chrisp65

22 minutes ago, maqroll said:

Random history type question for yuz- When you think of British Colonial America, do you think Boston, New York, Phily, Virginia...or do you not really view it that narrowly?

For what it's worth, I wouldn't very often think of any part of America as British Colonial America. But for a bit of history I'd personally presume to go on a grand tour of Boston, Philadelphia, Washington, Salem and that whole general 'New England' nebulous place I've got in my mind. But Boston would definitely be in there, it would be an 'obvious' place and I'd fully expect it to have a touristy side.

New York City I think I'd treat as a separate thing. I really want to go and see the Flatiron Building in Manhattan. That's a bucket list thing for me, plus trying to find some of those stereotype streets from films like 'The French Connection'.

Then for me, I will eventually get out there and see the whole vast nothing of the dusty middle. I quite fancy the idea of the old straight road through the red dust from horizon to horizon with a mom 'n' pop gas station every 200 miles or so. Film stereotype: 'Vanishing Point'.

Currently getting a whole bunch of vicarious pleasure researching where my nipper might be going for a year. Bizarrely, Detroit is a front runner. Absolutely no interest in Florida, LA, Vegas and all that bright lights chuff.

A proper 1970's breakfast there Mr Stevo. Bread in milk with sugar over it, then off to school.

6'40 in to this video, Prince arrives, an is the coolest guy in France by some margin...

journalists are fine

it's creepy hacks with black souls and dead eyes you gotta watch out for

7 minutes ago, Xann said:

You're one of those people that boils vegetables to mush and regards pasta as suspicious.

I'll have you know that I put slices of raw cauliflower in salads, that's how modern and cosmopolitan I am.

Although, I must confess, I am first generation steamer (!) when we have any relatives over from either side of the family they have a tendency to poke the veg on their plate with a fork and look around with this face that says 'I can't eat this, they haven't boiled it to oblivion for an hour'.

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I did just have a phone conversation with one of my retailer clients that wants to 'adapt' (cough copy cough) an idea they've seen in McDonalds, and I had to confess I didn't have a clue what they were talking about as I'd never been in a McDonalds. I'm more of a chip shop kinda guy. 

6 minutes ago, Xann said:

Nutella, honey, lemon curd, jam, marmite, peanut butter - Individually fine crumpet fodder.

What's the acceptable topping in Barrybados then? Dripping and sulphate?

candyfloss and winkles if you're perverted list is anything to go by

Butter, it's butter on crumpets across the entire civilised world, it's a science law fact.

this is out of control

it's like the breakfast version of 28 days later

2 minutes ago, Xann said:

I don't have a problem with jam on crumpets.

 

I'm up that London tomorrow, if I see you, I'll slap you. That's fair warning.

I heard they were caught comparing answers in the executive level aston villa job retention quiz.

A local wannabe political candidate has posted this picture on twatter.

There is so much wrong with it I can't even get my head around it, from twee china cups for the tea, communal sugar bowl, a plate of bean juice, no egg, brown toast, jam on a **** crumpet, offensively awful cruet set. All those little place mats, not matching the horrid table cloth and then not even used, cups not matching plates that don't match the table cloth. Table cloths full stop.

Let's not even go down the whole subject of taking photo's of your food, or going to your nan's house for a polite version of a builder's breakfast.

Just no.

No.

11 hours ago, chrisp65 said:

football AGM this evening, apparently there is 'a band'

Well, it was an EGM not an AGM.

The 'band' was four local boys singing and dancing along to a backing track of pop songs. Imagine, if you will, a subtle combination of the opening rounds of X factor where they are still laughing at the mentally ill, combined with Phoenix Nights.

I don't think we were their target demographic, I might have been the youngest person in the room that wasn't on stage. I think someone just decided any practice in front of any crowd had to be better than none.

But we all clapped, and then got on with the serious business of programme pricing for next season. Price hike to £1.50 agreed. Surreal. 

football AGM this evening, apparently there is 'a band'

@villaglint What was the criteria? Was it simply closest first, with a couple of exceptions for siblings already in the school? Or was there some other thing they threw in the mix?

We had to move house* to get further away from the worst school in town, which to state the obvious, has cost us thousands over the years. I only had to move a couple of blocks, but it put me the other side of a line on a map. Even then, the closest school tried to tell us we wouldn't get an automatic place as there was a 'waiting list'. I had to point out that we live 200 metres away. and I was giving them 12 months notice. Yet once we were in that school I'd say I failed to recognise about 90% of the drivers coming in from far and wide to drop off their little darlings. 

Gone are the days of most of the kids walking to the school down the road. 

* yep, I became part of the problem.

10 minutes ago, Awol said:

if the personal stuff gets you off then please, crack on.

You should have seen the first draft!

I was confusing you with awol again, my apologies. 

45 minutes ago, tonyh29 said:

I did say last week that I'd probably vote leave if the vote was tomorrow as I don't think we will ever get another chance

Well, you only really get one chance to press a nuclear bomb detonator, I'm not sure that's a good enough reason to press it.

I was being light hearted having Tony as a neutral. Without putting words in to his mouth he's previously said something along the lines of:

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I'm alright, Jack, the poor can do one, if we leave I will be 3p better off potentially so it's worth the risk. Eat the poor. I'm an outer. The flag! The flag! I'd vote for Enoch Powell but he's a bit too liberal. I've had to laminate my picture postcard of Maggie. Out out out. Jacob Rees Mogg, John Redwood, Nigel Farage, Grayling, Gove and Johnson can't all be wrong. Where's my money? I need to lick it again.

I para phrase, but that's how I recall it.

I think I might have found a third way.

I think I decided last night that unless I hear some solid nugget of advantage to voting one way or the other, I'm not going to vote. Now, that's going to be a little tricky, my wife is quite militant about making people vote and it's my nipper's first vote and I've lectured on how important it is. So right now I'm going to be marching in to the polling station, standing around for a bit and then leaving.

Potentially, whilst I'm there, I'll vote remain, but it isn't a done deal.

But yeah, I know what you mean Tony, other than yourself and me there are very few neutrals in this thread. 

@blandyI haven't been to a single game this season. That's the first time that's happened in like, forever. I've had years where I've only managed 2 or 3 games and have gone specifically so as not to have missed a whole season. But I've never been totally absent.

I used to spend my modest little marketing budget taking people to the footy, be it just the game, or various levels of corporate. I've gone from spending on 6 people dining at the game, to just having a Villa scarf or keyring off my mum at Christmas. 

But Villa is still my team and they still have the capacity to make me angry on a Saturday afternoon and influence my TV viewing on a Saturday evening. I still haven't binned my little collection of free flags yet.

6 minutes ago, troon_villan said:

Whats the story?

celebrity couple set themselves up as a happy content thoroughly modern family unit and talk about the kids on chat shows

turns out there's been some fairly mundane extra marital shagging going on so the press want to 'out' them as hypocrites, although for some reason I don't know, I think the Sun has always had a bit of a downer on the one guy involved

truth is, it's only the secrecy that's interesting, the actual story is a bit dull

3 minutes ago, Xann said:

Aye, he did alright there. Needed a little touching up iirc.

Will the BBC never learn?

Hope you've got proof of these shenanigans.

fwiw my guess would be the problem was a lack of response to key questions

Lerner won't have been so direct or competent as to have given a high budget, or a low budget, or an idea he would be gone on June 20th or anything else in any way useful. He will have been asked some basic questions, budget and timescale. There will have been no timely response.

Which is where the Board is then thoroughly undermined.

again with the Eggs

and next Monday they are in town and tickets are £8.50

Note 'new' head shell acquired as another freebie, drilled out and sprayed white to be funky and give me another quick needle change. What a ball ache. If it's a different weight then you have to re set the balance of the arm. Duhh. I shall probably sellotape a penny to it now....

In his defence, he was probably inhaling it from balloons to try and weigh less.