Things you wonder about our Forum Members

[i-Ram]

Just now, ariotofmyown said:

I had a basket meal (scampi though) in a country pub in Wiltshire a few months back and saw pickled eggs in a Coventry pub couple of weeks ago. 

I had you down as a Scampi man. I bet you like your chips cooked thrice too.

[richinspain]

16 minutes ago, i-Ram said:

Doggying? According to the urban dictionary doggying is:

Walking a woman’s dog during the daytime in the vain hope that she’ll start to think of you as a potential sexual partner, even though she already has one.

“I’ve been doggying Vanessa for threeweeks and I think she’s about to notice me as a man and invite me in for a drink.”

I’ve been walking the wife’s dog for 10 years now, without even a sniff 😮

I guess Pedro you were alluding to Dogging. You need to replace that English to Spanish Dictionary you’ve been using for the last 25 years 👍🍺

Nooooo. I would never ever suggest that you are in to dogging!

[ariotofmyown]

2 minutes ago, i-Ram said:

I had you down as a Scampi man. I bet you like your chips cooked thrice too.

I do like some scampi, although not something you see that often. I would expect it in a more budget "pub grub" type of place these days. Like avocados, prawns are relitavely cheap these days. Roy Keane's corporate rant would need updating to munching on a British apple.

The triple cooked chips craze seems to have fortunately disappeared. Maybe trying to emulate those megarich masterchefs is no longer a good look in our more austere times.

Anyway, eating out is so expensive these days that it would be a bit of a waste having chips.

[i-Ram]

6 minutes ago, ariotofmyown said:

I do like some scampi, although not something you see that often. I would expect it in a more budget "pub grub" type of place these days. Like avocados, prawns are relitavely cheap these days. Roy Keane's corporate rant would need updating to munching on a British apple.

The triple cooked chips craze seems to have fortunately disappeared. Maybe trying to emulate those megarich masterchefs is no longer a good look in our more austere times.

Anyway, eating out is so expensive these days that it would be a bit of a waste having chips.

Wise words.

You know what I wonder about you? Do you read the Guardian in snippets (like I do), using their free online service, and think f*** no am I making a donation each month as they request to support fearless, independent journalism. Or do you take delivery of the paper version each day, and always keep a copy on the coffee table to impress anyone who visits the family home.

It's the latter isnt it. Tell me its the latter.

[Archied]

35 minutes ago, i-Ram said:

@Archied is already another online mate, kindly helping me in the past with a ticket or two. Perhaps all 3 of us could meet up sometime, and sit in the back of a roomy car and discuss childhood memories, over a shandy and a bargain bucket?

Can’t be my car , I’ve got the kids locked in the back and they are 34 and 33,,, old habits😂

[SaintRam]

I've always been a bit fascinated by "anonymous" socialising. How little we know about the people we are talking to/arguing with/wishing misfortune upon (as the day escalates).

We are fairly sure they're a Derby fan, except for the away fans (and one other who comes to mind), but beyond that everything else is unknown. With the exception of course being those of you who know/have met one another. 

I haven't. I should've, when I was still in the UK, I regret that a little. So everyone's a mystery! It's enjoyable at times. Even the stuff folks divulge themselves could be, for whatever reason, untrue (although I don't assume it is).

Generally I just wonder how folks are doing. Wondering if they're writing their messages while sobbing, giddily giggling like Homer Simpson, or completely emotionlessly; a thousand yard stare at the screen.

I usually settle on giggling. Makes people's posts more fun.

[richinspain]

15 minutes ago, SaintRam said:

I've always been a bit fascinated by "anonymous" socialising. How little we know about the people we are talking to/arguing with/wishing misfortune upon (as the day escalates).

We are fairly sure they're a Derby fan, except for the away fans (and one other who comes to mind), but beyond that everything else is unknown. With the exception of course being those of you who know/have met one another. 

I haven't. I should've, when I was still in the UK, I regret that a little. So everyone's a mystery! It's enjoyable at times. Even the stuff folks divulge themselves could be, for whatever reason, untrue (although I don't assume it is).

Generally I just wonder how folks are doing. Wondering if they're writing their messages while sobbing, giddily giggling like Homer Simpson, or completely emotionlessly; a thousand yard stare at the screen.

I usually settle on giggling. Makes people's posts more fun.

I have spoken to @i-Ram in the zoom chats. I can assure you that he looks and behaves exactly like George.

[ariotofmyown]

1 hour ago, i-Ram said:

Wise words.

You know what I wonder about you? Do you read the Guardian in snippets (like I do), using their free online service, and think f*** no am I making a donation each month as they request to support fearless, independent journalism. Or do you take delivery of the paper version each day, and always keep a copy on the coffee table to impress anyone who visits the family home.

It's the latter isnt it. Tell me its the latter.

It depends who is visiting really. If it's an older person, I replace the newspaper with my Stop the Boats placards.

[i-Ram]

1 minute ago, ariotofmyown said:

It depends who is visiting really. If it's an older person, I replace the newspaper with my Stop the Boats placards.

[i-Ram]

4 minutes ago, richinspain said:

I have spoken to @i-Ram in the zoom chats. I can assure you that he looks and behaves exactly like George.

[richinspain]

5 minutes ago, i-Ram said:

I never at any time said which George!

[Gaspode]

10 minutes ago, richinspain said:

I never at any time said which George!

[Crewton]

3 hours ago, Archied said:

Spent my childhood sitting in a car outside the pub and bookies shop with a lemonade and shoot magazine, then supporting the lie that my dad had not been near the pub and must have just been given the wrong change or lost it on the way home🤷🏻‍♂️

We often did that after a day out in the car, dropping in at the Mitre in Allo, but my Dad always brought the drinks out to the car including his pint. We got a bottle of vimto, a straw and a packet of Smith's crisps with the little blue salt-bags.

[Steve How Hard?]

1 hour ago, richinspain said:

I never at any time said which George!

 

[i-Ram]

1 hour ago, Steve How Hard? said:

 

Careful HowHard!

[i-Ram]

I wonder why @Alph is no longer @Alpha? Why one day, did he think you know I might drop that ‘a’. Does make you really wonder that one?

Edited Tuesday at 11:30 by i-Ram

[ariotofmyown]

1 hour ago, i-Ram said:

I wonder why @Alph is no longer @Alpha? Why one day, did he think you know I might drop that ‘a’. Does make you really wonder that one?

This may exist somewhere, but I would like to see a list of the name changes over the years. I'm sure there are posters I think have disappeared but who are just going by a modified name now that I missed.

[richinspain]

4 hours ago, Gaspode said:

 

3 hours ago, Steve How Hard? said:

 

 

[Boycie]

5 hours ago, richinspain said:

I have spoken to @i-Ram in the zoom chats. I can assure you that he looks and behaves exactly like George.

What? Good actor? 
 
😘 @i-Ram

[Mucker1884]

7 hours ago, i-Ram said:

…and I suspect chicken in a basket was outlawed by some food hygiene commission. 

Don’t know about UK, but I’ve just spent a fortnight treating my pet chicken to a tour of France in my bike basket, and monsieur Gendarme never oven butted an eye led.