Quote: DaButt @ 23rd May 2025, 4:32 AMThanks. He passed 20 minutes before I arrived. Just had a beer with my mother. I think I'll have another and watch some TV before I call it a night.
So sorry to hear that mate
love to you and your family
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Quote: Hercules Grytpype Thynne @ 14th June 2025, 11:57 AMAbout a month ago, whilst driving, I thought I could see better without my distance glasses, so thought I'd get my eyes checked out (which I have had trouble with for years!), prior to my 3 yearly DVLA eye test coming up at the end of this month
The optician confirmed that I could see better (not 100%) without my old distance glasses, but said she had heard of this before, which to me is very pleasing, but at the same time a bit weird!
I understand it's quite normal. Eyes change. How many older people need reading glasses?
I do (reading glasses), but distance I don't really need now, but only wear them to protect my one good eye, as a lot of people do
Ready to board a flight to Charlotte, North Carolina, before continuing on to Tampa, Florida, where I'll meet my daughter and grandkids after a flight from Denver. Just a quick trip to visit my mother and my former mother-in-law on her 60th birthday.
Two weird pieces of trivia that will only interest me:
1. For about 20 minutes, my daughter, grandkids, my son and his wife, and I, will all be in the air at the same time, but on different flights. I think that's the first time that's happened to us. (My son and his wife are flying from Halifax, Nova Scotia, to Chicago.)
2. My kids call my former mother-in-law (Wife #5 of my ex-wife's late father) Grandma, even though she's two years younger than I am.
"Please remember to check your luggage for firearms before proceeding to the security checkpoint."
I'll bet British passengers never hear that over the loudspeakers at your airports. 
Quote: DaButt @ 16th June 2025, 11:47 AMReady to board a flight to Charlotte, North Carolina, before continuing on to Tampa, Florida, where I'll meet my daughter and grandkids after a flight from Denver. Just a quick trip to visit my mother and my former mother-in-law on her 60th birthday.
Two weird pieces of trivia that will only interest me:
1. For about 20 minutes, my daughter, grandkids, my son and his wife, and I, will all be in the air at the same time, but on different flights. I think that's the first time that's happened to us. (My son and his wife are flying from Halifax, Nova Scotia, to Chicago.)
2. My kids call my former mother-in-law (Wife #5 of my ex-wife's late father) Grandma, even though she's two years younger than I am.
"Please remember to check your luggage for firearms before proceeding to the security checkpoint."
I'll bet British passengers never hear that over the loudspeakers at your airports.
We have to worry that our bottles of liquid are small enough.
I don't know about you but naming no names I have a couple of "friends" on Facebook who have had hit records. However they really seem to be humourless and full of themselves.
Quote: Chappers @ 17th June 2025, 12:11 AMI don't know about you but naming no names I have a couple of "friends" on Facebook who have had hit records. However they really seem to be humourless and full of themselves.
Right Said Fred?
Another conspiracy theory is circulating, just as implausible as the others.
Those include, the earth is flat, moon landings were faked and planes are poisoning us all with chemtrails.
The new one is: nuclear bombs are fake. It is impossible to produce a fission explosion, and Hiroshima was carpet-bombed with incendiary bombs.
Let's hope they don't find out the truth.
People like that are fully deserving of the 'dimwit' title.
...or perhaps of having the intellect of a boiled potato.
There was a post of mine, between SG's above and Lazzard's, which has strangely gone missing, without which Lazzard's response and my subsequent post don't really make sense. So I'll re-post it. It went something along the lines of this:
Quote: Stephen Goodlad @ 25th June 2025, 8:46 AMAnother conspiracy theory is circulating, just as implausible as the others.
Those include... moon landings were faked...
I know someone, not a million miles away from these forums, who is of that school of thought.
Quote: Billy Bunter @ 27th June 2025, 8:10 AMThere was a post of mine, between SG's above and Lazzard's, which has strangely gone missing, without which Lazzard's response and my subsequent post don't really make sense. So I'll re-post it. It went something along the lines of this:
I know someone, not a million miles away from these forums, who is of that school of thought.
This makes no sense nw because it's out of order.