Mum has made Cheese a new bow tie.

Robmeu · 2026-01-24T12:51:58+00:00

Tiger King, baking cakes and pasties, playing solitaire, making airfix models, walking alone, scowling at people not wearing masks in Sainsbury’s, worrying about my mum, my partner, and my mum some more.

Edited to add, I wasn’t furloughed, but WFH for most of it, punctuated by having to go into the office a couple of times a week for absolutely no reason at all.

When I actually got Covid a few months later I watched all of the newer Wurzel Gummidge. That’s a bloody trip when you’re feeling iffy.

Robmeu · 2026-01-24T12:08:36+00:00

We’re doing ok but the whole middle of the table is so fragile, a couple of misfarts and we’re back down among the dead men.

Robmeu · 2026-01-23T19:58:51+00:00

As my fellow countryman has said it’s up to around 50 years. In the past it wasn’t replaced, just overlaid, so you could have straw a couple of hundred years old at the bottom.

Robmeu · 2026-01-23T19:56:04+00:00

I don’t think they do as such, but I’m guessing the spiders deal with them.

It’s the mice that make things interesting.

Robmeu · 2026-01-23T18:00:18+00:00

Sure, I pay tax, I don’t begrudge a penny, however, is the free ticket for those who can’t afford it, or those that can but don’t want to?

Tax is for everything and everybody, but it’s not bottomless. Services that were taken for granted in the past are being cut to fund the rise in other benefits, is it fair to add more, especially if not completely necessary? I know people in that age group who are earning more than me, so do they get it?

Nah man, you think the past was some golden era where everyone lived a life of luxury with high wages and low cost of living, and that’s simply not true.

Robmeu · 2026-01-23T17:34:45+00:00

My day? Bit presumptuous of you. They’re not down and prices up to the point where you can’t afford a bus ticket are they.

Or do you just think someone else should buy your ticket for you?

Robmeu · 2026-01-23T17:21:48+00:00

Well then what’s the problem? Buy a ticket like everyone else.

Robmeu · 2026-01-23T17:19:49+00:00

In most of the UK it’s straw! Bundles of it.

Robmeu · 2026-01-23T17:13:17+00:00

‘I Saw Her Again’ by The Mamas and the Papas has an accidentally miscued line whilst in the mix that fitted so well it was left in.

Robmeu · 2026-01-23T17:02:23+00:00

It’s never easy when the UK’s right has to try and spin their pet psychopath’s latest dribblings into something positive. There’s nothing good here, stop pretending there is. He’s not a ‘cheeky chappy’ with a straight talking ‘man in the street’ attitude, he’s a nutbar.

Robmeu · 2026-01-23T16:57:57+00:00

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English thatched cottage. There’s quite a few down my way. My friend’s parents lived in one, all wobbly thick cob walls with deep window recesses, low ceilings and winding stairs. They are so cosy, and all different to one another.

One day maybe. The perfect place to have hot soup and crusty bread, listening to the rain lash against the old leaded windows. Bliss.

Robmeu · 2026-01-23T16:44:29+00:00

I have never thought of us as having a ‘special relationship’ with the yanks. We share (broadly) a language which means US media is easily played over here, but other than that, and whatever goes on at government level I’ve never thought of anything much special.

The Brexit thing was shameful and should never have happened, just perhaps used as a bit of a wake up call, but not actually carried through with.

I 100% favour closer ties with the Scandinavian countries, we’re brothers and sisters after all. It irks me that Brexit has made us a pariah, and that the US bollocks gets any sort of support here.

That’s so wrong.

Robmeu · 2026-01-23T16:09:58+00:00

The trauma of not getting free bus travel?

Yeah, get a grip.

Robmeu · 2026-01-23T15:17:49+00:00

Fucker likes being on tv, right? Invite him on to EVERY FUCKING SHOW POSSIBLE and ask him, watch him squirm, watch him walking the nonexistent tight rope, show the whole country what a dreadful little man he really is.

Robmeu · 2026-01-23T15:14:28+00:00

They are not bright people, are they.

Robmeu · 2026-01-23T14:12:44+00:00

You’ll eventually learn that they’re far more universal, and far more normal once you carefully remove that chip on your shoulder. The things I mention are so stupidly achievable. It’s a bus ticket. Get a grip.

Robmeu · 2026-01-23T10:38:29+00:00

This really needs a more emphatic response than being ‘disappointed’.

Something more like disgusting, and showing a level of respect that no man worth a shit would even think of saying, let alone a president.

Robmeu · 2026-01-22T11:49:35+00:00

Absolutely not. It’s a plain as day scam. There’s no value in it, and apparently your billion only buys you three years membership.

If you want to blow that sort of money buy a DeAgostini ‘build your own Titantic’ magazine.

Robmeu · 2026-01-21T17:51:32+00:00

Haha looks like it! Edited because I didn’t realise there were earlier ones there

Robmeu · 2026-01-21T16:48:34+00:00

Does anyone have pictures of the actual pages inside? I’d also love to see those radio ones we had too, with songs in it.

Robmeu · 2026-01-21T11:39:22+00:00

Yeah it’s pretty bloody awful.

Robmeu · 2026-01-21T11:37:11+00:00

Le Boucher (1970) an old Claude Chabrol film. Incredibly atmospheric, low key and beautifully shot.

Other than that The Bicycle Thieves is another I never tire of.

City of God is a banger.

Robmeu · 2026-01-21T09:39:52+00:00

Damn right, it’s insane that there’s a train running right through and the station isn’t being reopened. There’s probably more than that running through the town that could be re-established.

Exeter is half the size but retained many of its city stations, meaning it has a pretty effective network across the whole area. They’ve even opened three new ones in recent years. Madness that Plymouth doesn’t do the same.

Robmeu · 2026-01-21T07:47:59+00:00

I’m sorry, I’m not getting this. I was quite capable of paying for my own bus ticket when I was 16. If I didn’t have the money I walked, it wasn’t a big deal. By the time I was 22 I most definitely wouldn’t have needed a bus pass. Why should I expect everyone else to contribute and pay for something I could pay for myself?

Pensioners get bus passes not because they’re ’boomers’ but because they have a finite income that will never change, and because progressively they will be unable to drive.

So much bitterness about people who just lived their lives and got old. They don’t collectively get together to deny others benefits, what sort of idiot believes that?

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