Tell us something really trivial about your life (vol 24)

[SilverSixer]

I've just had to switch my weekly online Friday night dirty takeaway delivery from Just Eat to Hungry House, since finding out last week that Just East sponsor Derby C*unty FC. Tchah.

Good job my favourite purveyor of sub-continental botulism operates on both sites, however my favoured supplier of sweaty donkey-on-an-upturned-spit-in-a-window only seems to operate on the now unusable site which can not be mentioned. Rats. Probably quite literally.

[iva cosworth]

Chunkymonkey71 said:

And the steering wheel was on the wrong side and everything!

That's how I roll.......

[pad58]

I'd just like to say that Stag is down to £16 in Morrisons.

[Chunkymonkey71]

pad58 said:

I'd just like to say that Stag is down to £16 in Morrisons.

£15 in Asda, Reeshard.

Will you be partaking in some?

[hidetheelephants]

DickyC said:

Blimey, it was £90 when I did mine. 38 in a 30 in Knightsbridge near the museums at 6 o'clock on a Sunday morning. The Awareness Course was in the City. As I walked towards the building I noticed I was in step with an actor from The Bill. "Oh, great," I thought, "going to be lectured by someone pretending to be a policeman." Actually, no. He was being done for 34 through the Blackwall Tunnel.

Which one was it? This is trivial.

[GOG440]

Evening all.
I had a very different but very tasty drink last night, it was Healeys special reserve cider, matured in a whiskey cask.Really lovely flavour, sort of half way between a cider and a spirit in taste and a lovely golden colour. 8.4% as well so you knew you had had a drink
Edited to add a linky
http://thecornishcyderfarm.co.uk/shop/healeys-clas...

Edited by GOG440 on Friday 29th August 16:52

[Chunkymonkey71]

GOG440 said:

Evening all.
I had a very different but very tasty drink last night, it was Healeys special reserve cider, matured in a whiskey cask.Really lovely flavour, sort of half way between a cider and a spirit in taste and a lovely golden colour. 8.4% as well so you knew you had had a drink

Are you sure you're on a family holiday? It's just...well... It sounds a bit more like Withnail and I than anything else!

[GOG440]

Chunkymonkey71 said:

GOG440 said:

Evening all.
I had a very different but very tasty drink last night, it was Healeys special reserve cider, matured in a whiskey cask.Really lovely flavour, sort of half way between a cider and a spirit in taste and a lovely golden colour. 8.4% as well so you knew you had had a drink

Are you sure you're on a family holiday? It's just...well... It sounds a bit more like Withnail and I than anything else!

Family holiday during the day, the odd drink or 2 on an evening
Withnail is not in the building

[DickyC]

hidetheelephants said:

DickyC said:

Blimey, it was £90 when I did mine. 38 in a 30 in Knightsbridge near the museums at 6 o'clock on a Sunday morning. The Awareness Course was in the City. As I walked towards the building I noticed I was in step with an actor from The Bill. "Oh, great," I thought, "going to be lectured by someone pretending to be a policeman." Actually, no. He was being done for 34 through the Blackwall Tunnel.

Which one was it? This is trivial.

Mark Wingett.



Something I said made him laugh, which is always a bonus.

The retired copper taking the course asked my why I thought we had been offered the opportunity to take the course instead of automatically receiving a fine and points. I said, "Because the Gatso is such a blunt instrument."

[DickyC]

On the Plod thread I told this story and someone reading it claimed to have been on the same course. The highlight was an old boy from Northampton who travelled into the City for the course who was asked what the road sign comprising a white disc with a black diagonal line meant. "Derestricted," he said to general merriment. The instructor said that's what it used to mean but the old boy shouted him down. It meant derestricted and that was that as far as he was concerned.

They're out there you know, sort of driving around, among us.

[Johnny]

When you said and actor from The Bill, that's who I pictured.

He looks the sort.

[leafspring]

I set light to a boat today...

I was welding and the paint on the other side of the hull caught light.... had a mission impossible flame trail going for a while there

(it was the yards work boat so it wasn't an issue )

[hidetheelephants]

DickyC said:

On the Plod thread I told this story and someone reading it claimed to have been on the same course. The highlight was an old boy from Northampton who travelled into the City for the course who was asked what the road sign comprising a white disc with a black diagonal line meant. "Derestricted," he said to general merriment. The instructor said that's what it used to mean but the old boy shouted him down. It meant derestricted and that was that as far as he was concerned.

They're out there you know, sort of driving around, among us.

Nice of the DoT to give Der his own road sign; what do you have to do to get a personalised one?

[DickyC]

Chunkymonkey71 said:

pad58 said:

I'd just like to say that Stag is down to £16 in Morrisons.

£15 in Asda, Reeshard.

Will you be partaking in some?

It's the weirdest thing, but since I was laid off I've taken to the NotBooze. It's not a money thing. It could be a waistline thing. That project lasted two and bit years and I put on a stone. And I'm not a spirits drinker anyway. Beer or wine for me. When I'm partaking.

I'm with you in spirit, if not in spirits.

[Chunkymonkey71]

DickyC said:

Chunkymonkey71 said:

pad58 said:

I'd just like to say that Stag is down to £16 in Morrisons.

£15 in Asda, Reeshard.

Will you be partaking in some?

It's the weirdest thing, but since I was laid off I've taken to the NotBooze. It's not a money thing. It could be a waistline thing. That project lasted two and bit years and I put on a stone. And I'm not a spirits drinker anyway. Beer or wine for me. When I'm partaking.

I'm with you in spirit, if not in spirits.

I'm the opposite. Since becoming a surveyor I rarely drink now. Here I am on a Friday night, at home surrounded by stloads of booze... And I'm not drinking.

[DickyC]

Partaking! What am I going to say in Champers TFND+LT?

Orange juice and the adverts off the telly?

I'll be drummed out.

[pad58]

Not tonight for me either ......that was last night, I must admit I do fancy another bottle of the Stag, beer is getting boring now.

[DickyC]

Chunkymonkey71 said:

I'm the opposite. Since becoming a surveyor I rarely drink now. Here I am on a Friday night, at home surrounded by stloads of booze... And I'm not drinking.

Of course, you're a surveyor now. Do you have a young man to hold your pole?

[TheChampers]

DickyC said:

Partaking! What am I going to say in Champers TFND+LT?

Orange juice and the adverts off the telly?

I'll be drummed out.

It's not the not drinking, it's the not listening to something interesting or musical that will lead to ostracism

A question. Last night's Sisters Of Mercy meanderings led me to this.....

http://youtu.be/n8i8pP3lcAU

The song is an old favourite, but what's the film? Help appreciated

[Justayellowbadge]

TheChampers said:

It's not the not drinking, it's the not listening to something interesting or musical that will lead to ostracism

A question. Last night's Sisters Of Mercy meanderings led me to this.....

http://youtu.be/n8i8pP3lcAU

The song is an old favourite, but what's the film? Help appreciated

Underworld.