Yoghurt on a Stick II
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Here's these two at it yet again;
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1 hour ago, Curlygirl said:
Yog I don't think I have ever known you speechless!!
As for the 'if' we go to glastonbury quote thingy... you will get there if you decide to go.
@mr gumby... love you morer
Hello Curlygirl,
Do you know what, you are right. I have just broached the subject with my wife and just blurted out that I really want to go and that it would be ace, and that she'd get to see Radiohead etc. Not that I'm under the thumb but she said that she would go to Glastonbury this year on one proviso. I asked her what it was and it's that I don't stay up for days at a time on speed, as is my usual want. Well, to be honest I really need to cut back on it anyway, before I go the way of my last speed dealer who died prematurely, probably from taking too much of his own goods. So, I have agreed to stop taking it after 8pm, so that i get some sleep at least somewhere down the line. However, this doesn't start until Sunday as we have guests tomorrow night. I have also said to myself that I need to get fitter if I am to enjoy all the areas of Glastonbury, so am going to do this too. To cut this long story short it looks like, tickets permitting, we are going to Glastonbury this year. I know that it's been a case of we are going, we aren't going, we are going etc, but this one's in a tablet of stone. I really want to go to the efests meet and the NFR NFC meet. They'll be two of the highlights of the festival for me.
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6 hours ago, Gnomicide said:
Loads of people died that year too. If in doubt on a quiz, always answer 1967, it was the 2016 of the 60s.
Also the year I was born
I used to go swimming at a fitness centre every morning at 6.30am before going to work. There was an old bloke who swam (and posed) there just like the man above. It was all a little nauseating at that time of the morning to be honest. I suspect it was at other times of the day too, if he was still there. The oldest 'swinger' in town!
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My brother in law, one of his daughters and two (to us) unknown Americans are coming to stay at ours tomorrow night. I'm driving them to and from The Black Sabbath concert and then the party will begin. Looking forward to this, so it's making me happy.
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5 minutes ago, H.M.V said:
I love it too but i think being Irish we get away with saying swear words more.
A great deal of my mates are second generation Irish (as am I) and one thing I've noticed is that we all swear like troopers because we were virtually weaned on swearing by our folks. That said, my mother, very rarely swears, but my dad swears like a bastard! I think the Irish almost use swearing like others would use punctuation marks.
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2 minutes ago, fatyeti24 said:
Yog, your hi viz jacket anecdote reminds me of a similar item I saw at Glastonbury way back when; a doctored police hi viz that read POLITE on the back. I enjoyed that.
Like it. Must work on something for this year if I can talk her indoors in to going, and if we get a ticket.
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1 minute ago, fatyeti24 said:
For once, I am lost for words. I simply don't know how to respond. Oh yes I do - as I haven't said it before, congratulations on your engagement you two.
As an aside, I once wore (for a bet with oneeye off here) a t shirt which said 'I am a John Deere Former c**t' . To say that I felt self conscious about wearing it is an understatement. Suck Satan's Cock I can handle, but the C word really does upset some people, and upsetting people really isn't my bag.
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Just now, H.M.V said:
I'm sure Mr Yeti will enlighten you Mr Yog.
I'm like a cat on a hot tin roof with anticipation. Something tells me this is going to be worth waiting for. Thanks for building up the excitement H.M.V.
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I've just been catching up on the thread and don't know what Yetis t shirt said or even did. Can somebody enlighten me? My wife once wore one of my t shirts which said 'Suck Satan's Cock' on it to Glastonbury. I'm not sure that it universally appealed though! One time I also had a hi-viz security jacket made up but it spelled out the word 'Insecurity' instead. Hopefully it put a wry smile on a few faces. Unfortunately it worked against me when I'd run out of dope and was trying to get some in the Stone Circle. Ho hum.
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1 hour ago, lucyginger said:
Oh Yog! I have had similar incidents of having to "rescue" things! Never tomatoes though. I can imagine that's quite interesting to shove up ones nose!!
Singing is sooo good for you, I hope your wife does go along. She won't regret it! How's the shop, by the way?
Gumby, is that a challenge?! A gingerbread vodka challenge?! I'm in!
Hello lucy,
Trade at the shop this month has been fairly slack. We did know in advance that it would be like this because other traders adjacent to us told us that it's always quiet post Christmas. Essentially everybody is nursing their wounds after the Xmas expenditure and indulgence. Talking of nursing wounds my wife dealt me a body blow about 30 minutes ago. Not physically you understand, but mentally and financially. She has just told me that she has given (as in free) the antiques bloke around the corner two heavy duty industrial bench legs that I was going to make a table out of. Guess what? He is now going to make a table out of them and sell it, which is what I was going to do. Guess what more? I've just looked up on line that the legs alone are currently retailing at £275 for the pair. So, she has given away £275. Plus I already had the table top for it. I could have got approx £400 for the finished article. Oh well, you win some you lose some.
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13 minutes ago, whisty said:
Nice bit of steam punk there whisty.
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Something tells me that the next image would be the bloke on the left swinging a haymaker;
He doesn't look happy with the state of affairs to me anyway. That said, he has adopted a come and get me you brute kind of stance. I guess we'll never know.
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19 minutes ago, dizzymoo said:
Speed and plum tomato - a different kind of speedball? Hope you're ok Yog. What's with all the faecal matter that was flying around earlier guys? @Babylon sister hope the treatment today went ok and that all is clear. Good that your current job gives you a breathing space @Quark, so you have time to consider your next move - good luck. Glad you're singing again @lucyginger We're learning songs for 2 choir festivals at the moment, including 'Down to the River to Pray', which is beautiful.
Been a lot of precipitation here today, which at least washed some of the greasy muck and salt off my car. I'm sort of enjoying the daily drives taking youngest to Outreach school as I'm listening to loads of music and acquainting myself with the output of some popular beat combos. Despite myself, I love OK Computer. Accidentally watched 'Unbelievable moments caught on camera' on ITV earlier, something I'd normally avoid like the plague, but there was the most wonderful wedding proposal at the end. Cheesy and heartwarming.
Warm (not in the least bit cheesy) hugs to all.
I'm fine, thanks dizzymoo. My wife was due to go to her first choir practice last Monday but something, the facts of which elude me right now, stopped her from going. A friend of a friend has been asking her to go for ages now but she has always made some excuse up to not go, even though she loves singing. Anyway, it turns out that the choir have moved on to (from what I know not) Madonna's Like A Prayer, a song which my wife holds dear - my wife suffered an incident of compartment syndrome which when she was rushed to hospital the NHS doctors couldn't identify. The doctors referred to the surgeons who also couldn't identify the problem and were considering amputating her arm. It was only when an army surgeon overheard their dilemma (she was in the QE in Birmingham where the NHS and army work alongside each other) that he immediately identified the problem because it's common after receiving bomb blast injuries. He immediately took over proceedings and started surgery straight away. The only problem was that for some medical reason they couldn't put her under general anaesthetic. This meant that they gave her a local anaesthetic and covered her eyes from proceedings and then proceeded with the operation. A nurse then asked my now wife if she wanted to listen to anything to avoid concentrating on the operation. My wife responded that she'd like to listen to Madonna's album (I know not which) which she apparently listened to over and over again until the end of the operation. Like A Prayer is one of her favourites from that album - hence her desire to sing it with the choir. Note to self - ensure that she goes to the choir practice next week.
I've watched some unbelievable moments of footage on Youtube when wired and bored out of my mind in the wee hours before. Although often fascinating it's easy to tire of such things. I don't really watch television any longer though. In fact we don't even have a television any longer. Despite this my stupidity yet again got the better of me and I recently paid an installment for a tv licence - just because I got a threatening letter addressed to the new occupier of the house we are renting. I know that I could have gone in to battle with them at the front door if I had wanted to, but there's a part of me that wants to keep the BBC afloat at whatever cost.
Anyway, I'm rambling like a lunatic, so must stop. I blame the speed / plum tomato combo. If you ever see it on a menu then I thoroughly recommend it!
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The trouble with eating tinned plum tomatoes on toast with your hands instead of a knife and fork like any other human being is that it (the plum tomatoes) can, and has, gone everywhere. This included spraying the lovely white powder that was left, rather stupidly, below the eating area. I have been forced in to snorting speed and plum tomato. Watch this space - I'll bet it'll be all the rage in that there London soon.
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4 hours ago, whisty said:
Making us work for our beans! What happened to instant gratification:)
Oh how happy I was back in the day when my Grandad gave me his one of these (not this model).
I recall a lad at my school having one of those. I can't quite remember what they did exactly but have a faint memory that they recorded up to 8 musical tracks on to one section of tape. Is this right?
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26 minutes ago, Tuna said:
I was trying to imply that I know my levels of promiscuity. Being 0. I spent so long trying to word it well too. What a terrible father figure I am.
Perhaps promiscuity (or lack thereof) would have suited. I think I've spent long enough on my toilet break now anyway. Welcome @TunaBaby
Assuming that your toilet break is a work based one there's a great calculator that you can use to see how much you have earned while taking that dump;
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24 minutes ago, Skoo said:
Thanks @Yoghurt on a Stick II for that - the stuff about getting a building surveyor is very good advice and something I wouldn't have considered. The house is a total refurb, but we can't afford to do it all at once, so doing things in stage. Managed to get the bedrooms to a reasonable state, central heating installed, and a re-wire. Now saving to do the bathroom, which currently has chunks of plaster missing from the wall where the old water tank was removed, and no shower! Think it's going to take us at least a year to get everything done, if not longer. Still though, it's a home we want to live in for a few years, so trying to take it slowly and not rush things.
My first house took me about 18 months to complete, my second house about 4 years (it was a big house and I didn't really put my heart and soul in to it), and the house I have now about 2 years. This was while working in a 9 - 5 job as well. I've also refurbed other houses with my family. We, as a family, even built our own 5 bedroomed house from scratch ie foundations upwards. I remember doing the foundations very clearly. I went out on the Friday night after work and got blasted. I eventually managed to get home at about 4am in the morning only to be woken at 6am to go (along with my brothers and my dad) and shovel (yes shovel) over 80 tonnes of concrete in a day. I was young, fit and stupid then though. I'm not young and fit anymore, but the stupidity is still with me. All the best with your renovations.
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10 minutes ago, Skoo said:
I am in the middle of doing up my first house, and finding it really tough, it's a little bit overwhelming. Got any wise words of advice? How do you stop builders from leaving all their rubbish everywhere? The ones we have used so far have made off with anything that has a scrap value...but left all the other rubbish. Is that the done thing?!
Just shooting from the hip I'd say - don't pay the builders until the job is completed to your satisfaction, which includes rubbish removal. If they insist on a payment then make it a stepped payment ie you agree to pay them an amount each time they achieve a goal eg when they have finished putting in a new kitchen, when they have finished putting in a new bathroom etc. It's also very important to have them initially quote against a water tight specification. That way they can't come back to you and ask you for more money for this that and the other which they should have included for initially. If you are having quite extensive works carried out eg a total refurb of the house then I would suggest that you might want to employ a Building Surveyor (they are generally cheaper than architects and can do the same job - often better!). They could then draw up a full specification for you which various contractors can price on. If it is a big job like a total refurb of the property then ask the Building Surveyor to draw up a suitable contract for you and the builder to sign. Make sure that the contract has a retention fee, which is money held back for a period of a certain number of months (I would go for six) so that if something goes wrong with their work then you give them the option to rectify it or use that money to get another builder to rectify it. If going down the contract avenue then I would also put in a time penalty clause ie if the builder doesn't finish the work on time he/ she faces a financial penalty.
I hope that the above has helped. It's hard to give more fuller advice because I don't know what works you are having done. If you want to go in to more detail or want clarification etc then please feel free to PM me and I'll be happy to help.
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1 minute ago, Quark said:
unless there's actually a job market for sitting on a sofa in your pants watching Futurama re-runs and eating crisps.
One of my friends has a job doing something very similar to that. He is in IT support and works from home. He only has to get involved if the systems go in to fault, which they rarely do apparently. He said his days are spent sitting in his underpants strumming his guitar - and no that's not a euphemism, although I suspect he probably does do that as well.
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6 minutes ago, Scruffylovemonster said:
sheffieldlady works for ann Summers
Really? It was a slice of Ann Summers pie that I was trying to nibble in to when attempting to sell dildos on line (talk about Finbarr City). I thought if she can make millions selling the things then why not have a bash at it yourself (so to speak!).
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41 minutes ago, Quark said:
I reckon this is going to take a good long time for me to figure out what I actually want if I do it properly...
I've never known what I would like to do. I managed to orchestrate my own redundancy a few years back and got a reasonably healthy sum in redundancy money (which I duly pissed and drugged up the wall). I was very lucky because at the time of the redundancies I knew that I just couldn't last in the place any longer anyway. Since then I've been kind of pissing about. I'm selling my house now and it's been valued at twice what I paid for it. So, I might buy another knacker of a house and do it up and then sell it for a profit. I'm still trying to decide if this will satisfy me though. If I make the decision to go for it and buy a run down house then they'll be no going back ie I'll be locked in whether I like it or not. I wish you well with your decision making Quark. It ain't easy.
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33 minutes ago, Scruffylovemonster said:
Dildos not doing it for you?
I don't get this joke. It's probably because I'm prim and proper, but just to satisfy my perverted sub conscious would somebody explain?
As an aside, I once tried to sell some dildos on ebay. It only took about an hour or so before they took my adverts down and said that I had to have some sort of special ebay account to sell them. They weren't me or my wife's dildos I hasten to add. In fact I was never holding them (stop it) in stock.
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1 hour ago, BlackHole2006 said:
Thanks Yoghurt!
Things are going good, currently doing two projects at the moment, one solo acoustic one and then a more electronic based project to satisfy my current obsession with underground dance music. Did you manage to get tickets for Glastonbury this year? I can't remember if you did or not. And are you gonna go to the efests meet?
Glad to hear that you are still at it. Keep plugging away and maybe we'll all see you on the Pyramid Stage one day.
It's up in the air whether we go to Glastonbury this year. We didn't even try for tickets in the main sale. Then it was announced that Radiohead were playing. They're my wife's favourite band and mean a lot to her because their music got her out of a dark hole at one stage in her life. When I mentioned it on here lots of people offered their services to help us in the re-sales. So I thought great we are going as long as we or somebody gets through on re-sales day. Then she announces that it's too much money and that she'd rather do a few smaller festivals for the same amount of money that it would cost us overall to go to Glastonbury. However, I have today decided to really try to swing her around to the idea of going to Glastonbury. I've been to about 20+ Glastonbury's and she's only done two before and is less enamoured of the place than I am. I'm going to broach the subject with her later tonight. If I can talk her in to it and we get tickets then I'll definitely go to the efests meet up. I've been a couple of times before and really enjoyed meeting people off here. Did you get Glastonbury tickets?
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Hello Queen,
Thanks for the extensive response and further information on Fuji Rock. I'm not familiar with End of the Road or Park Life, but do know that there are festivals in this country which are very safe and family friendly. Probably the best example that I could give (ie I've been there for a few years) would be Shambala, where adults and children get along just nicely and there are no yobs or even the slightest scintilla of moodiness. The same can be said of the other festivals that I have attended. In fact, the worst festival that I have been to in this country for moodiness and a sense of danger is actually Glastonbury, but that was before the Super fence went up.
Apart from the above, Fuji Rock does, on the evidence that you provide, seem to be very 'sanitised'. The short measured alcohol would be a problem for me. Can you bring in your own drink to the festival?