skippyonspeed
Some people think I'm a little bit crazy, but I know my mind's not hazy
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Post by skippyonspeed on Apr 10, 2016 15:25:56 GMT
I think so, who in their wildest dreams 50 years ago would have thought the (getting less) Great British Public would have been conned into thinking they need to buy the following:-
Bottled water
Disposable razors with umpteen blades and all the pre, during and post rubbish creams that go with them.
All men's beauty products
Women's hair products and curlers\benders\defrizzers etc, not forgetting those that make your hair shiny......as long as you have a 500W bulb directed at your head at all times.
Posh cheese & tomato ketchup on toast with as few items known as toppings as the vendors can get away with......also called pizza.....probably the Mafia's biggest legal earner.
Dishwashers that take about an hour and a half plus several different chemicals to do a 10 minute job.......I've also noticed some proud owners rinsing dishes under a tap before loading this must have item.
These are but a few I could mention, but I thought I should let someone else have a moan!!!
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Post by brin on Apr 10, 2016 19:16:25 GMT
I think so, who in their wildest dreams 50 years ago would have thought the (getting less) Great British Public would have been conned into thinking they need to buy the following:- Bottled water Disposable razors with umpteen blades and all the pre, during and post rubbish creams that go with them. All men's beauty products Women's hair products and curlers\benders\defrizzers etc, not forgetting those that make your hair shiny......as long as you have a 500W bulb directed at your head at all times. Posh cheese & tomato ketchup on toast with as few items known as toppings as the vendors can get away with......also called pizza.....probably the Mafia's biggest legal earner. Dishwashers that take about an hour and a half plus several different chemicals to do a 10 minute job.......I've also noticed some proud owners rinsing dishes under a tap before loading this must have item. These are but a few I could mention, but I thought I should let someone else have a moan!!! skippy. ive ad me 5 hours at pub, and i couldn't agree more. what about mens hair products, when i was a lad ( cue for yorkshireman to chip in here) fairy liquid did the lot. (ps it still does in our house) Frozen chips yuk. what the **** is that about, beard oil... yea....beard oil, have you ever looked at anybody with a beard and thought. Oooo that needs oilin. eco light bulbs, i can switch our light on a bottom of the stairs and switch it of at the top before its lit up. hair extensions.. what.. if you want long hair, grow it.. Ooo i dont know..... now you got you me really goin.. dishwashers.. i ******* one thanks .. why the hell would i need an electric one. (long pause and wait, honest im only kiddin) anyway. ***** gullible i am not, im headin back to the ** thread, my Nigerian investment partner needs my password.  he says it imperative.
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Post by ranjeb on Apr 10, 2016 20:38:19 GMT
Ah the good old days when Guinness was good for you and all you needed to avoid a nuclear attack was to duck and cover.
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Post by brin on Apr 10, 2016 20:47:02 GMT
Ah the good old days when Guinness was good for you and all you needed to avoid a nuclear attack was to duck and cover. WHAT....WHAT... Guinness IS good for you.. isn't it..  my dad always told me it was...  cannot comment too much on the nuclear attack, the worst i saw was the poll tax pollava.
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skippyonspeed
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Post by skippyonspeed on Apr 10, 2016 20:59:54 GMT
Ah the good old days when Guinness was good for you and all you needed to avoid a nuclear attack was to duck and cover. Was it the character Neil in The Young Ones episode Bomb (Rik M. RIP sadly missed) who reckoned you should paint yourself white....or perhaps old timers disease is getting me all mixed up.
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Post by brin on Apr 10, 2016 21:11:13 GMT
Ah the good old days when Guinness was good for you and all you needed to avoid a nuclear attack was to duck and cover. Was it the character Neil in The Young Ones episode Bomb (Rik M. RIP sadly missed) who reckoned you should paint yourself white....or perhaps old timers disease is getting me all mixed up. Rik m aka lord flashheart rip indeed.. no your not.. but for the life of me i cant remember it, young ones was the best..(after blackadder) paint yourself white tho.. im gonna google and find sommat.
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Post by brin on Apr 10, 2016 21:15:12 GMT
while searchin i found this.
MIKE: How do you get three elephants into a mini?
RICK: I beg your pardon?
MIKE: You chop them in half. Then you chop them in half again. Then you slice them up very finely. Then you mash them. Then you put them in plastic bags. You put some in the boot, you put some in the back seat, and what's left over you put on the passenger seat
hee hee
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skippyonspeed
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Post by skippyonspeed on Apr 10, 2016 21:37:34 GMT
Was it the character Neil in The Young Ones episode Bomb (Rik M. RIP sadly missed) who reckoned you should paint yourself white....or perhaps old timers disease is getting me all mixed up. Rik m aka lord flashheart rip indeed.. no your not.. but for the life of me i cant remember it, young ones was the best..(after blackadder) paint yourself white tho.. im gonna google and find sommat. One of the reasons the series was so popular was that the flat and characters reminded people of some of the "accommodation" they lived in.........my recollection is a flat which housed 3 young engineers all in our 20's and one of unknown age, probably late 50's ( Mike would be his closest character) with so much charisma everytime he went out the front door he was able to pick up a stunning lady, he played jazz records all day and night, had to give up the saxophone due to detached retinas...What a guy!....(Red Dwarf quote!). My room, or should I say wardrobe, was so small I had to sleep on the floor and I could touch all four walls from the centre of the room. The fridge was so noisy you could hear it start up whilst in any room with the doors closed. It was so cold when we all arrived back from a Xmas break even the toilet bowl was frozen solid. Now I think back you can probably guess my closest character would have been Vivien!!! I wasn't thinking about this when designing my avatar......spooky
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Post by brin on Apr 10, 2016 21:53:06 GMT
Rik m aka lord flashheart rip indeed.. no your not.. but for the life of me i cant remember it, young ones was the best..(after blackadder) paint yourself white tho.. im gonna google and find sommat. One of the reasons the series was so popular was that the flat and characters reminded people of some of the "accommodation" they lived in.........my recollection is a flat which housed 3 young engineers all in our 20's and one of unknown age, probably late 50's ( Mike would be his closest character) with so much charisma everytime he went out the front door he was able to pick up a stunning lady, he played jazz records all day and night, had to give up the saxophone due to detached retinas...What a guy!....(Red Dwarf quote!). My room, or should I say wardrobe, was so small I had to sleep on the floor and I could touch all four walls from the centre of the room. The fridge was so noisy you could hear it start up whilst in any room with the doors closed. It was so cold when we all arrived back from a Xmas break even the toilet bowl was frozen solid. Now I think back you can probably guess my closest character would have been Vivien!!! I wasn't thinking about this when designing my avatar......spooky i have a thread on avatars at the mo.. but not sure peeps no where i am coming from...... i never went to uni.. i am from the generation when we could not go to uni because we we were poor... but i always had that leaning, pot, wine. bedsit etc.. both my wonderful boys went to uni and now have the future i never had, but i got it by other means, a successful future does not necessarily mean uni, or maybe i should say DID NOT necessarily mean uni ... as said on my previous Pm to you.. actually thats private only we need to know that.. keep it up..
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Post by skippyonspeed on Apr 10, 2016 22:08:56 GMT
<abbr data-timestamp="1460325186000" title="Apr 10, 2016 22:53:06 GMT 1" class="time">Apr 10, 2016 22:53:06 GMT 1</abbr> brin said: i have a thread on avatars at the mo.. but not sure peeps no where i am coming from...... i never went to uni.. i am from the generation when we could not go to uni because we we were poor... but i always had that leaning, pot, wine. bedsit etc.. both my wonderful boys went to uni and now have the future i never had, but i got it by other means, a successful future does not necessarily mean uni, or maybe i should say DID NOT necessarily mean uni ... as said on my previous Pm to you.. actually thats private only we need to know that.. keep it up.. It sounds like we come from similar backgrounds, but I'm a soft southern b*****d (another Rik character!).....having said that in my teens I never owned a coat by choice and would go out on the coldest winter days in just a white T shirt with nipples like bullets!!!.....not on the garment if you get my drift.....I've digressed.....I went the 5 year apprentice route with day release education at tech. college and ended up managing engineers far more qualified than me, I just had to make sure I was always one step ahead of them
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Post by brin on Apr 10, 2016 22:28:14 GMT
<abbr data-timestamp="1460325186000" title="Apr 10, 2016 22:53:06 GMT 1" class="time">Apr 10, 2016 22:53:06 GMT 1</abbr> brin said: i have a thread on avatars at the mo.. but not sure peeps no where i am coming from...... i never went to uni.. i am from the generation when we could not go to uni because we we were poor... but i always had that leaning, pot, wine. bedsit etc.. both my wonderful boys went to uni and now have the future i never had, but i got it by other means, a successful future does not necessarily mean uni, or maybe i should say DID NOT necessarily mean uni ... as said on my previous Pm to you.. actually thats private only we need to know that.. keep it up.. It sounds like we come from similar backgrounds, but I'm a soft southern b*****d (another Rik character!).....having said that in my teens I never owned a coat by choice and would go out on the coldest winter days in just a white T shirt with nipples like bullets!!!.....not on the garment if you get my drift.....I've digressed.....I went the 5 year apprentice route with day release education at tech. college and ended up managing engineers far more qualified than me, I just had to make sure I was always one step ahead of them 5 year apprentice route was also my route, i'm sure your not a "southern softee" (common term from these parts) you sure don't sound it... but...i could direct to you a few on here.who might be . but i do detect we come from a similar era.. and also i might suggest the best era.. good luck with the smokin...stop. only the bacca of course.
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skippyonspeed
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Post by skippyonspeed on Apr 10, 2016 22:59:14 GMT
Thanx for the smoking comment, but I know I will succeed, my past experience was the exactly same, I do not have any cravings whatsoever, I do not require any distractions to take my mind of it. I simply have know desires to smoke, it was purely the ritual of going thru' the motions of smoking that I missed the first time I gave up.....I don't even miss that this time. As I said in a previous post I think I am just lucky that I have the defective gene as described in the link........just noticed this should really be in the "smoking" thread
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Post by brianac on Apr 17, 2016 16:54:24 GMT
not to mention stirring your coffee with a wooden stick! (at least not in posh surroundings, maybe round the camp fire) btw, are you two about to get engaged maybe? Brian |
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Post by gaspilot on Apr 20, 2016 9:49:39 GMT
I've just bought a homeopathic remedy to cure my gullibility! |
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Post by jonno on Apr 20, 2016 10:28:16 GMT
Rik m aka lord flashheart rip indeed.. no your not.. but for the life of me i cant remember it, young ones was the best..(after blackadder) paint yourself white tho.. im gonna google and find sommat. One of the reasons the series was so popular was that the flat and characters reminded people of some of the "accommodation" they lived in.........my recollection is a flat which housed 3 young engineers all in our 20's and one of unknown age, probably late 50's ( Mike would be his closest character) with so much charisma everytime he went out the front door he was able to pick up a stunning lady, he played jazz records all day and night, had to give up the saxophone due to detached retinas...What a guy!....(Red Dwarf quote!). My room, or should I say wardrobe, was so small I had to sleep on the floor and I could touch all four walls from the centre of the room. The fridge was so noisy you could hear it start up whilst in any room with the doors closed. It was so cold when we all arrived back from a Xmas break even the toilet bowl was frozen solid. Now I think back you can probably guess my closest character would have been Vivien!!! I wasn't thinking about this when designing my avatar......spooky He had to give up the Sax due to detached retinas?  What, couldn't he find the damn thing?
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he says it imperative.
What, couldn't he find the damn thing?