How Was Your Day?

[LiberalFox]

On 26/12/2022 at 17:36, Benguin said:

In my family that saying is less about being alert to discrimination and more a jibe at people who consider themselves more enlightened than everyone else. Like we get it, stop going in about it to score some brownie points. 

 

For me personally it grates me as there are real issues in the world and we focus too much as a society on one we can relate to or ones that are more trendy. Yes they’re all issues but let’s prioritise them at the very least! Feminism in this country vs the Middle East is my go to example. 

It's an interesting point. I think sometimes people have different perspectives on things. See for me I care more about feminism in this country because I see it as something that I can be part of, that might affect me directly where as I don't feel like I have any agency over issues in the Middle East. One thing that is transforming my life for the better is learning to have better emotional boundaries. Becoming aware that I actually have a choice over the way I feel. In these days of constant social engagement it's easy to get overwhelmed by things competing for our emotional attention.

[Bellend Sebastian]

Went to see my Nan in the home. Not sure she's that arsed about anybody visiting anymore (she's 102), but was glad I went.

 

There were too many of us to go in the room at the same time so I popped out and read a thing in The Mirror about all the famous folk who've passed away this year, some very young. And here's my Nan, seemingly going on forever 

[Alf Bentley]

FFS.....I've finally caught Covid. Happy New Year, eh?! 

 

I reckon that Wout Faes gave it to me. He's been guilty of everything else today.

 

Only mild cold symptoms so far (sniffles, tickly throat, slightly shivery). Had multiple vaccinations so hope it doesn't get much worse. 5+ days of home isolation? So almost the same as normal, then?

 

If I don't reappear chatting shite in the coming days, you'll know it got worse. Anyone fancy picking me for Deathlist 2023......I'm a big enough name to get an obituary on FT, if not MSM, surely? 

[Jattdogg]

10 minutes ago, Alf Bentley said:

FFS.....I've finally caught Covid. Happy New Year, eh?! 

 

I reckon that Wout Faes gave it to me. He's been guilty of everything else today.

 

Only mild cold symptoms so far (sniffles, tickly throat, slightly shivery). Had multiple vaccinations so hope it doesn't get much worse. 5+ days of home isolation? So almost the same as normal, then?

 

If I don't reappear chatting shite in the coming days, you'll know it got worse. Anyone fancy picking me for Deathlist 2023......I'm a big enough name to get an obituary on FT, if not MSM, surely? 

...Bentley, one day a limo the next day a hearse....

 

 

Side note, get well.

Edited 30 December 2022 by Jattdogg

[tom27111]

8 minutes ago, Alf Bentley said:

FFS.....I've finally caught Covid. Happy New Year, eh?! 

 

I reckon that Wout Faes gave it to me. He's been guilty of everything else today.

 

Only mild cold symptoms so far (sniffles, tickly throat, slightly shivery). Had multiple vaccinations so hope it doesn't get much worse. 5+ days of home isolation? So almost the same as normal, then?

 

If I don't reappear chatting shite in the coming days, you'll know it got worse. Anyone fancy picking me for Deathlist 2023......I'm a big enough name to get an obituary on FT, if not MSM, surely? 

 

Ffs, didn't Danny Ward shout for you to leave it? 

 

You'll be fine in a couple of days, get some rest and milk it at home whilst you can 

[FoxesDeb]

I experienced my first proper earthquake this morning, and although it was fairly tame at just over 4 on the Richter scale, and over in about 7 seconds, it was still pretty scary. I never realised how loud they are too 

 

Nothing like your whole house shaking and rattling to wake you up in the morning though!

[Guest Lako42]

Shite. Been ill since boxing day and wasted the whole post Christmas holiday and can't go out as planned tonight 

[SpacedX]

1 hour ago, FoxesDeb said:

I experienced my first proper earthquake this morning, and although it was fairly tame at just over 4 on the Richter scale, and over in about 7 seconds, it was still pretty scary. I never realised how loud they are too 

 

Nothing like your whole house shaking and rattling to wake you up in the morning though!

It's terrifying to think that since the Richter Scale is logarithmic an earthquake with magnitude 6 would be 10 times stronger than magnitude 5 and 100 times stronger than magnitude 4 that you experienced. The 1960 Valdivia earthquake was 9.5. 

 

I've experienced a 5.2 quake and it sounded like a freight train coming through the front door. 

Edited 31 December 2022 by Line-X

[FoxesDeb]

27 minutes ago, Line-X said:

It's terrifying to think that since the Richter Scale is logarithmic an earthquake with magnitude 6 would be 10 times stronger than magnitude 5 and 100 times stronger than magnitude 4 that you experienced. The 1960 Valdivia earthquake was 9.5. 

 

I've experienced a 5.2 quake and it sounded like a freight train coming through the front door. 

I'd never heard of that so I Googled it and it honestly sounds terrifying, it lasted for about 10 minutes?! That truly would feel like the end of the world I think  

 

We did have one here, not long after we moved in, but we didn't feel anything, it just sounded like a lorry had driven under our house. If we hadn't seen what it was on social media we probably would never have known. There was no mistaking what it was today though, and your 5.2 must have pretty scary based on my 4.1 today!

[Jon the Hat]

I've been messing round with the family tree on ancestry.com, only to find the "we're all related to Royalty if you go back far enough" does indeed apply.  Born in 1525 or so an ancestor was the illegitimate son of King James V of Scotland, half sister of Mary Queen of Scots.  11 generations.

[Daggers]

1 hour ago, Jon the Hat said:

I've been messing round with the family tree on ancestry.com, only to find the "we're all related to Royalty if you go back far enough" does indeed apply.  Born in 1525 or so an ancestor was the illegitimate son of King James V of Scotland, half sister of Mary Queen of Scots.  11 generations.

Is a lovely way of saying a royal raped one of our grandmas or that great granny was a filthy whore.

 

One of our’s was Nelson’s doc who pickled him in a barrel. We used to have all the ship’s silver service with logos and everything but my grandad was impecunious, stole it all, and flogged it.

[Jon the Hat]

8 minutes ago, Daggers said:

Is a lovely way of saying a royal raped one of our grandmas or that great granny was a filthy whore.

 

One of our’s was Nelson’s doc who pickled him in a barrel. We used to have all the ship’s silver service with logos and everything but my grandad was impecunious, stole it all, and flogged it.

Hah, not quite, she was a Lady daughter of Sir Robert Erskine, 16th Earl of Mar, 4th Laird of Erskine, and she later married the 6th Laird of Gleneagles.  A royal bastard was acceptable in those days apparently.

[Daggers]

1 minute ago, Jon the Hat said:

Hah, not quite, she was a Lady daughter of Sir Robert Erskine, 16th Earl of Mar, 4th Laird of Erskine, and she later married the 6th Laird of Gleneagles.  A royal bastard was acceptable in those days apparently.

Ok, so we’ll agree on the fact that your distant granny was a slut.

[taupe]

Interesting start to it. New neighbours and didn't even know the place had been sold. Not sure what the protocol/etiquette is there. Best go and introduce ourselves I suppose.

 

But weird really. It's been empty 20 odd years. In all our time here, we've not had neighbours.

[Jattdogg]

2 hours ago, Daggers said:

Ok, so we’ll agree on the fact that your distant granny was a slut.

Or just had bf and got knocked up like so many people do who arent slutty? Lol

 

 

 

[Daggers]

5 hours ago, taupe said:

Interesting start to it. New neighbours and didn't even know the place had been sold. Not sure what the protocol/etiquette is there.

Plant leylandii.

[taupe]

1 hour ago, Daggers said:

Plant leylandii.

It's a thought. We cut loads of then down from the other side of the property years ago. Horrid things. 

 

We went around and said hello. A pleasant couple of guys, eco types, with correspondingly eco plans for the house, barns and garden. They're coming around later for an apéro, we'll find out more then. 

 

The house has been empty 24 years they said. There's heaps of work to do there, total gut and refurb. Don't envy them. They've no electric or water as yet so I guess they'll want a shower! 

Edited 5 January 2023 by taupe

[Alf Bentley]

8 hours ago, Jon the Hat said:

I've been messing round with the family tree on ancestry.com, only to find the "we're all related to Royalty if you go back far enough" does indeed apply.  Born in 1525 or so an ancestor was the illegitimate son of King James V of Scotland, half sister of Mary Queen of Scots.  11 generations.

 

Will you be changing your FT user name to Bonnie Prince Jon Stuart-McHat? 

 

I've been researching my family history for years. Go back as far as I can (ancestors born late 1700s) and all I find is peasants, agricultural labourers and more peasants. Lots of Irish peasants, a few Scots-Irish and Scots peasants and a few English farm labourers.....though a few subsequently climbed the greasy pole a bit through commerce, learning or military service. Almost impossible to trace further than 1780ish if your relations were plebs at that point. 

 

The closest I get to aristocratic links is (1) a great-great-great-grandfather who was merchant class and whose wider family were Irish nobility (ours must have been a downwardly-mobile offshoot); (2) another Irish peasant line that has an Anglo-Norman name so probably arrived in Ireland as sidekicks to wealthy landowners, maybe even landowners a few centuries ago.....but something went wrong and they ended up digging spuds with the rest of my plebeian forebears....

 

Like @Daggers, I have an ancestor who ended up with a few quid but squandered it. My great-granddad inherited 2 fortunes out of the 1860s Australian Gold Rush (from an uncle and a brother). He initially did alright, buying and running a coal merchant's in Sheffield, but then he acquired a regular supply of whiskey and it all  went pear-shaped. He still lived to 86, despite being a pisshead. My Mum knew him growing up and said he was a really nice man but still on the sauce. Her last memory of him, when she was about 19, was bumping into him in the street and several lewd, suggestive women calling him back into a pub. Good man, Tom, I never wanted to be rich anyway! 

[Daggers]

3 hours ago, taupe said:

It's a thought. We cut loads of then down from the other side of the property years ago. Horrid things. 

 

We went around and said hello. A pleasant couple of guys, eco types, with correspondingly eco plans for the house, barns and garden. They're coming around later for an apéro, we'll find out more then. 

 

The house has been empty 24 years they said. There's heaps of work to do there, total gut and refurb. Don't envy them. They've no electric or water as yet so I guess they'll want a shower! 

Mind: Offering to share showers is only acceptable if you’ve got pampas grass in the front garden

[Milo]

3 minutes ago, Daggers said:

Mind: Offering to share showers is only acceptable if you’ve got pampas grass in the front garden

Blimey.

Well there’s a 70’s reference I wasn’t expecting to ever see again! 

[Daggers]

2 minutes ago, Milo said:

Blimey.

Well there’s a 70’s reference I wasn’t expecting to ever see again! 

It’s a constant reference here. Wife swapping is almost as popular as working the allotment. 

[tom27111]

2 minutes ago, Milo said:

Blimey.

Well there’s a 70’s reference I wasn’t expecting to ever see again! 

 

Like a prawn cocktail served in a wine glass, with a triangle of brown bread 

[Daggers]

Just now, tom27111 said:

 

Like a prawn cocktail served in a wine glass, with a triangle of brown bread 

I can’t read anything now without thinking it’s a collection of euphemisms. 

[tom27111]

Just now, Daggers said:

I can’t read anything now without thinking it’s a collection of euphemisms. 

Ffs, I didn't even mention my prawn ring.

[Jattdogg]

2 hours ago, tom27111 said:

Ffs, I didn't even mention my prawn ring.

Does it burn after you eat spicy food and release the kraken?