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a stagnant pool of bile contains as much interest... ...as the bible and is much less harmful and is much more helpful and is much more reverened and is much more irreverent 30 seconds of pure greatness

at artschool i went out with a lass from haworth. she was a stunner, but the way she pronounced the word no was utterly odd = nurrr

ain't we got it made

great knowledge. if we are name-dropping tv duos and public houses, my grandfather's local was called the wheatsheaf, in a small place called newhey, between oldham and rochdale. it was half owned by bobby ball (who co-incidentally was in the same junior class at school as my mother) from the...

the bourne arms! that was the name of the pub in knott end we used to eat at and have a pint of proper ale when i used to drive my grandfather over for the day in his later years. maybe it's still around and an excuse for you to jump on the ferry.

mostly that's good news, nice one. i had no idea syd little was a local, but you have reminded me that the fella who started the fisherman's friend company was from there (and maybe the factory was there too?) plus, that the town was named after a rich bloke with a double-barreled name ending...

allerdings! :)

ah, fleetwood. spent many a week there in my youth in the 1970s. my grandfather was originally from across the water, knott end. he moved to manchester as a young child with 8 brothers and 1 sister into a 2 bedroomed house. imagine that. when we visited family we always took the ferry over the...

i will have a bet with you, any amount you like, that he did not spell behaviour without the letter u.

i love flappers light one up, crack open a bockle, make a brew, whatever it is you do in life, but just look at this for a few minutes, one by one...

nope. that was scooby.

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did anyone else love the tv series "the paper chase"?

it was always "first one to see the tower wins...", but i can't recall what the prize was.

any decent human being coming across a non-threatening person curled up on the floor stating that they have been stabbed should not take "minutes" to switch to life saving mode, let alone someone supposedly trained in the skill of life-saving who decided to drag, handcuff and mock them. the...

when i was young i firmly believed a.c.a.b. and i won't deny it and many personal experiences living in hulme and longsight further hardened my stance. in the past decade, through family, i got to know 2 serving police officers in manchester, (one rag, one blue) that gave me a different...

given the levels of anger surrounding this, even if he is afforded solitary for his own protection, i would guess he won't reach the age of 60 or anywhere even close to it.

i cannot recall who coined the phrase, but... gentlemen in every sense of the word.