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Always used to try and get the front row (AA) tickets for any decent bands that came down to the Gaumont, but it didn't matter if you didn't 'cos you'd just rush down the front as soon as the lights dimmed for the main act. Saw some good bands there, in no particular order; Madness (bit of ska fest, Beat and Selector et al were there, top day); Stranglers (several times); Ian Dury and the Blockheads; Bauhaus; Siouxsie and the Banshees; Jam; The Tubes (bit obscure that one....) I'll think of some more later. Was going to say the Clash but that was at the Top Rank.

Yeah, my Granddad got interviewed by an Australian radio company that came over here doing research on Bert Hinkler before they moved the house Bert Hinkler used to be a test pilot for Supermarine where my Granddad worked so they got to know each other.

Has anybody heard this expression before? I'm convinced it's local. Basically it means "The sky over there looks a bit overcast and we could be in for some rain." There are Sotonians that I know that know this expression but my missus (who hails from Norfolk) looked at me like I was mad when I said it to her once.

Watched Exiled (Fong Juk), a Chinese gangster film. Has some good gunfight scenes but the film never really gets going, it falters and stutters from scene to scene and never really builds to a crescendo. It was an easy and enjoyable film to watch, but it's not a patch on Hard Boiled. 6/10

Long face and a hairy neck?? Mearer today on the food front 'cos I've been busy. But I may have a chicken pathia later on....

I can remember jumping/diving off the bridges at Mansbridge and the Redbridge Causeway and never once thinking that I could kill or paralyse myself (tombstoning was a phrase that hadn't been invented then....). Pitch and putt at Riverside Park seemed like a proper round of 18 holes when I was a nipper. Incidentally, my youngest got a hole in one on the 14th up there last year, spawny little git!!!! And fishing on the river there or up at the fishing lake in the Common. After a while the carp up there would get wise to hair rigged luncheon meat so a change to cheese did the trick one day. Me and a mate were the only kids catching that day!!!!

I really think we are on a roll now. MK Dons will be a good test of our mettle next week, but I'm confident now we'll turn them over. Good times are just around the corner....

I bought my first motorbike from Alec Bennett's; must have been 1979ish. My sister got married at the 1 handed clock church, St Nicholas's in Stoneham Lane.

Anyone watch this? More early evening irreverence with dysfunctional American family mayhem a la (almost) Simpsons, Family Guy and Malcolm in the Middle. But, tbf, it did make me laugh so I'll persevere with it. Most famous name in it is Ed O'Neill (Al Bundy from Married With Children and Glen the Mikita's manager in the Wayne's World films) but Sofia Vergara and Julie Bowen make it eminently watchable!!!! Give it a go, it has it's moments. [Deliberately] cringeworthy Dad Phil Dunphy on being hip, cool and happening: "Yeah, I'm in there with all the text speak; LOL, laugh out loud; OMG, Oh my God; WTF, why the face...." And also the bit where the gay couple Jesse and Eric introduce their adopted baby Vietnemese daughter to the family: Phil: "What's her name?" Jesse: "Lily." Phil: "Will she be able to say that?" There is an element of Outnumbered in there too, especially with the Dunphy family, but nowhere near as good as our own homegrown talent!!!!

Underground Records!!!! I'd forgotten all about that. Did Subway expand then and buy the shop next to the subway as well as keep the shop near Percy Horn's next to the green bus depot? I'm pretty sure this record shop became a Virgin record store. Sperrings. All turned into One Stops or something. Bassett Bumps up at the Common. Made all the more interesting because MTBs hadn't been invented then. I buckled many a racing bike wheel going over these as a lad.

Pulled a bird last night with really bad eczema. Nice girl, cracking t i t s. I'm so sorry about that one....:smt009 But after 10 years of marriage my wife still goes mental if I use her toothbrush. But if you know a better way of getting dog **** off of your trainers, I'm all ears....

Of course there's Keith Curle. When I had to excuse myself from whatever company I was with to go and drop the kids off at the pool, "Just going for a Keith" was euphemism much used.

Back on the silly joke topic again.... A woman comes home and finds her husband in bed with a female midget. The wife's furious and screams at him "You bastard!!!! You promised you wouldn't cheat on me again!!!!" The husband replies "For cryin' out loud woman, can't you see I'm trying to cut down?"

Ladies, ladies, please.....less bickering. Basically it breaks down like this. The ***** encouraged a very small child to smoke a very addictive drug. If the child demanded cigarettes thereafter and was given them she would be doing untold damage to her body which in my opinion constitutes physical abuse. Eighteen months should be the minimum the ****tard does. Just because cigarettes (and therefore nicotine) are legal doesn't excuse the stupidity of this ****s actions. What's he going to try next? Hawking heroin or cocaine outside the school gates? ******. Nail him up, nail some sense into him.

The mention of this blokes name prompted a flurry of texts where me and a few mates tried to come up with a team of unfortunately named players. Here's how far we got: ****ov; Danny ****tu; Stefan ****z (as immortalised by Motty; "And the Germans have equalised....****z."); Dean Windass; Oscar Arse; and I'm sure there was Brazillian called F u c k? Anyway, we stopped there 'cos we got back to watching the footy....

Talking about dangerous for young punks, I remember going to see Crass at the Ashby Centre in Shirley once....that got a bit lively when a bunch of skins turned up....

You're not thinking of Jack's Corner are you? And Ron, I didn't forget the Brickies, it's sort of my local!!!! Talking about the Boating Lake up the Sporty, we used to play ice hockey on that during the Christmas holidays with hockey sticks and pucks bought from Toomers and using our hockey skates that we used at the Top Rank Ice Rink. Can't remember the last time we had a winter cold enough to freeze it over though. I remember the Witches Hat; I think the council had to take it down because of the amount of fingers that got 'lost' in the top. Also, skateboarding down the hill in the Sports Centre from the Pub in the Park (now the Sporting View) to the footy changing rooms could be a challenge. Too much truck wobble and you were down the grass slope and heading for the old concrete paddling pool. Which got turned into a basket ball court. And is now grassed over....

Ah, the Old Grappling Genitals as it was, er, affectionately known. There was another equally squalid pub over the road where Tesco Express is now....Rose and Crown? And of course, if you're talking infamous Millbrook pubs, don't forget the Saints.

Oof, that's a bit close to home, are you current or ex OS? Of course, there was the old Civil Service Club in Malmesbury Road. RIP.

It's in the Forestry Commission plantation you get to by following Coxford Road (the road that runs parallel to the 4th fairway of the Muni) until it becomes unmetalled and then goes past the water pumping station....Tbh, to try and describe where you go from there would be an exercise in futility!!!! I get to it on a mountain bike by tipping down a really steep slope to the gravel firebreaks. However I think this bike track has now been taken down for the winter. Oh, this is in Southampton btw....

Oh you were of St George's!!!! Mike's Burgers used to set up shop in the lay-by outside the Air Cadet hall opposite the fountain near the Civic. There you go, the Air Cadet hut and the old fountain. I used to go to Percy Horn's barber shop all the time, it was always chock full of punks (like me....), rude boys, skins....had to get there early to avoid a long wait. And Subway Records. You could get any record you could think of in there. And there was one of the first Space Invaders games in there that only had a high score of 9999 and then went back to 0. Henry's ran Subway a close second; they used to do a sealed bag of 10 singles for a quid, I got some right gems. Toomers sports shop was fab as well, I remember being gutted when that shop shut. TDD has mentioned the bird aviary, but there was a coffee shop just down the road, probably where Beatnik Emporium is now. It used to smell brilliant!!!! And there was a tobacconist in London Road that used to sell all sorts of weird tailor mades and rolling baccy. I could be thinking of things all night at this rate....

They've moved south then. Went up to Norfolk to visit the in-laws about 6 weeks ago and they were infested with them up there. Obviously following the, er, warmer weather.

Hampton Park were you? I was Glen Eyre....:smt075 In addition I remember It's A Knockout came to the Sports Centre a couple of times and set up shop on the athletics field. There used to be the Atherley Cinema in Shirley (now a bingo hall). And don't forget the Lord Louis at the old Green Bus Depot. Manhattans Night Club in St Mary's Street. Mike's Burger Van. I'll have to come back to this....

I think I'm right in saying that if you deliberately block a motor cyclist/cyclist from travelling down a road where they clearly have room to ride through, this is in fact breaking the law. DSM? Not exactly DSM's sphere of legal expertise I know.... That aside, it's just c***ish thing to do anyway.

The seat has been paid for so it might as well have a bum on it. It would be wrong trying to get an adult in on a kids ticket or other concession 'cos then the club would technically be losing out. But as Give It To Ron says technically it's probably not allowed....