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The Old Bull

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  1. 16 hours ago, OneMoreFarang said:

    It seems the rules about vehicles on the beach are very different in different countries.

    I can't imagine ever seeing a vehicle on the beach when I grew up. Not in the country where I lived, and not in any neighboring country in Europe. 

    But I remember seeing Hollywood movies where people drove regularly with cars on the beach.

     

     

    Where I grew up , Liverpool ,just north of the city you could drive on the beach from Formby to Southport. They even had special beach police to catch speeders.

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  2. Being young and stupid wanting to show off to the girls I lifted up the end of a pool table so the balls would roll to the other end. Next morning my shoulder was locked stiff and painful so I went to the doctor. He figured he could fix it with acupuncture but I howled when he stuck the first needle in. He said that is not supposed to happen so he stopped and gave me a sleeping pill . Told me to go straight home as I would be asleep in half an hour. I slept from Monday lunchtime to Wednesday sometime. Passed out in the bathroom or so I was told and got packed back to bed. When I woke up the pain was gone but it was a couple of days before I could lift my arm above my head. Not one of my most pleasant experiences.

  3. On 3/21/2024 at 10:41 PM, herfiehandbag said:

    At the risk of sounding trite, you should not believe everything that you hear on the news regarding Brexit! It was a hard contested political decision. "The establishment", including both major parties, and a large swage of the middle classes, (particularly those in occupations which let us say, were closely bound to the EU) were in favour of remaining. The majority of the  population, as the vote showed, wanted to leave.

     

    It divided the country, and the country frankly remains divided. This division is reflected in media portrayal of the matter.

    Brexit was pushed behind the scenes by the rich with their money hid in places like the Cayman Islands. The EU was threatening to start looking into these. Thats why they bailed out, leaving the ordinary Brits with no more cheap beer and fags. The only problem I had with the EU was that meat pies had to be sold at a high temperature making them impossible to eat till they cooled down.

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