On 15/05/2016 at 02:02, Biffen said:

You really haven't missed much Dr.

Earl and Hemingway are planning a trip to Spain to find a suitable replacement for Conchita.

Bitters is applying to Romsey council for the title Marquis de Romsey.

Moonshadow is abondoning his Marxist philosophy in the pursuit of social prestige and now sits in the members.Mercifully .

Maple is now teaching bogus French and selling fake signed Celine albums .

DC has the Zika virus due to his new Samba lessons but refuses to disclose it.

Red and Blue still hooked on Zanax.

Personally , mushroom season has me flat out working.

 

Now that is an idea for goodies that come with MFC membership. "Do you want a scarf? Or the equivalent in Zanax?" That would make getting through each season a bit easier. Don't get any ideas about supplying them though Biff ... 

  On 15/05/2016 at 02:02, Biffen said:

You really haven't missed much Dr.

Earl and Hemingway are planning a trip to Spain to find a suitable replacement for Conchita.

Bitters is applying to Romsey council for the title Marquis de Romsey.

Moonshadow is abondoning his Marxist philosophy in the pursuit of social prestige and now sits in the members.Mercifully .

Maple is now teaching bogus French and selling fake signed Celine albums .

DC has the Zika virus due to his new Samba lessons but refuses to disclose it.

Red and Blue still hooked on Zanax.

Personally , mushroom season has me flat out working.

 

I agree with all of the above except the reference to me selling the fake signed Celine albums as that assertion is clearly flawed.

Firstly, the selling of 'authentic' merchandise is your domain Biffen.

Secondly, I would never promote Celine as a fellow Canadian. She lives in Las Vegas and I lump her in the same category of one of Uncle Bitter's favs, the Biebs.

  On 15/05/2016 at 03:19, Maple Demon said:

I agree with all of the above except the reference to me selling the fake signed Celine albums as that assertion is clearly flawed.

Firstly, the selling of 'authentic' merchandise is your domain Biffen.

Secondly, I would never promote Celine as a fellow Canadian. She lives in Las Vegas and I lump her in the same category of one of Uncle Bitter's favs, the Biebs.

So the albums weren't signed, MD?  For mine, choosing to live in Las Vegas says it all, Canadian or otherwise ... 

  On 15/05/2016 at 02:13, beelzebub said:

Wow, there really is a Hopping Dicks Creek. All this while I thought it was just some whimsy on the part  of our learned Sire.

So you're just down the road from the Boonies then ? 

NBN Notorious Bloody Network       Telstra, bringing you yesterday's technology today !!

Just down the road? We are the Boonies ... well, we can see the Queensland border from here, so we do feel like we still have some contact with a few vestiges of civilisation even if they're a bit slow in arriving.

And maybe it's just me, but I think it's all for the better when things are both whimsical and real.

  On 15/05/2016 at 22:15, Dr John Dee said:

Just down the road? We are the Boonies ... well, we can see the Queensland border from here, so we do feel like we still have some contact with a few vestiges of civilisation even if they're a bit slow in arriving.

And maybe it's just me, but I think it's all for the better when things are both whimsical and real.

Queensland and civilisation in the same sentence is a big call doc!

As to whimsy and reality - I know longer see any difference.

  On 15/05/2016 at 02:02, Biffen said:

You really haven't missed much Dr.

Earl and Hemingway are planning a trip to Spain to find a suitable replacement for Conchita.

Bitters is applying to Romsey council for the title Marquis de Romsey.

Moonshadow is abondoning his Marxist philosophy in the pursuit of social prestige and now sits in the members.Mercifully .

Maple is now teaching bogus French and selling fake signed Celine albums .

DC has the Zika virus due to his new Samba lessons but refuses to disclose it.

Red and Blue still hooked on Zanax.

Personally , mushroom season has me flat out working.

 

Got a bit sick of the hoi polloi remonstrating with umpires by waving a copy of Fin Review and threatening to never again order the roast beef from the Long Room menu. 

"Well done 33! Put that fellow into the fence!...... anyone for another cucumber sandwich or an Earl Gray?"

Back to the outer for me.

Ps. I believe I saw a certain moral compass demonlander lecturing the crowd around him in the members. Fortunately I texted the abusive behaviour hotline and he was quickly removed

Edited May 15, 20168 yr by Moonshadow

  On 15/05/2016 at 23:16, Bitter but optimistic said:

Queensland and civilisation in the same sentence is a big call doc!

As to whimsy and reality - I know longer see any difference.

My point exactly BBO.

As for the Queensland border ... probably an ambiguity in my comment, actually meant to evoke the accepted truth that civilisation ends there other than has anything to do with what happens on the other side.

In the meantime, have discovered that if I balance my mobile on the verandah rail and use it as a hotspot (Telstra vocabulary, in other words as a modem) not only can I read Demonland but I can add to it more or less anytime. A dangerous power, although it depends on the crows not taking off with the phone.

Sorry boys but a footy comment. With Jetta out, ANB is a certainty and Salem goes back to HBF. Kent if fit plays and one more out maybe Michie. If Dunn comes back you would think Garland out.

  On 17/05/2016 at 10:33, Redleg said:

Sorry boys but a footy comment. With Jetta out, ANB is a certainty and Salem goes back to HBF. Kent if fit plays and one more out maybe Michie. If Dunn comes back you would think Garland out.

Hilarious Redleg. You have a very very dry sense of humour. 

  On 14/05/2016 at 22:14, Bitter but optimistic said:

What a nasty fellow you can be dc - I suppose it comes from living in Borewood. The lads were quite well but became distressed at the above reference. You know very well they are highly sensitive about particular ancestral associations. They are going out to stomp some wildlife as a form of anger management.

To other matters.

I am wondering how bookings for Earl Hood's overseas rip off   tour are proceeding? I've misplaced the itinerary BTW and just wondering if the stopover in Pyongyang was still on offer. Actually I have some concerns about Earl Hood. First the hirstute  Conchita mysteriously reappears while his main man Hudson appears to have fallen out of favour. Now it seems he is prepared to rough it on an overseas jaunt with some of the coarsest of Demonland's  hoi polloi. I fear the failed guava paste enterprise has impacted poorly on what lurks beneath that sensitive hipster bun.

Finally I hold grave concerns for our immoderater from Hopping Dicks. It has been some time since he has graced us with his dulcet tones. In fact it was about the time that I initiated an investigation for malfeasance at the supposedly family run Hopping Dicks BDSM club.

 

Sorry for the delayed response to your post, Uncle. It has been a very busy few weeks lately. In terms of my company, the much lauded "Hood institute" I have had to institute a reshape of our organisation to promote the new talent and move on the older, shall we say, old talent, if you get my drift. Look it is obvious that the Hood Institute needed to refresh the company gene pool and we must stop working in silos. The Hood Institute needs to be an agile and innovative organisation at all costs, so our mantra is change is never ending. It is part of our DNA, unless it involves me and my annual bonus of course. 

It also means having some challenging conversations with Parker and Hudson that maybe they should look at other opportunities while Conchita is the obvious future for the institute given her people skills and I think she speaks English as well. That would be a bonus. 

As as for our travel odyssey, yes Bossdog, DC and I have so far signed up for the Cairo to Constantinople trac so it will take sometime. 

 

  On 17/05/2016 at 10:33, Redleg said:

Sorry boys but a footy comment. With Jetta out, ANB is a certainty and Salem goes back to HBF. Kent if fit plays and one more out maybe Michie. If Dunn comes back you would think Garland out.

Anyone know what he's on about.Poor bloke's gone bananas 

  On 15/05/2016 at 02:02, Biffen said:

You really haven't missed much Dr.

Earl and Hemingway are planning a trip to Spain to find a suitable replacement for Conchita.

Bitters is applying to Romsey council for the title Marquis de Romsey.

Moonshadow is abondoning his Marxist philosophy in the pursuit of social prestige and now sits in the members.Mercifully .

Maple is now teaching bogus French and selling fake signed Celine albums .

DC has the Zika virus due to his new Samba lessons but refuses to disclose it.

Red and Blue still hooked on Zanax.

Personally , mushroom season has me flat out working.

 

Earl seems to have completely ditched Spain with his middle east suicide tour. I had great respect for Earl before reading his madness and desire for a cheap but deadly quick buck as deadly as a land mine.

Forget it, I am planning my own tour of the bullfights and spanish bars. Let me know if you want to join the tour of sensory pleasures as against a final journey!

Tour numbers are very limited and applicants will have to pass my own suitability test, which mainly deals with "lifestyle issues." 

 

 

  On 15/05/2016 at 03:12, Red and Bluebeard said:

At least you can laugh at Eurovision ...  BTW perhaps you should get an alpaca 

nah, the neighbour's cat works well for those days

So...

20,000 safely passed (with some ceremony, I was chuffed to see!), here's the Geriatricity Ladder. Representing only 6 results in, so far, plus one score to be clarified - dpositive, in referring only to "pensioner" status - we're still about a dozen match reports from a proper 18-team ladder. C'mon, folks, put on your reading glasses, force those arthritic digits to the keyboard and claim your spot. And there's room for a Second (or will it be Fiftieth?) Division.

Congratulations, daisycutter, undefeated* - so far - atop the ladder. And we're not talking Finals yet, of course ('cos they really are final!); it's just one year at a time.

1.       daisycutter                             68

2.       old dee                                    67

3.       Timothy Reddan A’Blew       61

4.       Beelzebub                               56

5.       bjDEE                                       54

6.       Red and Bluebeard               LII

* So worldly-wise, I suspect Hemingway to be a contender. However, as a deceased person, he is - by definition - defeated, thus disqualified? (I tried to find out from your profile, Ernest, but could not access your headstone for birth date details)

Ol' H parlays well for a deadun

For obvious reasons I prefer not to disclose my age. I value my private life and therefore some things are best left...well, private. Also, I find others stereotype you once that know your age. You know the comment or inference that someone is obviously young, or middle aged or an old fuddy duddy. Just like my novels, I like readers to sense the vitality of youth but also sense the ever present possibility of loss and indeed death. There are many wise young people and many older people who are unfamiliar with the  the term. I like decency, courtesy and respect. I like conversation without personal insult or attack. I despise egotists and boasters. That may make me seem old but l know many young people who share those values just as I know many middle aged and older folks who don't.  So for me age is unimportant. However, attitude is what counts. It is important to understand and learn from history whilst living in the present and giving thought to the future. The MFC represents those things. We have a wonderful history that is about success and failure. We now have a club that is beginning to build on our past success having learnt from our past failures, and a club that is building a future that my children and my children's children will be proud of. I may be old but I feel young and contrary to rumours , not yet dead.

Only and old fuddy duddy......would use....old fuddy duddy.

Sprung !!

  On 17/05/2016 at 14:25, beelzebub said:

Only and old fuddy duddy......would use....old fuddy duddy.

Sprung !!

Yep you don't miss a thing Bub

  On 17/05/2016 at 14:25, beelzebub said:

Only and old fuddy duddy......would use....old fuddy duddy.

Sprung !!

Not necessarily....I have used old fuddy duddy to describe someone and I am not near the 'oldies' leaderboard.

  On 17/05/2016 at 11:50, Timothy Reddan-A'Blew said:

So...

20,000 safely passed (with some ceremony, I was chuffed to see!), here's the Geriatricity Ladder. Representing only 6 results in, so far, plus one score to be clarified - dpositive, in referring only to "pensioner" status - we're still about a dozen match reports from a proper 18-team ladder. C'mon, folks, put on your reading glasses, force those arthritic digits to the keyboard and claim your spot. And there's room for a Second (or will it be Fiftieth?) Division.

Congratulations, daisycutter, undefeated* - so far - atop the ladder. And we're not talking Finals yet, of course ('cos they really are final!); it's just one year at a time.

1.       daisycutter                             68

 

2.       old dee                                    67

 

3.       Timothy Reddan A’Blew       61

 

4.       Beelzebub                               56

 

5.       bjDEE                                       54

 

6.       Red and Bluebeard               LII

 

* So worldly-wise, I suspect Hemingway to be a contender. However, as a deceased person, he is - by definition - defeated, thus disqualified? (I tried to find out from your profile, Ernest, but could not access your headstone for birth date details)

I'm 148.   IQ that is.

 

  On 17/05/2016 at 14:18, hemingway said:

For obvious reasons I prefer not to disclose my age. I value my private life and therefore some things are best left...well, private. Also, I find others stereotype you once that know your age. You know the comment or inference that someone is obviously young, or middle aged or an old fuddy duddy. Just like my novels, I like readers to sense the vitality of youth but also sense the ever present possibility of loss and indeed death. There are many wise young people and many older people who are unfamiliar with the  the term. I like decency, courtesy and respect. I like conversation without personal insult or attack. I despise egotists and boasters. That may make me seem old but l know many young people who share those values just as I know many middle aged and older folks who don't.  So for me age is unimportant. However, attitude is what counts. It is important to understand and learn from history whilst living in the present and giving thought to the future. The MFC represents those things. We have a wonderful history that is about success and failure. We now have a club that is beginning to build on our past success having learnt from our past failures, and a club that is building a future that my children and my children's children will be proud of. I may be old but I feel young and contrary to rumours , not yet dead.

I think it best if I withdraw my application for your tour Ernie.

I just read the article in todays HUN about re testing of the last two Olympics.

It has confirmed my opinion of Most big time international sports.

It seems that testing is now better and they can find things that were undetectable or in the case of the Russians rotten to the top.

The Olympics are coming up and whatever level you look at them corruption pores from ever orifice.

Drug cheating and corruption at country and International level.

We should simply not turn on this farce on our TV's that is IMO the only impact we can have.

However that will not happen so They are lost to me.

  On 17/05/2016 at 23:28, old dee said:

I just read the article in todays HUN about re testing of the last two Olympics.

It has confirmed my opinion of Most big time international sports.

It seems that testing is now better and they can find things that were undetectable or in the case of the Russians rotten to the top.

The Olympics are coming up and whatever level you look at them corruption pores from ever orifice.

Drug cheating and corruption at country and International level.

We should simply not turn on this farce on our TV's that is IMO the only impact we can have.

However that will not happen so They are lost to me.

No one i his right mind should even be going to these Olympics. The WHO has called it a  disaster in the making.. No not Towsend and Daltrey  !!

Used to like watching the games. Cant be figged now.

  On 17/05/2016 at 23:55, beelzebub said:

No one i his right mind should even be going to these Olympics. The WHO has called it a  disaster in the making.. No not Towsend and Daltrey  !!

Used to like watching the games. Cant be figged now.

Exactly bb rotten to the core.

Thanks Hemingway for providing an antidote to the current pressing time.

 I also "like people to sense the vitality of youth but also sense the ever present possibility of loss and indeed death." 

"There are many wise young people and many older people who are unfamiliar with the  the term". Obvious and yet curiously rarely stated. Never a truer statement has been included within the offerings of Dland, it is these pearls that keep me gravitating to the site.

"I like decency, courtesy and respect." as long as it allows for the rantings we witness here.

"I like conversation without personal insult or attack. I despise egotists and boasters." One wonders how you can entertain reading Dland but understand that we can all overcome our distate through viewing  of falling/failing standards while  conducting ourselves in an unimpeachable fashion.

l also " know many young people who share those values just as I know many middle aged and older folks who don't. " They are the collective of Dland that contribute every day.

However I think age is important and attitude is what counts. "It is important to understand and learn from history whilst living in the present and giving thought to the future" as every true demon supporter understands more readily than most.

And T R&B I am on the cusp of 65 with an attitude that wants that more immediate success while it is still possible but  building a strong foundation for the future.

I wont be joining Earl and crew but watch their progress with an uplifted sense of pride and hilarity

  On 18/05/2016 at 01:20, dpositive said:

Thanks Hemingway for providing an antidote to the current pressing time.

 I also "like people to sense the vitality of youth but also sense the ever present possibility of loss and indeed death." 

"There are many wise young people and many older people who are unfamiliar with the  the term". Obvious and yet curiously rarely stated. Never a truer statement has been included within the offerings of Dland, it is these pearls that keep me gravitating to the site.

"I like decency, courtesy and respect." as long as it allows for the rantings we witness here.

"I like conversation without personal insult or attack. I despise egotists and boasters." One wonders how you can entertain reading Dland but understand that we can all overcome our distate through viewing  of falling/failing standards while  conducting ourselves in an unimpeachable fashion.

l also " know many young people who share those values just as I know many middle aged and older folks who don't. " They are the collective of Dland that contribute every day.

However I think age is important and attitude is what counts. "It is important to understand and learn from history whilst living in the present and giving thought to the future" as every true demon supporter understands more readily than most.

And T R&B I am on the cusp of 65 with an attitude that wants that more immediate success while it is still possible but  building a strong foundation for the future.

I wont be joining Earl and crew but watch their progress with an uplifted sense of pride and hilarity

Thanks dpostive.

I have been in mortal fear that courtesy was dead I now know there are still a few of us left in the world.