Ingram85 Posted April 18, 2015 Share Posted April 18, 2015 Tagnuts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maqroll Posted April 19, 2015 Share Posted April 19, 2015 Why do male humans have hairs in their bum crack? What does it achieve? They catch post-dump nuggets for you to smear all over your crack when you wipe it...must've been an insulation thing from our caveman days, kept the hole nice and dry underneath caked on poo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morley_crosses_to_Withe Posted April 19, 2015 Share Posted April 19, 2015 Why do male humans have hairs in their bum crack? What does it achieve? Women can get them as well. Less so because they're generally less hairy/more likely to wax etc but it's not only men. But, yeah - why? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ismail-villa Posted April 19, 2015 Share Posted April 19, 2015 I've always wondered why football is becoming less and less of a contact sport. Before and around the time I was born (1996) you would see how physical football was but nowadays any little touch brings the players down and thus a freekick. Makes me sad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xela Posted April 19, 2015 Share Posted April 19, 2015 Makes me sad ad angry! Watched a bit of the Chelsea v Man Utd game yesterday. Full of players diving, feigning injury, moaning and crying to the referee all the time. The reason why it became like that initially was the influx of overseas players. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meath_Villan Posted April 19, 2015 Share Posted April 19, 2015 I was in the chemist getting the years print out of receipts for the tax deductions and a junkie absolutely off his tits asking one of the girls behind the counter about the teet lids on a baby bottle I presume it's for drug use but as to what one Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chindie Posted April 19, 2015 VT Supporter Share Posted April 19, 2015 I imagine there are New Yorkers that would consider the wild west starts around about Ohio.New Jersey, actually: This reminds me of a friend who insisted, in the UK, that 'the North' was everything outside of a small bubble encompassing Kent and Greater London. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HanoiVillan Posted April 19, 2015 Share Posted April 19, 2015 I've never understood why, in that New Yorker cover, there's an enormous mountain apparently in, or to the north of, Nebraska, given that this is the most notoriously flat part of the whole country. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted April 19, 2015 Author VT Supporter Share Posted April 19, 2015 Maybe that's the whole point - NYCers don't know shit about the rest of the country. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HanoiVillan Posted April 19, 2015 Share Posted April 19, 2015 Very logical, good point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted April 20, 2015 VT Supporter Share Posted April 20, 2015 Why do Brummies call an off licence 'the outdoor'? Off licence sales from pubs used to take place from the 'outdoor department' (also called other things like the 'Jug and Bottle', I gather). It was mostly (always, perhaps?) a room with a small hatch or window opening to the bar but separate from the rest of the pub (sometimes the hatch was on the outer wall of the building opening up directly on to the street - I seem to remember one or two pubs in Stourport like that). Edit: At least that's what I think/recall. I recall the outdoor, down the bottom of my Nan's had a proper beer pump on the counter. The same old bloke used to stand in there every night, drinking Brew XI. I've lived in Birmingham for almost 30 years and I have never heard an off licence called "The outdoor" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lapal_fan Posted April 20, 2015 Share Posted April 20, 2015 (edited) Nor did I, so I spoke to my father in law and my old man, and they both went "oh yea, what about them?" as if I should know what they're talking about. I also read about them in Skinners autobiography, he used to take a mini barrel into his local outdoor at 8:00 in the morning and had his morning barrel of sherry to start the day. Edited April 20, 2015 by lapal_fan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ingram85 Posted April 20, 2015 Share Posted April 20, 2015 Why do Brummies call an off licence 'the outdoor'?Off licence sales from pubs used to take place from the 'outdoor department' (also called other things like the 'Jug and Bottle', I gather). It was mostly (always, perhaps?) a room with a small hatch or window opening to the bar but separate from the rest of the pub (sometimes the hatch was on the outer wall of the building opening up directly on to the street - I seem to remember one or two pubs in Stourport like that). Edit: At least that's what I think/recall. I recall the outdoor, down the bottom of my Nan's had a proper beer pump on the counter. The same old bloke used to stand in there every night, drinking Brew XI. I've lived in Birmingham for almost 30 years and I have never heard an off licence called "The outdoor" Really? It's all I've ever known tbh. Only other thing I've ever called it is the offy. But to me its the outdoor. Never known why though. Until now obviously. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
limpid Posted April 20, 2015 Administrator Share Posted April 20, 2015 Pubs built in the 80s were still built with an outdoor. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted April 20, 2015 Share Posted April 20, 2015 We used to have a couple of barrels of sherry at the hatch that lead out to the lane (I worked in an offy) and old ladies would rock up with their own jug or bottle and I'd have to turn the little lever on the barrel for them to get their sherry fix. Back then I thought it had to be some sort of scam, but it was just some old dears didn't think it was 'right' to be seen going in or out of an off licence (so they'd happily stand out in the lane with a jug instead!). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xela Posted April 20, 2015 Share Posted April 20, 2015 Always been an outdoor in the Xela household. The old man used to nip to the outdoor to stock up on Davenports! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
troon_villan Posted April 20, 2015 Share Posted April 20, 2015 It's an offy across the border Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted April 20, 2015 Author VT Supporter Share Posted April 20, 2015 In Through the Off-Licence would have been a rubbish title for a Led Zeppelin album, though. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted April 20, 2015 VT Supporter Share Posted April 20, 2015 (edited) Why do Brummies call an off licence 'the outdoor'? Off licence sales from pubs used to take place from the 'outdoor department' (also called other things like the 'Jug and Bottle', I gather). It was mostly (always, perhaps?) a room with a small hatch or window opening to the bar but separate from the rest of the pub (sometimes the hatch was on the outer wall of the building opening up directly on to the street - I seem to remember one or two pubs in Stourport like that). Edit: At least that's what I think/recall. I recall the outdoor, down the bottom of my Nan's had a proper beer pump on the counter. The same old bloke used to stand in there every night, drinking Brew XI. I've lived in Birmingham for almost 30 years and I have never heard an off licence called "The outdoor" Really? It's all I've ever known tbh. Only other thing I've ever called it is the offy. But to me its the outdoor. Never known why though. Until now obviously. Really. I wouldn't have a clue what anyone was talking about if they told me they were going to the outdoor. Offy is the only thing I@ve ever called it (apart from just saying "off licence") Edited April 20, 2015 by Stevo985 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PriceyDownunder Posted April 20, 2015 Share Posted April 20, 2015 I got laughed at by the reception clerk at a Limerick motel when I asked her for the nearest Bottle Shop... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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