Cheers

[Serial_Apologist]

How do you get to Wales in a car?
One in the front, the other in the back.

Pip pip!

[3rd Viennese School]

I'm going on the rather ironically titled National Express.

3VS

"We are all but cows looking over a gate for half an hour"

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

All week, being abused, slave labour and deep mining in spreadsheets




and turn on news to nuclear calamity, war in Lybia, strife in the Gulf ... nothing changed then



smoking like


drinking coffee like

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

it's the moon, not my fault at all , world wide chaos and disorder innit a SUPERMOON is coming!

Here are some statistics for the Year 1910 in USA:


The average life expectancy for men was 47 years.
Fuel for cars was sold in drug stores only.
Only 14 percent of the homes had a bathtub.
Only 8 percent of the homes had a telephone.
There were only 8,000 cars and only 144 miles of paved roads.
The maximum speed limit in most cities was 10 mph.
The tallest structure in the world was the Eiffel Tower!
The average US wage in 1910 was 22 cents per hour.
The average US worker made between $200 and $400 per year ..
A competent accountant could expect to earn $2000 per year, a dentist $2,500 per year, a veterinarian between $1,500 and $4,000 per year, and a mechanical engineer about $5,000 per year.
More than 95 percent of all births took place at HOME .
Ninety percent of all Doctors had NO COLLEGE EDUCATION!
Instead, they attended so-called medical schools, many of which were condemned in the press AND the government as "substandard."
Sugar cost four cents a pound.
Eggs were fourteen cents a dozen.
Coffee was fifteen cents a pound.
Most women only washed their hair once a month, and used Borax or egg yolks for shampoo.
Canada passed a law that prohibited poor people from
entering into their country for any reason.
The Five leading causes of death were:
1. Pneumonia and influenza
2. Tuberculosis
3. Diarrhea
4. Heart disease
5. Stroke
The American flag had 45 stars...
The population of Las Vegas , Nevada , was only 30!!!
Crossword puzzles, canned beer, and iced tea hadn't been invented yet.
There was no Mother's Day or Father's Day.
Two out of every 10 adults couldn't read or write and only 6 percent of all Americans had graduated from high school.
Marijuana, heroin, and morphine were all available over the counter at the local corner drugstores.
Back then pharmacists said, "Heroin clears the complexion, gives buoyancy to the mind, Regulates the stomach and bowels, and is, in fact, a perfect guardian of health!"
Eighteen percent of households had at least one full-time servant or domestic help ....
There were about 230 reported murders in the ENTIRE U.S.A.!

hmmm drugs were legal huh ..

[eighthobstruction]

What conclusions can we draw from these figures on the alphabet associations thread....
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[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

it's a spectator sport

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

get stompin, get that energy flowing, hit the groove .....


bacon egg and mushroom roll huge black coffee ...

get that blood sugar up and no mopin ..

[eighthobstruction]

OMG....I've had a 3 shot Mocha and feel rather odd....

[eighthobstruction]

OMG....seems the bones in my brow are changing....and am growing hair on my palms....

....should be all over by tea-time hopefully....

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

...and did that metamorphosis reverse eigthO?

CHEESE



Only the extremely ignorant or the extremely intelligent can resist change. Socrates

It is only the wisest and the stupidest that cannot change. Confucius

no change there then .....

[3rd Viennese School]

I'm back!!!!!!!!

[3rd Viennese School]

Well. I must say. This Cheers thread is a lot more slower than the old Cheers thread!

Anyway, didn't have fish today. Or chips. No. I had cheese and marmalade.

3VS

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

wot no fish! we are all in this together and none of us has had our chips [yet]

marmalade and cheese huh

been a bit busy

[eighthobstruction]

I've been busy too....keeping the nation replete in [of?] cereal bowls, pasta bowls, salad bowls....what would the nation be doing without me....eating food off the table or egg plant leaves....

....son at home in between jobs, small house....workshop refuge....

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

yep it's the £££££££££ again, whopping confiscation of funds by HRMC [in relative terms], despite planning, totally unexpected cos of some b clerk in the pension fund company ... and this week SWMBO was whacked as well, an undercharge in previous years etc etc so now virtually paying to work as a Teaching Assistant .... meanwhile back in the Big City the etc etc .... no cheers today

atishoo atishoo we all fall down ...

je suis fou comme le diable et je ne vais pas le prendre plus