tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13423684.post4352867231726947806..comments2023-07-06T10:48:53.589+01:00Comments on Marchway Memoirs: The weak speak.Romulus Crowehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09275578435620952450noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13423684.post-77247886625131193162007-01-25T02:17:00.000+00:002007-01-25T02:17:00.000+00:00Yes it is:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FatHLHG...Yes it is:<br /><br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FatHLHG2uGY<br /><br />It's a new version, but still funny.Romulus Crowehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09275578435620952450noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13423684.post-41152751345840275672007-01-25T02:09:00.000+00:002007-01-25T02:09:00.000+00:00Ah, if only it was just a joke...but the UK's tran...Ah, if only it was just a joke...but the UK's transport system really does consider a half-inch of snow as 'severe weather'.<br /><br />Actually, I remember coming home from university for a visit, when I was younger. My parents had a new TV. They went out, I sat in front of the TV until I could bear no more, and got up to change the channel.<br /><br />There was no way to do it! No buttons! I gave up and switched it off. Turned out they had one of the new remote-controlled TV's, and I hadn't noticed the controller.<br /><br />Now I have remotes for TV, video, DVD, even for the CD player, and there are many, many buttons on each controller. I have no idea what most of them do. If I lose those controllers, there's no way to tune in the channels on any of these devices.<br /><br />I fitted a new radio/CD player in my car some time ago. It came with a remote control! Did they think I'd fit it where I wouldn't be able to reach it?<br /><br />The funny thing is, our government is worrying about increasing obesity - yet everything has a remote control, so nobody needs move from their chair any more. I saw an ad for a 4-inch pocket TV set that came with a remote control. How far are you going to stand from a 4-inch screen? There's even talk of a fridge that records what you have, and orders whatever you're running out of! No need to drag yourself even as far as the computer to order stuff.<br /><br />We're all going to turn into jellyfish one day.<br /><br />Oh yes, we do have those kind of jokes in the UK, usually attributed to Northerners, especially those from Yorkshire. Monty Python's Flying Circus once did a Yorkshiremen sketch that took it to its logical extreme. 'I used to have to get to work half an hour before I went to bed, pay for permission to work, and when we came home each night, our parents would kill us and dance on our graves.'<br /><br />It ended with 'And you try and tell the young people of today that. They won't believe you.'<br /><br />I wonder if it's on YouTube?Romulus Crowehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09275578435620952450noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13423684.post-67194028687833291002007-01-25T01:22:00.000+00:002007-01-25T01:22:00.000+00:00The trouble with you sissies is that you're soft! ...The trouble with you sissies is that you're soft! Wimps!!<br /><br />Why, back in my day, we didn't have heated vehicles to take us to school! We WALKED!! TEN miles a day. And it was uphill! BOTH WAYS!<br /><br />That joke is anything but original. It's been kicking around for years. But it may not have gotten to UK. Has it?<br /><br />THIS joke, though, is original. I was using it 5 years ago, but recently, whether coincidence or theft (probably the former), I've seen it in other places: it's the modenrn day version of "you kids are soft!"<br /><br />Back in my day, we didn't have these sissy remotes! If we wanted to change channels, we got up from our chairs and we WALKED!<br /><br />Don't tell ME about tough.<br /><br />And when John Glenn rode the space shuttle a few years back, some cartoonist had him haranguing the younger astronauts for being wimps and softies, not like in his day.tom sheepandgoatshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03519896568648043000noreply@blogger.com