General Chat

Toodle doo then.

Fwiw I strongly detest T May. I am not sure if it is her wardrobe grating voice or the effort of keeping up with her revolving door decision making.

I only watched the Andrew Neil interview after the event. Now I realise she is in the black comedy business and not to be missed.

And the cat came back the very next day.

LOL OMG you bought Brexit into it.....

Yes but I didn't mention that the asteroid menace can only be defeated by a strong and stable leader with a plan (secret) nor that the other plan unchanged was for a strong and stable leader who could deal with the desolation.

Wales, Scotland and NI of course don't want anything of it believing in their own nostrums such as haggis shelters, large red dragons and Brian Boru.

The French believe that the rosbifs will sink capsized by improbability. Arthur Dent also believes this but his friend Zaphod Beeblebrox says that has already happened. The UK is a mirage controlled by an alliance of the nailbar and hairdressers union and the Vogons. They will pay Brussels £42 mn in Monopoly money before brexiting to Barnard's star.

There he goes again. Spam, spam more spam and brexit.

This thread will vanish later today cos Eldricks salary minding the car park at Cern is not enough to pay his subs. Maybe he could crowd fund the subs and a haircut.

Well, filtering out the background noise and feeble attempts to quote HHGTTG, that really doesn't day much. In fact, as usual, nothing. Far better to stick to copying and pasting the result of google searches - at least they are readable, although usually wrong.

You seem to think that I want to pay money to read this drivel? Are you serious, man? Really? lol No, you cannot be. I like a decent debate and exchange of views, but I like to choose my debating company and I'm afraid you don't meet the required standard. Which is a shame, because my pet turtle does.

Anyway, I shall enjoy my tea with my friend the Lord Chief Justice, who mentioned you kindly when I was having a beer with him last week. Actually, no, he didn't. I made that up. Something you will be familiar with.

Au revoir et à l'adieu, mon petit Walter

:-D

*sigh* I explain about the difference between peat bogs and peat seams and STILL it's 'mansplained'!!

It's all very well 'learning' how to 'survive' in the scouts - but try living without a bath/shower, electricity, gas etc for more than a weeks 'jolly' - try 3 years.
I've done it - true at that time I didn't have to kill my own food, apart from the fish I caught, but I have, at a different time, bred ducks, killed and eaten them.
Did you do that in the scouts?
I've knitted and sewn my own clothes, upholstered furniture, woven rugs, used to fix the old Morris, grown food, dug peat, removed my own ticks and leeches, made wine from scratch, made jam, emptied many a 'bucket' when we didn't have a toilet - and all without being in an organised 'club'!!.

But I'll leave it up to Rolo to explain, as he's been a Boy Scout and survived for a week. Oh - and I'm just a 'wimmin' type person.

I'm not half bad when it comes to looking out for myself but I'd still like to move in with Maggie please ? Nothing funny just she's more of a wonder woman than I am.....I'll leave the teenagers on their own after all they already know everything anyway :-D

Oh and to carry on the sideways slant this took....so long and thanks for all the fish

I know what you mean, Maggie. When me and Ray Mears lived in the Amazon jungle for a year, I learned how to make my own shoes from dried out Capybara droppings, clothes from the leaves of the Kapok tree and lived on a diet of hairy caterpillars and char grilled scarlet macaw burgers. However - we lit our fires with....matches. You should see all the badges we got from the local tribal chief! My favourite is the 'charging your laptop from an electric eel proficiency' badge, proudly worn on my lapel to this day. Invaluable experience.

I got kicked out of the boy scouts for sneaking whisky into the camp and wearing long trousers.

:-D :-D :-D :-D Eldrick!!

Caroline, not a 'wonder woman', I/we just did it, because it was the situation!!

It was only when 'mansplained', I sat and thought about what I'd done. :-D :-D

I've even impressed myself :-D

AND, I was the only one who didn't get 'splashback' - not once - when emptying the bucket!! :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D (I bet they don't teach you how to do that in the Scouts!)

Yes but can I move in with you so to speak ?? :-D :-D

I was thrown out of the boy scouts ostensibly for drinking beer but actually for having in my possession a copy of a D H Lawrence novel. I cried for a week of course.

I am sorry Maggie could not make it in the lush pastures of south Hampshire. We lived in Hamble for a couple of years. The most challenging thing was the traffic in and out of Winchester. Despite the M3 park n ride and knocking down car parks that is much the same. God Begot house is now a pizza take away which tells you a lot about the city's regard for its heritage.

There are of course worse places Eldrick is well travelled so he will tell you about it when he addresses parliament with his golfing buddy D Trump.

Fwiw I have been posting here only from a smartphone for months. I have no idea how to copy and paste with Firefox on Android nougat.

OMG you were a snotty yachty from Hamble why am I not surprised.

My case is rested. I will refrain from pointing out the obvious - I don't think I need to.

:-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D

Sorry were you crying for a week because of the beer giving you an iffy tummy or THE book or being thrown out and having to tell Nanny what happened?

Rolo,
Oh, so you think I've only lived in Hampshire do you?
Thanks for letting me know!!!
clue: I wasn't born in Hampshire - so that's 2 places I've lived.

Without knowing anything - yet another post of derision.

How did the charm school go - did you get the badge? Or were you thrown out for developing an 'interesting' knife-throwing act, or not kicking the tramp hard enough?

Where, in Hampshire would they have places without electricity/gas, and where you could have peat for your fire if you dug it!!

Here's some news for you - shock!! horror!!
You're not the only person to have lived in different places - even 'wimmin' move around.

Here's a question for you, if we could have free peat for our fire - if we dug it, where were we (possibly) living?

Edit: I was going to give you a clue, but with your alleged ancestry, I'm sure you've spent a week or two here, soaking up the ancient traditions from the luxury of the (what was) Excelsior Hotel

When I read yr posts the word pathos often floated into my mind but it didn't quite fit. Now by consulting Roget I realise that I was thinking pathetic outsize asteroid on the shoulder.

Back in the 60s a certain sort of person was sometimes accused of inverted snobbery. I am sure I don't need to explain it.

Hampshire C.C. seems to be getting by bereft of your vast wisdom and experience. How can that be?

Pathos? For yourself? No, don't put yourself down too far Rollo, your feet may touch the ground.

Alleviate the alleged chip on my shoulder and show your wisdom.

I wouldn't say you were an inverted snob, quite the opposite.

I was a mere schoolgirl in the 1960's - certainly not a snob - bit difficult when you live in a caravan with your parents

At the time in Hamble my funds only stretched as far as a Mirror dinghy which does not really cut it at the Royal Southern lol. The Bugle is an excellent pub my father was very fond of it.

My tears were of the crocodile variety as you prob have guessed.

I have something in common with Maggie. I was not born in Hampshire or the south of England.

Roll up roll up
Last day to insult Rollo before Eldrick kills the thread as he claims his subs run out today. We'll see.
;-)
I was once in prison in Baghdad. The shurta are a lot more scary than GR. Larfs.

Poor response. I thought you would be able to do better than that. :)

Still, I admire your courage in confessing to taking DH Lawrence into the woods. Not many would lay their soul so bare in public, so respect for that.