Why so anti?
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Toddy - I knew I liked you for your skills, personality and interests.....now it is LURV!John I live about a mile from Tunnock's factoryMy Aunt used to be the wages clerkess there.
Tunnock's have a bakery shop in the village and it sells somethings that don't travel well. Coconut meringues, and assorted teabreads for instance
We used to say we could tell what day of the week it was by the smell wafting down the Bellshill Road
If I'm down at the Moot next year I'll bring a box
Himself says the same thing about Wagonwheels as you do, he finds them a huge disappointment now.
cheers,
M
I can't wait for next years Moot!
You have it in a nutshell.
For me though the bands in question never did gain popularity!
Cheers
John Fenna and JohnathanD.
I didn't mention you find this type of person in every type of hobby or interest, as this is a bushcraft thread, but John you are right......they are everywhere lol. Luckily, and this is just my opinion again, I would say that the buchcraft ones get very little press (maybe some posters feel bear Grylls is part of the problem), and are not in the same league (or as damaging) as thugs calling themselves football fans or any of the extremists who 'tag along' to nearly every protest these days. These small and unrepresentative groups can cause a lot of problems, and make society as a whole very 'anti' to whatever they attach themselves to.
While catching up on this thread, two things sprang into my mind. The first and urgent one was that I needed to eat some chocolate (after reading about two of my all time favourite biscuits lol), the second was an incident I attended some years back: A man had been drinking and had a car crash. He was thrown out of his car and was lying on his back on a grass verge (but breathing well and an 'A' on the AVPU scale, despite being drunk). I suspected he may have a back injury due to the way he was laid (and the fact he had been thrown quite a distance too), so after initial checks, I went back to my car to rig up a neck brace as a starter, until the ambulance arrived. By this time there was a little gaggle of onlookers stood around him to, just looking. Because of this, I didn't notice the woman who turned up and shouted loudly to the onlookers 'stand back I know what I'm doing' and walked straight up to the bloke and rolled him on his side, without even saying hello. What I did hear was the creaky cracky noise of the blokes bones as she rolled him though (by pulling his shirt). I asked her why she had rolled him, and she said it is what needed to happen...To which I responded that I had suspected he had a back injury. She responded back with 'he will be fine now, as he wouldn't be able to breath on his back!'. Once the ambulance had arrived (the bloke did have a back injury) I talked with this woman, and asked her who had trained her to just roll someone over (we're not talking recovery position here lol), and she said that she had just heard on TV that you had to do it, or the casualty will swallow their tongue.
I'm afraid that at the end of the conversation she thought the advice she had heard on TV was far superior to the fact that (at the time) I was an army trained medic and ambulance driver lol.
Just like the bush crafters I mention previously, I guess the other people who saw her actions could have become 'anti' first aiders.
Time for more choccy now!
I didn't mention you find this type of person in every type of hobby or interest, as this is a bushcraft thread, but John you are right......they are everywhere lol. Luckily, and this is just my opinion again, I would say that the buchcraft ones get very little press (maybe some posters feel bear Grylls is part of the problem), and are not in the same league (or as damaging) as thugs calling themselves football fans or any of the extremists who 'tag along' to nearly every protest these days. These small and unrepresentative groups can cause a lot of problems, and make society as a whole very 'anti' to whatever they attach themselves to.
While catching up on this thread, two things sprang into my mind. The first and urgent one was that I needed to eat some chocolate (after reading about two of my all time favourite biscuits lol), the second was an incident I attended some years back: A man had been drinking and had a car crash. He was thrown out of his car and was lying on his back on a grass verge (but breathing well and an 'A' on the AVPU scale, despite being drunk). I suspected he may have a back injury due to the way he was laid (and the fact he had been thrown quite a distance too), so after initial checks, I went back to my car to rig up a neck brace as a starter, until the ambulance arrived. By this time there was a little gaggle of onlookers stood around him to, just looking. Because of this, I didn't notice the woman who turned up and shouted loudly to the onlookers 'stand back I know what I'm doing' and walked straight up to the bloke and rolled him on his side, without even saying hello. What I did hear was the creaky cracky noise of the blokes bones as she rolled him though (by pulling his shirt). I asked her why she had rolled him, and she said it is what needed to happen...To which I responded that I had suspected he had a back injury. She responded back with 'he will be fine now, as he wouldn't be able to breath on his back!'. Once the ambulance had arrived (the bloke did have a back injury) I talked with this woman, and asked her who had trained her to just roll someone over (we're not talking recovery position here lol), and she said that she had just heard on TV that you had to do it, or the casualty will swallow their tongue.
I'm afraid that at the end of the conversation she thought the advice she had heard on TV was far superior to the fact that (at the time) I was an army trained medic and ambulance driver lol.
Just like the bush crafters I mention previously, I guess the other people who saw her actions could have become 'anti' first aiders.
Time for more choccy now!
That's precisely why I get angry about seeing bad practice shown on the TV just for the sake of good ratings.
There are far too many sheeple out there that believe everything they see on the idiot box.
There are far too many sheeple out there that believe everything they see on the idiot box.
If a discussion of Wagonwheels and Tunnocks isn't off topic, I don't know what is.
Heh heh - 'Topic'! Remember them? Hee hee!
Mind you, the Tunnocks Caramel Logs are mingin'.
Heh heh - 'Topic'! Remember them? Hee hee!
Mind you, the Tunnocks Caramel Logs are mingin'.
WHAT!!! does this mean that if i get locked in a store cupboard i wont be able to make a tank from an assortment of random parts just like the A Team does?
bum
"What's got a hazelnut in everybite?
Pure milk chocolate for your delight ?"
..........
squirrel droppings
Is that mingin' the Glaswegian one you've heard up here ? or the meaning from where you originated ?
I detest coconut, but the smell of those being made as the coconut is toasted makes me hungry
cheers,
M
WHAT!!! does this mean that if i get locked in a store cupboard i wont be able to make a tank from an assortment of random parts just like the A Team does?
bum
Of course you will.
Mikey P.
I do remember topics....But that is not because I have a particularly good memory...it's because they are still for sale, and I had one during the weekend (I eat a lot of chocolate...and it shows lol).
For 'memory lane' choccy, how about a Texan bar ?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqqHbhnZBwA&feature=related
I do remember topics....But that is not because I have a particularly good memory...it's because they are still for sale, and I had one during the weekend (I eat a lot of chocolate...and it shows lol).
For 'memory lane' choccy, how about a Texan bar ?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqqHbhnZBwA&feature=related
Wayland.
I'm with you on the bad practice thing, but it's the TV adverts that annoy the most.
Like the compensation ones showing someone fall over, find it hard to pay their rent, and then be seen opening an envelope containing a lovely big cheque........They fail to tell you the cheque arrives approx two years later on average (who paid the rent in the meanwhile).
Or, the replacement windscreen ads, where you can just ring them, and they come straight out and fix it there and then. No mention of waiting for three days as they don't stock all windscreens (this is a bit obvious if you think about it, as the van would need to be a forty tonner to carry every type of screen.
So, back to bush craft, in a very tenuous way. I do like the latest 'go compare' ad on the desert island. But, I was surprised to find that hardly anyone I know gets the 'It'll be done by Friday' gag in it! To me that is the best bit.......But would seem a bit naff if you only thought it referred to the end of the week.
I'm with you on the bad practice thing, but it's the TV adverts that annoy the most.
Like the compensation ones showing someone fall over, find it hard to pay their rent, and then be seen opening an envelope containing a lovely big cheque........They fail to tell you the cheque arrives approx two years later on average (who paid the rent in the meanwhile).
Or, the replacement windscreen ads, where you can just ring them, and they come straight out and fix it there and then. No mention of waiting for three days as they don't stock all windscreens (this is a bit obvious if you think about it, as the van would need to be a forty tonner to carry every type of screen.
So, back to bush craft, in a very tenuous way. I do like the latest 'go compare' ad on the desert island. But, I was surprised to find that hardly anyone I know gets the 'It'll be done by Friday' gag in it! To me that is the best bit.......But would seem a bit naff if you only thought it referred to the end of the week.
So, back to bush craft, in a very tenuous way. I do like the latest 'go compare' ad on the desert island. But, I was surprised to find that hardly anyone I know gets the 'It'll be done by Friday' gag in it! To me that is the best bit.......But would seem a bit naff if you only thought it referred to the end of the week.
Oh dear, I have seen the advert a dozen times and never thought about that. Doh!
On the subject of chocolate, what ever happened to YoYo's looked like large viscounts.
Honestly, biscuit munchers the lot of you
This week's biscuit of the week is a Club Milk Chocolate.
http://www.nicecupofteaandasitdown.com/
I liked toffee Yo Yos
cheers,
M
This week's biscuit of the week is a Club Milk Chocolate.
http://www.nicecupofteaandasitdown.com/
I liked toffee Yo Yos
cheers,
M
Wagon Wheels having thinner choc is bad enough, but for me the pressing question is have Curlie-Wurlies got smaller?
They look smaller to me, but is it just that my hands have got bigger since it was my staple play piece?
They look smaller to me, but is it just that my hands have got bigger since it was my staple play piece?
When i was a kid i could get 3 hula hoops on each finger, now they just break when i try, is it me? or have they gotten smaller?
i,m thinking about contacting BBC Watchdog
i,m thinking about contacting BBC Watchdog
Lol here we go, everything is getting smaller, Im sure of it. Twixes used to be huge, even the multipacks of single fingers, they no longer then my middle finger now. Viscounts have gotten smaller as well.
I think we should collect all our experiences and send it with your letter to Watchdog.
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