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Mr Crabtree
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On 3/5/2023 at 4:30 PM, LastOneLeftInTheCounty said:
Just made my first ever batch of pate. Made over 1kg for £6 ingredients.
A little bit of cognac, onions, sage, lemon thyme, cloves, cinnamon, garlic, whole pack of unsalted butter, chicken livers.
Instantly felt stronger after eating. DeliciousWhen I was camping in the Alpujarra's in Spain I had many strange types of Tapas, even fried chicken feet, they tasted bit like scratchings, as in pork scratchings! The British, as a race used to be well known until fairly recent times to have the attitude 'Urrgg I couldn't eat that foreign muck' but with the advent of 'Takeaways' springing up al over the place and access to all manner of different cultural foods, things have gotten better! I knew a bus driver who worked at my garage who was about forty five before he tried his first Indian curry, it was his first, and last time, he went back to his fish and chips from the chippie opposite the bus garage here on my estate! I told him we used to eat sheep's heads from the butcher when I was a kid, and granddad always insisted they left the eyes in, 'just to see us through the week'!
But we did eat 'pig's trotters'
{called Cruibin in Ireland} chitterlings' 'pigs tails' 'brawn' and other concoctions with no ill effects whatsoever! There was a local saying in my area of the Midlands 'you can eat everything on a pig except the squeal'!
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No family loyalty here then?, Goat Legged Lizzie and Phil The Duck are 'brown bread' and now 'King Big Flaps' is flexing his muscles and gritting his teeth!
The 'Clown Prince' is led away under escort to be 'Thrown Under The Bus'! 'Prince Pinocchio' gave a final statement to the baying crowd 'Royal subjects, Plebs and Commoners, I am clearly an honest man, and I say to you now, I am being Throw under the bus, this is NOT the sort of Throne I envisaged after Mummy cleared my name of all wrongdoing! Infamy, Infamy, my brother 'Loppylugs' clearly has it in for me, he's playing a real life version of 'Game Of Thrones' and I am but a mere Pawn'!
A wag in the crowd shouted 'Yeah right, you're as pure as the driven snow, did you mean PRAWN? because there's something very fishy about you, pizza boy'!
That unfortunately was as far as I got because the alarm clock woke me up and it was time to get back to the real world!
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The latest ad for Tesco loyalty card has a woman with a plastic smiley face, she immediately made me think of Nichola Bulley, I think I'm losing the plot!
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1 hour ago, Anti Facts Sir said:
Ohio rail tracks have become more deadly than Russian hotel balcony windows.
Personally I've always felt suspicious that so many people suddenly want to take up parkour and they're not all that young either!
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9 hours ago, itsnotallrightjack said:
I love olive oil.
So did popeye!
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5 hours ago, Mr Crabtree said:
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EVIAN spelled backwards is NAIVE, not quite following the thread, but you get my drift!
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20 hours ago, Grumpy Owl said:
You've clearly never been anywhere near Birmingham. Both the Lickey Hills and Waseley Hills, as well as other 'country parks' in and around Birmingham, are free to enter and wander around. You only ever get 'stung financially' if you pop into one of the 'visitor centres' for a bite to eat.
Last year, I got stung badly by some bees, £18.50 for a tiny jar of honey!
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1 hour ago, alexa said:
I never know if your joking or not ?
Nope, deadly serious this time, my wife's uncle lived along the coast from Aberystwyth and he took us up there to look at the place in his old l;ongbase Landrover we had a Cortina estate back then, and the ruts would have killed it in a few miles! Fred was one of those blokes who couldn't read very well, but it seemed as if everything he touched he could make cash from, ranging from old bikes he did up and sold to small fishing boats he bought and sold on after a bit of T.L.C. I actually cried at his funeral, and that was very unusual for me, he wasn't particularly old either, only about sixty! They never had any kids, but they had four retrievers and they lived the life of Riley with uncle Fred and auntie Sylvia! She was the one who always looked ill, whilst Fred always looked hale and hearty, and Sylvia was the one who reached her mid eighties! She used to go for long bike rides with their neighbour Ian and within three, four months of Fred dying he sold up and moved in with her!
Anyway, I liked the look of the place, but my family didn't, the 'house' was basically a tin prefab type building, I thought it had potential, my wife and kids that it was creepy, we never moved there, that was in the late eighties, but we moved to Brighton in the late nineties, 'swings and roundabouts' I suppose! Enough of this serious talk, swings and roundabouts played a big part for a bloke in our street too, a judge ordered a restraining order for him to keep a five hundred metre distance from any swings and roundabouts in this country!
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6 hours ago, alexa said:
I didn't know they had trams in WestBomwhich
But saying this I haven't been back for quite a while as we are now living in South Wales, where Welsh Lamb will never go off the Menu.
I have to tell you about my brother, for thirty long years he supported West Bromwich Albion, went to every game and bought all the merchandise!
One day he said to his Wife 'I can't do this any more, they're crap'! He jumped in his car, drove to their grounds and nailed his season ticket, and a note saying 'FUCK YOU'! to the main gates, got back into his car and drove home! Later on when he'd calmed down he had a re-think and decided he'd been a bit hasty, and anyway he'd miss his mates and the pies and hot Bovril he used to buy, so he jumped into his car and drove back to the grounds again! This is the sad part of the story, hankies at the ready please, he got to the gates, and some rotten, lowlife, thieving bastard had only gone a nicked THE NAIL!
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2 hours ago, alexa said:
I didn't know they had trams in WestBomwhich
But saying this I haven't been back for quite a while as we are now living in South Wales, where Welsh Lamb will never go off the Menu.
Stops more or less opposite West Brom market!
Does the Welsh lamb still glow in the dark, curtesy of the Chernobyl fallout that landed on parts of Wales years back? I love Wales, I saw Moby Dick' at the local cinema thinking it was a documentary about the diseases Welsh hill farmers could catch from being too friendly with their sheep on cold winter nights! But it turned out to be a film about a great big fish! Is it true that Welsh hill farmers now wear kilts because the sheep have become wary of the noise trouser zips make?
PARTY WEAR FOR HILL FARMERS!
Joking apart though, years back we went to see a Welsh smallholding up a big track, across a ford and up into the hills at a place outside Aberystwyth called Pontefendegraid { not sure if this is how you spell it } my two girls were horrified when I told them that this was the
school uniform. They said they would run away from home rather than dress like that!
The man who used to live there had committed suicide and once my wife heard about that, she refused to move there!
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SCARY THOUGHT, BUT WHAT GOES AROUND COMES AROUND!
WHAT WE WILL PROBABLY WEAR IN OUR 'OPEN PRISON' SOCIETY!
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1 hour ago, alexa said:
Lucky you, where I live we had wonderful beach that we could visit at anytime until they decided to build a country park around it, now you can't pass the barrier without paying £5 plus season tickets cost something like £50.
Oh BTW I was born in WestBromwhich
My wife loves to visit West Bromwich market on the tram when we have a few days in Brum at the Travelodge near the Bullring.
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11 hours ago, alexa said:
And if they are anything like the country parks near me, you have to pay to get in
I never used to get there until about 00.30 to 01.00, and I never saw a keeper or a copper, only dozens of those 'Pesky Wabbits'
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4 hours ago, SuperstarNeilC said:
St. Michael is the patron saint of Law Enforcement such as Police Officers, Sheriff's Department, Corrections, FBI, CIA, ATF, Secret Service, Public Safety, District Attorney, Customs Officer, Homeland Security, US Marshals and other agencies.
He was also the patron saint of Marks and Spencer lingerie too until 2000 when they dropped it as part of their general rebranding strategy! Took the heart right out the 'garden line knicker snatching' as a hobby!
Many knicker snatchers gave up on the hobby and became trainspotters or took to the drink, and some others I believe, went into politics!
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On 2/27/2023 at 1:08 AM, DaleP said:
Did she wave a rainbow flag dead on at 8pm on Thursdays when everyone was banging their pots and pans?
I don't know if she did or not, but I wasn't banging pots and pans though, I was far to busy throwing bits of fish to the hundreds of clapping seals performing to show their gratitude to the Tik Toking nurses who saved the NHS!
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6 minutes ago, bamboozooka said:
that all stopped after he was crucified. he kept sinking.
The Romans only thought they were helping out when he had nowhere to stay over the bank holiday, at least they put him up over the busy bank holiday, not many would have been that caring!
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22 hours ago, Grumpy Owl said:
I must admit that I saw something this morning that made me feel a little bit sad about this...
While on the bus to work this morning, we'd stopped in Sparkhill to pick up a load of passengers, and in the queue of traffic alongside us was some livestock-carrying truck. From my vantage point up on the top deck, I could see into this truck, owing to the open slats on the side, and I could see it was full of sheep... absolutely rammed I must add.
Poor things were all stood up, squashed against each other - a bit like some of the buses I have travelled on recently! - and I did think it looked a bit inhumane.
I don't know where they were ultimately heading towards, probably some halal slaughter house or other abbatoir is a good guess, or from where they had been transported, but I did feel sorry for the poor things.
It hasn't changed my mind about eating meat, that is ultimately what these animals are bred and reared for, that is their 'purpose'. What I care most about is that these animals should be properly looked after and cared for during their short lives, and it was a bit undignifying to see them all cramped together like this.
As an avid rabbit catcher in my younger years, I echo your sentiments, rabbits were prolific back then, and as I hunted them with nets, they were always killed humanely, OR they slipped the net and were away to live another day!
When people used CYMAG gas it always angered me, it left 100% of them dead, and left unusable and inedible meat underground, and who knows what agony they died in? At least my method was quick and clean, and rabbits never had worries about mortgages, pensions, putting food on the table etc, to them life seemed forever and they we're more free mentally than we'll ever be! The landowners wanted them gone for the simple reason that six rabbits could eat as much as one sheep, but six rabbits wouldn't fetch the same price as one sheep at auction! If I hadn't netted them the cymag operators would have been given the task of ridding the land of them anyway, at least my way fed a few people! I always let milky Does with fur missing from their bodies go, because I knew they were feeding youngsters, it might sound a bit soft now, but a bit of compassion never hurt anyone! The Lickey Hills and the Waseley Hills must miss me and my nets, but maybe not, they're both Country Parks now I believe?
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2 hours ago, alexa said:
Well even Jesus drank wine & Noah
Yes he did, and every time he got pissed he did his little party trick of walking on water!
Another party trick he did was to turn water into wine, well my party trick was just as clever as his, I had the ability to turn wine into water. Someone I shared digs with in the sixties had the habit of pissing in the sink when he was drunk, so one night I left the cold water tap trickling ever so slightly, and he stood there all night wondering why he was pissing for so long? Another thing, I always refused to join in a round with my brother and his mates because my brother always drank a double whisky with a Horlicks chaser and by the time his round came up, he was always asleep!
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My favourite beer when I lived in the Midlands was Bathams!
I came home blathered one night, { well, lots of nights if I'm honest} I kept falling over going upstairs and my wife at that time shouted down 'What are you clattering about for at three in the morning? don't get waking them kids up, if you do, I won't happy'!
I said 'I'm just trying to get a barrel of beer upstairs'! She said 'well leave it until morning and come to bed for gawd's sake'! I said 'I can't leave it'! She said 'why not'? And I said 'because I've already drunk it you silly cow'!
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4 hours ago, webtrekker said:
I've heard they are going to visit the Sun at night time, just to be on the safe side.
Humans have fucked up the land, fucked up the sea, fucked up the clean air, fucked up the water, fucked up the train services, and now they want to go to other planets? to fuck up those too no doubt!
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Eezi ffore yu, yu liv in wayles and thay nevor ad ani grassp uf ingishh enyweigh!
Why duz these dictators botha anyway, duz they think we iz thickerer than wot we iz?