chomp my root

Currently imbibing a few tins of Mr T's finest in a Stella glass, I'm wearing black socks too so the fashion police can stand down. Slainte chaps.

Thats the prblum with goin to skool in Dunfermlan

I like that, it has character. Don't get me wrong, if I end up on Grand Designs, I'll not be going for a pineapple roof but yeah, I like that.

Lesbian thread for this pish.

This all seems incredibly harsh.

Used to love Hogmanay when I was younger (up to mid 20's) but not been arsed about it since, just an excuse to get batfaced and I've never really needed an excuse.

The last couple of years that we've been in our own gaff for christmas I've bought a good big lump of fillet steak and made a beef Wellington. Braw. The missus has scunnered herself with nut roast so not sure what she'll fancy this year. Think the plan this year is a visit to her folks in the morning then back to Casa Root to be a pair of miserable selfish gits and do our own thing, mostly eating and drinking and having a look on Amazon to see what I can spend my vouchers on when the sale starts.

Being drunk and obnoxious can be forgiven, sober, not so much.

Easier said than done, my missus has a fecked up relationship with her own mum and prefers me to be with her when she(we ) visit because I deal with her a bit more robustly. Mrs Root is a bright woman but like a lot of lassies she struggles to deal with her own mum. Yup, bitches really do be crazy.

Sound like candidates for waterboarding.

#touglyforsanta Its the time of year that amateur drinkers get the rest of us a bad name. I put a lot of effort into being pub fit, bevvying is for life, not Christmas.

I'm sure they did their share of masses though (when they weren't drowning folk). Or pumping Marilyn.

Apologies for my lack of correct usage of the term, yeah, I think it needs to be 4 or more to be a 'mass shooting', unless they're Kaflicks doing their thing with the beads. The whole thing does sort of play into the victim thing with the 'mass' stuff. The Kennedy's were Catholic..... just saying.

When I saw there was a new post on this thread my heart sank, I'd hoped it was more Yank bashing and not another mass slaying. What the feck is wrong with the place that they can't see the problem with their gun culture.

Its quite impressive in 'real life', you can see it for miles from some angles too. I think the dockyard is trying to flog it now.

That's not a crane, THATS a crane.....

Seems fair, the build up to Christmas started in October.

I can't remember.

I'd have gone with 'lez we forget', maybe says more about my online activities though.

Managed to appreciate some of Mr T's finest this afternoon watching Wimbledon V Peterborough. It also inspired a bit of 2018's Deadpool research, it really is for work, rest and play.

Seems a small price to pay to get rid of the wife and weans to be honest.

Biological warfare gone maaaaaaddddd.

You can't argue with one guy's logic 'who was there' but others might see it differently, that piece just seems agenda driven to me, I enjoyed it and the dad's back story, certainly you couldn't tell him he was 'wrong' as it was how he felt, others might see it from another perspective though. There's no doubt (in my mind anyway) that the whole poppy thing has grown arms and legs and there does seem to be a smug element to it, saying that, its the same for other charities, we live in a culture where we need to show how much we care about things, this is just one vulgar aspect of it, it does sadden me that as a charity, its one that seems to take a lot of kickings about it though. Although an ex serviceman, and its a cause I have some sympathy with, if I could only give to one charity it wouldn't be any Armed Forces charity, but its a bit crass to give a charity pelters because its become politicised through no fault of its own (although I'm sure they enjoy the coverage by the media bandwagon jumpers). Give or don't give, go to a remembrance or don't, I don't bother my arse about Pudsey Bear, at the end of the day its just another charidee and there are gazillions of them, it will all be over tomorrow, at least for another year.

Seen a few more old 'unit' T shirts about, even a guy who had a hat saying "old salt" or something similar. Was speaking to a female friend yesterday who's still in and was in uniform in the supermarket after work. She was randomly approached by an old 'gent' and told they had a name for 'Wrens' when he was in, "officers mattresses", how quaint She's heard far worse of course. This could equally have gone in the sexual harassment thread I suppose although I don't think she'll be running to the papers about it.

Its like the worlds gone mad, even zee Jarmans and the officials are wearing a poppy armband. Never mind, only a couple of sleeps to go and it wll all be over for another year.