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5th December 2023, 08:37 AM
#11
Re: Christmas dinner on a budget

Originally Posted by
John Gill
#2. oop narth? Have been attempting to locate such a quaint sounding place in my comprehensive A-Z of the UK. Perhaps its an anagram, but its worth remembering its not all whippets and rickets north of t'Tamar.
Eh! bah! gum John lad, wen't I but a were a nipper livin up country we always called it oop narth, te land were alive with whippets and ferrets and sales of string for yer kegs were alive and boomin, those hoity toity folks from Liverpool and Manchester were blinkin foreigners, same as them NE Coast Chinamen from noocastel
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5th December 2023, 08:58 AM
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Re: Christmas dinner on a budget

Originally Posted by
Ivan Cloherty
Eh! bah! gum John lad, wen't I but a were a nipper livin up country we always called it oop narth, te land were alive with whippets and ferrets and sales of string for yer kegs were alive and boomin, those hoity toity folks from Liverpool and Manchester were blinkin foreigners, same as them NE Coast Chinamen from noocastel
John, dont forget that Ivans lingo is now tainted with a Devonian twist, complicated by age related memory issues.
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5th December 2023, 09:21 AM
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Re: Christmas dinner on a budget

Originally Posted by
Tony Taylor
John, dont forget that Ivans lingo is now tainted with a Devonian twist, complicated by age related memory issues.

eeh! tha's reet lad, it shud ah been 'kecks' and not 'kegs', an easy on that age thing, I be nowt but a lad!
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5th December 2023, 09:25 AM
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Re: Christmas dinner on a budget
Just remember Ivan when one of these Docteurs/ interrogators start asking you the day of the week , your age and your birthday ,its name rank and number only , or they will lock you up on the excuse your senile you know the opposite to sterile. JS
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5th December 2023, 10:11 AM
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Re: Christmas dinner on a budget

Originally Posted by
j.sabourn
J , or they will lock you up on the excuse your senile you know the opposite to sterile. JS
Got both of those and free to roam!
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5th December 2023, 11:55 AM
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Re: Christmas dinner on a budget
Being a dancer you’ll be ok , you can always do the military two step. JS
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5th December 2023, 10:24 PM
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Re: Christmas dinner on a budget
Re the woman in #2 complaining she cannot manage on £2000 pm benefits, turns out she's in Grimsby, according to our lad Thomas Micheal you can get a large portion of fish n chips for £3.50 in Grimsby. That price quite believable as you can get a 'Pensioners Portion' of fish n chips here for £5.50, not a generous size, but adequate
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6th December 2023, 01:00 AM
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Re: Christmas dinner on a budget
Before I emigrated to NZ I lived in Middlesbrough for for six months, I went from one foreign Country to another; but at least I learned Kiwi I much quicker, could ask for fush and chups in about three months.
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