35 minutes ago, Bitter but optimistic said:

Your best work Red.

I thought so.

Took me a while to get it just right.

18 minutes ago, Redleg said:

I thought so.

Took me a while to get it just right.

i always respect a perfectionist

2 hours ago, daisycutter said:

i always respect a perfectionist

Thank you for that.

On 10/10/2023 at 22:58, Redleg said:

Anyone familiar with the Weis bar?  They are now half the size.

I think my Weiss bar is only half of what it was, back in the day.

38 minutes ago, monoccular said:

I think my Weiss bar is only half of what it was, back in the day.

you need to soak it in vintage port for 2 hours once a week

dr. dc

Well looks like another very quiet off season.

7 minutes ago, Redleg said:

Well looks like another very quiet off season.

indeed. an off season of disappearing threads

1 hour ago, daisycutter said:

indeed. an off season of disappearing threads

I saw Meggs’ thread titled “Buzzing” and thought the missing thread had just been re-named. 😁

What happened to the Cultural Issues at the Dees thread? I’ve just finished a quality sesh at a microbrewery in East Brunswick to find it has disappeared? 

4 minutes ago, Rab D Nesbitt said:

What happened to the Cultural Issues at the Dees thread? I’ve just finished a quality sesh at a microbrewery in East Brunswick to find it has disappeared? 

Seems it’s gone the way of the Joel Smith tests positive thread aka the Demonland Bermuda Triangle. 

On 11/10/2023 at 06:11, beelzebub said:

Well done..lol..  yeah.   The 'cue' wasnt that obvious...unless you knew what to look for....and when you did it was easy peasy.

Someone mentioned using deposits off the coke bottles....yeah...whole other story there lol...  Looking back I was quite the ratbag delinquent. 

Twas I. A voracious collector of empty coke bottles, Leeds , Fanta and a few others. Lived in St Kilda East amongst a lot of flats . High density area and great pickings. Made more with bottles than my morning paper round. I hated that round especially on Saturday with the bloody Age. 5 bucks a week and usually had to pay for damaged flower pots. Doh. And it was so cold and dark at 5.30 am. The alarm sent shivers down my spine. As mentioned I got lazy returning the bottles and stacked them around the side of our Westbury grove house. When they went from 10 cents to 20 it was like winning Powerball. Apologies to the owner of the Newsagency for not turning my colleagues in for all the smokes they pinched. 

30 minutes ago, WalkingCivilWar said:

Seems it’s gone the way of the Joel Smith tests positive thread aka the Demonland Bermuda Triangle. 

Or perhaps the Great Pacific Gyre (or it's cloud based equivalent) where all the world's rubbish (threads) end up waiting to be collected and repurposed into a less toxic narrative.  

On 13/10/2023 at 21:06, monoccular said:

I think my Weiss bar is only half of what it was, back in the day.

Deflation.

1 hour ago, leave it to deever said:

Deflation.

No way Old Age

the flesh is not what it once was.

once a king always a king

once a knights enough

 

i wish !

Edited October 21, 20232 yr by 640MD

5 hours ago, daisycutter said:

indeed. an off season of disappearing threads

I hope the closet is big enough for all those skeletons .

On 10/10/2023 at 22:58, Redleg said:

Anyone familiar with the Weis bar?  They are now half the size.

Went downhill after Unilever bought it

27 minutes ago, Bitter but optimistic said:

I hope the closet is big enough for all those skeletons .

i just bemoan all my thought provoking, lost ip. uncle

4 hours ago, WalkingCivilWar said:

Seems it’s gone the way of the Joel Smith tests positive thread aka the Demonland Bermuda Triangle. 

Indeed: got home from delivering a meal to my son's bereaved partner, walked da dog - if you don't know how to do it, I'll show you how to walk de dog - Mick Jagger  - and checked and for a while I taut, as we'd say in Island ( sic), I'd been banned again. Then I see the whole post has Bermuderised. Who says there ain't no UFO's?????

Edited October 21, 20232 yr by Monbon

11 minutes ago, Monbon said:

Indeed: got home from delivering a meal to my son's bereaved partner, walked da dog - if you don't know how to do it, I'll show you how to walk de dog - Mick Jagger  - and checked and for a while I taut, as we'd say in Island ( sic), I'd been banned again. Then I see the whole post has Bermuderised. Who says there ain't no UFO's?????

hey monbon, just caught up with your awful news.  sincere condolences to you and your better half.  sometimes life really sucks and is grossly unfair. i wish you a better future.

dc

2 hours ago, daisycutter said:

hey monbon, just caught up with your awful news.  sincere condolences to you and your better half.  sometimes life really sucks and is grossly unfair. i wish you a better future.

dc

Yes same here to Mon.  Sounds like a very tough period.  All the best 

9 hours ago, Monbon said:

Indeed: got home from delivering a meal to my son's bereaved partner, walked da dog - if you don't know how to do it, I'll show you how to walk de dog - Mick Jagger  - and checked and for a while I taut, as we'd say in Island ( sic), I'd been banned again. Then I see the whole post has Bermuderised. Who says there ain't no UFO's?????

Tough times ahead and wish you all the best.

Speaking of Mick Jagger, anyone who says Paul MacCartney can still sing is only looking not listening.

His Adelaide shows are on you tube and he has lost his great voice, which is natural in your 80’s.  

Think he should have called it a day. He doesn’t need the money and better to remember stars at their best.

12 hours ago, TheWiz said:

Went downhill after Unilever bought it

So they were the ones behind the mystery thread culling.

Just another example of driving two once thriving threads into the ground in their relentless pursuit of productivity & profits.

Bloody corporates!

2 hours ago, Redleg said:

Tough times ahead and wish you all the best.

Speaking of Mick Jagger, anyone who says Paul MacCartney can still sing is only looking not listening.

His Adelaide shows are on you tube and he has lost his great voice, which is natural in your 80’s.  

Think he should have called it a day. He doesn’t need the money and better to remember stars at their best.

Nice words re Monbon. Ditto.

As for singers, I saw a combined Simple minds, Devo and the church concert ten years ago.

Jim Kerr really struggled with volume and hitting the same notes. Devo were still very good. A much underated band.

30 minutes ago, leave it to deever said:

Nice words re Monbon. Ditto.

As for singers, I saw a combined Simple minds, Devo and the church concert ten years ago.

Jim Kerr really struggled with volume and hitting the same notes. Devo were still very good. A much underated band.

Obviously Devo can still whip it together.

1 minute ago, Redleg said:

Obviously Devo can still whip it together.

"Whip it good" - excellent advice !