The Hallucinating Goose

Councils are clever when it comes to how they deploy bus lanes. If I remember rightly, there was someone here in Hull who kept getting fined and they couldn't understand why cos they insisted they never drove in bus lanes. Turned out what it was was that to get out of their driveway they had to drive across a bus lane. So they were on the thing for about a nanosecond which was unavoidable but council thought, we can make a few pennies here!

That makes me think of something a comedian said once, "if you get stabbed police won't ever find the person that did it but if you are caught on camera driving in a bus lane they're bloody swift at sending you a ticket so the solution? If you're gonna get stabbed get stabbed in a bus lane!"

Finished this. Fantastic read about a normal kid growing up in working class Northern Ireland, one of my most enjoyable reads in a long time and already got the sequel ordered!

Totally agree, I have quite a bit of Irish heritage and I'm very proud of it. I would love my hypothetical grandson to play for Ireland. It would really show he recognises and embraces that heritage!

That is a really good idea actually!

That could be the dictionary definition of the sport.

That actually pretty much sums up a lot of my activity on here, especially when it comes to a couple of members (one in particular). When I first joined I tried to have a sophisticated debate with them but then you end up just getting loads of abuse. I won't actually stick them on my ignore list because it is funny to read their idiocy and I am gathering a lot of good material for when I write 'The Big Book of Brain Farts'! I cant help noticing that one member in particular that really is an annoyance is never actually seen on the rugby league parts of this forum, they are always just hanging round any other business and the cross code forums.

Don't have to go all the way to Adelaide, there's a guided busway in Cambridge, granted I'd rather be in Adelaide.

I'm not gonna expose myself if you're gonna call me a wazzock (that sounds wrong).

It's my ultimate life's dream to get my pilots license but unfortunately a few years ago I had a diagnosis that means I can't even drive a car. I am determined to learn one day. I wish I had been around in the 50s and had a chance to take a flight on that great line of planes, the Lockheed constellations, what a beautiful plane that was.

I'm in. I'll provide the flaming torches as well!

I'm about halfway through 'Paperboy' by Tony McCauley and I'm lovin' it! I've been reading a lot about Northern Ireland recently and this is one of the best so far. It is a memoir about the author when he was a kid working as a paperboy on the Shankhill Road at the height of the troubles and what it was like to grow up in that environment. Fascinating, funny and entertaining, highly recommend! It is the first of a series of 4 about the authors life and I will certainly be ordering the others off amazon as soon as I'm done with this one. ?

Someone at work has dumped a manky old washing up bowl and a cup with what can only be described as an alien organism growing in it, in the sink! Worse thing is though, when I moved the washing up bowl there was a massive spider underneath it! Now I wouldn't say I'm scared of spiders but I am wary, anything with that numbers of eyes can only be up to mischief. They're clearly watching you all the time. To give you an idea of the size we are talking, the mug in question is one of those huge sports direct ones and the spider is about the size of the hole in that. Well I can't fill my bottle up now. I'll just have to die of dehydration! Bloody spiders, coming over here, taking our jobs and our women!

These tend to be the people that all claim they love gin and "craft" beers as well and act like they are a completely new thing and they are the ones to have discovered them. Gin was first distilled in the middle ages! "Craft" can go into the category of buzzwords you're talking about as well. "Craft" beer. All they mean is a small, independent brewery. These are not new things! You know what the worst thing is though? When you say you like these things (I hate gin but hypothetically) and people just think you're jumping on the bandwagon when you've actually liked it a long time before all the "Optics" people discovered it! F off, stop lumping me in with all those pretentious #####!

Sounds like someone giving directions in some psychedelic Sci-fi novel doesn't it? "Nar then lad, you go down there til you reach the 2nd star on the right then go straight til morning and that's when you'll get to the land of green ginger!"

There's a street in Hull called the land of green ginger.

It's casually smoking weed in public that gets me. Just about every day that I'm out and about I come across at least one person just sauntering down the road smoking a joint with seemingly no care in the world. It seems to be in modern society that a huge amount of people see smoking a joint as the same as smoking a fag which is very concerning.

I just read that as 'cleared in my bank IN 1545'. Initially thought what you been sitting in city Hall for if you've had the money for 500 years? Then I thought that's a long time to be sitting in city Hall. Then I thought I know a lot of people on here are old men but that's taking the pee. Then I just stopped thinking, easier that way!

Cats have an average of 60,000 individual hairs per square inch on their bodies and approximately 120,000 per square inch on their underside. I have two cats and they have successfully turned my living room carpet white with all the shedding. One in particular is good at this. You can stroke said cat and come away with a pair of gloves on. It got me wondering just how many hairs she has, hence I did the research. ?

Been listening to Major Tom by Peter Schilling on loop for about 2 hours now. Adore that song!

Now now, we don't want to be giving the good people that go down Boston 13s a brain aneurysm.

Interesting, so people understood what you were on about when you said rugby league specific terminology such as, "ey up, bit of handbags there!"??

I can't even emphasise enough just how often this happens when I'm riding my bike around, at least once every time I'm out. As you say, they just step out without looking and don't even notice at all when you grind to a halt inches from them. So ignorant. There are so many people killed crossing main roads in Hull cos they haven't looked and get hit by a bus or whatever. Happens often enough that you'd think people would be more careful but I guess finding out what their friend is having for dinner on Facebook is more important than, you know, being alive......

How long do meerkats live? They must be getting on a bit.

I've got the box set and the laughter track disappears about half way through. I read once that it was because people in uk complained about having it on there when the show was dealing with such serious issues. Quite right as well, not really appropriate to laugh at such things. As you say, much better without it.