maqroll Posted June 3, 2021 Share Posted June 3, 2021 I just heard that an old high school kind of girlfriend had a bad accident. She fell 8ft off a ladder in her yard and shattered her ankle and it got infected and she had her leg amputated up to the knee. Poor thing. She has a 10 year old son. Thankfully a husband to help. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blandy Posted June 3, 2021 Moderator Share Posted June 3, 2021 18 minutes ago, chrisp65 said: A dead whale washed up there last year. Probably stinks now. When I lived in Cornwall, we used to go water-skiing on a beach on the south coast. A Dead seal had washed up on the beach. Customs came and cut it open in case there were smuggled drugs inside, then sort of covered it with sand/shingle. We'd taken Spike (a collie) to the beach. Us gang went home after a day in the sun, waterski-ing. Spike was accidentally left behind. Spike enacted revenge by digging out and eating the dead seal and rolling in it. Come the evening, and the temperature was lower, so the heating went on. Spike had indigestion. Spike warmed himself in front of the fire (he'd been hosed down on getting collected). The smell was not good. Really extremely not good. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genie Posted June 3, 2021 Share Posted June 3, 2021 33 minutes ago, Xela said: We're looking forward to the next instalment of @Genie's magical mystery tour. Like Michael Portillo's great train journeys... but in a Ford Kuga to British seaside resorts instead. Nah, I fancy Burnage for an October getaway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
a m ole Posted June 3, 2021 Share Posted June 3, 2021 48 minutes ago, Xela said: I thought it was Margate that became East London hipster-on-sea. Pete Doherty moved there. Reason enough to go to Ramsgate. Yeah it’s Margate. A lot of people in my industry move out there when they’ve ‘done’ London at 25. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seat68 Posted June 3, 2021 Share Posted June 3, 2021 Just now, a m ole said: Yeah it’s Margate. A lot of people in my industry move out there when they’ve ‘done’ London at 25. The porn industry will do that to you. Its a shit business. 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
a m ole Posted June 3, 2021 Share Posted June 3, 2021 (edited) 2 minutes ago, Seat68 said: The porn industry will do that to you. Its a shit business. More clients for that in Kent? Edited June 3, 2021 by a m ole 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted June 3, 2021 Moderator Share Posted June 3, 2021 1 hour ago, Xela said: I thought it was Margate that became East London hipster-on-sea. Pete Doherty moved there. Reason enough to go to Ramsgate. On-U Sound's HQ (AKA Adrian Sherwoods house) is in Ramsgate, which obviously ups the Ramsgate stakes for me But I have very little desire to go to Kent, an area of the country I believe I've only stayed one night in, which was the wedding I described the other week. I'm still not in a hurry to go back Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HanoiVillan Posted June 3, 2021 Share Posted June 3, 2021 1 hour ago, Genie said: Nah, I fancy Burnage for an October getaway. To complete the deprived LSOA mystery tour, can I interest you in spending a weekend walking the back-to-backs around Stanley Park? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blandy Posted June 3, 2021 Moderator Share Posted June 3, 2021 3 minutes ago, HanoiVillan said: To complete the deprived LSOA mystery tour, can I interest you in spending a weekend walking the back-to-backs around Stanley Park? There's a Stanley Park in Blackpool....and it's actually alright round there. Athletics Track, Football pitches, Cricket Club, Zoo, parkland and nice enough houses and a decent boozer or two. #notallbad 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seat68 Posted June 3, 2021 Share Posted June 3, 2021 (edited) As I have said. I lived in and loved Skeg. I love Blackpool. I like clacton, Margate and Great Yarmouth. I like British seaside towns. I have great memories associated with a hell of a lot of them. Slagging off Skegness is like a stranger slapping my child. Edited June 3, 2021 by Seat68 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidcow Posted June 3, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted June 3, 2021 2 hours ago, Xela said: Need to drag yourself to Cotteridge Wines. Last time I was there, admittedly last winter, I'm sure they had it in cans. As well as Bathams. Goddam it you keep tempting me in there! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidcow Posted June 3, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted June 3, 2021 (edited) I went to Weymouth a few years ago. That's a pretty good seaside town. Love Lyme Regis too, loads of excellent pasty shops although Americans will probably call them Quiche shops or something. Edited June 3, 2021 by sidcow Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seat68 Posted June 3, 2021 Share Posted June 3, 2021 19 minutes ago, sidcow said: I went to Weymouth a few years ago. That's a pretty good seaside town. Love Lyme Regis too, loads of excellent pasty shops although Americans will probably call them Quiche shops or something. Been the last few years and returning this year. Starting to like Weymouth. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KenjiOgiwara Posted June 3, 2021 Share Posted June 3, 2021 Neighbours. I live in an apartment complex and they are all annoying dicks. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maqroll Posted June 4, 2021 Share Posted June 4, 2021 4 hours ago, KenjiOgiwara said: Neighbours. I live in an apartment complex and they are all annoying dicks. I look back at all the roommates I had from age 23-34 and wonder how I managed it. A drunken Cockney, a Bluenose Brummie, a paranoid Romanian woman, a party boy Brazilian and his party boy, a Phish fan, and a Kiwi, who was far and away the best of the lot, who really weren't all THAT bad. Even the Bluenose. But I cherish living alone these days. And away from the city. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maqroll Posted June 4, 2021 Share Posted June 4, 2021 John Cena's groveling apology to China for referring to Taiwan as a country. Bootlicking for dollars. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HanoiVillan Posted June 4, 2021 Share Posted June 4, 2021 9 hours ago, maqroll said: John Cena's groveling apology to China for referring to Taiwan as a country. Bootlicking for dollars. China's ability to get Americans to censor themselves, or apologise for things they have said, is a free speech issue that is actually genuinely worrying for a change. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted June 4, 2021 Share Posted June 4, 2021 2 hours ago, HanoiVillan said: China's ability to get Americans to censor themselves, or apologise for things they have said, is a free speech issue that is actually genuinely worrying for a change. Including Arsenal's ostracising of a £50m £350k a week footballer because he dared to speak up over concentration camps... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HanoiVillan Posted June 4, 2021 Share Posted June 4, 2021 7 minutes ago, villa4europe said: Including Arsenal's ostracising of a £50m £350k a week footballer because he dared to speak up over concentration camps... Yes, you're right, the problem is acutest in America but we have it ourselves as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted June 4, 2021 Share Posted June 4, 2021 1 minute ago, HanoiVillan said: Yes, you're right, the problem is acutest in America but we have it ourselves as well. Arsenal have the American owner! Hard to know who made the decision, you can argue there were a few footballing reasons to it too but to put that kind of asset in the bin, to take that much of a financial hit is crazy, it's definitley part of what they did to ozil though, the TV block etc all factored in to it They chose the yuan over him and he was worth a lot of money which just goes to show how much that yuan is worth Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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