Alan Dugdales Moustache
Well-Known Member
My dad thought himself a bit of a man's man when I was a kid: loud, opinionated and very un-p.c. by todays standards. He'd go to work at Dunlop in Radford, work long hours, then do the pub, a few beers, get into an argument about workers right, immigrants, swear a bit, down a couple of bags of scratchings , then stagger home and expect his tea on the table. (where's my bloody dinner?)
He'd sit in front of the telly with a packet of woodbines and get angry about what was on the news. Every sentence had a "bloody" in it : "bloody foreigners....."bloody posh sods...." .."bloody City council wasting our bloody money...blah blah" He was an immensely proud man but at the same time an argumentative git. He was a bit like some of those character from "Life on Mars" He was certainly not of this world at times.
He's still alive but quite frail now. Hearing is poor and eyesight even worse. He can still rant a bit but he hasn't got the energy to sustain a tirade of abuse like he used to, thank God.
Anyway , the other day he pointed to a picture of a City player in the telegraph. I think it was Jodi Jones.
"Why is this bloke wearing them bloody things that those cyclist wear on their legs?" he asked . I explained to him what was going on, and that shorts were quite long now and that some footballers wear their socks above their knees, for reasons I didn't know. The effect being that sometimes you can't see any actual leg at all.
I expected the usual rant, that they should all be put up against a wall and shot, that J.H would be turning in his grave.
He didn't speak for a minute and then put the paper down and let his head fall back onto the headrest and shook his head " At least you turned out to be alright" he concluded.
I'm glad he didn't spot JJ's hair tied back.
My question is , is there any advantage to socks over knees ? Does it help warm tendons in knees and prevent injury. Is it a fashion thing, or is it sexually stimulating, a warm up to becoming Janice on a Saturday night.
He'd sit in front of the telly with a packet of woodbines and get angry about what was on the news. Every sentence had a "bloody" in it : "bloody foreigners....."bloody posh sods...." .."bloody City council wasting our bloody money...blah blah" He was an immensely proud man but at the same time an argumentative git. He was a bit like some of those character from "Life on Mars" He was certainly not of this world at times.
He's still alive but quite frail now. Hearing is poor and eyesight even worse. He can still rant a bit but he hasn't got the energy to sustain a tirade of abuse like he used to, thank God.
Anyway , the other day he pointed to a picture of a City player in the telegraph. I think it was Jodi Jones.
"Why is this bloke wearing them bloody things that those cyclist wear on their legs?" he asked . I explained to him what was going on, and that shorts were quite long now and that some footballers wear their socks above their knees, for reasons I didn't know. The effect being that sometimes you can't see any actual leg at all.
I expected the usual rant, that they should all be put up against a wall and shot, that J.H would be turning in his grave.
He didn't speak for a minute and then put the paper down and let his head fall back onto the headrest and shook his head " At least you turned out to be alright" he concluded.
I'm glad he didn't spot JJ's hair tied back.
My question is , is there any advantage to socks over knees ? Does it help warm tendons in knees and prevent injury. Is it a fashion thing, or is it sexually stimulating, a warm up to becoming Janice on a Saturday night.
