ewerk 39247 Posted November 12 Share Posted November 12 I thought series one was decent. Sat through series two because there was fuck all else on on a Sunday night. For some reason series three automatically started recording on my box so I put it on last night and made it through about 60 seconds of the tortured protagonist shite before switching it off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gemmill 63250 Posted November 12 Share Posted November 12 1 minute ago, Alex said: Btw, some of the shit Dibnah did. Like dismantling old factory chimneys in places like Oldham brick by brick with just him and his mate is fucking mental. Then for a hobby him and the same fella used to do stuff like taking apart old locomotives, cleaning and replacing the parts and putting them back together including doing the rivets and everything. It’s fucking nuts but I can see the attraction And all of it ripped to the tits on co-codamol. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gemmill 63250 Posted November 12 Share Posted November 12 2 minutes ago, Monkeys Fist said: Is Trigger Point the one about the bomb squad lass with a bog brush on her head? Mrs F. made me watch an episode- utter shite. That's the one. She's sorts her hair out after S1 but that's the only thing that improves. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkeys Fist 50753 Posted November 12 Share Posted November 12 1 minute ago, Gemmill said: And all of it ripped to the tits on co-codamol. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ayatollah Hermione 17238 Posted November 13 Share Posted November 13 11 hours ago, Alex said: My lass gives me stuck for sitting in the kitchen watching episodes of stuff like Man Alive and documentaries about Fred Dibnah on the BBC Archive channel on YouTube but she’ll be sat in the living room watching stuff like Trigger Point Similar story here. I have to slink off to watch things like Task and Slow Horses by myself because they “don’t look good” and the other night, I walked in and she was watching Girl Bands Forever What a demented species they are 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wykikitoon 28561 Posted November 13 Share Posted November 13 'Why aren't you in the same room?' 'Because you're watching Married at first shite and its full of bickering cunts' 'How rude!' /doorshuts 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig 12386 Posted November 13 Share Posted November 13 Watched 'The Hack' a couple of weeks ago and last night noticed the Sky box had auto-recorded 'The Real Hack' so gave that a watch. Really good insight into how the scandal was discovered and exposed and the efforts undertaken to try to stop it. Lasting question for me is, what the fuck does Rebekah Brooks have on Murdoch for him to consistently and unequivocally have her back? It's not in his nature to look after anyone bar himself so it's clearly something! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Carr's Gloves 4949 Posted November 13 Share Posted November 13 Fred Dibnah was a fucking legend whose workday would give modern health and safety an aneurysm. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wykikitoon 28561 Posted November 13 Share Posted November 13 4 hours ago, Kevin Carr's Gloves said: Fred Dibnah was a fucking legend whose workday would give modern health and safety an aneurysm. That episode where he went on holiday with the wife, only for him to chose somewhere down south a chimney needed to be taken down 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig 12386 Posted November 13 Share Posted November 13 21 minutes ago, wykikitoon said: That episode where he went on holiday with the wife, only for him to chose somewhere down south a chimney needed to be taken down She got a change of scenery, what more could she want? 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig 12386 Posted November 13 Share Posted November 13 Along those lines, my Dad was telling me the furthest his own Dad traveled in his entire lifetime was to Blackpool. They lived in the South Lakes, it was 30 miles. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Howmanheyman 43947 Posted November 13 Share Posted November 13 I think Scarborough was the furthest my Byker granny ever got and that was just the once with us on a day out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gemmill 63250 Posted November 13 Share Posted November 13 Kind of defeats the purpose of having a motorbike. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex 42157 Posted November 13 Share Posted November 13 (edited) 41 minutes ago, Howmanheyman said: I think Scarborough was the furthest my Byker granny ever got and that was just the once with us on a day out. For my granny from Walker it was Devon. But that was only because that’s where her husband was from so she and the kids went for the six weeks of the school summer holidays. While my grandad went for two weeks then was back at work. Otherwise it would have been Scarborough too I think. Although she’d been to Scotland as well. She had a friend who had a car and they used to go on the occasional day trip to Bowness. But not Bowness in the lakes. The one on the Solway Firth. No idea why. They both seemed to like Embassy Regal and a nice cup of tea so always took a flask and a modest picnic instead of actually, heaven forbid, going and buying a pot of a tea and a scone. Edited November 13 by Alex 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkeys Fist 50753 Posted November 13 Share Posted November 13 My Grandad drove to Venice through the Alps in 1964, with most of his kids and their partners. He lost his wife not long before that, never remarried but I do remember when I was a kid in the 70s, he’d go on cruises with “his good friend” Hilary, the dirty old dog. One of my aunts had a holiday villa in Majorca, and he’d have a fortnight there every summer. Man was a legend 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wykikitoon 28561 Posted November 13 Share Posted November 13 Apple doesnt fall far from the tree eh 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wykikitoon 28561 Posted November 13 Share Posted November 13 I bet that was a mint trip he did through the Alps. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Howmanheyman 43947 Posted November 13 Share Posted November 13 My granny who only went as far as Scarborough had three kids including my dad, he had itchy feet, hitch hiking to London when he was about 14 with another mate, he tells me of hanging around Westminster waiting for toffs to fling their tabs away before retrieving them for themselves. Anyway, after getting the KB from the RN the army took him so he was in for an initial nine years then signed on for another three so he'd get the army pension. A couple of months before his demob one of his mates who dealt with the demob stuff pulled him to one side and told him to extend his time by fifty odd days otherwise he'd forfeit his pension. My old man didn't realise his time in the glasshouse wouldn't count towards his time. I asked what he'd done wrong to serve jail time but apparently in his early army days his feet were still itchy. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig 12386 Posted November 13 Share Posted November 13 Allegedly my Grandad had the option to go visit his brother who had moved to Leicester but that was considered 'foreign' so he politely declined 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex 42157 Posted November 13 Share Posted November 13 (edited) My other grandma, from Burradon, worked around London as a maid etc in posh houses when she was young after the war but didn’t really travel much beyond that. The only exception being one year she came with us in the family holiday to Benidorm. She wasn’t a fan of flying so it was strictly a one off. However she fucking loved sitting in the hotel all day playing bingo Fairly certain that was 82 as we were there when the World Cup started and I think that was the same time she came Edited November 13 by Alex 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkeys Fist 50753 Posted November 13 Share Posted November 13 1 hour ago, wykikitoon said: I bet that was a mint trip he did through the Alps. My parents took me and my brother on the same trip when I was 3-4yrs old. I remember waking up one morning in the Black Forest, and there were foxes and roe deer just chilling around the car, and also vividly remember driving down a mad switchback road at the head of a valley in the Dolomites which my Mam spent the entire time with her hands over her eyes , gently screaming Also remember driving past the old Olympic ski jump at Innsbruck. Mrs. F. and I have said once the kids are independent, we’re doing it. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
strawb 5433 Posted November 13 Share Posted November 13 My mam and dad took his mam, who hadn’t been anywhere on holiday to Spain (want to say Benidorm but maybe not) before me or my brother were born. She wanted a quiche in a restaurant but asked the waiter for a quicky. 1 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christmas Tree 6701 Posted November 13 Share Posted November 13 43 minutes ago, Monkeys Fist said: My parents took me and my brother on the same trip when I was 3-4yrs old. I remember waking up one morning in the Black Forest, and there were foxes and roe deer just chilling around the car, and also vividly remember driving down a mad switchback road at the head of a valley in the Dolomites which my Mam spent the entire time with her hands over her eyes , gently screaming Also remember driving past the old Olympic ski jump at Innsbruck. Mrs. F. and I have said once the kids are independent, we’re doing it. I did that”is trip in 2010. From Brussels via annecy, Nice to lake Garda and then back up past dolomites, innsbruck, black forest etc. Best trip ever even though there was no gateaux 3 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkeys Fist 50753 Posted November 13 Share Posted November 13 CT-“ It’s the Black Forest! Can we have cake, Mrs Tree?” Mrs. CT-” Absolutely not Christmas, you made a spectacle of yourself with the Wiener Schnitzel’s in Innsbrück, so no cake you for you” CT- 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wykikitoon 28561 Posted November 13 Share Posted November 13 We're doing Germany next year ending up Crans Montana in Switerland for the mountain biking. Going to visit Sion to see where Marc Hottiger used to play I still have his autograph somewhere Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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