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Forum: Rest of the World
Mar 28th 2024, 10:19 am
Replies: 310
Views: 32,133
Posted By uk_grenada

Re: Back in the Day

Here in Grenada, beautiful stamps depicting nature are a big business still for the postal corporation, Tourists still seem to like and buy them. They actually dont put glue on the back any more,...
Forum: Rest of the World
Jan 1st 2024, 12:59 am
Replies: 310
Views: 32,133
Posted By uk_grenada

Re: Back in the Day

No never, but I did have a relative who owned a sports car manufacturer, that folded but it became a famous sports car dealer…. Porsche west London was owned by the Fraser Nash Co. Old man Nash...
Forum: Rest of the World
Dec 24th 2023, 3:16 pm
Replies: 310
Views: 32,133
Posted By uk_grenada

Re: Back in the Day

I’ve had a German car with French tyres that never needed air in its tyres ever.

BUT they never had air, they were nitrogen filled, apparently the gas has bigger molecules or something like that. ...
Forum: Rest of the World
Dec 12th 2023, 7:46 pm
Replies: 310
Views: 32,133
Posted By uk_grenada

Re: Back in the Day

Remember! I still have one in London, a 1930’s Bentley supercharged. Scary device, if you get it wrong, it’ll break your fingers.

It lives in air conditioned splendour 360 days of the year, and...
Forum: Rest of the World
Dec 2nd 2023, 9:28 am
Replies: 310
Views: 32,133
Posted By uk_grenada

Re: Back in the Day

Oh yes, i have no doubt that other civilisations revered numbers. Masons for example dont refer to god, the organisation believes in a higher being but what you call it is irrelevant. They refer to...
Forum: Rest of the World
Nov 6th 2023, 1:51 pm
Replies: 310
Views: 32,133
Posted By uk_grenada

Re: Back in the Day

Its also about geometry, any freemason can explain:

Classical antiquity. The Pythagoreans invested particular numbers with unique spiritual properties. The number seven was considered to be...
Forum: Rest of the World
Jul 18th 2023, 12:42 am
Replies: 310
Views: 32,133
Posted By uk_grenada

Re: Back in the Day

Love to meet up one day, here or there?

we all have an interesting story, but never get maudlin, there is more always.

this is penned to use an obsolete word on Ariapita ave in port of Spain...
Forum: Rest of the World
Jul 4th 2023, 12:45 am
Replies: 310
Views: 32,133
Posted By uk_grenada

Re: Back in the Day

Men love the concept of children but not so much the work, expense even. I remember a report saying a child by majority costs the same as a high end Porsche.

This man prefers to love his lovers,...
Forum: Rest of the World
Jul 4th 2023, 12:41 am
Replies: 310
Views: 32,133
Posted By uk_grenada

Re: Back in the Day

I think men and women are remarkably similar generally but individual variation is wide. In other words women are as horny and love sex as much as men do, but men and women individually vary a lot...
Forum: Rest of the World
Jun 30th 2023, 8:45 pm
Replies: 310
Views: 32,133
Posted By uk_grenada

Re: Back in the Day

Relationships are complex for sure. I spent 30 years with a wife who I eventually divorced some years after she decided a physical relationship was no longer something she was interested in.

I...
Forum: Rest of the World
Dec 20th 2022, 12:32 pm
Replies: 310
Views: 32,133
Posted By uk_grenada

Re: Back in the Day

I watched a really pretty amusing UK TV chat show that showed how absurd its all becoming. A guest said that London was a lot less english these days because of the recent influx of peoples from...
Forum: Rest of the World
Dec 16th 2022, 6:14 pm
Replies: 310
Views: 32,133
Posted By uk_grenada

Re: Back in the Day

Pommie lol... Theres a strange phrase used to annoy Jamaicans, calling them 'first off' or FOB [first or fresh off the boat - fresh is still a racial slur - not used to local customs having just...
Forum: Rest of the World
Oct 30th 2022, 9:01 pm
Replies: 310
Views: 32,133
Posted By uk_grenada

Re: Back in the Day

I’m with you to an extent Gordon.

I think swearing properly is becoming rarer, the shotgun approach of peppering your language with f’ing bloo.. etc etc etc (here in the Caribbean motherc… seems...
Forum: Rest of the World
Sep 10th 2022, 7:45 pm
Replies: 310
Views: 32,133
Posted By uk_grenada

Re: Back in the Day

Springtime for hitler isnt that simple unfortunately - while the whole core of the gag was to make a completely impossible play, supporting nazis, so they could steal the money from backers [what...
Forum: Rest of the World
Sep 10th 2022, 2:56 pm
Replies: 310
Views: 32,133
Posted By uk_grenada

Re: Back in the Day

Bob Monkhouse on TV vs Bob Monkhouse in real life were 2 very different comedians. One of my favourites was Ken Dodd, he could give Roy Chubby Brown a run for his money in a late night show...
Forum: Rest of the World
Sep 10th 2022, 1:25 pm
Replies: 310
Views: 32,133
Posted By uk_grenada

Re: Back in the Day

I am white, married to a black lady from Grenada, where i live and have naturally biracial children. To understand how racism is able to be passed on in effect generation to generation where there...
Forum: Rest of the World
Sep 10th 2022, 12:59 pm
Replies: 310
Views: 32,133
Posted By uk_grenada

Re: Back in the Day

Manning was an equal opportunities offender or - well anyone really, he was an absolute machine at it. The look on Esthers face when he said it was wonderous to behold.

I would maintain that...
Forum: Rest of the World
Sep 10th 2022, 10:41 am
Replies: 310
Views: 32,133
Posted By uk_grenada

Re: Back in the Day

There was an amazing interview on the parkinson show years ago, Bernard Manning, the absolute mechanic of northern stand up comedy was on with Esther Ransen, all through the show Manning was coming...
Forum: Rest of the World
Sep 10th 2022, 10:28 am
Replies: 310
Views: 32,133
Posted By uk_grenada

Re: Back in the Day

If you think of the UK TV comedy of the 70's or 80's, there was stuff in there that would probably get you arrested today. Remember Alf Garnet?

Today, its not so much that you cant use certain...
Forum: Rest of the World
Aug 29th 2022, 10:20 am
Replies: 310
Views: 32,133
Posted By uk_grenada

Re: Back in the Day

Camels... I never knew till about 20 years ago that a camel could be pretty lol.

I lived in iran for years and saw hundreds of the obstinate noisy smelly bitey beasts, but 20 years ago i was...
Forum: Rest of the World
Aug 7th 2022, 1:28 pm
Replies: 310
Views: 32,133
Posted By uk_grenada

Re: Back in the Day

Well it seem the covid panic has passed properly now. has the US has unofficially relaxed its stance - sometimes - on covid! Most unamerican and really highly unamerican for the airport gestapo.
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Forum: Rest of the World
Aug 6th 2022, 2:25 pm
Replies: 310
Views: 32,133
Posted By uk_grenada

Re: Back in the Day

The logic is about how far droplets fly if you cough, and i did read some reports in the press over a year ago that studies were done, but that those studies showed a metre was probably enough. There...
Forum: Rest of the World
Aug 2nd 2022, 7:38 pm
Replies: 310
Views: 32,133
Posted By uk_grenada

Re: Back in the Day

I think time to learn about the bug was a luxury that would cost lives? In an environment where people are being bombarded with truth and fiction, and and the news hounds are having a field day.
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Forum: Rest of the World
Aug 2nd 2022, 2:37 pm
Replies: 310
Views: 32,133
Posted By uk_grenada

Re: Back in the Day

I apologise!

I think im a bit thin skinned about vaccination misinformation, its partially my NHS connections, well the whole misinformation thing about protecting ourselves in a relatively...
Forum: Rest of the World
Aug 2nd 2022, 12:18 am
Replies: 310
Views: 32,133
Posted By uk_grenada

Re: Back in the Day

I believe that you are somewhat naive and rather easily lead by propaganda.

Do what you choose but I would suggest you listen to people who have spent their lives learning about bugs, not those...
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