Today's "What Gets My Goat" - NO POLITICS!

[ogri48]

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]

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

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]

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  :lol

[Frosties]

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  :lol

[ogri48]

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]

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

[Frosties]

You stopped moaning now you old git ?

[Dynspud]

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  :lol

[ogri48]

You stopped moaning now you old git ?

briefly..… :lol

[Frosties]

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

[ogri48]

I think already pissed myself enough tonight... :'( :'(

[nick crisp]

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!"  :lol


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]  :lol


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]

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

[Fazerider]

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

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]

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  :lol

Frankie foccing Prawn eh! Behind the green door

[Grahamm]

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]

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.  :lol

[YamFazFan]

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]

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]

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.