;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony
Printable View
;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony
:lolsign:
Not much fat on me then mate, as the pics show - and the 'chubby' was, erm, adequate, too!:D
Anyway, it's about time you dug out some old pics and showed us how much of a 'sex on a stick' you were back then [minus poor, shrivelled 'wee Percy'] of course:lol:
Marco.
plenty on me. cant get into my suit:doh: oh well a diet i guess...Quote:
Originally Posted by Marco
Yes exactly. Once they permitted no-win-no fee (aka 'ambulance chasing') in this country that was the start of it. People said it would happen and who was the PM at the time? Tony Blair - former lawyer. What does his wife do for a living? Lawyer. Plus all the other MPs who are lawyers. And whose mates will be lawyers, and all the law firms lobbying them.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jac Hawk
Okay so the argument was supposed to be that poor people would be able to get justice, which is fair enough. But the unintended negative consequences have been massive, both financially and societally.
Precisely this. That was a huge error on this country's part, but of course so many view the world now as 'I want I want I want' and don't give a toss about the consequences of their 'compensation' wrangling.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jac Hawk
Hello Marco,Quote:
Originally Posted by Marco
It was the mid to late sixties, We never had a colour tv until the mid-seventies and a phone not untill the mid-eighties, but as they say 'what you dont have you dont miss'. To own 2 chippies you must have been very popular :). The other thing I seem remember, is that there were no or very few overweight kids about unlike today, when I see so many that shall we say are overweight to put it mildly which is rather sad really.
Totally agree, Paul. Never seen so many wee fatties wobbling around. Short of some sort of medical condition, there's really no excuse to be so overweight at that age, but it's because the lazy wee buggers don't MOVE enough, as they're always sat in front of their bloody screens!!:doh:
Probably the same as you, when I was that age, I was outside running around/cycling or whatever, from morning till night, and had BAGS of energy! Now all you hear is that they're 'tired' [doing WHAT exactly?] or 'bored'...:rolleyes:
Of course there are exceptions, but the basic fact is that a poor (highly calorific) diet + lack of exercise/sedentary lifestyle = FATTY Bellafonte. Not sure what the answer is either... And it's many of the adults today, too!
Don't know how you survived without a landline phone until the mid-80s, though...:eek:
I presume you had a call box near you that wasn't doubling as a public loo!:D
Marco.
I think colour tellies became available in the UK about 1967 or 68. I was born in 68 and don't recall us ever having a black and white telly so my old man must have been an early adopter, but he was always well into his telly.
Rented of course, they cost as much as a car to buy back then.
not sure when we got colour. uk got it in 69, so im guessing around then or next year or so. say 1970/71. tv used to be just 2 channels on 405 lines, then bbc2 came out but only on 625.. that was just a bit before colour
Yeah, that sounds about right, although we owned ours. My parents were very anti-debt, or paying anything up... If they couldn't afford to buy something outright, they went without.
But through hard work, my dad's businesses paid well, so that was rarely the case. I remember the TVs in those days though being about as reliable as the workmanship of a British Leyland worker!:doh:
Marco.
Bloody posh bugger :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Marco
Our TV couldn't receive BBC2 (405 line? instead of 625 I seem to remember, about 1969/70) - I had to put up with mates at secondary school going on about Rowan and Martin's laugh in and Mash and I didn't have a clue what they were going on about.
We also had one gas fire in the "front room", bloody awful paraffin heater in the kitchen and no heating upstairs - I used to look forward to scratching pictures in the ice on my bedroom window. Never felt that cold though; would have been 1962/63 with the ice, proper winters in those days.
try to tell people nowadays.......
i never got to watch tv much anyway.. during day i was out and in evening it was mums toy:eyebrows:
77 Sunset Strip, Beverley Hillbillies, Mr Ed, Hawaiian Isle, Lost in Space, Sunday Night at the London Palladium, Batman, Man from UNCLE, and all the Gerry Anderson productions. I think that was about it as far as I remember.
Oh, and Preston 78475, that was our landline number in the 60s. Strange that I still remember that but can't recall what I had for tea yesterday.
And my dad worked for Telehire for a few years, so our telly was always something special. Oh and Marco, folk who couldn't afford to buy their TV outright (AKA most normal people) didn't get into debt for it, they just rented. With TVs being as dear and as unreliable as they were, it was the smart thing to do. Unless you had more money than sense and wanted to get ahead of the Joneses :ner:
yup and kept me in a job for years until some bugger learned to make them reliable and both killed the rental business and 90% of the repair jobsQuote:
Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony
Telly for us kids was pretty much a tea time thing. Rest of the time was either outdoors, making and using weapons, playing with Meccano/Lego, drawing, or reading. I read quite a lot of books as a kid, you would be surprised to hear :)Quote:
Originally Posted by struth
Lol - what do you mean by "normal"? Who's "normal": yours or mine?:DQuote:
Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony
In any case, sure, but it wasn't me making those decisions - speak to my dad!:ner: Anyway, it was never yours though, a bit like renting a property - you just keep paying for something that you'll never own (or be an asset), so I guess their decision to buy a TV ('sensible' or not) centered around their dislike for that type of thing.
They were always used to owning what they had, which is probably where I get it from. Be your own boss, stay in control and be beholden to no-one. That kinda shit. An overall healthy mentality, in my view, especially considering how the world has turned out since!;)
One thing's for sure though, their desire to own their TV (like they owned everything else, including their house/business premises and car outright) would've had feck all to do with 'keeping up with the Joneses', as they simply weren't wired that way:nono:
Rather like me, they did their own thing and didn't give a fuck what anyone else thought!
Marco.
Since you took the trouble highlight it and ask the question, the answer is: my normal and almost everyone else in the sixties :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Marco
You can't talk to us about your 60s life (central heating, own house, own telly, 2 shops and nothing on HP) and expect to be seen as normal by anyone but other posh folk :D Fortunately for the rest of us you like a bit of rough :)
Gotta go now, my normal folk Chinese has just landed...
I'm not talking about the 60s though, I was really too young to remember any of it. I'm talking about the 70s onwards, which I can remember. "Normal" is simply what you're used to!Quote:
Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony
And we didn't consider ourselves as 'posh' - far from it.
My dad was fortunate to own a successful business, but had to work bloody hard for his money. And the money he earned was always spent on either his family or nice things for the house. He didn't smoke, gamble or drink to excess (much like me), which meant he had more disposable income than the folks with those unfortunate vices, who otherwise perhaps could've afforded the same...;)
How dare you refer to Del like that!:D Lol, hope she's not reading this:eek::lol: She certainly isn't that....Quote:
Fortunately for the rest of us you like a bit of rough :)
Lol, do you live on Chinese food - don't you ever cook?:ner:;)Quote:
Gotta go now, my normal folk Chinese has just landed...
Marco.
indeed.. thats my niece your insulting;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Marco
Lol, Granty, could you *imagine* what princess Del would say to the notion of being my 'bit of rough'?:eek::eek:
:door::hotrod:
:lol::lol:
Marco.
:D Not referring to Del, she may be posh too, for all I know :) No, we forum members are Marco's bit of rough...Quote:
Originally Posted by struth
And posh people never see themselves as posh, that's a moniker given by regular folk :) Embrace the poshness Marco! Nowt wrong with being posh, as long as it isn't used in a snobby way :)
Notably 'posher' than me, actually. And certainly accustomed to the finer things in life. Why she married me, I've no idea!:confused::DQuote:
Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony
I know you're joking, but I'd never look at anyone here like that. We're all daftees together!:carrot:Quote:
No, we forum members are Marco's bit of rough...
And posh people never see themselves as posh, that's a moniker given by regular folk :) Embrace the poshness Marco! Nowt wrong with being posh, as long as it isn't used in a snobby way :)
Marco.
https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2LHhus_ur...ooty_pals1.gif
Marco's gang from the 70s...
No, I never cook, don't need to. Mrs. P cooks six days a week, including a roast dinner midweek, and does it well. Sunday is our lazy day.Quote:
Originally Posted by Marco
Ah right, no worries... It's the opposite for us (although Del also cooks during the week), but Sunday lunch has always been the highlight of the week (where we push the boat out), and which has been the case for both of us since we were born, so couldn't imagine having a Chinese (or Indian) takeaway, which for us is a midweek thing:)
Anyway, hope you enjoyed it:cool:
Marco.
There are some areas of the UK where it isn't possible to come from them and be posh. Birmingham, Liverpool, Newcastle, Scotland...
Oi - Scotland's a whole country!:D
Anyway, I'm sure the landed gentry/lairds, living in castles in the highlands and in the borders (plus their Scottish ancestors having also done so for centuries), would disagree - that is, IF they were crass enough to admit they were 'posh' in the first place!:ner:;)
Marco.
Yes I suppose there might be a few of them.
Okay you can't be posh and come from Glasgow then. Edinburgh? Maybe.
Agreed, but with the 'Reekies' it'd almost certainly be false... Plus they're known as mean, boring bassas;)
An old Glasgow saying:
'Ye'll huv mair fun at a Glesga stabbin', than an Edinburgh wedding'...
Marco.
Aren't there some nice bits in Bearsden? I once went fishing with an air traffic controller working at Cumbernauld, he was from Bearsden and he was slightly posh :) but his wife was ten times worse, a real piece of work
Yeah Bearsden and Milngavie. Newton Mearns too i guess is pretty expensively posh
Well, it depends on your definition of "posh", and it's entirely subjective. I've never considered 'new money' [the nouveau riche] as truly 'posh', as there's no real substance to their wealth, and often lifestyles are funded by debt.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony
'Posh' for me is when, for generations, your family has owned land and properties and never had to work to live well.
Plus, crucially had 'class', in terms of being very well educated, both academically, but more so, socially, in terms of breeding and etiquette - all things that go MUCH deeper than a seemingly large bank balance, thus the ability to buy some modern monstrosity, posing as a 'posh house', in a suburban housing estate, considered as 'exclusive' by keeping up with the Joneses types; i.e the very definition of most parts of Bearsden or Newton Mearns in Glasgow.
We used to live just outside of Giffnock, another area in the south side of Glasgow deemed as being 'posh', and only 10 mins from Newton Mearns, where I had many friends from school, so I know what those areas are all about and generally how people there 'tick', and it's fundamentally never been my thing, as the vast majority are snobs and think they're something that they're not, which rarely happens with true 'posh' people, who would consider such behaviour as rather vulgar.
Del's Welsh maiden name of Rhydderch, has royal heritage, going way back, to a chap called King Rhydderch, see here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhydderch_Hael and here: https://www.heroicage.org/issues/2/ha2rh.htm so it's no wonder she thinks she's a princess!!:D
Anyway, if you want to see proper 'old money' in Glasgow, drive down Great Western Rd, in the west end, and explore the G12 post-code, where you'll see huge, sprawling, detached red sandstone properties, with driveways that seemingly go on forever. It may be different nowadays, but originally they'd have been owned by genuinely 'posh' people, not superficial 'look at me' key-janglers!;)
Marco.
My wife sounds posh, whereas I don't! :)
no, but they think they are and behave in what they mistake as a posh way..ie snobbery... whereas tru posh folk wouldnt do eitherQuote:
Originally Posted by Marco
Indeed, mate. That's exactly the message I was conveying. Their 'poshness' is entirely superficial and based on a false premise.
However, you can perhaps understand now (if you didn't before lol, given the links I've posted) why Del does the princess thing with such aplomb!:doh::D
Marco.
well yes, if you are descended from royalty, no matter how far off, it gives you something to live up to, and a desire to be adored; or its off with his head(if your lucky):eyebrows:Quote:
Originally Posted by Marco
Lol... Del just mentions that for fun, really. I think she'd have been born with such desires regardless! But I could defo see her sat in the turret room of a castle, barking orders at her maids and servants:eyebrows:
I think I've started something though by giving her that dedicated dressing room, as she's now got similar 'plans' for other parts of the house, including this summer having an outdoor patio area/gazebo (which she wants looking 'spangly'/softly lit at night), with a bar area and hot tub, for her and her pals to use, whilst drinking cocktails...
No guesses needed on who's job it'll be to serve them, although I could think of worse things than being in the company of a group of pissed 20-30 year-old scantily-clad girlies, so I may just 'put up' with it:doh::D
Del's asking if you'd like an invite?;)
What may be fortuitous, in terms of timing, is we're also going to have CCTV cameras installed, for security around the perimeter of the property, and of course, as a gentleman, I'd *never*, EVER, 'train' one of them on the area surrounding the hot-tub, and scan for 'interesting footage' later:nono:
Marco.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Marco
yes,... and i would :eyebrows:
Yesh, dat's cos you're a PERV!:eyebrows: Moi? Never... Even though I may be the judge of the 'wet t-shirt competition', which may just (possibly, if the wind's blowing in the right direction), take place as part of the 'evening entertainment', along with another bouncy castle, for lots of subsequent 'bouncing'...:D
Marco.
Yeah but I'd be in the tub with the girls, coz I'm non threatening..
How's about dem apples[emoji23]
I get the impression things in America are being kept comparatively calm and low key since Biden took over. No attention seeking antics as we saw from day one with Trump, who was like a naughty child with a felt tip marker leaving his mark everywhere.
Surface of marshttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...ca6e883a80.jpg
Could do with a nice bit of turf. :)
It's just a TV studio. Or the back lot at Warner Brothers.
They don't really send them to Mars anymore because the aliens are on them right away and cannibalize them for the parts. Plus it's expensive and there wouldn't be any money left over for black ops.
Looks like the outskirts of Las Vegas to me. :lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by struth
apparently the iss had a load of grape vines growing up in space and are now back on terra. the hope being they will adapt to harsher conditions quicker so they do well in our climate change. amazing what gets done under the radar
I hope they realise the gravity of the situation. :eyebrows:
:lol:
so bad it's good - top man:lol::cool:Quote:
Originally Posted by walpurgis
Rubbish videolinking!
Have you noticed how many TV appearances via videolinking are badly thought out or not thought about at all? It's mainly backgrounds that get me, there was a guy on this morning who'd sat himself halfway across a large and slightly odd wall portrait which was totally distracting. Others come on TV from a total tip of a room in their house. I've seen all sorts of daft things behind folk on camera. Surely they can't lack the imagination to see that a plain wall or similar might be best?