Admiral Draper's Really Really Boring and Totally Pointless Snippets of Information
Bluey
Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Perth, Western Australia
Posts: 354
Do we really knead more puns? Ooops, sorry that's a bread pun isn't it? A very shortbread pun.
Why is it that these days everything must be described as "an experience"? I have, in recent times, been invited to comment on my "shopping experience," my "viewing experience," and my "travel experience." Whatever happened to ordinary shopping, TV watching and going out? What I'm doing here of course is having an on-line experience ... or it could be a communication experience. Maybe it's a typing experience or a chatting experience or ........
Why is it that these days everything must be described as "an experience"? I have, in recent times, been invited to comment on my "shopping experience," my "viewing experience," and my "travel experience." Whatever happened to ordinary shopping, TV watching and going out? What I'm doing here of course is having an on-line experience ... or it could be a communication experience. Maybe it's a typing experience or a chatting experience or ........
Gnome de PPRuNe
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Too close to Croydon for comfort
Age: 56
Posts: 7,397
By the time I walked back from my pub breakfast yesterday, the scaffolding used for my new roof had been struck but as I approached the house I was distracted by White Van Man parked outside. Last night, a quick top up stroll round the block revealed my house unadorned by scaffold and with no Sword of Damocles loose gutter hanging over the pavement on a length of string. It's finished, paid for and no worries! Takes the biscuit... 
Thought police antagonist
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Where I always have been...firmly in the real world
Posts: 54
Originally Posted by BlueDiamond
Do we really knead more puns? Ooops, sorry that's a bread pun isn't it? A very shortbread pun.
Why is it that these days everything must be described as "an experience"? I have, in recent times, been invited to comment on my "shopping experience," my "viewing experience," and my "travel experience." Whatever happened to ordinary shopping, TV watching and going out? What I'm doing here of course is having an on-line experience ... or it could be a communication experience. Maybe it's a typing experience or a chatting experience or ........
Why is it that these days everything must be described as "an experience"? I have, in recent times, been invited to comment on my "shopping experience," my "viewing experience," and my "travel experience." Whatever happened to ordinary shopping, TV watching and going out? What I'm doing here of course is having an on-line experience ... or it could be a communication experience. Maybe it's a typing experience or a chatting experience or ........
) Anyway, you has missed out the key word......ultimate !.......when I was at skool, ultimate ment the last, i fink, but now, it means anything but as there's always another ultimate experience awaiting after the last one !.
Gnome de PPRuNe
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Too close to Croydon for comfort
Age: 56
Posts: 7,397
It's the little "statements" every company "has" to have these days that amuse me.
W S Jones and Son, Builders. (Bungalows a speciality)... "Construction on a new level."
W S Jones and Son, Builders. (Bungalows a speciality)... "Construction on a new level."
Gnome de PPRuNe
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Too close to Croydon for comfort
Age: 56
Posts: 7,397
Indeed it is a good leak inspection day, in fact d'you mind if di gest 've a moment to check round. If the forecast is right, tomorrow might be a good day for testing the upgraded insulation. P-p-p penguin weather...
Thought police antagonist
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Where I always have been...firmly in the real world
Posts: 54
Originally Posted by hiflymk3
You're all crackers the lot of you.
treadie, a good wet day today to test your roof for leaks eh?
treadie, a good wet day today to test your roof for leaks eh?
Bluey
Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Perth, Western Australia
Posts: 354
Less than three weeks before the sun starts heading north again...
No bird puns jimtherev? No fish puns? How wood you feel about tree puns then?
Thought police antagonist
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Where I always have been...firmly in the real world
Posts: 54
Originally Posted by treadigraph
Less than three weeks before the sun starts heading north again... 
There is snow in the forecast today - or sleet perhaps - I'll believe it when I see it.
There is snow in the forecast today - or sleet perhaps - I'll believe it when I see it.
And no gloating perlease from those in more southerly locations......
Newspaper headlines: Vaccine priorities and Brexit deal block - BBC News
Gnome de PPRuNe
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Too close to Croydon for comfort
Age: 56
Posts: 7,397
I've walked six miles across boggy commons and stayed remarkably mud free and more importantly DRY... but as I digest brekkers and coffees in the pub, precipitation has started precipitating; at the moment it's transparent rather than translucent and I suspect my final 2.5 miles will be damp and muddy...
Might leave before a third coffee - four women have arrived with a bratlet whose entertainment consists of a video player with some nauseating American Christmas cartoon... Please don't confuse me with a nice avuncular old man...
Might leave before a third coffee - four women have arrived with a bratlet whose entertainment consists of a video player with some nauseating American Christmas cartoon... Please don't confuse me with a nice avuncular old man...
