Passing Time Posted September 12 Share Posted September 12 2 hours ago, Shake me up Judy said: Double-bill of Hopalong Cassidy and Roy Rogers on Trigger. Orange crush in the interval. Marvellous. When it wasn't raining from the balcony. You quickly learned not to sit in the stalls 😂😂😂 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
La Colombe Posted September 13 Share Posted September 13 13 hours ago, Auntie Depressant said: What a joke. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ďouglas Peel Posted September 13 Share Posted September 13 The Sekiden gun with the silver clay pellets, wow! I I used to pretend i was James Bond,concealing my pistol in my Big X jeans from Woolies.Itching powder could be gotten from the seeds inside rosehips," itchycoos" we called them,not sure if ths song " Itchycoo park" was related ? Placing them down the back of some unsuspecting siblings shirt,was fun, only beaten, by going around with a dog turd on a stick.The kids today with their X boxes,and I Phone 14s dont know their living. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Expat. Posted Friday at 07:09 PM Share Posted Friday at 07:09 PM On 9/12/2024 at 4:21 PM, John Wright said: Frenchies. Run by Mr Parys, who was French ( well French speaking Swiss I think ) Didn't he wear a beret? Shop on right. King Street He did. And, as soon as the penny for the guy cash started rolling in, he cheerfully sold fireworks to very small children, one banger at a time as I cheerfully recall. And the matches. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kopek Posted Friday at 09:42 PM Share Posted Friday at 09:42 PM Used to scoop the gunpowder??? out of a banger, pack into a rolled up jamjar lid, with aball bearing and fire it at aa 'target'!!! Never made much of a dent but fun!!! Also, put a banger in a little mud hut with a Dock leaf roof, set it off and watch the 'explosion'??? Acetone in an eye dropper into the embers of a fire, great, fire and dust!!! Psychologists said I was safe and let me out? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kopek Posted Friday at 09:43 PM Share Posted Friday at 09:43 PM OK OK, keep your opinions to yorself! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alpha-acid Posted Friday at 09:45 PM Share Posted Friday at 09:45 PM 1 minute ago, Kopek said: Used to scoop the gunpowder??? out of a banger, pack into a rolled up jamjar lid, with aball bearing and fire it at aa 'target'!!! Never made much of a dent but fun!!! Also, put a banger in a little mud hut with a Dock leaf roof, set it off and watch the 'explosion'??? Acetone in an eye dropper into the embers of a fire, great, fire and dust!!! Psychologists said I was safe and let me out? Psychiatrist might disagree Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kopek Posted Friday at 09:50 PM Share Posted Friday at 09:50 PM Psychiatrists deal with neutrological defects in the brain. Psychologists, which \i referred to, deal with the effects on behaviour. Read it and weep beer boy!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kopek Posted Friday at 10:01 PM Share Posted Friday at 10:01 PM Perhaps just drop it, you won't win. With your animosity to your previous employers and your neurosis over your dismissal and how the beer has deteriorated since, maybe you could do with some psychologist help!!! Just trying to help? This session would have cost you some £ 80 and another 10 to go!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ďouglas Peel Posted Saturday at 05:57 PM Share Posted Saturday at 05:57 PM 20 hours ago, Kopek said: Used to scoop the gunpowder??? out of a banger, pack into a rolled up jamjar lid, with aball bearing and fire it at aa 'target'!!! Never made much of a dent but fun!!! Also, put a banger in a little mud hut with a Dock leaf roof, set it off and watch the 'explosion'??? Acetone in an eye dropper into the embers of a fire, great, fire and dust!!! Psychologists said I was safe and let me out? Anyone else have a " Mamod" steam engine and hold down the safety valve? When released, the thing jumped all over the room. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Expat. Posted Saturday at 07:29 PM Share Posted Saturday at 07:29 PM On 9/12/2024 at 7:25 PM, Gladys said: The window round the corner on Duke Street had the full panoply of joke props on display. I remember often looking down the pegboard which displayed them wondering which I could afford and which would not result in getting a 'scutching'. A scutching! For a second my grandmother was standing in front of me wagging her finger. Before she commenced to scutch she always said 'mind you yourself'. As in 'mind you yourself and do yer manners boy'. Now I think of it she had a whole bunch of sayings. 'She wore out more blankets than shoes'. 'It's no use going against the throw'. 'There's a slippery stone at a rich man's door'. 'He sees every penny as big as a cartwheel'. 'Moneys not found on the shore'. 'It's not every day we're killing a pig'. And the one she directed at me most often ' you could talk the hind leg off a pot'. 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gladys Posted Saturday at 07:48 PM Share Posted Saturday at 07:48 PM 16 minutes ago, Expat. said: A scutching! For a second my grandmother was standing in front of me wagging her finger. Before she commenced to scutch she always said 'mind you yourself'. As in 'mind you yourself and do yer manners boy'. Now I think of it she had a whole bunch of sayings. 'She wore out more blankets than shoes'. 'It's no use going against the throw'. 'There's a slippery stone at a rich man's door'. 'He sees every penny as big as a cartwheel'. 'Moneys not found on the shore'. 'It's not every day we're killing a pig'. And the one she directed at me most often ' you could talk the hind leg off a pot'. The last one was the hind leg off a donkey in our family version. The other term was 'old fanackerpan' although can't be sure of the spelling! Nor of the actual meaning, but I'm sure it wasn't complimentary! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shake me up Judy Posted Saturday at 07:59 PM Share Posted Saturday at 07:59 PM (edited) A couple of old Manx expressions I remember are: 'As dry as a witch's fuzzig' (To have a terrible thirst yessir) 'He's a bit of a spithig' (A pale and undernourished boy) Edited Saturday at 08:41 PM by Shake me up Judy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gladys Posted Saturday at 08:03 PM Share Posted Saturday at 08:03 PM (edited) 4 minutes ago, Shake me up Judy said: A couple of old Manx expressions I remember are: 'As dry as a witches fuzzig' (To have a terrible thirst yessir) 'He's a bit of a spithig' (A pale and undernourished boy) Spithag! Remember that, but I always thought it was spivig! Edited Saturday at 08:03 PM by Gladys Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auntie Depressant Posted Saturday at 08:30 PM Share Posted Saturday at 08:30 PM Spiddag is the spelling. Spithig is the pronounciation. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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