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Fonald Frump?

Feeble of mind and fond of furtive fumbling does sound about right! ;oO

They sell this at my local Tesco.

So thats what they do with those eggs!

But not this useful-sounding product.

Or this refreshing Czech beverage.

EUWWW?!! ;oO

Or this very popular drink in Ghana...

why not indeed, i mean pepsi cola tastes like pish anyway!

Apparently the original ad for 7up included the words
"Remember, its a big 7 and u p after"

As talk has turned to drinks, may I be allowed a rant? We've been out for a drink with friends and in a place which claims a good choice of gins, asked for g&t. Friend came back from bar with the currently fashionable large round glasses three quarters filled with ice, plus gin and half a bottle of tonic with remaining tonic in bottles. Result, so cold, no discernible gin or tonic taste and ice melted rapidly in warm room, diluting flavour even more. What's the point? We don't drink to get drunk (way past that!) and we're not going to keep paying to drink the taste equivalent of iced water. We don't drink a lot but want to enjoy the flavour when we do. Grrrr...

That sounds really annoying. I would be tempted to dump out most of the ice. But then where do you put it?

And how do you fish it out? If we'd not been with friends, we might have complained but we're always a bit reluctant to risk spoiling the atmosphere when it's a social event, especially as it was their round.

If you go to the same place again and two of you order G&Ts - then I suppose you could always ask for one with Ice and one without and then share the Ice between you so that your drink doesn't end up getting too diluted? ;o>

It's a bit sad that a place that prides itself on having a good choice of Gins has so very little concept of how best to serve them, isn't it?

I hate ice in any drinks and always refuse. Apart from anything else, ice cubes can contain nasty bacteria if they’re in an open ice bucket. Sometimes they’re actually handled by staff. Yuk!

Recent quiz answers, all from a trainee barrister :

Q. What is the acronym for White Anglo-Saxon Protestant?
A. Pass

Q. Which Australian state is known by the initials S.A.?
A. New South Wales?

Q. What are the Canadian Mounted Police known as?
A. Mountaineers

🤔

My sister works at her local hospice on Mondays and said today’s café menu featured Profiteer Roles........

Making lots of dough?

Lez wrote: "🤔

My sister works at her local hospice on Mondays and said today’s café menu featured Profiteer Roles........"

Love that shoe pastry...

I know greengrocer's have a reputation too uphold, but I was mightily impressed by the one displaying "Monj Two".

Hahahahahahahahahaha

5 really good ones in a row! Lovely :)

From ‘The Chase’:

Q. Thomas Cook’s first trip from Leicester to Loughborough used which form of transport?
A. The Tube

(Bet that was a fun day out)

on 'the chase' the other day, q. which of these Scottish football teams is named after the town they play in? a. st. Mirren b. Kilmarnock c. raith rovers. both contestant and chaser gave different answers, neither correct!!!!

Craig wrote: "on 'the chase' the other day, q. which of these Scottish football teams is named after the town they play in? a. st. Mirren b. Kilmarnock c. raith rovers. ..."

I'm planning a holiday visiting the beautiful towns of St Johnstone, Albion and Queen of the South.

Craig wrote: "on 'the chase' the other day, q. which of these Scottish football teams is named after the town they play in? a. st. Mirren b. Kilmarnock c. raith rovers. ..."

I'm planning a holiday visiting the beautiful towns of St Johnstone, Albion and Queen of the South.

On the Chase, the other day, one contestant liked to "Solve Mathematical Problems!" (Wow, he's probably a Rocket Scientist.)
Bradley asked "What sort of problems?"
Contestant "Sudoku!"
FM! I must be a genius!!!

Listening to the radio last night whilst trucking when the DJ played 'All together Now' by The Farm and then went on to explain that the song was about the British and German armies meeting up and playing a game of football........ " in one of the wars"!!!!

So soon after Remembrance Sunday too.

The Chase:
Name a knot which is also a female relative!
"Spider?"

An uncle knot?

The money grabbing soul destroying life sucking black hole of emotion knot?

From Tipping Point:

Q. Mary Todd Lincoln was the wife of which US president?
A. Roosevelt?

Lez wrote: "From Tipping Point:

Q. Mary Todd Lincoln was the wife of which US president?
A. Roosevelt?"

And thats wrong?

A few years back a young teenage lad I was working with and got on to the subject of DVD'S, "I can remember when video players first came along." sez I , to which said whippersnapper looked at me blankly, "What's a video player?" Suitably chastised and feeling as old as Methuselah I retreated with as much grace as possible!

Martin wrote: "A few years back a young teenage lad I was working with..."

Martin wrote: "Some years ago I was working with a young teenage lad..."

Wow! We get the VHS version and the Betamax version.

Did you tell him what an event it was before that when someone wheeled out the school telly and Betamax recorder to show some lovingly-recorded documentary with very wobbly picture & sound?

Try telling him next about waiting for the school's valve radio to warm up so you could do music & movement.

A nice incident - my sister has a decorative old-fashioned dial phone made of wood. It has a proper dial with numbers and a proper handset. When her granddaughter, then aged 5, first saw it, we watched in amazement as she picked up the receiver, put it to her ear and started dialling numbers. She’d never set eyes on one before, quite scary really 🤔

I attended an interesting lecture a couple of years ago about the characteristics of different generations (baby-boomers, X, Y, millennials, etc.). The lecturer said one of the millennials had interrupted one of his questions to say "Why do old people keep talking about 'mobile phones'? They're phones." People born since 1990 have no idea that phones were ever anything other than mobile.

I remember being bitterly disappointed when my parents got their first telephone (some time around 1968) and it was red. I wanted a black one like they had on the counter of the library.

Gordon wrote: "Martin wrote: "A few years back a young teenage lad I was working with..."

Martin wrote: "Some years ago I was working with a young teenage lad..."

Wow! We get the VHS version and the Betamax ver..."

You're lucky it's not the 8 track version that I keep in the attic!

I worked in a technical college library in the 80s. We had a large collection of commercial training videos (plus some that were recorded off the telly) and they came in ½" (square box) and ¾" (rectangular box) tape. Not many people would even recognise those symbols any more.

Also in the 80s, I went on a Communications (as in training) course. One of the exercises consisted of one person describing an outline sketch of something to another person who couldn’t see it, but had to draw it from the description.
The describer started out with “approximately 4 inches down from the top right, draw a 3 inch long straight line at right angles to the edge.” The second person looked puzzled and said “What’s an inch?”

‘An alleged burglar appears to have taken the saying “sleeping on the job” literally after passing out with a half-eaten pie and covered in Doritos in a house near Glasgow.

The 46-year-old man is alleged to have broken into the house in Coatbridge on Monday night, but to have then been too tired to actually leave. He was eventually discovered by the homeowners, who alerted the police.’

no wonder! he was probably celebrating entering the last unburgled house in coatbridge!

I wonder what happened to the pie? I'm currently dog sitting my friend's Westie, who pounced on a half-eaten Gregg's pie on the pavement yesterday. Perhaps it was a relative of the Coatbridge pie, or perhaps the aspiring burglar previously scoped out my area of 'nearby' Glasgow and couldn't resist leaving his calling card. I believe felons are often unable to resist this sort of thing.

well, it certainly wouldn't have been the celebrated kilmarnock (killie) pie, as these awesome pastry products are never discarded partially uneaten!
maybe it was just a freezing homeless jakey looking for a warm place to sleep, and had dropped the pastry in his attempt to do so. y'know, 'the pie who came in from the cold' (oh, very poor! :))

How's this for a weather forecast?

Friday 1 December

Summary
Min 23
Max 26
Heavy thundery rain developing.
Possible rainfall: 25 to 70 mm
Chance of any rain: 100%

Melbourne area
Cloudy. Very high (near 100%) chance of rain. Rain, mainly afternoon and evening, with scattered thunderstorms. Heavy falls possible. Winds northerly 25 to 40 km/h becoming light in the evening.

Fire Danger - Low-Moderate

Sun protection recommended from 8:50 am to 5:10 pm, UV Index predicted to reach 12 [Extreme]

So I'll be sure to put on my sunscreen tomorrow while grabbing the umbrella, raincoat and wellies. At least the fire rating is low-moderate and because its Melbourne, it'll probably be 11 and sunny instead anyway.

Don't forget your Mittens, Val?! ... making Snowballs could cause Frostbite ;oO

From ‘Knitting Paradise’
Translation of a Turkish knitting pattern:

"Fabrication:
The front 35 stitches are started and 6 tooth harps (12 rows) are knitted.
For the anterior row of the stalk, 6 stitches, 23 stitches and 52 stitches are knitted.
For the collar, 6 stitches are multiplied in each order.
We will not cut in the armpit.
The back 62 stitches are started and 6 dental chops are knitted.
On the edge 6 loops haraşo 50 loops haraşo 6 loops haraşo.
For the shoulders of the rear ensembles 20 shirred stitches are cut.
Ensede 22 remains. 20 stitches are cut for the shoulder in the front.
Front stitch is 15 stitches, back stitch is 22 stitches, front stitch is 15 stitches and 1 stitch.
We will finish our 52 loops with 6 toothbrushes.
Let's fix it with the knob by tilting the knob to the sides."

Hahahahahahahahahahahah!!!

Normal knitting patterns are a mystery to me, so this is even more so.

Misnomer Of The Week.....

Final Fantasy XV? What so fxxxxxg final about it?