Something like that.

What is my country? You previously told me that I didn't believe in borders? It then stands to reason I don't identify as being particular to any one country.

Which kind of explains why people might be desperate to leave the área in search of the dream of sleeping in a Nissan Bluebird,.

If you brain hurts too much you can always resort to...nob, pluma, idiot, buffoon.

It was mentioned much earlier on this thread, but the Wrexham love fest is getting well out of hand now.

It has got to an extent that Man Utd (or some of The Wankers) are playing a pre-season friendly in The USA against Wrexham.

Annoying in one regard, and funny in another, with fees the cheapest tickets are near on 300 quid. WTF is going on with that. Doesn't bode well for the next WC.

At the moment they are not subject to FFP. If they intend to continue this approach for the next few seasons it will blow up in their face. Can see them jumping straight through next season but things will get tougher after that

Each to their own, but barely noticed it in the UK…

Really?

Nobody can promote like the Yanks. Wrexham will probably go up. Next season I wouldn't be surprized, that with the momentum of winning they once again win promotion. But then it becomes boring. It's not easy to get out of League One.
Fans will get fed up, when three years later they're still mid-table. The owners get bored because the fairytale Amazon series of Wrexham's march to the Prem has had to be put on hold. Attendances go back below Conference levels, the crowd get finicky and demand the owners buy Ronaldo who they were seen dining with at a Saudi human rights party.
Meanwhile back in Salford, no sign of Becks, the Neville sisters, the woman beater or the dwarf at any of the games of the team they own anymore.
A bored child will always throw the toy away.

No, not really, they're all over the sports media.

They're neck and neck with Notts County atm and only one team can go up from the Vanrama, so expect late season drama and disappointment.

Pluma? Is this an elaborate Chilean diss?

The BBC saying the car “tagged” allonso or Tagged the tyre wall. What were they playing? IT ? They HIT

El pluma de mi tia.

Using speaker phone mode in public. Its bad enough hearing one end of a long phone conversation without having to listen to the other person as well

E10 petrol gumming up my carbs. Shitty bloody stuff.

Autocorrect translation of plum. But you were write to pick me up on that. Others wouldn't have an inkling, so a feather for your cap.

In the UK, or at least on the BBS, last 10 years, it appears that people have little idea what is happening in the World or even in UK outside of their inmediate lifestyle bubbles.

Their awareness of the news is dependant on whatever news story is getting 24/7 coverage - whether it be Paltrow, Trump, Tory PMs, Brexit effects, H & M and the fall out circus, a disappearing woman, panic buying and participation.

Awareness at a broader level seems to have been replaced by some kind of consumption of a reality TV versión of what news should be. A herd syndrome that dictates lots of other elements of life whether it be the need to take a Med holiday or visit Clarkson's farm.

It saddens and disappoints me.

Carbs? How old is your car?

Motorbikes

Street buskers who use sound systems. I don't want to hear you when I'm 100 yards away,

When you get an auto renewal on a subscription you didn't realise you were signing up for.

You are talking absolute bollocks.

I thought it was a chest of drawers.

In Spain, if you say that somebody has a considerable amount of "pluma", or feather, it means that they are highly effeminate. You might also say that they lose a lot of oil.

Us Spanish are crazy.

I will give you your due - you know a lot about music and old TV programmes. Maybe some latin phrases.

Not an awful lot else TBF.

I don’t know as much about dipsomania and [deleted by mods] as some expats tbf.

You know a lot about posting offensive comments that get deleted by mods.

Can't you conduct yourself better on here. Ya know, as an intelligent, world knowledgeable poster should be able to do.

(It wasn't actually deleted by mods, you spanner.)

You would know a lot about spanners considering you are such a tool yourself.

Can you tighten loose screws with a spanner? :D

Do you have a few in the Nissan Bluebird? Loose screws or spanners as protection for late night assaults disturbing your sleep.

Maidstoned told me to ask that.

Not sure what the thinnest measurement known to mankind is - but supermarkets certainly know it when they slice their ham.

Sort of have the opposite problem.

We want thin-cut ham, and the girl will do a slice and show me, and I say can you go thinner, and she will say that is as thin as the machine will go. (odd thing is, a different girl can get it thinner on the same machine)

Maybe I should pop over to England to get my ham.

I should add that I personally am OK with the thicker slices, but I'm working under instructions from she who must be obeyed who gives me an earful when I bring home less than super thin slices.

... when you get some sort of toffee or boiled sweet stuck on the bottom of your shoe and not only does it get in the nooks and crannies of your trainer's sole, but gets on your car floor mat and the break and gas pedals.

Bitch to clean off.

Are you Mr Bean?

Americans who cannot understand that it's an accelerator pedal that makes the car go and that, when you want to stop, unless you use the brakes your car will break.

Isn't that the loud pedal?

You should stop eating those Werther's originals Hedgey!

Wearing trainers when in your 60's? - that's just wrong.

Ageist pricks

Why?

Then tell "she who must be obeyed" to get the ham herself.

I don’t think people should wear trainers until they’re over 60.

You wear them then?

Been there, done that... didn't work. :rolleyes:

Then buy it how you want it if she can't be arsed.

So I should wear my slippers when shuffling out for the evening?

You can wear what you want on your mobility scooter.

Not to forget a DAB radio on full blast :)

I am so looking forward to that.

Hedgers has a wind-up gramophone on his.

Hahaha :)

Rule Britannia or glad it is all over?

What do you want them to wear in hot countries like Spain for example? and before you say flip flops it's illegal to drive in those.

I saw a guy the other day in his 60s wearing white trainers, adidas tracksuit, baseball cap and big white headphones, now he did look a twat.

Did he look bovvered! Was he Bovvered, Did you look at his face and was it Bovvered?

One glorious thing getting older gives you, is not giving a phuck what others think.

As for assuming age on appearance.... now come on! He could have been 45 for all you know.

More 'runners' in FNQ and other tropical parts of Aus than any other type of footwear.

I'm in my 60s (almost out of them now) and I sure as hell look it :D

Plus I now wear shoes with velcro straps as it takes me 10 minutes to tie my laces :(

I'm going to take this and respond in the retirement thread. :)

Hopefully legal under bbs rules.

Having “Driftwood” by Travis in my head all effing day.

Perhaps slippers, more likely stout shoes.
Trainers are for yoofs.

Looking forward to all this when I get there.:rolleyes:

Depends on your definition of trainers?

If you are talking about the typical white (and other colours) Nike, Adidas trainers marketed at the youth market - then fair enough. I find some of them ugly.

But there are all kinds of trekking trainers usually in an understated colour. And those kinds of footwear are extremely comfortable for people who may have leg/hip/foot/back problems and can't walk that far - Columbia, Merrill etc..

Anyhoo... 'they really should know better' 50 year old, bald, beer-bellied thugs can't do the hoolie dance properly if they aren't wearing the correct footwear.

Black is recommended in the Outback, plus black is Melbourne's go-to shade for everything really.

I reckon I've got 4 different types of black or mostly black 'runners' Hmm can't bring myself to call them trainers, feels odd.

Im.s!owly building up a collection of trainers that I always wanted in my yoof (Adidas gazelles, puma classics, Nike Cortez etc) I couldn't give two ducks what someone thinks about whether im.too old to wear them.

I think about this often, In 20 years time just as in the 90s when old people only wore beige, the elderly generation will all wear baseball caps, jogging bottoms and hoodies, as most the generation that is aging to that point is wearing that currently. Ive more and more started to see 60 year old looking skater men about.

Maybe the the young generation around the time will devise another fashion or start to look smarter, as that is how fashions start, with the young. There was a massive shift in clothing during the 80-90s away from smart to comfort, with sport brands taking the position as brands to buy. We are still riding that wave as the generations that grew up with that are now approaching old age.

Comfort does come first in my book, why where tight uncomfortable clothing if you dont have to.

Look at this generation when they are in their 60s with all their tattoo s and beards.
Anyway I am in my mid 50s and wear trainers, in summer it will be flip flops or sliders as I am told they are called now, so what. I don't see anyone my age dressing how my parents dressed at our age.

Those face scribbles aren't going to age well. I kind of feel a bit sorry for them when they realise the word 'innovator' or 'badass' over their eyebrow isn't actually as innovative or badass as they once thought.

I've got tattoos and a beard....best get the razor and concealer out in 3 years time then.

Thought you already had the consealer love😁

Only for when you come over and want face to face sex.

Not sure about the caps. Decided I can no longer wear baseball caps, just didn't feel or look right anymore. Went out and bought a couple of flat caps instead. Also had a straw Panama style hat for holidays for the last few years. Comfortable to still wear trainers but luckily never liked white ones. Similarly I've never liked wearing sports type clothing out though have found I've bought more walking/ hiking type trousers rather than jeans these days.

I look back at my dad, and he was just an average Joe, but he never owned a pair of jeans, never wore a Polo/Golf type shirt - always a long sleeve button-up shirt with the sleeves rolled up to his elbows, and I never once saw him in need of a shave. Oh, and never wore a pair of trainers in his life.

The complete opposite of me in fact, and I'm older now than my memories of my Dad.

Scissors that dont cut

They might be left-handed scissors.

No.
I know exactly what they are:

Kitchen scissors that the Mrs, despite countless requests not to, uses for any manner of purposes in the garden, around the house etc., until they are blunted or the hinge is loosened.

... my internet provider sending an email saying their rates are going up $5 a month, but they will waive it if we sign up for Autopay.

Hate Autopay.

So it's the Mrs that annoys you and not the scissors.

I'm sinister myself but have never tried a pair of left-handed scissors. Normal ones work just fine.

Having to bow down to a right-handed fascist dominated world does annoy me though.

That's very perceptive of you, however, in the spirit of entente, the seeking of a quiet life and knowing what's good for me, I will stick with the original source of the annoyance.

Wifey has 30GB of data on her phone but she still turns it off and relies on WI-FI. When I say for what you use your phone, you can't run out, she just shrugs her shoulders.

Oh well

I got most of my bills on Auto Pay (or Direct Debit as we call it here)

It does make life easy.

My nephew he is 26 but his mum still treats him like his is 6, he came around yesterday had a shower at our house as their pump has broken. Showed for about 1/2 hour which annoyed me then didn't even say thanks.

The wife has covid, but she hasnt got covid because she refuses to take a test....after 2 days in bed she has decided that, as its a holiday weekend "we" should clean the house top to bottom....she has now slumped on the sofa after an hour because she can't breath.

The stubborness is astounding at times.

Until they make a cock-up and you try and get your money back. You get the problem looked into and solved much quicker when you withhold the disputed amount.

To be fair I have lazy in checking and I cancelled sky as I didn’t realise how much I was paying every month and o am hardly indoors to watch any of it.

But I get your point

Porn...

It's better in the UK. The Direct Debit Guarantee works flawlessly from my experience. I have used it a few times, once last year from Mini Financial Services who took £12k from my account for the wife's car that we had already paid off. Phoned the bank and the money appeared back in my account as I was talking to the bank. The banks also come down quite hard on companies who mess up direct debits.

Eryri WTF is that, how do you pronounce it and why? What was wrong with Snowdonia ?

It's Welsh innit.


They can call it what they want but I still couldn't be arsed to go there.

You get a train to the summit. Where's the fun in that?

I empathise.

I also applaud you for your taste of classic trainers.

I like that style rather than anything big, bulky and garish.

Some people love trains.

Old neighbours.

Myopic, bored, cantankerous.

All I've learned from them is to, at all costs, prevent my world from becoming so small that I fixate about the margin of error of where someone else's recycling bin is situated.

Middle aged, so called "professional" (read 'arrogant'), neighbours can be a lot worse... even with recycling bins.

For those that do or even if you're a neutral, the train to Europe's highest station (Jungfraujoch at 3,454 metres (11,332ft for Brexiteers)) - goes through the North Face of the Eiger... where you can get out and look through windows in the rockface, after which you have the additional fun of being economical with the truth when you tell people "I've climbed the North Face of the Eiger".

I love trains, but have probably missed the chance to do some of the great journeys.

That Lloyds advert.

We buy any car adverts - especially the one with the wobbling woman in blue.

Overweight people should not be shown on TV 'dancing'

I thought with a username like yours, you would be welcoming ads from overweight people :)

Unless it’s for fast food

Coverage of Northern Ireland troubles with no mention of what it was like to be a Catholic in the 60s and 70s, B specials and being able to vote or have a job. Ulster fry was being burnt in your home.

Just wait for The Chase to add a new segment.