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I'm falling out of love with current British sitcom. Have gone to comedy categories on iPlayer etc and pretty much haven't cracked a smile at anything. It's mostly gross out stuff with telegraphed jokes, shoehorned in comedians and unrealistic scenarios so if anybody can recommend any good uns...

Yes used to love his Welsh characters like Shadwell and the DIY bloke married to Gravel. Brilliant at accents and surprised he didn't become more well known. Jeremy Hardy was brilliant on I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue, especially his singing.

So sad, saw Jeremy Hardy and John Sparks when they were both unknown and doing stand up gigs in small pub rooms.

Thinking about it, I think it was also not too far from the cinema Alexandra theatre? Not sure if that is in the same area as the Elastic Inn. I'll ask my dad he might remember.

You used to fire them internally?

Same for cap guns probably - don't know if you can still buy such things. Remember getting badly burned under my thumbnail scratching at a cap. Used to come in long paper strips in a small round packet.

Maybe I'm misremembering the location, I've got a vague recollection of a side street in quite a shabby area.

Yup were street urchins in those days. All you needed for hours of fun on the top deck of the 21 Wood End bus was a box of dried peas and a peashooter. No pedestrians were safe from 4 or 5 urchins and our rapid fire technique.

Anyone remember the joke shop which I think used to be somewhere near the Elastic Inn. When we were kids we used to buy all kinds of stuff in there. Stink bombs to let off in the lifts at Owen & Owen, fake turds, fake blood, smoking monkeys (no idea how a plastic figure could blow perfect smoke...

Brother's a builder and they are raking it in at the moment. He reckons brickies can be on around a £ a brick. He won't get out of bed for less than £200 per day and is always booked up for a year in advance. Always have a terrible time getting tradesmen to quote and even when they do it's...

I suppose the worry is that we get gated communities like those in South Africa which are beginning to divide communities along the old apartheid lines. Understandable that in extremely dangerous places like Johannesburg and Cape Town that you would feel safer but it is creating cities within...

Correct, don't know who they are, mostly because I don't watch soaps or reality shows which I suppose is where most of these non-entities come from.

See me.

Yes and the message that all answers to your questions can be found on our website. No you bastards that's why I'm phoning you.

If this thread makes a thousand pages it will be available as a book, film and musical. If anyone has been affected by the issues raised in this thread, there is a helpline available on the website with links to professional counselling.

Absolutely this. The interweb could have revolutionised and democratised our acccess to information meaning education for all, instead we have cat videos, fake news, echo chambers and arguing the toss with complete strangers. If you disagree with this, you don't know what you're talking about...

All the crap programmes that have 'celebrity' versions as if that makes it more likely that I will watch it when the exact opposite is true.

Our strikers' goal to chance ratio will be somewhere in the lower quartile.

Surprised by that shmmeee, been with them a year now and found them pretty good and the monthly payments are simply based on my usage. Came near the top for customer service on Money Saving Expert.

Update £100 each if done before end of month.