blobloblob Posted January 9, 2015 Share Posted January 9, 2015 Thank you for your input, Earthman. I am not from these parts. Always happy to help with table manners and the like. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrPin Posted January 9, 2015 Share Posted January 9, 2015 Always happy to help with table manners and the like. I usually rely on XYY to show me how to be a gentleman. And talk proper to hens like. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
juvenal Posted January 9, 2015 Share Posted January 9, 2015 A very fine blues guitarist That web link indicates bluesman Cleveland Steamer was aptly named... "Aint no group wanted to play after Steamer, and no musician wanted to use the can after him neither..." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anonguest Posted January 10, 2015 Share Posted January 10, 2015 Not just getting past upcoming, but distant, traffic lights without speeding up/changing driving style JUSSSSSST before going amber/red....BUT again at the next set! A small miracle in modern urban life. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
honkydonkey Posted January 12, 2015 Share Posted January 12, 2015 Examining the bill in Wetherspoons after a steak, supersized with sides and pint of Devils Backbone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs Bear Posted January 12, 2015 Share Posted January 12, 2015 When we were last in Amsterdam we were next to a street called something like "Rozekeetsgracht" which means "Red Parakeet Street", I think.You hear them first, then look up and there they all are in the tree. I have seen them in London before, but never this close. That yaffling squawking noise is so distinctive.We normally do get bramblings at this time of the year but nothing as yet. Mind you we have a sparrowhawk doing the rounds here so the garden hasn't had so many small birds around lately. Did see the first firecrest in years yesterday which makes up for it a little.Edit: The canal is called Zoutkeetsgrachthttp://amsterdamian.com/see/living-beings/wild-parakeets-living-in-amsterdam/ Lovely photo! I have tried a few times to get shots of them in our cherry tree when it's in bloom and there's a lovely blue sky, but they've never been half as good as that. I didn't know they had them in Holland, too. We live close to Richmond Park and there are masses of them there. In autumn the beech trees are full of them, squawking as they gobble up the beech nuts. Shortly before sunset they take off in small flocks, apparently for a mass roosting place in Esher, though why they waste all that energy flying several miles, especially in winter, I do not know. We have just once seen a baby parakeet poking its head out of a nest in a hole in a tree, and the parent coming to feed it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
winkie Posted January 12, 2015 Share Posted January 12, 2015 Kneading my dough..... Very therapeutic:-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orsino Posted January 12, 2015 Share Posted January 12, 2015 There's a hairdressers near me called Stasi. I'm assuming that it's named after the proprietress and her name is a quirky spelling of Stacey. Clearly her parents were unaware of the dreaded East German secret police. Always makes me smile. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Northerner Posted January 12, 2015 Share Posted January 12, 2015 Good Yorkshire chippy ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
porca misèria Posted January 12, 2015 Share Posted January 12, 2015 Good Yorkshire chippy ... Well, if we're into silly piccies, how about an estate agent: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrPin Posted March 20, 2016 Share Posted March 20, 2016 Flat wound bass strings! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wherebee Posted March 20, 2016 Share Posted March 20, 2016 playing a game with old mates where you can reference a joke from 25 years ago with one word any everyone cracks up.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
porca misèria Posted March 20, 2016 Share Posted March 20, 2016 playing a game with old mates where you can reference a joke from 25 years ago with one word any everyone cracks up.... Private or public joke? (A public one would derive from something everyone knows. Like when an HPC thread segues into Four Yorkshiremen). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
porca misèria Posted March 20, 2016 Share Posted March 20, 2016 Today, having some spare time in the afternoon, just going down to the sea and listening to the waves. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wherebee Posted March 20, 2016 Share Posted March 20, 2016 Private or public joke? (A public one would derive from something everyone knows. Like when an HPC thread segues into Four Yorkshiremen). private joke. single word. can't tell you it, as it's very dirty. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orsino Posted March 21, 2016 Share Posted March 21, 2016 Vending machines - they're a little bit of the fairground. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SNACR Posted March 21, 2016 Share Posted March 21, 2016 Vending machines - they're a little bit of the fairground. I used to love a go on the Klix machine after I'd been on the dodgems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Riedquat Posted March 21, 2016 Share Posted March 21, 2016 Today, having some spare time in the afternoon, just going down to the sea and listening to the waves. Something similar needs to be part of everyday life, I really wish people would stop being in such a hurry and wanting everything faster and go more in that direction. Sunny day yesterday and stopped tidying stuff up in the garden to just put my feet up outside with a cup of tea to watch the odd boat go by, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ccc Posted March 21, 2016 Share Posted March 21, 2016 private joke. single word. can't tell you it, as it's very dirty. Grime ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest eight Posted March 21, 2016 Share Posted March 21, 2016 Grime ? Muther****a. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LC1 Posted March 21, 2016 Share Posted March 21, 2016 The smell of hot asphalt on a sunny day. The smell of pencil shavings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest eight Posted March 22, 2016 Share Posted March 22, 2016 That guy kacked himself when he thought Mitrovic was going to take him out..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sPinwheel Posted March 22, 2016 Share Posted March 22, 2016 Nearly took his head off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diver Dan Posted March 23, 2016 Share Posted March 23, 2016 Oops. Wrong thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The XYY Man Posted April 3, 2016 Share Posted April 3, 2016 Gentleman's Relish. It pleases me no end that such a product still exists. XYY Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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