Things That Gladden The Heart

[Red devil]

Not gonna lie, it’s been one of the best weekends in years. Had 8 Italian friends over from Thursday til this morning when I dropped them off at East Midlands airport. It has been an amazing time.
Friday, a day in York. We spent and hour and a half in the oldest pub in York and they just didn’t want to leave. They were blown away with York. Friday evening missis Tash made 2 massive lasagnas and 12 of us demolished it. They loved it. I was driving. The rest of them polished off two Barolo, a Amarone, and a 2015 Chianti. Apparently it was gorgeous. I had saved it for me pal Pino and I never had a sip. The limoncello and 1664’s went down well. We never stopped laughing and talking from 6.30 - 11.30.
Saturday they started at 12.00 in a pub near the Mansfield town football ground and we watched the game v Luton. It was a fantastic time.both my grown kids caught up with them as they first met them as kids 24 years ago. God how they have all grown. When the Italian kids football team came over in 2002 ish. After the evening presentation there was an absolute massive food fight between both teams. The room which was upstairs was covered with food all over the walls and roof etc. we never found out who or what started it. Well we did on Saturday and god how I laughed. Last night was spent having a meal in a local pub. It was 2 hours of laughter. Oh ah 4 of them had steaks and they were all medium rare. Me and missis T ordered drinks and I said “ Pino”( me pals name). And the waiter said “ large or small”. I looked at him and said “ Pardon”. He said “do you want a large or small Pinot”. He thought I was on about Pinot Grigio.
Gutted to see them go.

Whereabouts in Italy are they from?

 

[irip]

Whereabouts in Italy are they from?

Knowing Tashy, they will be from Paris

 

[Doon frae Troon]

We went to see Simon and Garfunkle [Through the Years] last week
Packed theatre and a wonderful night's entertainment
Speaking about it at the weekend and neither of the G'kids [17 and 20] had heard of them or their songs.
Elder one had heard of Paul Simon and Gracelands.

 

[Lord Tyrion]

We went to see Simon and Garfunkle [Through the Years] last week
Packed theatre and a wonderful night's entertainment
Speaking about it at the weekend and neither of the G'kids [17 and 20] had heard of them or their songs.
Elder one had heard of Paul Simon and Gracelands.

I was talking about this with a woman at work this morning. There is a generation now who know nothing about historical entertainment, music, tv, films. Mine, 24 and 26, no nothing from before the mid 80's. They don't consume entertainment in the same way and so are not exposed to it in the way that we were. It is sad, they are not the better for it.

 

[irip]

I was talking about this with a woman at work this morning. There is a generation now who know nothing about historical entertainment, music, tv, films. Mine, 24 and 26, no nothing from before the mid 80's. They don't consume entertainment in the same way and so are not exposed to it in the way that we were. It is sad, they are not the better for it.

I have tried to get my kids to watch what I call classic films from the 80s.
They all think they are terrible.
Apparently back to the future is one of the worst films ever made and includes several inappropriate scenes .

I did tell them I was going to wash their mouths out with soap but was told if they have to watch it again can I wash their eyes with soap as well

 

[Lord Tyrion]

I have tried to get my kids to watch what I call classic films from the 80s.
They all think they are terrible.
Apparently back to the future is one of the worst films ever made and includes several inappropriate scenes .

I did tell them I was going to wash their mouths out with soap but was told if they have to watch it again can I wash their eyes with soap as well

Very similar. I've tried a host of 'classic' 70's and 80's films and they generally either leave the room after 20 minutes or start looking at their phones for something else. Jaws was the most heart breaking one. They just laughed at it. Terminator was the same, Beetlejuice got me absolute scorn . I think the only one that passed the test was the Indianna Jones film, any of them. The rest, nope.

 

[irip]

Very similar. I've tried a host of 'classic' 70's and 80's films and they generally either leave the room after 20 minutes or start looking at their phones for something else. Jaws was the most heart breaking one. They just laughed at it. Terminator was the same, Beetlejuice got me absolute scorn . I think the only one that passed the test was the Indianna Jones film, any of them. The rest, nope.

To be fair I was probably the same when my dad tried to make me watch films from his era.
Nightmare on elm street they thought was a comedy.
Scared me to death as a kid.
They thought Indiana Jones was one of the better ones as well.
Weird generation. I don’t think the human race is going to make it.