Xela Posted July 26, 2018 Share Posted July 26, 2018 1 hour ago, bickster said: Ha, I just posted in the Steve Bruce topic and ran away They'll hunt you down! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VILLAMARV Posted July 26, 2018 Share Posted July 26, 2018 1 hour ago, bickster said: Ha, I just posted in the Steve Bruce topic and ran away 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blandy Posted July 26, 2018 Moderator Share Posted July 26, 2018 23 hours ago, bickster said: ... I'm a jumper Except I hate heights By the time you got to the business end of the plummet, you’d be quite low, so I can’t see it causing any discomfort. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest av1 Posted July 26, 2018 Share Posted July 26, 2018 Popped to the golf course today for a quick 9 holes and got my first ever birdie. Still buzzing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted July 27, 2018 Share Posted July 27, 2018 still shot a 108 but well done on that birdie pal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted July 27, 2018 Moderator Share Posted July 27, 2018 It's Friday and I'm owed some hours at work, early dart approaches...be in Paris by early tomorrow afternoon. RMT Eurostar strike allowing! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted July 27, 2018 Share Posted July 27, 2018 1 hour ago, bickster said: ...be in Paris by early tomorrow afternoon. RMT Eurostar strike allowing! there's always Uber! 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted July 27, 2018 Moderator Share Posted July 27, 2018 1 hour ago, chrisp65 said: there's always Uber! I very much doubt there's a single Uber driver with hire and reward insurance including continental Europe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted July 28, 2018 VT Supporter Share Posted July 28, 2018 We just got back from a short break at the seaside. We went to Scarborough, mainly to see an Alan Ayckbourne play at the Stephen Joseph Theatre, and got a Groupon deal for two nights B&B at the Grand Hotel. The Grand is a humoungous Victorian pile, which we knew to be much faded from its glory days, but my god, we hadn't realised how much. By a huge margin the worst place I have ever stayed. Dirty. Smelly. Rude staff. Completely inedible catering. Bingo every night. And the clientele made an episode of 'Benidorm' look like a Buckingham Palace garden party - morbid obesity, vests, bizarre tattoos, foul mouths and an average IQ in single figures. Never, ever again. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheAuthority Posted July 29, 2018 VT Supporter Share Posted July 29, 2018 12 hours ago, mjmooney said: We just got back from a short break at the seaside. We went to Scarborough, mainly to see an Alan Ayckbourne play at the Stephen Joseph Theatre, and got a Groupon deal for two nights B&B at the Grand Hotel. The Grand is a humoungous Victorian pile, which we knew to be much faded from its glory days, but my god, we hadn't realised how much. By a huge margin the worst place I have ever stayed. Dirty. Smelly. Rude staff. Completely inedible catering. Bingo every night. And the clientele made an episode of 'Benidorm' look like a Buckingham Palace garden party - morbid obesity, vests, bizarre tattoos, foul mouths and an average IQ in single figures. Never, ever again. At some point in those kind of experiences I always find myself saying, this is gonna make a good story one day. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted July 29, 2018 VT Supporter Share Posted July 29, 2018 3 hours ago, TheAuthority said: At some point in those kind of experiences I always find myself saying, this is gonna make a good story one day. I suppose there was an element of that. It really was beyond Little Britain levels. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mottaloo Posted July 29, 2018 Share Posted July 29, 2018 12 minutes ago, mjmooney said: I suppose there was an element of that. It really was beyond Little Britain levels. That reminds me of a greasy spoon cafe i went to in dublin with my cousin. Chipped enamel mugs like you take away for camping trips, tables that were scratched/marked to buggery, paint peeling off the walls...you get the picture. I said to my cousin was she serious about this place, as we waited for our order and she said it was deliberately that way - a kind of very shabby chic (the place was heaving, on a frosty sunday morning I admit) and it was THE place to go for an ironic fry up. Well...when the food came, I saw what she meant - it was out of this world (so were the prices mind). It was billed as a vintage cafe, a throw back to basics if you like. the point I'm making is, perhaps your hotel might be setting a trend for a grotbags type hotel ? Similar to restaurants where the waiting staff deliberately insult you as part of the service ? A hotel full of "yeah, I know !" and self righteous brothers types; where chav is the fashion ? Could be on to a money spinner here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted July 29, 2018 VT Supporter Share Posted July 29, 2018 9 minutes ago, mottaloo said: That reminds me of a greasy spoon cafe i went to in dublin with my cousin. Chipped enamel mugs like you take away for camping trips, tables that were scratched/marked to buggery, paint peeling off the walls...you get the picture. I said to my cousin was she serious about this place, as we waited for our order and she said it was deliberately that way - a kind of very shabby chic (the place was heaving, on a frosty sunday morning I admit) and it was THE place to go for an ironic fry up. Well...when the food came, I saw what she meant - it was out of this world (so were the prices mind). It was billed as a vintage cafe, a throw back to basics if you like. the point I'm making is, perhaps your hotel might be setting a trend for a grotbags type hotel ? Similar to restaurants where the waiting staff deliberately insult you as part of the service ? A hotel full of "yeah, I know !" and self righteous brothers types; where chav is the fashion ? Could be on to a money spinner here Haha, nice idea. If only the food had been 'out of this world' in any good way. It was what I imagine the catering might be like in prison. Maybe worse (never been inside, so I couldn't say). But yeah, it might work as a sort of 'Westworld' experience for middle class sociologists with masochistic tendencies. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest av1 Posted July 29, 2018 Share Posted July 29, 2018 On 27/07/2018 at 09:36, villa4europe said: still shot a 108 but well done on that birdie pal I've only been playing for about 12 months mate, believe me there have been a few ton plus rounds Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xann Posted July 30, 2018 Share Posted July 30, 2018 Swarovski are making Star Wars figures. £200! £1.50 used to be quite steep. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chindie Posted July 30, 2018 VT Supporter Share Posted July 30, 2018 Also about £200... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted July 30, 2018 Share Posted July 30, 2018 you'd have to **** properly love your small children to buy them a £200 toy soldier especially a glass one, that's only ending one way Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted July 30, 2018 VT Supporter Share Posted July 30, 2018 19 minutes ago, chrisp65 said: you'd have to **** properly love your small children to buy them a £200 toy soldier especially a glass one, that's only ending one way Children in their 30s & 40s. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOF Posted July 30, 2018 Moderator Share Posted July 30, 2018 5 minutes ago, mjmooney said: Children in their 30s & 40s. Yeah I imagine they're bought by kidults who aren't good with money. In fact I think that's Swarovski's whole business model. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted July 31, 2018 Moderator Share Posted July 31, 2018 Overheard conversation... US Tourist in Paris: “I won't buy any organic food on principal, it has a tremendously negative effect on the environment” 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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