Tell Us Something Really Trivial About Your Life (Vol 31)

[Bobberoo99]

O YEA O YEA O YEA
Seven o' the clock and all is .................. quiet, very quiet!!!!!

[DickyC]

Bobberoo99 said:

Mrs Bobbers packed me off to bed!!!

With no supper.

[Bobberoo99]

DickyC said:

Bobberoo99 said:

Mrs Bobbers packed me off to bed!!!

With no supper.

Nope, just a kiss and a "sleep tight"!!!!

[DickyC]

Bobberoo99 said:

Nope, just a kiss and a "sleep tight"!!!!

I can't sleep tight. The room spins too much.

[DickyC]

P5BNij said:

Did somebody here call for a cloud base…?




It's an age thing....

The size of that bloke!

[DickyC]

nonsequitur said:

Jimmy Recard said:

I somehow haven't read Catch-22 yet. So I'm going to start it this evening, after dinner

Not as simple as it sounds.

To be reading Catch 22 and therefore fulfilling a lifelong ambition, is nullified by the complex and intricate text rendering the book unreadable.

( Catch 23).

Loads of people say Catch 22 is difficult to read. I was convalescing when I first read it and had plenty of time but I was hooked and just read it again. In all I've read it five times. Something new every time. It's very rewarding if you persevere.

[Bobberoo99]

I've just been looking at the price of vehicle lifting jacks, Jesus they're not cheap are they!!!!!

[glenrobbo]

DickyC said:

Loads of people say Catch 22 is difficult to read. I was convalescing when I first read it and had plenty of time but I was hooked and just read it again. In all I've read it five times. Something new every time. It's very rewarding if you persevere.

This is very true: I found it confusing when I first read it, I was constantly re-reading previous passages to try and make sense of it, but the dark humour kept me going.
I was serving in the RAF at the time, and some of the absurdities made a lot of sense!
I guess that's the Catch-22 effect!

There are a lot of unexplained inferences early on in the book that are linked to.later on, revealing ever more detail as the reader progresses, so a certain level of patience is required. A retentive memory also helps,

It may help to read this synopsis VVV so the reader can approach the novel in a more informed way:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catch-22#Synopsis

Catch -22 is certainly amongst my all-time top 5 favourite books.

[glenrobbo]

Bobberoo99 said:

I've just been looking at the price of vehicle lifting jacks, Jesus they're not cheap are they!!!!!

Where are you looking, Bobbers? You don't need to spend a fortune on one.
Don't forget axle stands as well. For safety.

Clarkes have a decent range of drybk jacks.
Have you tried various motor factors?
Or Halfrauds?

Or Eurocarparts?

Edited by glenrobbo on Tuesday 15th January 10:23

[DickyC]

A chap I know who makes a living from mending cars uses two trolley jacks. His theory being that both jacks are unlikely to fail simultaneously.

And he is still alive.

Okay, he was still alive last time I checked.

All right, I'll just give him a call.

Sake.

[Bobberoo99]

This is more the sort of thing I had in mind!!

But at around £1000 it's out of my price range!!

[nonsequitur]

glenrobbo said:

I was at the funeral of an ex- guardsman who had passed after a long debilitating illness, and during the ceremony my phone buzzed in my pocket a couple of times ( I had respectfully switched it to 'silent' before entering the chapel ).

I checked it after the ceremony and was flabbergasted to see a text message asking me to find out what was going to happen with the deceased's mobility scooter, as the person sending me this text could do with it if the relatives wanted to offload it for free.
WTAF???
I am not kidding, this actually happened.

Appalling behaviour!

Agreed. Two ringing phones at funerals I attended early on in the mobile phenomenon, put me off them for life. I Believe that at events such as funerals, phones should be completely dormant with no capability to recieve or transmit anything.

(A unusually serious post from nonseq.)

[nonsequitur]

Bobberoo99 said:

Fell asleep in front of the telly last night at twenty past nine, Mrs Bobbers packed me off to bed!!!

Right in the middle of Come Dine With Me Couples, Bobbers?

[Bobberoo99]

nonsequitur said:

Bobberoo99 said:

Fell asleep in front of the telly last night at twenty past nine, Mrs Bobbers packed me off to bed!!!

Right in the middle of Come Dine With Me Couples, Bobbers?

we were watching Death in Paradise nonseq, one minute they were on a bus the next Mrs Bobbers was prodding me saying "Stop snoring and go to bed!!"

[DickyC]

Mrs C and I have been shopping.

[Bobberoo99]

It's nice to see you both looking so well, did you go for a nice afternoon tea too? And did you promenade after that?

[DickyC]

What do you reckon we bought? This is from the booklet that came with it.



Let your imagination flow. Have a guess what it might be.

[DickyC]

DickyC said:

Have a guess what it might be.

Or don't.

One or the other. Or sit on the fence.

[Pericoloso]

An exasketch ?

Don't know how to spell that 1970s phenomenonnomnomnon.

[DickyC]

EtchaSketch I think you'll find.

It's what us cad operators used to say of each other's abilities.