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Oh nah, I just realized I was wasting my life away on this site so I decided to have some real life.
Not much of one granted, but still. Shred was all that used to keep me going, till I realized that was sad in itself, having to rely on a website haha
Nor did I care about upsetting people per se, hell I got a good jolly from it but yeah, had to quit being a punk at some point eh? Anyone I actually felt bad about upsetting/offending and all I apologized to personally.
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Posted: October 16 2013 at 13:14
Indeed. My personal life has improved wonderfully since I visited here less. I'm having the best time of my life at the moment and there's still a lot more to do yet.
Not something telling much we didn't already know but more of a nostalgia read - who here remembers when the saloon bar was for "them" and the public bar was for the likes of us?
Very eloquently written article. T'was a cool read indeed. I had no idea British bars, at one point not so long ago, were divided in 'classes'. I mean from what it says here, this went on until the 70s Boggles the Danish mind at least.
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Posted: November 12 2013 at 11:09
There were/are some which will have 3 bars -
Public bar - working class (primarily male clientelle)
Saloon bar - middle class (more mixed & could include working class man + wife on a 'special night out')
Snug - older/elderly/dead clientelle (milk stout, port & lemon for the ladies, mild and/or bitter for the men)
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Posted: November 12 2013 at 12:09
So this is what guys who don't have sheds do for fun over there in England.
Firefighters rescue man's penis from a toaster
The Mirror (UK) says: "Firefighters came to the rescue of a man in distress when he got his penis stuck in a toaster. ... [London Fire Brigade officer said:] "Some of the incidents our firefighters are called out could be prevented with a little common sense. I don’t know whether it’s the Fifty Shades effect, but the number of incidents involving items like handcuffs seems to have gone up.'"
Eric says: I wouldn't blame "Fifty Shades of Grey." When a human being makes sweet love to a toaster, I think I'd blame "Battlestar Galactica."
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Posted: November 13 2013 at 06:37
rushfan4 wrote:
So this is what guys who don't have sheds do for fun over there in England.
Firefighters rescue man's penis from a toaster
The Mirror (UK) says: "Firefighters came to the rescue of a man in distress when he got his penis stuck in a toaster. ... [London Fire Brigade officer said:] "Some of the incidents our firefighters are called out could be prevented with a little common sense. I don’t know whether it’s the Fifty Shades effect, but the number of incidents involving items like handcuffs seems to have gone up.'"
Eric says: I wouldn't blame "Fifty Shades of Grey." When a human being makes sweet love to a toaster, I think I'd blame "Battlestar Galactica."
Did he plug it in and turn it on? Was it on the toast or the muffin setting?
That reminds me of a school friend whose sister was a radiologist. She once had to x-ray a man who had a lightbulb stuck somewhere where lightbulbs are definitely not meant to be.
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Posted: November 13 2013 at 07:10
chopper wrote:
Jim Garten wrote:
Ah that's when Coronation Street was proper!
Ena Sharples, Minnie Caldwell & Martha Longhurst - the Wyrd Sisters of t'north
Well before my time mate. I'd much rather watch Tina, Maria, Michelle and Eva (her of the enormous heaving .
I'm pretty sure I've not watched Coronation Street since the early 70s, even in my student days when watching Crown Court was the primary procrastination diversion in the halls of residence.
...hang-on.
... enormous? ... heaving? ...hmm, this needs looking into... I may be some time...
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Posted: November 13 2013 at 08:53
...I have to admit that the thought "ooh, I wonder what Newton and Ridley's Best Bitter tastes like?" has never been uppermost in my mind, though nostalgia rears its head for quaffing gallons of Federation bitter during my yoof in Working Men's Club and Institute Union bars (aka CIU (affiliated)) ... cheap as dishwater and just as appealing.
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Posted: November 14 2013 at 07:41
Jim Garten wrote:
Can't be worse than Whitbread Trophy Bitter, can it?
Watneys?
I remember going to parties in my wild, misspent youth and the same Watneys Party Four went along to the same parties for a few years because nobody ever wanted to open it.
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VanderGraafKommandöh wrote:
Boggles the Danish mind at least.
Did he plug it in and turn it on? Was it on the toast or the muffin setting?
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