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Title: Getting ready for visitors
Post by: Nick on June 18, 2009, 02:29:56 PM
I am knackered already.

The dust  eeek:. The rubbish  eeek:, The bedmaking. evil: The towels. eeek: The inspections to make sure they don't find anything they shouldn't  noooo:

I wish they had been and gone already.

Next: chit chat  evil:

Fook me: the bathroom ceiling is covered in cobwebs. I have had to sweep it!  eeek:
Title: Re: Getting ready for visitors
Post by: Snoopy on June 18, 2009, 02:39:21 PM
My ex used to go through the production until one day a visiting Aunt of mine said to her ~ "Look dear, you have two children and I know your house will not always look like a new pin ~ I come to see you not the house". I have maintained that attitude ever since. If visitors don't like the way they find us they needn't come again ..... no skin off my nose.

As Quentin Crisp almost said "After the first four years the dust just doesn't get any thicker"
Title: Re: Getting ready for visitors
Post by: Nick on June 18, 2009, 02:40:10 PM
You haven't met my sister!!! She does those 'looks'. Come on men, we all know those 'looks'  scared2:
Title: Re: Getting ready for visitors
Post by: Snoopy on June 18, 2009, 02:44:33 PM
Have you spent your entire life being afraid of wimmin?
Title: Re: Getting ready for visitors
Post by: Nick on June 18, 2009, 02:47:42 PM
I see that you have NOT met my sister

Her husband is coming  noooo:. I have laid in extra supplies of cheese
Title: Re: Getting ready for visitors
Post by: Uncle Mort on June 18, 2009, 02:51:22 PM
He's a mouse as well?
Title: Re: Getting ready for visitors
Post by: Nick on June 18, 2009, 02:51:50 PM
He is only obeying orders  noooo:

She doesn't allow him out normally
Title: Re: Getting ready for visitors
Post by: Snoopy on June 18, 2009, 02:54:28 PM
Ye Gods!  Banghead

I spend my life teaching, or trying to teach, my children the values of mutual respect and the acceptance of differences in the way people live. Visit your sister in your oldest clothes, go unshaven, look a slob, drink beer out of a tin and belch a lot. See if she gets the message.

 rubschin: Mind ~ that sounds like you anyway  whistle:
Title: Re: Getting ready for visitors
Post by: Miss Demeanour on June 18, 2009, 03:36:03 PM
I thought men were meant to marry women like their mohters ...not like their sisters  whistle:
Title: Re: Getting ready for visitors
Post by: Snoopy on June 18, 2009, 03:53:50 PM
No wife of mine has been anything like my Mum ~ not even remotely. The only similarity has been in gender.
Title: Re: Getting ready for visitors
Post by: Uncle Mort on June 18, 2009, 04:12:56 PM
My ex was nothing like my mother either.

However, there were a number of similarities between me and the Father-in Law. 
Title: Re: Getting ready for visitors
Post by: barmisspah? on June 18, 2009, 04:19:12 PM
Life is meant for living not cleaning.
Title: Re: Getting ready for visitors
Post by: Pastis on June 18, 2009, 04:24:19 PM
in your oldest clothes, go unshaven, look a slob, drink beer out of a tin and belch a lot.

 redface:  Have you been peeking?

Anyhoo, WTF is this visit about? Some kind of annual kit inspection?  You could have asked GOS to do you a rehearsal  ;D
Title: Re: Getting ready for visitors
Post by: Uncle Mort on June 18, 2009, 04:25:21 PM
in your oldest clothes, go unshaven, look a slob, drink beer out of a tin and belch a lot.

 redface:  Have you been peeking?

Anyhoo, WTF is this visit about? Some kind of annual kit inspection?  You could have asked GOS to do you a rehearsal  ;D


And you get a band.  ;)
Title: Re: Getting ready for visitors
Post by: Nick on June 18, 2009, 04:26:09 PM
She has already asked about the pile of shite next to the cellar stairs! Feck off!
Title: Re: Getting ready for visitors
Post by: Pastis on June 18, 2009, 04:30:47 PM
Sounds like she's asking to be pushed down there  whistle:
Title: Re: Getting ready for visitors
Post by: Miss Demeanour on June 18, 2009, 04:52:24 PM
She has already asked about the pile of shite next to the cellar stairs! Feck off!

For heavens sake - she is staying at your house  evil:. If she isn't happy with the standards then feck off to a hotel near you or clean up your house until it meets her standards.

If either of my brothers or their women stayed at mine and were that fussy they would either be given a dishcloth or an A - Z  noooo:
Title: Re: Getting ready for visitors
Post by: Snoopy on June 18, 2009, 05:03:29 PM
She has already asked about the pile of shite next to the cellar stairs! Feck off!

For heavens sake - she is staying at your house  evil:. If she isn't happy with the standards then feck off to a hotel near you or clean up your house until it meets her standards.

If either of my brothers or their women stayed at mine and were that fussy they would either be given a dishcloth or an A - Z  noooo:

That is roughly what I was saying earlier.

Nick checks that the coast is clear
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Title: Re: Getting ready for visitors
Post by: Pirate on June 18, 2009, 05:04:05 PM
All that cleaning, dusting, hoovering...and then six months later you gotta do it all again  noooo:
Title: Re: Getting ready for visitors
Post by: Miss Demeanour on June 18, 2009, 05:17:34 PM
 lol:

Boats are easier to maintain though eh  lol:
Title: Re: Getting ready for visitors
Post by: Nick on June 18, 2009, 06:23:48 PM
Everything has to be de-caffeinated. She has brought special tea bags  ::)

I have just made coffee. Real coffee. Her husband leapt upon it like a leaping thing, despite being told he would not sleep well  noooo:
Title: Re: Getting ready for visitors
Post by: Pastis on June 18, 2009, 07:18:21 PM
The hit of a real coffee and a digestif or two will have him sleeping like a baby...  8)

Mind you, I had a double ristretto at Euston yesterday prior to a meeting... that woke me up  eeek:
Title: Re: Getting ready for visitors
Post by: Pirate on June 18, 2009, 07:37:17 PM
lol:

Boats are easier to maintain though eh  lol:

It's not a boat  evil: ...it's a ship
Title: Re: Getting ready for visitors
Post by: Miss Demeanour on June 18, 2009, 07:39:33 PM
Oh bless,  sorry - I don't mean to downsize your vessel  whistle:
Title: Re: Getting ready for visitors
Post by: Pastis on June 18, 2009, 07:51:24 PM
If I remember rightly, ships can carry boats, boats can't carry ships. Above the waterline it's ships and below it's boats  rubschin:
Title: Re: Getting ready for visitors
Post by: Pirate on June 18, 2009, 08:14:50 PM
 rubschin:

It's not even my ship anyhoo. I commandeered it like fence:
Title: Re: Getting ready for visitors
Post by: Miss Demeanour on June 18, 2009, 08:15:40 PM
Are you Somalian ???
Title: Re: Getting ready for visitors
Post by: Pirate on June 18, 2009, 08:54:46 PM
No...I'm with the Woolwich
Title: Re: Getting ready for visitors
Post by: Miss Demeanour on June 19, 2009, 07:18:33 AM
But they're dead now  rubschin:
Title: Re: Getting ready for visitors
Post by: Darwins Selection on June 19, 2009, 07:47:06 AM
But they're dead now  rubschin:

He is quite ruthless.  scared2:
Title: Re: Getting ready for visitors
Post by: Barman on June 19, 2009, 08:36:01 AM
We've had guests this week (leaving today)...

LL just made them clean their room...  noooo:
Title: Re: Getting ready for visitors
Post by: Miss Demeanour on June 19, 2009, 08:41:12 AM
It's a sad state of affairs that she had to ask - surely they should be doing that anyway  rubschin:
Title: Re: Getting ready for visitors
Post by: Nick on June 19, 2009, 08:51:21 AM
Our visitors are off out for the day. They will be near to Snoopy's place. rubschin: Perhaps I should send her round to discipline him. eveilgrin: I caught her rearranging a book shelf into alphabetical order last night. I think it may be OCD
Title: Re: Getting ready for visitors
Post by: Uncle Mort on June 19, 2009, 08:56:02 AM
I think it may be OCD

Probably ~ these things do run in a family.
Title: Re: Getting ready for visitors
Post by: Nick on June 19, 2009, 09:01:49 AM
 evil:
Title: Re: Getting ready for visitors
Post by: Barman on June 19, 2009, 09:06:08 AM
It's a sad state of affairs that she had to ask - surely they should be doing that anyway  rubschin:
A quick clean yes...

Not scrub the floors, take the curtains down, re-grout the bath, etc.  noooo:
Title: Re: Getting ready for visitors
Post by: Miss Demeanour on June 19, 2009, 09:21:22 AM
Did they mess up my room  evil:
Title: Re: Getting ready for visitors
Post by: Barman on June 19, 2009, 09:23:49 AM
Did they mess up my room  evil:
Gosh no... we wouldn't let them in your room...  scared2:
Title: Re: Getting ready for visitors
Post by: Miss Demeanour on June 19, 2009, 09:29:56 AM
Shrine you mean surely  whistle:
Title: Re: Getting ready for visitors
Post by: Barman on June 19, 2009, 09:32:46 AM
Shrine you mean surely  whistle:
Yes, sorry I meant the sacred shrine to your humbleness...  ::)
Title: Re: Getting ready for visitors
Post by: Nick on June 19, 2009, 11:40:48 AM
Right. Not worth starting a new thread for, unless others have similar humiliations to endure.

I have been out shopping, like.

I went into the barber's shop for a trim.

Not the usual laydee.

It always costs £10. Every time I go it is £10. Always.

Today it was £8.

I asked why.

"It's the pensioners' discount, dear"
 cussing: cussing: cussing: cussing: cussing: cussing: cussing: cussing: cussing: cussing:
Title: Re: Getting ready for visitors
Post by: Just One More on June 19, 2009, 11:50:42 AM
 point:
Title: Re: Getting ready for visitors
Post by: Miss Demeanour on June 19, 2009, 11:57:56 AM
You got a pensioner to cut your hair  angel1
Title: Re: Getting ready for visitors
Post by: Barman on June 19, 2009, 12:11:00 PM
Right. Not worth starting a new thread for, unless others have similar humiliations to endure.

I have been out shopping, like.

I went into the barber's shop for a trim.

Not the usual laydee.

It always costs £10. Every time I go it is £10. Always.

Today it was £8.

I asked why.

"It's the pensioners' discount, dear"
 cussing: cussing: cussing: cussing: cussing: cussing: cussing: cussing: cussing: cussing:

point:
Title: Re: Getting ready for visitors
Post by: Nick on June 19, 2009, 12:28:17 PM
Ooh, I accidentally smote you all
 evil:
Title: Re: Getting ready for visitors
Post by: Barman on June 19, 2009, 12:31:28 PM
Ooh, I accidentally smote you all
 evil:

Back atcha!  point:
Title: Re: Getting ready for visitors
Post by: Nick on June 19, 2009, 12:33:40 PM
And I lost my bank card at the market  evil:. I had just cancelled the fecking thing when some old lady (behind me in the bank queue) handed it in  Banghead
Title: Re: Getting ready for visitors
Post by: Barman on June 19, 2009, 12:34:18 PM
And I lost my bank card at the market  evil:. I had just cancelled the fecking thing when some old lady (behind me in the bank queue) handed it in  Banghead
point:
Title: Re: Getting ready for visitors
Post by: Nick on June 19, 2009, 12:36:20 PM
Not a good day  evil:


And I caught my sister tidying our fridge contents this morning  cussing:
Title: Re: Getting ready for visitors
Post by: Snoopy on June 19, 2009, 12:45:52 PM
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Title: Re: Getting ready for visitors
Post by: Miss Demeanour on June 19, 2009, 12:54:43 PM
Ooh, I accidentally smote you all
 evil:


But I attempted to be nice  sad24:
Title: Re: Getting ready for visitors
Post by: Nick on June 19, 2009, 12:56:10 PM
You must be out of practice then
Title: Re: Getting ready for visitors
Post by: Miss Demeanour on June 19, 2009, 12:59:04 PM
So it would seem  noooo:

May the wrath of your sister find every dusty corner of your abode  evil:
Title: Re: Getting ready for visitors
Post by: Nick on June 19, 2009, 12:59:48 PM
She has already recommended several home improvements we might make  evil:
Title: Re: Getting ready for visitors
Post by: Miss Demeanour on June 19, 2009, 01:02:46 PM
Does she like your rug  whistle:
Title: Re: Getting ready for visitors
Post by: Nick on June 19, 2009, 01:04:21 PM
That rug is still rolled up awaiting further decorating werks.
Title: Re: Getting ready for visitors
Post by: barmisspah? on June 19, 2009, 02:07:39 PM
That rug is still rolled up awaiting further decorating werks.

Christ on a bike don't let Growler find that out  scared2:
Title: Re: Getting ready for visitors
Post by: Nick on June 19, 2009, 02:20:47 PM
My sister enquired why the bathroom door only locks from the outside  ::)

How would I know? It's always done that.
Title: Re: Getting ready for visitors
Post by: Snoopy on June 19, 2009, 02:37:39 PM
My sister enquired why the bathroom door only locks from the outside  ::)

How would I know? It's always done that.

Can't she whistle when having a crap like everyone else does?





Actually the answer is, and I know it is too late now, that it stops small boys locking themselves in there.
Title: Re: Getting ready for visitors
Post by: Pirate on June 19, 2009, 03:27:57 PM
My sister enquired why the bathroom door only locks from the outside  ::)

How would I know? It's always done that.

Can't she whistle when having a crap like everyone else does?







Actually the answer is, and I know it is too late now, that it stops small boys locking themselves in there.

Small boys?  rubschin: or Nick
Title: Re: Getting ready for visitors
Post by: Nick on June 19, 2009, 04:15:07 PM
They just got back  scared2:
Title: Re: Getting ready for visitors
Post by: Barman on June 19, 2009, 04:19:28 PM
 Popcorn:
Title: Re: Getting ready for visitors
Post by: Miss Creant Commander of the picklement and baking BAb(Hons) on June 19, 2009, 05:32:57 PM
Our visitors are off out for the day. They will be near to Snoopy's place. rubschin: Perhaps I should send her round to discipline him. eveilgrin: I caught her rearranging a book shelf into alphabetical order last night. I think it may be  OCD



Surely that would CDO ;)
Title: Re: Getting ready for visitors
Post by: Pirate on June 19, 2009, 05:36:08 PM
Continuous Duty Overnight ?
Title: Re: Getting ready for visitors
Post by: Miss Demeanour on June 19, 2009, 05:41:49 PM
Couldn't Do Owt  Shrugs:
Title: Re: Getting ready for visitors
Post by: Pastis on June 19, 2009, 05:45:56 PM
Alphabetical ordering   ::)

 ;)
Title: Re: Getting ready for visitors
Post by: Snoopy on June 19, 2009, 05:47:43 PM
 worthy: You are so wise.
Title: Re: Getting ready for visitors
Post by: Pastis on June 19, 2009, 05:55:21 PM
Years of lateral thinking... sometimes horizontal thinking  redface:

We await MissC's confirmation  rubschin:
Title: Re: Getting ready for visitors
Post by: Miss Demeanour on June 19, 2009, 05:57:59 PM
.. sometimes horizontal thinking  redface: We await Miss C's confirmation  rubschin:

 Popcorn: Popcorn: Popcorn:
Title: Re: Getting ready for visitors
Post by: Snoopy on June 19, 2009, 05:59:29 PM
Years of lateral thinking... sometimes horizontal thinking  redface:

We await MissC's confirmation  rubschin:

It does have the ring of truth about it.
Title: Re: Getting ready for visitors
Post by: Nick on June 20, 2009, 09:21:55 AM
They have left  happy088

Now we have the effing Unigate family arriving on Thursday. She is barking mad (the one who breast fed her kids till they were 7  eeek:)
 noooo:
Title: Re: Getting ready for visitors
Post by: Mrs TG on June 20, 2009, 09:32:51 AM
Life is meant for living not cleaning.

Whats Cleaning...? since Tg at home i aint seen a hoover for 8 months...or the kitchen at that either..... i have the attitude the same as Snoops, take u as they find u...no1 comes to my house if they gona be any hassle...LOL surrender:
Title: Re: Getting ready for visitors
Post by: Uncle Mort on June 20, 2009, 09:35:27 AM
They have left  happy088

Now we have the effing Unigate family arriving on Thursday. She is barking mad (the one who breast fed her kids till they were 7  eeek:)
 noooo:


Have you opened a hotel or something?
Title: Re: Getting ready for visitors
Post by: Nick on June 20, 2009, 09:36:43 AM
 shrugs:

It's coping with the food fads that does my head in. Everyone nowadays seem to be allergic to something and no two members of the same set of visitors have the same allergies  noooo:
Title: Re: Getting ready for visitors
Post by: Barman on June 20, 2009, 10:27:06 AM
shrugs:

It's coping with the food fads that does my head in. Everyone nowadays seem to be allergic to something and no two members of the same set of visitors have the same allergies  noooo:
Am I invited then...? I'm not allergic to anything like...  angel1
Title: Re: Getting ready for visitors
Post by: The Moan Ranger on June 20, 2009, 10:31:29 AM
shrugs:

It's coping with the food fads that does my head in. Everyone nowadays seem to be allergic to something and no two members of the same set of visitors have the same allergies  noooo:
Am I invited then...? I'm not allergic to anything like...  angel1

Apart from decent motorbikes... whistle:
Title: Re: Getting ready for visitors
Post by: Nick on June 20, 2009, 10:34:12 AM
shrugs:

It's coping with the food fads that does my head in. Everyone nowadays seem to be allergic to something and no two members of the same set of visitors have the same allergies  noooo:
Am I invited then...? I'm not allergic to anything like...  angel1

You would have to do cleaning and stuff. And babysit The Boy  eveilgrin:
Title: Re: Getting ready for visitors
Post by: Snoopy on June 20, 2009, 10:36:34 AM
We suffer the same problem. It's living at/near the seaside that attracts them ~ like fecking midges the b@st@rds invite themselves as soon as the summer starts. Never see them when there is a force 9 whipping off the Irish Sea ~ Oh no noooo:
Title: Re: Getting ready for visitors
Post by: Barman on June 20, 2009, 10:39:43 AM
shrugs:

It's coping with the food fads that does my head in. Everyone nowadays seem to be allergic to something and no two members of the same set of visitors have the same allergies  noooo:
Am I invited then...? I'm not allergic to anything like...  angel1

Apart from decent motorbikes... whistle:
evil:
Title: Re: Getting ready for visitors
Post by: Darwins Selection on June 20, 2009, 11:54:16 AM
Years of lateral thinking... sometimes horizontal thinking  redface:

We await MissC's confirmation  rubschin:

It does have the ring of truth about it.

I assure you it is the correct punchline.

I have a daughter in the mental health business. An investment for my twilight years.  ;)
Title: Re: Getting ready for visitors
Post by: Nick on June 26, 2009, 09:06:45 AM
Well they got here at midnight having turned the drive from Bristol into an extended driving lesson for the 17 year old, so they had to avoid motorways  noooo:

I had forgotten that she smiles all the time, which makes her look like a loony.

This evening she wishes to meet the CBFT  eeek:

I am curious as to how they will greet each other, since shaking hands will be a physical impossibility
Title: Re: Getting ready for visitors
Post by: Miss Demeanour on June 26, 2009, 09:11:03 AM
Like an Eskimo kiss but with nipples  rubschin:
Title: Re: Getting ready for visitors
Post by: Nick on June 26, 2009, 09:18:22 AM
 happy001 happy001 happy001 happy001 happy001 happy001 happy001  eeek:
Title: Re: Getting ready for visitors
Post by: Barman on June 26, 2009, 09:40:25 AM
We need pictures...  whistle:
Title: Re: Getting ready for visitors
Post by: Nick on June 26, 2009, 09:40:51 AM
I need a wide angle lens!
Title: Re: Getting ready for visitors
Post by: Nick on June 26, 2009, 11:52:12 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdS9ZJ_Wf4k (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdS9ZJ_Wf4k)
 whacky115
Title: Re: Getting ready for visitors
Post by: Nick on June 26, 2009, 11:55:23 AM
Mrs Nick explains that they have their own bathroom

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8HvjchxBVA&feature=related (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8HvjchxBVA&feature=related)
Title: Re: Getting ready for visitors
Post by: Nick on June 27, 2009, 01:12:38 PM
Well they have gone. What a fafferama. She has some ancient Nissan Micra and needs to top it up with oil. Except she has no idea how to get the filler cap open (or the bonnet) and can't find the dipstick and can't open the mahoosive oil can she keeps int he car.

Guess who is now covered in oil  evil:

And as they left she asked me if I knew the way to fooking St Albans!!  eeek:
Title: Re: Getting ready for visitors
Post by: Barman on June 27, 2009, 01:14:28 PM
How does she know it needs oil if she doesn't know where it goes...?  rubschin:
Title: Re: Getting ready for visitors
Post by: Nick on June 27, 2009, 01:15:20 PM
She has to put a litre in every 200 miles  noooo:
Title: Re: Getting ready for visitors
Post by: Darwins Selection on June 27, 2009, 02:07:30 PM
She has to put a litre in every 200 miles  noooo:
eeek:

That's more than TMRs old bike.
Title: Re: Getting ready for visitors
Post by: Barman on June 27, 2009, 03:05:33 PM
She has to put a litre in every 200 miles  noooo:
So, does she have a very poor mammary memory then?  rubschin:
Title: Re: Getting ready for visitors
Post by: Nick on June 27, 2009, 03:06:33 PM
I think Mr Banana Head her husband does it normally