Off Topic What grinds your gears

When did kids stop playing conkers, my kids collected loads today just for something to do then looked at me weirdly when I asked if they wanted me to soak them in vinegar . Games gone . Literally

 

i picked up a couple of conkers up today actually
impressive things aint they

i might put them in epoxy actually

 

The cemetery which creates a lot of compostable material has only one bin for all types of waste. So all the plastic wrappers go in the same bin as the old dead flowers.

 

I was walking through a local park recently and conkers lying everywhere. We used to throw sticks up for hours to get conkers. I guess health and safety has taken over. The danger of getting hit on your knuckles during a conker fight.

 

i picked some up yesterday and i genuinely had some sort of call of the void moment, where i had an urge to throw them at random cars passing by
it was weird and frankly scary

 

I think schools banned it on H&S grounds years ago.

 

People who put toilet paper rolls on the holder the wrong way.
The paper should always roll off the front .

PS Wtf was Izal toilet paper any use for.

 

Flavoured toilet wipes.

Coconut???

Would rather have a bounty

 

Smearing butter onto the turkey at Christmas to ensure the skin will be evenly crisp after cooking.
(Not forgetting the salt of course.)

 

Tracing paper !

 

For you or the drivers?

 

Emergency tracing paper

Throwing on the pitch at football games etc

Toilet training at state schools age 4-18...

 

In my day that would have driven us to street conkering , tenfoot tournaments where only the strongest survive

 

Does anyone know when this madness ends ?

 

Jeremy Vine, all that earnestness, it's painful, and likely faked.

 

He's rather alarmingly become a parody of a parody of himself.

 

Read that the other day. Some on here will think it is a marvellous idea. They know who they are.

 

People with a victim complex

 

I think his brother got his share of the personality and wit.