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  • jimmymelrose
    jimmymelrose Posts: 9,750
    DaveMehmet said:
    AFKABartram said:
    When you can’t remember the last time you watched TV without the subtitles on
    I have to watch most programmes with subtitles, especially anything American. 
    That's a relief. So often I don't understand what they're saying. I've never dreamed of succumbing to subtitles for watching English language films alone though. I often have them on for my wife.
  • guinnessaddick
    guinnessaddick Posts: 28,617
    fadgadget said:
    When you start to struggle opening a bloody crisp packet , give up and go for the Scissors .
    Plain or crinkly ones?
  • jonseventyfive
    jonseventyfive Posts: 3,353
    Another birthday ticks round today and although my mind is saying let's have a big day with beautiful people, my body is asking for fish and chips with a bottle of beer.
  • IdleHans
    IdleHans Posts: 10,965
    jonseventyfive said:
    Another birthday ticks round today and although my mind is saying let's have a big day with beautiful people, my body is asking for fish and chips with a bottle of beer.

    Mine too - Happy birthday to us!
    I've just been wrestling with a bag of ground coffee and resorted to scissors, and now i just want to go back to bed.



  • jonseventyfive
    jonseventyfive Posts: 3,353
    Have a good day Idle 👍.
  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 51,993
    Stig said:
    Stig said:
    When there's a poor connection on an online meeting and nobody gets your Norman Collier reference.
    At my team meeting this morning, I reported that I had another meeting booked for later in the day with a guy called Stephen Lewis. Just to amuse myself I carried on "...who of course used to play Blakey". No one else was amused. After a long and painful silence my boss came to the rescue with, "I used to watch that with my grandparents".  I really ought to have known better.  
    Stephen Lewis used to live in Westcombe Park Road SE3, near The Standard. (I know no one cares).
  • fadgadget
    fadgadget Posts: 1,391
    Covered End said:
    Stig said:
    Stig said:
    When there's a poor connection on an online meeting and nobody gets your Norman Collier reference.
    At my team meeting this morning, I reported that I had another meeting booked for later in the day with a guy called Stephen Lewis. Just to amuse myself I carried on "...who of course used to play Blakey". No one else was amused. After a long and painful silence my boss came to the rescue with, "I used to watch that with my grandparents".  I really ought to have known better.  
    Stephen Lewis used to live in Westcombe Park Road SE3, near The Standard. (I know no one cares).
    Pretty sure his Kids went to Henwick School .
  • charltonkeston
    charltonkeston Posts: 7,359
    jonseventyfive said:
    Another birthday ticks round today and although my mind is saying let's have a big day with beautiful people, my body is asking for fish and chips with a bottle of beer.
    I had one a couple of weeks ago, I went with the bottle of beer option. 
    Far more enjoyable than the faux happiness of celebrating your life tick down.
    Happy Birthday.  
  • letthegoodtimesroll
    letthegoodtimesroll Posts: 10,619
    fadgadget said:
    When you start to struggle opening a bloody crisp packet , give up and go for the Scissors .
    When you’re too bloody minded to go for the scissors from the start instead of trying to open the packet without them and end up ripping the bag open and spilling the contents everywhere.
  • happyvalley
    happyvalley Posts: 8,996
    When you realise there are only 4 members of the 1966 World Cup winning side alive.
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  • thai malaysia addick
    thai malaysia addick Posts: 18,333
    It takes two attempts to get out of an armchair and for the second attempt you need to say “ooph” as you ascend.
  • happyvalley
    happyvalley Posts: 8,996
    Young Kevin Lisbie is 42.
  • iaitch
    iaitch Posts: 10,225
    Just a matter of time before he comes good?
  • guinnessaddick
    guinnessaddick Posts: 28,617
    iaitch said:
    Just a matter of time before he comes good?
    Is he joining Sheffield Utd?
  • Baldybonce
    Baldybonce Posts: 9,640
    Up 4 times for a pee last night. :/
  • Six-a-bag-of-nuts
    Six-a-bag-of-nuts Posts: 8,127
    For the first time since childhood you start wearing a vest under your top
  • SoleBayAddick
    SoleBayAddick Posts: 155
    Solidgone said:
    When you think watching Tom & Jerry is for kids. 
    At 86, Tom & Jerry still make me laugh, well there you are, I'm still a kid at heart.
  • ross1
    ross1 Posts: 50,974
    edited November 2020
    Baldybonce said:
    Up 4 times for a pee last night. :/
    It is when you get so old and slow, you do not get out of bed quickly enough  :)...................I am not talking about me
  • Penfolds Perm
    Penfolds Perm Posts: 550
    When you use Percy Thrower as a sarcastic gardening remark to the wife instead of using Alan Titchmarsh. 
  • iainment
    iainment Posts: 8,039
    You mention antimacassars in conversation and get blank looks.
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  • happyvalley
    happyvalley Posts: 8,996
    iainment said:
    You mention antimacassars in conversation and get blank looks.
    I must admit I had to look that up.
  • iainment
    iainment Posts: 8,039
    happyvalley said:
    iainment said:
    You mention antimacassars in conversation and get blank looks.
    I must admit I had to look that up.
    You’re not getting old then. 😊
  • happyvalley
    happyvalley Posts: 8,996
    When you remember how much the FA Cup meant to fans. If you were drawn against a side in the same division the cup-tie drew a considerably larger attendance.
  • MrOneLung
    MrOneLung Posts: 26,849
    Even if I was old o wouldn’t know what it was. 
  • LenGlover
    LenGlover Posts: 31,651
    happyvalley said:
    When you remember how much the FA Cup meant to fans. If you were drawn against a side in the same division the cup-tie drew a considerably larger attendance.
    Compare and contrast the 1969 Crystal Palace 3rd round FA Cup tie with today.

    I know COVID -19 and the local derby element too make a difference but back then the attitude to the FA Cup in general was very different. It was just as important a condideration as the league.
  • eaststandmike
    eaststandmike Posts: 14,956
    iainment said:
    You mention antimacassars in conversation and get blank looks.
    When you read this and think it says antimascara and just another make up product.
  • eaststandmike
    eaststandmike Posts: 14,956
    LenGlover said:
    happyvalley said:
    When you remember how much the FA Cup meant to fans. If you were drawn against a side in the same division the cup-tie drew a considerably larger attendance.
    Compare and contrast the 1969 Crystal Palace 3rd round FA Cup tie with today.

    I know COVID -19 and the local derby element too make a difference but back then the attitude to the FA Cup in general was very different. It was just as important a condideration as the league.
    Happy days Len, sadly no more however we need to be grateful we were around to witness great FA Cup days, feel sorry for the young ones nowadays.
  • limeygent
    limeygent Posts: 3,217
    letthegoodtimesroll said:
    fadgadget said:
    When you start to struggle opening a bloody crisp packet , give up and go for the Scissors .
    When you’re too bloody minded to go for the scissors from the start instead of trying to open the packet without them and end up ripping the bag open and spilling the contents everywhere.
    Then you eat them anyway.


  • Stuart_the_Red
    Stuart_the_Red Posts: 1,850
    Baldybonce said:
    Up 4 times for a pee last night. :/
    From one baldy bonce to another and without wanting to cause unnecessary panic, unless you’ve been on the booze, I’d get down to my GP and get a check for diabetes!
  • SoundAsa£
    SoundAsa£ Posts: 22,477
    Stuart_the_Red said:
    Baldybonce said:
    Up 4 times for a pee last night. :/
    From one baldy bonce to another and without wanting to cause unnecessary panic, unless you’ve been on the booze, I’d get down to my GP and get a check for diabetes!
    Enlarged prostate is the usual cause.

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