Thread: What's wrong with kids today?

So, my contention is that, just as in the late 50s and early 60s, all the present cr@p is probably a pre-cursor to a surge of good stuff. We can only hope!

I've been waiting for that since the 70's!!

Originally Posted by silentC

And while we're on the subject, does anyone know if a coffee machine can suffer from a urinary tract infection? Mine is having a lot of trouble passing steam at the moment...

Yeah they can, calcium and magnesium carbonates can build up in them, quicker in hard water areas. Mix up 1cup white vinegar with 2 cups water and run that through, followed by about 3 or 4 changes of clean water. You can also buy commercial coffe maker cleaner which is just citric acid.

After having lived in the US I have hated australian radio stations. Where we lived there were something like 10 or so FM stations based in the city and it only had 500,000 people, easy to get variety, anytime you got sick of there was a real alternative ie one that had a completely different play list.

Originally Posted by Driver

Darren

Actually the present dearth of anything approaching intelligent popular music is a good omen.

In the UK many years ago, just before the rise of rock n' roll, the Hit Parade (that's what it was called!) was filled with the efforts of people whose names I have - after much effort - managed to obliterate from my memory, singing genuinely inane cr@p. I recall a song that went on about clog-dancing mice (possibly from the other side of the RITFOTU! :eek: ) and that bloody awful 'Tulips From Amsterdam' thing (there's a bit of a Dutch theme to all this, isn't there?)

So, my contention is that, just as in the late 50s and early 60s, all the present cr@p is probably a pre-cursor to a surge of good stuff. We can only hope!

Col

Lets follow the Brits they can give us the next big wave in music, like mobile phone ring tones!
God help us

Originally Posted by silentC

I assumed it had been scaled when I bought it from the fish shop.

Ho ho.

Seriusly though, you need to clean off the build up of scale regularly. Particularly if your local water supply has a high mineral content.

I use the stuff called CLR that you get from the super.

Works well but make sure you run plenty of water through the machine afterwards.

Don't want to poison yourself.

If you haven't cleaned your machine, treat yourself. You'll be pleased with the results.

Ho ho.

Sigh. I'm becoming my father. I can just see me carving the family roast and saying to my wife "do you want stuffing"?

OK, I will do as you say. I'll give the vinegar a go and get the missus to pick up some CLR next time she's at the supermarket.

Is this another sign of getting old, having conversations about coffee machines?

Originally Posted by silentC

I've been waiting for that since the 70's!!

Yair - good point!

I must say that I don't listen to music on the radio these days. I tend to tune in to Radio National when I'm driving.

Originally Posted by silentC

Sigh. I'm becoming my father.

That happens, too. I caught myself making incoherent grumpy noises the other day while reading something that irritated me. I looked up to see my kids smiling indulgently at me in exactly the same way I used to smile at the old man when he did it!

Originally Posted by silentC

Is this another sign of getting old, having conversations about coffee machines?

Yep.

You Bastards, after 30 odd years I had forgotten about the tap dancing dutch mice...........Aaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh :mad:

Originally Posted by Iain

You Bastards, after 30 odd years I had forgotten about the tap dancing dutch mice...........Aaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh :mad:

You're gonna hate me for this .... I've just remembered the other abomination. The one that went on about (wait for it!) ...


Gilly Gilly Ossenfeffer .... (complete the line Iain, I dare you! You'll then be doomed to have the bloody thing repeating in your head all day. :eek: But why should I suffer alone? : )

Luckily I missed that one but I ggogled, no music thank goodness,
There's a tiny house (there's a tiny house)
By a tiny stream (by a tiny stream),
Where a lovely lass (where a lovely lass)
Had a lovely dream (had a lovely dream),
And her dream came true (and her dream came true)
Quite unexpectedly
In Gilly Gilly Ossenfeffer Katzenellen Bogen By The Sea.

She was out one day (she was out one day)
Where the tulips grow (where the tulips grow),
When a handsome lad (when a handsome lad)
Stopped to say hello (stopped to say hello),
And before she knew (and before she knew)
He kissed her tenderly,
In Gilly Gilly Ossenfeffer Katzenellen Bogen By The Sea.

The happy pair were married one Sunday afternoon,
They left the church and ran away to spend their honeymoon:

In a tiny house (in a tiny house)
By a tiny stream (by a tiny stream),
Where the lovely lass (where the lovely lass)
Had a lovely dream (had a lovely dream).
And the last I heard (and the last I heard),
They still lived happily
In Gilly Gilly Ossenfeffer Katzenellen Bogen By The Sea,
In Gilly Gilly Ossenfeffer Katzenellen Bogen By The Sea.

Max: So now you've heard the story of how it all begun,
Boy: I think I'd like to go there,
Max: That's a good idea,
All: Son!

Sing it very soft (sing it very soft),
Pianissimo (pianissimo),
LIke a little bird (like a little bird),
Walking in the snow (walking in the snow):
That was very nice (that was very nice),
Now sing it merrily,
It's Gilly Gilly Ossenfeffer Katzenellen Bogen By The Sea,
(Sshh) In Gilly Gilly Ossenfeffer Katzenellen Bogen By The Sea,
In Gilly Gilly Ossenfeffer Katzenellen Bogen By The Sea!

For more see http://www.scbd.connectfree.co.uk/fl...lly-gilly.html

Aaaaaaarrrrrgggghhhh!!!!!!!
:eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:

Try the link, you'll either laugh at the crap or slash your wrists (option 2 is good I think, I actually recall some of them).

Fortunately I don't have time because I have to go out right now. Later maybe.