Things you found out late in life

[whelk]

Russell Crowe is cousin to Martin Crowe the former NZ cricket captain 

[egg]

The hat in a Christmas cracker is actually a crown. Who knew. 

[Behind Enemy Lines]

I married the wrong woman. 

[Farmer Saint]

Cows don't lay eggs.

[badgerx16]

21 minutes ago, Farmer Saint said:

Cows don't lay eggs.

It is important that farmers know this. It saves them from going out into a field of cows and rummaging under the sleeping cattle looking for what might be underneath them.

An equally important piece of learning is that you cannot milk hens.

Edited 31 December, 2025 by badgerx16

[Lighthouse]

28 minutes ago, badgerx16 said:

It is important that farmers know this. It saves them from going out into a field of cows and rummaging under the sleeping cattle looking for what might be underneath them.

An equally important piece of learning is that you cannot milk hens.

TBH cows really aren't that great either. The one in the field behind my garden just has one, long udder and I barely got a cupful of milk out of it.

[Whitey Grandad]

2 hours ago, Lighthouse said:

TBH cows really aren't that great either. The one in the field behind my garden just has one, long udder and I barely got a cupful of milk out of it.

Should have gone to Specsavers.

[Farmer Saint]

2 hours ago, Lighthouse said:

TBH cows really aren't that great either. The one in the field behind my garden just has one, long udder and I barely got a cupful of milk out of it.

Use your mouth and you'll get much more.

[Winnersaint]

That Mark Littlewood formally of the right wing IEA Think Tank is a Saints fan. He can fuck right off. Is he St Ralph ?

[trousers]

57 minutes ago, Winnersaint said:

That Mark Littlewood formally of the right wing IEA Think Tank is a Saints fan. He can fuck right off. Is he St Ralph ?

Or you could tolerate people with alternative points of view? Just a thought...

Happy New Year! 🙂

Edited January 1 by trousers

[Sir Ralph]

7 hours ago, Winnersaint said:

That Mark Littlewood formally of the right wing IEA Think Tank is a Saints fan. He can fuck right off. Is he St Ralph ?

😆

Edited January 1 by Sir Ralph

[benjii]

That Ricky Gervais is not currently funny.

[Winnersaint]

13 hours ago, trousers said:

Or you could tolerate people with alternative points of view? Just a thought...

Happy New Year! 🙂

Happy New Year to you too. Its not the message or the politics. I saw him interviewed recently. His rudeness and capacity get 'shouty' is only equalled by Mohammed Yusuf Zia. That's what I found objectionable.

Edited January 1 by Winnersaint

[Gloucester Saint]

27 minutes ago, Winnersaint said:

Happy New Year to you too. Its not the message or the politics. I saw him interviewed recently. His rudeness and capacity get 'shouty' is only equalled by Mohammed Yusef Zia. That's what I found objectionable.

This as well - aged like a post-NYE buffet dump https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/09/03/suspect-old-friend-liz-truss-will-radical-british-prime-minister/

[ecuk268]

On 31/12/2025 at 20:48, Lighthouse said:

TBH cows really aren't that great either. The one in the field behind my garden just has one, long udder and I barely got a cupful of milk out of it.

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1770948000420155

[sadoldgit]

That when older people talked about having to get up in the middle of the night to pee, they weren’t joking.

[Whitey Grandad]

3 hours ago, sadoldgit said:

That when older people talked about having to get up in the middle of the night to pee, they weren’t joking.

I feel your pain. 

I had a prostate biopsy yesterday. Twelve inch needles rammed up your arse over twenty times. Now I know what a pin cushion feels like. 

[whelk]

Just now, Whitey Grandad said:

I feel your pain. 

I had a prostate biopsy yesterday. Twelve inch needles rammed up your arse over twenty times. Now I know what a pin cushion feels like. 

I hope they gave you a rag to chew on Whitey and didn’t bother them for an anaesthetic 

[east-stand-nic]

I was quite old when I learned MSM lie and only report on what they are told to report on and what to say. That said, I still learned way ahead of most on here who still guzzle up every last drop they report. 

[badgerx16]

That some people are so far down the rabbit hole you can only pity them.

[Whitey Grandad]

13 hours ago, whelk said:

I hope they gave you a rag to chew on Whitey and didn’t bother them for an anaesthetic 

I always find that any local anaesthetic only begins to take effect when they've almost finished the procedure. 

I found that digging my thumbnails into my fingers helped to distract me from the pain and discomfort.  I wish I'd learnt that when I was younger.  Oh, and also don't chew your fingernails.  You never know when you might need them.

[Turkish]

That devoting so much time, energy and money into supporting a mid sized football club with no ambition is a complete waste of time, effort and money. 

[badgerx16]

4 minutes ago, Turkish said:

That devoting so much time, energy and money into supporting a mid sized football club with no ambition is a complete waste of time, effort and money. 

Yet we continue to do it.

[Turkish]

10 minutes ago, badgerx16 said:

Yet we continue to do it.

Something about the definition of insanity 

[sadoldgit]

2 hours ago, east-stand-nic said:

I was quite old when I learned MSM lie and only report on what they are told to report on and what to say. That said, I still learned way ahead of most on here who still guzzle up every last drop they report. 

Yet you continue to swallow conspiracy theories and the lies the people you follow hook, line and sinker.

Go figure?

[sadoldgit]

14 hours ago, Whitey Grandad said:

I feel your pain. 

I had a prostate biopsy yesterday. Twelve inch needles rammed up your arse over twenty times. Now I know what a pin cushion feels like. 

Sorry to hear that Whitey. Sounds nasty. I have been on drugs for a long time that are supposed to shrink the prostate? No needles so far thankfully.

I hope the biopsy goes well for you.

[ChrisPY]

3 hours ago, sadoldgit said:

I have been on drugs for a long time

Explains a lot 😉

[sadoldgit]

4 hours ago, ChrisPY said:

Explains a lot 😉

Hilarious. I hope that you don’t get prostate cancer.

[ChrisPY]

9 hours ago, sadoldgit said:

Hilarious. I hope that you don’t get prostate cancer.

I clearly wasn’t joking about cancer so I won’t apologise as it’d just be insincere.

If you are battling it though, hope the treatment is working and you manage to beat it. 

[east-stand-nic]

12 hours ago, sadoldgit said:

Hilarious. I hope that you don’t get prostate cancer.

Here u go again trying to make up things people said. You are utterly disgusting to try and use such an illness to point score. 

2 hours ago, ChrisPY said:

I clearly wasn’t joking about cancer so I won’t apologise as it’d just be insincere.

If you are battling it though, hope the treatment is working and you manage to beat it. 

He always does this. he is a very insecure sort of racist chap. He likes to try and make out you say stuff you didn't. 

[Turkish]

21 minutes ago, east-stand-nic said:

Here u go again trying to make up things people said. You are utterly disgusting to try and use such an illness to point score. 

He always does this. he is a very insecure sort of racist chap. He likes to try and make out you say stuff you didn't. 

Not the first time he's done this. Remember when he went apoplectic at someone for using the term "living in your head rent free" saying it was making fun of people with mental health issues. Then a few weeks later used that expression himself. When he got pulled up on it he gave his usual arrogant responses. The hypocrisy is off the scale. 

[JohnnyShearer2.0]

WFH and you have to have the heating on several times in the day.

[whelk]

3 hours ago, east-stand-nic said:

You are utterly disgusting to try and use such an illness to point score

lol from the baby that wailed and cried that he can’t eat all foods. Pathetic man

Edited Monday at 14:22 by whelk

[sadoldgit]

1 hour ago, whelk said:

lol from the baby that wailed and cried that he can’t eat all foods. Pathetic man

He has just proved again that he doesn’t understand basic English. It takes a special kind of idiot to ignore the “point scoring” in the post I referred to and interpret my response as “point scoring.” But then, our nic is “special”

[OldNick]

On 03/01/2026 at 23:06, Whitey Grandad said:

I feel your pain. 

I had a prostate biopsy yesterday. Twelve inch needles rammed up your arse over twenty times. Now I know what a pin cushion feels like. 

Never heard of that before, i thought it would be up the little one. I have cameras up there twice and both times seemed they sent a camera crew in there with them! Getting older is not always fun but the alternative is worse. Had a stroke 3 weeks ago and that puts it all into perspective. The staff at the hospital were mainly Indian and muslims , wonderful people. The muslim doctor saved me from speaking like Rosie Jones for the rest of my days (2-3 hours of doing so) until his work cleared the blockage and my speech recovered. 

[Whitey Grandad]

4 hours ago, OldNick said:

Never heard of that before, i thought it would be up the little one. I have cameras up there twice and both times seemed they sent a camera crew in there with them! Getting older is not always fun but the alternative is worse. Had a stroke 3 weeks ago and that puts it all into perspective. The staff at the hospital were mainly Indian and muslims , wonderful people. The muslim doctor saved me from speaking like Rosie Jones for the rest of my days (2-3 hours of doing so) until his work cleared the blockage and my speech recovered. 

When I say "up my arse" the needles actually went in through my perineum. They shoved an ultrasound probe up my rectum in order to monitor the location of the tissue samples.

I had a cystoscopy a year ago which whilst not immediately uncomfortable caused my enlarged prostate to bleed profusely and getting home from Basingstoke got quite messy.

Good news that your stroke was managed successfully. Keep on breathing and moving!

[Sergei Gotsmanov]

5 hours ago, OldNick said:

Never heard of that before, i thought it would be up the little one. I have cameras up there twice and both times seemed they sent a camera crew in there with them! Getting older is not always fun but the alternative is worse. Had a stroke 3 weeks ago and that puts it all into perspective. The staff at the hospital were mainly Indian and muslims , wonderful people. The muslim doctor saved me from speaking like Rosie Jones for the rest of my days (2-3 hours of doing so) until his work cleared the blockage and my speech recovered. 

I hope you are OK Old Nick and make a full recovery. Your eloquent post suggests that you are most of the way there.

[Holmes_and_Watson]

Wishing you all the best for your recovery OldNick.

Probably for Whitey too. But I've not been able to read beyond "Twelve inch needles rammed up..." to know if it's serious or an acupuncture appointment gone badly wrong. 🙂

(Hope everything comes back clear, Whitey)

 

 

[trousers]

8 hours ago, OldNick said:

Never heard of that before, i thought it would be up the little one. I have cameras up there twice and both times seemed they sent a camera crew in there with them! Getting older is not always fun but the alternative is worse. Had a stroke 3 weeks ago and that puts it all into perspective. The staff at the hospital were mainly Indian and muslims , wonderful people. The muslim doctor saved me from speaking like Rosie Jones for the rest of my days (2-3 hours of doing so) until his work cleared the blockage and my speech recovered. 

Sorry to hear about your stroke @OldNick.... Shout if you ever need any advice on such matters... up until recently my senior nurse sister-in-law ran the stroke unit at her hospital, having studied stroke care to degree level. All the best sir 👍🏻

[OldNick]

14 hours ago, Whitey Grandad said:

When I say "up my arse" the needles actually went in through my perineum. They shoved an ultrasound probe up my rectum in order to monitor the location of the tissue samples.

I had a cystoscopy a year ago which whilst not immediately uncomfortable caused my enlarged prostate to bleed profusely and getting home from Basingstoke got quite messy.

Good news that your stroke was managed successfully. Keep on breathing and moving!

OMG isnt nice, I want to avoid that thanks very much

[OldNick]

13 hours ago, Sergei Gotsmanov said:

I hope you are OK Old Nick and make a full recovery. Your eloquent post suggests that you are most of the way there.

very kind, Im just lucky, it puts everything into perspective, but there are young kids in a terrible state and they have not had a life. Not that I want to go but it does sadden me when I read about their plight

[OldNick]

10 hours ago, trousers said:

Sorry to hear about your stroke @OldNick.... Shout if you ever need any advice on such matters... up until recently my senior nurse sister-in-law ran the stroke unit at her hospital, having studied stroke care to degree level. All the best sir 👍🏻

very kind thanks for that

[OldNick]

11 hours ago, Holmes_and_Watson said:

Wishing you all the best for your recovery OldNick.

Probably for Whitey too. But I've not been able to read beyond "Twelve inch needles rammed up..." to know if it's serious or an acupuncture appointment gone badly wrong. 🙂

(Hope everything comes back clear, Whitey)

 

 

lol, yes the needles thing did for me. I always feared hospitals and never until recently had to stay, but I cant be complimentary enough about the people who work there.