chrisp65

ok that's my lot for a few days

I used to like a nice mid price St Emillion, but last couple of years I've gone all common and I'm perfectly happy with a sub £10 Rioja

Fethard on Sea, from memory (and we tested a lot of drink that week as we didn't drive anywhere), they had a pub, a post office, a butchers and a cake shop ate bacon, sausages, pasties crisps and cakes for a week

Fethard on Sea, rented a farmhouse / cottage walking distance from the beach really lucky, hot n sunny all week and we'd get down to the beach midday and be the first footprints daren't go back as it couldn't possibly be the same twice

most beer in a night after a gig - Earth Wind and Fire (bizarre but true!) best tip after a gig - Style Council - free drinks, a £60 tip (back in the day major money!) off the roadie, the mix tape they were playing all night and a roll of tee shirts strangest strangest strangest thing - got given a biro drawing of David Bowie by the lead singer of Bauhaus, gave it to me like it was a big deal, I said thanks and waited until he went off to bed before binning it (story pre dates e-bay)

love Powers did a very scientific taste test a couple of years ago whilst staying in Fethard drank Powers, Bushmills and Paddy with Powers winning the week

Never liked a single thing by INXS, could never see the appeal. INXS at the NEC was the worst gig I've ever been to. given that the ticket and transport were both free, and given that I've also seen Beverly Craven, The Style Council and Courtney Pine in concert, that's impressively poor

oooh, bought some Lidl dark chocolate digestives today, awesome snackage

the tool of choice for freedom fighters everywhere 'political power grows out of the barrel of a gun', very often that gun is an AK 47

**** off , we're loving it loving it I tells ya bring it on I don't care where you are, you can't be enjoying yourself like a me, spreading towels on my conservatory floor (MC problems and woes).

'tis the season to stuff yourself stupid, so with a nod to the what's your tipple thread....what are you currently eating? for me, it's home made dalek shortbread

If he had anything to do with Queen I'm not **** interested.

http://gigapan.com/gigapans/66626/ Shanghai Skyline

it was taken within a 2 week window, which makes it statistically relevant (that may be bollix) I actually took the picture because the water was blue as opposed to its usual shade of dysentery, probably due to a chemical leak

be careful what you wish for

I'm doing quite a few miles at the moment and there is an obvious short list any car has to have: automatic cruise control comfortable seats cd / mp3 play all the other stuff is great but secondary The automatic was a revelation, it's one of these systems where you can just leave it to do its thing, or you can switch it to a comfort or sporty setting, or you can actually use the gearstick as a clutchless manual gearbox.

yep, got to agree that's weak, we've lost so I'm not finishing this, I'm going home I guess I had a similar attitude when I was about 7 never mind, years of question of sport and splash! ahead to pay the bills

I know what it is. It's when they've been playing for 6 minutes without an ad break or Diana Ross missing an open goal.

there was a lot more muff hair in the 80's

I even left the picture up this time!

I've got another one about hard mints, it ends: 'no way, he's menthol'

So there's this pavement in the pub banging on about how hard he is, he reckons he can give a kicking to anybody, cobbles, pea gravel, black top tarmac, anybody. In walks a length of green surface with a white dashed line. 'Go on', says the pavement's drinking buddy, 'do him'. 'No way', says the pavement, 'he's a complete cyclepath'

My old man is in his 70's and still goes over with his BSA's to give them a run out. Fine in a 'controlled' environment, but not something I can understand with your average biker who appears to think he knows what's around the next corner on public roads. We've a 5 mile lane close to me where with depressing regularlity bikers choose to put themselves and others in hospital. Roughly one a month for the last four years. There's nothing controlled about the TT! Especially when you get 30,000 bikers (most of them foreign) who all think they are Joey Dunlop but clearly aren't. I know what you're saying, but you know during official run times that there isn't (shouldn't be) a cyclist or a kid on a horse coming the other way. I agree it's not kindergarten, but it is fair game. My point was along the lines of 'normal' roads can have all those normal situations like a pensioner attempting a 16 point turn, a delivery van, a mum and a buggy. Yet somehow a worrying proportion of bikers always presume these people and things won't be around the next corner, or any corner, ever. Locally, on that one road, they've been wrong quite a few times.