Irritating BS your SO does

[Captain Oates 911]

You are hilarious, Alan!

If you live long enough, you can trot out the old jokes and the whippersnapers haven't heard em...

It's great

Heard about the white horse ?

White horse goes in a pub and orders a pint

barman: don't get many white horses in here

Whitehorse: not surpised at these prices

barman: Actually we have a whisky named after you

White horse : What ? Ken ?

[elmcitymaven 9,712]

Is there enough Alan to go around for his merry band of outlaw women?

[Justine+David 218]

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I HATE SKYPE AND DAVID NOT BEING ON IT BUT SAYING HE IS.

I have important wedding stuff to talk about to him! Doesn't he realize that our wedding is only 3 months and 3 weeks away and I need to know his opinion so I can make decisions...grrr. Yes ladies (and gents?), David is one of those types who is all into planning the wedding with me. At first I was like, "But it's MY wedding!" until I realized what that sounded like and then said yeah okay. But some of this stuff is starting to get to the point where we can't stop lazing about on.

grrrrrrrrrrr

edit: no joke. he just skyped me!

edit 2: flipping a. it's from porn, not David. NO I DO NOT NEED A ####### ENLARGEMENT. My girly parts are just fine staying the way they are.

Edited May 21, 2010 by Justine+David

[Gemmie 142]

This is completely off-topic (except it's something that I find irritating) but I have nowhere else to say it.

I hate when there's a topic with a huge-#### article in, and then the first few people quote and respond to the entire freaking thing. It means my finger has to scroll through the article 4 consecutive times. That's it, really.

edit - Good on you for having a man who's into wedding planning. Bill just kept saying "whatever you like, honey" and it drove me slightly crazy, until I figured out that this actually made it tons better.

Edited May 21, 2010 by Gemmie

[Jewel-8 21]

I hate when there's a topic with a huge-#### article in, and then the first few people quote and respond to the entire freaking thing. It means my finger has to scroll through the article 4 consecutive times. That's it, really.

I hate that too! However, I love people that reply to me and bold the section I posted that they are referring to.

[Captain Oates 911]

oops off topic - help

just switched to laptop and the thread shows all the posts as a tree

not one post after another

With the old software you could hit 'thread tools' and change the view

How do you show all posts with this new software please ?

[elmcitymaven 9,712]

Alan, click on Settings (in the upper right hand corner box, under your username). A screen called "Your Options" will come up. Click on the "Forums" tab (between "Settings" and "Profile"). At the very bottom of the page there is a drop down box entitled "Topic Display Mode". Set this to Standard, save your changes and yer done.

[Captain Oates 911]

Alan, click on Settings (in the upper right hand corner box, under your username). A screen called "Your Options" will come up. Click on the "Forums" tab (between "Settings" and "Profile"). At the very bottom of the page there is a drop down box entitled "Topic Display Mode". Set this to Standard, save your changes and yer done.

MEGA !!! thanks chuck that works great...

the cookie must have kept that setting on my desktop comp but I have switched to lap for my flight through the volcanic ash tomorrow. Hey this is nice software.

ok peculiarities of.... well if I pick one of the cats up, she immediately goes and gets the other - it's like she is left out of the 'love in'

and politics !

I mean I am sort of a lefty but she does her nut if I defend BP (got BP shares) or if I buy Goldman sachs shares.

It's ok to dislike big business but she is totally capitalist - eh ?

Next minute she is all right wing about stuff...I'm confused

But she does leave food out for the poor and I never saw that in England.

On Boston common I saw 500 people standing in line for food. People with suits too. Never seen that. Who would have though that could happen in the US ?

I think the US is only a rich country 'on average' and if you aren't in the top 15% then you would be richer anywhere in Europe. If you have one foot in the fire, and one foot in the fridge, then on average you are comfortable ! I am in the 15% so that's ok. 50% of Americans have ZERO net worth according to gordon gecko - yet those same 50% like the idea of being part of the richest country in the world and are proud of it. I suppose the Brits were the same when they had their empire and they were living on spuds and stale bread and saying they were the most powerful - strange johnnies, people.

Perhaps the US needs to get poorer as a whole before the underclass become aware

MY mother used to be a tea lady (part time) in an engineering works and she voted tory and was totally for the capitalists although her savings were in a pot jar on the mantelpiece. Jeez make the connection.

[elmcitymaven 9,712]

Getting pissed off with me when his fecking Bluetooth cuts out when he's talking to me from the car. It's not my fault you're driving through the mountains!

[Captain Oates 911]

Getting pissed off with me when his fecking Bluetooth cuts out when he's talking to me from the car. It's not my fault you're driving through the mountains!

Yes but chaps cannot have their equipment potential questioned - even hough I am in a hotel room in Bramhope Leeds and its taken me an hour to get connected to the wifi! England is lovely when it's lovely and there is no arguing with that. I am on my own so if I do argue with it then it is white coat time.

75% degrees and warm and humid in England ! with pheasants digging burrows and rabbits calling at 5am and that wood pigeon coo coo - oh dear seattle jet lag...It will end in a thunderstorm in 2 days I hope or i wont go back - it's just wonderful.

[elmcitymaven 9,712]

Morning Alan. I saw pics today of the weather over there -- lots of pasty English skin on the beach, the park, etc. The English optimism at the faintest ray of sunshine always does a little something to touch my cold, black heart.

Say hi to the wood pigeons for me -- I do miss them.

[Captain Oates 911]

Morning Alan. I saw pics today of the weather over there -- lots of pasty English skin on the beach, the park, etc. The English optimism at the faintest ray of sunshine always does a little something to touch my cold, black heart.

Say hi to the wood pigeons for me -- I do miss them.

forecast 90 in London today

anyone who has been in London when its 90 knows its not good

humidity will be awful

I am used to 15% humidity in my desert in Washington but Clint skin is inevitable

icelandic haddock and chips with curry for lunch today - eat you hearts out expats !

OK off out to see if i can still handle traffic jams and English checkout indifference

[elmcitymaven 9,712]

Not allowing this to slip off of page one!

Alan, how's the haddock?

[bakofoil 27]

Oh haddock, how I miss you

[Captain Oates 911]

Northern fish and chips - haddock - curry sauce - tea - incredible

Had em twice since Sunday already

Off to ilkley Moor today (the tarn) with cheap duck bread from Morrison's

Luckily it's getting much cooler so reality and normality is setting in and it will be possible to return to the US on Sunday

Joking apart, the food in Morrison's is a billion times better than anything in the US it really is. The variety of meat and custard and rhubarb and blue ribands and branston pickle and hp sauce and cottage pie mix and cheshire cheese and currant teacakes and pork pies etc etc and the carveries in the pubs etc....etc..etc..

Sorry US but when it comes to food, the UK beats you in every way - the range, the quality and everything about the the food in the US is pathetic. Indian/Pakistani and Afghan curries here too !

There is more to life than food - big brother, washing the car, paying the cable bill etc - so I can live without all this - but I am going to pig out with gay abandon while I am here and load the suitcase too

I have bought an England football team baseball cap so I hope it isn't against the US constitution to wear it in the US (at the gun club !)

Edited May 25, 2010 by saywhat