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Lez wrote: "Cheeky bugger"Didn't specify which war - has there been a year since WWII without a war somewhere on the planet?
Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia.
Well, not exactly a war but we honeymooned in Austria in 1972 just a few miles down the road from the Munich Olympics and were desperately trying to translate the German news bulletins on the radio.
The daughter of a work colleague hired a lovely old cinema for her wedding. The guests sat in the balcony watching "The Princess Bride", speaking all the lines (uber fans!) and throwing popcorn at the screen and empty stalls below. I don't know whether the cost of hire included clean-up charges.
TheFoe wrote: "My brother sent this to me, quite amusing.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57jRB..."
Scarily brilliant!
TheFoe wrote: "This made me laugh. :-)Edit- scroll down for short video.
https://www.thedrive.com/news/37342/a..."
#Fail!
Back to the drawing board! :)
Feels good man. Quick question - is anyone else on here unfamiliar with Pepe The Frog? Watched a doc about him t'other night and this cartoon frog character (who started off as an innocent enough thing but was then recruited for propaganda by the alt-right! Yeah go figure) is apparently pretty popular... and has been for years. He's popular in memes it seems. Have often asked the younger members of Clan B to explain to me what a 'meme' is but have never been satisfied with their answers. S'far as I can tell, a meme is a picture accompanied by a phrase that's mostly funny or/and offensive? In any case, please, someone else tell me they don't know who or what is Pepe The bloody Frog. Or even a meme for that matter.
I don't know who or what is Pepe The bloody Frog. And my understanding of "meme" is the same as yours Blastro.
We're just stupid old buggers.
Thanks Val, that does set me mind to rest a tad. Y'know I miss the old phones with number keys? Absolutely loathe touch-screen stuff. In one sense at least, that'd make me the stupidest old bugger on these boards! : )
A meme is originally an idea, behaviour or belief that spreads rapidly through society. The idea originated with Richard Dawkins in 'The Selfish Gene', where he adopted the word to mean 'something imitated'.It's gone into common use for things you describe but it was originally a bit more general. Hula hoops (not the ones you eat, that dates me!) Rubik's cubes, crazy ringtones, anything that just goes viral(?), not necessarily online.
well aware of Pepe, unfortunately and memes. Pictorial representations of common or humorous situations. Popularly thought to have begun with LOLCats and icanhascheezburger pictures. Popular meme templates include:Philosoraptor
Socially Awkward Penguin
Socially Awesome Penguin
Success Kid
And many others, so many others...
Good Guy Greg
Scumbag Steve
Courage Wolf
Boromir
Disaster Girl
Val wrote: "I don't know who or what is Pepe The bloody Frog. And my understanding of "meme" is the same as yours Blastro.
We're just stupid old buggers."
I think 'differently wise' is a kinder take?
The kids at school tried to convince me it was pronounced memmay! I may have been briefly taken in but I'm admitting nowt.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meme
Blastronaut wrote: "Feels good man. Quick question - is anyone else on here unfamiliar with Pepe The Frog? Watched a doc about him t'other night and this cartoon frog character (who started off as an innocent enough t..."Never heard of this one. Kermit Frog, yes...Crazy Frog..yes...but Pepe The Bloody Frog....er...."The computer says.....no!" :)
Plus ça change, plus c'est la meme chose...
This made me laugh out loud today - LOL!!! ;o> ...
Lovely to see you back, Suzy.If you haven't already make sure to catch up with Brass's retirement crisis/dog adventures/ensuing divorce....
Serial wrote: "Lovely to see you back, Suzy.If you haven't already make sure to catch up with Brass's retirement crisis/dog adventures/ensuing divorce...."
The truth is he got fired, something to do with the carpets...
Post Soviet wrote: "Serial wrote: "Lovely to see you back, Suzy.If you haven't already make sure to catch up with Brass's retirement crisis/dog adventures/ensuing divorce...."
The truth is he got fired, something t..."
rofl....
Ahhh, House and Garden 'Be Clean' Training, hey? ;o>
I came across this yesterday and it cracked me up no end! ;o> ...
... https://img.srgcdn.com/e/w:1242/SmFoQ...
suzysunshine7 wrote: "I came across this yesterday and it cracked me up no end! ;o> ...... https://img.srgcdn.com/e/w:1242/SmFoQ..."
Love it :o)
Nice Suzy,possibly a good idea for Treacle who is one of the most destructive cats we've had.
Ohhh, I SO want to say that I'm an Olive too ... but the truth of it is that I'm actually far more of Mabel whenever it comes to using technology, not focusing on anything business-like, and in enjoying finding fun things to play with ... Z Z Z z z z z ... sorry, I think I might have just dropped off there for a ... Z Z Z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z ...
Anita wrote: "Nice Suzy,possibly a good idea for Treacle who is one of the most destructive cats we've had." ...
suzysunshine7 wrote: "Ohhh, I SO want to say that I'm an Olive too ... but the truth of it is that I'm actually far more of Mabel whenever it comes to using technology, not focusing on anything business-like, and in enj..."I would be neither...as i'd have no idea how to turn that camera on!
I've been clumsily dropping things all over the place all day long today - so M&D have very kindly refused to let me try to do any Housework or Washing & Wiping Up ... (*makes a huge but vain effort to try to look bitterly disappointed by this*) ... ;o> ... ;o> ... ;o>I also very nearly came this >< close to losing a whole Eyebrow and some of my Fringe today as well! ;oO
I've managed to find my Dad a cracking little Remington Razor that only has the two Blades he prefers, is very easy to use and hold, and can also be plugged into the Mains to recharge it's internal Battery when necessary - just like all of his previous ones.
I couldn't find him a Philips one like this anymore when I last bought him one and so he has been using a three bladed one instead - with pretty good results but it does sometimes take him longer than he'd like to get a really smooth Shave with it and he sometimes needs someone to help him with still extremely stiff On & Off Slide Switch.
The Remington R95 that I came across on Amazon has got brilliant Reviews and is such a great price too - just £12.96 plus the £1.99 for the Three Year Accidental Damage Insurance - so I decided it was well worth buying it and giving it a go.
I wanted to test it first, because I don't want him risking cutting himself with it being as he is on Blood-thinners, and so I tried it out on my Arm and then tried pressing it against my Cheek ... just as Mitz hurtled in and threw herself onto my Bed next to me because there was someone playing with Fire Crackers in a nearby Garden!!! ;oO
How I missed my Eye and Eyebrow and kept my Fringe, I'll never know, but I can confirm that I'm now missing a few long strands of Hair from high up on the left-hand side of my Temple just underneath my Fringe!!! ... HA HA HA HA HA!!! ;o>
Like I said, it really is a cracking little Razor, and I think that Dad is going to enjoy using it! - LOL!!! ;o>
Kamikaze Kat, Suze? Perhaps you needed to try the razor out on Mitz, instead!How is 'Lockdown 2, The Sequel' going, folks?
Hopefully, it should mean our Christmas cards get done early this year.
Have heard people say that putting Christmas tree up early would brighten the home and chase away low spirits. Noticed someone further up our road has taken that advice. 12th November?
I'm a sucker for all things Christmas (I know you don't all agree) and I love the ad for one of our big department stores, Myer.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5Nmh...
As some of the comments say, there's almost a Tim Minchin vibe to this.
Suzy - you will be relieved to know that all three of this year's peregrine falcon chicks made it to maturity and flew the nest today.https://www.facebook.com/groups/367co...
https://www.theguardian.com/australia...
"Noticed someone further up our road has taken that advice. 12th November?"actually, a bit late to the table compared to some of the clowns round these parts - apparently 'junkie santa' needs more notice to get his act together! gold, frankincense and methadone!
Val wrote: "Suzy - you will be relieved to know that all three of this year's peregrine falcon chicks made it to maturity and flew the nest today.https://www.facebook.com/groups/367co...
https://w..."
Such fierce beauty ...
P wrote: "Kamikaze Kat, Suze? Perhaps you needed to try the razor out on Mitz, instead!How is 'Lockdown 2, The Sequel' going, folks?
Hopefully, it should mean our Christmas cards get done early this year...."
P! - it's great to see you again! ... x ;o>
Oooh? - I'd better not be telling our Mitz that you think she is a Cat! - LOL!!! ;o>
Christmas for me really starts to come together inside my Head when I get to have my annual opportunity to have a good wander around the Shops - in buying Gifts whilst getting to see all of the Christmassy things that are for sale and listening to all the old classics of Christmas themed Music being played everywhere I go.
And it all comes together inside my Heart when M&D&me get to go every year, as a family, to a local Christmas Tree Festival and attend two particular Concerts.
Both Concerts are 'Carols By Candlelight' ones. One is organised by the Maia Choir who specialise in performing Medieval Songs that have been passed on from one generation to the other through the Centuries simply by the singing of them. The other is organised by a very well-known local Brass Band (that I am such a huge fan and supporter of) together with another wonderful local Choir, the St George's Singers.
It won't quite be Christmas to us this year without any of these incredibly special things that have come to mean so much to us over the years - but I'll get some of their CDs out to play and see if I can try to re-awaken and invigorate our inner Christmas spirits in that way instead ;o>
suzysunshine7 wrote: "P wrote: "Kamikaze Kat, Suze? Perhaps you needed to try the razor out on Mitz, instead!How is 'Lockdown 2, The Sequel' going, folks?
Hopefully, it should mean our Christmas cards get done early ..."
You'd think some of the outside events could go on, especially carols with social distancing.
Here in Ireland they've cancelled all the outside Christmas market traders in Dublin. Unfair imo. The shops will have re-opened by then, and the market is outside.
Val wrote: "I'm a sucker for all things Christmas (I know you don't all agree) and I love the ad for one of our big department stores, Myer.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5Nmh...
As some of the comment..."
We, who love Christmas, Val, must stick together and never let the grown-up Grinches win! - LOL!!!
Ohhh, I really like that Ad! ;o>
And it definitely does have a Tim Minchin vibe to it, doesn't it? In fact it really would have been the Icing of the Cake if they could-of managed to get Tim to perform it as I'm not all that keen on the voice of the guy that is singing ... however, the Lyrics are brilliant! ;o>
Val wrote: "Suzy - you will be relieved to know that all three of this year's peregrine falcon chicks made it to maturity and flew the nest today.https://www.facebook.com/groups/367co...
https://w..."
Val wrote: "Suzy - you will be relieved to know that all three of this year's peregrine falcon chicks made it to maturity and flew the nest today.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/367co...
https://w..."
Awww, I really wish that I had been watching them now, Val ... but I genuinely was so distraught day after day in watching those two gorgeous babies die, in such an awful and lingering way last year, that I just couldn't bear to put myself through that again - especially as we are under Lock-down too and that has been more than enough of an ongoing traumatic experience this year in itself!
Thanks for sharing the wonderful news that they all made it this year ... x ;o>
It's remarkably Tim Minchin-like, almost plagiarism!
Val wrote: "And this one for Big W (Woolies) is nice too:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrBbS......"
WoW!!! ;o>
How awful that there's actually a fire season.
Serial wrote: "Here in Ireland they've cancelled all the outside Christmas market traders in Dublin. Unfair imo. The shops will have re-opened by then, and the market is outside."I suppose it is because it will be so much harder to stop massive Crowds from just turning and increasingly congregating in an area that will end up not being able to maintain or enforce social distancing Regulations?
The last thing that anyone will want is for a massive outbreak of Covid-19 cases and it being tracked and traced back to so many folk attending an Event like this.
What really upsets and pee's me off no end about the risks taken in attending Events like this ... is not the number of genuinely ignorant asymptomatic folk who have absolutely no idea at all at the time that they have Covid-19, but the considerable number of those that are mostly fit and well and asymptomatic but who do actually know that they might have or do definitely have Covid-19 - yet deliberately choose not to follow any of the Self-isolating Guidelines because they don't want to get to miss out on anything ;o<
We are seeing it again and again here, that places are having to inform all of their Staff and Customers, and also having to close down to do a extra-deep clean and then sit it out through a quarantine period ... and why? ... because some self-entitled and utterly irresponsible idiot of a person still wanted to enjoy a Meal out with friends, or get their Hair or Nails done, or attend an Event despite knowing that they have tested positive ;o<
I simply can't get my Head around that? How anyone could ever even think of risking the terrible Health consequences to anyone else like that? ... but sadly, it has happened quite a few times now around here.
This Christmas Advert has given me a giggle this week ;o> ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgIig...
"I simply can't get my Head around that?"indeed, same here. an awful lot of people have been 'found out', during these times - found out to be utter selfish bastards with no sense of community in them. unfortunately, it's what we now expect of people, who, round here, fall into roughly 4 categories,
1 - the ignorant
2 - the selfish
3 - the 'look down the nose at you poor idiots, it's all a conspiracy' types - perhaps the worst of all.
4 - thankfully, the majority who are able to behave themselves.
if you don't expect the best in people, you won't be disappointed. and that's a terrible place to be, but for the long haul it's essential that you and yours are safe, well and sensible (which is a strain when my father is both 1 & 2 - but even at that, our attitude is **** him, we're keeping ourselves safe.).
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In my 38 years as an educator of sorts (and I taught some right sorts I'll tell you) I only ever bunked two days off without good reason and the first of those was to attend my mate's wedding as one of a pair of best men. His missus-to-be wasn't enamoured of the actual process of getting hitched so they did the legal minimum at the registry office on the Friday (hence bunked off), both dressed for a day in, possibly even doing the garden - shorts. t shirts and she wore a misspelled badge with 'Wiffey to be' on it. They'd asked the registrar to ditch everything but the legal minimum which meant there was a significant period of time while the fancy writing was done on the marriage cert - we didn't do anything with it, I'm just saying there wasn't much left of the procedure). At that point I was the only best man present but I had nothing to do other than witness the marriage.
We then left and went to his house while she went to hers and then out that evening where I got fairly drunk. The next day we stuck a couple of lengths of silver ribbon on my Escort (car not lady of the night) bonnet and pootled round on errands with him as we awaited the main event in the afternoon. This was at Huntingdon Hall, a grand old house and, in term time, a posh school. It wasn't a marriage but a 'celebration' with all sorts of friends doing turns, songs (absolutely no 'ymns), poems, etc. Bit surprised there wasn't a juggler or contortionist. Despite the lack of a marriage ceremony, this time they were all in their finery and she had a chauffeur-driven car, etc which seemed weird (but was of a piece with the whole shebang). All went swimmingly if a bit left field until the communal singing of ......... Bare Necessities from Jungle book which is fine if monumentally twee IMO but you can easily imagine the tongue-twisting balls-up which ensued when we reached the lines,
'Now when you pick a pawpaw
Or a prickly pear
And you prick a raw paw
Next time beware
Don't pick the prickly pear by the paw
When you pick a pear
Try to use the claw
But you don't need to use the claw
When you pick a pear of the big pawpaw'.
Jeez that was a moment.
Their photographer was useless at corralling the required folk so I ran round like a blue-arsed fly in the high Summer heat doing that with limited and declining grace. Then we formed a formal welcoming line into the reception, again, weird since the marriage was the previous day? I had been given zero instruction on what my role as best man was and the other best man had arrived from the USA with just minutes to spare. Anyway the meal proceeded with the usual rubber chicken and trimmings but the wine was all home-brewed by her dad. It was palatable and I was a bit discombobulated with all the aforegoings on so I relaxed and laid into it with gusto under the disapproving eye of Mrs Neck who was about 8 and a half months pregnant with our son (so I drank her share and that of all the designated drivers, etc). At the end matey invites the other best man to read some cards (a terminally dull thing to do I always feel?) and I'm thinking well, all I was was the chauffeur and photographer's assistant until he turns to me and asks if I'd like to say a few words. They were unprepared, extremely few and quite slurred and generally amounted to something along the lines of, 'Well it's been a long and great day, congrats to bride & groom and I think the bar's open now'.
During the evening, my role officially over if it ever really began I 'relaxed' further with the help of the aforementioned bar being of the view that if labour did set in there were enough sober folk to ensure Mrs Neck would be looked after!
All in all the weirdest nuptial event I have ever been a part of. Poor bride died a couple of years back after they had amicably divorced - she was always a bit 'other' and 'health-freaky' on her infrequent visits with matey to chez Brass; getting up at 5.30 to go for a run and eating a bowl of muesli with water rather than milk or yogurt.
Anyhoo, altogether now;
Now when you pick a pawpaw
Or a prickly pear
And you prick a raw paw
Next time beware
Don't pick the prickly pear by the paw
When you pick a pear
Try to use the claw
But you don't need to use the claw
When you pick a pear of the big pawpaw'!