It's only a mother

Although I've done my best to lead a sheltered life, I've seen petrol
bombs used in Paris, London, and San Francisco, where they were used very
effectively to torch a police car (I've no idea what happened to the
occupants, but I presume they got away) during a demonstration against
the first Gulf war.

 

Having a mountaineering obsession is a good way to meet shortly-to-be-dead
people, too.

 

Yer roof looks a bit suss - mind if I nip up and take a look? Got some
tiles on the lorry.

 

Relying on ab Alfa to keep warm in winter strikes me as a bit risky.
Though I suppose you could always torch it.

 

<waves>

I knew two people who went out to the Himalayas and didn't come back.

 

dangerous things, helicopters

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, wessie

LOL.

 

Christ yes, it's their tank so unlike with oil you can't shop around
for the best price. Moving back to an area with piped gas was great,
gas bill is around 1/3 of LPG.

 

Fucking.

 

it's complicated.

 

Pah! I saw more action than that working in Piccadilly Circus in 1992.

 

really?

I meant I was actually in the Europa one of the times it was
bombed[1], was pelting by broken glass, and *seriously* almost spilled
my drink.

[1] I think 1992.

 

On one sad occasion I left London for Chamonix in a party of four, and
returned in a party of two. I've known at least three or four other
people who died climbing, and that's just in the Alps.

 

Well, a bit of hyperbole, sure. I think only once did a bomb go off
close-by when I was at work. The closest proximity one when I wasn't
actually at work, was the office next door getting damaged when they
got in a taxi with a bomb, told him to drive to St Albans St and leg it
before it blew his Nissan up.

Ah, OK. That's close!

I notice you don't say "pint". Were you drinking a ladies drink?

 

I think it's generally accepted that a Gin & Tonic is a gentleman's
drink, and that ladies should stick to champers.

 

Post editted for Essex.

 

well, except this was Belfast in the early '90s (before alcopops
became popular[1]).

[1] probably only Bacardi Breezers and "Two Dogs" would have been
available at the time, unless you could MD20/20.

 

Troo. Getting a work colleague pissed on Two Dogs around that time
proved fruitful. Plus, weren't Hooch & Smirnoff Mule around by then?

 

Hooch, almost certainly, yeah - I'd forgotten about that stuff -
fucking awful muck. I can't remember when Smirnoff Mule started. Also,
in the early '90s NI drinking was still obsessive around that whole
nonsense of drinking bottles of Mexican beer with a lime wedged into
the neck, or those stupid tins of Asahi lager with the clear bottoms.

 

I did a FOT with some mates a couple of years ago. Four went out, three
came back.