ICTChris Posted August 19, 2022 Share Posted August 19, 2022 Forty four years ago today, this happened in Edinburgh. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Steele Posted August 19, 2022 Share Posted August 19, 2022 1 minute ago, ICTChris said: Forty four years ago today, this happened in Edinburgh. I've heard of a dead-leg but that's quite something. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hk blues Posted August 19, 2022 Share Posted August 19, 2022 6 minutes ago, ICTChris said: Forty four years ago today, this happened in Edinburgh. I've heard fannies called many things but never a basket 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted August 19, 2022 Share Posted August 19, 2022 24 minutes ago, ICTChris said: Forty four years ago today, this happened in Edinburgh. I'd love it if it was true but I was living in Edinburgh in 1978 and it's not something you'd forget. John Julius Norwich sent it out on a jokey Christmas newsletter thing apparently. https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/unpredictable-pleasures- 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Honest_Man#1 Posted August 19, 2022 Share Posted August 19, 2022 On the train to CDG airport and someone left a big bag sitting beside us. Undoubtedly happens all the time but I was in pure panic mode. Spent the next 5 stops going one carriage further away each time jumping off and back on. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stellaboz Posted August 19, 2022 Share Posted August 19, 2022 An interesting selection of restaurants to eat at tomorrow. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DiegoDiego Posted August 19, 2022 Share Posted August 19, 2022 Met a German lass (wid, natürlich) whose name was Ogilvie. Apparently her ancestors emigrated to Germany in the 1300s. I thought that was quite interesting so decided to share it with P&B. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted August 19, 2022 Share Posted August 19, 2022 30 minutes ago, DiegoDiego said: Met a German lass (wid, natürlich) whose name was Ogilvie. Apparently her ancestors emigrated to Germany in the 1300s. I thought that was quite interesting so decided to share it with P&B. Apparently Scots were known for itinerant trading, or pedlars, and naughty children around Danzig were told to behave or the Schotte would get them. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duszek Posted August 19, 2022 Share Posted August 19, 2022 Quiberon in Brittany is Scotland-esque. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eednud Posted August 20, 2022 Share Posted August 20, 2022 Question 4 from The Weekend Australian quiz today. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RH33 Posted August 20, 2022 Share Posted August 20, 2022 1 hour ago, Eednud said: Question 4 from The Weekend Australian quiz today. Square @PWL 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vikingTON Posted August 20, 2022 Share Posted August 20, 2022 (edited) 14 hours ago, welshbairn said: Apparently Scots were known for itinerant trading, or pedlars, and naughty children around Danzig were told to behave or the Schotte would get them. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nowe_Szkoty There were something like 40,000 Scots settled in the Baltic region during the 17th century IIRC, and thousands more fought there as mercenaries. An overlooked part of our emigration story. Edited August 20, 2022 by vikingTON 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derry Alli Posted August 21, 2022 Share Posted August 21, 2022 Tell you what, the saddest thing I've ever seen in my life I just witnessed this morning. Boy racers get bad stick - as do the football 'casuals' but they're nowhere near as bad as the groups of 40/50y.o weirdos who dress in leather waistcoats with made up group names on the back, flannel shirt and 44 inch waist sitting in Sainsbury's car park at 11am on a Sunday wanking each others pistons. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bairnardo Posted August 21, 2022 Share Posted August 21, 2022 Tell you what, the saddest thing I've ever seen in my life I just witnessed this morning. Boy racers get bad stick - as do the football 'casuals' but they're nowhere near as bad as the groups of 40/50y.o weirdos who dress in leather waistcoats with made up group names on the back, flannel shirt and 44 inch waist sitting in Sainsbury's car park at 11am on a Sunday wanking each others pistons.It's cool on TV on American highways. It's not cool in a Scottish Car Park. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derry Alli Posted August 21, 2022 Share Posted August 21, 2022 2 minutes ago, Bairnardo said: It's cool on TV on American highways. It's not cool in a Scottish Car Park. They fucked off about ten minutes ago and two boys in BMW bikes have turned up. It's like I'm living in those 'Swole Boys' episodes of Mayans MC. Is this a usual Sunday morning thing in Scotland? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DiegoDiego Posted August 21, 2022 Share Posted August 21, 2022 Tell you what, the saddest thing I've ever seen in my life I just witnessed this morning. Boy racers get bad stick - as do the football 'casuals' but they're nowhere near as bad as the groups of 40/50y.o weirdos who dress in leather waistcoats with made up group names on the back, flannel shirt and 44 inch waist sitting in Sainsbury's car park at 11am on a Sunday wanking each others pistons.They are a sad bunch, as are most who need to adopt an off-the-shelf identity in later life. However, motorcyclists tend to be much better to deal with than bicyclists. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bairnardo Posted August 21, 2022 Share Posted August 21, 2022 They are a sad bunch, as are most who need to adopt an off-the-shelf identity in later life. However, motorcyclists tend to be much better to deal with than bicyclists. Drinking Brewdog and becoming an "equity punk" is probably a cheaper way to do this, if a bit less dignified. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SlipperyP Posted August 22, 2022 Share Posted August 22, 2022 Driving deaths in Thailand are the worst in the world (I may have mentioned before). With 24,000 deaths recorded at the road side every year, you can then double that with the deaths that happen on the way to the hospital, in the hospital a few days/weeks later (as they are not counted). Today our Government have reversed a seatbelt law. As from 5th Sept '22, you will no longer have to wear a seatbelt, if you are a passenger in the back cabin of a pickup truck. This is the most popular vehicle as, they are as cheap as chips here. example below Their reasoning, is that some of the older pickup trucks don't have seatbelts, so unfair for everyone to be wearing them. I'm not making this shite up. https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/2373676/department-softens-seat-belt-rule 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamthebam Posted August 22, 2022 Share Posted August 22, 2022 Maybe I should pick a lot of Thai celebrities for next year's Dead Pool... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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