The Retirement Thread

[numbnuts]

Done lunch, done walking, tried snoozing - unsuccessful
Two out of three ain't bad

 

[Dave7]

My Dublin born mum would often call me a "Feckin' Gobshite" after my occasional youthful misdemeanour...

Years ago, during Father Ted's heyday, we were on the train from (i think) Dun Loaghaire to Dublin. In our carriage there was a group of 6 middle age ladies. They were all Mrs Doyle look alikes.........it was really funny.

 

[Dave7]

Back from a successful trip to Aldi. Success = getting everything on my list.
I'm a simple soul and easily pleased.

 

[Dirk]

Back from Bridgwater a few hundred quid lighter - got myself nice new motorcycle jacket and trousers. The choice today is bewildering compared to the 70s

They used to have to put a handwritten form in every month showing how many hours they had spent "preaching" that month. 10 hours per person (what they call publishers) is the target.
The form also had slots for them to report how many magazines/booklets they had left with people.......each magazine was called a 'placement'
The written form is no longer obliged so they can relax a bit but the longer they can spend at your door means they need to spend less time at other doors.

I used to work with a couple of JWs.
They said that if they just said 'hello' to someone when they were out as publishers, they would log it as 15 minutes of witnessing which would go towards their monthly total.
I'm pretty sure that Jehovah would see through that...

 

[Dave7]

Back from Bridgwater a few hundred quid lighter - got myself nice new motorcycle jacket and trousers. The choice today is bewildering compared to the 70s



I used to work with a couple of JWs.
They said that if they just said 'hello' to someone when they were out as publishers, they would log it as 15 minutes of witnessing which would go towards their monthly total.
I'm pretty sure that Jehovah would see through that...

I can say for certain that that is not correct.
They would normally meet as a group at eg a publishers house, get a pep talk from whoever is leading that day, and he would give them thier allocated street/s.......say a prayer then off they would go.
Thay cannot start counting time until they have knocked on the 1st door.
They can slightly cheat by eg if they are walking to the allocated street and hand a leaflet to a passer by then they can start counting time fro that moment.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

I can say for certain that that is not correct.
They would normally meet as a group at eg a publishers house, get a pep talk from whoever is leading that day, and he would give them thier allocated street/s.......say a prayer then off they would go.
Thay cannot start counting time until they have knocked on the 1st door.
They can slightly cheat by eg if they are walking to the allocated street and hand a leaflet to a passer by then they can start counting time fro that moment.

We had a JW in our class at school
At one point we had to do a talk to the class about a chosen subject
He asked for permission to a talk on why he didn't believe in evolution
we were a reasonable group and agreed to it
and really tried to see things from his point of view

but it really didn;t make any sense whatsoever - it was just belief

I felt sorry for him - he tried really hard and just couldn't see why we just didn't just "get it"

he was a nice bloke - not clever but had common sense
I was pleased when I found that he got 5 'O' levels and got into a college to do a course to be an electrician
seemed like he would have been good at that

 

[numbnuts]

 

[Dave7]

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In my case that's often 10.00 (that 10 of the a.m.

 

[rustybolts]

I will not sit here and allow you to take the name of Father Jack in vain.......he was a hero of mine.
Mrs Doyle was my wife's heroine.

The actor who played Fr Jack was Frank Kelly , I did a few laps with him around UCD university grounds track in Belfield one evening ! he was a runner as a pastime back in the day . The late Queen Elizabeth was very fond of his skit on the 12 Days of Christmas. He resented a little that the rest of the cast of Fr Ted didn't invite him much to drinking sessions and parties while the series was being made . They thought he wouldn't like the blue humour and general debauchery . He was a religious man in reality but was " good crack" at the same time. He was a very talented actor in any role . Best known in Ireland for in acting in Halls Pictorial Weekly which ran on tv for many years and was just tremendous

 

[rustybolts]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlpgC7NLei8

 

[PaulSB]

Always brings to mind the stoning sketch from Monty Pythons Life of Brian " I only said that piece of Halibut was nice enough for Jehovah..."

One of my favourite films

 

[PaulSB]

Damn, I stupidly opened the door to Jehovah's Witnesses.

We have a Mormon Temple about four miles from our house.............................beware of young men in suits.

A mini rant. I live just outside Chorley, that's CHORLEY. What does the Church of Later Day Saints find an appropriate name for the temple???? Preston England Temple! It's nine miles away. Have they been taking lessons from Easyjet?

The temple was completed in 1998. The building was open for anyone to visit for two weeks. We went. It was genuinely fascinating. Very scary but very interesting.