The totally off-topic thread

[drron]

Yes retracing our holiday in the Yorkshire district.
Love the Tour!

I don't recognise the place.Blue sky!

 

[rogerkambah]

Yes retracing our holiday in the Yorkshire district.
Love the Tour!

Me too, but then I was born there. Going back for 10 days in September as part of our BKK HEL BUD PRG LHR tour. Looking forward to the next 3 weeks of Le Tour!

 

[ellen10]

I don't recognise the place.Blue sky!

We did get some blue sky whilst there
Just went past Aysgarth Falls, we went there and yes I remember those stone walls!

 

[drron]

Love the sheep dyed yellow.
And I too remember those walls.

 

[Simo]

I want summer back...

I hate winter.

 

[Princess Fiona]

I want summer back...

I hate winter.

Come up to CNS, everyone's in shorts

 

[medhead]

Come up to CNS, everyone's in shorts

I'm in shorts in Adelaide. In fact bumped into a bloke in the supermarket who I worked with 15 years ago and he said "you're still in shorts and tshirt".

 

[Simo]

Come up to CNS, everyone's in shorts

I wrote that post after seeing your check in on Foursquare.

I am from Mky way so still not use to winter down in SEQ.

 

[anat0l]

Seeing as where I am going to be, I should be developing a cold endurance as this kind of nightly weather should be elementary. Instead, I'm still rather cold just wearing my Qantas Business PJs and feel if I don't take adequate measures to protect myself from the cold, it is going to flare up again.


In other news, I hadn't started one of my folks' cars for a while and today I found out it was flat. RACQ came over to lend a jump. It was then I was told that the battery appeared to be manufactured by the lowest bidder. That would explain why driving it at minimum weekly would be somewhat necessary.

 

[amaroo]

Come up to CNS, everyone's in shorts

Sunny Coast and shorts go together

 

[anat0l]

From Are You Being Served...

[Captain Peacock, Mr Humphries, Mrs Slocombe and Miss Brahms are out at a fancy restaurant hoping to sit down to dinner with a rich person, but their night has just turned for the worst]
Captain Peacock: Er, garcon?
Waiter: Sir.
P: We ordered pheasant, lobster, venison, pate de foie gras, guinea fowl and Champagne. I'd like to make a slight alteration.
W: Certainly, sir. What would you like?
P: Egg and chips - four times - and a pot of tea!


The funny part of this little sequence partly stems from first that Captain Peacock addresses the waiter as "garcon". The waiter is not only not French and they are not necessarily at a French restaurant (although all of those dishes certainly could appear on any good French restaurant menu), but apart from that it either highlights a feature of the era in which the series was made, or simply a perpetuated comic / sitcom element in restaurant scenes. These days, it would be extremely offensive to address a waiter (I would hazard a guess, even a very junior one) as "garcon" (French for "boy"). That said, given the Captain was somewhat annoyed in this scene, it made that address even funnier.

This also seemed to remind me of a scene in Frasier when Frasier had the apartment set for a date, but the night eventually ended with the date leaving prematurely without them even sitting down for dinner. After the date left, Frasier's dog saw fit to have carte blanche on helping himself to the date's intended portion, much to Frasier's annoyance.

Maybe even funnier is that a posh restaurant may permit one to order egg and chips, one of the most defining working class dinners one could ever think of!

 

[drron]

Well in the mid 1990s we were dining in the Domus of the Royal Society of Medicine and those proper English medicos were addressing the waiters as "Boy".
No wonder though by the end of the week the waiters would be all around our table finding out what our day was like.

Back to Le Tour-A Jens Voight quote-If you go (with a break), you can either win or not win. If you don't go for it, you definitely won't win.
Well today he didn't win though he is King of the Mountain on this stage.

 

[ellen10]

King of the mountain sounds good.
Loved driving up Buttertops.

Lack of sleep setting in. The World cup penalty shoot out was a cracker this morning.

 

[TomVexille]

Season 2 is stronger IMO

Excellent. Will have to get around to watching it.

 

[anat0l]

Anyone remember, ever owned or miss water beds?

 

[straitman]

Anyone remember, ever owned or miss water beds?

A friend of ours still has one.

 

[OATEK]

Anyone remember, ever owned or miss water beds?

Reminds me about the friend who used to wake in a cold sweat. Had a lot of tests until eventually her husband worked out there was a pin hole in their water bed.

 

[JohnM]

Anyone remember, ever owned or miss water beds?

A close friend of mine (aka PartnerJohnM) still has one. I guess it's a matter of getting the fill right, but I find a water bed hard to turn over in without setting up a tsunami. But, nocturnally, she visits me more frequently than I visit her .

 

[mrs.dr.ron]

I guess it's a matter of getting the fill right, but I find a water bed hard to turn over in without setting up a tsunami..

We slept on one for 3 weeks 20 years ago ! Turned me off them for life, every time Ron got in or out of bed, I would have to hang on and ride the wave :shock:

 

[Duffa]

How out of date is "out-of-date"
Had this last night and so far so good...............


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