awarded on here for being right, you know?!! ;o>
Coz the medals were chocolate too :)
Back from holidays, checking news this morning found this:"Camila Cabello has shared an adorable message to celebrate "magic human" Shawn Mendes' 21st birthday."
aww...
Would appreciate this kinda news more if related to Gallagher brothers. "Liam has shared an adorable..."
Who is Cabello? Who is Mendes?
Or something wrong with me?
Just for you, PS. :https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iycmKgO...
Americans only have 2 adjectives - 'adorable' and 'cute', sometimes both together.
They have three - you forgot 'neat'.
Lez wrote: "Just for you, PS. :https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iycmKgO...
Americans only have 2 adjectives - 'adorable' and 'cute', sometimes both together."
Thanks Lez, alright, now I know. But talking of duos I prefer more something like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWey5...
Oh sorry!! This thread no music allowed! oops...
don't be daft!come on folks, no 1 u.s. adjective? awesome!
Post Soviet wrote: "Back from holidays, checking news this morning found this: "Camila Cabello has shared an adorable message to celebrate "magic human" Shawn Mendes' 21st birthday ... Who is Cabello? Who is Mendes? Or something wrong with me?"I have absolutely no idea either? ;o>
I just Googled them and have discovered that I care even less now - LOL!!!
On an old 'Pointless' today:From a 31-year-old 'transport economist':
Q. What national holiday was proclaimed by Abraham Lincoln?
A. Movember?
Q. Who was the only British PM to be assassinated?
A. Alec Douglas-Home?
Petroc Trelawney on this morning's Breakfast listeners' requests programme on Radio 3.With no noticeable break in his voice says "Long time since we heard any Scheit on Radio 3"
All I can see once again is just an empty white box ... which suddenly now seems to sum up a very appropriate response to Lez Lee's Post! - LOL!!! ;o>
Must be the emoji isn't registering Suzy.
The weirdness of an ostrich running backwards.https://youtu.be/nqpxWAgOGZ8?t=24
Just watch the legs and eventually it starts to look very peculiar indeed.
That's amazing - looking at it small-screen on my phone I thought at first it really was young dinosaur animation.
Today's word is skeuomorph, which i shall now be using daily. BoJo is a skeuomorph of an actual human being, and shouting extremely loudly at the youth, that music is just a skeuomorph! What a word!https://www.bbc.com/ideas/videos/what...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skeuomorph
I know this is s'posed to be a music free zone but I didn't know where else to post this. Cookie Monster songs (on another thread) led me to this Count Von Count song which made me chuckle. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eYvhB00...
"I ........ slowly, slowly, slowly getting faster."
You are always welcome to post anything you like (and especially anything to do with Sesame Street) up on the Snails Thread, Helen - LOL!!! ;o>Most of my Summer Holidays between the ages of 6 to 14 were misspent in being left to entertain myself and my baby Brother in an NHS Staff Creche at the Hospital my Dad worked at - supposedly being 'supervised' every year by a couple of extremely bored (and boring) Childcare Student volunteers whose only idea of filling in some quality time with us was to sit us in front of a TV to watch Sesame Street every day ;o>
So? - is it really any wonder now that "me love Cookies"? - LOL!!! ;o>
If the pen is mightier than the sword Marina Hyde wields a mighty claymore.https://www.theguardian.com/commentis...
Got an ad in my inbox for The Food Warehouse by Iceland showing a box of 36 bags of crisps for £3.99 with the words "less than 10p per bag" above a picture of the box :)
Did anyone hear the commentary on the West Ham vs Crapchester United match on MOTD2? The commentator was comparing the match to Sunday tea at your maiden aunt's. There was genuine dread in his voice.I have so many unpleasant memories of family visiting on Sunday afternoons in the seventies, as well as all the other horrors of Sundays. I may have posted here (or on Amazon) previously about the Cliff Adams Singers and Sing Something Simple: the dreariest, most horrid entity in the history of recorded or broadcast sound. But those Sunday teas were utterly horrible, too. Who the hell invented aunts, and why? Extended families are an abomination.
Perhaps you should have used one of these get-togethers to initiate a cull of unnecessary rellies?
Arsenic in the tinned salmon? Warfarin in the sherry? Good plan, BN.
"initiate a cull of unnecessary rellies"kinda like what fred west done did?
On The Chase today;
Brad: How many violinists in a traditional string quartet?
Contestant: Five
Brad: How many violinists in a traditional string quartet?
Contestant: Five
Grizzlygrump wrote: "On The Chase today;Brad: How many violinists in a traditional string quartet?
Contestant: Five"
Excellent :-D
On MOTD2 last night:Interviewer: How disappointing was that?
Ole Gunnar Solskjaer: On a scale of 1 to 10? ... I'm not going to put a number on it.
I know this thread says "no music allowed" but I feel there are some maiden aunts who deserve a say and here's the wonderful Judy Small to do it. We need more women like Judy - read her bio on Wiki:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judy_Small
Gone now the years of my halcyon twenties
And thirties are looming alarming ahead
And family members have started their sighing
Indulgently at me shaking their heads
'Cause here I am, the family maiden aunt
The isn't it sad, marriage-hopes-a-fading aunt
The lonely-future-expectation laden aunt
I wonder what on earth's to become of me now.
My cousins and siblings in wedded bliss settled
Between them x spouses and about fifty kids
And me, I'm still single without any prospects
A very sure sign that my life's on the skids
CHORUS:
(And here I am), the family maiden aunt
Isn't-it-sad marriage-hopes-a-fading aunt
The lonely-future-expectation-laden aunt
I tell you what: I wouldn't swap for quids!
'Cause who do you think it is that's always got the time to play
At gatherings of the family clan extended?
And who delights in sharing all the magic of their day
And gets to give them back at night?
CHORUS:
(Yes it's me), the family maiden aunt
Isn't-it-sad marriage-hopes-a-fading aunt
The lonely-future-expectation-laden aunt
I tell you what: I wouldn't swap for quids!
Cause who do you think it is that gets to take them to the zoo
Or ferry them to Manly for a fun day?
And who delights in doing all the things they love to do
And still gets to give them back at night?
CHORUS:
(Yes it's me), the family maiden aunt
Isn't-it-sad marriage-hopes-a-fading aunt
The lonely-future-expectation-laden aunt
I tell you what: I wouldn't swap for quids!
"Debbie Harry Claims David Bowie Flashed Her as a Thank You Reward for Giving Him Cocaine"Another proof Bowie couldn't go wrong. Right?
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/d...
“I’m Self Taught” Reveals Tambourinist Liam GallagherBRITISH tambourinist Liam Gallagher has revealed he has spent decades mastering his musical instrument of choice without ever receiving any lessons from an outside source, stating that being “self taught” is the key to his stunning success.
In a tell-all interview with WWN, Mr. Gallagher said he used to “tap desks” in school with his fingers, before progressing to shaking restaurant salt shakers in his mid-teens.
“At that time it was all fucking guitar wank this, piano pansey that,” Liam recalls his time growing up in Manchester as a struggling musician, “I always thought that mainstream shit was too easy, ya know. Not for me, our kid”.
Liam’s first memory of picking up the tambourine was when he was just 15-years-old, wowing his peers and budding musicians alike with his unique over the head shaking style.
“Noel and his mates were practicing one day playing a riff and without thinking I just picked up the tambourine and started shaking it over me head,” the 46-year-old went on. “Noel said I was right good and had a natural talent for shaking shit, innit?”
The Oasis frontman went on in detail about his rigorous tambourine practice routine which sometimes interfered with his academic studies.
“I used to doss off school an’ that and shake all day,” he recalled. “I’d shake so much that I had one hand bigger than the other and all the other kids in school would slag me off for being a wanking cunt. That’s when I started hiding my hands behind my back when performing”.
It wasn’t until late 1995 when Liam realised there could be a career ahead of him as a professional tambourinist.
“Bob Dylan’s song tambourine man was a huge inspiration to me; all my life I just wanted to be the best tambourine man that ever lived, and when Wonderwall hit, I knew that this was tambourine time and I was on to something truly fucking special,” he said.
“The whole country just kept going on about how good I was on tambourine and things just really took off for the band from there”.
Oasis went from strength to strength and soon became known as the world’s number one tambourine band. However, after years of internal feuding and jealous behaviour from brother Noel, Liam knew that Oasis’ time was over.
“Noel was always envious of my tambourine playing and I think that’s what really drove us apart,” Liam reveals, now caressing a tambourine in his hand. “If I had the chance to go back in time, I wouldn’t change a fucking thing… fucking tosser”.
“Noel’s a daft jealous cunt and a fucking Bono lick arse ponse anyway,” Liam concluded.
https://waterfordwhispersnews.com/201...
well, he can't sing, he can't write interesting songs, he's ugly, dull and dresses like a twat - he gotta be good at something!
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... dearest darling husband always trying his very best to find places to hide away from you and then to look incredibly busy whenever you do finally manage to find him ... ;o>