The Retirement Thread

[Drago]

Best way is formone person to pay it all, and everyone to then pay them. No sneaky short payments then.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

Best way is formone person to pay it all, and everyone to then pay them. No sneaky short payments then.

Same problem can happen

some people have no sense of decency or honour

splitting the bill has the great advantage of everyone paying the same - hence transparency

does mean the person who had the cheapest has to agree - in this case this was me but what do I know

I did once play badminton with a small group that always went for a meal after
great atmosphere - at teh end we split the bill after an extremly fair discussion about how much to take off x because they didn;t drink and y didn't have a starter
very pleasant group
so it can be done - just don;t raise the damn subject when all the kids are tired

Oh - and just to take the rant further (sorry)

why in the name of all the Gods do people think it is OK to leave a pub via the playground gate AND NOT SHUT IT BEHIND THEM!!!!

There are damn well kids there

I know they are not your kids
and the pub should make the gate auto close


but FFS

really!!!

sorry again

I may be totally p****d off about all this
which you may have worked out by now

 

[ColinJ]

STOP PRESS: Political discussion on CycleChat is on the way out...

I avoided that sub-forum because I'm sure that I would have got into heated arguments very quickly and either been booted off CC or flounced!

 

[Mo1959]

Morning. Misty murky again. Forgot I had left washing out and it’s damp again.

My mojo has almost disappeared completely and sitting here struggling to even get out for a walk. I’m too heavy just now and seem to have got stuck in a vicious circle of not enjoying my exercise much because I am carrying too much weight but knowing it’s not going to come off unless I do.
Nothing worse than hauling over a stone of extra lard around, especially uphill.

I am off. I don’t think it will be far this morning.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

Good morning folks, carers were here at a reasonable time this morning, just after seven, we were already up, I'd got a phone call from downstairs just before seven, my Good lady was in urgent need of the commode and needed my assistance. just after they'd gone my Good Lady reported a wardrobe malfunction, her prominent assets were not fully in their holders, I had to break out the warm spoons, make adjustments and ensure the lady was comfortable.

 

[Dirk]

Morning all

Been having trouble accessing the site this morning - is management doing some alterations?
Just waiting for our mates to arrive from Minehead, should be here in the next ten minutes.
Having read all of the above posts; I have to say that, in my opinion, kids under 18 should not be allowed in pubs. We never were - we had to sit outside with a bottle of Vimto and a packet of OXO crisps.
I was in one of our locals on Friday and a family of Grockles came in - mum, dad and 4 kids aged about 4 to 8 years old. Dad promptly sat all the kids on bar stools at the bar!
Lot of disgruntled murmurings from the locals before the landlady asked them to move.

 

[pawl]

Morning all

Been having trouble accessing the site this morning - is management doing some alterations?
Just waiting for our mates to arrive from Minehead, should be here in the next ten minutes.
Having read all of the above posts; I have to say that, in my opinion, kids under 18 should not be allowed in pubs. We never were - we had to sit outside with a bottle of Vimto and a packet of OXO crisps.
I was in one of our locals on Friday and a family of Grockles came in - mum, dad and 4 kids aged about 4 to 8 years old. Dad promptly sat all the kids on bar stools at the bar!
Lot of disgruntled murmurings from the locals before the landlady asked them to move.

Was off for a while.Thought I’d been banned for being to polite

 

[Flick of the Elbow]

A belated good morning all, hopefully the technical glitches of earlier are now corrected. Very grey here today, and not very warm. Looks like we are set for more greyness and easterly coolness for the whole week, but at least it’s dry.
Have been out for a jog-stroke-walk, another attempt to try running again. The last attempt lasted a few months before something went wrong in my right foot, it felt like something had torn internally across the sole. I’ve been resting it since June, I can still feel it as a bit of a niggle. I’ve no great confidence in this latest attempt at returning to running succeeding but you never know.

 

[BoldonLad]

Best way is formone person to pay it all, and everyone to then pay them. No sneaky short payments then.

Yes, that is what we do. There is a group of 5 or 6 of us, and, we are all well past drinking 5 or 6 pints (or more), in a session, so, rounds are out, no-one can remember from one week to the next who bought the last round, so, "carrying rounds forward" from week to week, is out. One of our number is a retired Bean Counter, with an Excel addiction, so, he pays for everything, on his plastic, gets his Excel fix, and sends each of us a bill.

He does complain that he gets a lot of adverts for drinking and eating places in his online feed, presumably because Google is monitoring his apparent high expenditure on drinking

 

[BoldonLad]

Good morning folks, carers were here at a reasonable time this morning, just after seven, we were already up, I'd got a phone call from downstairs just before seven, my Good lady was in urgent need of the commode and needed my assistance. just after they'd gone my Good Lady reported a wardrobe malfunction, her prominent assets were not fully in their holders, I had to break out the warm spoons, make adjustments and ensure the lady was comfortable.

For some reason, your post appeared twice, was that once for each "asset", or, a website malfunction?

 

[numbnuts]

 

[BoldonLad]

Morning all

Been having trouble accessing the site this morning - is management doing some alterations?
Just waiting for our mates to arrive from Minehead, should be here in the next ten minutes.
Having read all of the above posts; I have to say that, in my opinion, kids under 18 should not be allowed in pubs. We never were - we had to sit outside with a bottle of Vimto and a packet of OXO crisps.
I was in one of our locals on Friday and a family of Grockles came in - mum, dad and 4 kids aged about 4 to 8 years old. Dad promptly sat all the kids on bar stools at the bar!
Lot of disgruntled murmurings from the locals before the landlady asked them to move.

Yes, some parents have no sense, or consideration. Can't blame the children (IMHO). Sadly, such situation spoil it for everyone.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

For some reason, your post appeared twice, was that once for each "asset", or, a website malfunction?

Website glitch.

 

[welsh dragon]

I see it's still morning. Lovely day here. Blue skies and sunshine and it's really warm as well.

I have been tinkering and pottering around doing arty crafty stuffs.

Stay safe peeps.

 

[numbnuts]

I see it's still morning. Lovely day here. Blue skies and sunshine and it's really warm as well.

I have been tinkering and pottering around doing arty crafty stuffs.

Stay safe peeps.

It's cloudy here and only 18c