The "take it outside" thread

[Fred Ziffel]

Well we had bread too...in February.

The rest our the year we had to eat our week old dripping off a cow pat, sprinkled with sawdust.

Wireless!! We had to make do with telegraph and semaphore flags.

Of course for us the dripping wasn't ours. I had to ask people in the neighborhood, that when they had finished cooking their baked meals, instead of throwing the fat out, give it to me.
I used to get four day old bread from the bakery for a halfpenny, cut the ends off and spread the dripping over it.
Once we were a bit better off, we could season to taste with pepper.

 

[scon]

You lucky,lucky barstool Fred.
There's some beautiful stories in life.

 

[PurpleGreenRed]

Of course for us the dripping wasn't ours. I had to ask people in the neighborhood, that when they had finished cooking their baked meals, instead of throwing the fat out, give it to me.
I used to get four day old bread from the bakery for a halfpenny, cut the ends off and spread the dripping over it.
Once we were a bit better off, we could season to taste with pepper.

We could only dream of pepper.

We had to grate our own verucas to flavour our dripping.

And our house were a shoebox in the gutter!

 

[youmewe]

Of course for us the dripping wasn't ours. I had to ask people in the neighborhood, that when they had finished cooking their baked meals, instead of throwing the fat out, give it to me.
I used to get four day old bread from the bakery for a halfpenny, cut the ends off and spread the dripping over it.
Once we were a bit better off, we could season to taste with pepper.

I think cow pat and sawdust beats bread and pepper.

We used to source our dripping from the soles of the boots of the local abattoir workers. Whenever they finished their shifts we'd scrap the fat and whatever else had filled the tread of their boots into a rusty tin can and run the 15 miles back home where ma' would be waiting to boil it up and serve for dinner.

 

[scon]

Didn't know about gutters 'til I was about 12.
I've heard of people who have shoes what are these boxes you speak of?
Our bodies weren't strong enough to grow verucas.

 

[scon]

I think cow pat and sawdust beats bread and pepper.

We used to source our dripping from the soles of the boots of the local abattoir workers. Whenever they finished their shifts we'd scrap the fat and whatever else had filled the tread of their boots into a rusty tin can and run the 15 miles back home where ma' would be waiting to boil it up and serve for dinner.

Wow!!people told us about that;I didn't realise it really was true.
There's some really beautiful stories in life.

 

[Fred Ziffel]

I think cow pat and sawdust beats bread and pepper.

We used to source our dripping from the soles of the boots of the local abattoir workers. Whenever they finished their shifts we'd scrap the fat and whatever else had filled the tread of their boots into a rusty tin can and run the 15 miles back home where ma' would be waiting to boil it up and serve for dinner.

That is real hardship. You were probably prepared to share it too, as was I.

 

[Mr Peabody]

I'd also like to give you a rainbow, but where we live they only come in black and white.

 

[youmewe]

That is real hardship. You were probably prepared to share it too, as was I.

Absolutely Fred.

Now try telling the young ones today, they won't believe you. Too busy listening to their walkmans and watching their 26 inch tv's, if they're not using their Myspace accounts.

 

[Steinfreo]

I think cow pat and sawdust beats bread and pepper.

We used to source our dripping from the soles of the boots of the local abattoir workers. Whenever they finished their shifts we'd scrap the fat and whatever else had filled the tread of their boots into a rusty tin can and run the 15 miles back home where ma' would be waiting to boil it up and serve for dinner.

You were lucky . All 150 of us would wake up at 1am, 4 hours before we went to bed. do 29 hour shifts at abattoir for tuppens a week. walk 600 miles to scrap rusty tin cans for our drippings and when we got home mum would boil us down and serve us for dinner.

 

[Kram]

Alright.. enough.

 

[scon]

It's almost too much for me.
I'm dizzy with the levels of luxury people I almost know have experienced.
Life is wonderful.
I saw uneaten food in a window of a shop in a town once
Or perhaps it was a photograph...or a memory...or an imagining...dream..fantasy.. from a grumbling tummy..
One thing I'm nearly certain of is that some people had seen pictures of food.

 

[PurpleGreenRed]

Alright.. enough.

All 44 of us kids never had enough.

Enough ? Luxury!

 

[salim malik]

We could only dream of pepper.

We had to grate our own verucas to flavour our dripping.

And our house were a shoebox in the gutter!

We use to dream of living in a shoebox. A hole in the road ,that was home to the 15 of us.

 

[DudleyDocker]

We use to dream of living in a shoebox. A hole in the road ,that was home to the 15 of us.

You had a road??? You poshos love lording it over us that did it tough don't you.

 

[Kram]

I swear I seen apparentlydead around somewhere today.. place needs livening up.

 

[Borry]

If anyone thinks the AFL is corrupt, I reckon the A League is worse.

That and an average Cricket season over the next three months. And tennis.

Thank god the Territory does their footy season over the summer months.

 

[Admiral Byng]

Absolutely Fred.

Now try telling the young ones today, they won't believe you. Too busy listening to their walkmans and watching their 26 inch tv's, if they're not using their Myspace accounts.

I bought myself a new internet-enabled smart TV. Only had it a week, but I wonder how I ever managed to live without it.

It is no luxury, it should be a basic human right.

 

[estibador]

I bought myself a new internet-enabled smart TV. Only had it a week, but I wonder how I ever managed to live without it.

I thought the same when I got my new Samsung Galaxy about a month ago.

...then it got stolen a few days after I cancelled the insurance and now I'm back to my 'crappy' iPhone 4 for another two years... like a homeless man who'd been given a teasing taster of the high life only to be sent back to live in the gutter.

#firstworldproblems

 

[Admiral Byng]

I thought the same when I got my new Samsung Galaxy about a month ago.

...then it got stolen a few days after I cancelled the insurance and now I'm back to my 'crappy' iPhone 4 for another two years... like a homeless man who'd been given a teasing taster of the high life only to be sent back to live in the gutter.

#firstworldproblems

You poor bastard. Having a new shiny thing stolen really sucks.

 

[estibador]

You poor bastard. Having a new shiny thing stolen really sucks.

Especially when I didn't have a passcode on it, meaning I had to rush home and change every ****ing password for every little thing.

On the bright side, I'm just going to blame every shit post I make for the next few years on some meth addict cracking my tapatalk.

 

[Van_Dyke]

If anyone thinks the AFL is corrupt, I reckon the A League is worse.

That and an average Cricket season over the next three months. And tennis.

Thank god the Territory does their footy season over the summer months.

I used to be right into the a-league but the league is so NSW centric it's crazy. Also **** Tony Sage. Seriously you can go and get ****ed Sage. I'll try and get back into, the minute Sage is out of the club.

 

[AAACockburn]

I swear I seen apparentlydead around somewhere today.. place needs livening up.

He dead set reminds me of a guy I knew as a kid, Frank was his name.
I used to call him Fwank.

Any way he was the typical compulsive liar that always tried to upstage you, with a glorious story that sure a hell reeked of BS.
You would sit there and go OK mete, but you looked him in the eye, and you could see that he actually believed in his own shit.

 

[scon]

I can't see your eyes but are you suggesting you actually believe that shit??
I'm guessing you think we should too??
You're not Fwank,are you?

 

[Tazmania]

If anyone thinks the AFL is corrupt, I reckon the A League is worse.

That and an average Cricket season over the next three months. And tennis.

Thank god the Territory does their footy season over the summer months.

It's all good..shortly after the footy season ends the seabreezes start and it's windsurfing season. Going out this afternoon to Attadale and practicing my water starts.