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Old Feb 12th 2013, 11:52 am
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"What do you mean you've got to pay for parking? It's ****ing freezing, where's the car?"
Seems like a reasonable response....
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Originally Posted by OleJanx
Seems like a reasonable response....
She didn't think so. I may be 24 and 11/12th's but Mums can still make you feel pretty small when they want
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She didn't think so. I may be 24 and 11/12th's but Mums can still make you feel pretty small when they want
No, I can see how it might not be the ideal response...
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Originally Posted by OleJanx
No, I can see how it might not be the ideal response...
A bit touchy, but old age does that I suppose.


NB: I am joking for those who may think otherwise.
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She didn't think so. I may be 24 and 11/12th's but Mums can still make you feel pretty small when they want
Don't worry. At 42 and a half, I still get made to feel like a stupid boy by my mother at times.
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Don't worry. At 42 and a half, I still get made to feel like a stupid boy by my mother at times.
I want to know at what age can you turn the tables and start bossing them about.

Chucking in threats of retirement homes and stuff like that.
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Originally Posted by OleJanx
Thanks for the link but that had to be the most useless circular set of definitions I've ever encountered:

- a past tense of shrive
- the first day of Shrovetide
- the last day of Shrovetide, when people traditionally eat pancakes
- the three days before Ash Wednesday

Still no more enlightened though I have a new Scrabble word.
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Originally Posted by Scamp
Short Stove.

They were invented by leprechauns who, when hungry, emptied their big heavy pots of all the gold and put some wood and charcoal in, covered with a cut out side of a Tesco trolley and used to cook pancakes (leprechauns love pancakes).

Shrove.
Better not mess with the leprachauns. Don't say you weren't warned.
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I want to know at what age can you turn the tables and start bossing them about.

Chucking in threats of retirement homes and stuff like that.
When their marbles start to go, but then the bossing mellows to caring.
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When their marbles start to go, but then the bossing mellows to caring.
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Default Re: Pancake Day / Shrove Tuesday
Originally Posted by Miss Anne Thrope
Thanks for the link but that had to be the most useless circular set of definitions I've ever encountered:

- a past tense of shrive
- the first day of Shrovetide
- the last day of Shrovetide, when people traditionally eat pancakes
- the three days before Ash Wednesday

Still no more enlightened though I have a new Scrabble word.
You're supposed to confess your sins and be given penanance and absolution - shriven - before the start of Lent.
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Originally Posted by Cypselos
You're supposed to confess your sins and be given penanance and absolution - shriven - before the start of Lent.
Thanks, though I reckon I've been shriven for years.
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You're forgiven, now have a pancake.
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Old Feb 12th 2013, 4:50 pm
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Originally Posted by littlejimmy
You're forgiven, now have a pancake.
Is that the penance? I think I'd take the four Hail Marys, three Our Fathers and a decade of the Rosary instead please Father...
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Originally Posted by Miss Anne Thrope
Better not mess with the leprachauns. Don't say you weren't warned.
Go on...
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