From the sublime to the ridiculous
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Re: From the sublime to the ridiculous
The Speech Day Oration can now be read? Where's the challenge in that? Fings ain't wot they used to be!!
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Re: From the sublime to the ridiculous
Frances.. do you remember Sheila Murphy saying : 'my Lord Mayor, the senior girls are now wearing skirts instead of blouses........'. Poor girl.
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Re: From the sublime to the ridiculous
kerrensimmonds wrote:Frances.. do you remember Sheila Murphy saying : 'my Lord Mayor, the senior girls are now wearing skirts instead of blouses........'. Poor girl.
.... it could have been far worse, Kerren !!
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Re: From the sublime to the ridiculous
Sorry Kerren - evidently my memory is also not what it used to be!
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I'm not Green?
As an old git this has been forwarded to me ( sorry but its a bit long):
> > GREEN PERCEPTION: Checking out at Tesco, the young cashier suggested
> > to the older woman that she should bring her own grocery bags because
> > plastic bags weren't good for the environment.
> >
> > The woman apologised and explained, "We didn't have this green thing
> > back in my earlier days."
> >
> > The assistant responded, "That's our problem today. Your generation
> > did not care enough to save our environment for future generations."
> >
> > She was right - our generation didn't have the green thing in its day.
> > Back then, we returned milk bottles, soft drink bottles and beer
> > bottles to the shop.
> > The shop sent them back to the plant to be washed, sterilised and
> > refilled, so it could use the same bottles over and over. So they
> > really were recycled.
> > But we didn't have the green thing back in our day.
> >
> > We walked up stairs because we didn't have a lift or escalator in
> > every store an office building. We walked to the grocers and didn't
> > climb into a 200-horsepower machine every time we had to go two
> > blocks. But she was right. We didn't have the green thing in our day.
> >
> > Back then, we washed the baby's nappies because we didn't have the
> > throw-away kind. We dried clothes on a line, not in an energy-gobbling
> > machine burning up 2,000 watts - wind and solar power really did dry
> > our clothes back then.
> >
> > Kids got hand-me-down clothes from their brothers or sisters, not
> > always brand-new clothing. But that young lady is right. We didn't
> > have the green thing back in our day.
> >
> > Back then, we had one TV or radio in the house - not a TV in every room.
> > And the TV had a small screen the size of a handkerchief, not a screen
> > the size of Yorkshire. In the kitchen, we blended and stirred by hand
> > because we didn't have electric machines to do everything for us. When
> > we packaged a fragile item to send in the post, we used wadded up old
> > newspapers to cushion it, not Styrofoam or plastic bubble wrap.
> >
> > Back then, we didn't fire up an engine and burn petrol just to cut the
> lawn.
> > We used a push mower that ran on human power. We exercised by
> > working, so we didn't need to go to a health club to run on treadmills
> > that operate on electricity. But she's right. We didn't have the green
> thing back then.
> >
> > When we were thirsty, we drank from a tap instead of drinking from a
> > plastic bottle of water shipped from the other side of the world.
> >
> > We refilled writing pens with ink instead of buying a new pen, and we
> > replaced the blades in a razor instead of throwing away the whole
> > razor when the blade got dull. But we didn't have the green thing back
> > then.
> >
> > Back then, people took the bus and kids rode their bikes to school or
> > walked instead of turning their mums into a 24-hour taxi service. We
> > had one electrical socket in a room, not an entire bank of sockets to
> > power a dozen appliances. And we didn't need a computerized gadget to
> > receive a signal beamed from satellites 2,000 miles out in space in
> > order to find the nearest fish and chip shop.
> >
> > But isn't it sad that the current generation laments how wasteful we
> > old folks were just because we didn't have the green thing back then?
> >
> > Please forward this on to another selfish, grumpy old git who needs a
> > lesson in conservation from a smart-arse young person.
> > GREEN PERCEPTION: Checking out at Tesco, the young cashier suggested
> > to the older woman that she should bring her own grocery bags because
> > plastic bags weren't good for the environment.
> >
> > The woman apologised and explained, "We didn't have this green thing
> > back in my earlier days."
> >
> > The assistant responded, "That's our problem today. Your generation
> > did not care enough to save our environment for future generations."
> >
> > She was right - our generation didn't have the green thing in its day.
> > Back then, we returned milk bottles, soft drink bottles and beer
> > bottles to the shop.
> > The shop sent them back to the plant to be washed, sterilised and
> > refilled, so it could use the same bottles over and over. So they
> > really were recycled.
> > But we didn't have the green thing back in our day.
> >
> > We walked up stairs because we didn't have a lift or escalator in
> > every store an office building. We walked to the grocers and didn't
> > climb into a 200-horsepower machine every time we had to go two
> > blocks. But she was right. We didn't have the green thing in our day.
> >
> > Back then, we washed the baby's nappies because we didn't have the
> > throw-away kind. We dried clothes on a line, not in an energy-gobbling
> > machine burning up 2,000 watts - wind and solar power really did dry
> > our clothes back then.
> >
> > Kids got hand-me-down clothes from their brothers or sisters, not
> > always brand-new clothing. But that young lady is right. We didn't
> > have the green thing back in our day.
> >
> > Back then, we had one TV or radio in the house - not a TV in every room.
> > And the TV had a small screen the size of a handkerchief, not a screen
> > the size of Yorkshire. In the kitchen, we blended and stirred by hand
> > because we didn't have electric machines to do everything for us. When
> > we packaged a fragile item to send in the post, we used wadded up old
> > newspapers to cushion it, not Styrofoam or plastic bubble wrap.
> >
> > Back then, we didn't fire up an engine and burn petrol just to cut the
> lawn.
> > We used a push mower that ran on human power. We exercised by
> > working, so we didn't need to go to a health club to run on treadmills
> > that operate on electricity. But she's right. We didn't have the green
> thing back then.
> >
> > When we were thirsty, we drank from a tap instead of drinking from a
> > plastic bottle of water shipped from the other side of the world.
> >
> > We refilled writing pens with ink instead of buying a new pen, and we
> > replaced the blades in a razor instead of throwing away the whole
> > razor when the blade got dull. But we didn't have the green thing back
> > then.
> >
> > Back then, people took the bus and kids rode their bikes to school or
> > walked instead of turning their mums into a 24-hour taxi service. We
> > had one electrical socket in a room, not an entire bank of sockets to
> > power a dozen appliances. And we didn't need a computerized gadget to
> > receive a signal beamed from satellites 2,000 miles out in space in
> > order to find the nearest fish and chip shop.
> >
> > But isn't it sad that the current generation laments how wasteful we
> > old folks were just because we didn't have the green thing back then?
> >
> > Please forward this on to another selfish, grumpy old git who needs a
> > lesson in conservation from a smart-arse young person.
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Signing his name is banned by Nebraska school
You simply couldn't make it up.
3 year old master Hunter Spanjer is deaf but has learned the standard S.E.E.' - which stands for Signing Exact English, a sign language system.
Unfortunately the authorities consider that when giving his name his hand looks like a gun and his school has a policy forbidding children from bringing 'any instrument that looks like a weapon' to school. He has therefore been banned from giving his name. I suppose next thing they will apply for a court order for the surgical removal of such weapons
Source; http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... z24sWVriA2
3 year old master Hunter Spanjer is deaf but has learned the standard S.E.E.' - which stands for Signing Exact English, a sign language system.
Unfortunately the authorities consider that when giving his name his hand looks like a gun and his school has a policy forbidding children from bringing 'any instrument that looks like a weapon' to school. He has therefore been banned from giving his name. I suppose next thing they will apply for a court order for the surgical removal of such weapons
Source; http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... z24sWVriA2
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Re: Signing his name is banned by Nebraska school
sejintenej wrote:You simply couldn't make it up.
3 year old master Hunter Spanjer is deaf but has learned the standard S.E.E.' - which stands for Signing Exact English, a sign language system.
Unfortunately the authorities consider that when giving his name his hand looks like a gun and his school has a policy forbidding children from bringing 'any instrument that looks like a weapon' to school. He has therefore been banned from giving his name. I suppose next thing they will apply for a court order for the surgical removal of such weapons
Source; http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... z24sWVriA2
The world is rapidly going mad !
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Re: From the sublime to the ridiculous
Headline in this morning's online newspaper. Does it mean 6.55am?
Rise at dawn? It could make you a liar later: Early risers found to become less honest as the day goes on
Rise at dawn? It could make you a liar later: Early risers found to become less honest as the day goes on
What happens if a politician drowns in a river? That is pollution.
What happens if all of them drown? That is solution!!!
What happens if all of them drown? That is solution!!!
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Re: From the sublime to the ridiculous
Certainly makes you more tired later - my body tends to wake with the sun (about 4.30 at the moment) so I am too tired by mid afternoon to consider whether I am being honest or not!! Fortunately I don't have an evening social life - or perhaps that is a lie?
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Re: From the sublime to the ridiculous
Since acclimitising completely to retirement, my time-clock is all over the place, but they say this does happen with age !
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Re: From the sublime to the ridiculous
I get up at 5:00 every morning. As the only OB to have won an Oscar, Nobel prize and an Olympic medal for decathalon, I can assure you this study is nonsense.sejintenej wrote:Headline in this morning's online newspaper. Does it mean 6.55am?
Rise at dawn? It could make you a liar later: Early risers found to become less honest as the day goes on
Sent from my Manhattan penthouse at 11:00 p.m.
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Food shopping
Not jokes as such but some peeps at......................................:
A woman in a Brighton store was spotted looking in her handbag at the checkout only to realise she had forgotten her purse.
Her 11-year-old daughter said: "That's fine mummy, I still have daddy's AMEX from my school ski trip."
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A worker in Oxfordshire was stunned when a customer's child asked: "Mummy, are the free cups of coffee for the poor people that haven't got a Gaggia."
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A female customer was overheard telling her husband: "Darling, there are only two half lobster tails left."
Her husband replied: "Only two, that's ridiculous. It must be the heat, everybody's barbecuing this weekend."
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we like Tesco - it keeps the riff raff out of Waitrose
and heard elsewhere (again alledgedly:
Them poussins, don't they reckon they taste a bit like chicken?
Oh just get the pink salmon it's not worth the extra for the red
Look: "Dine in for £10 including wine"! That's good value for us two and the seven kids, especially if only me, you and the eldest three share the wine.
A staff member in Newton Mearns, near Glasgow, overheard a child asking their parent: "Mummy, are we doing shopping for the boat as well?"
A woman in a Brighton store was spotted looking in her handbag at the checkout only to realise she had forgotten her purse.
Her 11-year-old daughter said: "That's fine mummy, I still have daddy's AMEX from my school ski trip."
.......................................
A worker in Oxfordshire was stunned when a customer's child asked: "Mummy, are the free cups of coffee for the poor people that haven't got a Gaggia."
................................................
A female customer was overheard telling her husband: "Darling, there are only two half lobster tails left."
Her husband replied: "Only two, that's ridiculous. It must be the heat, everybody's barbecuing this weekend."
.............................................
we like Tesco - it keeps the riff raff out of Waitrose
and heard elsewhere (again alledgedly:
Them poussins, don't they reckon they taste a bit like chicken?
Oh just get the pink salmon it's not worth the extra for the red
Look: "Dine in for £10 including wine"! That's good value for us two and the seven kids, especially if only me, you and the eldest three share the wine.
A staff member in Newton Mearns, near Glasgow, overheard a child asking their parent: "Mummy, are we doing shopping for the boat as well?"
What happens if a politician drowns in a river? That is pollution.
What happens if all of them drown? That is solution!!!
What happens if all of them drown? That is solution!!!
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Barrows, Marrows, Arrows and, next year, the Toilet Ducks
If you believe a word of this then you are ...........
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/artic ... rrows.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/artic ... rrows.html
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Re: Barrows, Marrows, Arrows and, next year, the Toilet Duck
sejintenej wrote:If you believe a word of this then you are ...........
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/artic ... rrows.html
How Craig Brown maintains a column in a serious newspaper is totally beyond me. If he thinks he's funny, he isn't.
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Re: Barrows, Marrows, Arrows and, next year, the Toilet Duck
Given the world beating appeal of British (and some American) music, France has a licencing requirement that broadcasters transmit at least 40% of their musical output by French artists. That "British" newspaper includes so much American and other furriner (usually trivial) rubbish that they seem to think they must include a British columnist in case the UK brings in a requirement similar to the French one.J.R. wrote:sejintenej wrote:If you believe a word of this then you are ...........
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/artic ... rrows.html
How Craig Brown maintains a column in a serious newspaper is totally beyond me. If he thinks he's funny, he isn't.