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Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony
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my son 20 years agoQuote:
Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony
I've not seen 'Footloose'. Was a bit surprised to run into him in Tunstall KFC to be honest.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony
Looks like you’ve got ghosts mate!Quote:
Originally Posted by struth
Russ
Ah sorry Grant, I never even saw the photo. I can be a real knob sometimes.Quote:
Originally Posted by struth
He gets everywhere these days. I recently saw him at a safari park with that guy from "Peep Show".Quote:
Originally Posted by Macca
I did too! But then when I think about it a bit more it might just have been an ad I saw on the telly.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony
One thing about that KFC. No mayo! I asked and it turned out he was doing a radio show or something.
BOOM....boomQuote:
Originally Posted by Macca
Tough room.
Yeah, Simon The God Botherer had the teatime slot on R2. Sara Cox got that job now, so he may be back at KFC.Quote:
Originally Posted by Macca
Mixed feelings about the new avatar Marco - that's the picture that ended my modelling contract with Adidas. Fortunately Primark stepped in and saved the day :)
I gather you were an optimistic and ambitious twenty two year old when that picture was taken. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony
Ha - I thought it was 'pre-rehab', when you were on a diet of meths, methadone and.... KFC! However, I especially like how your nose back then doubled as a bell-end.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony
Marco.
Geoff was right, that pic was taken when I was still a youngster, with all my life in front of me, as well as a fair bit of nose.Quote:
Originally Posted by Marco
I wasn't born with that conk, I had "nose augmentation" at the same Hardly Street specialist that Karl Malden went to. He chose the arse-nose, and I went for the knob nose. He enjoyed a very successful film and television career, while the films I starred in were rather more "specialist".
My "co-stars" were so convinced it was real, they insisted I always put a condom on it. And what you see in the picture is the result of a latex allergy. You have to admit that apart from the rash I was something of a stunner.
I enjoyed this leisurely ride in a classic Mini
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rrejb0bVX7w
Nice one, and thanks for the info. If you're interested, I've been messaged by a couple of frustrated housewives (one is a Russian, from London), who aren't getting any sex, saying they'd love to 'borrow' your nose, and I remember you mentioning that you don't mind the smell of sardines.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony
If you're interested, PM me for details.
Marco.
Looks like fun revving the nuts off that.Quote:
Originally Posted by spendorman
Sounds like a straight cut gearbox from the whisting in the background. Reminds me of the quick Minis I had. All modified by me.Quote:
Originally Posted by spendorman
:lol: You're right, I LOVE the smell of sardines! Although living in Chorley I have to, or live a very lonely life :(Quote:
Originally Posted by Marco
You didn't say where the other lady comes from, but I may be interested. Not the Russian one though. My (limited) experience tells me there are two types: The stunners who hang off the arm of gangsters (get in with them, you're likely to wake up dead), and the ones that look like shot putters, who say they're getting no sex but really they are, they just didn't know it, their suiters coming and going unnoticed.
Ah that's a shame. This one has a penchant for mature (verging on ancient) bald-headed men, blessed with 'substantial necks', and passion for building Tupperware boxes. Could you not make an exception, just this once?Quote:
Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony
Marco.
I suppose so. It would give a welcome break for everybody's Chorley favourite, Mrs. Anne Chovy. She is in such demand, that last time she accidentally did a poo on me. She told me she's so busy she doesn't know whether she's coming or going :(Quote:
Originally Posted by Marco
And the Tupperware boxes are just for organising my collection of wigs. Not really a passion, that would be weird.
I was just sharpening a pencil with a craft knife and it occurred to me that this is probably becoming a lost art. How many under twenty five year olds have ever done that.
Most of them wouldn't know what a pencil was, and none of them can be trusted with knives. I always use a Stanley knife to sharpen mine - regular sharpeners are crap, unless it's one of those "stick it in the hole and wind the handle" ones your teacher had on his desk.
They have a pencil museum in Keswick - never been, but I hear it's nothing to write home about :D
I'll make a note of that.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony
Too busey stabbing each other these days to bother with pencils.Quote:
Originally Posted by walpurgis
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I see that Airbus are ending production of the A380 due to a downturn in orders.
Shame - it’s a lovely way to fly.
Ha - that's quite funny... Not that I have any need for pencils these days, but I was using a propelling pencil, midway through primary school in the 70s, so no need for pencil sharpeners;)Quote:
Originally Posted by walpurgis
And before that, I don't remember... Most likely an ordinary pencil and sharpener. I'd have been too young to have been entrusted with knives!:eek:
Marco.
I have propelling pencils, but prefer a traditional wooden pencil for drawing fine detail as I find it easy to get a fine point with a bit of emery paper.
A Sukhoi SU-57 would more more interesting and a sight quicker though. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Beobloke
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aye, but where's the legroom?Quote:
Originally Posted by walpurgis
And the bar?!Quote:
Originally Posted by struth
Nope, I think the world is now ready for the Bristol Brabazon, personally.
There was a lovely way to fly? I've always found it the most godawful experience it's possible to have, aside from maybe being tortured.Quote:
Originally Posted by Beobloke
Save yer pennies and treat yourself to a Virgin Atlantic Upper Class flight from Heathrow T3, including 3 hours in the 'Clubhouse'.
Everyone should do this once in their life!
I'll start now, might have enough pennies saved by my 250th birthday ;)
I can swim but not fly; i will take the boat ;)
That's probably (I'm guessing) because you've only ever travelled 'cattle class'... Business class is a totally different ball game;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Macca
However, I'm not big into flying myself, simply because it's so soulless. Trains are my thing, preferably the vintage variety or something with 'character' [not into the high-speed modern shite]; somewhere cool from which I can sit and enjoy stunning scenery passing by through the window, which is why the likes of the Orient Express appeals so much:)
Marco.
Guess again...Quote:
Originally Posted by Marco
Lol... So, for you, what makes Business or 1st Class plane travel: "the most godawful experience it's possible to have"?:)
Not exactly my thing either (same as boat cruises) - but I could think of MUCH worse!
Marco.
Security checks (I always get stopped and searched), passport control (always about a million people going through when I'm there, worse now they have those idiotic machines), and the delays (worst I've had was 9 hours). That's before you even get on the damn aircraft.
Then when you are on board it's always freezing cold, you can't smoke, nasty recycled air (worse since they banned smoking), bad food, bad tea (no tea at all on some US internal flights, the bloody savages), babies crying, annoying fat bastards jammed up against you with their fat bloke smell.
Those idiots who are up and down every five minutes even when the seatbelt sign is on, pilots who think they are still landing an F15 on the USS Nimitz in high seas ('Let's just smack that bastard down on the runway!') - causing all the birds aboard to scream in terror, queuing to get off behind knobs who are somehow able to take ten minutes just to get one case out of the overhead, crap selection of TV to watch (ooh! a choice of a Sopranos episode with all the good bits edited out or a documentary on the VW factory in Essen!).
People banging your seat from behind every time they move, waiting 2 hours for your luggage to come through on the carousel, crashing into the sea and dying horribly because the pilots think they are flying too fast when actually they've stalled the bastard and it's dropping out of the sky like a stone.
Is that enough or shall I go on?
Lol... I pretty much agree with all of that (although some of it is negated in Business or 1st Class), which is why [when possible] we travel abroad by car!:)
*Nothing* beats the freedom it provides of being in near-full control of your journey, totally divorced from the odious behaviour of the 'unwashed masses':cool:
Marco.
Nah. Princess Flying Boat mate. That's the one they should have given us.Quote:
Originally Posted by Beobloke
http://i68.tinypic.com/or40hc.jpg
Let's not forget the Spruce Goose!
The only reason I ever get on a plane is because I work for a living so I haven't got the time to go where I want to go by any form of civilised transport. Every time I swear that I'm never doing it again. I think last time I really meant it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Marco
Not British though and ugly compared to the Princess.Quote:
Originally Posted by Macca
I dislike flying and everything to do with it. The flights are long and uncomfortable, the food indifferent if not poor, and, until recently, the "in flight entertainment" limited. Flying business class is only a little better. Only the in-flight booze makes the experience just about bearable.Quote:
Originally Posted by Macca
These days the in-flight entertainment is much better with dozens of films to watch and hundreds of 'records' to listen to (despite the crappy little headphones). However this is more than offset by the check-in nausea and the undignified security checks.
Flying out from Douala (in Cameroon) recently, we were subjected to nine security checks between entering the airport and boarding the plane!
Well, I've been driving abroad (going from Glasgow to Italy, through various countries to get there) since the mid 90s, when I was working like a dog building up my business. So working's got little to do with it, mate. If you want to do something, you just do it!Quote:
Originally Posted by Macca
In fact one time, I remember finishing work at 11pm, having been at it since 8am that morning, driving through the night, all the way down to Dover (approx 500 miles), to catch the first ferry over to France, then when arriving at Calais, driving a further 3 hours before stopping at a hotel to stay overnight, all en-route to our family home in Tuscany (we usually spent 3 days getting there, so that the remainder of the journey was leisurely)...
I simply wouldn't have had it any other way, as the journey itself, through all sorts of lovely places in France and Switzerland, then into Italy, being able to stop when you liked at nice hotels or restaurants and buy some lovely food and wine en-route, was a joy, and also part of the holiday itself (we were usually away for 3 or 4 weeks in total):cool:
As an aside, I always wondered why you never got a driving licence... Don't you like driving, or what? As owning a car would've given/would still give you now, so much more freedom. So why no driving licence for the Maccster?:)
Marco.
if you dont "really need" a car then best to steer clear(nice pun):eyebrows: its a costly business.
Sure, but there are a lot worse things you could spend your money on.... For me, the freedom of being able to go where YOU want, when YOU want, in total comfort (especially if it's a nice car you're driving) is priceless!:cool:
Marco.
I agree, but it depends a lot on where u live and of course your lifestyle. I'd go cuckooQuote:
Originally Posted by Marco
Lol you asked me that not so long ago in the mod room.Quote:
Originally Posted by Marco
Ha - I forget what the answer was!:D
Was it a secret?;)
Marco.