Loonytoons Posted June 2 Share Posted June 2 My niece's welly boot made centre stage at TITP 2007. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFTD Posted June 2 Share Posted June 2 47 minutes ago, Loonytoons said: My niece's welly boot made centre stage at TITP 2007. Likely the first time anyone's been blown off the stage by Snow Patrol. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richey Edwards Posted June 2 Share Posted June 2 6 minutes ago, BFTD said: Likely the first time anyone's been blown off the stage by Snow Patrol. I got dragged to see them years ago at the SECC and they were shit. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bert Raccoon Posted June 2 Share Posted June 2 1 hour ago, Loonytoons said: My niece's welly boot made centre stage at TITP 2007. I miss T In The Park. Yes it ended up being like something out of Mad Max bit was still some laugh 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig fae the Vale Posted June 2 Share Posted June 2 9 hours ago, Bert Raccoon said: I miss T In The Park. Yes it ended up being like something out of Mad Max bit was still some laugh I'd never go now, but in my late teens and early twenties it was the highlight of the summer. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miguel Sanchez Posted June 2 Share Posted June 2 21 hours ago, tamthebam said: Ramones fans -If his granddad had been David Hay and they followed the example of Boutros Boutros Ghali then his dad would have been Gabor Gabor Hay And if he married Zsa Zsa? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottsdad Posted June 2 Share Posted June 2 9 hours ago, Bert Raccoon said: I miss T In The Park. Yes it ended up being like something out of Mad Max bit was still some laugh Back in 97, I had a summer job at Stirling Council surveying the roads. There were 8 of us, and two trucks. The trucks sat 6 people, and they were a kind of flat bed so we could chuck our signs and equipment in the back. We took turns taking the trucks home at night. The council approved as they felt the trucks were safer at our houses overnight than in their yard. Apparently local Rap Tap schemies were vandalising them. One monday we got into a truck and it was in a hell of a state. Smelled of beer, weed and piss. Stains everywhere. We had to spend the next 8 hours on a hot day in this tin can. Turns out one guy took it home on Friday, then took it to T in the park with his mates for the weekend. They slept in it, got pissed and high and just wrecked the thing. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bert Raccoon Posted June 2 Share Posted June 2 (edited) Last time I went to TITP was 2008. I had a nasty slip (nothing to do with the litre of Glen's Vodka I drank) woke up in the medical bit and some fella full of ketamine was trying to eat a nurses arm. Halcyon days. Edited June 3 by Bert Raccoon 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottsdad Posted June 2 Share Posted June 2 Meant to add, the signs were all still there but the trundle wheels had all been nicked. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hedgecutter Posted June 2 Share Posted June 2 (edited) My first time at T in the Park was as a 14 year old litter picker. We were told to place little flags next to used-johnnie's, needles etc, but we mostly put them in fallen sausages as it somehow seemed hilarious at that age. I know it was '98 as we used our 'staff' yellow jacket privileges to push to the front row for The Prodigy, Beastie Boys & Pulp. I don't think we actually did much work tbh. Life lesson: never hire teenagers. eta: vague memories of it being an absolute quagmire. Edited June 2 by Hedgecutter 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamthebam Posted June 6 Share Posted June 6 For some reason we were talking about porridge at work and I said "there was an old urban myth when I was at Aberdeen University 30 years ago about a student who'd lived in Tillydrone and could only afford to eat porridge. He came down with scurvy apparently" My workmate replied "My Modern Studies teacher said that had happened to him, he was the first case of scurvy in decades apparently. My teacher was Robin Harper (the Green MSP)" So he looked up Robin Harper on Wikipedia and discovered that he attended Aberdeen University, graduating in 1962. If the urban myth really was about Robin Harper then it was at least 30 years old when I heard it.. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spyro Posted June 6 Share Posted June 6 I'm probably way behind everyone else but... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Connolly Posted June 8 Share Posted June 8 Jim Lovell was one of the unluckiest astronauts going. Not only did he nearly blow up on Apollo 13, but he was swapped out of the eventual Apollo 11 crew when Michael Collins had an operation that prevented him going on Apollo 9. Had he stayed on that crew, he would have been the one left on the command module, so wouldn't have got on the moon on that trip either 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hk blues Posted June 9 Share Posted June 9 9 hours ago, Mark Connolly said: Jim Lovell was one of the unluckiest astronauts going. Not only did he nearly blow up on Apollo 13, but he was swapped out of the eventual Apollo 11 crew when Michael Collins had an operation that prevented him going on Apollo 9. Had he stayed on that crew, he would have been the one left on the command module, so wouldn't have got on the moon on that trip either The astronaut equivalent of a great clubman. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Connolly Posted June 9 Share Posted June 9 2 hours ago, hk blues said: The astronaut equivalent of a great clubman. 600 appearances, no trophies, and his only goal saved them from relegation 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moomintroll Posted June 9 Share Posted June 9 On 02/06/2024 at 22:13, Hedgecutter said: My first time at T in the Park was as a 14 year old litter picker. We were told to place little flags next to used-johnnie's, needles etc, but we mostly put them in fallen sausages as it somehow seemed hilarious at that age. I know it was '98 as we used our 'staff' yellow jacket privileges to push to the front row for The Prodigy, Beastie Boys & Pulp. I don't think we actually did much work tbh. Life lesson: never hire teenagers. eta: vague memories of it being an absolute quagmire. Giggity. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jives Miguel Posted June 10 Share Posted June 10 I've been reading and pronouncing(in my head) the word vitiligo as vi-tig-li-oh for the past 30+ years. I've no idea how I've never noticed that that's quite clearly not how's its spelled. Today I think was the first time I've heard someone say the word, and that's how I realised. This has happened to me before; learning words and formulating an incorrect pronunciation in your head, only to go years without ever hearing the word spoke aloud. Does this happen to anyone else, or am I just thick? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFTD Posted June 10 Share Posted June 10 15 minutes ago, Jives Miguel said: I've been reading and pronouncing(in my head) the word vitiligo as vi-tig-li-oh for the past 30+ years. I've no idea how I've never noticed that that's quite clearly not how's its spelled. Today I think was the first time I've heard someone say the word, and that's how I realised. This has happened to me before; learning words and formulating an incorrect pronunciation in your head, only to go years without ever hearing the word spoke aloud. Does this happen to anyone else, or am I just thick? This has happened to me more times that I'm comfortable admitting. Can't think of any examples off the top of my head, but I know there's been a bunch of times I've finally heard a word spoken aloud that I've read for decades and had a brief moment of terror, trying to think if I've ever used it in conversation and outed myself as a total numpty (even more than usual). Something I've noticed is how many YouTubers have no such fears - plenty of them have the most bizarre pronunciations for even the simplest and most common of words. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottsdad Posted June 11 Share Posted June 11 8 hours ago, Jives Miguel said: I've been reading and pronouncing(in my head) the word vitiligo as vi-tig-li-oh for the past 30+ years. I've no idea how I've never noticed that that's quite clearly not how's its spelled. Today I think was the first time I've heard someone say the word, and that's how I realised. This has happened to me before; learning words and formulating an incorrect pronunciation in your head, only to go years without ever hearing the word spoke aloud. Does this happen to anyone else, or am I just thick? I remember Scott's school bus company changing years ago. I asked him who were doing it now. De War he said, in a bit of a French accent. It was Dewar. He'd never heard the name before so assumed it was a French company. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boghead ranter Posted June 11 Share Posted June 11 8 hours ago, Jives Miguel said: I've been reading and pronouncing(in my head) the word vitiligo as vi-tig-li-oh for the past 30+ years. I've no idea how I've never noticed that that's quite clearly not how's its spelled. Today I think was the first time I've heard someone say the word, and that's how I realised. This has happened to me before; learning words and formulating an incorrect pronunciation in your head, only to go years without ever hearing the word spoke aloud. Does this happen to anyone else, or am I just thick? 7 minutes ago, scottsdad said: I remember Scott's school bus company changing years ago. I asked him who were doing it now. De War he said, in a bit of a French accent. It was Dewar. He'd never heard the name before so assumed it was a French company. Sat next to a lassie at work years ago who was having a phone conversation with a Mrs Mwah. The wumman's name was Moir. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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