Wednesday, August 28, 2013

Aaah those were the days (Part 9,142)

In the series of observations on how the modern world blows and everything of yesteryore was glorious, witness the wonder of ECONOMY (!!!) class in 1960, and tell me in all seriousness that you would settle for Easyjet?

I rest my case

A Picture of Economy Class on a Pan-Am Flight in 1960

Wednesday, August 7, 2013

Things that make you go Bleargh

Dear old Mr Handy has started to produce a bucket list on his blog. I have decided to do the same thing, however this is a bucket list of things I will never do, as they would make me sick. In a bucket.
Saves the embaressment of other "accidents"

Eat brains. I'd rather starve, even if I were a zombie
Watch Coronation Street.
Watch Eastenders
Watch Simon Cowell
Watch ITV. 
Go wing-walking, for a variety of reasons, primarily because no-one wants to see a shaved bear in a cowgirl outift flying along withe greatest of ease while shitting her considerable pants. No-one ever.
Try a Thousand Year Old Egg - chinese delicacy my eye, it's a rotten, green egg, and that's that.
Skydive (see above for pant related reasons)
Abseil (ditto)
Bungee Jump (and again)
Hold a spider, of any size or description. Too many eyes by 6, too many legs by 4. Nuff said

I'm sure the list will continue to expand, but for now I leave it at that. I would rather like to leave the house occassionally and not be confronted with a crowd of unmentionables (wing-walking spiders showering me with rotten eggs maybe - could happen.....)