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Forum: General Chat 19-01-2023, 23:27
Replies: 11
Views: 12
Posted By Guinness
Re: visitor to accrington today

I thought the market hall had already been done up...when they put up rents and destroyed its character by 'modernising' it, removing the outside market then nailing the coffin shut by shifting the...
Forum: General Chat 16-12-2022, 22:52
Replies: 11
Views: 12
Posted By Guinness
Re: Is nothing happening in the world right now?

The mainstream media hasn’t reflected the man on the street for donkeys years..almost nobody buys or has a paper delivered anymore, paper shops have all but disappeared…the internet posts current...
Forum: General Chat 02-12-2022, 23:50
Replies: 8
Views: 9
Posted By Guinness
Bah! Humbug!

It’s here again….the winter festival.

You know the thing that 20 years ago was Xmas and 30 years ago was Christmas!

This old fart remembers Christmas past…we did the nativity play, sang carols...
Forum: General Chat 28-10-2022, 22:30
Replies: 29
Views: 30
Posted By Guinness
Re: SUNAK bans fracking

I agree with Sunak.

I've a mate in Blackpool who lives near the Cuadrilla site, he told me that he felt a couple of quakes back in the day when they were exploring. I did a bit of research back...
Forum: Anything Goes 28-10-2022, 21:26
Replies: 2,284
Sticky: Joke Of The Day
Views: 163,837
Posted By Guinness
Re: Joke Of The Day

Just watched an old clip on youtube of Walter Matthau telling this one..

3 old guys sitting in a care home bemoaning their youth.

1st guy says, 'damn I wish I could take a leak like I used to....
Forum: General Chat 15-10-2022, 22:42
Replies: 18
Views: 19
Posted By Guinness
Re: Eggs with that?

Unfortunately if they did they would lose their SIA licence and probably be prosecuted for using unreasonable force. Meanwhile...

...Plod would offer counselling, cups of tea, cream cakes and free...
Forum: General Chat 15-10-2022, 00:05
Replies: 18
Views: 19
Posted By Guinness
Eggs with that?

Apparently I’m a gammon….

You know one of those red faced baby boom angry little Englanders..

I was dragged up on a council estate with a black and white 20 inch TV and a radiogram for...
Forum: General Chat 25-09-2022, 00:45
Replies: 9
Views: 10
Posted By Guinness
Past my sell by date

I’m getting left behind….

Used to think I was au fait with technology…

I knew the Ceefax pages that were relevant, could program the VHS to record while I was away and make tape to tape copies...
Forum: General Chat 15-09-2022, 23:45
Replies: 9
Views: 10
Posted By Guinness
Mr Plod

I'm seriously beginning to think that our police force needs a complete overhaul.

You get burgled...you receive an incident number, likewise if someone nicks your car/motorbike or childs bicycle....
Forum: General Chat 06-08-2022, 00:13
Replies: 75
Views: 76
Posted By Guinness
Re: Worst TV commercials...

I’ve tried ‘vegan bacon’, ….didn’t look like bacon, didn’t taste like bacon. Horrible stuff.

I’m from the pre cooking oil age, when pretty much everything that was fried was done so in a lump of...
Forum: General Chat 30-07-2022, 08:16
Replies: 1
Views: 2
Posted By Guinness
Who needs the soap operas

So, a certain xmp who being unemployed and having nothing better to do, posts a daily tweet that is usually unanswered or at best occasionally mocked.

Undeterred by this disinterest, and possibly...
Forum: General Chat 21-07-2022, 22:46
Replies: 19
Views: 20
Posted By Guinness
Re: What have we come to?

Hmm..have you thought about why you sat there having a quiet beer and noticed the lack of a black face?

Bear with me....

Supermarkets used to have sweets by the checkout, then the health...
Forum: General Chat 17-07-2022, 22:56
Replies: 18
Views: 19
Posted By Guinness
Re: Terrific Week Says Boris

Your opinion, which is perfectly acceptable



Incorrect a retirement party was held with juice and cakes in an office at a place of work, incidentally where people had to work in the national...
Forum: General Chat 17-07-2022, 22:02
Replies: 30
Views: 31
Posted By Guinness
Re: How Many Books Have You Read This Year?

The Weis/Hickman books were probably some of the last I actually bought...The Dragonlance Chronicles were the standard for fantasy reading in the 80's, rich characters like Raistlin, Caramon and...
Forum: General Chat 16-07-2022, 00:30
Replies: 30
Views: 31
Posted By Guinness
Re: How Many Books Have You Read This Year?

I used to be a prolific reader, back in the day I had 6 library cards (those little cardboard pocket things that the librarian took off you at the desk when she stamped your books out...jeez I'm...
Forum: General Chat 14-07-2022, 23:59
Replies: 44
Views: 45
Posted By Guinness
Re: I miss the permissive society

There was an absolute cracker yesterday from the BBC about the lack of diversity in the Lionesses football team after their 8-0 win over Norway...strangely enough there are some in that team who come...
Forum: General Chat 08-07-2022, 22:22
Replies: 18
Views: 19
Posted By Guinness
Re: Terrific Week Says Boris

To be fair to Sara Britcliffe, she has raised the issues of Hyndburn in parliament on numerous occasions, even got a sitting Prime Minister to come and have a look for himself (not too shoddy for an...
Forum: General Chat 03-07-2022, 01:07
Replies: 44
Views: 45
Posted By Guinness
Re: I miss the permissive society

Case in point... The Halifax putting personal pronouns on name badges to ensure that equality, diversity and inclusion are honoured.

In my opinion this is 100% virtue signalling.... I can't recall...
Forum: General Chat 02-07-2022, 00:42
Replies: 44
Views: 45
Posted By Guinness
I miss the permissive society

Glad my kids are grown.. just imagine nowadays having to explain sex..

There are the birds and the bees, the bees and the bees, the birds and the birds.

There are the birds that may want to be...
Forum: General Chat 26-06-2022, 01:47
Replies: 22
Views: 23
Posted By Guinness
Re: Oh Deary Me.

The defence rests Mi'Lord....on the grounds that the prosecution agrees that the best pint he ever had was Liffey water :D

Thirty odd years ago..Best pint I ever had was in a pub in Ballydehob in...
Forum: General Chat 24-06-2022, 23:57
Replies: 22
Views: 23
Posted By Guinness
Re: Oh Deary Me.

And this is why I stick to Liffey Water...it's unique..no 'my flat bottled crap is better than your fizzy chemical compound'...nothing compares to a pint, double poured into a tulip.. game over!...
Forum: Anything Goes 17-06-2022, 21:07
Replies: 2,284
Sticky: Joke Of The Day
Views: 163,837
Posted By Guinness
Re: Joke Of The Day

A new 6 floor store has opened.

It sells husbands...the higher the floor the more expensive the husband.

The store has one rule, you can go up but not down the stairs.

Woman goes in...
...
Forum: General Chat 16-06-2022, 22:29
Replies: 14
Views: 15
Posted By Guinness
'Sigh'....summers here

With apologies to Alf Tennyson…

Mine was to do or die,

A couple of yards, a couple of yards,

A couple of yards outside.

In to my back garden
Forum: DVD/TV/Film Discussion 09-06-2022, 23:48
Replies: 5
Views: 6
Posted By Guinness
Memorable lines

I like to think I’m a bit of a film buff…as much at home with the latest Marvel release as I am with Bette Davies, Clint Eastwood or Laurel and Hardy.

Every Christmas I watch a couple of Will Hay...
Forum: Anything Goes 01-06-2022, 21:30
Replies: 31
Views: 32
Posted By Guinness
Re: The Nazis Were Right, Uber All The World!

Yup, been there.... I think I'm still under the threat of defenestration of the nether regions after the 'great eye level grill toaster fire' in the eighties and a coupla years later was refused...
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