The beer garden

[Derek27]

Was Michael Parkinson ever a young man? No matter how many decades you go back he always looked 50 plus!

RIP

[Derek27]

Sad news, Elvis Presley's died. I've gathered that from the number of his songs hitting the charts.

But I've found another long-lost gem from Jonathan Richman with Legs & Co dancing to it. I love the way the group renowned for and named after their legs have to do a video in a studio car and struggle to expose their legs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2x7D2VUP62I

[Derek27]

One giant impact for Russia.

[Kai]

Sad news, Elvis Presley's died. I've gathered that from the number of his songs hitting the charts.

Wait what

You thought Elvis died just a few days ago?

[Derek27]

Sad news, Elvis Presley's died. I've gathered that from the number of his songs hitting the charts.

Wait what

You thought Elvis died just a few days ago?

It's 1977 where I am. I was on holiday when my mum told me Elvis Presley's died and I replied, "Who's Elvis Presley?".

[Derek27]

A man's broken the world record after running the fastest half-marathon in high heels. What a nutcase!

[Derek27]

I was eating my breakfast at 12:30 and noticed a guy outside washing his car. It's now 16:15 and he's still polishing off! Just take it to a car wash, FFS.

[Derek27]

Since my early evening shower I've been struggling to gain access to my dick, every time I go to the toilet. But I've figured out what the problem is now, I had my pants on back to front.

[greenmark]

A man's broken the world record after running the fastest half-marathon in high heels. What a nutcase!

The whole thing with footwear baffles me. Some of us seem drawn to footwear which is plain bad.
High heels - ankle breakers. Pointy toe boxes that look sleek but wreck your feet. A shoe should be the same shape as a normal foot and support it.
A winklepicker or stiletto doesn't fit that spec. We should all be compelled to wear Doc Martens.

[sionascaig]

We should all be compelled to wear Doc Martens.

.... if you don't mind yeast infections.

[Derek27]

Why are diseases named after the scientist who discovered them? Instead of rewarding him they punish all of his descendants.

[LeTiss]

Why are diseases named after the scientist who discovered them? Instead of rewarding him they punish all of his descendants.

Indeed.....like the shagging shepherd, Syphilis
Even though, he was only a fictional character in a poem, I get your point

[Derek27]

Why do people, even reporters, pronounce constable with a U?

If I was a PC I wouldn't take kindly to being called a "cunstable".

[Galilee66]

Derek, For most of my 80 years the word was always pronounced with a "u" - as was "Cuvent Garden". It has only been over the last 20 years or so that it has changed - largley due to the disturbing decline in the correct use of the English language. Don't start me on the misuse of what was once the past imperfect and is now "continuous"; the prime example of which is the widespread usage of "I was sat". The correct usage here should be "I was sitting". Professor Higgins in the musical My Fair Lady was spot on when he asked "Why can't the English learn to speaK?"
Galilee66

[Derek27]

Derek, For most of my 80 years the word was always pronounced with a "u" - as was "Cuvent Garden". It has only been over the last 20 years or so that it has changed - largley due to the disturbing decline in the correct use of the English language. Don't start me on the misuse of what was once the past imperfect and is now "continuous"; the prime example of which is the widespread usage of "I was sat". The correct usage here should be "I was sitting". Professor Higgins in the musical My Fair Lady was spot on when he asked "Why can't the English learn to speaK?"
Galilee66

I suppose northerners and Americans got it right when they pronounce rather, glass, nazi, etc. as they're spelt. We southerners chuck in an R or long A. But "cunstable" sounds too much like king canute for my liking.