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Ditto!

Thanks Monkeyman. Always good for a chortle. "hardened gamblers" etc. heuheu.... had to be done! Bushcraft gave me a new adjective - benighted country, (looked it up) means BLIND, SIGHTLESS, SURPRISED BY THE NIGHT, PLUNGED INTO IGNORANCE - that's a hell of a lot for one word. Andy Cap

Only working class people who got to fly in WW2 were fighter and bomber pilots, bomber crew, glider pilots and parachutists - a fallback plan? Rationing for only 9 years afterwards. Ah, Winston: "The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter." https://richardlangworth.com/democracy - FN Voted him out at war's end, back in 5 years later...... I lied about it being my last post - it's so fashionable.

Well done accyboy. I wasn't offered the chance to buy. It"s a bus service - takes off AND LANDS. Shite is when they crash surely? Well THAT is the ultimate argument - Mrs May says to the EU "my deal or no deal". That's pretty tough talk in my book. "If anything bad results from Brexit it will be the EU's fault", say you. We have met atlas2 - is this a troll post? This is not a POLITICAL game as the Brit politicians are party-politicking it - it's a LEGAL one and the repercussions are ECONOMIC and are already affecting everyone in the UK. The Q&A of the abo

Here are a couple of speeches..... the first one is about economics, preparedness and project management and is therefore 'boring' (no soundbite flourishes about sovereignty etc.), but needs to be listened to The second one is more stand-up...... and people might not like it but there you go.... I can't find anything other than soundbites from politicians or anyone else. If anyone who is an ardent Brexiteer can find one called "How Brexit is going to work" or something like that, I'd love to see it. Ryanair has published its April-onwards timetable but no tickets can be bo

Hi jacko I'm afraid the years of "Je suis un Rock Star" by Bill Wyman have gone, when "in the good old days" the IMF were knocking at the UK's door and there was 83% top rate income tax causing "voulez-vous partir with me?" My Dad never paid that working on the railways https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_exile To become French we had to show our French tax returns for the last three years, get a letter from the Tax office saying all our local and national (income) taxes were paid up to date, show all our property deeds and the leases of those rented out, a letter from the bank sa

Thanks for that info about the airline ticket....... It's all wait and see as you and Sam say. I'm not a Stayer, a Remainer, a Remoaner or a Gloater (which could only happen AFTER the exit). I was just letting my imagination run wild in my post. I wasn't allowed a vote and have now got myself 2 passports a result. I don't trust politicians to get things right for me. I saw the opportunity, took it and I've taken back control of my life.... let's see if the UK can on your behalves. Andy Cap

555 Puuya Baan ! Let them drink Irish! If there's no food on the shelves at least the Brit populace will be able drown their sorrows with Scotch and all those artisanal gins....! Still nobody got a plane ticket post-29th March? Andy le Cap

Looking from the outside now I'm amazed by the Quitter Brits (e.g. on "Question Time" from Dewsbury last night) who have adopted a "head-in-the-sand ostrich attitude" since June 2016, despite all that has been learned by EVERYONE (incl. Boris, Liam, Jacob, David, et al) since then - borne out by the recent Govt. Technical Advisories. It seems to me, that entrenched attitudes ("I voted ....., and I CAN'T have been wrong") are the order of the day. My old Mum asks me "Why can't the EU just be nice?", citing two world wars etc., but she's 84 and didn't vote. A quick read of article 50 sa

WORST In 1985, I was working with a PR company in London and, at a meeting of the Arab-British Chamber of Commerce, got the company a tourism feasibility contract with Khartoum Safari Tours. The idea was that KST would pick-up tourists in Aswan, Egypt, and take them along the Nile to Khartoum in Sudan, where the Blue Nile meets the White Nile in Omdurman. The boss and I flew out to Aswan, then after a ferry from there to Wadi Halfa, we had a bumpy week driving through the desert to Khartoum (there was ZERO asphalt except in a town called Dongola), sleeping where we found shelter, or not,

The island of Great Britain has a big bottom (the Land of Lard?) so many might prefer the "if you look out of the left/right window you can see Gloup" route.

Ah, "Triple drat!" - if you had only written "I assume" Fireman Sam! All the UK's treaties and agreements for the past 40+ years have been in a job-lot bundle as part of the EU. Paragraph 3 of Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty http://www.lisbon-treaty.org/wcm/the-lisbon-treaty/treaty-on-European-union-and-comments/title-6-final-provisions/137-article-50.html means that all that ends on Brexit (deal or no deal - with deal giving 2 more years to sort out the spaghetti). "It is not just a matter of flying inside Europe. It is through the EU that we have secured beneficial deals with

It's a BAR. There SHOULD be a lot of alcohol! Have a good one Adam. Andy & Flo

Still not possible to get a Ryanair flight into or out of UK after 30 March 2019 - go and try, I just did (anybody bought a flight ex-UK through another airline post-30 March? Here's my tenpenneth Sam! House prices - redundancies, fewer people have money to buy, fewer migrants or immigrants will buy, but some people will when the prices come down 35%, as will young folks frozen out of the market up until then, not having enough for the deposit. Always buy at the trough in the market. The trick is not-to-need-to-sell! Bah, humbug. At least the Mogg has got his money in Ireland and

I'm sure the Brexit fallout will have been hoovered up by then. Can't get a Ryanair booking yet for post Mar 29 to or from UK. In our experience they usually hold flights up for home airline arriving and leaving situations if the stopovers are tight - i.e. Austrian outward and Swiss inward. Someone with your name on a board whisks you straight to the departing plane. It avoids free hotel, meals and the compensation....

Toon turn in good performance but lose = Tennents.. . Better to come.

First day of our stay-at-home holiday - no LOS this year but the Toon are on later so no stress from Flo in front of box there then... I have to agree on Man U/Leicester - verging on boring for most of the match. Like I kept saying during the World Cup, "If you don't shoot, you don't score!" You don't ALWAYS have to score from 2 yards, a walk-it-in or from a set piece FFS . In fact that was the difference between England and France. So the English don't love the French and vice versa, eh? We are both dual nationality now, so as Flo is snoring in bed having a lie-in, a pa

So it's "Tennents Lager" then...... (that's Scots for "same again").

You left out Newcastle United! WTF?

6.5% for Tapper. Isn't that the same as standard Chang or is my memory poor due to my alcohol intake?

Nice to see So's Place has expanded. We ate there a few times last trip (2016) and found the price/quality excellent. We appreciated the small portions as we are not big eaters. Andy Cap & Flo

It's true they must look similar from behind with their ears clamped. (No "answers on a postcard"......? We could send them via La Poste....) BTW - Bam was never interested in me when she was sober, but was the only TG who ever called me, regularly at that, around 3.30am, not to ask if she could come over (I wish), but to come to where her and her friends were and spend my budget! Never went, but she kept on calling.... Glad you lads are still living it up together!!!!! Andy Cap & Flo

Ooer missus!

By the look of things for once it's a case of "we keep changing the name(s) but the food is still great!" Two threads which always give me an appetite. Big thumbs up. Andy Cap

Evil eats at Kiss? Shock, horror, probe! A must-read! As I expected....