NoelVilla Posted June 21, 2022 Share Posted June 21, 2022 These posts are definitely in the right thread 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seat68 Posted June 21, 2022 Share Posted June 21, 2022 I have been having foot trouble recently and today is the first day in 4 weeks I have worn trainers, the laces were untied and tucked down the sides. My foot didn't hurt after the school run so that's a positive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Follyfoot Posted June 21, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted June 21, 2022 On 31/05/2022 at 22:47, It's Your Round said: Colonic irrigation up next? Take the head off the shower and stick the head slightly up your arse and turn the cold water on, you feel it full up then stop and you basically empty out on a massive movement. Put the shower head over the shower hole hole for a good 5 mins to make sure the nasty stuff gets well flushed away, you will feel golden for days 1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted June 22, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted June 22, 2022 Quote Experience: I am the dullest man in Britain Kevin Beresford I grew up in Small Heath, Birmingham, known to most as Peaky Blinders territory. I was interested in football and history at school, and studied art and design at Aston University. Birmingham has 35 miles of canals, which intrigued me because my dad was born on a canal boat. My claim to dull fame came in 2018, when I was named Anorak of the Year by the Dull Men’s Club. It’s an international collective of people – we welcome everyone, not just men – who find joy in the mundane. Our motto is “celebrating the ordinary”. Other members include a drain spotter and a guy who has collected 20,000 milk bottles. After that, newspapers began to dub me “Britain’s dullest man”. I had other brushes with the media before then, too. I run a small print shop in Redditch, and in 2003 I wanted to create a calendar for our customers. Redditch had three prisons, no cinema, but copious roundabouts and so, for the laugh, my employees and I decided on Roundabouts of Redditch. I was in a pub one Friday night when a friend called to say it was on the Graham Norton Show. Graham was flicking through a calendar of gorgeous Greek islands with his guest and brought Roundabouts of Redditch out as a comparison. I absolutely loved it. It changed my life. Demand rocketed for the calendar. We had initially printed 100 copies – soon we were selling to people around the world. In 2004, I was approached by a publisher and wrote Roundabouts of Great Britain, which sold 20,000 copies on its first run, then Roundabouts from the Air Ish in 2005, called that because I took the photos from bridges and the tops of trees. The AA asked me to do the same for car parks – we put out another book, Parking Mad: Car Parks from Heaven (or Hell), and a calendar, Car Parks of Britain. The Redditch calendar spawned a series of Best of British Roundabouts. I travelled the country with my camera, following enthusiasts’ tipoffs. I photographed a Kent roundabout with a duck pond and a Yorkshire one with a working windmill. I’ve made calendars of benches, bus routes, telephone boxes and other seemingly unexciting features of British life. I’ve produced calendars of prisons and old asylums. I love grisly subjects, steeped in history, although I’m also thinking of doing one on recycling centres. Benches of Redditch was my second biggest selling calendar last year, after The Wonderful World of Jack Grealish’s Calves TV crews from China and the US visited. I was on daytime TV, including on Sharon Osbourne’s show. I downed a bottle of wine in the green room before my appearance to offset my nerves. It went swimmingly, though. I also established myself as president of the UK Roundabout Appreciation Society (my unofficial title is The Lord of the Rings) and the founder – and only member – of the Car Park Appreciation Society. People say I’m obsessed, but that feels derogatory. I prefer “passionate”. My four sons are fairly embarrassed by it, and my three ex-wives all found me dull; not in the bedroom, but in every other part of the house. But I think women like dull men; when their husbands say they’re going to the shed to make a matchstick model of Winchester Cathedral, they don’t have to wonder if they’re actually up to something else. In truth, I don’t think I’m dull. It’s my hobbies that are dull. I’m actually full of surprises: I’m a fan of trance music and went clubbing last weekend. In February, I spent my 70th birthday in Malaga with two buddies. I try to do 10 calendars a year. I get inspiration from everyday life. Martin Parr, the celebrated British photographer, sent me a text saying he admired my work. That felt wonderful. My Benches of Redditch calendar became my second biggest seller last year, at 2,000 copies. The most popular calendar that year was The Wonderful World of Jack Grealish’s Calves 2022. As an Aston Villa fan, I made it as an act of revenge when he was sold to Manchester City, but a lot of people bought it for their girlfriends. I’m semi-retired, and these hobbies have kept me alive. I consider myself a writer – I’m writing a novel about a Brummie abducted by aliens – and I enjoy the knowledge that my photography is on walls across Britain and beyond. I meet up with the Dull Men’s Club once a year; it’s amazing how charismatic we are when we all get together. And I wear my Britain’s dullest man title as a badge of honour. Guardian 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjw63 Posted June 22, 2022 Share Posted June 22, 2022 1 hour ago, mjmooney said: Guardian Sounds like a Monty Python sketch, like Arthur Putey. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr_Dogg Posted June 23, 2022 Share Posted June 23, 2022 10 hours ago, mjmooney said: Guardian Welcome Kevin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted June 23, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted June 23, 2022 What impressed me was that he's from Small Heath, but he's a Villa fan. Quite conceivable that he's here on VT. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidcow Posted June 23, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted June 23, 2022 1 hour ago, mjmooney said: What impressed me was that he's from Small Heath, but he's a Villa fan. Quite conceivable that he's here on VT. But on topic only. Would be far too boring for off topic............except in this thread Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted June 23, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted June 23, 2022 16 hours ago, mjmooney said: Guardian I've purchased one of his calendars I believe. A roundabout in Dickens Heath next to where my friend lives was in it so I bought it as a joke Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicken Field Posted June 23, 2022 Share Posted June 23, 2022 Is it even possible being tagged as the dullest man in Britain? I feel like a person instantly becomes a little more intriguing, even if only nominated as the dullest person, let alone be called the dullest person, they instantly become interesting. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PussEKatt Posted June 23, 2022 Share Posted June 23, 2022 Yesterday was talking with friends about ghosts and spirits.Is there a difference between a ghost and a spirit or are they different words for the same thing ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rds1983 Posted June 23, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted June 23, 2022 (edited) 7 hours ago, mjmooney said: What impressed me was that he's from Small Heath, but he's a Villa fan. Quite conceivable that he's here on VT. Does it count as post on poster if we try and guess who he could be? Edited June 23, 2022 by Rds1983 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tegis Posted July 22, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted July 22, 2022 I think Greece is the only country that puts the native name of their country (Hellas) on their athletics competition gear. Everyone else seems to use the English name. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seat68 Posted July 22, 2022 Share Posted July 22, 2022 10 minutes ago, Tegis said: I think Greece is the only country that puts the native name of their country (Hellas) on their athletics competition gear. Everyone else seems to use the English name. Turkiye I think do. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted July 22, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted July 22, 2022 13 minutes ago, Tegis said: I think Greece is the only country that puts the native name of their country (Hellas) on their athletics competition gear. Everyone else seems to use the English name. As an Englishman, I find that quite embarrassing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AVFC_Hitz Posted July 22, 2022 Share Posted July 22, 2022 2 minutes ago, Seat68 said: Turkiye I think do. They changed their official name from Turkey to Türkiye. No one took a blind bit of notice. Bit like the Czech Republic to Czechia. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tegis Posted July 22, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted July 22, 2022 (edited) 4 minutes ago, Seat68 said: Turkiye I think do. Just saw Espana as well, damn Edited July 22, 2022 by Tegis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fightoffyour Posted July 22, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted July 22, 2022 On 20/06/2022 at 22:31, Mark Albrighton said: For a brief year or two around the age of 12, there was a trend to tuck shoelaces into the shoe. More often than not, the shoe laces not being tied in a knot/bow, just the two lace ends tucked under the tongue. I’m not sure how widespread that trend was, or if it ever made a return. I tie my shoelaces in the normal way except behind the tongue and tuck them in in, for all of my shoes except suit shoes. Shoelaces generally look shit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Albrighton Posted August 10, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted August 10, 2022 Could put this in the things you often wonder thread, but it’s possibly boring enough to belong here. Your mother and father are your parents. Your son and your daughter are your children. Your brother and your sister are your siblings. I’ve had a little look and there doesn’t seem to be a collective term for nieces and nephews or aunts and uncles. I’ve seen it suggested that “nibling” could be used for your nieces and nephews, but I think that’s shit. Meanwhile “cousin” is there, not bothering with any male/female terms. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tegis Posted August 11, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted August 11, 2022 Dentists, really boring Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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