Maybe it’s because I’ve spent the week with my Parkinsonism-affected papa and I’m going slightly doolally with the ‘Flog It’ and ‘Heartbeat’s on extreme repeat, but are we preparing for the days when our more senior Afterworders are genuinely after words, aphasic, and fully into their seventh Shakespearian age?
What culture for those advancing in years, and condemned ever to repeat the same basic threads, over and over again in some kind of Becketian stupor?
You mean we aren’t already? What time’s cocoa?
It’s as well to be prepared for the future still to come.
Does that mean you’ve got the milk on the hob?
No, just some illicit hooch.
Can’t remember to be honest
Don’t worry, nurse will be around soon with the bedpan.
Top 5 greatest female vocalists? Waiting for Melody Gardot, perhaps?
Of course. She’s fantastic!
I remember when it were excellent in Twin Peaks round here.
Ah, those blue remembered hills.
I remember when it was all fields of nephilim.
We’ve already all been over and over in a Beckham stupor, 115 caps of it.
I hope my final days aren’t as bad as that.
To answer your question, in all seriousness … what was it again?
It will be again, and again, and down down, deeper and down, and time present and time past, both perhaps present in time future,
Back to the future. Would you like a present?
Ooh, yes please! I love presents.
I do my best – loyalty, dogs, planets and a Halloween horror OP are recent examples of original content. And also whenever Depeche Mode do anything.
You certainly do, and long may you run. A BC thread is certainly one to savour. My last wasn’t a criticism of current posts, which I think have been quite vigorous. More about general demographic trends, coloured perhaps by recent querrilous comments on Biden’s reverb public appearances. We are all getting on.
I certainly enjoy a vigorous post.
Goodness.
I don’t know but we must be due another thread about what makes us grumpy.
Posts about what makes us grumpy make me grumpy.
Haven’t had my tea yet ’cause it’s only 12:30.
Why is it that whenever you see a postman these days, he’s wearing shorts?
When I were a lad, no one wore shorts except children and Boy Scouts. Now I see blokes walking around in shorts and flip flops when it’s perishing cold.
I think it is the law now that posties wear shorts.
It’s practical for postpersons.
However a lot of men, usually in their 30s and secretly worried that they might be losing it, have a special outside thermometer telling them that it is now cold enough for them to wear shorts. A little alarm goes off and it’s off with the trousers and on with the shorts to charge up and down the streets showing the world you are REAL MAN unlike all these woofters in their trousers and coats.
And yes, extra points for wearing sandals, especially in the snow.
Shorts are bad enough: but flip-flops on a postie? Mark my words, it’ll be a trip to the podiatrist before they’re very much older…
Not called flip flops apparently. They’re called Sliders.
Nah … They’re flip flops. Sliders suggests they are wandering around with mini burgers on their feet
The more senior posties get to wear Electric Warriors.
My Postman was fair,and all nice and neat, but now he’s content to wear inappropriate shoes on his feet
Telegram Sam retired in 1983.
Flip-flops on a Postie has to be a Half Man Half Biscuit song.
If flip-flops are thongs in Oz, does that mean antipodean posties wear thongs? Yikes!
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@Mike_H
Because you spend far too much time watching reruns of Home and Away and Neighbors?
In the 70s it was medallions and hairy chests, now it’s shorts and big calves..
You know what they say, don’t you: big calves, big bullocks.
With the sophisticated T Rex/postman wordplay, my disquiet in the OP is gratifyingly misplaced.
On a side note, who else knew that T Rex is now a very successful rapper?
There’s a Canadian rapper called Belly. He doesn’t do mid-90s grunge-pop.
There is a care home I work in for those needing 24 hour care because of severe dementia. They used to play Glen Miller and the like. Now, it’s Chuck Berry and Buddy Holly. Won’t be long before it’s T.Rex and Slade.
I’d like to request some Suzi Quatro.
That’s talented bunch of old beggers with an impressive repertoire I must say.