THE BRITISH THREAD II

Well said Mac.

From you, that is a REAL compliment for a great team and a brilliant game tonight.

Pint of Red Barrell coming up. :wink:

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Well, roll out the barrel!

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Nice one Walt.

Great game.

We need some of those stein glasses, I think they call them? :wink:

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Mathos wrote:

Nice one Walt.

Just one of the things I remember from the 60's - the wonder working DD wasn't appropriate here :wink:

Mathos wrote:

Great game.:

Not bad at all!!!

Mathos wrote:

We need some of those stein glasses, I think they call them? :wink:

Well, that's the term in English, I think.
'Stein' means 'stone' - would be 'Steinkrug' in German, a word not used, however. "Masskrug", "Humpen", "Halber" would be ther German expressions for it.

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Come on. One gifted goal after 180 minutes play. If Scholes can't score when a defender rolls the ball gently to him from 25 yards he shouldn't be on the pitch. It was the next best thing to an own goal.

Barca looked like they wouldn't have scored if they played all night. I only lost half a goal but I hope you all enjoyed it the more hoping I would lose. Liverpool tomorrow. That would be great. An all North-West final in bloody Moscow.

Still-it was exciting.

We know they are a great team Mathos. You might as well say the sky is up except you can't associate yourself with the sky like you can with a bunch of rate-busting sandwich board men brought in from all over the world with the great money.

Did you wing your rattle round and wave your scarf? I gave that up at 15 when I started going to the dogs and racing pigeons. Have you any idea what a lady thinks of blokes who jump up and down when their team scores and that applies long before they become fat old codgers like you.

They think it's pathetic. Have none of them ever told you?

They said that 150 million were watching The Rocket's match this afternoon.

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I always used to go through Pleasington myself when returning from out east. There are speed cameras on Buncer Lane and on Preston Old Road just before the Crem. Not far from the main gates of Witton Park. Across the road from the weaving shed. You have to be careful going east because it's downhill and the camera is hidden by a tree of what genus I can't remember.

I like to see the minature church just up from the bend from where that nutcase does all the gardening by the bridge over the river.

And it is a pleasant ride from the lights at the end of Revidge Road. The view over Lancashire on a clear day is amazing. I always hang my head in shame when I pass that shuttered up pub on the fast stretch.

I don't suppose you have noticed that due to how nice it all is and how wise you were to have passed by something so nice.

What a load of bollocks. Pleasington is just another dump on the way from here to there. My guess is, from the look of the properties, that there's some funny stuff going on behind those curtains.

But I do like the little church. You might have noticed it if you took your eyes off yourself in the rear view mirror.

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sussy wrote:

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Hi smorgsie. We have got doing men's talk in your absence.

I know...

I've avoided it - 'cos of me tits.

x

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Hey has anyone else been watching Melvyn Bragg's Travels Round Literary Britain (or some such awkward name) series on TV recently?
I think I mentioned this before, and Spendy responded. Or am I thinking of a conversation with my pal Tone?

Anyway, they were extremely good- the last one was about Scotland starting with Daniel Defoe at about the time of the Union of the Crowns and it dealt a lot with political issues as well as social issues of the time, and the literature arising from that. Right up to the present, Ian Rankin and Irvine Welsh via James Hogg, Robert Burns and Scott.

The whole series has been a delight, I recommend it. Started with The Venerable Bede in Jarrow I believe, but I missed the first prog. You can see clips on the Internet- itv.com/writtenword

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No fish and chips last night- I made myself ham & eggs, or as the rest off the world calls it, bacon and eggs.

Four rashers, three eggs, and toast. Ambrosia.

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smorgs wrote:

Steve 41oo wrote:
curry sauce

jeez am i hungry.

Had a bit of a row with a bloke round my local the other day who came in with chips all over his head. Wood chips, thats cause he's a chippy. And all chippies have wooden heads and dandruff. Anyway he explained to me that he was not in fact a chippy but a carpenter and joiner. The "argument" started when I asked for a clarification of the difference.

Well how was I to know? It was a genuine question.

...well he had a chip on his shoulder as well! (with curry sauce on it).

A bit of useless info: On the jobs database - joiners and carpenters are the same code. So HM's Government think they are one of the same.

x

Thanks for that. I'll tell mr chips next time. (not)

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Well that was a laugh guys an gals thanks. Decided to sell Spendy, he has apparently been going to the dogs since he was 15.

Believe it or not I had to go out last night, so I missed the match. Live. But cunning devil that i am i managed to manipulate the (sorry not true I told someone else to) controls of a recording machine.

So I came in with fingers in ears trying not to over hear the last seconds of the game. Then went out again, bought a couple of beers at the 24hr asda where all staff and customers were not English, so no chance of over hearing the result. I nearly bought some San Miguel, (it was on offer) but ho ho thats Spanish!

I have no idea why I'm rambling like this, still on a high I guess.

Anyway the game was awful. Truly terrifying. At one point I nearly fast-forwarded just to get it over and done with, but I held out. And SO DID MAN U

Tevez was the man of the match for me. I thought Scholes had blown it in the first minute when he brought down Puyol? on the edge of the area. From that moment on, apart from a few delirious moments in the 14th minute, it was really painful. Excellent football at times and wonderful no doubt for the neutral, but if you've got 50p on the match it was torture. Smile

sort of.

So Moscow here we come. The Red Army in Red Square, who would a thunk it?

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Я имею билеты для состязания, до свидания

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and thats what happens if you try and post some Cyrillic text on a2k.

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Steve 41oo wrote:

So I came in with fingers in ears trying not to over hear the last seconds of the game. Then went out again, bought a couple of beers at the 24hr asda where all staff and customers were not English, so no chance of over hearing the result. I nearly bought some San Miguel, (it was on offer) but ho ho thats Spanish!

San Miguel is from the Philippines.

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Ticomaya wrote:

San Miguel is from the Philippines.

That's the stuff you can buy in the USA - but not in Europe: here, it's brewed in Madrisd, SPAIN, brewery there since 1890. :wink:
(Mahou-San Miguel is the biggest Spanish brewing company, btw.)

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Steve 41oo wrote:

Я имею билеты для состязания, до свидания

I know you have tickets for the match.

Good-bye, Steve!

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wow Francis how did you know?

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Walter Hinteler wrote:

Ticomaya wrote:
San Miguel is from the Philippines.

That's the stuff you can buy in the USA - but not in Europe: here, it's brewed in Madrisd, SPAIN, brewery there since 1890. :wink:
(Mahou-San Miguel is the biggest Spanish brewing company, btw.)

Ah.

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I didnt think it came all the way from the Philippines. But had no idea it was brewed in Madrisd.

Smile

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Steve 41oo wrote:

wow Francis how did you know?

I will never expose my sources. Twisted Evil

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