I used to enjoy the what have you learnt this week bit on the old podcasts, usually the opportunity for the admirable Heppers to show off about some improving book he’d just read.
Just thought I’d share the following:-
– Pram-Jam is a term that emerged in the 1950’s when motherly pride was best demonstrated by enormous throne-like vehicles and the pavement congestion that resulted. I’ve seen photos of the enormous thing me and my sister were promenaded in. What’s the excuse now ?
– Making a cuppa; putting the milk in first means your cuppa stays warmer for longer (well it wasn’t obvious to me) and is known as the Keighley method in certain parts of the country. I have doubts on this one though.
Over to you.
If you celery is wilted, pop it in a glass of a water for an hour or so and it will absorb water and become nice and crunchy again.
That HAS to be a euphemism.
Is it in @moose-the-mooche ‘s ‘Ooherrmissusasauras’?
Where is Moose? According to his profile, he’s not been ‘active’ for 2 days and 14 hours, hurr-hurr.
No it’s not. It’s a celery tip. Get it nice and firm and crunchy.
( If it was a euphemism, they’d be no crunchy. I once read that an exclusive French bordello had a training course/test of leaving no teeth marks on a peeled cucumber).
Canyon yodeling. Expensive love canoes. Moon tide perfect.
‘Pram Jam’ sounds more like an entry in Roger’s Profanisaurus.
Nodding off at your laptop before midday is probably a sign of middle age.
Why would you be up before midday?
That this may be the best thing I’ve heard so far this year.
Cracking album too.
That Peter Oborne is a moral cretin.
http://www.spectator.co.uk/features/9481452/lord-freud-the-man-who-saved-the-welfare-system/
In the 1960s LOL stood for Little Old Lady.
I learned just today, after having my car for 2 1/2 years, that there is a handle inside my car boot that allows me to pull the boot down without handling the outside of the car.
Life has not been the same since.
https://youtu.be/1vqmQJkKVqQhttps://youtu.be/COU0HWEeSqM
I bought this CD for 30p yesterday. The first time I have heard the full story. I love it.
I’m still getting the hang of this. Ignore the above link.
https://youtu.be/1vqmQJkKVqQ
https://youtu.be/COU0HWEeSqM
Sorry Beanz, there was no moving pictures.
I have a low attention sp…. oooh look, that pig has a curly tail…
But seriously folks, I realised that this British Government System is completely broken.
I have no idea how to repair it, I think I’ll just move to somewhere warm, and follow the sun till I croak.
Fiddle as it all burns, I guess.
A few random ideas.
Proportional representation. Written constitution. Disestablishment of the Church of England. Become a Republic. Government powers to be returned to the lowest level of local government capable of running them. This would mean fewer MPs, who could then concentrate on strategic stuff. MPs can do voluntary work if they’ve time to spare, but no paid directorships. Voting age reduced to 16. Create a sovereign wealth fund. No privatisation of banks the state owns – use them as investment arms for local and national innovative businesses, especially those involved with decarbonising the power industry. Scrap Trident, and don’t replace it. Massive increase in provision for cycling. An emergency programme to build enough social housing to replace all sold off via Right To Buy, possibly using compulsory purchase for necessary land. Replace rates/council tax with land tax. Introduce Tobin type tax on financial transactions. Nationalise railways, water, gas and electricity. Bring all contracted-out government services back in-house. Bring all education back under local control – no free schools, no religious schools.
Eh, I dunno? soz
Deep, man.
Yummy mummies in a pram jam. Love it!
Thanks to DrakeyG I now know that the slow set at a disco is called an erection section.
I just wish I could find an occasion to use it. The members only club I belong to does not have any disco evenings.
Nothing from Moose about the “members only club”? Should we alert the authorities?
A bit of a Swedish week for me – first the penny finally dropped that the Iea colour scheme is the same colour as the Swedish flag. A bit slow on the uptake with that one.
Then I learned that H&M was Swedish – for some reason I always thought it was German.
To compensate for that I heard some fab music by a Swede called Goran Kaifas and his SubTropic Arkestra. Mind blowing Turkish/Slavic instrumental music – cd duly ordered.
Fucking hell – that should say Ikea not lea.
New Model Army, the band, not Cromwells henchmen, were actually not bad. (Gtest Hits from reckless records, £3)
A Velociraptor wasn’t much bigger than a chicken
The Eagles recorded the original version of the music used as the theme to the Hitchhikers’ Guide to the Galaxy:
A mutagen is a real thing and not a madey-uppy Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles thing. Ninja Turtles is surprisingly educational.
Is it just me that read the words “Pram Jam” and instantly started the following going inside his head:
“Wo-oah Black Betty, bam-a-lam
Wo-oah Black Betty, bam-a-lam
Black Betty had a child, bam-a-lam
Damn thing born blind, bam-a-lam…”
That my 97-year-old uncle, whom I hadn’t seen for 10 years, is one of the loveliest people on earth.