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Thread Author: Bigtee	Replies: 136

New Tue 14 Feb 12 12:37   Are we taking them out on Valentines? - Bigtee

It's here again did you get the other half a card & pressie and taking them out tonight? And you may get lucky later! Or not and another night infront of the telly? Were off out she thinks it's a nice change only cos i didn't Friday gone or weekend as was working. :-) Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 14 Feb 12 12:49   Are we taking them out on Valentines? - Zero

Flowers this morning - Yellow Roses, and this evening off to ASK for a meal and a glass of prosecco. Last edited by: Zero on Tue 14 Feb 12 at 12:49 Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 14 Feb 12 15:48   Are we taking them out on Valentines? - Meldrew

On a discount voucher I hope zero. I am having my dinner tomorrow - a bargain £20 for two package from the local Waitrose Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 14 Feb 12 12:49   Are we taking them out on Valentines? - Skip

"It's here again did you get the other half a card & pressie and taking them out tonight?" NO ! :-) Last edited by: Skip on Tue 14 Feb 12 at 12:49 Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 14 Feb 12 12:50   Are we taking them out on Valentines? - Zero

I see romance is alive and well and living in the Skip residence. Reply to this message | Report message       1

New Tue 14 Feb 12 12:59   Are we taking them out on Valentines? - Skip

To be honest I had forgotten all about it until I wrote the date for the first time at work this morning. I do usually buy er indoors a card, (i hear that Asda are selling a Smart Price one for 7p this year, so might try & get one of these half price tomorrow !). Anyway I always understood that Valentines Day was when you sent a semi anonymous card to someone you were after in the hope that they would guess who you were, not to spend a fortune on overprced flowers, tacky gifts and packed restaurants on someone you are already stuck with. Reply to this message | Report message       5

New Tue 14 Feb 12 13:11   Are we taking them out on Valentines? - Dog

>>Anyway I always understood that Valentines Day was when you sent a semi anonymous card to someone you were after in the hope that they would guess who you were, not to spend a fortune on overprced flowers, tacky gifts and packed restaurants on someone you are already stuck with<< That's always been my thinking, and I'm sticking to it! Reply to this message | Report message       4

New Tue 14 Feb 12 13:40   Are we taking them out on Valentines? - Armel Coussine

>> tacky gifts and packed restaurants on someone you are already stuck with. Heh heh... packed restaurants make me feel ill and rob me of appetite. But romance isn't dead here, although it is sometimes difficult for outsiders to recognize being set about with irony, sarcasm and outbursts of insane rage. I did get a card though. So did herself, from the same highly winsome nine-year-old. Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 14 Feb 12 16:03   Are we taking them out on Valentines? - CGNorwich

"i hear that Asda are selling a Smart Price one for 7p this year, so might try & get one of these half price tomorrow" Send an ecard - it's cheaper. Reply to this message | Report message

New Fri 17 Feb 12 12:47   Are we taking them out on Valentines? - Skip

"It's here again did you get the other half a card & pressie and taking them out tonight?" NO ! :-)" Well I treated the enenmy to a dozen red roses last night as a belated valentines gift - they were knocked down to 75p in Asda !!!! Judging by the amount of flowers, pink & heart shaped stuff being cleared out I guess that they had seriously over estimated the number of loved up couples living in the area ! However when I got home I discovered that my beloved was working away & wasn't coming home - so my plans for last night went pear shaped !!!! Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 14 Feb 12 13:05   Are we taking them out on Valentines? - Manatee

Well, I'm hoping to be taken out but she always forgets so I'm not counting on it. Reply to this message | Report message       1

New Tue 14 Feb 12 13:07   Are we taking them out on Valentines? - apm

We are doing pressies and cards, but can't be bothered with the whole VD dining out experience. Having an 'at home'- excellent take-away Indian, couple of beers or glass of fizz. Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 14 Feb 12 13:33   Are we taking them out on Valentines? - Dave

Got no-one to take out, and no-one I want to send a card to. So a nice easy un-hassled night in front of the TV. Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 14 Feb 12 13:36   Are we taking them out on Valentines? - Bigtee

but can't be bothered with the whole VD dining out experience Them days have gone i wear a condom now. :-) Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 14 Feb 12 13:55   Are we taking them out on Valentines? - VxFan

Last time I sent a card (anonymously I should add) was to my ex-girlfiend - to wind up her boyfriend ;o) Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 14 Feb 12 14:03   Are we taking them out on Valentines? - devonite

I put the dishwasher on this morning! - hopefully in return, i`ll get a Steak!! ;-) Last edited by: devonite on Tue 14 Feb 12 at 14:03 Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 14 Feb 12 14:21   Are we taking them out on Valentines? - Cliff Pope

Watch Far from the Madding Crowd and you will never again feel inclined to send someone an anonymous valentine card as a bit of fun. Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 14 Feb 12 15:44   Are we taking them out on Valentines? - bathtub tom

Two steaks and a bottle of plonk, £15. www.jdwetherspoon.co.uk/home/promotions/valentines-day-2012-27 About the only place I know that puts its prices down today and because it's seen as naff, it won't be crowded. Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 14 Feb 12 16:08   Are we taking them out on Valentines? - Zero

>> because it's >> seen as naff, If waddles like a duck, quacks like a duck and looks like a duck...... it won't be crowded. No the normal drunks, layabouts and general low life will still be hanging round the doorway, fag in hand and gobbing on the pavement. Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 14 Feb 12 16:36   Are we taking them out on Valentines? - Roger.

I sent her a Jacquie Lawrence ecard! Oh - and we bought a nice bunch of roses in ALDI for a fiver! Last edited by: Roger on Tue 14 Feb 12 at 16:38 Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 14 Feb 12 16:39   Are we taking them out on Valentines? - R.P.

From a German owned store ?????! Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 14 Feb 12 17:21   Are we taking them out on Valentines? - Zero

>> From a German owned store ?????! Chortle - If only she knew - Hun Roses! Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 14 Feb 12 17:21   Are we taking them out on Valentines? - Roger.

>> From a German owned store ?????! Yes, but they are ENGLISH roses! Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 14 Feb 12 17:32   Are we taking them out on Valentines? - Zero

>> >> From a German owned store ?????! >> >> Yes, but they are ENGLISH roses! quote "Fritz Thyssen (born 1873), an industrialist associated with the Nazi Party... an entrepreneur who founded the discount supermarket chain Aldi " Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 14 Feb 12 17:33   Are we taking them out on Valentines? - R.P.

Please tell me you made that bit up :-) Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 14 Feb 12 17:35   Are we taking them out on Valentines? - Zero

Nope! As I live and breath, no word of a lie. Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 15 Feb 12 09:04   Are we taking them out on Valentines? - L'escargot

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New Tue 14 Feb 12 20:04   Are we taking them out on Valentines? - MD

>> I sent her a Jacquie Lawrence ecard! >> Oh - and we bought a nice bunch of roses in ALDI for a fiver! >> Jacquie LAWSON. Brilliant site and brilliant service. Got the first ever one stored in this compoooter. Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 14 Feb 12 20:11   Are we taking them out on Valentines? - Westpig

>> >> I sent her a Jacquie Lawrence ecard! I think e-cards are usually a big no-no. My mother-in-law keeps sending them and to me it's pure laziness and an excuse to do half a job. They are an insult. How hard is it to buy a card and post it...or log on to a site that will send a card in the post. Reply to this message | Report message       1

New Tue 14 Feb 12 20:32   Are we taking them out on Valentines? - CGNorwich

"I think e-cards are usually a big no-no." Agree, a text message should suffice :-) Last edited by: CGNorwich on Tue 14 Feb 12 at 20:33 Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 14 Feb 12 22:17   Are we taking them out on Valentines? - Dog

I call her my 2nd wife - Marianne, we've been together now for 11 years, but never met, We became friends in 2001 via a Yahoo! health group, and have exchanged emails regularly over the years, We know much about each other, our lives, our families - everything, and more. Why am I telling you this? Well, she sends us a quite brilliant Jackie Lawson animated greeting card every year, she even sent us one this year, after having emigrated to Brisbane, Oz. Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 15 Feb 12 11:35   Are we taking them out on Valentines? - ....

>> How hard is it to buy a card and post it...or log on to a >> site that will send a card in the post. >> I got a Valentines card from Moonpig...She hates it when I call her that. Reply to this message | Report message       1

New Tue 14 Feb 12 16:39   Are we taking them out on Valentines? - Mike Hannon

+1 on the advice to read or watch Far From The Madding Crowd. Poor Farmer Boldwood was just minding his own business and ended up hanged in Dorchester High Street. I read somewhere that today is the worst for suicides worldwide. Don't fall for this carp. Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 14 Feb 12 17:23   Are we taking them out on Valentines? - Roger.

I really, really, dislike Thomas Hardy's books. Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 14 Feb 12 17:54   Are we taking them out on Valentines? - Armel Coussine

>> I really, really, dislike Thomas Hardy's books. Tee hee... hardly surprisingly as he is regarded as a bit of a lefty Roger. But I agree actually up to a point: I don't really like Hardy much, faux naif stuff, not my style... nevertheless has power of various sorts and a memorable character or two. I feel much the same about the semi-literate LA diabolist James Ellroy. Horrid, but got something somehow in an annoying sort of way. DH Lawrence was another of those, what a PITA but talented. Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 14 Feb 12 16:45   Are we taking them out on Valentines? - bathtub tom

>>No the normal drunks, layabouts and general low life will still be hanging round the doorway, fag in hand and gobbing on the pavement. Meet you there as usual? ;>) Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 14 Feb 12 17:00   Are we taking them out on Valentines? - Zero

>> Meet you there as usual? >> >> ;>) Yeah but do stop smoking those fags you rescued from the urinal. Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 14 Feb 12 17:41   Are we taking them out on Valentines? - bathtub tom

>>Yeah but do stop smoking those fags you rescued from the urinal. No problem. I've thawed them out and they only need drying now. Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 14 Feb 12 16:46   Are we taking them out on Valentines? - Westpig

I'm not stupid. Any woman willing to allow me to sleep in the spare room with my ear plugs in whilst she deals with a new born child...and it's still the case 5 weeks later.. ...is worth me shelling out for 12 red roses top be delivered... ...even if they did cost £48. it'll be a 'Ruby Murray' take out tonight...and if it's busy for take away orders I can have a couple of pints whilst they're preparing it. Reply to this message | Report message       3

New Tue 14 Feb 12 17:10   Are we taking them out on Valentines? - Pat

Come on WP, you're a NEW man now, you're retired and have to do your share! Offer to let her sleep in the spare room tomight and get an unbroken nights sleep, and she'll think more of that than the red roses. Me...no, we're broke now we've bought a new car;) Pat Last edited by: pda on Tue 14 Feb 12 at 17:10 Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 14 Feb 12 17:16   Are we taking them out on Valentines? - zippy

No! Spent a bally fortune on a dozen red roses and a romantic card. Re arranged meetings so that I would not be home late. Handed them over this AM with a promise to take her out to a nice restaurant only to find out that she had totally forgotten and had rearranged a day out in town with her friends. I shall be getting a curry for one from the takeaway! Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 14 Feb 12 17:50   Are we taking them out on Valentines? - Westpig

>> Come on WP, you're a NEW man now, you're retired and have to do your >> share! I was in full charge of the kids this afternoon so she could have an uninterrupted kip. Took them out to the coast in the car, as they both then fall asleep. Had fed the tiny one before I went, but neglected to do the nappy, which was a mistake as by the time I got back she was wet through. Did the nappy at home and was met with the....er....um....worst possible scenario. Mum got 3 hours kip. I don't do 50/50 share by any stretch of the imagination...but...i've promised a 40 year old she'll never have to go back to work again...and i've got an interview for another job in 2 weeks time... so we can live well. There's worse husbands out there. Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 14 Feb 12 18:00   Are we taking them out on Valentines? - Pat

I don't doubt it WP:) I do hope you're not going to work for VOSA though! Pat Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 14 Feb 12 18:05   Are we taking them out on Valentines? - R.P.

I have a recently retired Superintendent on my FB - he made a comment about the "W" word on a status of mine. Had to figure out whether he meant Weather, Washing or Work - guess it was the latter...! Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 15 Feb 12 12:47   Are we taking them out on Valentines? - Westpig

>> I do hope you're not going to work for VOSA though! >> No.....I want something with no stress, no management responsibility, 9-5, evenings and weekends free. I don't mind being the junior, i'll make the tea and do as i'm told. My missus doesn't think i'll be able to keep my trap shut when (not if) someone in a junior management grade does something half cocked and I think it's glaringly wrong. She's got a point, life should prove interesting. I will try though. Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 14 Feb 12 20:08   Are we taking them out on Valentines? - MD

Not in the Job now WP..................or haven't I been paying attention? Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 15 Feb 12 18:08   Are we taking them out on Valentines? - Westpig

>> Not in the Job now WP..................or haven't I been paying attention? >> Retired on 7th Feb, although I left at the end of last year, because for the last 3 years anyone who wanted a day off at the weekend and couldn't get cover, i'd do it and I took the days owed at the end. Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 14 Feb 12 17:12   Are we taking them out on Valentines? - Old Navy

>> I put the dishwasher on this morning! - hopefully in return, i`ll get a Steak!! >> ;-) >> Thats just pressing a button, its emptying it earns the steak. :-) Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 15 Feb 12 14:27   Are we taking them out on Valentines? - WillDeBeest

...but can't be bothered with the whole VD dining out experience Them days have gone i wear a condom now. :-) To dinner? Do you ever have trouble getting a good table? Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 15 Feb 12 18:44   Are we taking them out on Valentines? - VxFan

>> To dinner? Do you ever have trouble getting a good table? He probably has some good 'mates' Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 14 Feb 12 18:22   Are we taking them out on Valentines? - FocalPoint

Well, what a world-weary lot you all are (mostly)! A card, chocs and the best Italian restaurant in St Albans for us two tonight! Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 14 Feb 12 18:23   Are we taking them out on Valentines? - Zero

And whats in store for the wife? Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 14 Feb 12 18:26   Are we taking them out on Valentines? - FocalPoint

I don't have a wife. Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 14 Feb 12 18:28   Are we taking them out on Valentines? - Zero

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New Tue 14 Feb 12 19:44   Are we taking them out on Valentines? - -

No we don't do Valentines day. We both believe its a commercialised and promoted money spinner, and will have nothing to do with it. I love SWM absolutely, i tell her so every day of my life and treat her as the best thing thats happened to me every day which is true, if i needed a commercial promotion to spur me into making some artificial romance as per the set routine as laid out then as far as we are concerned it would be all over. Woo your lover every day of their lives as if it was the last. Showed her this and she's gone all silly..;) Last edited by: gordonbennet on Tue 14 Feb 12 at 19:46 Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 14 Feb 12 20:09   Are we taking them out on Valentines? - MD

That's you sorted tonight then Son. (0:-:0) Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 14 Feb 12 20:17   Are we taking them out on Valentines? - MD

Just had the Vally package from M&S. Brilliant food and brilliant value. Now for the romantic bit hey hey!! oh Yeah! She is watching crap TV and I am writing to you lot....................Pah! Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 14 Feb 12 21:55   Are we taking them out on Valentines? - DP

>> oh Yeah! She is watching crap TV and I am writing to you lot....................Pah! Snap :-) Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 14 Feb 12 23:44   Are we taking them out on Valentines? - Ted

>> >> oh Yeah! She is watching crap TV and I am writing to you lot....................Pah More snap ! Certainly no crackle and pop today. I managed a cheap card, though. Ted Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 15 Feb 12 01:33   Are we taking them out on Valentines? - Dave_

I got called out at 4pm to do an ASAP delivery from Leicester to Wiltshire, I've not long got back. Apparently no-one else was answering their phones. Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 15 Feb 12 07:46   Are we taking them out on Valentines? - Duncan

>> I got called out at 4pm to do an ASAP delivery from Leicester to Wiltshire, >> I've not long got back. Apparently no-one else was answering their phones. Just think of the money! Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 15 Feb 12 10:09   Are we taking them out on Valentines? - Meldrew

I occasionally have to suffer Deal or no Deal - what dross that is! Fat people opening boxes and kissing each other a lot. NO skill involved at all. I take my hearing aids out and read the paper! Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 15 Feb 12 10:39   Are we taking them out on Valentines? - FocalPoint

I watched a couple of editions of Deal or No Deal, convinced for a long time that I was missing something. I eventually concluded it is the most pointless, vacuous programme imaginable. More worryingly, why does anyone watch it? Can someone enlighten me as to the inner workings of the mind of anyone who enjoys it? Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 15 Feb 12 10:46   Are we taking them out on Valentines? - Bigtee

The old soppy romantics were in the pub last night with the gift of a single rose pants to that are lass got half a carling with lime. Was a good night many a couples out and got leathered great result.! However a restraunt we go to was charging £30.00 a head last night and was packed. fools. Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 15 Feb 12 10:48   Are we taking them out on Valentines? - Meldrew

Noel's shirts and multi coloured bouffant hair? Like you FP, I can see no point in entertainment that doesn't involve at least some degree of talent and opening a box isn't it plus the squirming nausea of all the kissing and high fives! It isn't as if anyone has found a Higg's Boson in their box!!!!!!! And no, I cannot explain the inner workings of my partner's mind! Last edited by: Meldrew on Wed 15 Feb 12 at 10:50 Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 15 Feb 12 10:49   Are we taking them out on Valentines? - Dog

I've have often likened folk who watch Deal or no Deal as having the intelleck [sic] of Nematoida, But, my 86 (year old) house-bound FiL enjoys watching the program daily, so what is wrong with that then?? Last edited by: Dog on Wed 15 Feb 12 at 10:50 Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 15 Feb 12 19:39   Are we taking them out on Valentines? - CGNorwich

OK , Here's a competition Can you spot Noel Edmonds? Picture taken summer 1960. I'm in there too! s1156.photobucket.com/albums/p564/cgnorwich/?action=view¤t=img092.jpg&t=1329334437533 Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 15 Feb 12 19:45   Are we taking them out on Valentines? - Robin O'Reliant

Noel is second left and you are the boy on the right doing the "hello sailor" pose? Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 15 Feb 12 20:01   Are we taking them out on Valentines? - swiss tony

I think Noel is 2nd right, and CG is 3rd left, with the camera. Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 15 Feb 12 20:35   Are we taking them out on Valentines? - Clk Sec

GC is the boy directly in front of the headmaster. Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 15 Feb 12 20:51   Are we taking them out on Valentines? - Runfer D'Hills

Well, I was working in London yesterday and today. Stayed overnight. Ended up going for dinner with a (male) colleague in a wee gastro-pub I've used many times. Of course it didn't really occur to us that was Valentine's night until we got there and every other table was occupied by couples. The waitress even brought us a candle. We did think about explaining to her but there didn't seem much point. I did though feel a certain obligation to order a pint of "real" beer, a bowl of hearty soup and and a shin of beef pie to underscore the masculinity of my preferences. Not that it matters a damn but... Hey Ho. :-) Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 15 Feb 12 21:04   Are we taking them out on Valentines? - swiss tony

>> The waitress even brought us a candle. >> Problem with the lighting? Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 15 Feb 12 21:15   Are we taking them out on Valentines? - R.P.

What kind of shoes were you wearing ? Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 15 Feb 12 21:16   Are we taking them out on Valentines? - Runfer D'Hills

Manly ones. Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 15 Feb 12 22:25   Are we taking them out on Valentines? - CGNorwich

Mr Blobby's creator is standing directly behind the third girl from the left in the front row. I'm the third guy from the right The picture was taken on the terrace of the House of Commons. I don't suppose you could get security access to the place now with a party of schoolchildren. Interesting how big the class is too - I think its 40. Teachers wouldn't cope now! Reply to this message | Report message

New Thu 16 Feb 12 08:19   Are we taking them out on Valentines? - Dog

>>Mr Blobby's creator is standing directly behind the third girl from the left in the front row<< I'd never have adam & eved that. >>I'm the third guy from the right<< The shifty one not looking at the camera? Reply to this message | Report message

New Thu 16 Feb 12 08:36   Are we taking them out on Valentines? - Clk Sec

>> The shifty one not looking at the camera? And not wearing a tie... Reply to this message | Report message

New Thu 16 Feb 12 08:59   Are we taking them out on Valentines? - Dog

There is a UFO just above the bridge on the LH side (seriously) I know about these things! Reply to this message | Report message

New Thu 16 Feb 12 09:07   Are we taking them out on Valentines? - Clk Sec

>>There is a UFO above the bridge That's a helicopter, Dog. www.specsavers.co.uk/ :) Reply to this message | Report message

New Thu 16 Feb 12 09:25   Are we taking them out on Valentines? - Dog

:o) Reply to this message | Report message

New Thu 16 Feb 12 15:20   Are we taking them out on Valentines? - CGNorwich

No the one to the left of him with a very nice tie. Quite smartly turned out I think ;-0 Reply to this message | Report message

New Thu 16 Feb 12 15:43   Are we taking them out on Valentines? - Dog

Ah,well - say n'more squire! Was that your girlfriend with the dark hair, in front of you? Reply to this message | Report message

New Thu 16 Feb 12 16:33   Are we taking them out on Valentines? - Clk Sec

Very smart indeed! Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 15 Feb 12 21:14   Are we taking them out on Valentines? - VxFan

>> Can you spot Noel Edmonds? He's the one stood on his own - as no one wants to stand next to the one with ginger hair ;o) Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 15 Feb 12 21:17   Are we taking them out on Valentines? - Iffy

I saw Noel Edmonds walking in Mayfair. He's very short. Not short of money, but short of stature. Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 15 Feb 12 21:18   Are we taking them out on Valentines? - Runfer D'Hills

He used to have a Capri you know. Or was that DLT? Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 15 Feb 12 23:10   Are we taking them out on Valentines? - Kevin

>He used to have a Capri you know. Or was that DLT? In the late '80s I was going to buy a Supra Turbo until I heard that Tony Blackburn had one. I bought the 944 instead. Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 15 Feb 12 23:13   Are we taking them out on Valentines? - R.P.

I fiffy was about he'd have somehting to say. I think he flounced yesterday.... Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 15 Feb 12 23:22   Are we taking them out on Valentines? - Kevin

>I fiffy was about he'd have somehting to say. By his own admission, he drives a "a girly convertible Focus". Nuff said? Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 15 Feb 12 23:49   Are we taking them out on Valentines? - Kevin

Duh! (smacks forehead), now I see! Iffy is Tony Blackburn's biggest, perhaps only, fan. Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 15 Feb 12 21:24   Are we taking them out on Valentines? - Bromptonaut

>> I saw Noel Edmonds walking in Mayfair. >> >> He's very short. >> IIRC he used to take stick for that from his fellow DJ's. On things that were getting taller is that the Shell building rising behind County Hall?? Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 15 Feb 12 21:34   Are we taking them out on Valentines? - WillDeBeest

I saw Keith Chegwin on Oxford Street once. He's very short too. Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 15 Feb 12 21:36   Are we taking them out on Valentines? - Runfer D'Hills

I once saw Nicholas Lyndhurst in Chelsea. He's quite tall. Edit - ...and thin. Last edited by: Humph D'Bout on Wed 15 Feb 12 at 21:37 Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 15 Feb 12 21:42   Are we taking them out on Valentines? - Runfer D'Hills

Chris Evans is tall. Saw him in Soho not long ago. Ginger hair too you know. Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 15 Feb 12 21:44   Are we taking them out on Valentines? - R.P.

I got ****faced with Sting back in 81 - he's of average size. Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 15 Feb 12 21:47   Are we taking them out on Valentines? - Runfer D'Hills

> with Sting back in 81 I did the same with Errol Brown about the same time in Stratford upon Avon. He was sitting down so I can't really say very much about his height. Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 15 Feb 12 21:48   Are we taking them out on Valentines? - Zero

I got plastered with Oliver reed sometime in the 80s in a pub in Dorking. He was as wide as he was tall. I fell down the cellar steps and broke my wrist. Last edited by: VxFan on Sat 25 Feb 12 at 00:13 Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 15 Feb 12 21:56   Are we taking them out on Valentines? - Runfer D'Hills

Delboy bar lean? I had a beer or two with Lewis Collins in Chalfont St Peter once. We both drank moderately. He didn't really have a Capri, which was disappointing. Last edited by: Humph D'Bout on Wed 15 Feb 12 at 21:59 Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 15 Feb 12 22:00   Are we taking them out on Valentines? - Zero

>> Delboy bar lean? Nah it, it was out the back turn right for gents, or turn left for the cellar steps. It was the prince of Wales in Westcott. Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 15 Feb 12 22:03   Are we taking them out on Valentines? - Runfer D'Hills

Must've been hellish difficult to finish the original job plan with a broken wrist? Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 15 Feb 12 22:11   Are we taking them out on Valentines? - Zero

I seem to recall the job was completed on the way down? Reply to this message | Report message

New Thu 16 Feb 12 00:37   Are we taking them out on Valentines? - VxFan

>> I got ****faced with Sting back in 81 - he's of average size. Did he ask not to stand too close to him? Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 15 Feb 12 21:45   Are we taking them out on Valentines? - Zero

>> Saw him in Soho not long ago. Candle lit dinners on Valentines day with other fellas, stalking around Soho. Something you want to tell us there Humph? Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 15 Feb 12 21:48   Are we taking them out on Valentines? - Runfer D'Hills

Nothing very exciting I'm afraid. Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 15 Feb 12 21:48   Are we taking them out on Valentines? - WillDeBeest

There's a pattern here: Edmonds and Chegwin are from an earlier era of TV, when sets were small and they needed small men to fit them - a bit like Spitfires and F1 cars. Evans and Lyndhurst (why on earth does iPhone correct that to 'punctured'?) came along later when there was more room and the BBC could afford a more relaxed height policy. That is how it works, isn't it? Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 15 Feb 12 22:36   Are we taking them out on Valentines? - R.P.

I have an ex-marine friend, who, how can I say, is a shortarse. He reckons they were selected to fit into the smaller modern ships. Last edited by: R.P. on Wed 15 Feb 12 at 22:37 Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 15 Feb 12 22:56   Are we taking them out on Valentines? - Ted

What a shameless lot of name-droppers you lot are ! OK...I used to have the odd pint with Long John Baldry in the late 60s. He was tall. I've met a few Corrie people and others on the telly on local programmes. BBC Northwest reporter Martin Henfield sat in my car and went ' brmbrm ' at a local rally. Nice guy. Had a cujrry with the Queen last week..........Oh no, sorry, rewind...it was the old queen here at home ! Ted Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 15 Feb 12 23:00   Are we taking them out on Valentines? - R.P.

I know a Police Officer who saw Ivy Tyldesley's .......oh never mind. Reply to this message | Report message

New Thu 16 Feb 12 00:34   Are we taking them out on Valentines? - VxFan

>> I saw Keith Chegwin .... A regular face around Newbury as well apparently. Reply to this message | Report message

New Thu 16 Feb 12 01:08   Are we taking them out on Valentines? - devonite

is that St Stephens Tower being built in the background? Reply to this message | Report message

New Thu 16 Feb 12 04:10   Are we taking them out on Valentines? - legacylad

Afraid not...swmbo is working away for a few days. myself...I've jetted off to stay with friends in northern CA, skiing, wine tasting, driving a big truck (infantile, I agree) and indulging in cheap spicy Mexican food. Life sucks at times like this. Reply to this message | Report message

New Thu 16 Feb 12 15:56   Are we taking them out on Valentines? - Duncan

>> I've jetted off to >> I think 'jetting off' beats flying anytime. ;-) Reply to this message | Report message

New Thu 16 Feb 12 16:42   Are we taking them out on Valentines? - WillDeBeest

Just don't do it in the security queue at the airport. Reply to this message | Report message

New Thu 16 Feb 12 16:53   Are we taking them out on Valentines? - Duncan

I had lunch with John le Mesurier in the pub on the corner of Wardour Street and Shaftesbury Avenue. Crikey, that was a long time ago! Reply to this message | Report message

New Thu 16 Feb 12 16:56   Are we taking them out on Valentines? - WillDeBeest

And quite worthless if you can't tell us how tall he was. Reply to this message | Report message

New Thu 16 Feb 12 17:01   Are we taking them out on Valentines? - Dog

Being we're into name dropping now, I tuned Blakey's automatic Minivan :o) 27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lk2ub5UFLp1qb1rwho1_500.gif Reply to this message | Report message

New Thu 16 Feb 12 19:11   Are we taking them out on Valentines? - Westpig

I think it's only fair to prove it if you name drop, so here's mine www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1082367/Mystery-man-Crown-Prosecution-Service-called-Jonathan-Rosss-party.html Reply to this message | Report message

New Thu 16 Feb 12 19:12   Are we taking them out on Valentines? - Westpig

...and I know my jumper was too big and the radio weighing it down makes me look scruffy Reply to this message | Report message

New Thu 16 Feb 12 19:16   Are we taking them out on Valentines? - Duncan

>> ...and I know my jumper was too big and the radio weighing it down makes >> me look scruffy >> What about the facial hair? Reply to this message | Report message

New Thu 16 Feb 12 19:26   Are we taking them out on Valentines? - Westpig

>> What about the facial hair? >> Now banned by the Ubergruppenfuhrer. I only had it because someone said it helps hide a fat face. Reply to this message | Report message

New Thu 16 Feb 12 19:16   Are we taking them out on Valentines? - Runfer D'Hills

So which one is you WP? The ...er..."well built"one at the front or the slightly sinister looking one behind? Reply to this message | Report message

New Thu 16 Feb 12 19:21   Are we taking them out on Valentines? - Runfer D'Hills

Ah, it's the jumper that's big ! Fair enough....coughs.... :-) Reply to this message | Report message

New Thu 16 Feb 12 19:28   Are we taking them out on Valentines? - Westpig

>> Ah, it's the jumper that's big ! Fair enough....coughs.... >> >> :-) >> Good point, well made. I'm rather hoping a rural, healthier life style, will get rid of some of it. No sign yet though. Reply to this message | Report message

New Thu 16 Feb 12 19:33   Are we taking them out on Valentines? - Runfer D'Hills

Buy a Renault WP. Best way to ensure you do more walking ! :-) Reply to this message | Report message

New Thu 16 Feb 12 19:36   Are we taking them out on Valentines? - FocalPoint

Is this the first time we have seen a reasonably up-to-date mugshot of one of our posters? Is this the start of something? Seems a bit like making oneself vulnerable to me. Scary! Reply to this message | Report message

New Thu 16 Feb 12 20:24   Are we taking them out on Valentines? - Bromptonaut

>> I think it's only fair to prove it if you name drop, so here's mine >> >> www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1082367/Mystery-man-Crown-Prosecution-Service-called-Jonathan-Rosss-party.html > You are Alan Sugar and icmfp. Reply to this message | Report message

New Thu 16 Feb 12 23:06   Are we taking them out on Valentines? - smokie

David Dimblebum asked me for a light for a fat cigar outside an Aberdeen hotel. Chatted to me while he waited for his film crew to pick him up. Nice chap, seemed genuinely interested in other people not just himself. Reply to this message | Report message

New Fri 17 Feb 12 00:34   Are we taking them out on Valentines? - devonite

Stood next to David Bellamy in Forton Services back on the 70`s, he was a bit taller an fatter than me, but I didn`t speak to him as he was arguing about the price of the cereal - and I didn`t want my Grapenuts Grappling!! Reply to this message | Report message

New Fri 17 Feb 12 08:24   Are we taking them out on Valentines? - Dog

Back in the 1980's, say about 85/86, or it could even have been 87 or thereabouts, I stood next to Russ Abbots uncles cat! Quite amazing really, and I've never got over it to this day. Reply to this message | Report message       1

New Fri 17 Feb 12 08:52   Are we taking them out on Valentines? - CGNorwich

I stood next to Russ Abbots uncles cat! That's nothing. My mum's cat was actually the brother of Noel Edmunds mum's cat. Reply to this message | Report message

New Fri 17 Feb 12 10:43   Are we taking them out on Valentines? - Westpig

When Margaret Thatcher went into Brighton Hospital to see the survivors of the Brighton bombing...there's news reel footage of her stopping to speak to a very young looking, exceptionally handsome, police officer...with a dodgy looking moustache (him not her). My grandma would often ring my mother to claim she'd seen me on the t.v....she was always wrong bless her...apart from this time. My mother poo-poo'd it as I normally worked in Westminster not Brighton and she'd not seen the news. The Met had been seconded down to Brighton and it was indeed me. Nan crowed about that to my mother for years. Reply to this message | Report message

New Fri 17 Feb 12 11:39   Are we taking them out on Valentines? - FocalPoint

I suppose it's OK to admit to that now, years further on, but when I was younger my worst nightmare was to have Margaret Thatcher visit me in hospital, where I couldn't get out of a face-to-face encounter. The figure in that nightmare was later replaced by Tony Blair. I don't on the whole react to people negatively in that way, even to politicians whose policies I detest, but those two really made me shudder. Reply to this message | Report message

New Fri 17 Feb 12 16:29   Are we taking them out on Valentines? - Westpig

>> I suppose it's OK to admit to that now, years further on, but when I >> was younger my worst nightmare was to have Margaret Thatcher visit me in hospital, where >> I couldn't get out of a face-to-face encounter. I was glad to meet her. She was and still is my hero. When you think the lady was blown up in her bedroom, had just walked out of her bathroom, which was utterly demolished (and if she'd still been in it, she would have certainly died)...then on the same day....gives a speech at a venue she was known would attend, in Brighton...and instead of running off to somewhere safe...makes sure she attends the hospital...(alright there was good politics in that as well). I wish some of our modern politicians had her stamina, 'can do' attitude and willingness to get the job done, no matter how diffcult it would be. Last edited by: Westpig on Fri 17 Feb 12 at 16:33 Reply to this message | Report message       9

New Fri 17 Feb 12 11:43   Are we taking them out on Valentines? - bathtub tom

>> I think it's only fair to prove it if you name drop, so here's mine >> >> www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1082367/Mystery-man-Crown-Prosecution-Service-called-Jonathan-Rosss-party.html You are Tony Hagarth, AKA PC Wilmot from 'The growing pains of PC Penrose'. Renowned for adjusting his trouser items. tinyurl.com/74kgpc8 Last edited by: bathtub tom on Fri 17 Feb 12 at 11:45 Reply to this message | Report message

New Fri 17 Feb 12 16:23   Are we taking them out on Valentines? - Westpig

>> You are Tony Hagarth, AKA PC Wilmot from 'The growing pains of PC Penrose'. Renowned >> for adjusting his trouser items. >> >> tinyurl.com/74kgpc8 >> Christ. What did I do to upset you? ...;-) Reply to this message | Report message

New Sat 18 Feb 12 04:24   Are we taking them out on Valentines? - Pat

I do like the scruffy look on a man:) Pat Reply to this message | Report message

New Sat 18 Feb 12 09:51   Are we taking them out on Valentines? - Westpig

>> I do like the scruffy look on a man:) Is there a compliment in there? Reply to this message | Report message