CaaC (John)

I would imagine it all goes back to the only true Australian is the Aboriginal and the only true American is the Red Indian so Australia & America's input was all of us from the UK and Europe convicts and all.

Calling @Happy Blue

Just the same as calling a Scotsman a Jock, the old saying goes down well ' Sticks and stones may break my bones but names will never hurt me.' The word Pom or Pome comes from the meaning as a slang word Prisoner Of Mother England, or English people have rosy cheeks like a Pomegranate. As I mentioned in my other post I was called Pome as a nickname when I worked in the Victorian Railways and in the army Aussie, because I had an Australian accent, or even Kangaroo Balls was another name they called me.

An old man decides to look into a Nudist Colony He is invited to try the one week trial period so he does. On his first day he took off his clothes and started to wander around the area. A gorgeous petite blonde walks by, and the man immediately gets an erection. The woman notices his erection, walks over to him and asks, "did you call for me?" The man, obviously embarrassed, replies, "No, what do you mean?" "You must be new here. Let me explain.It's a rule here that if you get an erection, it implies you called for me," she says. Smiling, she leads him to the side of the swimming pool, lays down on a towel eagerly, and happily lets him have his way with her. Later, the man continued to explore the colony's facilities. He entered the sauna and as he sits down, he farts. Within seconds a huge, hairy man lumbers out of the steam room toward him. "Did you call for me?" asks the hairy man. "No, what do you mean?" replies the old man. "You must be new." answers the hairy man, "It's a rule that if you fart, it implies that you called for me." The huge man easily spins him around, puts him over a bench and has his way with the old man. The newcomer staggers back to the colony office where he is greeted by a smiling, naked receptionist. 'May I help you?' she asks. "Here's my membership card. You can have the key back and you can keep the £500 membership fee." "But, Sir," she replies, dismayed, "you've only been here a few hours. You haven't even had a chance to see all our facilities." "Listen lady, I'm 70 years old. I only get an erection once a week, but I fart 15 times a day."

It didn't bother me really be called a Pom, when I worked in the Victorian railways as a shunter they called me Pommy as a nick-name and I got used to it and when I joined the army I had a right Australian accent so I got the nick-name there as Aussie, and that name has stuck ever since.

VIDEO Nuclear fusion reactor experiment to produce clean energy On an industrial estate just outside Didcot in the south of England, an experiment is taking place that will create temperatures hotter than the Sun. The BBC's climate editor, Justin Rowlatt, went to see the nuclear fusion reactor in action and to find out what possibilities the technology could hold for generating vast amounts of low-carbon energy.

I found out growing up in Aussie land @Spike when the Aussie's kept calling us Pommy bastards, just reply "At least us English did not originate from convicts"

Air Fryer.

Well, never heard of this until our daughter mentioned it but Puddin is classed as a Curlytail - Ragdoll cat, I noticed his tail beginning to curl up but yesterday when I was around there as it was becoming more prominent but never thought much about it. I also loved this photo the daughter put up on her Facebook page for Poppy, Remembrance Day...

The Equalizer (2014) - Denzel Washington 8.0/10 Not bad, I like Washington.

Aye, there is a load of stuff about them on Google, I just put that one in, I asked the wife if she knew about them and she did but not keen on them, our daughter wants one though.

So, how do you make your convection oven cook like an air fryer? Simple. Turn the knob or button that controls the oven fan "on". Then, just cook as you normally would if you were going to use an air fryer.23 Aug 2020

One reason why a lot of people don't bother getting Jabs, our son has just received a letter from the NHS where to get his booster jab...10 odd miles away in Gorebridge, as he no longer has a car this would take him around 40/50 minutes by bus to get there yet we have medical facilities here in Leith where they are doing the jabs (Chemist shops, Leith Medical Centre etc) where me and the wife had ours. He is going to ring them up and try and get it changed to one of the facilities above, if he can't get it changed then he won't bother as he is working in the post office sorting department on a 6 day a week night shift. As I mentioned here before the government or NHS should pull their bloody finger out of their jacksie and realise they have a medical computer database list where people live and any local Covid facility that can do the jab instead of sending people way up whoopsie for a jab, 10 to a penny they are sending letters to people who live in Gorebridge telling them their jabs have been booked in a Leith centre wherever.

Fancy some spider?

MEEEEOOOOOW

The daughters got puddin his own Xmas cat advent calendar with some cat flavoured chocolate.

You excepted me as a friend on Facebook so you must know

Fixed I did a spelling check too ()and that did not pick it up, if it did I did not spot it.

I never touch sugar, only have that occasionally on either a bowl of porridge or Weetabix and that's once in a blue moon, I don't take sugar in my coffee full stop, once upon a time 2 teaspoonfuls of sugar in my coffee many moons ago but not now, the taste would make me sick. Went around the wife's big sis once for a visit and she went and made us a coffee, gave me mine, I took a big sip and spat it back in the cup, she had given me her hubby's coffee by mistake and he takes 3 teaspoonfuls of sugar in his coffee, yuk, I rushed into the bathroom and rinsed my mouth out.

Hang in there @Happy Blue, I hope you get well soon, me, the wife, daughter and wee Kaiden have been down with a virus but not the Corona virus, I don't feel too bad at the moment and the old paracetamol and vics vapour rub has worked a treat.