[Boiler]

I think it was, but here it's got lost in a haze of SSRIs and alcohol...

[Boiler]

Interesting one related to me by a friend last night: he claimed that the Beaulieu Autojumble was going to be 'about a field smaller' as all the European traders, faced by having to complete a carnet for all their wares, have chosen to stay at home instead.

How true that is (and whether or not Covid is playing a part) I know not.

[Bones McCoy]

Interesting one related to me by a friend last night: he claimed that the Beaulieu Autojumble was going to be 'about a field smaller' as all the European traders, faced by having to complete a carnet for all their wares, have chosen to stay at home instead.

How true that is (and whether or not Covid is playing a part) I know not.

Covid certainly isn't helping a lot of international get-togethers.
As a tangential example - Cricket buffs on the radio were lamenting the lack of Australian and West Indian players in the new "Hundred" competition.
An absence they put down to covid.

[Boiler]

Interesting one related to me by a friend last night: he claimed that the Beaulieu Autojumble was going to be 'about a field smaller' as all the European traders, faced by having to complete a carnet for all their wares, have chosen to stay at home instead.

How true that is (and whether or not Covid is playing a part) I know not.

Covid certainly isn't helping a lot of international get-togethers.
As a tangential example - Cricket buffs on the radio were lamenting the lack of Australian and West Indian players in the new "Hundred" competition.
An absence they put down to covid.

The Aussies definitely, as they cried off from some rugby tournament for the same reason - i.e. Covid.

It'll be interesting to see if it affects the people from Europe who used to have stalls at what used to be called the National Vintage Communications Fair (now rebranded as RetroTechUK) in September, but I'm not planning on going to that - don't feel safe.

[Youngian]

Most rabbits in the UK are sold as pet food as they’ve fallen out of favour over the decades at the butchers. Beatrix Potter and myxomatosis are probably the main culprits for its decline.

Along with "rabbit starvation" if you eat too much of it.

That was an Innuit problem as venison meats from Caribou and Elks could lead to the same malnutrition. But very healthy when cooked in a fatty oil. That's not a problem for the French.

[Nigredo]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3j3z7j2zdeo

I am so confused?

[Bones McCoy]

Botham on Australia.

Aussies are big and empty, just like their country.

If you're playing against the Australians, you don't walk.

[Watchman]

How long till de Piffle is in the dressing up box for a cricketers outfit

[Tubby Isaacs]

Botham on Australia.

Aussies are big and empty, just like their country.

If you're playing against the Australians, you don't walk.

See also his season with Queensland. Convicted of assaulting a passenger on a plane. Also fined for swearing at umpires, and disciplined for damage to a dressing room. It isn't exactly unknown for a disappointed bastsman to lash out at something., and would normally be dealt with informally in a "Well, we've all done it, just pay for the window" way. That it wasn't this time suggests that either they couldn't wait to get rid of him, or it was a serious damage.

He had a 3 year contract and got sacked after 1 year. Didn't sue, but made a sarcy comment about the Australian currency

[kreuzberger]

I miss shopping.

The Kreuzette hates said past-time but I love a good mooch, especially when we need something and it requires some touch-and-feel research. And, lo it is coming to pass. We need some bedding for the colder months ahead and I quite hate the jersey stuff we endured last year. I want hard, stiff, thick Egyptian cotton.

The point is; no one this side of Frasers' in Buchanan Street sells the stuff I want at a remotely affordable price. And, thanks to the Grand Suicide, shipping it over could financially take me so roughly that I might never again be able to relax under its heaving embrace.

I could trawl the department stores but the staff are always maskless, even if the customers tend to play by the rules. The last thing I want is to crawl in to a freshly pimped pit, sweating like a whore in church and unable, much as I might try, to smoke.

As it is, and with the temperatures dropping daily, I intend to wrap up in a huge Hmong* quilt which we picked up on a second-hand market in Hanoi and then consider the "hotel bedding" category on eBay.

Now, I know that it not as if I am wanting to shop for a milkshake, but I really miss the old days when we were all friends.



* I have barely four weeks before my kids come over for my Big Round birthday and potentially accuse me of having a Rangers bedspread. At feckin sixty. Yes, really.

[Nigredo]

Botham on Australia.

Aussies are big and empty, just like their country.

If you're playing against the Australians, you don't walk.

See also his season with Queensland. Convicted of assaulting a passenger on a plane. Also fined for swearing at umpires, and disciplined for damage to a dressing room. It isn't exactly unknown for a disappointed bastsman to lash out at something., and would normally be dealt with informally in a "Well, we've all done it, just pay for the window" way. That it wasn't this time suggests that either they couldn't wait to get rid of him, or it was a serious damage.

He had a 3 year contract and got sacked after 1 year. Didn't sue, but made a sarcy comment about the Australian currency

Also that time he wanted to beat up an Australian comedian for mocking Brenda, and after security restrained him had to make do with the seething remark of (I'm paraphrasing) "Unlike Australia, at least my country has a culture worth defending".

There's also this Q&A where everything he utters is odious:

[Tubby Isaacs]

I'd forgotten about the comedian thing. Looked it up now and it was actually at an official dinner the night before the World Cup Final. It maybe wasn't the time or place, but sounds like an absurd reaction.

Never seen that clip before, I'll watch it. Around 1986, he was convinced he was going to be a film star. He ended in Jack and the Beanstalk in Bournemouth.

[Andy McDandy]

Watched the clip, and while I'd agree that some of his answers are rather blunt, the line of questioning does tend to be "You voted Tory so how can you defend policy X?", and his reply is that while he doesn't agree with every policy they have, he feels that on the whole they're his preferred option. Actually felt some sympathy for him at points.

[Tubby Isaacs]

I watched the start of it, and it looked a bit strange. Did he know he wasn't going to questions on his favourite hundred etc?

[davidjay]

I'd forgotten about the comedian thing. Looked it up now and it was actually at an official dinner the night before the World Cup Final. It maybe wasn't the time or place, but sounds like an absurd reaction.

Never seen that clip before, I'll watch it. Around 1986, he was convinced he was going to be a film star. He ended in Jack and the Beanstalk in Bournemouth.

Wasn't that when he went to Hollywood to launch himself?

[Tubby Isaacs]

Don't know if he actually went, but he had this guy as his agent saying he should.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Tim_Hudson

[Boiler]

Elsewhere I have seen 'outrage' down on the cuntfarm that Michel Barnier is standing for election in the French presidential elections... on a ticket that includes limiting immigration.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/ ... l-election

[Tubby Isaacs]

Another sighting of the kid in my school chess team who said he lost because the other bloke played the wrong opening.

[Youngian]

Can we pick one up for a Merrie England hog roast?

The UK’s pig producers have warned they are weeks away from culling healthy animals after labour shortages in abattoirs caused a backlog of 70,000 surplus animals on farms.

The National Pig Association is the latest group to sound the alarm over the effects on its members from a lack of workers that has hit food production and haulage, with knock-on effects to many UK supply chains.

Zoe Davies, chief executive of the association, said some slaughterhouses were running as much as a quarter below normal capacity, leaving about 15,000 extra pigs per week stuck on farms.
https://www.ft.com/content/ad37558e-be8 ... ace20938a7

[RedSparrows]

Won't somebody think of the poor Piggies!

Boo, Gregg's vegan sausage rolls are unBritish.