The commercialisation of Christmas

First topic message reminder :

Uh  HUH!!!

No Kiddin'

We got a chrismas tree up in our street already.

Is this the first?  Or have some been put up elsewhere?


(now where's the Purdy and Purdy?)

My mate's Mam and Dad had one of those tacky signs: If you sprinkle when you tinkle, be sweet and wipe the seat

Dan Fante wrote:My mate's Mam and Dad had one of those tacky signs: If you sprinkle when you tinkle, be sweet and wipe the seat

we aim to please you, kindly aim to please us.

I can never understand that, because if you realise that you do it why do they not sit down and pee? after all no-one is going to see them are they.

Are men able to pee straight, or is there a natural curve either way? Because if one aims a hose through a 12" hole, from about 12" away, it would surely be impossible to miss?  

stu wrote:I can never understand that, because if you realise that you do it why do they not sit down and pee? after all no-one is going to see them are they.

I don't understand it either stu, one of life's mysteries.

Hi Kazza love been keeping myself busy, i'm decorating the hallway as peter sent a post to the old site to me and a few others and it had me in tears I must admit. I have posted one back and then cried my eyes out so instead of just doing the one door i've done three apart from frames on two,take care got more to answer-x

Kazza wrote:Are men able to pee straight, or is there a natural curve either way? Because if one aims a hose through a 12" hole, from about 12" away, it would surely be impossible to miss?  

It doesn't always come out straight, seriously, and if you're half asleep, or mangled.  As I get older it's an altogether longer and more drawn out process as well.

That is one of the reason's that I sit down half the time Sheldon, as age gets to all the males, once you miss a few times you say that's it. 

stu wrote:Hi Kazza love been keeping myself busy, i'm decorating the hallway as peter sent a post to the old site to me and a few others and it had me in tears I must admit. I have posted one back and then cried my eyes out so instead of just doing the one door i've done three apart from frames on two,take care got more to answer-x

You have a big heart stu - I can't find the emotion to cry for someone I don't know.   Best of luck with the decorating, can you start on mine when you've finished yours please?  

Dr Sheldon Cooper PhD wrote:

Kazza wrote:Are men able to pee straight, or is there a natural curve either way? Because if one aims a hose through a 12" hole, from about 12" away, it would surely be impossible to miss?  

It doesn't always come out straight, seriously, and if you're half asleep, or mangled.  As I get older it's an altogether longer and more drawn out process as well.

That's all very well and understandable as we get older and bits stop working and drop off, but there's no excuse when you're in your 20's!

(I have to mop up after my son and stepson...)  

Kazza wrote:(I have to mop up after my son and stepson...)  

Well it's no wonder their aim is a little off if you're stood right behind them, mop in hand. That could be really distracting.

Kazza wrote:

Dr Sheldon Cooper PhD wrote:

Kazza wrote:Are men able to pee straight, or is there a natural curve either way? Because if one aims a hose through a 12" hole, from about 12" away, it would surely be impossible to miss?  

It doesn't always come out straight, seriously, and if you're half asleep, or mangled.  As I get older it's an altogether longer and more drawn out process as well.

That's all very well and understandable as we get older and bits stop working and drop off, but there's no excuse when you're in your 20's!

(I have to mop up after my son and stepson...)  

Well I have 5 grandchildren, all boys, and only one of them thinks the rule about lifting the seat don't apply. He's only 5, but I cured him by ushering him back to he toilet and supervising him as he mopped it all up with toilet paper. Despite his rather entrenched attitude towards the lifting of the seat rule he picked it up pretty quickly when he knew he was going to have to clean the piss up himself. Two or three times in fact, was all it took.  

Of course I can't say what he'll be like when he's in his twenties, I have a 21 year old nephew and when he's not spraying it around like a feral Tom cat, he's trying to flush his mobile phone, or the handset of the house phone.  

I have been trawling the internet for an article I saw many years ago. A german landlord found he kept having pipework in the bathroom replaced. He eventually asked a local university to investigate and they commented that his steel pipework near the toilet was being eaten away by misdirected urine. Apparently he had put into his lease agreements that men had to sit when urinating!

Whether it was true or not, it did make me chuckle and I definitely heard/saw this on the BBC (so it must be true  )

Sam Hunter wrote:

Kazza wrote:(I have to mop up after my son and stepson...)  

Well it's no wonder their aim is a little off if you're stood right behind them, mop in hand. That could be really distracting.

 Agreed, I should learn to let go...(obviously I'm not that bad, but almost...have you noticed the neat bows on my shoes...? )

Nice one Sam you have me laughing too,all laughs on here today.

Advertising people are not averse to re-inventing the wheel for a headline:

End of the smashed phone screen? Self-healing glass discovered by accident

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Almost 50 years ago I possessed a wristwatch that had a self-healing "glass" which over time slowly refilled scratches. The material was a clear thermoplastic.