Jill Sparrow 10,269 Posted April 26, 2017 Report Share Posted April 26, 2017 #244 Our Ben just oozes quality, doesn't he? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
woody 549 Posted April 26, 2017 Report Share Posted April 26, 2017 No Benjamin, I am not talking of people of the opposite persuasion. If that is what they want , then it is their business. The point I am making is that standards of behaviour in public have dropped thanks to the softly softly brigade who believe people should not show restraint. What goes on behind closed doors is one thing, in public is totally a different case. 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jill Sparrow 10,269 Posted April 26, 2017 Report Share Posted April 26, 2017 #252 Well said, Woody. I agree totally. I would never dream of behaving in public the way some people do. It seems that many people today believe their private lives are of intense interest to everyone else. Hence we are subjected to their inane and continual mobile phone conversations, not to mention their stomach heaving displays of physical grappling! In the middle of Sainsburys? Yuk! I couldn't give a toss what people do in the privacy of their own homes but, where I can see them, no thank you! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Oztalgian 3,218 Posted April 27, 2017 Report Share Posted April 27, 2017 Fly2, radfordred and Ben, I posted this one a couple of years ago it fits your discussions. I think it is one of Spike Milligan's limericks There was an old man from Darjeeling Who boarded a bus bound for Ealing The sign on the door said Don't spit on the floor So he sat and he spat on the ceiling 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
crankypig 457 Posted April 27, 2017 Report Share Posted April 27, 2017 Don't like to see people picking at their teeth with a matchstick/ pin / cocktail stick.,not in front of others anyway. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
FLY2 10,108 Posted April 27, 2017 Report Share Posted April 27, 2017 Utterly despicable actions. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
crankypig 457 Posted April 27, 2017 Report Share Posted April 27, 2017 And what do they do with the 'pickings' Quote Link to post Share on other sites
BilboroughShirley 1,120 Posted April 27, 2017 Report Share Posted April 27, 2017 When I read the last post on this thread I thought it was talking about nose pickings. Back in the 1980s when smoking was allowed in public places mum and I had lunch in a department store cafe in Bradford. It was busy and people were sharing tables. We chose the no smoking area. At the next table was an elderly couple and a woman came and sat down at the table opposite them. She moved the no smoking sign to our table and lit up. I handed the notice back saying that we already had one on our table. She got up and moved. Then the next person to come and sit opposite this couple at the table spent time picking her nose! I felt so sorry for the elderly couple having to see that as they were eating. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mary1947 2,071 Posted May 1, 2017 Report Share Posted May 1, 2017 When shopping the other day, I stopped to look which wine I wanted, this bloke, trolley as well, just walked straight in front of me I could not help myself, I just said "excuse me" "sir am I in your way"? this ignorant chap did not reply. Another thing that get's my back up is when you are waiting to be served at the bar, it always seems to be the men that get served, so my next comment is "tell me have I gone invisible" now I'm not have a go at you men, but standing at the bar the barman ask what I my order was, now a gent was waiting before me, so I pointed this man out to the barman, the said man was served, left with his pint. Another man had come up to be served and the barman ask what he wanted. just a minuet I said, "is there a problem" the man said? to darn right there's a problem "ME NEXT" I'm sorry but I do think it's rude when I have been stood, here standing, for about half an hour. , Quote Link to post Share on other sites
poohbear 1,360 Posted May 1, 2017 Report Share Posted May 1, 2017 In a local pub queueing at the bar a small bloke in front of me was being ignored...the landlord looked at me and said..."Yes sir" I said..."I think this chap was before me"...his reply..."Look mate I'll do the serving, you do the drinking,alright!" My reply in a loud voice..."You can stuff your drinks and your pub right up your ****never went in again. 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,435 Posted May 1, 2017 Report Share Posted May 1, 2017 If we're on the subject of annoying people in pubs and bars.......... Irritating, ignorant idiots who sit drinking at the bar and make it almost impossible for anyone else to approach the bar and order a drink. You have to force your way in between a couple of "real drinkers" who are cleverly sitting in everyone else's way. I don't understand how the bar-sitters don't get fed up at constantly having to move aside to let people get to the bar. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
plantfit 7,535 Posted May 1, 2017 Report Share Posted May 1, 2017 cus they're fick Rog Quote Link to post Share on other sites
catfan 14,793 Posted May 1, 2017 Report Share Posted May 1, 2017 I'm glad someone else dislikes bar proper ups too ! Really gets me when drinkers stand at the bar & prevent other drinkers from getting served. Also while we are at it, dopey bar staff who serve out of sequence, the times I have stood at a bar & someone who walks up to the bar gets served first. I do protest everytime. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
catfan 14,793 Posted May 1, 2017 Report Share Posted May 1, 2017 Passengers boarding a bus who decide to fiddle through pockets, bags etc to find the fare / travel pass etc. Standing for a few minutes waiting for the bus & they don't have the sense to be prepared for when the bus arrives. Same can be said at cash points, shuffling through bags etc to find their card GRRRRRRRR. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
radfordred 6,284 Posted May 1, 2017 Report Share Posted May 1, 2017 Having worked & ran possibly one of the busiest bar in Nottingham our pumps where made specially so we could serve a pint of beer in 12 seconds I believe its the barman or maids job to be aware who next to be served & not to be bullied into going out of order, regarding barflys knock their drink over that moves the fcukers, I would say the back bar in The Bell is the worse bar in Nottingham for getting served & also for barflys it's been like that for over 30 years, strangely I spent most of yesterday in there & Saturday night. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Brew 5,378 Posted May 1, 2017 Report Share Posted May 1, 2017 Old lady trying to get on a bus, if I hadn't kicked her sticks away the bugger would have beat me getting on... 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
radfordred 6,284 Posted June 24, 2017 Report Share Posted June 24, 2017 These 'Pop' singer mostly female 'Pop' singer who seem to be using their hands in an up & down fashion when singing, the lass on the One Show on Friday Rita Orr did it? What's that all about ..... Ehh? 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
FLY2 10,108 Posted June 24, 2017 Report Share Posted June 24, 2017 Pixie Lott does it on 'The Voice Kids'. It's just to be noticed and look trendy and knowledgeable. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
radfordred 6,284 Posted December 24, 2020 Report Share Posted December 24, 2020 What type of person puts their empty Quality Street wrapper back in the tin? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
HSR 286 Posted December 24, 2020 Report Share Posted December 24, 2020 The purple ones... Always seem to be first dibs, don't think the selection was what it used to be. Black Magic, which was my Granny's favourite the same... She liked Advor.? Sp, yellow drink, does it still exist? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jill Sparrow 10,269 Posted December 24, 2020 Report Share Posted December 24, 2020 Advocaat? Disgusting stuff but still available, I believe. I people made 'snowballs' with it. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
radfordred 6,284 Posted December 24, 2020 Report Share Posted December 24, 2020 Warninks Advocaat, brought two bottles last year from bloke in the pub, took me half hour to get the security tags off with a screwdriver & mallet, snowballs all round. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jill Sparrow 10,269 Posted December 24, 2020 Report Share Posted December 24, 2020 That's the stuff. Never tried it. Didn't fancy it somehow. My grandma, Kate, was partial to port at Christmas. Unfortunately, she had no head for alcohol and after a couple of sips, her nose turned bright red which was the family's cue to start singing Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer! Mostly, Kate failed to see the funny side and Kate was not someone it was wise to annoy, even at Christmas. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
benjamin1945 16,118 Posted December 24, 2020 Author Report Share Posted December 24, 2020 My Grandma (maternal) loved the stuff.....her bottom lip used to go stiff...and we'd all laugh and tell her,,,then she would get proper nasty telling us all to F off.....which was very funny because otherwise she never swore God Bless Her 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jill Sparrow 10,269 Posted December 24, 2020 Report Share Posted December 24, 2020 Every Christmas, grandma Kate made a Christmas cake. Unlike her eldest daughter, my Auntie Mary, who made cakes professionally, Kate was pretty useless at it...just like me! This lack of ability was not allowed to deter grandma Kate who, every Festering Season could be relied upon to produce a solid mass of totally inedible material with a dip in the centre, cunningly concealed with icing. "Want some Christmas cake?" she would enquire of my father when we called just before the big day to take gifts. "No thanks," was his stock response. Kate would then loom menacingly over him with her infamous carving knife and demand, "WHY don't you want any?" Dad would then explain that he didn't want any because it was inedible, gave him indigestion and he didn't think it was fair to give it to the birds because the poor bu99ers would have to walk home! "You can't make cake," he'd persist. You're too heavy handed." "You'll think so," Kate snarled, clenching her first, "when you get one of the bu99ers in your ear!" Dad only got away with this because he was Kate's favourite child and they'd been trading insults since the day he was born. It was their way of showing affection! He escaped the Christmas cake but I had to eat it. I daren't refuse. As a cook, Kate was pretty hopeless apart from flaky pastry. That needs a lot of thumping and bashing which was right up her street. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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