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Also now doing a quiz 2nd Thursday every month at The Moorbrook, which DoktorB can confirm is a fantastic pub

I recently retrieved the PS3 and had another go at New Vegas (mainly due to the Fallout TV show which is extremely good). Bit clunky even compared to PS4 stuff obviously, but still fun and absorbing and worth a few hours.

I need to find somewhere as well. Not saying the last night under the old regime at The Moorbrook descended into drunken looting, but I woke up with a damaged violin. I cannot play the violin, and have never harboured ambitions to, but hey, free violin

Yeah, it's a bit VU, bit Patti Smith, but with British Posh Lass vocals. The fact I like it probably means it's instantly cringe and will be forgotten within 6 months

Not sure I've really had a journey. Not since 2006, by that time I'd already moved on from my lunatic teenage Marxist phase (which went into my 20s an embarrassingly long time). Still a fairly tedious centre-left dad. Wanting a government somewhat further left, realising that's unlikely to ...

The Child (not the one who is on here, t'other one) dragged me along to see Black Country New Road, who were inoffensive enough but middling. Support act was this lot who I really liked.

https://youtu.be/MovNWuNPXXE?si=VUTqq2IX8JwJM-qT

doktorb wrote: Thu Feb 05, 2026 9:59 am The middle-aged wee. Time was when I could set the clock by it. Practically arrange my evening around when to factor it in.

I've reached the point where before leaving the pub, even the one barely 6 minutes walk from my front door, I TRY to have a slash even if I don't need one, just in case.

I've got an even weaker one that that. I matched and online flirted with a lass for a while but we never actually got round to meeting IRL. She went on to be The Vixen from out of off of The Chase.

Ok, seeing as everyone on here except my kid is now ancient, what's the bleakest, most ridiculously old thing about you?

I have gout. I mean who gets fucking gout in this day and age? It's like having dropsy or the ague or an imbalance of the humours.

Pointless credentialism is my current bugbear. Not just jobs that specify graduate without any need - the other day a mate put me on to a vacancy at his place, doing same job as him. Got refused because I don't have a driving licence. He's been there 10 years and never had to drive once.

What's the most tangential, pointless, unimpressive link to celebrity you have?

My mam was Vera from out of off of ITV Sunday-night cozy-crime borefest "Vera"'s body double. Whenever you see Brenda Blethyn from behind or in long shot, it isn't her, it's a much cheaper retired librarian from ...

TarnishedGlitter wrote: Tue Feb 03, 2026 8:32 pm People keep approaching him to ask if he is Farmer Jim off Brassic.

Full disclosure, the bloke who ACTUALLY IS Farmer Jim off Brassic did comment on your dad's resemblance to Farmer Jim off Brassic.

Gibby wrote: Tue Feb 03, 2026 8:35 pm

KingsleyAnus wrote: Tue Feb 03, 2026 5:00 pm

I've even seen him pop on another of my sordid internet griefholes, but I didn't know where he was or what he was doing as he has a tendency to get Sensible Blairism on me.

Where was that?

I AM BEING SILENCED BY GOVERNMENT

That doesn't narrow it down

KingsleyAnus wrote: Tue Feb 03, 2026 8:04 pmWe THINK she was confusing me for someone who died in the 1950s.

And before any cunt says it, especiallly the fruit of my own overactive loins, YES I KNOW that I do look like I died in etc

Similar, but grandmother who calls me Charles half the time. She is pushing 100 though, and has finally admitted last year she dodn't feel safe driving any more, so there is SOME grasp on reality still.


My Grandma started calling me George towards the end. We THINK she was confusing me for ...

Beaker wrote: Sun Feb 01, 2026 1:42 am Are you able to start an argument with a brick, or are you more like your mum?

That is unfair. And only 99% true

Simon Evans, the "right wing hate comedian" (copyright some daft sod on Bluesky) has a good bit about the advance of technologies. Everything which was invented before you were about 7 is just a natural part of existence. Everything invented or popularised between then and 40 is exciting. And ...

Tbh him and mam seem OK with day to day life. Like the dad of Shite 80s Observational Comedy, he never got the hang of setting the video to record stuff, so tech ineptitude isn't much use as an assessment of dementia

My Dad (82 this month) comes out with some right bizarre bollocks, but I'm not sure if it's Alzheimers or just reading the Daily Express

Not a gig as such but I do a quiz at Vinyl Tap, first Wednesday every month. So tomorrow. 9pm, free entry, powerfully erotic bar staff etc

Beaker wrote: Sun Feb 01, 2026 11:46 am
Swearing is fine, provided it's in context. If someone goes Full Twatter and starts being a shitbag they'll get kicked.

Does that mean I'm allowed to call HRH Sir King Prince Charles a bummer or not?

I've even seen him pop on another of my sordid internet griefholes, but I didn't know where he was or what he was doing as he has a tendency to get Sensible Blairism on me.

Where was that?