#217

no, like identical

#219

Yay cosy new PJs! :hugs:

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#220

All my figures were in the same wrestling league. Peter Venkman did a remarkable job holding the title from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles for what must have been years, but then he did have a particularly brutal reverse suplex DDT finisher. And Batman always had his back, despite never holding the title himself. Good old selfless Batman.

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#221

Similar. My dad stood markets so I would go with him in the holidays. Used to fuckin love it

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#222

did this all the time. best was when he was a hospital transport driver, and they had a small patch of grass next to the office where I could play football and hang out with one of his colleagues called dave the fish.

worst was when he was a lorry driver and it was just driving to places like basingstoke and andover for hours.

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#223

I did something very similar, and had a full ring binder of weekly results and league tables. I even wrote match reports.

This was before I got into play by mail and ultimately computer based football management games.

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#224

I used to get loads of stuff bought for me by various fish wholesalers. Sweets, breakfast etc, and they’d have me pull a few crates of fish around for a pound a time.

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#225

Have introduced the GF to this fine tradition so I still get to do it :heart:

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#226

Yeah I wouldn’t be surprised if this was the start of us exploring campervanning more cause we love road trips anyway. We’ll soon find out!!!

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#228

Tapes of pop music recorded from the radio, because you don’t want to listen to foreign music on holiday in a foreign country

  • Weird
  • Normal

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#229

One year my aunt (who had a kid about 9 months old at the time) was walking her pram through the theatre of conflict. A temporary ceasefire was called between both sides to let her pass. She stopped in the middle, whipped off the hood of the pram and started tossing out super-soakers and water balloons she had stashed on there for her team, baby being looked after back at the chalet. We still talk about the trojan pram manoeuvre in reverential tones.

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#230

Stockings on Christmas morning, family presents after Christmas Dinner (which was supposed to be served at 2 but always ended up eating closer to 3)

  • The right way to do it!
  • All the fun of Christmas as a child was over by 7am

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#231

games I played solo

  • subuteo
  • tennis against the garage wall
    -football against the garage wall
    -warhammer fantasy battle and warhammer 40k when I really was a bit too old to be playing alone but I’d read those thick books and painted those little men and made the scenery out of polystyrene sheets and goddamit I was gonna play
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#232

Keeping a tissue up your sleeve

  • Normal
  • Weird

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#233

On a Saturday for a treat my mum would cook one frozen pizza (between 5 people!!), which we would have with salad and oven chips.

Can’t even comprehend this now. Remember the polite stand offs for the last slice too

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#234

My brothers are identical twins and my Mam was militant about dressing them differently and also never referring to them as “the twins”. Used to get untold grief from relations about not dressing them the same.

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#235

Cruising through the Ardennes listening to gabba

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#238

I used to get roped in by the costermongers who sold pots and pans to be their stooge. The guys who did the spiel ("Not £10, or £9! Or even £8! I’m only askin for £7 ladies!)
Cracking days

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#239

these two songs ripped directly from Spanish radio while we were there on holiday forever

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#240

never ever calling the dog by his name but instead addressing him as scum, scum dog, scum bear, or if feeling particularly affectionate, scummy little man

  • normal
  • your dad is weird

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