chrisp65

my missus is 6 days older than me, but for those 6 days, she's a year older and she knows it

at what point will we have to tell Stef it's only funny 'cos he always bites?

all banking on a snow day tomorrow

that makes me older than I am ! That makes me 8 years older!!!! she's a paedo mate, you can sue or summit, it's not your fault, it's not your fault

that makes me older than I am !

http://mountainoflove.org/ for all you lovers of electro dub dance stuff £5 for 90 minutes of bassy dad dancing, it's been on loop in the car all day

What was it you were saying about cardigans and slippers? tbf he posted it at 9:36, it was probs one last video, milk and then bed

doctors should attend the sick, and leave the well alone, to quote some old goon don't prescribe more pills at more cost, teach dumb parents how to raise children, you know all the complicated stuff you can't presume comes naturally like feed them vegetables and push them out into the daylight

I'll take the job, if I can blag three weeks that's the mortgage paid.

careful now, I'm passing there on the way home tomorrow and probably at about 4 or 5 so probably passing very slowly, you could come to the embankment and wave

I went and saw the Gypie lineup, it still had Lee up front so it was still Dr Feelgood as far as I'm concerned. One of my first gigs and a life changer. In fact, I'm off for a think, but I reckon my oldest gig anecdote involves Mr Mayo...... So, it’s around 1980, 1981 and Dr Feelgood are playing a dive of a club down the docks. I can’t find anyone else that wants to go so, first time ever, I go to a gig on my own (didn't tell mum n dad). I get there and it’s old school set up, woman in a ticket booth. I ask for a ticket and she asks if I’m sure! Weird, but I say yes, pay and then ask if I can come back out if I get a poster or a record. She assures me she’ll remember me. Weird, but hey ho. I get in there, dead proud of my genuine Carnaby Street suit, the black and white shoes, the suede head haircut, I am so cool it’s just untrue. Every other **** in that club turns out to be a leather and denim clad beardy biker type. I buy a record and the guy the other side of the table compliments me on my suit and asks if I want the record sleeve signed. Signed! By the bloke selling records and badges, nah you’re alright, **** off. Turns out that was Lee B, but never mind. Gig gets going, heavies are all fine (probably not that threatened by a spotty kid in a skinny suit) and I’m in my element. To the point I’m front middle and bouncing around with the best of them. I’m eyes closed, air guitar world of my own. Then, a feeling of space, no more jostling. I open my eyes and the crowd is in a bit of a semi circle facing me. I turn and the guitarist, who presumably has noticed me suited up and in a world of my own, is off the stage and playing right next to me. I should say here I embraced him and was the model of cool. I properly shite meself, jumped out of my skin and didn’t know what to do in reality. Great gig though. I’m gonna say that was John.

if lanes 3 and 4 of the M25 are full and chugging along at 58mph, it's ok to do 76mph down lane 2, yeah?

Sex is the best hangover remedy. I say 'remedy' rather than 'cure', because the hangover comes back afterwards. But it is a fantastic distraction. Except if you are in prison! not having done a stretch at her maj's pleasure, can you get pissed in prison? 2 or 3 years back the prison down on the south coast, name escapes me, was burnt down by the 'residents' because days before their New Years party the staff did a booze confiscation sweep

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pf1v1AP2K7E

still one of the plus points of the internet after all these years I'm off to google image it then I'll go looking for dancing vikings

sorry to burst your bubble, but it's Tuesday

yeah me too .. everyone knows all the post offices in small towns have been shut down Doh! Everyone knows in small town Ireland that the post office is the pub. Thought you were well travelled personally I think he's a product of the internet, I don't think he's ever been out of his bedroom in Sandwell

I'm taking my kids to a Dr Who thing in about a month. The place will be rammed with 'Cosplay' types. For the rest of you, you should find the internet a little quicker on that weekend. For me, I want some sort of identifier that shows I'm not a sci fi geek / nerd type. I considered a tee shirt that boldly stated 'I'm just here for the kids', but I've thought better of it. Perhaps a scowl and a purposeful walk will make people realise I'm not to be engaged in conversation about warp drives or robots.

Synthetic cream? I think your holidays were on a strict budget! And yeah you do have to love drizzle. stayed in a few cottages around places like Fethard on Sea usually the shops would consist of a general newsagent come post office, a butcher and a cake shop lovely, but it turned out there's only so much sausage and cream my missus will put up with in any one week

FF if your still going beware the Severn Tunnel rail maintenace it's the start of half term, it's Wales v Italy it's England vs Wales and it's the start of Womex Music Festival, so what better time to close the main rail link

Eire for quality of life? Well, if you like drizzle, dislike vegetables and want synthetic cream in your cakes* yes, but otherwise debatable. * all research undertaken on holidays between 1996 - 2002

this won't be a popular view, but here goes: God Only Knows and / or Wouldn't It Be Nice each have a good claim to be the perfect pop song. But the album, as a whole, isn't that great.

awww I'd completely forgotten about The Water Margin. Another good show.

Ultimately, of course, the money spent to build the thing will come from the people supplied with the electricity generated or customers, as we're called. In return for the initial money to build the station which comes, essentially, from the Chinese and French gov'ts, the UK Gov't is guaranteeing a price for the energy to be generated, a price that's more than double the current cost. Though obviously fixing energy prices is bad and marxist and that, right? state intervention in a free market is quite not the done thing amongst all right thinking tories. Not like that mad Red Ed. When a bill consists of a few percent for support for renewable energy, you have various tories saying we should cut green the subsidy. Yet on the other hand they're quite happy for the future cost of nuclear energy to be fixed and to be double the current cost. As PMS alluded the other day, what could possibly go wrong with the Chinese and French Gov't controlling energy generation in the UK? I mean obviously you wouldn't want a British Gov't doing that sort of thing - much better outsource control and the future profits to that Europe they so love, and to the communists of China. Act in haste, repent at leisure. The build will be to UK standards, as will its operation. The Chinese will not be learning on the job in Somerset - although observing the operation of UK standards may well benefit the culture of safety in their own domestic industry. Yes the profits will go to foreign firms but EDF already supply a good chunk of UK electricity and I didn't see anyone wailing about that when Labour structured the market to enable that through the merger of electricity generators and suppliers. Strange that is now an issue when the coalition follows similar policy? As Mr Tony would say, the H word springs to mind. Currently our energy security relies on an unbroken chain of LNG tankers carrying gas to our shores from autocratic and increasingly unstable regimes. That should be of greater concern than whether or not a French company increases its market share of the UK domestic energy infrastructure, after all, they can't simply get the arse and walk off with a nuclear power station and possession is 9/10ths of the law.. I was going to say that achieving a fixed rate for 10 years hence that was double the current rate was actually pretty canny business.....but then I read that it was actually index linked. That is indefensible madness. Osborne, who I've never rated, deserves a bloody good shoeing for that, but he may argue that they have us over a barrel. Why? Due to the virtually glacial speed of progress made in recent decades towards updating the national energy infrastructure (shame on both Labour and Tory parties for that), it now requires massive investment and the UK is still far too broke to be able to stump up for it ourselves. One could take the PMS view that high debt levels are either not a concern or actually a badge of social honour, but if it was that simple I suspect his view would be more widely held. So assuming that cost is an issue, we want to increase domestic energy security, but we can't simply borrow 100's billions more to fund it, we are left with two main options: 1) Seek foreign investment into the sector, in areas such as nuclear 2) Alter the restrictions under which the energy sector is operating, specifically the targets for reducing carbon emissions I'd prefer point 2 to be the focus but the green movement has been so successful - over decades - in distorting the perception of people that the UK can make any real difference to global CO2 levels (and their simultaneous campaign against nuclear power generation in favour of a wind driven "miracle") that politicians seem terrified to tackle that fallacy head on. For example, China is currently building 70 new international airports and scores of coal fired power stations, who could seriously argue that by not building 20 gas fired power stations the UK is going to help save the planet? It's a dangerous nonsense that is in large part responsible for leading the UK power industry to its current ridiculous situation. Although the technology isn't yet ready for carbon capture to allow clean coal power generation, gas produces a fraction of the pollution and if the "experts" are to be believed we are sitting on 100's of TCF of the stuff, so why not use it? The debate around energy needs to get serious and grow up. We can't do without electricity and a combination of short termism, political mismanagement and the quasi-religious 'greenism' around renewables has left us in a tight spot. Either we go nuclear with foreign investment in a big way and pay the piper accordingly, or we scrap the climate change act and use the resources we have to hand to generate enough power. Hopefully in 50 years there will be genuinely viable renewable solutions available, but in the mean time wishful thinking won't keep the lights on. Personally, I’m not a fan of nuclear as it’s currently sold to us. I’m unclear as to why, 67 years after we started using it and announcing its awesome clean energy benefits, we still haven’t quite worked out how to turn one off.

i was 9 and from a docks town, philosophy wasn't my strong point. I understand it fully now, it's all about how pigs can help monkeys find a golden fleece if you're nice to the poor and wish upon a star. I paraphrase, obviously.