Today I'm happy about......

[Annoyed Grunt]

i have absolutely no idea what my best man said - no recollection at all... i was probably still recovering from the shock of my F-i-L's speech - who I can only assume was thinking he was telling a story of my missus having a big mouth (as in being talkative or maybe even greedy??) - when he related the following tale..

"when she was 5 she stole a banana from a man on the beach and ate it in one go before we could stop her..."

then turned to me and said - so, Phil, now you know she can fit a whole banana in her mouth...

to this day he has no idea why our younger friends laughed quite as much as they did!! (I have never had the heart to tell him!)


i am sure he has forgotten the whole thing as it has never been directly referred too... but I know I can make the missus cross if i find the opportunity to use the phrase "a whole banana" in a conversation when her dad is present.. he remains blissfully ignorant - she kicks me under the table...

Absolutely brilliant!

[Annoyed Grunt]

Nothing could probably be worse than my best man's speech. It didn't start well and went rapidly downhill from there. He told me pre-wedding that he had forgotten to pick up his speech before leaving the house. I told him to just do a short speech and have done with it. My thinking was that at least the speeches would be short and that nobody would be bored.

When he came to do it, he simply clammed up, so I told him to just read the cards. This wasn't the real low point. Not just yet anyway. He proceeded to read the cards. The real low point was when I had to tell him to read the cards aloud.

I still can't watch the wedding video. Primarily as we no longer have a video recorder, but also because I cringe like feck whenever I think of, or watch this car crash of a 'speech'!

FFS Grunty, for yours and your brothers sake. Please don't feck it up.

I'm going to try my best not to feck it up.....

[Gooner Girl]

Today I am happy about getting a good nights sleep last night! Slightly less happy about one of the 3 year olds dropping a box of eggs on the floor just as we were about to go out this morning.

[Montreal Wanderer]

There might some good lines here, Grunto.

[Annoyed Grunt]

There might some good lines here, Grunto.

Sir, you're a star.....

[thebish]

[Lost Leopard Spot]

The OAP. I know it well.

[Wandering Willy]

That's great Bish.

[malcd1]

That's great Bish.

Funny but deliberately done. Surely.

[thebish]

That's great Bish.

Funny but deliberately done. Surely.

possibly - i don't know... it does look like a skin of bricks might have been added after the event - thus causing the relocation of the "C"

a quick scan on the internet reveals americans who claim to have studied there and say it did once look like that, but isn't like that now... it's allegedly at Ball State University, Indiana...

[Lost Leopard Spot]

I have to say it looks completely faked, photoshopped.

[thebish]

I have to say it looks completely faked, photoshopped.

what are the photoshop giveaways? i can't see anything obvious...

[Lost Leopard Spot]

I have to say it looks completely faked, photoshopped.

what are the photoshop giveaways? i can't see anything obvious...

Well apart from the C being in the wrong place, obviously the grouting on the bricks around the C are a different colour and resolution than the other grouting, and the top arch bricks are too small for consistency, plus most obviously of all there is a recess where the windows enter the wall bit the perspective shows a sheer wall - that is physically difficult if not, given the straight lines of the brick layers, impossible.

[Lost Leopard Spot]

...I'll retroengineer it for you tomorrow to demo the power of my argument...

[Lost Leopard Spot]

...I'll retroengineer it for you tomorrow to demo the power of my argument...

Well I spent five minutes on paint and retroengineered it and it looks much more convincing, so I'm of the opinion it is defo a fake. Unfortunately they've done something horrible to Image Shack and therefore I cannot share with you the fruits of my tiny labours...

[Worthy4England]

...I'll retroengineer it for you tomorrow to demo the power of my argument...

Well I spent five minutes on paint and retroengineered it and it looks much more convincing, so I'm of the opinion it is defo a fake. Unfortunately they've done something horrible to Image Shack and therefore I cannot share with you the fruits of my tiny labours...

If you just want to lob a single image, real quickly, you can use

http://postimage.org/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[Lost Leopard Spot]

wahay! (cheers Worthy)
As you can see that's much better, and I only spent 5 minutes on paint. I've made a mistake by bringing the eRSJ so far over, it should have a small step down as the windows overlap the rsj by an inch or two, but apart from that, that will be pretty much what the original photo showed I'd suggest...

[thebish]

^ looks like someone has tinkered with that in MS Paint to me... clearly a fake...

[Lost Leopard Spot]

^ looks like someone has tinkered with that in MS Paint to me... clearly a fake...

[Il Pirate]

I have to say it looks completely faked, photoshopped.

what are the photoshop giveaways? i can't see anything obvious...

Well apart from the C being in the wrong place, obviously the grouting on the bricks around the C are a different colour and resolution than the other grouting, and the top arch bricks are too small for consistency, plus most obviously of all there is a recess where the windows enter the wall bit the perspective shows a sheer wall - that is physically difficult if not, given the straight lines of the brick layers, impossible.

Tiles have grout. Bricks have mortar. Just saying like.....................