came across this phrase in a book i’m reading last night. means a heavy drinker. how cool is that? and unfortunately is also redundant now as you don’t get a penny back for returning your empties, you stick them in the recycling box. modern life is rubbish.
Archive for the ‘nostalgia’ Category
a regular supplier of empties to the trade
Posted in nostalgia on January 27, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
thats the way it crumbles, cookie wise
Posted in christmas, nostalgia on January 12, 2010 | 2 Comments »
final christmas related post. honest honest honest. just wanted to give thanks and appreciation for my favourite christmas movie, the apartment. if i was running the show it would be shown on christmas afternoon every year instead of the latest pixar thing. its the most perfect and grown up filleting of the merry christmas delusion; involving nasty office politics, [...]
the ex-ravers
Posted in nostalgia on November 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
husb back early today to do school run with me. hanging around in the playground he bumped into an old mate of his also picking up his kids who was part of a moderately successful dance act in the 90s. he’s one of those mad professor types, all gangling arms and insane positivity and cadaverous [...]
weekend round-up
Posted in music, nostalgia on November 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
took kids bowling on saturday. michael jackson was playing and they all started dancing and singing along – a bit to my surprise as i hadn’t even realised jacko was on their radar. actually thats not strictly true, i did catch them a few months ago being shown one of his old videos on youtube [...]
power to the people
Posted in nostalgia, work work on November 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
had meeting with our strategic planning director today. he’s started a new crusade that will no doubt revolutionise the world as we know it. we’re not going to refer to people as consumers any more. the reasoning is that calling them (us?) that reduces them to units of consumption rather than actual beings with thoughts, [...]
the indie cap
Posted in nostalgia on November 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
watched starter for 10 last night – 80s student retro bit of fluff. from this fairly meh movie experience i have gleaned 2 things. 1 james mcavoy is not as cute as he used to be. in fact he might have never been cute. perhaps it was all just a trick of the writing when [...]
