Inadvertently Gay, but funny

[Ron]

Never mind. 

Edited July 11, 2022 by Ron

[Parker Owens]

Well. The first is probably the best thing to do while waiting for AAA. The latter may present hazards if the landing is especially turbulent, though…

[Bill W]

On 7/10/2022 at 3:36 PM, AC Benus said:

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"...staying calm in an emergency (and doing what comes natural)."

 

The air marshal caught a stowaway, and since the stowaway didn't have a seat that he could strap himself into, the air marshal offered him something to hold onto to keep his body from being tossed around during the landing.  

[Ron]

I just noticed that the instruction manual for the car repair shows the same position the two men are in. One could say that they were just following directions. 

[AC Benus]

36 minutes ago, Bill W said:

The air marshal caught a stowaway, and since the stowaway didn't have a seat that he could strap himself into, the air marshal offered him something to hold onto to keep his body from being tossed around during the landing.  

I hope he has good suction 

[AC Benus]

29 minutes ago, Ron said:

I just noticed that the instruction manual for the car repair shows the same position the two men are in. One could say that they were just following directions. 

So you're saying those boys can READ? 

Edited July 11, 2022 by AC Benus

[Mancunian]

46 minutes ago, AC Benus said:

So you're saying those boys can READ? 

They could be just copying the pictures 🤣

[Ron]

1 hour ago, AC Benus said:

So you're saying those boys can READ? 

Reading improves comprehension! 

But, no, I'm not saying they can read.

@Mancunian has it right, you just need pictures; diagrams or line drawings work equally well. 

[Mancunian]

11 hours ago, Ron said:

Reading improves comprehension! 

But, no, I'm not saying they can read.

@Mancunian has it right, you just need pictures; diagrams or line drawings work equally well. 

I just remember looking at those magazines under the bedclothes at night using a fleshlight...erm flashlight, or it could be both 🤣

Edited July 12, 2022 by Mancunian

[AC Benus]

The situation:

The solution...?:

 

[Bill W]

2 hours ago, AC Benus said:

The situation:

 

 

I prefer mine without the glove. 

[Zombie]

On 7/11/2022 at 11:14 PM, Mancunian said:

I just remember looking at those magazines under the bedclothes at night using a fleshlight...erm flashlight, or it could be both 🤣

car repair magazines?!  

[Mancunian]

6 minutes ago, Zombie said:

car repair magazines?!  

only the ones with the grease covered hunky mechanics lol😜

[ReaderPaul]

10 hours ago, Mancunian said:

only the ones with the grease covered hunky mechanics lol😜

When in college, a friend who was a vehicle mechanic was looking at a magazine rack in a store, and pointed to a picture of a very "chesty" female supposedly replacing something on a vehicle, and said, "I'd like to see her be able to change out that [whatever it was] with a crescent wrench!  She would need at least a [tool whose name I can't remember]!"

Edited July 19, 2022 by ReaderPaul

[ranchered]

So in 1990 I had a bumper sticker made that said:

Why be floppy when you could be hard?

Upgrade your PC - Call (phone number)

 

Got a lot of calls/work

[Bill W]

4 hours ago, ranchered said:

So in 1990 I had a bumper sticker made that said:

Why be floppy when you could be hard?

Upgrade your PC - Call (phone number)

 

Got a lot of calls/work

I'm afraid this might not be obvious to some of our younger members who weren't around when there were floppy disks in the first place, let alone when users were upgrading to hard disks.  I still have a stack of unused hard disks in a cabinet...  lol 

[AC Benus]

7 hours ago, Bill W said:

I'm afraid this might not be obvious to some of our younger members who weren't around when there were floppy disks in the first place, let alone when users were upgrading to hard disks.  I still have a stack of unused hard disks in a cabinet...  lol 

Yes, indeed, the first storage discs were indeed floppy. And much bigger than the hard-cased "floppies" that replaced them. These larger, original floppies I think emerged around the time IBM started loading MS programs on their consumer-grade personal computers, so that would be circa 1980 I guess.

Correction: wiki says IBM brought out the original floppy in 1971!

 

Edited July 20, 2022 by AC Benus

[Parker Owens]

1 hour ago, AC Benus said:

Yes, indeed, the first storage discs were indeed floppy. And much bigger than the hard-cased "floppies" that replaced them. These larger, original floppies I think emerged around the time IBM started loading MS programs on their consumer-grade personal computers, so that would be circa 1980 I guess.

Correction: wiki says IBM brought out the original floppy in 1971!

 

I remember using all three sizes displayed here. 

[Zombie]

1 hour ago, Parker Owens said:

I remember using all three sizes displayed here. 

the bigger the better

not so much, here… 

 

Edited July 20, 2022 by Zombie

[Bill W]

9 hours ago, AC Benus said:

 

 

 

 

And now we've gone from these to using flash drives.  

[Mancunian]

5 minutes ago, Bill W said:

And now we've gone from these to using flash drives.  

ooooh I like a good big flash, lol

[Ron]

Oh, it's come to this... sad metaphors. 

[Zombie]

12 hours ago, Ron said:

Oh, it's come to this... sad metaphors. 

the staple of UK comedy routines has always been double meanings - pantos are basically just a succession of very rude double entendres and audiences love ‘em

BBC radio comedy shows in the 50s and 60s were outrageous*  with jokes that would never have been allowed (gay sex was illegal then) but wrapped up in seemingly innocuous words they got away with sheer filth

One long running radio show started in 1972 called I’m Sorry I Haven’t A Clue is still going 50 years later. Two of the fictional characters called Samantha and Sven are always doing various things which on one level are perfectly innocent but those with a dirty mind (that’s everyone ) knows they’re not… 
 

 

Edited July 21, 2022 by Zombie

[Ron]

Sorry, @Zombie it’s just far too long for me.

[Zombie]

1 hour ago, Ron said:

Sorry, @Zombie it’s just far too long for me.

I wasn’t expecting anyone to play the whole thing  because it’s just clips of the Samantha + Sven running gags (basically they’re all the same) extracted from 20 odd years of shows and maybe listen to a minute or two to understand that @Mancunian’s post was using the same gag routine (“metaphors” generally aren’t gag related).

Essentially it’s the same gag all the time but that’s what we laugh at over here in the UK   What’s interesting, though, is that at the very same time these double meaning gay gags (which weren’t cruel) were running on family radio shows in the 50s and 60s, homosexuals were being arrested, prosecuted and locked up for years. It seems likely that these much loved radio shows assisted in changing public attitudes in Britain and helped bring about the partial decriminalisation of homosexuality in England and Wales in 1967  

 

Edited July 21, 2022 by Zombie