Cork

poolieinnottingham · **Posted:** Wed Mar 06, 2019 5:08 pm

Used to be all over the place when I was a bairn, what happened?

Is it endangered now?

Monkeybutt · **Joined:** Sun Jan 21, 2018 6:22 pm **Posts:** 2428

They are extinct in the wild, Chester zoo have a breeding pair, as do Belfast, Blackpool and Zagreb, just pray for the little ones :pray:

Bluestreak · **Posted:** Wed Mar 06, 2019 6:04 pm

It come from Ireland i think.

Montpoolier · **Posted:** Wed Mar 06, 2019 7:36 pm

I am trying to recall things that were gob smackingly made of quercus quercus when I was a kid. We called some cricket balls corkies. We didn't drink wine so everything was screw-top. Although there seem to still be plenty of cork stoppers about (maybe less so in Nottingham like). I think lifebuoys were made of cork but there's not exactly one on every street corner.

What particular cork item were you thinking of, Mr PIN?

Monkeybutt · **Joined:** Sun Jan 21, 2018 6:22 pm **Posts:** 2428

Montpoolier wrote:

I am trying to recall things that were gob smackingly made of quercus quercus when I was a kid. We called some shite rounders balls corkies. We didn't drink wine so everything was screw-top. Although there seem to still be plenty of cork stoppers about (maybe less so in Nottingham like). I think lifebuoys were made of cork but there's not exactly one on every street corner.

What particular cork item were you thinking of, Mr PIN?

Do they still make butt plugs out of Cork?

Asking for a fiend in the sandy area of the Gulf

charco · **Joined:** Thu Jun 25, 2015 8:24 am **Posts:** 885

Monkeybutt wrote:

Do they still make butt plugs out of Cork?

Asking for a fiend in the sandy area of the Gulf

Typo?

... or maybe not!

charco · **Joined:** Thu Jun 25, 2015 8:24 am **Posts:** 885

poolieinnottingham wrote:

Used to be all over the place when I was a bairn, what happened?

Is it endangered now?

it's all inside Aussie cricket bats

poolieinnottingham · **Posted:** Thu Mar 07, 2019 10:28 am

Montpoolier wrote:

I am trying to recall things that were gob smackingly made of quercus quercus when I was a kid. We called some shite rounders balls corkies. We didn't drink wine so everything was screw-top. Although there seem to still be plenty of cork stoppers about (maybe less so in Nottingham like). I think lifebuoys were made of cork but there's not exactly one on every street corner.

What particular cork item were you thinking of, Mr PIN?

I only moved down here in 1995 and it all seemed to have vanished by then.

For some reason the other day I remember looking round houses with me mam and dad in the early 80s, and there was one somewhere off Oxy Road which seemed to have cork on every surface. Ceiling tiles, the lot.

That got me thinking about the placemats and stuff we had, and everyone else for that matter.

PJPoolie · **Joined:** Wed Mar 06, 2013 6:28 pm **Posts:** 15342

charco wrote:

it's all inside Aussie shite rounders bats

Or even Balls!

Weirdly I had TalkSPORT on in the car the other day and they were on about that weird shrove Tuesday football match with the ‘uppers’ and ‘downers’ were they jump in rivers and stuff. The big medicine ball they use is made of...... Cork!

accrington fan · **Joined:** Wed Jan 20, 2016 3:22 pm **Posts:** 19819

[quote="Montpoolier"]I am trying to recall things that were gob smackingly made of quercus quercus when I was a kid. We called some shite rounders balls corkies.
think there were some cheap cricket ball that we called corkies as well as the proper ones called leather caseys.

pooliets24 · **Joined:** Fri Feb 08, 2019 12:56 pm **Posts:** 6

I think there's some sort of weird group kicking about who actually enjoy the pastime of Cork-Soaking !

Monkeybutt · **Joined:** Sun Jan 21, 2018 6:22 pm **Posts:** 2428

Bulletin boards were always made of the stuff, had 1 up until I had a new kitchen put in, them spiky coloured pins used to fall out and barefoot me used to find it when I raided the fridge in the small hours in search of cold water!

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