[News] Things available today that show how lazy we have all become

[jakarta]

I hate gardening.

Once you get too old and knackered to look after your garden I think you will find a gardener is the answer, having had multiple medical procedures (and another due) this year then I can safely say I have done bugger all except put some stuff in pots, but we have had a gardener and she has saved our garden.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

One word. DISHWASHER. Time was, you'd go round somebody's house, they'd cook you a lovely meal, you'd offer to help wash up. If you were unlucky, they'd accept your offer. But honour was satisfied. Nowadays, you offer to help load the dishwasher. You'll be watched over like a hawk and passively-aggressively told that you're doing it all wrong. Which you clearly are, because nobody could be that anal shirley? Simple solution: block them forevermore from your social circle. Job done

 

[Questions]

Yes, my first remote was a snooker cue. A bit hit and miss as to which of the four channels available that I was going to be watching next...

4 channels……… you youngsters

 

[Questions]

One word. DISHWASHER. Time was, you'd go round somebody's house, they'd cook you a lovely meal, you'd offer to help wash up. If you were unlucky, they'd accept your offer. But honour was satisfied. Nowadays, you offer to help load the dishwasher. You'll be watched over like a hawk and passively-aggressively told that you're doing it all wrong. Which you clearly are, because nobody could be that anal shirley? Simple solution: block them forevermore from your social circle. Job done

I can’t load dishwashers properly…

‘Just get out of the way you’re doing it wrong’

I say points to knifes and forks should face down….. I just don’t know anymore

 

[sydney]

can't be arsed

 

[swindonseagull]

On some cruise lines, they send a bloody great flash merc to pick you up, load your bags, drive you to the airport/port, drop off your bags, next seen in your stateroom unpacked by your cabin steward/ butler, fully organised excursions, taken off the ship after your cruise and delivered in said merc to your home.

they even have a service to arrive a your house the day before, iron and pack your clothes etc, take the bags to the ship/airport and coming home, stick all your clothes through their laundry service and return them to your house, where they unpack for you.

marvellous scenes if you are an old bugger like me

Im to young for SAGA

 

[Seagull58]

Dogging. Time was when you used to have to make an effort for a shag. Now it's available for free in carparks. You don't even have to buy a drink and you can chat with other locals at the same time.

 

[larus]

Electric bikes.

I used to think that, but someone said to me that their parents had bought them so they could get out and ride.
They didn’t have the fitness/health to ride before and this helped, so a big gain for them as they were then doing exercise.

For younger people, then yes I’d agree.

 

[Worried Man Blues]

Championship football starts today......apparently

 

[Stumpy Tim]

Once you get too old and knackered to look after your garden I think you will find a gardener is the answer, having had multiple medical procedures (and another due) this year then I can safely say I have done bugger all except put some stuff in pots, but we have had a gardener and she has saved our garden.

I'm not old and knackered, but I still refuse to do any gardening. It's so boring

 

[The Clamp]

I used to do a lot of gardening. I got into massively it for a while. Growing my own veg, flowers and plants etc.

During lockdown I was out there one day and thought “wouldn’t it be much nicer to sit in the garden rather than toil away at it”.

So I downed tools and I now let the garden grow wild, I keep a nice tidy bit of at the back where I can sit and relax and I get a fella in once a year to strim most of it down to nothing so it can grow again.

I haven’t regretted that decision for a second and I much prefer a wild garden. Gardens are for chilling in.

 

[Dave the OAP]

Im to young for SAGA

Regent, silver seas, and one we are trying in sept, Oceania!

it’s a tad hideously expensive but there are some very good deals out there at the moment!

 

[Stumpy Tim]

I used to do a lot of gardening. I got into massively it for a while. Growing my own veg, flowers and plants etc.

During lockdown I was out there one day and thought “wouldn’t it be much nicer to sit in the garden rather than toil away at it”.

So I downed tools and I now let the garden grow wild, I keep a nice tidy bit of at the back where I can sit and relax and I get a fella in once a year to strim most of it down to nothing so it can grow again.

I haven’t regretted that decision for a second and I much prefer a wild garden. Gardens are for chilling in.

Actually, we now have a corner of the garden that we let go wild. We threw some wild flower seeds down there and it's great. We get more butterflies, bees etc... the gardener looks after the rest.

 

[swindonseagull]

Regent, silver seas, and one we are trying in sept, Oceania!

it’s a tad hideously expensive but there are some very good deals out there at the moment!

We saw one in Hays window yesterday positioning cruise P&O on Oct to Caribbean and fly back 16 nights £999 balcony cabin !!

 

[Dave the OAP]

We saw one in Hays window yesterday positioning cruise P&O on Oct to Caribbean and fly back 16 nights £999 balcony cabin !!

That is a decent price. We have done a P&O and didn’t like the food at all!

we are looking at Holland America. Barca to New York via canaries/ Azores/ West Indies/ Bermuda …..£4k including flights and 3 nights in Barca and 2 nights in NY...will miss a few games in November though

 

[swindonseagull]

That is a decent price. We have done a P&O and didn’t like the food at all!

we are looking at Holland America. Barca to New York via canaries/ Azores/ West Indies/ Bermuda …..£4k including flights and 3 nights in Barca and 2 nights in NY...will miss a few games in November though

Done P&O a few times never had a problem with food either quality or quantity..

 

[Dave the OAP]

Done P&O a few times never had a problem with food either quality or quantity..

sometimes people are just unlucky. We tend to prefer US ships as the food in our opinion is so far better in quality and quantity.

last P&O cruise the last night, we had been through the menu during the week and didn’t like any of it, in the MDR and the only thing left was chicken curry…I asked the waiter what he thought, he disappeared off and brought back the curry with a bottle of Tabasco sauce…apologising for it.

 

[birthofanorange]

Reversing the trend....

That's sent me down the wormhole of 60s, 70s and 80s adverts. Thanks.....thanks a lot!

 

[Nigella's Cream Pie]

Sitting down at football.
Only time I ever did this at a Brighton game pre-Amex was Cup Final replay.
Apart from sitting on terraces at HT.