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Post by oh oooh on Nov 21, 2021 11:11:09 GMT
Tell us something we don't already know about ye
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Post by rayge on Nov 21, 2021 13:09:27 GMT
Some time in the late 1950s, maybe early 1960s, my paternal grandfather was sentenced to six months in Wormwood Scrubs for some kind of sexual offence in which a minor was involved (that's as much information as I have, and theres no-one alive to ask). The only time I have ever appeared on TV (to my knowledge) was in the audience for a live wrestling bout at Tottenham Municipal Baths in the 1950s.
When I was a teenager, I was really into astronomy (among many other things) and I can still find my way round the night sky, naming stars and constellations and picking out planets. Assuming of course that light pollution isn't blocking them out . Not particularly amazing, but I've recycled all the good stuff so many times you wouldn't be surprised
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Post by Deleted on Nov 21, 2021 13:20:15 GMT
Some time in the late 1950s, maybe early 1960s, my paternal grandfather was sentenced to six months in Wormwood Scrubs for some kind of sexual offence in which a minor was involved (that's as much information as I have, and theres no-one alive to ask).
Weirdly enough I found out a couple of years ago that my paternal grandfather spent a short time inside for a street robbery/ beating someone up in Liverpool when he was a young man. I was a bit shocked when I heard, my dad had kept it very secret.
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Post by souphound on Nov 21, 2021 15:32:39 GMT
As a teen (back in the 70s) I went to the Québec Games* ( Jeux du Québec) as a participant in two very different sports, representing two different regions, in different years. I qualified for the 1973 Summer games (I was 12) in the sport of lacrosse. I then qualified for the 1979 Summer games (I was 18 by then) in golf**. Came nowhere near medalling in either but I had a great time both times. * The Jeux du Québec are mini-olympics at the provincial level. Winners at the Games went on to compete at the national level at the Canada Games.** By the age of 15, I was very good at golf. I could hit the ball a mile and would usually score within 3-4 shots of par. If I had put in the practice time, I could easily have become a club pro (I never would have had the nerves to compete professionally though), but hey, I was a kid and practicing my golf swing was not exactly foremost in my mind. Playing 2 rounds a day all Summer was enough for me. At least I got to hang around the girl juniors in between rounds.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 21, 2021 19:40:31 GMT
If it wasn't for the fact that Howard Marks had the ability to keep his mouth shut I would have done ten to twenty years in jail.
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Post by oh oooh on Nov 21, 2021 20:42:52 GMT
I was planning to marry Joe DiMaggio
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Post by fearlessfreap on Nov 21, 2021 20:51:37 GMT
I have six fingers on each hand, a superfluous third nipple and a vestigial tail
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Post by Deleted on Nov 21, 2021 21:09:29 GMT
If it wasn't for the fact that Howard Marks had the ability to keep his mouth shut I would have done ten to twenty years in jail. Tell us more!
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Post by Deleted on Nov 21, 2021 21:24:18 GMT
If it wasn't for the fact that Howard Marks had the ability to keep his mouth shut I would have done ten to twenty years in jail. Tell us more! Um, I really have said enough tbh.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 21, 2021 22:17:16 GMT
Um, I really have said enough tbh. Fair enough J. I don't want to turn you into a grass!
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Post by Sneelock on Nov 21, 2021 22:17:46 GMT
I have six fingers on each hand, a superfluous third nipple and a vestigial tail Have you seen my keys?
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Post by Sneelock on Nov 21, 2021 22:35:17 GMT
I didn’t drive for years. I learned to drive an automatic in High School. The summer after high school I got a job loading bails of hay onto a truck. For some reason they needed me to drive one of those big-ass trucks. This was my first time driving a “stick” (a standard transmission). For the life of me I could NOT get the fucker out of first gear. I nearly burned out the transmission & got my ass kicked.
So I didn’t drive cars or trucks for years. The very thought scared me to death. I DID drive motorcycles for years. Ironically it was driving motorcycles that taught me how to work the clutch so now a stick is no problem.
Anyhow, I drove motorcycles until I got tired of people trying to RAM me. I’m not joking. Many people in cars hate motorcycles and try to ram you. Ask somebody who drives motorcycles.so, I was getting a lot of reading done by taking the bus to work around the time my wife got pregnant. A fine fellow (a childhood friend of my wife) took me aside one day. He pointed out that when it was time to go to the hospital that we wouldn’t be taking the bus. He gave me some driving lessons in my wife’s car. The car was an automatic but I was still terrified of driving. Anyway, he got me confident enough to convince me that I could get her to the hospital when the baby came.
My wife and I worked different shifts so the very next time I drove was when her water broke. I’ve been driving ever since.
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Post by souphound on Nov 22, 2021 1:12:43 GMT
That's funy. We seem to live in mirror-yet-parallel universes of some sort.
1) I learned to drive an automatic in high school 2) I've never been on a motorcycle (nor have I had to or wanted to, mind) 3) I tried driving a stick once. Soon after I learned auto. I borrowed my new girlfriend's father's small tractor (he was a dairy farmer) to take his daughter out for "a ride". I couldn't get out of first gear. It just pissed me off, I kept driving auto no problem. 4) I stopped driving altogether about 18-20 years ago. I have no need to drive. Ever. I don't miss it other than for going on long jaunts, which I liked doing back then.
What did you have for dinner tonight?
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Post by Sneelock on Nov 22, 2021 2:29:13 GMT
chili dog!
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Post by cousinlou on Nov 22, 2021 9:06:11 GMT
I don't have a driver's licence, never had. It helped me sharpen my pursuasion skills. The number of times I convinced people with cars they had to be somewhere where, really, I had to be are countless.
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