The middle aged thread

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Why my vids no embed????

I am waiting for my ear hair to get long enough for a comb over

Turkish barberbs eliminate ear hair, they burn it off for you.

Turkish barberbs eliminate ear hair, they burn it off for you.

On one visit I had my ear hair burnt off, the hair on the top part of the cheeks threaded away, and nose hair waxed out. Won't be going to that barbers again soon. Largely because it's in Syria.

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I had the motorbike, never did any of that stuff in the advert, in fact it was a bit shit.

Eddie Kidd was better anyway (he wasn't but he was a local boy).

Was going to start a new thread entitled 'do you remember'
About what the forum used to be like, but I can't be arsed so,

Remember when posting cut and pasted text would leave 'font' all over the screen?
It used to be all fields around here

I was showing my niece and nephew some of the school archive my mum kept.

School reports - from the days when teachers wrote what they really thought, not pussy-foot around. One teacher, a huge bully, who once tore up my chemistry homework in front of the whole sixth-form because he thought I'd cheated when I got almost full marks (I hadn't) wrote
Chemistry - "Conceptually beyond her".

A story about when I grow up "I want to be a singer like Peggy Lee". Which I think demonstrates a time when aside from watching Top of the Pops, and maybe listening to the top 40 on the radio, the only exposure to music you ever got was stuff your parents played. If they didn't listen to current music, neither did you.

But the biggest thing was reading a something that I wrote at the age of 6, which was a write-up of my weekend, where I had shut my finger in the door and my mum had "force-fed me wine" (explains an awful lot) and a different day when I ran up the road in my nightdress and dressing gown only to be "smacked hard" when I came home.

I'm guessing if any teacher read that now, Social Services would be immediately sent to intervene and I'd be taken into care.

^ ha! I remember my Dad absolutely pissing himself laughing at one of my report comments - can't remember which subject - but the comment was 'spasmodically motivated to half concentrate'

yep! "if she had been bothered to turn up at the right time, with the right exercise book... "
and
"Doesn't concentrate. Too playful." from the metalwork teacher who was bending over a vice when I hit him on the backside with a metal file. (I was only pretending to hit him and someone came along and pushed my arm).

my music teacher gave me a grade z once
nonce

Was talking about getting a turbo diesel estate, was told we are not that old yet!

i quite like those volvo estate/suv's sadly

"Lacks self control"

I had them killed, many years later, just to prove them wrong.

there was a weird kid who got caught knocking one out in the re lesson under his lord anthony parka,

probably on some register people really shouldn't be on nowadays
sometimes we catch a lord anthony parka wearer, and zip them right up, like kenny from southpark
#wemadekenny

also, round '84 some used to bring lino in and breakdance/body pop during breaks, one kid had an older brother who was good at graf, he did like a michaelangelo two hands thing with the legend ZULU NATION in a wild style type font, and we had it on our wall

Relax into it.
Treat yourself to a diesel Grand Espace,
acres of room. for 7 adults plus luggage.
Fine bike transporter.
Plastic body panels keep the weight and fuel consumption down.

the absurdly named qashqai has turned my head
again with the sadness

A story about when I grow up "I want to be a singer like Peggy Lee". Which I think demonstrates a time when aside from watching Top of the Pops, and maybe listening to the top 40 on the radio, the only exposure to music you ever got was stuff your parents played. If they didn't listen to current music, neither did you.>

I went on a school trip in year 6 and my dad let me borrow his Walkman to listen to on the coach. I chose "Wurlitzer Gold" a fine collection of "modern hits" played on a Wurlitzer Organ.
Other possible choices were Jean MJ Equinox, Dolly Parton, Tubular Bells or Def Leppard.

My barber has started trimming my eyebrows.

i don't really like trying to talk over loud music anymore

tinnitus

What?

Late 60s, early 70s:
Routine post-roast Sunday lunch afternoons playing boardgames to a soundtrack of
Bacharach & David, Dionne Warwick, Johnny Mathis, Frank Sinatra, (Columbia era),
then inexplicably Neil Diamonds 'Hot August Night', (a double album cunningly pressed
1-4, 2-3, so that the records loaded onto the autochanger had less of a gap).