Small pleasures?

[Mook]

5 hours ago, Captain Willard said:

Went to a meeting today and they were handing out free Marathons, Twixes and Worthers originals with the coffee. I will be going back there. 

What the fuck is a Worthers Original?

[Captain Willard]

7 minutes ago, Mook said:

What the fuck is a Worthers Original?

I think it’s spelt Werthers. Hard boiled sweet. 

[Mook]

7 minutes ago, Captain Willard said:

I think it’s spelt Werthers. Hard boiled sweet. 

I thought it was some blag Aldi version.

 

[Captain Willard]

1 minute ago, Mook said:

I thought it was some blag Aldi version.

 

No I just can’t spell. 

[Captain Turdseye]

45 minutes ago, Section_31 said:

I remember in Speke market half the stalls sold defective shit. Kit-Kats with no wafers in and the like, wonky pies and what have you. 

Speke market. Fucking hell. Talk about a blast from the past. 

[sir roger]

I hope you checked the sell by date on the Marathons 

[VladimirIlyich]

11 hours ago, Section_31 said:

I remember in Speke market half the stalls sold defective shit. Kit-Kats with no wafers in and the like, wonky pies and what have you. 

I think I was about 10 before I had a fully intact biscuit. There was a place on Lodge Lane about 50 years ago when I was kid that used to sell their defective stuff and it smelled lovely. My Nan used to buy them a lot of the time and they were great.

[sir roger]

Had a couple of relatives who worked in Jacobs and one of the highlights of my young life was a box of misshaped chocolate biscuits appearing in the house.

[Babb'sBurstNad]

Bit of a weird one, but that feeling you get when it seems like it's a different day to the one it is. 

 

Feels like a Saturday today. 

[Tj hooker]

On 16/02/2022 at 09:01, sir roger said:

Had a couple of relatives who worked in Jacobs and one of the highlights of my young life was a box of misshaped chocolate biscuits appearing in the house.

Me Auntie worked at Jacob's as well  and we had plenty of these .

[Captain Turdseye]

On 16/02/2022 at 09:01, sir roger said:

Had a couple of relatives who worked in Jacobs and one of the highlights of my young life was a box of misshaped chocolate biscuits appearing in the house.

I started there years ago and I walked out at break on either the first or second day, I can’t remember which. Probably the second day. The way they had the production line set up so you grabbed the crackers and put them in the boxes was stupid. My back was totally fucked straight away. They gave me a chair and it was even worse. I mentioned it to a little woman supervisor who was walking round like the Hunchback of Notre Dame and she said “don’t worry, love, you get used to it”.

 

Fuck that. Straight back to the Job Centre. Worked out well in the end because I got a job in one of the plants next to JLR which was walking distance from my house. 

[Fugitive]

Dying for a shit and as soon as your arse touches the seat, there it goes.

[KMD7]

On 16/02/2022 at 09:01, sir roger said:

Had a couple of relatives who worked in Jacobs and one of the highlights of my young life was a box of misshaped chocolate biscuits appearing in the house.

Ha ha was the same for me as a kid growing up in York. Our next door neighbour worked in Rowntrees and on occasion we'd get the misshapen chocolate bars.

[Captain Willard]

On 16/02/2022 at 08:55, VladimirIlyich said:

I think I was about 10 before I had a fully intact biscuit. There was a place on Lodge Lane about 50 years ago when I was kid that used to sell their defective stuff and it smelled lovely. My Nan used to buy them a lot of the time and they were great.

My mum used to buy broken biscuits in a clear plastic bag every Saturday from a market stall in New cross, south london and we’d eat them in front of Final score. Happy days 

[Creator Supreme]

On 16/02/2022 at 09:01, sir roger said:

Had a couple of relatives who worked in Jacobs and one of the highlights of my young life was a box of misshaped chocolate biscuits appearing in the house.

My mates ma used to work there, alway had bags full of rejected trios, clubs etc. Great when you had the munchies when you were bladdered!

[Section_31]

On 15/02/2022 at 14:16, Section_31 said:

The doc has asked me to measure my piss for the next three days so I have to piss into a plastic measuring jug then write the readings down. I'll be honest, it's extremely addictive. 

 

As if this couldn't get any better. I had to take my piss diary to the GP and discuss it in front of two medical students. 

 

GP: "You weed a lot during the night but you'd had a beer that evening."

 

Me: "Our kitchen is getting done and our water is off - there was nothing else to drink!"

 

Belly laughs from the students and a smile of admonishment from the doctor, to which I turned around to the students and gave them a thumbs up. 

[Bob]

On 16/02/2022 at 09:01, sir roger said:

Had a couple of relatives who worked in Jacobs and one of the highlights of my young life was a box of misshaped chocolate biscuits appearing in the house.

My nan’s neighbour worked at cadburys and we’d get boxes of broken biscuits quite often. The best.

[Bob]

This is the simple pleasures, and I’m not sure if this counts as it’s more of a massive smile raising proud dad pleasure, but hell I’m sharing it.

 

girl was off school yesterday with a sickness bug but was feeling better later in the day so we sat and watched the first half of the womens football and she completed her first ever full solve of a rubix cube!

 

 

[Babb'sBurstNad]

2 minutes ago, Bob Spunkmouse said:

This is the simple pleasures, and I’m not sure if this counts as it’s more of a massive smile raising proud dad pleasure, but hell I’m sharing it.

 

girl was off school yesterday with a sickness bug but was feeling better later in the day so we sat and watched the first half of the womens football and she completed her first ever full solve of a rubix cube!

 

 

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Nice. I used to just peel the stickers off and cheat.

[Babb'sBurstNad]

Did my local pub quiz tonight, and one of the answers read out was "Hungary".

 

Always nice to perform in front of a live audience.

[Section_31]

Being woken up by your own fart.

[YorkshireRed]

Morning wood. I may be old but I’m not dead yet. 

[Babb'sBurstNad]

Spring mornings. Looking out on the garden, the sun's out, birds are chirping, buds on the trees. That change of season from Winter to Spring always feels like a renewal, like maybe it'll all turn out OK.

[A Red]

Waking up with a hangover and remembering that the wife is away for a few days, then going back to sleep.

[Harry's Lad]

8 minutes ago, A Red said:

Waking up with a hangover and remembering that the wife is away for a few days, then going back to sleep.

Or waking up with a hangover, your Mrs who turned 60 yesterday is cooking breakfast and you're still 58.

Life's good.