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Re: Insignificant/ Significant things that BYP or just wind you up a little
Posted: Tue Oct 15, 2024 6:59 pm
by Noggin
Re: Insignificant/ Significant things that BYP or just wind you up a little
Posted: Tue Oct 15, 2024 11:30 pm
by Scotsrich
Halloween.
Can you be Ba Humbug about any event or just Christmas?
We spend time and money recycling, buying bags for life etc. and generally being good little citizens then all of a sudden go crazy and import container ships full of plastic tat from China that decorate houses and gardens then go to landfill. Thousands of tons of plastic waste, millions of plastic costumes, millions of pumpkins all just dumped.
They talk about banning fireworks on Nov 5th. I'd much rather they banned Halloween.
Re: Insignificant/ Significant things that BYP or just wind you up a little
Posted: Tue Oct 15, 2024 11:42 pm
by Felix
Been in this so called council sink hole for the past 18 years now. Come Halloween we have been putting the house in darkness at the front so the little scroungers dont come calling. I just discovered last week that as a rule if you dont have a lit pumpkin on the doorstep or in garden area in general then they dont come a calling. Thats me sorted then as i have never bought one in my life.
Re: Insignificant/ Significant things that BYP or just wind you up a little
Posted: Tue Oct 15, 2024 11:45 pm
by Felix
Noggin wrote: Tue Oct 15, 2024 6:15 pm
Probably not as interesting as expected!!
If you are not in bed by 10pm then go home
Re: Insignificant/ Significant things that BYP or just wind you up a little
Posted: Wed Oct 16, 2024 9:03 am
by Yorick
Scotsrich wrote: Tue Oct 15, 2024 11:30 pm
Halloween.
Can you be Ba Humbug about any event or just Christmas?
We spend time and money recycling, buying bags for life etc. and generally being good little citizens then all of a sudden go crazy and import container ships full of plastic tat from China that decorate houses and gardens then go to landfill. Thousands of tons of plastic waste, millions of plastic costumes, millions of pumpkins all just dumped.
They talk about banning fireworks on Nov 5th. I'd much rather they banned Halloween.
Surprisingly it's huge here and takes over all the town. I don't go out that night.
Re: Insignificant/ Significant things that BYP or just wind you up a little
Posted: Wed Oct 16, 2024 9:23 am
by Cousin Jack
Scotsrich wrote: Tue Oct 15, 2024 11:30 pm
Halloween.
Can you be Ba Humbug about any event or just Christmas?
We spend time and money recycling, buying bags for life etc. and generally being good little citizens then all of a sudden go crazy and import container ships full of plastic tat from China that decorate houses and gardens then go to landfill. Thousands of tons of plastic waste, millions of plastic costumes, millions of pumpkins all just dumped.
They talk about banning fireworks on Nov 5th. I'd much rather they banned Halloween.
It's an imported 'festival' anyway, the Yanks can have it back.
Re: Insignificant/ Significant things that BYP or just wind you up a little
Posted: Wed Oct 16, 2024 4:14 pm
by Horse
Trick or treat. AKA demanding money with menaces?
Re: Insignificant/ Significant things that BYP or just wind you up a little
Posted: Wed Oct 16, 2024 6:59 pm
by Taipan
I'm all for Halloween. Wish we made as much as it as the yanks do. It can be a real community thing and we need more of that. We get a couple of bags of choccie bars and hand them out to the kids in their outfits. Lovely to see their outfits and each year we see more effort going into it an the houses get decorated a bit better each year too. More festivals please!
Re: Insignificant/ Significant things that BYP or just wind you up a little
Posted: Wed Oct 16, 2024 7:04 pm
by KungFooBob
Ban it!
I hate to see people having fun, especially children.
Re: Insignificant/ Significant things that BYP or just wind you up a little
Posted: Wed Oct 16, 2024 7:04 pm
by ChrisW
Horse wrote: Wed Oct 16, 2024 4:14 pm
Trick or treat. AKA demanding money with menaces?
You miserable old bugger!
We get a small percentage of irksome older teens but in the main it's primary school kids with happy parents standing a couple of metres back.
I much prefer it to Christmas.
Re: Insignificant/ Significant things that BYP or just wind you up a little
Posted: Wed Oct 16, 2024 8:33 pm
by Horse
ChrisW wrote: Wed Oct 16, 2024 7:04 pm
Horse wrote: Wed Oct 16, 2024 4:14 pm
Trick or treat. AKA demanding money with menaces?
You miserable old bugger!
I was brought up with Nov 5th being the important day, 'penny for the Guy's, etc. Ok, it might not be too PC now, but at least making a Guy involved some effort.
Re: Insignificant/ Significant things that BYP or just wind you up a little
Posted: Wed Oct 16, 2024 8:35 pm
by Mr. Dazzle
Screws, punctures, and fancy foam lined Pireillis which cost £275.
For anyone who saw my "where my tyre pressure at?" thread in the mechanics section, this was the other front wheel
Re: Insignificant/ Significant things that BYP or just wind you up a little
Posted: Wed Oct 16, 2024 8:52 pm
by Skub
We no longer get kids doing 'Halloween Rhyming' as it used to be know here. Mrs.Skub used to buy a load of sweets n' schitt for the callers,but the patents must be too scared of stranger danger to let them out now.
It's just another retail event these days.
Re: Insignificant/ Significant things that BYP or just wind you up a little
Posted: Wed Oct 16, 2024 8:56 pm
by KungFooBob
Skub wrote: Wed Oct 16, 2024 8:52 pm
We no longer get kids doing 'Halloween Rhyming' as it used to be know here. Mrs.Skub used to buy a load of sweets n' schitt for the callers,but the patents must be too scared of stranger danger to let them out now.
It's just another retail event these days.
Yeah, it's really been cut back here too, strangely after the year I injected all the milky ways with bleach.
Re: Insignificant/ Significant things that BYP or just wind you up a little
Posted: Wed Oct 16, 2024 8:57 pm
by ChrisW
Horse wrote: Wed Oct 16, 2024 8:33 pm
ChrisW wrote: Wed Oct 16, 2024 7:04 pm
Horse wrote: Wed Oct 16, 2024 4:14 pm
Trick or treat. AKA demanding money with menaces?
You miserable old bugger!
I was brought up with Nov 5th being the important day, 'penny for the Guy's, etc. Ok, it might not be too PC now, but at least making a Guy involved some effort.
Yep, you've got a point there. I still enjoy it though!
Re: Insignificant/ Significant things that BYP or just wind you up a little
Posted: Sun Oct 20, 2024 8:03 am
by Count Steer
Horse wrote: Wed Oct 16, 2024 8:33 pm
ChrisW wrote: Wed Oct 16, 2024 7:04 pm
Horse wrote: Wed Oct 16, 2024 4:14 pm
Trick or treat. AKA demanding money with menaces?
You miserable old bugger!
I was brought up with Nov 5th being the important day, 'penny for the Guy's, etc. Ok, it might not be too PC now, but at least making a Guy involved some effort.
We were old school and had 'Mischievous Night' - knocking on doors was involved but no demands for treats/money...we ran away.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mischief_Night
We did do 'penny for the guy' too but that didn't involve any bothering of people in their homes, just standard ragamuffin begging type activity.
Re: Insignificant/ Significant things that BYP or just wind you up a little
Posted: Sun Oct 20, 2024 9:53 am
by demographic
More of less insignificant but a minor irritation is People Cutting Onions Up RONG!
And while I'm I'm on the subject, when they complain about onions causing tears whilst cutting and not understanding that a properly sharp knife greatly lessens the spray of teargas the onion chucks out.
Fuckwits are probably cutting against a glass chopping board as well.
Re: Insignificant/ Significant things that BYP or just wind you up a little
Posted: Sun Oct 20, 2024 11:22 am
by Taipan
Prime Video. FFS I pay to have this and yet most films I want to see are £3.49 on top!
Re: Insignificant/ Significant things that BYP or just wind you up a little
Posted: Sun Oct 20, 2024 11:36 am
by Horse
demographic wrote: Sun Oct 20, 2024 9:53 am
More of less insignificant but a minor irritation is People Cutting Onions Up RONG!
Hint?
I didn't know there was a right or wrong.
Re: Insignificant/ Significant things that BYP or just wind you up a little
Posted: Sun Oct 20, 2024 11:58 am
by Druid
Horse wrote: Sun Oct 20, 2024 11:36 am
demographic wrote: Sun Oct 20, 2024 9:53 am
More of less insignificant but a minor irritation is People Cutting Onions Up RONG!
Hint?
I didn't know there was a right or wrong.
Apparently the way I do it is wrong, and the way my wife does it is right
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