Merlin
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You will have to explain that one to Merlin
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I know it's an old one but I like to share.
CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL THE KIDS WHO WERE BORN IN THE
1940's, 50's, 60's and 70's !!
First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they carried us.
They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a tin, and didn't get tested for diabetes.
Then after that trauma, our baby cots were covered with bright coloured lead-based paints.
We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets, not to mention, the risks we took hitchhiking.
As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags.
Riding in the back of a van - loose - was always great fun.
We drank water from the garden hosepipe and NOT from a bottle.
We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and NO ONE actually died from this.
We ate cakes, white bread and real butter and drank pop with sugar in it, but we weren't overweight because......
WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!!
We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on.
No one was able to reach us all day. And we were O.K.
We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then ride down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. After running into the bushes a few times, we learned to solve the problem .
We did not have Playstations, Nintendo's, X-boxes, no video games at all, no 99 channels on cable, no video tape movies, no surround sound, no cell phones, no text messaging, no personal computers, no Internet or Internet chat rooms..........WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them!
We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no lawsuits from these accidents .
We played with worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever.
Made up games with sticks and tennis balls and although we were told it would happen, we did not poke out any eyes.
We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just yelled for them!
Local teams had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!!
The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of.
They actually sided with the law!
This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers and inventors ever!
The past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas.
We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned
HOW TO DEAL WITH IT ALL!
And YOU are one of them!
CONGRATULATIONS!
You might want to share this with others who have had the luck to grow up as kids, before the lawyers and the government regulated our lives for our own good. and while you are at it, forward it to your kids so they will know how brave their parents were.
Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors, doesn't it?!
PS -The BIG type is because your eyes are shot at your age
Were there no laced leather footballs in your street,when they got wet man they sure did hurt,can you imagine the fancy dan over paid whimps of today sticking the nut on one of them,they'd be out for the season with damaged hair!
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Having just come up against another fine example of WDC dismissing needs in Bedlington I need to have a rant! It is nothing major but because it is so paltry in the overall scheme of WDC it only increases the disrespect shown!
On another matter WDC should soon be sending out letters to everyone in the town asking questions about leisure facilities, while this might seem to be a step in the right direction I would ask what is the real reason behind it. If WDC is no more in 2009'ish then what hope has anyone got in anything being discussed now actually coming to fruition? You cannot "cost" and "forward plan" if you don't know what situation there will be on the ground! It all smacks of "lip service" being paid because it is too late to actually cost anything!
All that money Mr Devon was shouting about in the press a couple of weeks ago which is supposed to be coming to the town had better come pretty dammed quickly!
The quicker the subject topic on this thread becomes a reality the better!
Rant over.
Leisure facilities???In Bedlington??What they gonna do open up Humford baths?Where would they put these so called leisure facilities(old topic this)?As you say lip service only!
They could transfer the area command cop shop back to Ponteland and put the cop shop and court house back next to the red lion,then build a leisure complex on both sites also incorporating the car park behind Bedlington Barlass's place(where you gone by the way)you could also utilise the empty co-op building as well.
Or theres the football pitches adjacent to West Lea and the Hartlands,Leisure complex on this waste land!You could tranform Netherton Club into changing rooms and conference centre cos it will close soon due to the smoking ban!
Hope no councillors read this cos they will say "Bloody good ideas these,lets build houses on these places"
:lol: Anyway Just a thought
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Good to see pub bosses reporting they are 40% down on takings,here Scotland and Ireland,bingo halls and clubs also being hit hard,as one pub landlord says"where are all these people that were supposed to flock to my bar,when the no smoking ban came in" Sorry mate they all smoke so they naffed off to the local supermarket for cheap beer an' 20 woodbines,an' now they don't get ear ache off their lass for coming in late as they don't go out now
:D Smoke,beer an no earache oh an no chavs !!! Ideal!!!!!!!!!!!! -
no that stuff that turns black americans into gun carrying loonies and do drive by shootings! realy worth celebrating!
Well you gotta sniff summat in the pubs other than stale beer,body odour and fart,since you can't !*!@# smoke there anymore
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whats crap!
Your happy,their happy everybody's happy. What absolute crap!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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HEHE! nope, that wont happen, name aint above the door anymore, tennancy has ended....
Well you should pay your rent then
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Geordie and Makem are walking along the beach when makem finds a lantern which he promptly rubs.Up pops a genie and asks who rubbed the lantern.I did replies makem. Then you can have first wish then your friend can have a wish,you can wish for whatever you want.So makem thinks ,then says Build a wall around Sunderland to keep them Geordie B******S out.The genie is perplexed,you can have riches and women and you want a wall?Yes replies makem.So be it says the genie Woosh and a great big wall is all around Sunderland.
Now Geordie what is it that you wish for,Geordie thinks a while and asks You know that wall he had built did it have any doors or windows in it?No replies the genie.Well then says Geordie fill it with water
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thanks for the info.got something to think about now(that will hurt),as for !*!@# that also sounds like me!!
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fining van drivers!
Ho !*!@# Ho
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I forgive you.
Thankyou!
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Joe, I remember the old house that were near the Bank Top pub heading up Puddlers Lane. There was a lot of them demoloshed in the early fifties, A lot of people striped the old timber from them houses to make sheds in the back garden.
I was only young then but I remember me and some other lads getting the wood from thoes houses and carrying it home.
Pete my ex neighbours lass used to live there before they were demolished,when I see him next I'll get more info.
cheers
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Oh yes it was "JOBBY" cos I bet he was filling his knickers up there!!!
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Im a happy camper!
Absolute Crap.Now I'm Happy
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your saying you can take a picture of a landscape with a 2megapixel camera, and blow it up to a fairly big size without it looking bad?
I am going to be using it to take pictures that i am going to sell. These pictures need to be of a quality that can be printed, after being cropped, to fairly big sizes.
i did look at those 100MP cameras but thats overkill, i believe 10-15MP is good enough.
10MP camera technology is at a stage now where you can get it reasonably cheap, however you can almost double the price for each 2 MP's over that, so 10MP it is!
-unless it takes off and i make a fortune, thats when the 100MP one will come into play
Its a shame, as i have had requests for photos i have taken so far, but when i get them enlarged they just look poor! No-where near good enough quality to take money for. And thats annoying!
Am lost.....................................................help!
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There were only twelve episodes made.
Can't you read! what do you want me to do,go down on bended knee and beg your forgiveness.............................................................I was wrong.............. but not in your context...........what do you want ................blood!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Never mind Owen's injury struggles, Harper can do a job up front.
Isn't that supposed to read JOBBY up front
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At least Owen is fit........
No he's not!
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It was an educational outing to Whitley Bay to see an exhibition of Polish dance. I found it fascinating.
Yeah!I can just see you and Denzel at the Pole dancers emporium
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It could happen Merlin and it could happen quite soon! Given the changes which will soon come into play in local gov Bedders could declare itself a "Town Council" and elect a mayor. Personally I would only support such a move if WDC transferred all decision making powers to it and it had real autonomy. Anything else and you will end up paying more and more "rates" for the same services!
So Malcolm how does this come about(Town Council) am interested.What changes are coming about?Do you think the decision making powers would really be handed over or is this just pie in the sky?Can it really be done?
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Happy Birthday Mr Darn,an if me numbers come up the night aal get ye ya camera
Me an you Hard Lines,poor as ever and you still without your camera
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That is untrue. There was only ever two series of six episodes made.
With only 12 episodes made of Fawlty Towers, the BBC were keen to prolong the show. But both Cleese and Booth had felt that series 2 had been far better than series 1 and trying to make a third series that would be even better was near impossible.
However, according to John Cleese in the extras section of the Fawlty Towers special 3 disc DVD, and in the book Fawlty Towers Fully Booked, a plot had been developed for a 90 minute feature-length film in which the hotel would be removed and utilizing the characters in a broader, more ambitious landscape. Cleese says:
“ We had an idea for a plot which I loved. Basil was finally invited to Spain to meet Manuel's family. He gets to Heathrow and then spends about 14 frustrating hours waiting for the flight. Finally, on the plane, a terrorist pulls a gun and tries to hijack the thing. Basil is so angry he overcomes the terrorist and when the pilot says, "We have to fly back to Heathrow," Basil says, "No, fly us to Spain or I'll shoot you." He arrives in Spain, immediately arrested and spends the entire holiday in a Spanish jail. He is released just in time to go back on the plane with Sybil.
It was very funny, but I couldn't do it at the time. Making Fawlty Towers work at 90 minutes was a very difficult proposition. You can build up the comedy for 30 minutes, but at that length there has to be a trough and another peak. It doesn't interest me. I don't want to do it
In an interview some years ago Cleese said that episodes had been lost and ended up on the cutting room floor,he probably didn't mean to say the cutting room floor,but meant that film and episode scripts had been written but never produced as they felt that nothing could beat what they already had done!
Still a cracking programme
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This was in the newspaper a year or two back so you might of already seen it..For those that didn`t see it,can you find the 74 bands/groups/artists which are hidden in the picture?
Manic st preachers
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Quite possibly could be...although i aint had bother with him in years, and the note quoted stuff from here, so it has to be a member, even if its someone who has never posted.
Never mind tho, Life goes on!
You ever find out who it was you had better name and shame them pm's of course,sorted!
No More Wdc!
in Talk of the Town
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I just thought the cooncillors could get more money in their pockets by building houses,what with all the back handers like!
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