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tonyh29

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  1. There’s a lot of competition, but this NFL player name could just well be the best one yet
  2. We got commissioned to do a project for Nestle a few years back and we had to test about 30 or 40 different variations of new Kit Kat flavours …we had hundreds of bars left over so I used to give them to friends , this was the one that most of them came back to me to ask if I had anymore of , all be it they only knew it as K483 … weird thing is the project was with a view to Kit Kat launching a dairy milk type sized large bar and the survey’s were to see what flavours were popular, to my knowledge I don’t think they have released such a bar , but they have launched loads of the flavours we tested
  3. I could probably quote every episode of Blackadder verbatim so I guess I’d have to say that was the best but others worthy of mention , indeed already have been mentioned Thick of it Alan Partridge Porridge Father Ted what we do in the shadows The IT crowd Inbeweeners - for the boring thread but ,my house could have been one of the filming locations had I replied to the leaflet delivered asking us if we were interested in allowing our house to be used for a TV show called Baggy Trousers ( original name for the inbetweeners ) and of course Bottom - the slapstick comedy in bottom makes it timeless where as The Young ones which 13 year old me loved , 53 year old me watches it on U.K. gold and occasional gem of a line apart struggles to raise a snigger I know generally American comedy isn’t great but I do have a soft spot for Malcom in the middle , it’s just so well written and the characters are great
  4. Also seems the streets of Surrey are wrong Sky this morning saying he won’t be resigning
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    Hats

    one of my mates is bald and wears a hat of some description when we go out drinking , not a vanity thing , more a keeping warm thing between pubs the same mate loses his hat every time we go out drinking ... I'm amazed he survives the night still wearing trousers tbh , its not like you can't feel something like that missing from your head and think ,oh hang on of course it becomes a great source of amusement , every time he puts it down on a table someone hides it or we will give it to some friendly types on the next table and get one of them to wear it and see if he notices he must spend a fortune on them
  6. to use your Villa analogy , have a look at the outcome ( and the merriment) around the "5 year plan" .. we got further from the ultimate aim We all want to go green and reduce carbon impacts but , ultimately people don't want to pay the price ... hey look this item made in worlds number one polluter China is cheaper than this one made by free range unicorns in England , think I'll buy the Chinese one .. hey look I can get the train to Manchester for £300 return or I can fly for £65 return .. if countries / governments are serious they can do actual stuff , not just spout out soundbites as i say , we don't have to give up , and to my knowledge the SNP haven't given up , they've just moved the time frame to one that was more realistic
  7. it was blatantly unrealistic I'm not advocating countries just give up , just set realistic expectations
  8. not as insane as going into a coalition with the Greens I think like the rest of the world they've realised the target was frankly bollocks and they need more time .. at least the rest of the world did it without blaming England though
  9. not if we play some Beatles music and he has to stick his fingers in his ears
  10. looks more like a neighbourhood fued .. I'm fed up with those people from Barry coming over making love to my goat , I'll build a moat to stop them
  11. Nobody rides a bike in your town then ?
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    Liverpool

    Weren’t they going to win the treble a few weeks ago
  13. Bugger ….Really wanted it to be us that stopped Liverpool winning the league will never hear the end of it if Arsenal go and win it now
  14. Personally I don’t think it’s as good as my old argument that if you were doing 40 mph you’d be further up the road when the child runs out / cyclists ignores a give way and rides straight through it , thus you wouldn’t hit them … but i think you’ve just encountered my soul mate
  15. and Morrisons are the only supermarket that sell pork knuckles , the finest food on the planet , unless you are one of those weird ones that would rather munch on something made of pea protein and pretending to be a pig shame they've doubled the price of them over the last year or so , but hey ho , you can't really put a price on slow enjoyable death by crackling
  16. nah since Alex transitioned into exotic go go dancer Xela , she now keeps her money tucked in her G-String
  17. sadly with the nature of a lot of my work , I can actually read the product code data on the back and tell which factory and production line number it came from you'd think people at parties would be amazed and spellbound by such a feat , but when I'm at parties and people ask me what I do for a living ,for some unfathomable reason everyone picks that moment to be the perfect time to take up smoking and go outside in the pouring rain
  18. tbh I'm not familiar with JD power surveys , but I thought the original Skoda were terrible and the source of jokes ..how do you double the value of your Skoda , put petrol in it etc the Octavia then started to win a few awards and the quality was undoubtable better , but its surprising to learn it was outperforming a marque brand
  19. tbh I use my phone for everything these days , Money via Apple pay , train tickets on trainline , Ringo for car parks , loyalty cards , Uber for the journey home you name it the phone will do it That said , when I go for a night out on the hoy , just as I'm leaving I go back and pickup my wallet , with cash and cards in ..just in case .. just can't quite break the habit
  20. It could be expectation , you go into Aldi and Lidl expecting it to be cheap crap and are pleasantly surprised when it isn't ... As someone involved in blind testing all I can tell you is that when we blind test their products v some other stores and brands , Aldi and Lidl pretty much always come last , on the whole it tends to be the major brand that comes first , there are some exceptions , Waitrose own brand OJ tends to out perform Tropicana for example .( though if you are a regular buyer of those products , In a lot of cases you'd would be able to identify it by the familiarity of its appearance or taste ) .. One of my regular projects is visiting every supermarket chain and purchasing some product for internal testing , as part of it I usually have a good mooch around the store , Lidl do some excellent macaroons , Asda have the strawberry cheesecake flavour Milky bars , Aldi do a great crème brulee nougat and some fairly sizeable Big Daddy steaks .... generally I'll eat any brands I'm not fussed , but the Aldi fake peanut M&M's are not as good at the real thing , their Seal bars are as good a penguins though
  21. I’ve had the same in Hungary , though tbh I speak Hungarian with an accent like Dick van Dyke in Mary Poppins
  22. Teams that get thrashed sometimes do it for the fans and pride the next game , think I’d have preferred a tight 1-0 defeat for them tonight to this drubbing
  23. far as I know he didn't comment direct in favour or against the bill ? but last week he said something along the lines of Ukrainian Survival is much more important to Europe than to us, but it is also important to us!
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