Author Topic: Today's "What Gets My Goat" - NO POLITICS! (Read 648138 times)

ogri48 · « **Reply #2700 on:** 02 November 2018, 06:41:25 pm »

people letting off fireworks every frigging night in the weeks build up to bonfire night..how the hell do they afford it? its 6.40 pm in the forest of dean on Friday the 2nd of November and it sounds like the somme out there..

robbo · « **Reply #2701 on:** 02 November 2018, 07:04:04 pm »

Quote from: tommyardin on 02 November 2018, 05:47:04 pm

Here is something you whipper Snappers might not know Shane Fenton was later know as Alvin Stardust, but my fav was still Marty Wilde

Nah, Billy Fury...all day long. Mind you Marty is still out there having a go. His daughter Kim was a bit of a sort as well.

Dynspud · « **Reply #2702 on:** 02 November 2018, 07:20:00 pm »

Wow; that reminds me.
I saw Marty Wilde live in the old Double Diamond Club in Caerphilly in 1982 I think it was.
Didn't know anything about him; was there for some beers wit a couple of mates while home on leave from the army.
He was really great.
Fantastic live act and the crowd loved it.

Frankie Vaughan was there a few weeks later and we bottled him off stage within 5 minutes!!!

Aahhh, the good old days

Frosties · « **Reply #2703 on:** 02 November 2018, 07:30:58 pm »

Quote from: ogri48 on 02 November 2018, 06:41:25 pm

people letting off fireworks every frigging night in the weeks build up to bonfire night..how the hell do they afford it? its 6.40 pm in the forest of dean on Friday the 2nd of November and it sounds like the somme out there..

We all did it when we were kids....even laying rockets on the road and sending them after cars, cyclists

ogri48 · « **Reply #2704 on:** 02 November 2018, 07:33:04 pm »

lol I used to fire bangers out of my garelli tiger cross eexhaust, til one went off in me hand as I was popping it in! couldn't feel my fingers for a coupla days..

ogri48 · « **Reply #2705 on:** 02 November 2018, 07:34:28 pm »

anybody remember "jumping jacks"? fireworks that chased you...now they were the days..

Frosties · « **Reply #2706 on:** 02 November 2018, 07:36:30 pm »

You stopped moaning now you old git ?

Dynspud · « **Reply #2707 on:** 02 November 2018, 07:37:14 pm »

Banger guns!!!!

A small length of copper tube where you bashed one end flat with a hammer, bent it around, and then stuffed lit bangers down the open and and fired them at your mates!!

Classic stuff

ogri48 · « **Reply #2708 on:** 02 November 2018, 07:40:18 pm »

Quote from: Frosties on 02 November 2018, 07:36:30 pm

You stopped moaning now you old git ?

briefly..…

Frosties · « **Reply #2709 on:** 02 November 2018, 07:52:40 pm »

Go buy some fireworks and let them off - especially the rockets down the road......you'll piss yourself

ogri48 · « **Reply #2710 on:** 02 November 2018, 08:02:04 pm »

I think already pissed myself enough tonight...

Hedgetrimmer · « **Reply #2711 on:** 02 November 2018, 08:37:33 pm »

Quote from: ogri48 on 02 November 2018, 06:41:25 pm

people letting off fireworks every frigging night in the weeks build up to bonfire night..how the hell do they afford it? its 6.40 pm in the forest of dean on Friday the 2nd of November and it sounds like the somme out there..

I think you'll find the phrase is, "it's like downtown Beirut out there!"

It's not just kids around here. At first, I used to think people were getting halloween mixed up with Guy Fawkes night. But now I just think it's as soon as fireworks become readily available in all the shops. Actually, if a few trick-or-treaters get shot to bits by rockets, I'm all for it [/grumpy old git]

It doesn't really bother me much. It's just that if these folks can afford to literally burn their money like that, can't they spare me a few quid?

ogri48 · « **Reply #2712 on:** 02 November 2018, 08:40:25 pm »

lol showing me age nick, I was actually at the somme…

Fazerider · « **Reply #2713 on:** 02 November 2018, 09:34:20 pm »

Quote from: tommyardin on 02 November 2018, 05:47:04 pm

Here is something you whipper Snappers might not know Shane Fenton was later know as Alvin Stardust, but my fav was still Marty Wilde

I saw Mr Stardust a few years back at a fundraising gig for prostate cancer. He still had the same style... one glove and his hand curled around the mic.
Sadly the disease killed him a few months afterwards.

Also at that event was most of The Who, Roger Daltrey advising the audience to 'check yer balls" thereby demonstrating his poor understanding of anatomy.

tommyardin · « **Reply #2714 on:** 02 November 2018, 10:58:39 pm »

Quote from: Dynspud on 02 November 2018, 07:20:00 pm

Wow; that reminds me.
I saw Marty Wilde live in the old Double Diamond Club in Caerphilly in 1982 I think it was.
Didn't know anything about him; was there for some beers wit a couple of mates while home on leave from the army.
He was really great.
Fantastic live act and the crowd loved it.

Frankie Vaughan was there a few weeks later and we bottled him off stage within 5 minutes!!!

Aahhh, the good old days

Frankie foccing Prawn eh! Behind the green door

Grahamm · « **Reply #2715 on:** 02 November 2018, 11:35:25 pm »

My RAC cover was up for renewal and it had gone up by £30!

After waiting 10 minutes on hold, I finally got through to them and, after a fair bit of back and forth, I finally got them to a) renew it for the same price I paid last year AND b) got them to guarantee that price for next year's renewal too

It just pisses me off that we keep having to do this sort of thing to stop them ripping us off

darrsi · « **Reply #2716 on:** 03 November 2018, 05:36:34 am »

Quote from: ogri48 on 02 November 2018, 06:41:25 pm

people letting off fireworks every frigging night in the weeks build up to bonfire night..how the hell do they afford it? its 6.40 pm in the forest of dean on Friday the 2nd of November and it sounds like the somme out there..

Not so much for Bonfire Night anymore, it's all about Diwali around my area, and it was the same last night for me, it sounded like the fireworks were going off inside my house as i was trying to watch telly.
All that money going up in smoke, think how many packets of cigarettes they could buy instead.

YamFazFan · « **Reply #2717 on:** 03 November 2018, 08:27:46 am »

I know some places are banning the big public event bonfires now. They still have a fire here, but I think the tradition of burning the stuffed Guy effigy's on it has been stopped.

ogri48 · « **Reply #2718 on:** 03 November 2018, 08:43:29 am »

Talking to a primary school teacher the other day, apparently the old nursery rhyme " baa baa black sheep" is now " baa baa rainbow sheep". Anybody ever seen a rainbow sheep? You couldn't make it up could you...when I was a kid there was a telly programme ( and accompanying song) called "white horses". Do you think if they remade it it would be called "rainbow horses"? People who see the word " black" as a racist slur when used in a perfectly normal context are surely the ones making it so. And that's what's gets my goat today..

YamFazFan · « **Reply #2719 on:** 03 November 2018, 08:50:13 am »

Most of those people don't genuinely see it as a slur when it's being used in a perfectly normal context. They make out they do in order create divisions amongst people and communities.

red98 · « **Reply #2720 on:** 03 November 2018, 09:01:15 am »

All that money going up in smoke, think how many packets of cigarettes they could buy instead.

or gallons of fuel they could buy...............

fazersharp · « **Reply #2721 on:** 03 November 2018, 05:07:07 pm »

We used to open up the bangers and collect the contents to make bigger explosions.What gets me is the size of rockets going up in small back gardens with no concern as to where that massive stick and big lump of plastic is going to fall back down - on my car- on my roof and then in my gutter.

mtread · « **Reply #2722 on:** 03 November 2018, 05:48:06 pm »

Just got back from the supermarket. People with big trolleys who dawdle and block the aisles. I just want to get in and out as quickly as possible. Get out of my way. Worse are the old blokes on trolley pushing duty, while their wives go through a paper list that goes on and on. You know who you are!

BBROWN1664 · « **Reply #2723 on:** 03 November 2018, 05:57:01 pm »

We used to go o the local gun shop and buy crow scarers as the bangers you could buy then were crap. They are even worse now!

Once we had the crow scarers, it was a trip to the local monastery to let them off. It was fun watching the monks come running out to try to find us as we drove off up the road

Hedgetrimmer · « **Reply #2724 on:** 03 November 2018, 06:21:27 pm »

Quote from: mtread on 03 November 2018, 05:48:06 pm

Just got back from the supermarket. People with big trolleys who dawdle and block the aisles. I just want to get in and out as quickly as possible. Get out of my way. Worse are the old blokes on trolley pushing duty, while their wives go through a paper list that goes on and on. You know who you are!

Yeah, get of my way! Me, me, me, me, me!

Demanding little foccer, aren't you