I am still not convinced that Old rocker isn't a thirteen year old school girl who is grooming middle aged comedy buffs.
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Quote: Tim Walker @ November 24 2011, 11:09 PM GMTCongrats, Oldrocker.
I trust you'll be following Edmund Blackadder's ambition to "be old and annoy people by pretending to be deaf"?
Pardon?
Quote: zooo @ November 24 2011, 10:46 PM GMTAw.
Will you be going mad on the free buses tomorrow?
Up here in The Provinces you get that at 60 ! And applies to trains and trams !
Quote: Timbo @ November 24 2011, 11:24 PM GMTI am still not convinced that Old rocker isn't a thirteen year old school girl who is grooming middle aged comedy buffs.
Seen anything from Chappers lately ? . . . .
My radio show tonight featured the second BCG Jokefest, this time on the subject of school/education. The full show podcast now available should any of you have missed it - fast forward to 41:14 to hear the relevant bit.
http://www.podcast.canstream.co.uk/pacouk/index.php?id=2582
I'll try and get the BCG section on Soundcloud tomorrow for those not wanting to wade through the broadcast. 
Quote: Oldrocker @ November 24 2011, 10:15 PM GMTOfficially old.
Today was the day I became an Old Age Pensioner . . .
Happy Birthday.
Quote: Kevin Murphy @ November 24 2011, 6:37 PM GMTUS Passport No. 0000000014
Quote: DaButt @ November 25 2011, 7:50 PM GMT
Tiny, I know.
US - 109 million = 35% of population
UK - 47 million = 75% of population
That 1989 number is flabbergasting.
The US pop was 250 million at the time, and just 7.2 million passports???
Quote: Matthew Stott @ November 25 2011, 7:59 PM GMTSo what is that, about a thirty-odd percent of the population?
I think I've read that it's currently 37% and expected to continue to rise until it levels off at about 50%. The relatively recent requirement to hold a passport to travel to Mexico and Canada is driving growth.
You can travel almost 6000 miles and still be in one of the 50 states, so I doubt the percentage will ever approach that of Europe, where dozens of countries are packed in the same amount of space.
Quote: Kevin Murphy @ November 25 2011, 8:03 PM GMTThat 1989 number is flabbergasting.
The US pop was 250 million at the time, and just 7.2 million passports???
They weren't required to travel to Mexico and Canada at the time. Anyplace else required a transoceanic flight which cost the equivalent of several thousand dollars back in those days. People still traveled outside of the country back then but they tended to do it via cruise ships which didn't require passports.
There are also 20+ million veterans in the country and it's almost impossible to have served without traveling abroad. Military travel doesn't require a passport.
The number of passports doesn't really mean that Americans don't travel. I'd reckon that we probably travel more than any other nation (both by automobile and airplane) but the majority of our travel doesn't require a passport.
Quote: billwill @ November 25 2011, 2:10 AM GMTHappy Birthday.
Ditto. The other thing you have to learn is how to splay your trolley right across the aisles in supermarkets and pretend you don't see the huge queue of people trying to squeeze past. Also sing or whistle tunelessly but loudly. And engage the checkout girl in long pointless discussions ending with 'I'm 65 you know.'
Quote: Tuumble @ November 25 2011, 2:07 AM GMTMy radio show tonight featured the second BCG Jokefest, this time on the subject of school/education.
Aw ! Missed this. There's another Tommy Mundon joke that would have fitted . . .
"parents evening"
'Mrs Mundon yower Tommy is in a class on his owen.'
'I day think 'e wuz that cleva!'
' 'e ay. 'e stinks!'
And thanks for the good wishes people . . I'm such a sad b*stard that I bought myself one of these to wear !
http://www.zazzle.co.uk/oap_old_and_proud_tshirt-235830416954692114
It's raining and that's going to hamper our neighborhood's plans to get drunk and use one of these to hang Christmas lights on everyone's houses.
BCG Jokefest on the theme of schhol / educasion...
Just done a couple of posts. My firsts for ages. Yeah, I knew you'd be pleased.
Just put my sprouts on a low jet on the back burner.
I'm a bit late this year. Do hope they won't be hard in the middle come Christmas.
Suppose I can always turn them up a little about the 19th tho'.
My first day training in the new job and I've been in the office 12 hours, doesn't bode well for the future. My brain is fried.