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    Whenever Channel 4 journo Gary Gibbon is introduced, Ms F & I both like to go "Ooh-ooh-ooh Gary Gibbon!'

    This makes us...disrespectful..? Prone to laughing at 'funny' names..?

    But actually just proves we are old enough to remember "The Goodies".

    What do you say or do that proves you are an oul fucker or a young hipster..?

    #2
    I thought it was a reference to the name given to a former Hartlepool charirman by Darlington fans.

    I'm still prone to "now then, now then" before remembering where the phrase came from.

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      #3
      Originally posted by Felicity, I guess so View Post
      Whenever Channel 4 journo Gary Gibbon is introduced, Ms F & I both like to go "Ooh-ooh-ooh Gary Gibbon!'

      This makes us...disrespectful..? Prone to laughing at 'funny' names..?

      But actually just proves we are old enough to remember "The Goodies".

      What do you say or do that proves you are an oul fucker or a young hipster..?
      I referenced Stirling Moss to people about five years younger than me a couple of years ago and one remarked, 'ow old are you.' I offered Nigel Mansell as a substitute which wasn't a lot better.

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        #4
        During the Barnsley match yesterday the commentator mentioned a Middlesbrough player called Fisher and said he had to stop himself from saying German Bight straight after.

        Just how many viewers under the age of fifty would have clue what he was on about?

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          #5
          Lucky he didn't say Dogger Fisher...

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            #6
            At least he's not still calling it Heligoland

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              #7
              https://twitter.com/punished_stu/status/1381179627239059458?s=21

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                #8
                Originally posted by Southport Zeb View Post
                At least he's not still calling it Heligoland
                What's it called these days then?

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                  #9
                  The "i" was always an Anglo affectation

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                    #10
                    He was referring to the shipping forecast area, I think.

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                      #11
                      When you see pictures of buses burning on the Shankill Road and say "God, it's like the bad old days." Kids under 30 probably don't know what you're talking about.

                      Referring to a phone as a mobile phone. Also, having a landline.

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                        #12
                        Originally posted by ursus arctos View Post
                        The "i" was always an Anglo affectation

                        Yeah. As a one time collector of stamps of the old German States I was aware of that, it was the the shipping forecast area I didn't know had changed.

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                          #13
                          Nor did I

                          Why would it?

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                            #14
                            Never forgiven Salisbury for giving away Heligoland for random bits of Africa...

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                              #15
                              Originally posted by Gangster Octopus View Post
                              Never forgiven Salisbury for giving away Heligoland for random bits of Africa...

                              Did you write him a stiff letter at the time?

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                                #16
                                Originally posted by Gangster Octopus View Post
                                Never forgiven Salisbury for giving away Heligoland for random bits of Africa...
                                Well Zanzibar is a bit more interesting. And you'd never have got Freddy Mercury a few generations later.

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                                  #4
                                  Today, 11:36
                                  During the Barnsley match yesterday the commentator mentioned a Middlesbrough player called Fisher and said he had to stop himself from saying German Bight straight after.

                                  Just how many viewers under the age of fifty would have clue what he was on about
                                  Eh? Do you have to be over 50 to listen to the shipping forecast?

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                                    #18
                                    Originally posted by Evariste Euler Gauss View Post

                                    Eh? Do you have to be over 50 to listen to the shipping forecast?
                                    It's not on tiktok,

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                                      #19
                                      I've heard that time is running out for Tik Tok.

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