Mad Doug Biker
Just a damaged guy.
- Location
- Craggy Island
I'm on my way NOW, to the crem!
Pack your sun lotion! 😆
The realisation you're getting old
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Pack your sun lotion! 😆
Accy cyclist
Legendary Member
- Location
- The hills of Accrington
I'd rather be frazzled then scattered, than left to rot 6 ft under. 
Mad Doug Biker
Just a damaged guy.
- Location
- Craggy Island
I'd rather be frazzled then scattered, than left to rot 6 ft under.
Oh I don't know, I'd love to come back as a Zombie 🤪 😆
Either that or be dug up in some archaeological dig in about 1000 years time or something.
Kevberlin
Well-Known Member
- Location
- Tenbury Wells
Yes, then I realised I live in a bungalow.Does anyone else hobble upstairs and then get annoyed because by the time you get there...….hmm now what did I come up here for
Accy cyclist
Legendary Member
- Location
- The hills of Accrington
There's a retired bloke I know, who looks after his must be mid 90's year old mother. His dad's grave is always well kept with fresh flowers, wiped/brushed down etc, but now it doesn't have any flowers on and is splattered with bird muck. Yesterday I asked a barman of a pub he goes in if he's seen this bloke lately. He said "Come to think of it, I haven't seen him for a month or so".
I went in the cemetery today and noticed again that his dad's grave is as it was, apart from the bird muck isn't as obvious, but that might be due to the rain washing it away. I then decided to go and knock on his door. He didn't answer, so I looked through his window. I didn't see anything suspicious about the place. I even opened the letter box to have a sniff for signs of decaying flesh, but no, nothing to report. There wasn't any bluebottles flying around the open bedroom window either. I then knocked on his neighbour's door, intending to ask if she'd seen him, but she wasn't in.
Chris S
Legendary Member
- Location
- Birmingham
TVs with 24 inch screens are now considered to be small.
You get excessively annoyed about period dramas where TVs and mains radios not only switch on instantly but a TV displays a completely stable picture without any further tuning. I suppose todays directors have no experience of using equipment with valves or, judging by the picture, what a 405 line picture actually looked like.
On the up side, all those late 60s catalogues that had tv ads that showed pin sharp colour photos of the Trooping of the Colour pasted across their screens as a fake 625 line picture are now finally eclipsed by real life.
On the up side, all those late 60s catalogues that had tv ads that showed pin sharp colour photos of the Trooping of the Colour pasted across their screens as a fake 625 line picture are now finally eclipsed by real life.
They were the days, three channels and you had to get up off the sofa to change over to BBC 2, my parents wouldn’t allow us to watch ITV as they thought it was far too common!
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Mad Doug Biker
Just a damaged guy.
- Location
- Craggy Island
ITV, with all those adverts... How VERY common... We almost exclusively watched the BBC. 😆
Sorry now corrected, should have put “wouldn’t”
Alex321
Guru
- Location
- South Wales
Us too. About the only time we switched to ITV was for the Wrestling at the end of World of Sport. Sometimes other bits of World of Sport as well, particularly if the Horse racing was on Grandstand.
As soon as they were out, it was straight on! Wrestling, Autocross, Marlboro adverts, it was whole other forbidden world.
Now I am feeling old. We only had one channel on our first tv in 1956. Eventually, my dad bought a set top box to receive it! Had to wait longer for bbc2 and ages for colour tv.
Mad Doug Biker
Just a damaged guy.
- Location
- Craggy Island
That's not entirely true, we did watch things like 'Woof' and 'Bernard's Watch', as well as the occasional other things, but yes, it was nearly always BBC for us.
View: https://youtu.be/59VVb0wz6x0
View: https://youtu.be/59VVb0wz6x0
