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I used to skateboard, it's an absolute sausage fest.
Edit: Which he may like of coarse..
How about figure skating?
We're a long way from an ice-rink. Ballroom dancing perhaps? Let's be honest, as a card-carrying member of the yoghurt-knitting, guardian-reading, trans-loving, liberal tosh brigade - I think I'd be disappointed with myself if I didn't at least give him a decent crack with both the boys and the girls.
At the moment my thinking is that skateboarding will probably mean more trips to A&E, whilst ukelele will mean that I have to listen to someone playing the ****ing ukelele every evening.
Maybe I could opt out on religious grounds!?
Last edited by Turns to Stone on Mon Jun 20, 2022 1:46 pm, edited 1 time in total.
Skateboarding is so much more than the sum of its parts. It takes you places physically and mentally, and makes you look at the world very differently. Plus the "culture" has always been cool - the best music, the best clothes, and the industry is wholly owned by skateboarders, not greedy corporates.
Turns to Stone wrote: ↑Mon Jun 20, 2022 1:30 pm
We're a long way from an ice-rink. Ballroom dancing perhaps? Let's be honest, as a card-carrying member of the yoghurt-knitting, guardian-reading, trans-loving, liberal tosh brigade - I think I'd be disappointed with myself if I didn't at least give him a decent crack with both the boys and the girls.
At the moment my thinking is that skateboarding will probably mean more trips to A&E, whilst ukelele will mean that I have to listen to someone playing the ****ing ukelele every evening.
Maybe I could opt out on religious grounds!?
The positive is you can convince him that window cleaning is all part of the training, bit like wax on, wax off.
Hummer_I_mean_Hammer wrote: ↑Mon Jun 20, 2022 5:40 pm
The positive is you can convince him that window cleaning is all part of the training, bit like wax on, wax off.
It must be ukelele week in the stars. I was assigned a large classroom this week which also had a sink & draining board at the back. Piled around these are about 15 ukeleles in very expensive-looking flight cases and in very good condition. Must be some kind of teacher training thang.
Also, the last time I worked in this building was 11 years ago when my pair teacher was a hippy lady who I bid goodbye to on her way to a festival with a pink ukelele on her back-pack.
Uke an see a pattern there.
Turns to Stone wrote: ↑Mon Jun 20, 2022 1:20 pm
My son starts school next year and as an option, he has to choose whether he wants to learn the ukelele or to skateboard. As a father I have two questions:-
1. Which will cost me more money?
2. Which will get him more chicks/dudes?
Skateboarding looks pretty easy, even a bollard can do it
Dunno if this is the appropriate thread but I'm looking at a new job that comes with a salary, a £2k supplement and quarterly bonus.
I didn't want to sound stupid in the interview and have to ask,
Can anyone explain what a supplement is?
Tristan Shout wrote: ↑Thu Jun 30, 2022 6:26 pm
Dunno if this is the appropriate thread but I'm looking at a new job that comes with a salary, a £2k supplement and quarterly bonus.
I didn't want to sound stupid in the interview and have to ask,
Can anyone explain what a supplement is?
I think in some industries salaries are banded and your employer can't go outside of those bands. So to make a job more appealing they can include a supplement, which increases the pay packect without breaking the banding.
screech wrote: ↑Fri Jul 01, 2022 10:13 am
Why do some adults using public toilets stand with their trousers and pants round their ankles when using the urinals??
screech wrote: ↑Fri Jul 01, 2022 10:13 am
Why do some adults using public toilets stand with their trousers and pants round their ankles when using the urinals??
Thank God I have never seen that one.
In a similar vein,
I have always wondered about when most blokes are sitting on the bowl in a public or workplace toilets taking a dump and their pants and undercrackers are down by their ankles etc.. the inside of your undercrackers is actually touching the outside porcelain of the toilet bowl.
That part of the toilet NEVER gets cleaned, ( most cleaners only concentrate on cleaning the crap inside the bowl and the toilet seat area )
it's filthy and covered in germs and when you finish you pull up your undercrackers with this dirt on them and are exposing your undercarraige to all sorts of stuff.
I make it my business to make sure mine are not in contact with it,