What has your "friend" been up to?
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My friend is holidaying with an agreeable companion on the rather agreeable island of Madeira. He has booked a haircut and beard trim (you're right, he's a bit of a t
t) for Monday and seems to be rather looking forward to it. It'll be the first haircut he hasn't DIY'd (looks odd without the apostrophe so I've left it in on his behalf) for 14 months.
t) for Monday and seems to be rather looking forward to it. It'll be the first haircut he hasn't DIY'd (looks odd without the apostrophe so I've left it in on his behalf) for 14 months. Breadvan72 said:
My friend is getting his hair cut next Tuesday, by Thanos.
My friend was triggered by this phrasing into a boyhood reverie of Heros the Spartan from the Eagle comic and the saying either of him or one of the baddies “By Mithras, you die!”.As a result my friend has now found that a book of the whole series was researched and published in 2013 and thanks your friend for the memory. Book now out of print. His search is on!
JeremyH5 said:
Breadvan72 said:
My friend is getting his hair cut next Tuesday, by Thanos.
My friend was triggered by this phrasing into a boyhood reverie of Heros the Spartan from the Eagle comic and the saying either of him or one of the baddies “By Mithras, you die!”.As a result my friend has now found that a book of the whole series was researched and published in 2013 and thanks your friend for the memory. Book now out of print. His search is on!
k me, it’s three hundred quid!”JeremyH5 said:
Breadvan72 said:
My friend is getting his hair cut next Tuesday, by Thanos.
My friend was triggered by this phrasing into a boyhood reverie of Heros the Spartan from the Eagle comic and the saying either of him or one of the baddies “By Mithras, you die!”.As a result my friend has now found that a book of the whole series was researched and published in 2013 and thanks your friend for the memory. Book now out of print. His search is on!
Breadvan72 said:
JeremyH5 said:
Breadvan72 said:
My friend is getting his hair cut next Tuesday, by Thanos.
My friend was triggered by this phrasing into a boyhood reverie of Heros the Spartan from the Eagle comic and the saying either of him or one of the baddies “By Mithras, you die!”.As a result my friend has now found that a book of the whole series was researched and published in 2013 and thanks your friend for the memory. Book now out of print. His search is on!
Both my friend and his brother used to make a beeline for the cupboard at their next door neighbours where Beano and other such downmarket publications that were frowned on at home were available
JeremyH5 said:
It was my friend that mentioned it, he tells me that Look and Learn was his younger brother’s comic so didn’t pay it much attention.
Both my friend and his brother used to make a beeline for the cupboard at their next door neighbours where Beano and other such downmarket publications that were frowned on at home were available
My friend had a subscription to Speed & Power. He thought Look and Learn was for "keenos", which was his school's insult for "nerds". This attitude may be why my friend drives a truck, while the Look and Learn kids became more... learned.Both my friend and his brother used to make a beeline for the cupboard at their next door neighbours where Beano and other such downmarket publications that were frowned on at home were available
My friend is not allowed too buy any Lego due to his better half finding his recently purchased Bugatti Chiron.
This morning, whilst my friend was at work, a delivery arrived from Lego.....
Said delivery was arranged for Monday. DPD are crap!!!
My friends better half was extremely pissed off when she called him to ask what was in the box.
She was even more pissed off when he got home & had to open the box in front of his other half to reveal not one but two large & expensive Lego kits.
My friend is currently hiding in the kitchen to escape the wrath, anger & torrent of abuse & foul language from his other half.
This morning, whilst my friend was at work, a delivery arrived from Lego.....
Said delivery was arranged for Monday. DPD are crap!!!
My friends better half was extremely pissed off when she called him to ask what was in the box.
She was even more pissed off when he got home & had to open the box in front of his other half to reveal not one but two large & expensive Lego kits.
My friend is currently hiding in the kitchen to escape the wrath, anger & torrent of abuse & foul language from his other half.
My friend took offence on Facebook with someone agreeing with Top Gear’s assertion that TVR Chimeras were unreliable.
He replied that his Chimera has been far more reliable than the Porsche or Ferrari.
It strikes me as quite amusing that his Chim’s been SORNed for 5 years and he’s never owned a Porsche or Ferrari.
What a plonker!
He replied that his Chimera has been far more reliable than the Porsche or Ferrari.
It strikes me as quite amusing that his Chim’s been SORNed for 5 years and he’s never owned a Porsche or Ferrari.
What a plonker!
deeen said:
JeremyH5 said:
It was my friend that mentioned it, he tells me that Look and Learn was his younger brother’s comic so didn’t pay it much attention.
Both my friend and his brother used to make a beeline for the cupboard at their next door neighbours where Beano and other such downmarket publications that were frowned on at home were available
My friend had a subscription to Speed & Power. He thought Look and Learn was for "keenos", which was his school's insult for "nerds". This attitude may be why my friend drives a truck, while the Look and Learn kids became more... learned.Both my friend and his brother used to make a beeline for the cupboard at their next door neighbours where Beano and other such downmarket publications that were frowned on at home were available
Breadvan72 said:
I think that I may have mentioned before that my friend used to go about with a tall woman who had very large feet, of the kind usually found only on police men. She was a very well dressed woman and she loved swanky and high shoes, but most of the makers of posh shoes do not make shoes in her size. Thus she had to buy her shoes from designers that aim at the tranny market. She used to make jokes about this, but my friend found out the hard way that ONLY she was allowed to make jokes about the police feet and the tranny shoes.
My friend has a similar issue with his aforementioned wife, who is around 6’1” tall, with feet that are largely in proportion to her height. It is best not to use the words ‘large’ or ‘big’ when discussing her feet, even though most ladies shoes are not made in large quantities in a size that will fit. Thankfully some designers do seem to recognise the existence of women who are more than 5’2” tall, and make a small number of appropriately sized shoes.Edited by Magnum 475 on Sunday 11th April 07:09
More on the comics and magazines of youth. Speed and Power was absorbed by Look and Learn as early as 1975, and the merged mag staggered on until 1982, having been in existence since 1962, in which year coincidentally my friend and I were born. It was one of those optimistic products of the uncertain Post War - a period in which quite a few here and their friends grew up . A bit like Ladybird Books, but with a bit less embedded Imperialism.
Whilst for some of us and our friends the current North Korean style enforced mourning for someone that some of us may regard as an unappealing person of little worth or consequence is annoying, it's reminded me and my friend of the whole "New Elizabethan Age" ideas of the 50s and 60s. Nigel Molesworth is one of the avatars of that whole thing, and this piece below on his New Elizabethan aspects is quite fun. Mrs Molesworth is rather younger and more sparky than I had previously imagined her. I will not say what my friend say about Mrs Molesworth, because I indulge him far too much as it is.
If you get Molesworth, you'll get this. If you don't get Molesworth, you should, but it may be too late, because you have to get him from the age of around ten or eleven, and then he stays with you for life. I recently asked my sixteen year old daughter if she thought that she'd still be quoting Molesworth when she is fifty eight, and she replied "I hope so".
https://bearalley.blogspot.com/2015/10/molesworth-...
Whilst for some of us and our friends the current North Korean style enforced mourning for someone that some of us may regard as an unappealing person of little worth or consequence is annoying, it's reminded me and my friend of the whole "New Elizabethan Age" ideas of the 50s and 60s. Nigel Molesworth is one of the avatars of that whole thing, and this piece below on his New Elizabethan aspects is quite fun. Mrs Molesworth is rather younger and more sparky than I had previously imagined her. I will not say what my friend say about Mrs Molesworth, because I indulge him far too much as it is.
If you get Molesworth, you'll get this. If you don't get Molesworth, you should, but it may be too late, because you have to get him from the age of around ten or eleven, and then he stays with you for life. I recently asked my sixteen year old daughter if she thought that she'd still be quoting Molesworth when she is fifty eight, and she replied "I hope so".
https://bearalley.blogspot.com/2015/10/molesworth-...
Edited by anonymous-user on Sunday 11th April 06:39
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