Peaches?

I guess they thought it was a fixer upper.....

Apparently a house, totally reformed, need "some.work" so the viewers offered 75k. The show didnt feature my hysterical laughter when the estate agent phoned me.

you could have offered to shave Jasmine Harman that would have been fun.

As do I. My dear departed dad was a Stax and Motown freak. Let's compromise and go Millie Jackson, Parliament/Funkadelic, Rick James and Prince. ;).

Oh...OK.

Bridging the gap between prog, funk and sOuL.

I don't think anything ever sounded shit when straight, and then great when stoned.
Anyway they had the Grateful Dead, and we had Bowie and Roxy. So there you go.

There's a thread there. I don't think there is a list you could make where the yanks contemporary music bands, outside of genres of folk and soul/funk outdo the output of the British.

No pussyfooting and Metal Machine Music are two of my all-time faves, but listening to them spannered definitely added a fluffy element.

I loved your place, have just watched it funnily enough, Casa Carter and the Palace postbox was a clue, although suprised you had Beatles lyrics there. It was the second best house in the programme, after the £2m castle.

Or water melons?

Is there a link?

It's up on Channel 4's on demand service according to Pete.

Great. Will watch when back in the UK.

How the hell they thought £75,000 was a sensible offer or would even be considered is beyond me.

Looks a great value property to me.

And me, the offers were a pisstake.

Other senior managers who have no regard for financial and HR compliance.

That is a different issue and I agree entirely. I keep a stash solely for music.

Bought a Palace duck for my 2 year old from the club shop and its scarf and hat is blue and orange. Gonna have to get my red felt tip out now.

It was for you, wasn't it ?

:mad: That government, local council, big business including basic utilities, retail, insurance, transport, in short all of them have one objective to rip us off. Oh and then online fraud which appears totally unpoliceable and a tsunami off cowboy tradesmen. Well just piss off.

It probably stank of shit.

Rocha. John Rocha

He looks like Jo Brand

The AA commercial, Proud Mary was one of my fave Tina Turner tracks. Going to be sick of it now.

The new Samsung advert where they totally destroy Across The Universe. Bastards

There is not a single redeeming feature in it. By far the most annoying and vomit inducing ads I can recall since 'There are 3 men in my life' Shredded Wheat ad from the '70s.

They were a job lot purchased by SJ, in preparation for his 2011 announcement of a change in club colours as a homage to our 'saviour'.

But WCB has never stayed there.

The bloke was a ******* waster.

2 men surely? 'To one I am a mother, to the other I'm a wife'. Goodness me.

Princess Diana

Man travelling alone and parking his motorbike to take up a whole Parent and Child space in Asda carpark (and the car park was quite busy, in school holidays, so lots of parents with small children there).

I don't actually agree with parent child spaces but I'd have still kicked his bike over.

:)

Oh yes.. but it should have been 3 as she looked like a slut so obviously had an illicit lover.

I'm a biker and this disgraces us all. The rider is a cock.

If you can ever find it

Mobile speed camera vans

The link if anyone is interested.

The whole thing was a farce. The researchers couldn't differentiate between Euros and pounds, the house is for sale at 120,000€ (fully furnished), we were asked if we'd consider redusing it to 100k to come inline with the buyers top end of the budget. We agreed, but the furniture would not be included.

So, we were very surprised to see on the programme that their budget was £81k, nowhere near 100k€ and also to hear the presenter say the house comes furnished.

So, for the show we had reduced our asking price by 20k€.....the programme said we wanted £100k (not euros!) and then the fat cabby, after meeting my wife and saying how much they love the house, wouldn't change a thing etc etc...offers 25k less than the reduced price because he wants to install an en-suite (totally impossible as there is no plumbing upstairs and installing it would involve major reforms) and have a roof terrace (recent quote for which is 5k€)

My response was two words, one of them being "off", and howls of derisive laughter. The "counter offer" was just as insulting and I told the estate agent to tell them not to bother contacting us again unless theyre serious. I also told them what he could do with the table he was leaving the offer on.

Then we got a call from the researchers trying to say my wife had said we'd go down to 95k€ ( she didn't), I asked if they were offering 95k€..."no" came their reply "So what are we even having this conversation for?" was my response.

We have heard nothing since, and the house has been rented, almost continuously since with holiday lets and family.

Special rates apply for BBSers. ;)

Yeah. I can't believe that.

I think it's a Rufus Wainwright cover. His voice is an acquired taste.

Yup. It had me querying Radiohead collection at first, but was relieved that they had not had a major dip in taste and covered the Beatles.

Feel your pain.

Got my wifes sister and her bratty spoilt kid staying with us for 3 weeks. Never the best at holding my tongue, I'm really struggling to not intervene as she ignores her mum's requests to do stuff for the 4th time. Already grabbed the tablet out of her hands as she was refusing to sit down and eat a fraction of the food we had prepared for her.

This week, Mrs Maidstoneds cousin was visiting with her son. Apparently the son refuses to eat anything but cheese pizza......when cheese pizza arrived at the bar we all went to, he whined he didn't like it (this kid is 10) and left most of it.

Then demanded an ice cream on the way back to the hotel, I remarked how, if he didn't eat pizza, why should he be given an ice cream? I got "the look"..

How can you have any pudding if you don't eat your meat?!

Vandals deciding to smash car windows close to Penge East overnight making it impossible to park anywhere near the station with all the broken glass everywhere.

To be fair, the programme said something like £101,695 and the exchange used in the credits was 1.18 so not much difference. Still a massive pisstake though.

Edis, my maths was shit. Forget this

Selling stuff on eBay. Why is it some people will willingly pay hundreds of pounds and ask no questions, while others bombard you with messages regarding £1 or £2 items. I'm currently selling a lot of my mum's old sh*t, and there's a bloke in Norway who has asked 8 questions over a silver spoon that he has currently bid 99p for. F*ck him-, if he wins i'll withdraw the lot and give it to a charity shop.

They told the clients the price was £100,000, not 100,000€. That's a big difference.

Stand still laddy!

Yeah, the look. Know it well.

This kid also finds any pain I manage to inflict on myself highly amusing (knocking the tablet off the sofa and trying to stop it hitting the tiled floor by trapping it on my big toe, swallowing most of a wave and then choking it out, banging the top of my sunburnt head on a beam etc etc.

:) "You there behind the bike sheds ..."

Transfer 'hotline'.
Summer colds in 36 degree heat.
Bratty kids.
Becoming an old whingey fecker.

Yes, my bad. I was going by what the viewers were told.

Are you sure its not Elgin?

Spoons come in many shapes and sizes. You can't blame him for being careful.

Medical breakthroughs that are passed off as news. I'm sure it is all terrific that hereditary illnesses can be eradicated in 20 years time, but this isn't traditional news. Back in the old days it would have been on Tomorrow's World rather than the lead story on the 6 O'Clock news.

This time next week nobody will be thinking about this story outside those directly interested. I want my news to tell me what is actually happening now, not do some crystal ball act to tell me what may happen in the future. Or equally badly, what happened 20 years ago (Lady Di).

becoming?

Haha fair point, should have added 'more of'. Mind you this bottle of Jim Bean is helping I must admit.

This is interesting, both of itself, and also because of the idea of a more accurate and real way to measure "loudness" - https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/a...monic-loudness

20 years ago some people in 'high places' had a similar opinion.

You don't know loud until you've had you head in a bass bin at a Hawkwind gig..

Which is why I am now suffering from Tinnitus and loosing my hearing. Still the good news is it blocks out the jammering from the family.

No sure it annoys me,more it bores me,Prince Phillip's retirement,yawn.

Jim Bean at this time of night?.....what kind of half baked idea is that?

Someone has their finger on the pulse.

nice sauce

It proper pisses me off when a so called mate refuses to send fresh peaches back to the uk.

Or water melons.

As far as Maidstoned is concerned he'd happily see me die a wretched, scurvy ridden wreck, whilst he suckles on near free fruit. The ****.

I'll see your Hawkwind and raise you Motorhead.



Eh?

Scorpions at Hammersmith Odeon circa 1977/8.

Slightly deaf for a couple of days.

No Health & Safety back then. :lux:

First saw Motorhead supporting The Damned at the Roundhouse in April 77. Loud, but not the sonic variables that peak form Hawkwind ('74/'75) could deliver. Gigs that are too quiet these days really annoy me. Noise restrictions for rock bands is just plain out of order. Killing Joke sounding like they are playing through a transistor radio is pointless.

:)

Stoopid autocorrect. Feel fairly half baked this morning to be honest.

He's a bit of a lemon.

Maybe he neefs to ch3ck its big enough to cover his piss stain with the old washing spoon splash excuse.

Despite decades playing in bands, working in studios, and always listening to music at high volume with headphones, I've got close to my sixties now without that problem. Just the rest of me that's falling apart. :)

Blimey, are you hanging out with him then? Why don't you get him into a new hobby like pigeon keeping, paintballing or remote control car racing. You could also play him some of your vast music collection- he'd ******* love that mate.

True dat

You are lucky, after years of DJing I am now 48 with tinitus and two hearing aids.

I wonder if there's some genetic tolerance thing going on? Nobody in my family has ever had hearing problems. Several are musicians, who all like volume, and my dad spent years working in appallingly noisy factories before the days of ear protectors. Bugger could hear a pin drop - which wasn't helpful for me as a teen trying to sneak in after hours.

Bean on the sauce eh? Your wife will be Crosse!

Had one days sickness in 18 years, mainly due to an unerring ability to get ill on holiday. Had about 2 hours kip last night, plan for the rest of the day is to lay on the sofa and check the bbs periodically for signings. Man flu in 36 degree heat sucks though.

Not sure, but no one else in my family had hearing problems to my knowledge.

The Neymar transfer saga. I'm sick of all the greed and arrogance (and in football generally) but this almost makes me feel sorry for Barcelona.

But not quite.

Totally agree. I remember being on holiday with extended family a few years back and a couple of Chelsea and Millwall fans (yeah I know) were all excited about him going to Barcelona. I really couldn't have given less of a shit than if Charlton had installed new MDF stanchions.

Otto-f*cking-lenghi and his urfa chilli flakes. Piss off. Stick your chard up your arse, you smug c*nt.

Roger Waters.

I'm slowly but surely falling out of love with football. No doubt about it, I'm finding it hard to really care anymore, even about Palace. **** Neymar and as for feeling sorry for Barca WTF!? I honestly don't even understand why you've written that, I literally have no idea, how will they possibly cope? are they finished? is it all over for them? I mean 222 million ******* euros is scant ******* consolation for the lose of Neymar.

Things that annoy me? Football. Footballers. Football fans.

Ever seen My Bloody Valentine? They were louder than Motörhead or the Ramones.

Jim ******* White practically wanking himself into another dimension over the Neymar transfer

Agreed this bloke thinks he's in the know,but he's not. How he gets a 3hr show on talksport I don't know.

Agreed. Could never stand him. He was Pink Floyd's McCartney.

Because Sky own Talkshite.

Yes. Loud, but never really convinced me. Also depends on the environment. Most heavy rock bands in the Greyhound in the 70's were effectively louder because of the nature of the space. Groundhogs, Stray, budgie and Judas Priest were all ear-splitting there. In reality, The Ramones, and even The Clash, never came across as particularly loud because the default sound of punk was always a bit treble heavy and tinny.

Of course a lot of the bands in the Greyhound went on to greater things and played across the road at the Fairfield Halls. Not a patch on the atmosphere of the pub though.

Er.....which I meant to imply.

Yeah sorry, I'm a bit sick of football at the moment... but I like this thread because it's entertaining and funny my post above is neither, if I could neg rep myself I would, actually, maybe I can... I'm going to try.

You can't.

Have some on me my man

Don't do it on my account. I think we share much the same feelings about the "not so beautiful any longer" game.