tonyh29 Posted August 7, 2022 Share Posted August 7, 2022 guess it should have gone in the boring thread but , was out last night ( sober as with the kids ) , came home , unlocked the doors and let us in this morning my door keys are nowhere to be seen , I've turned the house upside down looking for them , even looked in the washing machine and the freezer as I got an ice cream out , checked the bins , under the sofa everywhere .. We can't have got in the house without them and Mrs H is away so I can't blame her , even allowing for my daughter inheriting my sense of mischief , I have to believe the kids when they say they haven't seen them so , I'm at the point that I'm hoping one of the neighbours cats decided to come in the house when I wasn't looking and steal my keys .. cause the alternative is I'm at that point in life where I start looking at Dignitas on the internet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foreveryoung Posted August 7, 2022 Share Posted August 7, 2022 Talking about kids, my 7 year old has just found Micheal Jackson on YouTube, watching him learn the dancing is classic. Which got me thinking, whatever you think of him, MJ was a absolute genius of music. Those concerts ( ive been watching) he did were out of this world, to say you were there when he first did the moonwalk, I can't comprehend, what an entertainer, they'll never be anyone like him ever again. Unfortunately for us all we have now is Ed Sheran. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyh29 Posted August 7, 2022 Share Posted August 7, 2022 31 minutes ago, foreveryoung said: Talking about kids, my 7 year old has just found Micheal Jackson on YouTube, watching him learn the dancing is classic. Which got me thinking, whatever you think of him, MJ was a absolute genius of music. Those concerts ( ive been watching) he did were out of this world, to say you were there when he first did the moonwalk, I can't comprehend, what an entertainer, they'll never be anyone like him ever again. Unfortunately for us all we have now is Ed Sheran. randomly , i saw a clip yesterday when MJ appeared on stage at some concert in South America and thousands of people screamed ..and screamed ..and screamed some more he literally stood there for about 2 mins as grown adults , male and female screamed at him to a point of frenzy probably one for the things you don't get thread 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foreveryoung Posted August 7, 2022 Share Posted August 7, 2022 11 minutes ago, tonyh29 said: randomly , i saw a clip yesterday when MJ appeared on stage at some concert in South America and thousands of people screamed ..and screamed ..and screamed some more he literally stood there for about 2 mins as grown adults , male and female screamed at him to a point of frenzy probably one for the things you don't get thread The concerts were amazing, fans being taken out on stretchers too, fainting, hyperventilating. Different era I guess. When you watch one of the concerts, the one that sicks in my mind is when he sings 'another part of me'' the atmosphere looks out of this world. Wasnt all kids either which is unusual these days for a pop concert. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foreveryoung Posted August 7, 2022 Share Posted August 7, 2022 On 04/08/2022 at 10:19, villa4europe said: yep, living in germany its opened my eyes to different cuts of pork, the UK seems so limited in comparison - conversely there's not much beef on offer, its fairly normal for a brauhaus style restaurant to have a pork steak option but no beef steak - the village restaurant where the in laws live do medallions in a bearnaise sauce which is incredible, next time you're at the german market see if you can get hold of schwenker which is actually the name of the round hanging bbq grills that they use but they shorten schwenkbraten, will look something like this - 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted August 7, 2022 Moderator Share Posted August 7, 2022 Didn't know where to put this... 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted August 7, 2022 Moderator Share Posted August 7, 2022 3 hours ago, foreveryoung said: MJ was a absolute genius of music. Nah, that was Quincy Jones 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyh29 Posted August 7, 2022 Share Posted August 7, 2022 3 minutes ago, bickster said: Nah, that was Quincy Jones That’s a bit like those that think without George Martin the Beatles wouldn’t have made a decent record ( yes , yes I know you don’t need to say it ) Jones helped , for sure , but the ability and talent had to have been there in the first instance 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted August 7, 2022 Moderator Share Posted August 7, 2022 3 minutes ago, tonyh29 said: That’s a bit like those that think without George Martin the Beatles wouldn’t have made a decent record ( yes , yes I know you don’t need to say it ) Jones helped , for sure , but the ability and talent had to have been there in the first instance Without looking it up, name any of the first four Jackson Album's before Off the Wall Jackson, the songwriter, undoubtedly talented, Jackson the musician and arranger? Not so much Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyh29 Posted August 7, 2022 Share Posted August 7, 2022 1 minute ago, bickster said: Without looking it up, name any of the first four Jackson Album's before Off the Wall Jackson, the songwriter, undoubtedly talented, Jackson the musician and arranger? Not so much I doubt I could name 4 Jackson albums in total tbf … I’m not really a fan , just think you have to acknowledge he had some talent Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted August 7, 2022 Moderator Share Posted August 7, 2022 8 minutes ago, tonyh29 said: I doubt I could name 4 Jackson albums in total tbf … I’m not really a fan , just think you have to acknowledge he had some talent Quincy Jones has far more and it's no coincidence that Jacksons three greatest albums (Off the Wall, Thriller and Bad), the three that made him a global superstar, were all produced and arranged by Quincy Jones Jones even says that Jackson stole a lot of songs from elsewhere (He specifically named Donna Summers State of Independence for Billy Jean as one example) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlwaysAVFC Posted August 7, 2022 Share Posted August 7, 2022 22 minutes ago, bickster said: Didn't know where to put this... I went to Thorpe Park a few years ago. I stopped in a hotel in Ascot the night before. The drive to Thorpe Park had 3 cars at separate Islands on the journey that appeared to not know what you're supposed to do at an Island and looked like they had literally gone straight on at the Island. Not quite at that speed though. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted August 7, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted August 7, 2022 1 minute ago, AlwaysAVFC said: I went to Thorpe Park a few years ago. I stopped in a hotel in Ascot the night before. The drive to Thorpe Park had 3 cars at separate Islands on the journey that appeared to not know what you're supposed to do at an Island and looked like they had literally gone straight on at the Island. Not quite at that speed though. Having not lived in Brum for fifty years, I always have to remind myself that a Brummie roundabout is an 'island'. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlwaysAVFC Posted August 7, 2022 Share Posted August 7, 2022 10 minutes ago, mjmooney said: Having not lived in Brum for fifty years, I always have to remind myself that a Brummie roundabout is an 'island'. It had actually started to come out of my vocabulary, after living away from the Birmingham for a lot of the last 15 years. Having returned nearly 2 years ago, it's become normal saying it again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidcow Posted August 7, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted August 7, 2022 3 hours ago, foreveryoung said: Superb KW 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidcow Posted August 7, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted August 7, 2022 1 hour ago, bickster said: Didn't know where to put this... Wow, I always thought this would be impossible to top. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted August 7, 2022 Moderator Share Posted August 7, 2022 1 minute ago, sidcow said: Wow, I always thought this would be impossible to top. Didn’t even manage to clear the island 5/10 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidcow Posted August 7, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted August 7, 2022 22 minutes ago, mjmooney said: Having not lived in Brum for fifty years, I always have to remind myself that a Brummie roundabout is an 'island'. To be fair if the **** idiot in that car had known it was called a roundabout he might have actually gone round about it instead of doing a poor impression of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidcow Posted August 7, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted August 7, 2022 (edited) Hmmmmm. Just found a contemporary newspaper report about the flying van and the guy who filmed it was from Norwich and described it as a roundabout. I suppose he could be a Brummie ex pat but the newspaper didn't change his words Edit... The Independent newspaper reporting on the van drivers conviction also refer to it as a roundabout. It it just Northerners refusing to call things by their name? Edited August 7, 2022 by sidcow Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted August 7, 2022 Moderator Share Posted August 7, 2022 38 minutes ago, sidcow said: Hmmmmm. Just found a contemporary newspaper report about the flying van and the guy who filmed it was from Norwich and described it as a roundabout. I suppose he could be a Brummie ex pat but the newspaper didn't change his words Edit... The Independent newspaper reporting on the van drivers conviction also refer to it as a roundabout. It it just Northerners refusing to call things by their name? They are called roundabouts here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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