StreetCowboy

High water but no flooding today - although a lot of snow-melt water on the meadows beside the river

This week it has warmed up and the snow is melting - maybe we’ll get flooding tomorrow. I took a rake up the Don Valley - the unpaved paths still have snow on them, but maybe won’t have by Monday. So I’m having a couple of pints of cider, then I’ll stay in and watch the highlights from Murrayfield fifteen times.

I was suffering jet lag from my recent trip back (some times the remedy is worse... Francis Bacon) and after a build up of several days, I was incapacitated for my usual Saturday morning call home. Anyway, I took a rake round by the beaches, and my boots are caked with clart, and my bike is rapidly dissolving in the salt. It was nice to get back out in the fresh air again, but I;d rather be cycling in Malaysia at this time of year, and coming back to a mutton curry

Not to mention the food

I am back in Malaysia amongst friends (white van shown above) for a week or so of cycling and drinking, and sun burn to boot, and the Federation Internationale d’Escargots Grand Prix

"Handicapped" refers to having a physical or mental impairment limiting major life activities..." A handicap is a mechanism used in sports, games, and racing to equalize competition by giving advantages or disadvantages to participants based on varying skill levels... Handicapped therefore means struggling under an additional burden. Not necessarily disabled, but with an additional burden. The earlier "cap in hand" suggestion was just gibberish.

The bet comedians are observant, not imaginative. However, some celebrities can make a living lampooning themselves.

"... awoke with a fright in the middle of the night To find it was perfectly true"

It's only constructive if you give advice on how you and I can help these victims of mental distress. Maybe reassuring posts would help - "Worse things happen at sea" "Just be glad you don't have a bad back" "Stay happy!"

You do know what "handicapped" means, right? Or are you completely ignorant of horse-racing?

You'd be a reckless man to walk about in America in these days.

Walking barefoot makes you more careful of your neighbours. Some Americans seem to struggle to walk barefoot, perhaps because of their bone spurs.

Friends are harmless until you step on them. When you step on your friends, your enemies gain twice. "The Hobbit" highlights the benefits of having small friends.

"Sometimes" To be more specific, "Back in the Day..." It's a <deleted>e state of affairs, and all the fresh air in the world won't make any bloody difference.

Bairns. Bairns are bonnie 'n a' as well. E'bdy's bairns are bonnie, but there's none as bonnie as yer ain. Same as farts.

Do you remember the happy times we had, back in the day, when posts accumulated Heineken Greenies and McEwans Export Reddies? Certain symbols mean different things to different people, but the multitude of reddies my posts accumulated reminded me of travelling back from England to the Old Country, on the High Speed Trains. I'd get on the train mid-way, and look for a seat. Out of preference, I'd take the a seat at a table of four. None of your neighbours would say anything. It was still a four hour journey to go, Three hours fifty, maybe. Three and a half, by the time we got to Preston, and I've had enough of this. "I've brought you Export", I'd say on my return from the buffet car, and all I'd get wqs a polite 'Thank you' and some quiet supping. "I'm just off to the toilet" someone would say, as we pulled out of Lancaster, and he'd come back with four more cans. You'd take him at his word, and check that your can was sealed, and a bit of polite conversation might break out, with the occasional digression into discussion. By the time the guy had come back from the buffet after Carlisle, we'd be well into banter, and as we approached Motherwell, the last man would be saying "I'd better get them in quickly!", and we'd all pile off at Glasgow Central best of friends, still ignorant of each others' names, to never meet again. I can't imagine what it is like getting the train from Birmingham or London.

If you're going to answer your own question, why bother posting it?

From the Like, I'm going to assume the last, and for my own safety, it might be better if you deleted this post, and we'll say no more about it. For everyone else, if I stop posting, you heard it here first.

Craftmanship is to be praised. Anyone that can plane or rout should be allowed to do so to the best of their abilities. Even in your dreams. I am surprised to discover that you are a repressive fascist in your dreams, and I will pretend to myself that I never heard that. SC

Do you ever use other social media? Do you get raged up, wishing you were a moderator there? Or do you have enough money to hire a hit-man, when you want one?

"bonnie" really means 'good looking', but it is generally only be applied to lasses, lads or banks.

Shure, and I'm tin, and you're tin, but he's tinner tan bot' of us put togither

So let's be clear: English comedy Stand-up, not sitcom or sketch Please provide links to support your claims. Threads like this should be about sharing, not willy-waving. #4 SC

This thread is a waste without links.

Better a t’in ear t’an a t’ik ear