@Geoffers – a bi late from me but great shout on Lloyd Cole!
Not that it was likely(!) but what a great call back!

However – I must take umbrage with “the 90’s weren’t the best decade for music”
and declare that the 90’s were…. OK and stuff.

Now, if this became a serve/ return of your 80’s classics to my 90’s then I’m sure you’d win but… hol…[Read more]

ah @pedant – I’m shocked that you thought I wouldn’t have thought “what would be a track that a Brisbane shopping centre might play?”
Though true, I then didn’t apply that logic to what I posted!

;¬)

However, I really did think about music piped over a shop, as its a story I have of my own stupidity.
Forgive me if I’ve already bored everyone…[Read more]

@pedant

it would get me out of the store pretty quickly!

@pedant @geoffers @whisht

I have heard this too! But it wasn’t a grocery store -or any ‘real’ store but a chiropractor and physio’s HQ. The music they played was that 20th century stuff mum loves. Not nice listening & a lot of screechy violins. Maybe they think if the patients can deal with the music they can handle the pain of a ‘cracked back.’…[Read more]

@pedant

Ri3hT!  It is a question I didn’t consider. A grocery store has an actual channel. And it’s an AUs store.  So….they would consider their market, how many songs they re-play & why & which is more likely to be played in the first place?

T16

@pedant

i’ve heard many strange tunes at my grocery store, but i shop there mostly after midnight, so maybe the store radio is controlled more by the employees then? lol

even this!

@whisht

The Music Man is Back! it is thane speaking. Mum is excited to see this thread hopping!!

She was telling in @pedant in Email Bursts (that is what we call them) about how at grocery shops she heard a song from the 1980S which had the words “forever” in it. 24 hours later she thinks it is Kiss song ‘Forever’  which is hilarious because…[Read more]

@pedant

Mum’s apologies Mr P, she didn’t read the first post correctly &around that time she was experiencing some dental problems which led to the DrDentist prescribing some codeine in what is labelled in ‘Straya “Mersyndol, forte” which is  codeine + even more codeine. One reason why she liked swimming in 15 degree water -it numbed her…[Read more]

@blenkinsopthebrave being from Bris, you’ve done this trek many-a-time so we decided to do something unprecedented! Take a holiday which involved considerable driving and renting a lovely home -self catered – in Springbrook. On the first evening after a massive fry up  – – @pedant ignore this: think, instead, of mushrooms -ah, nope, hang on, not…[Read more]

I was born in 1967 which makes me 51 and one thing I know, @bluesqueakpip m’dear, and understand, is just how much work the arts ‘creates’ -and that was back in the late 90s and into the 00’s.

TV is even harder. I’d say next to politics working in television certainly ages a person considerably -not necessarily in looks but as noticed in the…[Read more]

@pedant @margaret-blaine @janetteb @kevinwho @jimthefish

Sorry, late to the party again (still on holiday). But you all seem to have done your thing. I think the user’s comments are fine – not great, but okay. It’s just the stupid username that’s the problem.

If they change it, as they say they will, then I’m gonna leave it. For now.

@pedant

I will change my name if that makes me seem less toxic

Just trying to be nice

🙂

@pedant

I apologize if that’s how I came across I didn’t mean to be and Im just trying to give my opinion in a way that voices how I feel but not too over the top

Oh and no one loves me at *school* just to confirm not trying to be toxic 🙂

@pedant I was just giving my opinion that the deliverence of the scene was bad

The contents had good intentions but the scene itself and the blatancy of the message just annoyed me

My quote about eating gravel was a bit extreme I admit but I had no intention of being a troll or anything of the sort

If my opinions do not align with yours that’s…[Read more]

@kevinwho

It’s hard I know, I was doing it too. As @pedant said “ignore” because there’s absolutely no point. They aren’t listening, they’re clueless, they don’t tag people and they don’t respond rationally. These types never do.

Cheers, Puro.

@Thane16 – Happy to offer any cooking tips I can, Puro and Thane, tho it may not go further than – make sure you take the giblets out! As @idiotsavon (hi back) says – melted plastic is not a recommended seasoning! (Been there, done that too, I try to stick to garlic now 😉 )

@JanetteB Sorry about the cinema disaster, but sounds like you made the…[Read more]

Oooh… the pub’s still open, yippee! 😛

I see I’ve been missing some fun tonight! (My main computer’s very sick (but out of intensive care and hopefully on the mend now). I think my overexcitement at trying to download ALL the AG series on iplayer may have finally done for the poor wee thing!)

@pedant Thanks so much for the MERL twitter…[Read more]

@pedant  I used your Mothers answer today when Mr Winston asked me how long his chicken should roast for… “until its done” I answered and got a nasty grin in return.

@thane16  @idiotsavon and @mudlark  Quite a few years back my oven quit on Christmas Eve ( as they do) and I had  about 20 family members coming for dinner so there was much fra…[Read more]

@kevinwho  He was camp wasn’t he? A jolly fine job. We started T, again. Re-booted this time, like the Doctor did 😉  This time with bought pizza bases and our own tomato sauce with….bacon and cheese. We also had a small amount of  green things @pedant (just a few, mind) on the pizza like parsley, chive, rosemary and thyme 😀  😀

@mudlark oh…[Read more]

@kevinwho @pedant

are we tendencious about the tendentious?