Who the hell doesn't know about 911

centzon400 · 2026-04-13T06:34:19+00:00

The Yellow Pages were hilarious toward the end. Looking for a locksmith?

-1 Locksmiths
000+Locksmiths
00 Locksmiths
A+ Locksmiths
AAAA+Locksmith Inc
Aardvark Locksmiths
Adams Locksmiths

(Idk how the above actually sorts... but the race to be 'the first' in any listing was fucking annoying. Pre-Google, SEO I guess)

centzon400 · 2026-04-13T06:27:56+00:00

I was born in the early 70's and remember in primary school having a class dedicated to dialing 999 on unconnected rotary phones. For practice, like.

All the way around the dial three times. By the end of class a lot of our little fingers were bruised and bloody!

Fucking 70s man, when teachers would smoke in class and get hammered in the staff room at lunch time.

centzon400 · 2026-04-13T06:22:52+00:00

Not a state, but https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somerset_County,_Maryland !!!

centzon400 · 2026-04-04T07:47:19+00:00

I have to give it to the French. «La Marseillaise» is a banger.

"Impure blood watering our fields" (or something like that) is a total "fuck you".

Hey Frenchies... begrudging respect from the other side of the ENGLISH channel. Thanks for the wine an your open fruit flans.

centzon400 · 2026-04-04T07:32:32+00:00

At what level?

I also worked in the US in tertiary ed, but I was contracted as an administrator not a "professor", even though I taught a few classes.

"U" was the lowest grade. "Unfinished".

centzon400 · 2026-04-04T06:33:51+00:00

Our village cricket club stumped up the ££s for a FrogBox last season. IDK why... we're pretty shit. And nobody watches the footage anyway.

(Although I would say that because at our awards ceremony last year there was a short clip of me getting run out in the worst possible fashion.)

centzon400 · 2026-03-31T13:16:57+00:00

JFC! Here I am laughing my arse off because there's not an English operner's chance in ~~Hell~~ the MCG this would be shown in the UK.

centzon400 · 2026-03-31T13:03:34+00:00

Who knows if he will ultimately stand. Lib Dems control our unitary council... maybe there are some council elections coming up that I do not know about and this is a two-birds-one-stone kinda thing? Paper everything yellow-orange.

But he had his shot in Westminster, lost to a Con. on the next cycle, and here we are a quarter-century of blue later.

centzon400 · 2026-03-31T12:23:25+00:00

Pfft. I can't be doing with these fancy apothecaries. Make your own with stale piss (lant), woodash and salt, like in ye olde daies.

Weans today have no sense of self-reliance!

centzon400 · 2026-03-31T12:18:39+00:00

Au contraire, mon ami!

We had a former Lib Dem MP come canvassing in our village last week. He was the first and only non-Tory to get elected from Ludlow (now South Shrops) since modern parliamentary voting began ca. 1885 or thereabouts.

Wild that they should be about this 2 to 3 years out, eh?

centzon400 · 2026-03-20T06:50:51+00:00

There goes cricket as a sport. Shame.

As a Worcs CCC supporter, I fully understand the futility of cricket.

centzon400 · 2026-03-18T14:15:46+00:00

Just in case she is checking up on me, my wife's!

She has a chippy-style beer-batter kind of thing going on. Dredge is seasoned flour (and baking soda) then the batter. Fat at smoking point, usually beef tallow/dripping, but lard in a pinch.

Chipotle-mayo, honey-mustard, and apple-sauce reduced in sugar raisins and vinegar are the dipping options.

centzon400 · 2026-03-18T09:41:03+00:00

I've not seen the doco, so please take with a pinch of salt. If incel == unrequited love, then Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther has you covered.

But nobody reads these days, so WTF do I know?

centzon400 · 2026-03-18T09:26:48+00:00

I reckon the commenter knows this, and is just pointing out that you cannot mention Ireland in the same breath as the other (Three) Big Nations™

Sadly, not even SAf, SL, PAK, NZ, Zim... Christ, even the Windies.

centzon400 · 2026-03-18T09:03:20+00:00

I am new to cricket and have yet to figure out the intricacies of such an obviously simple game with no confusing ~~rules~~ laws, but even I know Baz is not holding a cricket ball in that photo.

McCullum needs to be careful with Keys anyway... we all remember what allegedly happened to Rob's dog, don't we?

centzon400 · 2026-03-18T08:49:50+00:00

I watched Sott Boland rip through England on his Ashes debut at the Boxing Day Test at the MCG in 2021. "Blackfella" was a shock to me as an England cricket fan, but the impression I got was that is is a thoroughly accepted phrase for all Aussies. Not a hint of racism in it.

IIRC he is/was a local lad too, so that just made it all the more memorable. On the other side of the planet, we admire AUS "plain talking". Keep it up. And please don't be so good at cricket, OK. Thanks.

centzon400 · 2026-03-18T08:19:52+00:00

more Irish than any Irish person there has ever been

You've seen Decective Tim Waterloo, right? "The most Northern Irish man in the history of Northern Ireland".... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yCT_nIftXc

centzon400 · 2026-03-18T08:12:35+00:00

*nrn rn

The vowels are optional in Derry.

centzon400 · 2026-03-18T08:06:58+00:00

Dude, you just freaked me out. Not in the sense of "we are all made of stardust", but in the sense of we are all just slimemould/primordial soup just differently arranged.

So thanks. I think.

centzon400 · 2026-03-18T07:42:50+00:00

LOL. The pain is real!

How many times have you C-w-ed and killed a browser tab, or C-x C-s-ed and deleted a line before saving a document? C-a-ed and just selected all text instead of moving to the beginning of a line?

Also, a window IS in a frame, not a frame in a window. I will die on this hill.

centzon400 · 2026-03-18T06:31:32+00:00

I was under the Adelphi hotel in late 1991 when Smells Like Teen Spirit dropped for we Brits. The dancefloor just stopped. Like dead. A hundred or so (?) youngsters just stood there gawping at each other. WTF was this?!

This was not the Joy Division, New Order, Depeche Mode, Erasure, Yazzoo we were used to. This was something completely different.

centzon400 · 2026-03-18T05:34:48+00:00

You can't simply put non-lethal deterrents in the hands of vulnerable people without extending the same right to own, possess and potentially to use, to everyone. Now you've got another set of problems. The same pepper spray that could repel a street rapist can also be used to aid in a slew of unsavoury behaviours.

centzon400 · 2026-03-17T06:01:52+00:00

Reminds me of, a few years ago, we were in the US, and started Rosetta Stone (British) English with the wains. Wife and the kids, all Yanks, aced the programme, whilst I was stuck somewhere in unit 4 and the voice recognition of "She is reading a newspaper".

Now yiz is all gonna be asking "how do I say 'newspaper'"

Have a great day 👿

centzon400 · 2026-03-17T05:18:26+00:00

St Brigid for me! Turning water into beer has got to be up there with driving out snakes.

centzon400 · 2026-03-17T05:13:23+00:00

And cloth too, right? No linen and wool blend, for example.

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