Type what you're thinking about right now (11)

[Stepford]

^^ I'm so sorry to hear you're depressed choirgirl. "Everything in life becomes exhausting if you're not happy at heart." Isn't that the truth?

[Your Mum]

Originally Posted by Professor Willow

John Cleese must be getting short of money, apparently he is planning a reboot of Fawlty Towers.
I don't understand why they try to revive these old shows because it never works, the comedy that worked in 1975 doesn't translate well into the modern world.
Its been tried with Porridge and Open all hours and it was just crap.

He is (relatively) short of money. His most recent ex-wife was a lot smarter than him, and received a huge divorce settlement.

It's not really a reboot. With the exception of Cleese, Prunella Scales (90-years-old and in the end-stages of dementia) and Connie Booth (retired), pretty much the entire cast is dead. It'll be a different show, featuring one character from Fawlty Towers. I don't hold out much hope of it being particularly good, considering Cleese ran out of writing talent some time between A Fish Called Wanda and Fierce Creatures. But if he does his "don't mention the war" schtick for six episodes, phones a couple of angry rants in, and attempts whatever funny walks his arthritic, overweight, 83-year-old body allows, it'll probably have some nostalgic value at least.

He hasn't forgotten how to play Basil - and with a bit of hair dye, still sort of looks the part.

[Merritt]

Fawlty Towers 2: A GB News Original Series

Basil repeatedly (and deliberately) misgenders a trans woman guest, slips some minced veal into a vegan couple's dinner, and absolutely batters the shit out of his EU national underling.

[Dougella]

How old was Basil meant to be in th original series? Was he in his 40s?

[Ronnie_Pickering]

Employment is like a game of snooker. You have to keep working another day to build up a big break. Alas, I think it's a small break this time.

[Dougella]

^ How has your new job been going?

[Ronnie_Pickering]

Its a job as a meter reader. I'm not happy as I'm driving my car to the ground with umpteen addresses which are short journeys and everywhere. (and with no accompanying map) And then you have to go the doorstep and convince people to take a reading. 'But I got a smart meter....'.(customers will exclaim) And go in people's houses.
You're meant to do 8 hour days without taking a break. The only readings that count are the ones you get. So a person out- no reading. Your working time stopwatch starts when you actually get a reading. Your working time stopwatch stops when you get a reading.

It's good exercise but I can see why the last 6 people dropped out. I was meant to do 6 hours Saturday after doing 5 straight days. But I only did 3 of them because I couldn't face anymore. So now it's worrying what will happen tomorrow.

[anxiouslondoner]

^ someone replaced my gas meter and didn't tell me or the landlord about it. Now I get my gas supplier nagging me for a meter reading but I can't tell them the new details because I don't have them.
I've told them that the meter's changed but they do nothing. And the label on the new meter telling me when they changed it and what the old reading was is completely illegible.
Any idea who I can contact about this? The landlord knows nothing.

[Dougella]

^^ That sounds like a really rubbish system! Also you're entitled to a break I believe, atleast half an hour.

[Ronnie_Pickering]

Originally Posted by Dougella

^^ That sounds like a really rubbish system! Also you're entitled to a break I believe, atleast half an hour.

yeah somethings seems very odd about it.

Originally Posted by anxiouslondoner

^ someone replaced my gas meter and didn't tell me or the landlord about it. Now I get my gas supplier nagging me for a meter reading but I can't tell them the new details because I don't have them.
I've told them that the meter's changed but they do nothing. And the label on the new meter telling me when they changed it and what the old reading was is completely illegible.
Any idea who I can contact about this? The landlord knows nothing.

Oi oi I'm not working now. No joking. I think that's a meter exchange. So it will get a new serial code. Meter readers can input the new information but it's an absolute nightmare to input. New serial number, old reading amount, what make of the meter. And you're on your hands on knees trying to blimming read it.

[anxiouslondoner]

^ sorry, I thought you might just know. I'll pay you 50p and a bag of Monster Munch for your help.

[Ronnie_Pickering]

Just realised tomorrow is the day I have problems with the door.

[Mr. Nobody]

I'm wondering now,
who exactly is,
this Valentine saint,
Or whoever it is?

A card, and chocolates, and flowers for show,
This silly game eats into my dough

Surely romance, that furtive glance,
is something that happens when purely by chance?
Not by a schedule, and not by a date,
And not by the calendar, at any rate,

I'm done with this game,
'Cos It's looking so lame,
To give one a card,
They all look the same,

Trying to conjure up magic,
It all feels so tragic,

A candle-lit table, an overpriced meal,
I just don't know why it's such a big deal

Valentine shmalentine,

[Dougella]

^ It shouldn't do!

[Ronnie_Pickering]

the human body seems to be better at exertion-recover, than rest-rest-rest-exertion.

[Stepford]

Painkiller time.

^^^

[biscuits]

Originally Posted by Mr. Nobody

I'm wondering now,
who exactly is,
this Valentine saint,
Or whoever it is?

A card, and chocolates, and flowers for show,
This silly game eats into my dough

Surely romance, that furtive glance,
is something that happens when purely by chance?
Not by a schedule, and not by a date,
And not by the calendar, at any rate,

I'm done with this game,
'Cos It's looking so lame,
To give one a card,
They all look the same,

Trying to conjure up magic,
It all feels so tragic,

A candle-lit table, an overpriced meal,
I just don't know why it's such a big deal

Valentine shmalentine,

The bard of sauk!

[Mr. Nobody]

Originally Posted by biscuits

The bard of sauk!

LOL,. I should be bard.... from here,
for coming up with such dire puns.

[Ronnie_Pickering]

Devon news reaches new low:
Man finds God in cupboard.
https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon...pboard-8150246

[Mr. Nobody]

^
I've met Jesus, and that's definitely not him,
That's Richard's Stilgoe,
I'm sure Richard's disembodied essence was often getting stuck in kitchen cupboards
Bit of an occupational hazard when your image has been getting beamed into everyone's living rooms for most of the 80's

[anxiouslondoner]

^ why is God blowing a raspberry at us? Why does he appear to be a small dog-like creature with small breasts and genitalia? So many theological questions arise.

[Stepford]

^^^ Good old simulacra, did he miss the fist about to punch him in the head? A Max Ernst painting it ain't.

[Tubbs]

Originally Posted by Ronnie_Pickering

Devon news reaches new low:
Man finds God in cupboard.
https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon...pboard-8150246

ahaha, wow, and I thought the Echo (local toilet rag in Southampton) was bad

[Ronnie_Pickering]

Originally Posted by Tubbs

ahaha, wow, and I thought the Echo (local toilet rag in Southampton) was bad

Devonlive is not normally that bad but it was funny!

[Dougella]

^ A better headline would be "God comes out of closet"

[Percy]

It's always nice when a pretty girl smiles at me.

[biscuits]

I've got the sneezes this morning!

With the nurse suggesting that allergies might be causing problems in my Eustachian tubes, I'm starting to wonder if I have a mild allergy to cats!

[Percy]

Have you had the sneezes since you've had cats?

[biscuits]

^ I've had cats from birth, my cat used to curl up with me in the pram

[Percy]

Aw, have you always had the sneezes?