Bits and Bobs 51

markg · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 16725

Nah, they’re pretty big at my daughter’s primary school along with croc charms which go in the little holes. Fucking UGG boots as well. “In” or “out” both of these forms of footwear are an obscenity on the feet of a fully grown adult.

Squirt · **Joined:** 31st Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 6654

Mullets are also making a bit of a come-back in the UK, it seems. I've spotted plenty of youngsters with them.

Apparentlly, when my niece wears Crocs it's cool and awesome, and when I wear a pair it's, like, totally cringe.

Grim... · **Posted:** Thu Mar 13, 2025 12:26

Tell her to stick to doing Fortnite dances or whatever.

Satsuma · **Joined:** 20th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14484

Just dab her up.

…yo.

MaliA · **Posted:** Thu Mar 13, 2025 19:47

I'm sorry, but ADHD has become a scam that is wildly overdiagnosed and an excuse for poor behaviour

BikNorton · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 10241

MaliA wrote:

I'm sorry, but ADHD has become a scam that is wildly overdiagnosed and an excuse for poor behaviour

Fuck them and the horse they rode in on.

JBR · **Joined:** 2nd Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 3344

Saw a Robin Ince post earlier - Peter Hitchens saying "Dyslexia doesn't exist. It's a made-up affliction". Ince said "...the sort of mind Peter Hitchens has - he lacks empathy - if he doesn't experience it then it is made up and can be dismissed". Reckon you might broaden that to much of what identifies itself as 'the right'.

Mimi · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 26511

markg wrote:

both of these forms of footwear are an obscenity on the feet of a fully grown adult.

I’ve got a pair of crocs because they are ace for when I’m gardening, and Russell has two pairs: one by the back door (for gardening jobs) and one by the front door (for taking the bins out).

We’ve never worn them outside of those purposes, apart from once where I needed something for the garden and we had a quick dash to B&Q and I forgot to take them off. I suddenly became aware they were on my feet in the middle of B& Q and felt immediately self-conscious, but in the queue I noticed that every one of the three people in front of me was wearing crocs, which I’d never have noticed if it wasn’t for how self-conscious I was feeling and I then realised that nobody notices or cares (or maybe I just don’t).

I’ve never knowingly worn them outside since then, but that’s mostly because I like more foot support when I’m out and about. I think they are perfect to slip on the feet for the garden though. They’re just slippers for outside, and if my garden is part of my house, then they make sense.

Zardoz · **Posted:** Fri Mar 14, 2025 15:41

You may wear them for the above purposes.

I’ve only worn them at the awkward birth of my daughter when I had to dress in some gown and pinch a nurses pair* before allowed in theatre.

*oooooh matron

Mimi · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 26511

You’d have been too preoccupied with your awkward daughter to notice, but I’m telling you that they were super comfy. Also, good on that nurse to lend you their shoes.

Zardoz · **Posted:** Fri Mar 14, 2025 16:30

Well they didn’t know, I just took what was in the room.

:DD

Zardoz · **Posted:** Fri Mar 14, 2025 16:30

Croc Gangsta

Mimi · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 26511

You wouldn’t steal a pair of crocs…

Zardoz · **Posted:** Fri Mar 14, 2025 16:40

Absolutely not.

Don’t worry, I didn’t keep them, folks!

Mimi · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 26511

Hmmm…

Zardoz · **Posted:** Fri Mar 14, 2025 17:04

MaliA · **Posted:** Fri Mar 14, 2025 17:25

I've got some jarg crocs I use to walk across the garden to the office with.

Findus Fop · **Joined:** 14th May, 2009 **Posts:** 4403

Zardoz wrote:

You may wear them for the above purposes.

I’ve only worn them at the awkward birth of my daughter when I had to dress in some gown and pinch a nurses pair* before allowed in theatre.

*oooooh matron

Did you keep them on after the interval, or slip into something more appropriate?

Sir Taxalot · **Joined:** 5th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 4966

My crocs are for around the house, as being in just sock or barefoot doesn't feel comfortable, especially on the hard floor of the kitchen, bathroom and laundry. The carpets are also quite thin, I don't know if there is any underlay.

And yet, outside in the garden I love being barefoot. I'll take my crocs and my socks off to walk to the shed, or to take the bins out, even just on the patio. I intentionally try and spend as much time barefoot outside as I can.

Sir Taxalot · **Joined:** 5th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 4966

Mimi wrote:

markg wrote:

I’ve never knowingly worn them outside since then, but that’s mostly because I like more foot support when I’m out and about. I think they are perfect to slip on the feet for the garden though. They’re just slippers for outside, and if my garden is part of my house, then they make sense.

I think I'd rather be seen walking around the shops barefoot than in crocs. Everyone else in the shop would think that's a bit gross though.

Satsuma · **Joined:** 20th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14484

I saw someone walking around Nottingham today in slippers. Not slip on shoes. Just a pair of fucking slippers.

Findus Fop · **Joined:** 14th May, 2009 **Posts:** 4403

Rather nifty site endlessly streaming weird stuff. Has a strong whiff of Chinny about it

https://exptv.org/

MaliA · **Posted:** Fri Mar 21, 2025 19:32

The lollipop man died and now i'm more sad than I feel I should be as every day we would laugh about it being a good or bad day to hang washing out and how many loads could hypothetically get done in daylight remaining (don't want the washing darked on).

markg · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 16725

Sorry to hear that. There was an old geezer down the road I'd often chat to on the way back from the school run. Then one day a few months back he wasn't there and that was that.

BikNorton · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 10241

Someone from the last place I worked, who did most of my interview there, died yesterday. I was there 9 years, left 9 years ago. Peculiar non-feelings but not no-feelings about this.

MaliA · **Posted:** Sat Mar 22, 2025 14:36

Got the whole audience at this screening in this photo

Zardoz · **Posted:** Sat Mar 22, 2025 16:15

Stunning

Trooper · **Joined:** 4th Mar, 2010 **Posts:** 22424

Nice jacket

MaliA · **Posted:** Sat Mar 22, 2025 21:16

Yes. Yes, it is

Findus Fop · **Joined:** 14th May, 2009 **Posts:** 4403

MaliA wrote:

Yes. Yes, it is

Buck Rogers!

Mimi · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 26511

Mimi wrote:

The washing machine repair man has finished critiquing our downstairs loo and utility artwork and has now moved onto the topics of religion and the theory of evolution and how these work alongside his own faith.

I’m hiding in the living room. Russell is bravely holding the fort.

Washing machine has broken again. Dusting up on my knowledge of mediaeval map making and quantum physics in case.

Side quest: got to try one of those supermarket car park laundrettes yesterday. Fun times. Also expensive times.

Warhead · Noob as of 6/8/10

Man arrested after release of noxious gas on trams

Of course, it could just be 'Man with excessive flatulence arrested on trams.'

Grim... · **Posted:** Wed Mar 26, 2025 5:03

Today, Beex is old enough to drive.

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 38819

Grim... wrote:

Today, Beex is old enough to drive.

Happy Birthday Beex!

How much are driving lessons these days?

Kern · **Posted:** Wed Mar 26, 2025 9:43

Happy Beex Day!

Left all my cards to the last minute, as usual.

Our GPOYW thread morphed into our Wayback Machine thread a while ago.

Mr Russell · **Joined:** 6th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 12371

That's awesome. Thank you for keeping us all together, Grim...

zaphod79 · **Joined:** 16th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14538

The start of it all :

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Mimi · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 26511

How do you steal yours?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/cm2jmlzgyrvo

Zardoz · **Posted:** Fri Mar 28, 2025 10:00

Happy Birthday, Beex x

Grim... · **Posted:** Fri Mar 28, 2025 10:16

No, today is Curio's birthday.

Zardoz · **Posted:** Fri Mar 28, 2025 11:38

Whatever, dick

Zardoz · **Posted:** Fri Mar 28, 2025 11:38

Great times…

Zardoz · **Posted:** Fri Mar 28, 2025 11:41

Happy birthday, Curio!

NervousPete · **Posted:** Fri Mar 28, 2025 13:41

Hullo! Happy Birthday Curio, you share a birthday with me!

Sorry it's been a while since I've checked in. Been a bit of a busy time and I scaled back being online a bit for a while. Overall I'm doing okay, have given up drinking for a good while (aside from a glass of wine now and again from a Fancy Dan place at a weekend lunchtime with a good book) and have found there to actually be some reasonable 0.5% beers out there, with some good ones by Drop Beer. Don't know how long I'll be on this kick but it surprisingly hasn't been that hard to give up. Am still reading westerns, still playing Cities Skylines, American Truck and The Long Dark a lot and am currently towards the end of Xenoblade 3, which is excellent. Still going out photographing weird art projects, am eating slightly more healthily (giving up Fox's biscuits Jammy Dodgers equivalent has been very hard) and walking a fair bit more, so I've even lost a little weight. A little. A bit.

Hope everyone is well here! Amusingly, Lord Rixondale has brought me tickets to some wrestling going on in Cardiff for my birthday, born of my new found addiction to the very entertaining 'Wrestle Me' podcast which, as with all podcasts, I have discovered about ten years late. Off to see the family this weekend, for picnics and watching French detective Maigret on the telly. Hope you all have a lovely weekend too, I'll try and slip awkwardly back into this Beex party place now. Please excuse me while I sidle up crabwise into the kitchen alongside the olives and dips. xxx

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 38819

HAPPY BIRTHDAY PETER!

Jem · **Posted:** Fri Mar 28, 2025 15:42

Happy birthday Pete :luv:

MaliA · **Posted:** Fri Mar 28, 2025 15:47

Happy birthday!

Zardoz · **Posted:** Fri Mar 28, 2025 17:29

Happy Birthday, Pete!

Blucey · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 2287

Happy Bidet, guys.

Kern · **Posted:** Fri Mar 28, 2025 21:51

Happy birthday!

Love Drop Bear's stuff, other than the stout.

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