Well in addition to the Xmas stuff - halloween has taken off here at a serious rate of knots. Pumpkins, pumpkin decorations, "gather" plastered all over houses, what a load of complete toss....
Drawing pin glued backwards to the doorbell is it @costel1969 ? Or a 20c gumball machine on the porch could benefit the golf fund if the kids want candy that bad.
If I did that with the doorbell (and make no mistake I would if at all possible) - I would have cops, bylaw officers, CTV and the CBC News all over the shop outside the door. Delicate souls bless them...
Slightly paraphrased, but you'd get your 15 minutes of fame pal. Got an airbag detonator hanging about that may be interesting in a bowl of sweets.
We used to 'do' Halloween when lived in Glastonbury, had a coffin, gravestones, and other stuff that I built. Me and my boy Ed made a 2 foot big spider that hung by the front door, then connected the doorbell to a washer pump that fed a washer jet nozzle on the said spider so when pushed the spider fired 'venom' (not real venom it was water) at the kids wanting sweets. I've outgrown it now, cable tie the gate shut, might put squirty cream round the dogs mouth too, so she looks rabid and frightens them off more.
Our local supermarket now recycle plastic packaging, the soft type, not the harder trays that go in weekly recycle tub. Anyway, we have been taking the wrappers, cat food pouches, film covering etc down there. Put our wheelie bin out last night and realised it only had two small bags of rubbish in it, plus the old broken grille from the Leon that I finally swapped. Quite shocked at how much of our waste was the plastic film, two weeks with a tiny amount of landfill, guess that's a good bit of progress.
Telly Licence; I resent having to pay it at all, but a batch of radio trailers are being run at the moment to the effect of "Is your child at Uni? Is their tv licence in order?" Why would that have any bearing on a parent, if the kid's old enough to be at uni?
probably cos kids these days dont give a stuff about TV licence this day and age, they'll be subscribed to whatever streaming platform. I recon they're hoping can snag some clueless parents who'll spend out on a licence instead
Just thought, can you still get 'Mmmmm-Mattesons' stuff? Don't look in meat aisle in shops, but I remember having all the processed stuff in childhood, Polony and luncheon meat spring to mind.
Been looking at a few bits for Christmas etc, Saw there has been some new lego kits released for the mandalorian, sorry bit of a star wars geek, anyway if I asked you what Boba Fett's starship was called I'm pretty sure that you would answer 'Slave 1' As it always was since 1979. Well it seems that lego/Disney have now dropped the name and its just called 'Boba Fett's starship' Am I old, or is this one of those distancing from certain words exercises? I'm not racist, or supporting slavery in any way, I just don't see the point of changing things where no implications, such as baa baa nursery rhyme etc.
On another note - I was downtown today and that f$&king “All I want for Christmas is you” twaddle a la Mariah Carey was in full swing - brace yourselves! https://www.instagram.com/reel/CVz6SZPIphQ/?utm_medium=share_sheet
Have to agree with @Toyotec on this - you are old Brother (as I am myself) and we all now find ourselves in P.C. land, woke land, safe space land.....and on down the rainbow road we go.
Totally agree - whats next is superman, spiderman etc to be called superperson, spiderperson because someone is offended - jesus
Obviously you mean 'non denomination person who may or may not exist, but it's up to the individual and their beliefs ' there @ger16v , got to tread lightly, careful now, down with this sort of thing.
