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Growing old is mandatory. Growing up is voluntary

Pass me the gun, Mother!!!!!!

If I was being selfish, she would say "you wouldn't help a lame dog over a stile". Funny that, because now I'm older, I prefer animals to some people!

"Stop mithering, "when I was grumpy.

All good fun till someone gets hurt, then it's hilarious.

We made our fireworks out of Standard bangers,potassium chlorate , which you could get over the counter from chemists, sugar, sulphur, iron filings and bits of firefighters. I made a small cannon from Meccano, the barrel being the aluminium tube from a bike pump and towed it behind my bike onto Robert Shaw Playing Fields. We lit the fuse then scarpered. There was a large boom, a gigantic white mushroom cloud and the remnants of the tube made an indentation in the kerb about fifty feet away. We need a stronger barrel I thought. Next was a steel saddle support tube from said bike. This was fill

It's very good, I've got it. Mainly about Leicester though.

Lycra clad freaks who think they're too good to ride in the cycle lanes provided.

This is why we have a million on the dole. The other million and a half are bone idle wasters, freeloaders, hypochondriacs, professional protesters and civil Servants. (Just joking) maybe.

Thanks Stephen, they look to be the ones. I remember in the 50's there were many old buses, especially single deckers used by Fairground operators attending Goose Fair. There were Leylands, Bristols, Maudsleys, Dennis's, Guys, Bedfords and some old Midland Reds but I cannot recollect the manufacturer. Thanks for the info.

Can any of you bus experts help me. I seem to remember the 1A and 16A from Handley St being of a slightly different design. There was only about six like this. They had a more prominent radiator and sloping windscreen, but were AEC,s like the rest of the fleet. We're they older? I used to get these home to Bobbers Mill.

#169 Bit of a rash statement there Pete.I'll leave it at that.

Yes it is. I was like that at work dealing with buffoons who's sole aim in life was to settle for mediocrity, whilst I strove for perfection!!!!

David Walliams, Janet Street-Porter, Fiona Phillips, Will Young, Eamonn Holmes

Was this the Plumtree Arms

#10 & #13, I do believe it was just called The Stag and Pheasant. I remember playing darts for the Malt Shovel (Beeston) there many years ago.

In the mid 60's, my mates and I would try and do twenty pubs on a Friday or Saturday night. We would only have half in each . We would start in The Bell, then up St James's street for the Imperial and News House, down Maid Marian Way for the Sal and the Royal Children. We then cut through to the M & B pub near where McDonalds is on St Peters Gate, Then Dog and Bear, Exchange, Flying Horse, Black Boy. Round the corner to the White Lion, Crystal Palace, Corner Pin, Miltons Head. Back up Parliament St another M&B pub, something and horses. Blue Bell, Turf Tavern, Peachtree, Guildhall Tav

People who don't indicate at islands. People who sit at mini-islands for ages because they can't fathom out who has priority. Bad service in coffee shops/garden centres by weekend workers. Wife and I had two full breakfasts in garden centre near Newark 9.30 on a Sat. No teaspoons, lipstick on cup. Just as we finished, she brought two sausage cobs. I said we had just finished two fulls but she insisted I ordered them. Garden centre near Breaston, with grand kids, 1 & 2. Two full breakfasts two beans on toast. Was that four fulls she said. Garden centre near Enderby 11.30 . Two bacon co

Hi Compo, living up there, you should be familiar with cranachan, on of my favourite deserts ever. I agree, everything here I enjoy. Food hates are Turkish Delight and Bounty bars. For lunch I've just had two thick slices of wholemeal toast, lashings of butter and crunchy peanut butter.

Steak, there's nothing like a chunk of red meat occasionally.

Re #124, could Sandersons be the same firm that made meat pies in the 40's & 50's. I think it was somewhere near where Wilkinsons is in Bulwell. My dad used to get pies from Sandersons to sell in his chippie.

I suppose we will foot the bill for their incarceration. If EU rules dictate that they should stay here, then make EU pay. Then again as I stated on another topic " Bring on the vigilantes "........The Wild Bunch, The Magnificent 7, Charles Bronson character in Death Wish, The Expendables, Arnie, Rambo, John Wayne, The Chindits, Rebus. Oh dear, I'll have to sit down and have my medication.

Sod the do-gooders, vigilantes are the only answer!

OK! One or two maybe!!!!!!!!

And of course Humphrey Bogart. Possibly one of the greatest of all time. Can anyone imagine any of these asexual clones that are popular today achieving the greatness of those I have listed. No.