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1 hour ago, mjmooney said:

(Sorry, American VTers, this is turning into one of those threads. Bear with us, it'll be over soon). 

Yeah, write us if you get pissed.

14 minutes ago, bickster said:

Its very similar to people who get in a cab and say "Can I have Hanover Street."

I dunno, how rich are you

Do you reach down between your legs and pull out a VHS of this Harrison Ford classic?

8 minutes ago, mjmooney said:

The missus and I were talking about that very thing the other day. A gite in the middle of nowhere in southern France. No car, no maps, just an adddess - and off we went on trains and buses. Found it pretty much by fluke. 

Brittany Ferries brochure. About three pictures of a gite then off we bombed down to Portsmouth with nothing but a french road map from WH Smiths.

Heard a Wispa that the lawyers for the factory are getting the fine reversed and have a few Twix up their sleeves.

9 minutes ago, Rds1983 said:

Yorkshire puddings filled with beans and grilled cheese on top.

That's 'kin filthy!

I'll take two, please.

2 hours ago, bannedfromHandV said:

9 pages for missing Nicola Bulley and just 2 for a tragedy which looks likely to top out at somewhere between 20-25,000 people dead, untold amounts displaced and homeless in an already poverty stricken region, during winter, absolute perfect storm of factors for maximum damage.

Incredible that some people are still being pulled out of rubble alive, I can’t even begin to imagine what it must be like to be trapped like that, for days, waiting to die but hoping to be rescued, just beyond comprehension.

On a trivial / personal note it seems ironic to me that when each person is found alive there seems to be shouts of ‘god is great’ and it being a ‘miracle’, which seems to be ignoring the fact that the same ‘god’ has just wiped out thousands of others.

It's just part of the Turkish language. Just as you would say  "Jesus christ" when something happens in the UK.

3 hours ago, Seat68 said:

By his mum, I mean his friends mum, I need to make that clear, we do not use that word in this house. 

Nah, Stefan now thinks your daughter is a mahoosive racist.

9 minutes ago, Stevo985 said:

Here’s one for you. 
 

I was raised as a catholic, but as an atheist now I had no intention to get jack christened or baptised etc. 

However, the house we’re looking at is round the corner, literally, from a primary school that is rated as one of the top 10 state primary schools in the country (based on performance). 
 

But it’s a catholic school. 
 

You don’t have to be catholic to go there, but they give catholics priority. 
 

So should I get Jack christened just to get him into a good school?

On a more serious note. Are you allowed to observe in the classroom? (maybe it's a Montessori thing, but prospective parents are envouraged to observe in classes). Have a look at the other things outside of weekly mass and hymns. Social/emotional support and how lessons are structured. Are the kids doing lots of manual work? I don't mean down the mines but art, music and making their lessons come to life through demonstrations and experiments. Scope out the teachers, as well. Are they smiling and inspiring the kids. What makes it one of the top 10 schools? 

'kinell. 'Other football ' is getting a bit tetchy tonight. Can't you all go round the back of the Selly Park Tavern and stick a thumb up each others bum?

4 hours ago, BOF said:

I'll just leave this here.

 

Christ, I wince at people who turn down the corner of a page to use as a book mark.

I don't know. Ive just done some research and a zidane sticker on its own is going for £365. 

I have an unopened box of France 98 stickers, if that Ronaldo sticker goes for that I'm sitting on a gold mine. 

42 minutes ago, sidcow said:

Well it must be because all I can see is gold with white detail. 

Are you being paid by Big Shoe to peddle this nonsense?

They're black with a blueish detail. This isn't going to be a thing. Please don't let it be a thing.

I can see Ringo Starr and Roland from Grange Hill, in there.

3 minutes ago, El Zen said:

Handball related, no?

To be fair, I’ve just spent three hours at Charles de Gaulle and I’m starting to feel a bit francophobic myself. 

Off topic but CDG airport is the most confusing airport I've ever been to. I must have followed the signs to the RER for an hour before I gave up and took a taxi. 

I went to two info desks who both gave me the gallic shrug. 

40 minutes ago, Davkaus said:

Every few years I come to the o2 academy, remember it's a shit venue, and swear I'll never bother again

Nearly died there when the middle of the crowd collapsed during a Libertines gig. I say died...I genuinely feared for my life.

30 minutes ago, foreveryoung said:

Mint shower gel will be for ya posh ones in the bath. 

A bath? In Bulgaria? I'm not Rockefeller.

I like to buy a lot of shite drunk. It's like Christmas when the delivery calls me up. Usually, I have have a sudden recollection of what I've bought and go 'ah ok, yeah". Tonight the bloke rings me up and says you've got 3 packages. 

• A new dish rack for the sink.
• A fruit bowl with a special arm to hang bananas off.
• 3 magnetic boards with a week/month/habit tracker thing.
• 6 mint shower gels. (In with the dish rack)

Genuinely had no idea this time. I don't really know what to think.

10 minutes ago, Seat68 said:

Just learned 

*Ahem*

49 minutes ago, villa4europe said:

 

Bouncing around Germany and England over Christmas it's also becoming increasingly common that not is she bilingual but she knows the difference between me and my wife! it's simple stuff but she'll ask me for food but her mom for essen, it's crazy cool and really natural which is the best bit

It's brilliant hearing my 2 year old switching seamlessly between Bulgarian and English. In a heartbeat, no stumbling over words.