When I was in college in 1980, every morning the Students' Union would set up a stall selling condoms. By lunchtime, the campus authorities would have shut it down only for it to reappear the following

Condoms. Banned in Ireland. and imported from England in unmarked brown envelopes.

When I was growing up, the custom here in Ireland, at least in working class households , was the husband would hand his unopened pay packet to his wife on Friday evening. She controlled the household

Technical? No, some awful muck like doner kebab.

It's been so hot here for the last week, it's been impossible even to go for a walk. Thank goodness the weather broke yesterday and we're back to the good old Irish windy, overcast summer:)

That'd have to be eggs...one of the most nutritionally complete foods available.

I had to google gyro!:)

True! As George Carlin said " Think how stupid the average person is and then realise that half of them are stupider than that!"

I can't see them trying the pandemic thing again. They'd need to have people bleeding from every orifice to get the public to fall for it. But then again, I didn't think people would fall for it first

Ah feck off. Sure you won't even buy me a coffee and a bun:)

Looks like my plans will include a gardening post!:) We've had a heatwave this last week with temperatures in the 30s, so at the moment I'm sitting almost comatose with a fan blowing on me, watching Bergerac

Thanks Hon..I'm blushing...well almost:)

Aw shucks. Thanks. I'm tearing up here:)

I've heard him mentioned in dispatches but that's about the extent of my knowledge. Thanks for the link.

I've never earned very much here. Even when Hive was flying, my posts rarely made more than fifteen dollars, and in over nine years I've received just one vote from Appreciator, which pushed my highest-earning

I'm delighted for the two of you. Proof indeed that if you want something enough, the universe will provide. Happy home building!

To quote Shakespeare as I often do to make me sound intelligent, you are 'but mad north-north-west." "When the wind is southerly," you "know a hawk from a hand saw."

I don't believe it matters who's Prime Minister. The agenda rolls on no matter what..... and it'll likely be Andy Burnham!

Perhaps I can help by telling you what a doormat like myself would do and then you can do the opposite:)

I couldn't agree more. It's my opinion that all of these so called psychiatric illnesses are made up. There are no objective biological tests to prove any of them.