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Some of these technical ones would have got me, but the tomato flavoured toothpaste things were easy. I got hit by a doozy on April 1st. some twenty odd years ago in Paris, in France an April Fool is known as “Poisson d’Avril”, (April Fish). Travelling on a metro train approaching...

Impossible to argue with your logic and I wouldn’t even try. I think the problem here is that I overreacted to your original statement, “that if you’re not a multi-millionaire at least, central London is crap.” I’m not a millionaire by a long shot, I live as near as dammit in central London on...

Off thread quite a bit but I saw an item in a paper where Rooney said that he used to pick Carlos Tevez up and take him to the airport for some away games when they were both at Man. U. He said that he couldn’t understand a word that Tevez said and that it drove him nuts. I thought, “Christ...

Great stuff, I lived on the Bonamy Estate in Bermondsey when I was poor, eventually I made a few quid and ended up in Rotherhithe.

Possibly a slight exaggeration, I don’t live bang in the centre but I can see Tower Bridge from my bedroom window, some 1500 metres to the west, and Bond Street station is 6 stops from my nearest Jubilee Line station. I retired 10 years ago after driving a Black Cab for 30 years, and I bobble...

You’re probably talking about Leicester Square Leeds, I’m guessing that dLockers was referring to the Leicester Square off Charing Cross Road adjacent to Chinatown, Soho, and Covent Garden in central London.

Possibly how the term redneck came into being as well.

It does for some people eventually, but with others, e.g. me, it turns them gradually pink then pinker and if you can keep giving it a bashing and you’re lucky, brownish. In the case of my auburn haired wife, until she learned her lesson she gave a good imitation of a lobster then it settled...

Except that according to BBC news the union has said that if the 800 workers made redundant were to be re-employed by P & O then they should go back on their original salaries, can’t see P & O going for that. So a Mexican stand-off by the look of things, I imagine that rather than lose face...

I cannot argue with that, you are right, it would be completely different, I’d be annoyed at the alleged comedian but I wouldn’t get on stage and give him a whack. What I was trying, (badly), to say was that Smith wouldn’t have been apprehensive about slapping Statham, because Statham isn’t...

As typos go, that’s a doozy. Colour me cynical but with the maxim “There’s no such thing as bad publicity” I wouldn’t be surprised if Chris and Will planned that before the show. If that wasn’t the case then they were both in the wrong, probably Will more than Chris, and to those who say that...

I’m okay with the microwave, it’s the hob that does my brain. I did the kitchen wall clock last night, it’s all 9s and says, “No wine before nine”, and as usual it was 2 hours slow this a.m. so as usual I had to replace the battery.

Started drinking vodka over ice at around 21.05, by 00.15 I’d had maybe 200 ml, put the bottle back in the freezer, put the kitchen clock forward, brushed my teeth and went to bed. Woke up at 09.30, which in my head was 08.30, got up 15 minutes later feeling fine and put the percolator on.

I’m as cold blooded as a snake, anything below 19c and I put the heating or a coat on, my wife goes bananas. I only remember two occasions of feeling that perhaps it was too hot, one was when we landed in Athens, Greece one summer in the late seventies, the pilot announced that the outside...

Reminds me of the early sixties, I was a young truck driver doing 2 round trips to Glasgow from East London per week for the dizzy basic wage of £11.00 per week. Someone told me that a firm in West India Dock Road were looking for drivers at £13.00 per week basic, and I drove my truck into their...

They’re good but I only eat them occasionally I can only eat when I’m hungry and I’m rarely hungry in the a.m. I exist on good coffee until around 11.45-12.00, then I’ll eat a couple of peppers as if they were apples, discarding the centres with seeds attached. My wife will have 2 crumpets most...

While I sympathise with you greatly, the white van driven by the courier may have been rented by ParcelForce and the driver may have been a ParcelForce employee. I’d never heard of Parcel2Go, but on Googling them they are a comparison site and not another name for ParcelForce as I thought. They...

Can’t argue with your logic, but there are times when you can be paid for doing nothing without trying. e.g., If I was at Heathrow in my taxi and the onboard computer monitor offered me an account trip from the airport, I would park in the special “Radio Taxis” pick up rank situated at each...

My wife went out of town for 3.5 days so I looked around to see what was new, and saw FBI. I downloaded episode 1, watched it then it automatically downloaded episode 2. I’ve watched 3 episodes now and although it’s okay it hasn’t set my world alight. I’ll watch it if I feel like it, but it’s a...

Confusing? How about Hawaii and Arizona, the only two states that don’t observe daylight saving time? Other U.S. territories that don’t switch are American Samoa, Guam, Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.