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Jim Webster, (In On a Chance! )
That's an awesome blog post Jim, I know the song 'Johnny Come Lately' (hubby sings it in the pub) but don't really listen to the words I will pay more attention next time but if I end up as 'the crying girl' at the party/pub I'm blaming you.
Patti (Beach Bunny) wrote: "people frequently assume Im American. i always make them apologise.oh it seems to be freaking people out here that Im Canadian and Dave is a brit.
mind you i suppose if you've never been farther..."
Well if it's any consolation, my sister married a Yorkshire chap so we're quite broad minded :-)
Jud (Disney Diva) wrote: "That's an awesome blog post Jim, I know the song 'Johnny Come Lately' (hubby sings it in the pub) but don't really listen to the words I will pay more attention next time but if I end up as 'the crying girl' at the party/pub I'm blaming you. ..."It's the words that do it. The 'ordinariness' of the chap telling his story, the fact that the singer isn't supposed to be aware of the pathos in the song.
I do wish I could write something like that
Jim don't sell yourself short.
Jim wrote: "Patti (Beach Bunny) wrote: "people frequently assume Im American. i always make them apologise.oh it seems to be freaking people out here that Im Canadian and Dave is a brit.
mind you i suppose ..."
That must have caused a scandal!
Almost as bad as assuming you're English when you're Scottish (as the New York Times just did for Andy Murray)I WANT MY COOKIE
Not seen that before Rosemary.Like it....
Will wrote: "Jim might like this one:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdY1Y5..."
I have been know to sing it, even when sober :-)
*hands Rosemary a big bowl of sticky rice*
Good morning peeps, trust Patti is having a good day out on the DMZ and that everyone else is chilling nicely :-)It must be my age or something, but was looking at the map on Wordpress which tells you where people are reading the blog.
Seeing Vietnam there was freaky enough but explicable because Patti is there, but Myanmar, Singapore and Bangladesh?
He's already being read in Yorkshire. How foreign can you get?
Patti (Beach Bunny) wrote: "*hands Rosemary a big bowl of sticky rice*"Well that's all very well but it's not a cookie is it, hmm?
Now that's more like it. I assume the apple ones count as one of five-a-day?
Specially if you wash it down with cider!
Can't you get cider based cookies anywhere?Surely this is a marketing opportunity?
Even we international jet-setters know that you are wise to avoid to much proper cider if you want to retain control of your knees
Ooo-arrr oi am a zoider drinkarrrrr!
Gingerlily (The One and Only) wrote: "Ooo-arrr oi am a zoider drinkarrrrr!"In which case you'll desperately need this for when your plane lands
http://www.ukcider.co.uk/wiki/index.p...
just posted some photos i hope you'll be interested in Jim.i think i can explain the random countries.
my friends are probably accessing your blog from my page. :-)
The photos are as fascinating as your selection of friends :-)But yes, the photos are well worth browsing. Thanks for posting them
thank Dave for willing to sit there staring into space while we sat in the bar where Facebook works. we're moving on to Hoi An tomorrow. hopefully it'll work in the hotel there.
Jim wrote: "Gingerlily (The One and Only) wrote: "Ooo-arrr oi am a zoider drinkarrrrr!"In which case you'll desperately need this for when your plane lands
http://www.ukcider.co.uk/wiki/index.p......"
I needed a new pair of pants! We were seconds from landing when the plane suddenly went steeply upwards and i had no idea why! Eventually we were told the landing had to be aborted because of birds on the runway. We went round for a second try and the same thing happened again. The third time they brought us in on a different runway. The plane before us had a bird strike when it landed. I caught my train with 3 minutes to spare and didn't have a chance to go to the loo until Rugby.
oh crap GL.I've been on a few flights where that has happened. hate it.
seems we'll be on a turbo prop when we fly from phu quoc.
erg
Good grief, talk about walking on the wild side. Next time get the pilot to straff the runway on his first pass?Welcome to third world Britain where we've even got 3rd world temperatures :-)
I would need a new pair of pants after that. To be honest, I need a new pair of pants after flying, anyway. I hate it and fully understand why Pope John Paul used to kiss the tarmac everywhere he landed.Cheers
MTM
I find that a bizarre attitude, MTM, from a girl who wants a flying car....
Oh I don't know, at least with the flying car she'd be in charge, being a passenger is an entirely different experience
Spot on Jim. That's EXACTLY why I loathe flying. The thing is, when small planes crash there are often survivors. When a jetliner goes down... To be honest I don't like Ro-Ro ferries, either. I am uncomfortable, as a passenger, using any mode of transport that is a compromise between the highest number of passenger numbers that can be carried and safety.
Hence my fear of flying. Or to paraphrase Buzz Aldrin, the scariest thing about going to space was knowing that every part of the ship was built by the lowest bidder.
The Ro-Ro ferry, for example, absolutely scraped the safety tests at pretty much every stage of the process. Pretty much all the recommendations could be paraphrased as, "this thing is a death trap, don't fucking build it". So how did the decision making process go?
Exec 1. "Hey, this thing's shit. Only scraped through the safety tests right across the board."
Exex 2. "Yeh, if it gets enough water in it to capsize it'll go over in 45 seconds."
Exec 1. "Hmm... so if someone on it leaves a tap running it'll go down with all hands."
Exec 2. "That's about the size of it."
Exec 1. "Hmm.... tricky decision."
Exec 2. "Yeh. Pity. You can carry more passengers on it than anyone else."
Exec 1. "You can?"
Exec 2. "Yeh."
Exec 1. "Why didn't you say? Let's build it. Nothing will happen."
Then a few thousand people die and they say. "Ooo we didn't see that coming."
If a ship lists and takes 3 or 4 minutes to sink there's a chance people will get off. But 45 seconds and it's basically down with all hands... unless they were on deck.
I trust buses and coaches because the chassis are made to carry freight and so are easily sturdy enough to carry people. I trust trains... although I'm not always 100% confident of the actual railway.
There we go. That's just me.
Cheers
MTM
A building surveyor told me that he liked being in buildings farmers had 'designed'and built. They instinctively massively over-engineer everything, the whole tends to be far stronger than it needs to be.
Structural engineers also over-engineer everything, or at least the ones I worked with always did. Very fond of mahoosive steel I-beams.
What's not to like about steel I-beams? :-)
You can tell Patti has poor wifi, this thread has sensible discussions, the curtains aren't burning, there's no squid porn :-)
Dainty little I-beams are lovely, I agree. Not so keen on C sections though.Sensible discussions?
Last roof I put on, I used timber, 9"x 18",second hand out of a railway building, split down the length to make them nine by nine. Should hold up corrugated iron shouldn't it? ;-)Oh remarkably sensible discussions. On literature and suchlike worthy topics
Well I'll be home in a few hours and I'll get this thread back on track.
Jim wrote: "Last roof I put on, I used timber, 9"x 18",second hand out of a railway building, split down the length to make them nine by nine. Should hold up corrugated iron shouldn't it? ;-)Oh remarkably se..."
Yes, so long as you keep the cows off it.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin...
Right! Those curtains have got to go for a start. And we need Will to play some very loud rock music.
Rosemary wrote: "Yes, so long as you keep the cows off it.http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin......"
I saw that. What gets me is that both his wife and the cow survived uninjured!
Gingerlily (The One and Only) wrote: "Right! Those curtains have got to go for a start. And we need Will to play some very loud rock music."Say something Gingerlily, I cannot hear you over the loud music, you'll have to shout.
Hope you had a good trip and have recovered from sundry injuries
I am thoroughly sundry after the last few days. And feeling a lot less tired and battered that I have been recently.
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oh it seems to be freaking people out here that Im Canadian and Dave is a brit.
mind you i suppose if you've never been farther than the next village, marrying someone from thousands of miles away does seem exotic