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OldBob1957 wrote
This one actually got me to laugh out loud.
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Nice one.
My mum used to tell us that she was sent out to the Saturday matinee with a tanner. (aka Sixpence, six old UK pennies, half a shilling or two cents American). She could see the movie, and have enough for a bag of chips on the way home. 
She's coming up to 90 years old. When I was 'almost' old enough to go to the pub, a pint of Starlight bitter cost 11d (eleven old pence, four American cents) and a gallon of two stroke cost 4 shillings and 10 pence. Aye, but we were lucky!
We are going full circle now. We did a 'when signs go wrong'segment of this thread a couple of hundred posts back. 
Oh, and I know of a couple of people who still do the Pokemen Go thing. One of them also does online casino, so he is obviously beyond hope.
Yes we did have that round of "design failures", but in the spirit of moving on, I'll post something different.
One guy saw an an old friend playing Pokemon GO...and when he asked why, the bloke sadly said, "You gotta live your life, man, live your life." So at times I'm amused, but whatever get others through the day.
And here we go...
The VW train is very nicely done.
Is this for real or deliberately done for the picture?
I once tried to launch my boat without undoing the rear trailer straps, so we all have our off days. We hadn't used it for several months, and I jumped out with my camera leaving my brother-in-law to winch it into the water, but nothing happened. The thing is, if the straps had been undone, and it did come off the trailer, it would not have gone very far because the prop cover was still on as well. An all round fail. 
We don't have the boat now, as it was too painful bouncing over the short choppy waves in the Sounds after I broke my back.
Probably done for the picture.
Just do a GIS on how dirt bikes are tied down. They are anchored to metal loops inside the truck. You can't own a dirt bike, a heavy duty truck and not know that a tire spoke isn't a tie down while staring at it to thread the strap. (Short of a prankster, inexperienced help, or severe intoxication).
OTOH it is an effective theft deterrent. 
I love the crack lines around the nail in phone. It is probably very un PC of me, but that Russian looking text on the sign seems to give the situation a lot more credibility.
A real editorial cock-up, or just another urban myth?
From the same newspaper that claims Global Warming is a Chinese conspiracy.
Obviously 100% NOT fake news
Now I feel terrible because this one made me laugh out loud
Gene this thread has been making me smile for getting on 18 months now, and shows no signs of slowing down, so I am wondering if you mind if we go off at a wee tangent for a post or two? The thing is, I was getting embarrassed hijacking Brian's Hotel concierge taken over by Amazon Echo thread, but I got such a smile after digging out some _very_ old pictures, and I am double daring folk to show us how they misspent their younger days. I shared a picture on Brian's thread of my brother and myself pushing hoes through countless miles of earth, but I found some other pictures from way back then.
That's me driving, with brothers Glyn and Geoff on the trailer with boxes of spring greens. We once had to cut these on a Boxing day, and it was so cold we had to brush the snow off them before we cut them. I once knocked over a big brick wall with that tractor, seeing how fast I could drive round the hairpin behind that shed. Brother Glyn had the same tractor on two wheels on another occasion. It hovered balanced there, and Glyn started to fall off but kept hold of the steering wheel. The tractor then fell back onto four wheels and my brother pulled himself back on, and shot off up the yard because the hand throttle was still close to flat out. I have no idea how any of us survived. 
This has to be worth a share. That's Glyn again. When we were a few years younger than this, we tried to ride the big pigs. Like I said... It's a miracle we are all still above ground
The farm buildings where across the road from the end of the main runway at Southend airport
And we saw a few unhappy endings. I love the old Vauxhall cop car. I put my dad's car in the ditch on the left hand bend right after this right. He was not happy, but we did have a tractor to pull it out with, so not all bad.
Last one from me. My dad and I fixing the tractor. Brother Geoff once came walking back from the fields carrying a smashed piston with half a bent connecting rod. That was a different tractor, as the crankcase must have been toast.
So come on guys. Show us your _old_ pictures and make us smile.
Sorry, one more. I'd forgotten how many plane crashes we had there!
And what about the bobby with the pointy helmet. Real Dixon of Dock Green stuff. We actually had a Tardis type police box just across the road from the Vauxhall police car is parked in the last post.
Brett Kavanaugh's 1982 calendar.
News about ub40 on Twitter involving Kavanaugh has been trending on Twitter and I've been playing "Red Red Wine" more than a few times since then. 
If you know who UB40 is, chances are UB over 40.
Blimey Neil. Are we talking about the same Brett Kavanaugh? These are not the faces of cool calm and collected. To the rest of the world he comes across as vicious and calculating, and a nasty piece of work.
Of course at least one of these pictures might have been taken right after he realized it was not beer in that glass.
You seem to be proud of your country, but I honestly wonder why. Truth is a meaningless commodity for you. It apparently does not matter how despicable a person might be, so long as they have the 'Right' politics. When the UN laughed at Trump, don't you get that they were laughing at your country? You need to fix that by putting another Obama, John McCain, or Bernie Saunders in your White House. You need someone who understands the science to head your EPA, and not another nasty piece of work driven by personal greed, and to hell with the planet, because it probably won't go tits up in their lifetime.
You, Neil, get out of your pram, when when an apparently ultra right wing candidate is challenged for what I'd have thought should an apolitical role, but can you put your hand on your heart, and claim to have been as upset when Trump ousted Sally Yates, or Preet Bharara, or even James Comey? Those were all good honest people who were troubled by Trump's total disregard for the laws that you claim to hold so dear. The one that makes me smile is how completely Trump turned on Jeff Sessions after he grew a backbone and recused himself from what would have a totally compromised position.
I guess people really do get the government they deserve. There's none so blind as them that won't see.
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