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  • Fire_and_Ice_ReturnsFire_and_Ice_Returns I am trying to get away from this mountan!
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    chrisisall wrote: »
    chrisisall wrote: »
    Cheers guys

    Meaning what? Drinks all around-?

    In England we say Cheers as a way of saying Thanks on occasion.

    I knew that.
    ;)

    First round of Pint's on me with a Whisky chaser ;)
  • chrisisallchrisisall Brosnan Defender Of The Realm
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    chrisisall wrote: »
    chrisisall wrote: »
    Cheers guys

    Meaning what? Drinks all around-?

    In England we say Cheers as a way of saying Thanks on occasion.

    I knew that.
    ;)

    First round of Pint's on me with a Whisky chaser ;)

    Back when I was 20 the whiskey was in a shot glass and it was dropped into the pint and it was called a boiler-maker. Stumble home time. ;)
  • Fire_and_Ice_ReturnsFire_and_Ice_Returns I am trying to get away from this mountan!
    Posts: 25,363
    chrisisall wrote: »
    chrisisall wrote: »
    chrisisall wrote: »
    Cheers guys

    Meaning what? Drinks all around-?

    In England we say Cheers as a way of saying Thanks on occasion.

    I knew that.
    ;)

    First round of Pint's on me with a Whisky chaser ;)

    Back when I was 20 the whiskey was in a shot glass and it was dropped into the pint and it was called a boiler-maker. Stumble home time. ;)

    I have heard of that way of drinking it, too many Boiler Makers would kill me lol.

    There is one long time friend that when we meet up we always have Whiskey chasers as tribute to a friend that died, thankfully it does not happen that often, me Whiskey and fresh air is a Lethal combination. ;))
  • chrisisallchrisisall Brosnan Defender Of The Realm
    edited February 2018 Posts: 17,823
    Birdleson wrote: »
    chrisisall wrote: »
    chrisisall wrote: »
    chrisisall wrote: »
    Cheers guys

    Meaning what? Drinks all around-?

    In England we say Cheers as a way of saying Thanks on occasion.

    I knew that.
    ;)

    First round of Pint's on me with a Whisky chaser ;)

    Back when I was 20 the whiskey was in a shot glass and it was dropped into the pint and it was called a boiler-maker. Stumble home time. ;)

    I certainly did plenty of those. Back when the drinking age was 18, and the bars closed at three. Being a fellow New York kid around my age, I'm sure you'll remember.

    Oh yes. Being able to get legally sh*tfaced at 18? Not cool. A Trans Am smashed into a bar I was drinking at with my friends in '79... we stumbled out to see an epic wreck where guys (my age then) in the car didn't survive. I never drove home at 18-22... then I eased off. Fun times...
  • chrisisallchrisisall Brosnan Defender Of The Realm
    edited February 2018 Posts: 17,823
    Birdleson wrote: »
    I drove into a house at 17, a few weeks after getting my license.

    I'm assuming here that you don't mean that in the usual garage way. When I was 19 four of us drove to a racing course for go-karts at Mitchel Field- it was surrounded with old tires, and two of us drank beers until we felt fairly drunk. We then proceeded to drive the course in turns (in MY Dodge Colt) to see if we could. My drunk friend plowed into a tire wall right off, and that was that. But I only grazed some walls, slowly learning where I had to adjust my lack of reaction time. In the end I also plowed into a wall, but it was the fourth time around at 50MPH. Somehow no tire broke the windshield, but I learned how to drive impaired. Adjust for lower reaction time. And later I got a professional driving job in the five boroughs. That drunk test made me a better driver even when sober. Experience counts. All kinds.
  • chrisisallchrisisall Brosnan Defender Of The Realm
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    Birdleson wrote: »
    It was a crazy time to be a teenager. We pretty much led our own lives, not a lot of supervision.
    We basically raised ourselves back then. I thank the gods for Star Trek & Kung Fu.
  • 0BradyM0Bondfanatic70BradyM0Bondfanatic7 Quantum Floral Arrangements: "We Have Petals Everywhere"
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    Can't imagine growing up back in the old days. How times have changed. Now you're expected to grow up as fast as possible and everyone is always on your back about something.
  • 0BradyM0Bondfanatic70BradyM0Bondfanatic7 Quantum Floral Arrangements: "We Have Petals Everywhere"
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    I certainly appreciate the adventure aspect of it. I wish I could've seen those days instead of only being able to read about them, as I feel that time would be more suited to who I am as a person. Should've been born in the 20s, married Marilyn Monroe as an adult, seen all my favorite old movie stars in their own day, seen Fleming create the Bond phenomenon from jump, seen all the Bond films from '62 onward and died before I'd have to see the chaotic world we've got now.
  • 0BradyM0Bondfanatic70BradyM0Bondfanatic7 Quantum Floral Arrangements: "We Have Petals Everywhere"
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    @Birdleson, well I'm at least happy you got to see the 60s on, especially the birth of cinematic Bond and even be around before Fleming died. That alone makes me unbelievably envious, and I'm happy you appreciated the chance. The world today moves too fast, and there's far too much going on that produces negative energy. Things were better before Facebook, reality TV, all of it. I do appreciate those who use advancements for good, however, like giving blind kids eyes, handicapped people working limbs and the internet for being able to bring people together as we are here in our own little corner of the web and bring about a new enlightenment period not unlike the old ones of history. More ideas can be shared and more people can be reached from all around the world in seconds, which is amazing to think about.

    For all the bad, in the end I think the good outweighs it. And yet, I crave another world.
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    Humans are insatiable; no one is an exception. Like you, I also wish for older times, despite the drawbacks I know it comes with and that I would then be complaining about.
  • 0BradyM0Bondfanatic70BradyM0Bondfanatic7 Quantum Floral Arrangements: "We Have Petals Everywhere"
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    FoxRox wrote: »
    Humans are insatiable; no one is an exception. Like you, I also wish for older times, despite the drawbacks I know it comes with and that I would then be complaining about.
    Yes, the racism, xenophobia and sexism would be a worry, as would the biggie of WWII. With each age its drawbacks. Just have to pick your poison, and I want to sip the one with Lauren Bacall, Marilyn Monroe and Humphrey Bogart in it. ;)
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    FoxRox wrote: »
    Humans are insatiable; no one is an exception. Like you, I also wish for older times, despite the drawbacks I know it comes with and that I would then be complaining about.
    Yes, the racism, xenophobia and sexism would be a worry, as would the biggie of WWII. With each age its drawbacks. Just have to pick your poison, and I want to sip the one with Lauren Bacall, Marilyn Monroe and Humphrey Bogart in it. ;)

    Fair enough. I do have a lot of contempt for things like social media, Trump, SJWs, etc. that exists now. Things have to have been simpler back in the day, at least to some extent. But for sure the technology and advances in medicine and such are better today. It's always a give and take situation.
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    I have the same feeling. I get confused, though, whether it's simple nostalgia (probable) or something that's more justifiable because we've maybe actually arrived at a point that's worse. It really bugs me because I know people from every generation have and have had this same angst, yet I'm convinced that mine is more legit.
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    Congrats on being a moderator by the way! I didn’t realize until just now!
  • 0BradyM0Bondfanatic70BradyM0Bondfanatic7 Quantum Floral Arrangements: "We Have Petals Everywhere"
    edited February 2018 Posts: 28,694
    Strog wrote: »
    I have the same feeling. I get confused, though, whether it's simple nostalgia (probable) or something that's more justifiable because we've maybe actually arrived at a point that's worse. It really bugs me because I know people from every generation have and have had this same angst, yet I'm convinced that mine is more legit.
    @Strog, I sometimes go through this same guessing game, up and down like a yo-yo. Has this world seen worse, or are we living in that worst right now? Hard to say, and some days I'm sure, others I'm not. A good test is to take what I'm upset about on any day and then think about German planes bombing Britain to bits, or Jews cramped in concentration camps and African Americans being beaten for protesting their human rights. Such ambitious acts of cruelty and oppression that I hope we don't have to see their ilk again, and certainly not to that level. Most days the ills and sins of past history take the cake, thankfully.

    The big thing I worry about is how the advancement of technology and other capacities are able to so easily be used against us. Improved weapons make for better defense, but when nukes are devastatingly more powerful than the ones that vaporized the life in parts of Japan, it really concerns one when your president makes light of such threats on a social networking platform of all things. The internet brings everyone closer together than ever before, a vital part of current revolutions and activism, but it also gives hackers and sabotage artists endless avenues to cripple us. There is a dark side to all things, and for all we progress I see just as much regression. The phones that carry so much advancement and potential are instead used in ways that sap people's attention spans and disintegrate their ability communicate. Of all the knowledge at our fingertips, we're content to do other things. I just worry.
    Birdleson wrote: »
    There is something very abnormal and frightening going on globally, opposed to the usual generational shifts. We in the US are in such a strange place right now that I think most of us are in denial, or shock. No, this is different; the kind of different you might see once a century. I am convinced that in future decades (or centuries, even) we will look back at these times (if we don't just continue to shred and deteriorate) with incredulity and disgust.
    @Birdleson, agreed, as a fellow Yank. I say this all the time to my parents, often with disdain and sometimes wonder, but we're living in history, I'm sure of it. Trump is a big part of that, and I don't think we've seen the end of just how paradigm shifting he will be once Mueller is done with his business.

    We don't have a massive enemy to the scale of the Axis powers like we did in the 40s, but other attacks on journalists, on norms and on the kinds of immigrants that built our country by those who claim to be the most American really do sap the optimism out of you. But then I think about how my gay friends can now get married if they want, how women are able to seek such amazing opportunity and how our own government are using their checks and balances to stop divisive and poisonous policies from taking form and I rest a little easier. The bad are powerful, but the good aren't sleeping at the wheel or giving an inch. In that, I dare to find some kernel of optimism.
  • 0BradyM0Bondfanatic70BradyM0Bondfanatic7 Quantum Floral Arrangements: "We Have Petals Everywhere"
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    Birdleson wrote: »
    Back on topic! I wasn't doing a great job of moderating there!
    @Birdleson, trust me, you needn't worry. @Creasy47 and @Benny have been operating a porn production studio and drug manufacturing center in the old moderator lounge for years now, so if they've still held on to their jobs you're golden.
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    chrisisall wrote: »
    chrisisall wrote: »
    chrisisall wrote: »
    Cheers guys

    Meaning what? Drinks all around-?

    In England we say Cheers as a way of saying Thanks on occasion.

    I knew that.
    ;)

    First round of Pint's on me with a Whisky chaser ;)

    Back when I was 20 the whiskey was in a shot glass and it was dropped into the pint and it was called a boiler-maker. Stumble home time. ;)

    We call that a 'depth charge'...
  • BennyBenny Shaken not stirredAdministrator, Moderator
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    Birdleson wrote: »
    Back on topic! I wasn't doing a great job of moderating there!
    @Birdleson, trust me, you needn't worry. @Creasy47 and @Benny have been operating a porn production studio and drug manufacturing center in the old moderator lounge for years now, so if they've still held on to their jobs you're golden.

    @0BradyM0Bondfanatic7 I told you I'd cut you in for 15% I can't do any more than that.
    'We've got 500 million in the case, and 20tons of Columbian pure in the tankers, now go help Thundy.'
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    Kinky.......
  • Creasy47Creasy47 In Cuba with Natalya.Moderator
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    Birdleson wrote: »
    Back on topic! I wasn't doing a great job of moderating there!
    @Birdleson, trust me, you needn't worry. @Creasy47 and @Benny have been operating a porn production studio and drug manufacturing center in the old moderator lounge for years now, so if they've still held on to their jobs you're golden.

    We're still operating them, too! Why else would I be rocking this sweet mustache?
  • Birdleson wrote: »
    It definitely wasn't too nice if you were blackor a woman or other "others" throughout the past century, that's for damned sure.

    Exactly why I can never really get on board with the whole "born in the wrong generation" thing. Give me having to put up with people being whiny bitches on social media over being treated like a second class citizen any day.
  • 0BradyM0Bondfanatic70BradyM0Bondfanatic7 Quantum Floral Arrangements: "We Have Petals Everywhere"
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    Benny wrote: »
    Birdleson wrote: »
    Back on topic! I wasn't doing a great job of moderating there!
    @Birdleson, trust me, you needn't worry. @Creasy47 and @Benny have been operating a porn production studio and drug manufacturing center in the old moderator lounge for years now, so if they've still held on to their jobs you're golden.

    @0BradyM0Bondfanatic7 I told you I'd cut you in for 15% I can't do any more than that.
    'We've got 500 million in the case, and 20tons of Columbian pure in the tankers, now go help Thundy.'
    @Benny, you've really gummed up the works now. Our negotiations were intended to be private and off the forum pages.

    But...yeah....



    15% is fine....
    Creasy47 wrote: »
    Birdleson wrote: »
    Back on topic! I wasn't doing a great job of moderating there!
    @Birdleson, trust me, you needn't worry. @Creasy47 and @Benny have been operating a porn production studio and drug manufacturing center in the old moderator lounge for years now, so if they've still held on to their jobs you're golden.

    We're still operating them, too! Why else would I be rocking this sweet mustache?
    @Creasy47, oh, I know. I really enjoyed your porn parody of GE, which was just the actual cut of the film with little sex scenes placed in between major scenes starring yourself playing Bond with that big porn stache. It strains logic in the film that you have facial hair in your scenes and Brosnan doesn't in his, but you try your best and show some nice technique with the various women. The casting of the porn version of Xenia was inspired as well. Those thighs!
    Birdleson wrote: »
    It definitely wasn't too nice if you were blackor a woman or other "others" throughout the past century, that's for damned sure.
    Exactly why I can never really get on board with the whole "born in the wrong generation" thing. Give me having to put up with people being whiny bitches on social media over being treated like a second class citizen any day.
    @thelivingroyale, absolutely. It's easy for me to say what I do because I'm white and it would be easier for me to fit in in other times, but for others I can understand why they wouldn't want to look back. I'm really proud of where we've come, considering where we were just fifty years ago.
  • ggl007ggl007 www.archivo007.com Spain, España
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    You don't have to answer all at the same time. :) Point taken.

    Back to topic. Again.
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    The topic:

    The past-going away or coming back?
  • jake24jake24 Sitting at your desk, kissing your lover, eating supper with your familyModerator
    edited February 2018 Posts: 10,592
    ggl007 wrote: »
    You don't have to answer all at the same time. :) Point taken.

    Back to topic. Again.
    Without going into detail, there was a breaking of forum rules. A second chance was offered but the member instead wished for his account to be deactivated.
  • chrisisallchrisisall Brosnan Defender Of The Realm
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    Birdleson wrote: »
    Back on topic! I wasn't doing a great job of moderating there!

    Congrats man! Keep the miscreants in line!
  • DragonpolDragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
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    These guys should get a room thread of their own.
  • DragonpolDragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
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    Birdleson wrote: »
    Yes, we should.

    It was like the time I helped create that ice hockey thread as an offshoot of the Free Chat discussion.
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy My Secret Lair
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    Yes. You let that slide ;-)
  • DragonpolDragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
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    Yes. You let that slide ;-)

    I put them straight again. Gave them no other option.
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