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Post by rgs2001uk on Jul 12, 2021 21:52:07 GMT 7
Found this "In the day, a huge crowd of mostly teenagers and young adults gathered at Leicester Square. At Trafalgar Square—the “official fan zone”—people needed public lottery-won tickets to enter a cordoned off area surrounded by angry fans trying to break in. Before the game in the unofficial fan-zone, folks made some space for one man to throw a bright yellow traffic sign at another man, which the latter tried and failed to headbutt. Backed up against a candy shop stood a man with a rolled up sleeping bag slung over one shoulder called Nathan, who said he was from the Shetland Islands and was here to “see life” and “meet people.”"FFS Ronnie, how many times have I told you, dont give your real name.
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Post by rott on Jul 12, 2021 22:58:42 GMT 7
I know the surrounding area in which the final took place, having grown up going to school in the borough, lived all of my early life and now situated not to far away that i can see the Wembley arch from my windows. It actually came as no surprise to me that when i awoke this morning that there had been violent scenes reported after the match. No doubt any Italian restaurant, pizza parlor or the like, most probably got their windows bricked for being just that. Quite right too, whingeing dago twats. Need to remember who pulled them out of the shite after the war. Erm I was going to say something else, anyway we don't go opening chip shops over there so if they don't like it etc. Bastards.
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Post by chiangmai on Jul 13, 2021 5:14:03 GMT 7
I know the surrounding area in which the final took place, having grown up going to school in the borough, lived all of my early life and now situated not to far away that i can see the Wembley arch from my windows. It actually came as no surprise to me that when i awoke this morning that there had been violent scenes reported after the match. No doubt any Italian restaurant, pizza parlor or the like, most probably got their windows bricked for being just that. Quite right too, whingeing dago twats. Need to remember who pulled them out of the shite after the war. Erm I was going to say something else, anyway we don't go opening chip shops over there so if they don't like it etc. Bastards. There's a reason why we don't open chips shops over there, or any where else outside our shores, there's zero demand. What does that tell you. There's a single British fish and chip shop in Chiang Mai, a big sign proclaims, Twice Winner of Best Fish and Chips in the UK. My arse was also voted the most perfect arse in the home counties for an entire decade. The place is owned by Thai's, the Scottish owner sailed into the sunset decades ago. The food is inedible, even Brit expats never eat their twice, locals cross the street rather than walk past the front door in fear something jumps out and contaminates them. Can you imagine going to Florence and having to decide whether to have dinner at a trattoria or at Sid and Vicky's chippie, good lord!
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Post by smokie36 on Jul 13, 2021 12:58:40 GMT 7
Quite right too, whingeing dago twats. Need to remember who pulled them out of the shite after the war. Erm I was going to say something else, anyway we don't go opening chip shops over there so if they don't like it etc. Bastards. There's a reason why we don't open chips shops over there, or any where else outside our shores, there's zero demand. What does that tell you. There's a single British fish and chip shop in Chiang Mai, a big sign proclaims, Twice Winner of Best Fish and Chips in the UK. My arse was also voted the most perfect arse in the home counties for an entire decade. The place is owned by Thai's, the Scottish owner sailed into the sunset decades ago. The food is inedible, even Brit expats never eat their twice, locals cross the street rather than walk past the front door in fear something jumps out and contaminates them. Can you imagine going to Florence and having to decide whether to have dinner at a trattoria or at Sid and Vicky's chippie, good lord! Moley's on Koh Chang...Friday's only 1-8pm You will not be disappointed.
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Post by chiangmai on Jul 13, 2021 13:39:52 GMT 7
There's a reason why we don't open chips shops over there, or any where else outside our shores, there's zero demand. What does that tell you. There's a single British fish and chip shop in Chiang Mai, a big sign proclaims, Twice Winner of Best Fish and Chips in the UK. My arse was also voted the most perfect arse in the home counties for an entire decade. The place is owned by Thai's, the Scottish owner sailed into the sunset decades ago. The food is inedible, even Brit expats never eat their twice, locals cross the street rather than walk past the front door in fear something jumps out and contaminates them. Can you imagine going to Florence and having to decide whether to have dinner at a trattoria or at Sid and Vicky's chippie, good lord! Moley's on Koh Chang...Friday's only 1-8pm You will not be disappointed. Really? Where on Koh Chang? Never mind, here: www.facebook.com/MoleysResortKohChang/Damn, we ate at lyara seafood when we stayed at Santhya Tree, it was right there!!!
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Post by rott on Jul 13, 2021 14:30:08 GMT 7
Quite right too, whingeing dago twats. Need to remember who pulled them out of the shite after the war. Erm I was going to say something else, anyway we don't go opening chip shops over there so if they don't like it etc. Bastards. There's a reason why we don't open chips shops over there, or any where else outside our shores, there's zero demand. What does that tell you. There's a single British fish and chip shop in Chiang Mai, a big sign proclaims, Twice Winner of Best Fish and Chips in the UK. My arse was also voted the most perfect arse in the home counties for an entire decade. The place is owned by Thai's, the Scottish owner sailed into the sunset decades ago. The food is inedible, even Brit expats never eat their twice, locals cross the street rather than walk past the front door in fear something jumps out and contaminates them. Can you imagine going to Florence and having to decide whether to have dinner at a trattoria or at Sid and Vicky's chippie, good lord! Load of woke bollocks, I am surprised at you changers there are some on here I would have expected that from, but not you. We should have patented fish and chips, it is available all over the world, another British invention/creation that we allowed Johnny Foreigner to take and use as his own.
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Post by rubl on Jul 13, 2021 15:33:42 GMT 7
Did you know Michael Jackson liked his 'Fish 'n Chips' with mushy peas ? "The story of the humble chip goes back to the 17th Century to either Belgium or France, depending who you believe. Oddly enough, the chip may have been invented as a substitute for fish, rather than an accompaniment. When the rivers froze over and nothing could be caught, resourceful housewives began cutting potatoes into fishy shapes and frying them as an alternative. Around the same time, fried fish was introduced into Britain by Jewish refugees from Portugal and Spain. The fish was usually sold by street sellers from large trays hung round their necks. Charles Dickens refers to an early fish shop or "fried fish warehouse" in Oliver Twist (1839) where the fish generally came with bread or baked potatoes. North or south? Who first had the bright idea to marry fish with chips remains the subject of fierce controversy and we will probably never know for sure. It is safe to say it was somewhere in England but arguments rage over whether it was up north or down south." news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8419026.stm
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Post by chiangmai on Jul 13, 2021 16:55:16 GMT 7
There's a reason why we don't open chips shops over there, or any where else outside our shores, there's zero demand. What does that tell you. There's a single British fish and chip shop in Chiang Mai, a big sign proclaims, Twice Winner of Best Fish and Chips in the UK. My arse was also voted the most perfect arse in the home counties for an entire decade. The place is owned by Thai's, the Scottish owner sailed into the sunset decades ago. The food is inedible, even Brit expats never eat their twice, locals cross the street rather than walk past the front door in fear something jumps out and contaminates them. Can you imagine going to Florence and having to decide whether to have dinner at a trattoria or at Sid and Vicky's chippie, good lord! Load of woke bollocks, I am surprised at you changers there are some on here I would have expected that from, but not you. We should have patented fish and chips, it is available all over the world, another British invention/creation that we allowed Johnny Foreigner to take and use as his own. The trouble with being an expat is that being away from "home" for so long changes memories and standards. Back "home" I would agree there are plenty of really good fish and chip shops although increasingly there are also more and more mediocre ones too. In Lancaster there is only one really top rate fish and chip shop, Quay Fish and Chips, in nearby Morecambe there are probably more. But fast forward to the expat who's been in Thailand for ten years and recalls what truly good fish and chips were. He spots a UK copy fish and chip shop in Bangkok or Chiang Mai and it's mostly crap by comparison. Frozen whatever fish, cooked in the wrong oil along with chips made from potatoes that weren't meant to be eaten, except in MacDonalds. But he doesn't know that because he's been away from the real stuff for so long. Another example is Cumberland sausage. In the North I buy a Lakes product that is as close to heaven as it's possible to get, without actually being dead. Here, it's the copy stuff from expat butchers in Buriram and we think it's good...it's not, it's pure rubbish.
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Post by rott on Jul 13, 2021 17:36:30 GMT 7
In England English people largely stopped running fish and chip shops decades ago, working in car factories had less problems, better hours and the pay wasn't bad either. Last time I was there, in New Cross the closest was run by Philippinos and the one in Deptford I think was Turks. In Thailand I haven't bothered much since the Snapper largely went awol.
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Post by chiangmai on Jul 13, 2021 17:56:19 GMT 7
In England English people largely stopped running fish and chip shops decades ago, working in car factories had less problems, better hours and the pay wasn't bad either. Last time I was there, in New Cross the closest was run by Philippinos and the one in Deptford I think was Turks. In Thailand I haven't bothered much since the Snapper largely went awol. Exactly. And for me, a true fish and chip shop is about Cod or Haddock, just like chips have to be made from King Edwards or Maris Piper, you just don't find those things fresh here. An ex-colleague of mine was a financial whizz in the City and HK, I finally caught up with her again after a decade without any contact. She told me she'd bought a fish and chip shop, she said the profit margin is fabulous and now she owns three.
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Post by chiangmai on Jul 14, 2021 10:58:43 GMT 7
Just to make you drool, these are the real deal:
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Post by smokie36 on Jul 14, 2021 11:04:43 GMT 7
Just to make you drool, these are the real deal: This is how they are at my local place in Shetland...only the haddock is larger. We don't eat cod up here....worms you know in cod sometimes.
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Post by rubl on Jul 14, 2021 11:10:53 GMT 7
Apropos of nothing (much) can I interest people here in drip resistant keyboards?
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Post by chiangmai on Jul 14, 2021 12:22:45 GMT 7
Just to make you drool, these are the real deal: This is how they are at my local place in Shetland...only the haddock is larger. We don't eat cod up here....worms you know in cod sometimes. Shetland.....do you know Denise Duffy?
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Post by rubl on Jul 14, 2021 20:25:11 GMT 7
Didn't know where to put it, so ... Read this on FB, rings a bell, good warning for some here "I have been nominated to a "25 pushups a day for 25 days" challenge. I blocked that person"
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