En Passant

Why? If something stands the test of time? Beethoven Mozart and others are still awesome. Shakespeare is still relevant in many ways. Leonardo da Vinci is still a wonder. Dad's army is practically contemporary by comparison and is no less funny now than it was then.

Only 77 more pages to Get Carter as of now.

Just as well most things are online now you'd need a second mortgage for a first class stamp lately. Another utility (using the term loosely) that should never have been privatised. Has anyone not seen the ITV drama yet? If not please please do so :).

Any chance you could get banned again?

I don't like facebook (or Zuck). But I know no other way to connect with folks I've lost touch with over the years. A couple of people I'm glad to know would probably have been lost forever without it. I use a chrome extension to cut some of the crap, it's partially effective. Also, for some reason our local pool league insists on results being posted/amalgamated on there, so I'd have to have it just for that.

No fucking idea. But it wasn't me . We've disagreed about a bunch - but that's silly. Oh, and I have zero admin rights, and if I did? You mate, would not be even close to where I'd apply them. (luv ya).

It'll be a fine admin that blocks my splendiforous input. And yes, I probably made that word up as I went along. Incidentally DI likely has a point here.

I'm no admin. And the points on which we disagree are manifest. But that's exactly why both of us should be here. Waiting on my own ban on those grounds. (I still hate your spawn of eejits thread, so there's that :))

I love that you're back. (kill that babies of the 'who cares?' thread, and I'll turn gay for you). Yeah, I know.

Off the top of my head the two people I miss most from here are him (likely dead, very sadly) and Hein (hopefully not)*. There are others, but for these two in particular I often consider what their responses might have been on any given subject - to this day. Such is life, and why I'm here myself mostly I guess. *I actually miss Deathray too, but for entirely different reasons and am in more of a minority there I suspect.

Easy tiger. Let's not get carried away eh? There's a lot more redemption than that required.

Gz. Feels like yesterday (I was lurking back then not posting). You don't look a day older.

Well yeah, quite. As a man with a sense of humour it feels a bit like there are some things I'm just not allowed to find funny - but I understand why at any rate. Sins of the Father. I've had some long discussions with my sister about 'positive discrimination' (not just m/f but b/w too) which I was against, and she was for. Still ongoing to a point. In the future hopefully we'll get to that sort of level playing field. I understand the historical issues though and why we have to go through a period of re-adjustment. It's just a bit painful to do.

I'm not proud of this, but my second thought was, the one on the left is a liar. My first thought was indeed, omg how crass is that? And the third (which should have been second I know - and I'm sort of mortified it wasn't - was why did they allow themselves to be used like that?). At least I'm being honest I suppose.

Oddly I've found it harder - sort of. I miss C5's coverage a lot. I did the fantasy baseball league there and everything. I'm not generally much of a sports fan, not even football, it was something about Gould and cohorts (Lengel particularly) that livened it up for me. Tried to keep going a bit once it stopped, but cannot get as much on board without that peculiar British slant on it or something - dno. A pity .

One doesn't half get about marketing them there eazi glide castors...huge demand across the Eurozone and a bellweather for all sorts of goods apparently.

Oh go on, give us a company name, then you could be stalked by anyone who's ever done that thread hereabouts. I'd give myself a laugh as it's not that far from me, but I have less than zero interest in 'furniture componentry'. I suppose there might be two concurrent exhibitions, but this is Telford not the NEC....

Quoted for those that have you blocked, as, I had to sit down for this, that's actually helpful

Dortmund apparently, which causes me to raise my eyebrows a little, but no more.

What really gets me about these particular photo ops is none of these privileged bastards would be anywhere near a tank, if you know, other armies were shooting at them.

Oh for months.

I do it to my clothes if I consider somebody might lookey and give a tossey.

I could be persuaded to whisper the time to him on a regular basis for a remarkable amount less than that.

Ono.