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But the idea of becoming tree-food is a nice one.
<chuckles> In my case the tree might have cause for complaint.......
I was always quite profoundly affected by my fathers funeral. The rotten bugger drank himself to death denying all the time that there was anything wrong. My mother and I were both quite bitter about it at the time. It made the funeral something of an ugly farce. We stood there surrounded by people saying nice things about him that in many cases they believed. Meanwhile we continued to ignore the elephant in the room, which was that he had in so many ways cheated those closest to him.
I guess there aren't that many good uses for web anonymity but I quite like the idea of people making anonymous comments about me after my demise. Indeed, (warming to the idea) I quite fancy a sort of room 101 debate over my body. Should the good guys win I get sent to the Med students (as per my wishes). Otherwise some annoying alternative should be applied like being cremated and then washed down the waste disposal or perhaps being buried and someone putting an IPod on me playing a loop of really annoying music.
My point (just about) is that I haven't been good to all people even some of the time and I think it only fair that people people get to call me a bastard where appropriate.
As for music...Wilson Pickett - I found a Love for the hearse and for the burial the theme from the banana splits.
In the event of an afterlife what could be better than have John Cleese leaning over the pulpit looking down at me....__non-believer are we....__ meanwhile have the rest of the crew shout non-believer in that Life of Brian style.
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Did somone mention Fez ?
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Salvia.........Saliva.....doh!
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RB – Can the next stories be big nights out ?
I am steeped and bred to the British pub tradition - My mother only retired from the trade 6 years ago. A side effect of this has been that I have rarely come across a pub in recent years that I would enter in order to go for a p**s let alone go for a drink……
The décor should indeed be dark, comfy and may I say a little careworn. Spilling beer is a crime because it is a waste of beer, not because it damages the carpet or flooring. I love long shiny varnished bars with a foot rail and a hand rail (wear a belt on a Friday !). For ten years my home played host to a collection of slightly tatty stuffed birds though I suppose a fish will do. I once worked in a bar with almost 40 feet of copper faced bar top, which needless to say only looked good at opening time. God forbid that anyone should spill cola on it though.
A pub is not a proper pub until it has dart board complete with the obligatory overweight loan darts, messy chalk and brass oche - fur them that can’t see their feet. Pool okay, pokies meh, pinball for the dedicated and worthy, or perhaps table top Galaxian !
Piped music is out, as is a CD jukebox. However, find me a jukebox full of 45’s and that is a different matter. At home the juke box was 70% classics and other new stuff we could still get on 45 . A summer evening, the yard full (not a beer garden) and the sound of Fats Domino or Otis Redding barrelling through the open windows. Not even the neighbours complained. But point taken, the music should not be too loud. Oh and ban anything that looks like TV.
As for barstaff, well yes this is a pub not McDonalds. Over the years I perfected a way of offering ice as a dare, with a sneer to suggest that only weaklings have ice in drinks.
Beers – draught or real ale, but look after it and clean the pipes weekly, I personally prefer beer that might at least have seen a bag of hops at some point in its composition. There is something in my heart that will always love the hand pall and slow appearance of the Gaskell and Chambers logo, preferably from a pre-1960’s pump head. There is also such a thing as a good draught beer other than Guinness but you don’t see much of it these days. Hopefully the beer that comes in a bottle is worth more than its respective container, otherwise you might as well have it on tap though I suppose there is always the pleasure of throwing the bottle away. A bottle cannot hide the taste of cheap beer. Keep your spirits up and have at least three decent Malts. Wine, I’m afraid is for restaurants or Bistros, as are meals.
On the rare afternoons where the sun did shine on North Wales I could be found at the Vic overlooking the Menai straits, about the only place where I could be seen drinking Gin (Bombay Sapphire of course). The old White House in Oxford was a bit special too, as was the original Monk’s Retreat. As for the Marlborough ? well there’s a few tales…. -
Cath and I really enjoyed stealing off in the afternoon to see this one get made.
Simon P - What a lovely chap.
The line about it's an employment dispute, made us both giggle a little with the Listener thing.
As for Elim I feel quite sad. We are, despite living on the shore quite the country mice these days (no telly). Consequently the Close Up footage took us back a little. Found it quite icky really. The footage does exemplify for me at least, the problems of media grief. There is an issue of how should I feel and act, replacing what do I really feel. I have a sneaking suspicion this really f**ks with people's grief processes. At a time when you may or may not have any feelings on the matter at all, you have to behave to a media template for grief. It was all there - face smiles, voice talks of grief and the body says get me out of here.
Sorry we had to go so quickly at the end but what can I say ? Shore bridge traffic ..........
On a lighter note- how many f******g stars do we need to put in a f*****g post before s**t gets moder f*****g ated then ?
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hmmm and we all know what happened to non-alcoholic beer....
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Thanks Ben - Fair call, I figure that environmental scare will be about as effective as health scare....we need to be smarter than this.
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Meh........
Ben - I repeat to you the point that I made the last time you voiced this kind of argument. Philosophically and scientifically you are correct. There is no such thing as a scientific certainty. I would even go so far as to say that climate science is guilty of only looking at the negatives. But in looking for the negatives scientists have managed to accumulate evidence that indicates a high likelihood of some well described negative events. Your argument on the other hands lacks any such evidence and remains in the realm of speculation. It reeks of the sort of FUD that eventuates in "suck it and see I don't need to change what I'm doing". In so far as you are less than vigorous in calling for more and better research on the matter am I to presume that this is your point ?
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that the TEAC C90s that I used to live off (bought by the box of ten for about $20 as I recall) aren't there?
Don't think the old Sony ones were there either.
D'you remember the C46 and 66 tapes they made with that little bit of extra tape for the slightly longer LP ?
Now I'm going to have to look in the roof space for tapes.....
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This just in......
I didn't know you could set a firewall with a journalism filter...
Made me and the very pregnant one laugh...