Xela Posted June 28, 2020 Share Posted June 28, 2020 (edited) @mjmooney Doing a bit more digging on the Yardbird. Sounds like it opened as the Bread & Roses, before coming the Grapevine and finally the Yardbird Quote The Grapevine was situated on Paradise Place. This M&B pub was known as the Yardbird when it closed in late 2014, and was also known as The Bread & Roses. To be demolished as part of a council regeneration project. Going back over twenty years ago, and a good number of years before, The Grapevine on Paradise Place Birmingham was the number one choice for students of the Birmingham Conservatoire that was situated just a few yards over the road. I doubt that without the students the pub would have survived as long as it did but it was warm, inviting and had a baby grand in the window that anyone could play. A well stocked bar and a simple food menu was also a hit with the locals but the music student pub is how I remember it, and I was one of them. Chris (November 2015) Much used by Birmingham Polytechnic students as halls of residence just 5 mins away on Summer Row. First placed I ever played ‘Pong’ the black and white computerised table tennis game. I used pub between 1972-76. Andrew Myatt (July 2019) https://www.closedpubs.co.uk/warwickshire/birmingham_b3_grapevine.html Edited June 28, 2020 by Xela Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted June 28, 2020 VT Supporter Share Posted June 28, 2020 Thinking about it now, it may have been The Grapevine at the time I was talking about. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KenjiOgiwara Posted June 28, 2020 Share Posted June 28, 2020 People who go to the gym wearing baseball caps while working out. Genuinly annoys me. Guess I'm turning into a grumpy old fart Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted June 28, 2020 Share Posted June 28, 2020 3 minutes ago, KenjiOgiwara said: People who go to the gym wearing baseball caps while working out. Genuinly annoys me. Guess I'm turning into a grumpy old fart Ah, now that’s interesting because I’ve recently taken to wearing one. I’m a particularly sweaty very amateur exercise newbie, and the hat is specifically to stop buckets of sweat pouring down in to my eyes and glasses. I guess it’s my equivalent of the Borg headband, but I didn’t have a headband, I had a sort of military stylee green canvass cap. So I sit there, like some Castro / Raab C Nesbitt hybrid, sweating in to my hat. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KenjiOgiwara Posted June 28, 2020 Share Posted June 28, 2020 (edited) To be fair you come across slightly different than the idiots who are trying to look cool. They'll gladly lift weights in baseball cap and hoodie. If you now say you wear a hoodie... I'm out Edited June 28, 2020 by KenjiOgiwara 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted June 28, 2020 Share Posted June 28, 2020 I do not possess a hoodie. I have a small but high quality selection of footy and music tee shirts. My fave tee shirt was from HiFi Hangar, with a large orange reel to reel tape machine on it. But I’ve recently realised it looks like a big set of boobs. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted June 28, 2020 Share Posted June 28, 2020 Only when I work out at home but sometimes I'll wear a big thick hoodie to squeeze some sweat out, I've not reached the bin bag stage yet Also got a training top with a built in snood and hood, makes me look like a ninja, it's like a thin baselayer type material, really good training top (but I'm never putting the hood up, I do use the snood in the winter) I've owned a baseball cap for years but it's predominately for bad hair days, got a right bashing during lockdown, agree that's a weird one for the gym Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post brommy Posted June 28, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted June 28, 2020 4 hours ago, mjmooney said: Thinking about it now, it may have been The Grapevine at the time I was talking about. My stag night was in The Grapevine. As many of the attendees were from my office in the city, it was convenient and was one of the only pubs in the city centre which was okay hosting stags. The stripper whipped my bare backside with a leather whip whilst I was bent over the piano in the bar. Between her second and third strokes, the pub went wild because Villa’s Ray Houghton scored for ROI against Italy during USA 94 World Cup. A Polaroid of my naked self was passed around for the viewing of everyone I didn’t know in the pub. I’ve never drunk so many beers bought by strangers. 3 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vancvillan Posted June 28, 2020 Share Posted June 28, 2020 The crowd noises used in the audio feed at AVTV. I was on a long motorbike trip for the Newcastle game and I swear it's on a loop with a goal every ten minutes. I also burned through 2GB of data just listening to crap commentary - about what I use when I watch games on DAZN. AVTV always seems to find new ways to fail. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Jimzk5 Posted August 13, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted August 13, 2020 Red dwarf 2 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyh29 Posted August 13, 2020 Share Posted August 13, 2020 On 28/06/2020 at 15:35, KenjiOgiwara said: People who go to the gym wearing baseball caps while working out. Genuinly annoys me. Guess I'm turning into a grumpy old fart My gym has a few blokes wearing beanies when they work out , thankfully it also has some fantastic Totty working out in it so I’m too busy to get annoyed about them Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted August 13, 2020 VT Supporter Share Posted August 13, 2020 30 minutes ago, Jimzk5 said: Red dwarf This. Can't see it at all. Poor man's Hitchhiker's Guide, and not funny. Not helped by my pathological hatred of Craig Charles. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowychap Posted August 13, 2020 Share Posted August 13, 2020 (edited) 37 minutes ago, Jimzk5 said: Red dwarf Edited August 13, 2020 by snowychap 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted August 13, 2020 Moderator Share Posted August 13, 2020 12 minutes ago, mjmooney said: Not helped by my pathological hatred of Craig Charles. I can't hate Craig Charles, me and the missus went to see him at the Uni in December 1995 (Guest list, wasn't paying to see him, just a cheap night out)... 9 months later our daughter was born 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Xela Posted August 13, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted August 13, 2020 4 minutes ago, bickster said: I can't hate Craig Charles, me and the missus went to see him at the Uni in December 1995 (Guest list, wasn't paying to see him, just a cheap night out)... 9 months later our daughter was born He's a virile man, Craig is 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seat68 Posted August 13, 2020 Share Posted August 13, 2020 You know that short video of the dog and they talk about bacon, the maple kind. No **** clue why people like it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted August 13, 2020 VT Supporter Share Posted August 13, 2020 1 hour ago, Jimzk5 said: Red dwarf Loved it back in the day but it was only good for a few series. Anything after about season 5 or 6 has been shite 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davkaus Posted August 14, 2020 Share Posted August 14, 2020 10 hours ago, Stevo985 said: Loved it back in the day but it was only good for a few series. Anything after about season 5 or 6 has been shite 1-5 are peak dwarf. 6-7 were ok with a couple of really good ones but some shite. 8 was pretty damn bad. 9, the Corrie crossover, we pretend doesn't exist. 10-12 I think are about back where 6-7 were. Watchable, with some good moments, but they don't hit the highs of the early series. I'm going to have to watch Quarantine and Queeg tonight. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted August 14, 2020 VT Supporter Share Posted August 14, 2020 48 minutes ago, Davkaus said: 1-5 are peak dwarf. 6-7 were ok with a couple of really good ones but some shite. 8 was pretty damn bad. 9, the Corrie crossover, we pretend doesn't exist. 10-12 I think are about back where 6-7 were. Watchable, with some good moments, but they don't hit the highs of the early series. I'm going to have to watch Quarantine and Queeg tonight. I think everything in the Dave era has been painfully shit. I still watch it all with inexplicably high expectations. But it's absolute rubbish imo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidcow Posted September 17, 2020 VT Supporter Share Posted September 17, 2020 (edited) Fabric Conditioner. WTAF is that, it has no business existing. I do mean generally but especially on towels. Towels should not be soft, towels should be rough. Towels with fabric conditioner in them don't actually function as towels anymore. They don't absorb any moisture, it's like trying to dry yourself with a sheet of plastic. It just moves the water around your body. It only exists because large chemical companies created it and ran extensive advertising campaigns convincing mothers that they need to hold towels up to their cheeks and feel how soft a towel is otherwise they are a bad mother. At best people are just wasting money on something they totally don't need which ruins the thing they want it for. At worst it's pumping millions of gallons of completely unnecessary and lord knows what chemicals into the water system, that's without even thinking about the Co2 generated in their manufacture and transport and plastic containers to store it in. Fabric Conditioner can flick right off and when it gets there flick off some more. Edited September 17, 2020 by sidcow 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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