RosieH

Right on! This is all just a little junior lit and deb, no? I managed to get over thinking I had the monopoly on the moral high ground when I was 16. Then again, now I've got so much to think about getting these bloody foreigners to lay my parquet properly (swear to god, if one of them bleeds onto it again - it's only a minor chafe from the shackles I told them...) that I have let my subscription to Holier-than-thou Weekly lapse. Maybe it's time I renewed my subscription.

Msn, I could really eat a good Salami di Napoli right now. Don't suppose they do a halal or kosher version.

What's with this "miserable lot", "you lot" bollocks? Devonlass15 and karter, you must have teeny tiny living rooms if 1-3 people is considered a lot. Must be what having kids does to your social lives...

and perfect for a dinner party, especially if you break out the moves. Were Simple Minds the Coldplay of my day? Always wondered who listened to them.

Lawks, a bunch of middle aged blokes moaning that there's nothing new, or indeed important in music. You want to take a long hard look at yourselves, fellas. Were the Pistols important for your parents? Of course not, not remotely. None of you is going to know what the next important band of our time is until it turns up on the Today programme. It's no longer your job to. Because it's the 16 year olds in their bedrooms and sneaking underage into clubs with live music that decide, not 40-odd year old blokes grizzling over their broadsheets into their real ale.

Eee, Help-Ma, you're nowt if you're not classy!

Help-Ma-Boab Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Vodka mixed with Hooch. That brings back some > blurry mid 90's memories. Just mid-90s, Help-Ma? Now what was in a Blastaway? It was Castaway (alcoholic Lilt) and summat else. And what was the difference between blue and red Thunderbird, *Bob*? I remember neither as tasting of much.

Ooh, awesome, thanks Clare. Don't know why I failed to spot that on Google. Gah!

Yes, it's for a little celebration in honour of uni days. Mostly I drank orange, with the occasional foray into strawberry territory.

Does this thing still exist? Actually I know it does, because I've seen it online, but only in a pack of 12 large bottles. I don't really want that many. But I do want some. Anyone know where I might lay hands on the old mad dog?

Annette Curtain Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > By that I mean your master-stroke zeugma stalled > it in it's tracks. Well Feltz DID go home in tears and a taxi...

Oh Nette: with all that whip cracking and cap doffing, I've come over all unnecessary. *goes for a lie down*

Well, it's how I've always played word association in the real world. Not being snarky, just wondered if it is a genuine game of word association, or really, an EDF stream of consciousness.

zeugma

Does anyone actually check a word hasn't been used before? And then disqualify the offender? Or do you just keep typing words?

I give 12 pints a week. Have done since I was in utero. But I only do it for the free biscuit and orange squash.

MrBen, you forgot freelancers dicking about on the forum and facebook in Caffe Nero in the a.m. and Green & Blue in the p.m.

jumpinjackflash Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > bore off Miss Self-Righteous....damn right wine > tastes better in a 'goblet'..but obviously you > know far more about wine etiquette than all the > world's Sommeliers. No. Just more than you. Apparently. Edited to add the "apparently". Don't want to appear rude!

I don't think it's a lame gimmick. Is a pub, not a fancy resto. Depending who my guests are for dinner, I often serve wine in tumblers - less likely to get knocked over - I've lost many a crystal wine glass to a cack-handed piss-head, so I now save the Riedel for when it's less likely to get smashed. I have no problem with a pub doing likewise - and the very fine, award-winning Anchor & Hope on the cut do exactly that:

Zut alors. This has been covered many times before on the forum. Suffice to say that they do drink wine out of tumblers in Parisian bistros, just as they drink cava out of tumblers in Barcelona. And if you think Paris goblets would be more "appropriate" (i.e. somehow better for serving wine, rather than simply meeting your misguided aesthetic sensibilities) then your snobbery is compounded by ignorance. Case closed. Next.

Jeremy Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Alan Medic Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > > I've never knowingly met a member of Mensa. > When I was working at my first job, the office > stationary monitor was a proud member I bet he could tell you that he didn't move around much too?

I am prepared to loan out my crossbow.

Kind of agree with all of the above. One thing I would say, is that if you go for forum contact, please try to make it apolitical. A lot of goodwill is generated by going online and making yourself available, and helps people who probably wouldn't get round to asking otherwise. Don't squander the goodwill by also using the forum to slag off your political opponents the whole time (use a different log in for that if you like). Warrington eh? I believe owns the whole town these days...

The e-dealer coveref my point about political correctness, which, James, you have chosen not to answer. So I think we can just accept that that was arrant nonsense designed to get the press excited, and in fact there was nothing remotely politically correct (or incorrect for that matter) about the planned event. My other question would be, do you know whether the planned event had some kind of narrative theme, did it tell a story about the loss of colour, or was it just a firework display? And did you bother to find out? If it told a story, stories have names. Ergo, the name is not remotely bonkers.

Right, God invented ugly shoes so you could run away from murderers. But what if your murderer is also your pulchritudinous flatmate? And she's borrowed your shoes. What are you gonna do then, then?