1 hour until off to the airport to escape this crap weather

[PSRB]

10 days in the Algarve.

I don't expect to hear we've signed Mbappe in my absence

[Burney]

10 days in the Algarve.

I don't expect to hear we've signed Mbappe in my absence

I trust you've voted postally many times?

[PSRB]

I trust you've voted postally many times?

err, I did mean to but then what with the mother's stroke. I forgot to actually post the bloody forms. In fairness, our 2 votes will make no difference. Trafford is Labour and will forever be so, I'm afraid

[Luis Anaconda]

10 days in the Algarve.

I don't expect to hear we've signed Mbappe in my absence

Have fun - just got back from 27/28 degrees in Greece to pissing down with rain here :(

[World's End Stella]

Have fun - just got back from 27/28 degrees in Greece to pissing down with rain here :(

Yeah but the good news is that you are no longer surrounded by Greeks or have to eat Greek food.

[Burney]

Yeah but the good news is that you are no longer surrounded by Greeks or have to eat Greek food.

:-( It's no fun taking the pïss out of Greeks or Greek food without Nic here to get irate about it.

[World's End Stella]

:-( It's no fun taking the pïss out of Greeks or Greek food without Nic here to get irate about it.

Yes, I thought that as well as I posted it.

I hoped Luis might offer a token defence of them. There wouldn't be nearly the deranged passion but beggars can't be choosers etc

[Billy Goat Sverige]

:-( It's no fun taking the pïss out of Greeks or Greek food without Nic here to get irate about it.

There was a mandarin duck in a lake near where i live (it escaped from a wildlife park). I was going to post a picture of it but there just wasn't any point.

[Alberto Balsam Rodriguez]

10 days in the Algarve.

I don't expect to hear we've signed Mbappe in my absence


.....or on your return

[Luis Anaconda]

Yeah but the good news is that you are no longer surrounded by Greeks or have to eat Greek food.

Ate rather wonderfully well, actually. Simple cuisine but very nice. The lamb shank I had in the town's best restaurant was quite superb. As for the people, they were very nice, couldn't do enough for you. I would much rather be surrounded by Greeks than, for example, Canadian, who tend to be boorish oafs, in my experience.

And finally - :hehe: seriously, how someone who actually chooses to holiday in the cesspit that is Dubai can comment on any other destination is beyond me

[World's End Stella]

Ate rather wonderfully well, actually. Simple cuisine but very nice. The lamb shank I had in the town's best restaurant was quite superb. As for the people, they were very nice, couldn't do enough for you. I would much rather be surrounded by Greeks than, for example, Canadian, who tend to be boorish oafs, in my experience.

And finally - :hehe: seriously, how someone who actually chooses to holiday in the cesspit that is Dubai can comment on any other destination is beyond me

Nah, Greece is a dump, the people are miserable and unhelpful and describing the food as basic is being kind. What it really is is boring at best and awful at worst.

And I have never taken a holiday in Dubai in my life. I fly into Dubai, and then transfer to a wonderful resort in Fujairah where the staff are fantastically helpful, the weather is hot and sunny and the food is magnificent. Now you could rightly point out that I haven't actually holidayed in Fujairah, I have just sat in a resort in Fujairah. Which is true, and that's the way I want it.

Put my resort in Greece and would I go to it? Certainly, provided it contained no miserable, unhelpful Greeks and they had nothing to do with my food. Hope that helps. :thumbup:

[Luis Anaconda]

Nah, Greece is a dump, the people are miserable and unhelpful and describing the food as basic is being kind. What it really is is boring at best and awful at worst.

And I have never taken a holiday in Dubai in my life. I fly into Dubai, and then transfer to a wonderful resort in Fujairah where the staff are fantastically helpful, the weather is hot and sunny and the food is magnificent. Now you could rightly point out that I haven't actually holidayed in Fujairah, I have just sat in a resort in Fujairah. Which is true, and that's the way I want it.

Put my resort in Greece and would I go to it? Certainly, provided it contained no miserable, unhelpful Greeks and they had nothing to do with my food. Hope that helps. :thumbup:

You might as well have just written there "My name is WES, I am a thick, ignorant **** with no imagination" tbf

I'm glad you enjoy your holidays in the UAE - they sound incredibly tedious but that seems to suit you.

Thanks for letting me know that all the happy, helpful Greeks I encountered were in fact miserable and unhelpful. And as I said, the food was lovely. But you know best obviously. Stupid ****

[Pokster]

You might as well have just written there "My name is WES, I am a thick, ignorant **** with no imagination" tbf

I'm glad you enjoy your holidays in the UAE - they sound incredibly tedious but that seems to suit you.

Thanks for letting me know that all the happy, helpful Greeks I encountered were in fact miserable and unhelpful. And as I said, the food was lovely. But you know best obviously. Stupid ****

psssst, he's Canadian, they don't get out much, and when they do it's a mistake

[World's End Stella]

You might as well have just written there "My name is WES, I am a thick, ignorant **** with no imagination" tbf

I'm glad you enjoy your holidays in the UAE - they sound incredibly tedious but that seems to suit you.

Thanks for letting me know that all the happy, helpful Greeks I encountered were in fact miserable and unhelpful. And as I said, the food was lovely. But you know best obviously. Stupid ****

Yes, I enjoy spending time with my family in a wonderful resort with wonderful weather. Playing with my children in the ocean is a particular source of fun but just generally having the family together in a completely relaxed atmosphere is something we have always enjoyed.

I guess it's tedious and that suits all of us and you know best obviously. Stupid c*nt.

BTW, I don't actually hate all Greek food and not all Greeks are miserable, but there was a time when you could make glib overstatements on AWIMB and people wouldn't take them seriously. I guess being sober in Germany must be hard on you.

[Sir C]

Yes, I enjoy spending time with my family in a wonderful resort with wonderful weather. Playing with my children in the ocean is a particular source of fun but just generally having the family together in a completely relaxed atmosphere is something we have always enjoyed.

I guess it's tedious and that suits all of us and you know best obviously. Stupid c*nt.

BTW, I don't actually hate all Greek food and not all Greeks are miserable, but there was a time when you could make glib overstatements on AWIMB and people wouldn't take them seriously. I guess being sober in Germany must be hard on you.

Could you please stop saying 'resort'. Just the thought of it makes me depressed.

[Luis Anaconda]

Yes, I enjoy spending time with my family in a wonderful resort with wonderful weather. Playing with my children in the ocean is a particular source of fun but just generally having the family together in a completely relaxed atmosphere is something we have always enjoyed.

I guess it's tedious and that suits all of us and you know best obviously. Stupid c*nt.

BTW, I don't actually hate all Greek food and not all Greeks are miserable, but there was a time when you could make glib overstatements on AWIMB and people wouldn't take them seriously. I guess being sober in Germany must be hard on you.
What makes you think I am sober :)

[Luis Anaconda]

Yes, I thought that as well as I posted it.

I hoped Luis might offer a token defence of them. There wouldn't be nearly the deranged passion but beggars can't be choosers etc

Besides I was going for deranged passion as requested :(

[Burney]

Could you please stop saying 'resort'. Just the thought of it makes me depressed.

You used to feel the same about self-catering, so you may change your mind.

I think the very worst thing on earth must be a cruise, though. When I was in Amsterdam, there was a cruise ship moored up outside our hotel and all the ancient, nearly-dead American tourists were milling around the place shouting and asking staff where the 'restrooms' were. I thought about being trapped on a boat at sea with such people for days on end and nearly collapsed.

[Sir C]

You used to feel the same about self-catering, so you may change your mind.

I think the very worst thing on earth must be a cruise, though. When I was in Amsterdam, there was a cruise ship moored up outside our hotel and all the ancient, nearly-dead American tourists were milling around the place shouting and asking staff where the 'restrooms' were. I thought about being trapped on a boat at sea with such people for days on end and nearly collapsed.

Self-catering? Is this some sort of sick personal attack?

I 'take a cottage'. I most certainly do NOT 'self-cater'.

[Burney]

Self-catering? Is this some sort of sick personal attack?

I 'take a cottage'. I most certainly do NOT 'self-cater'.

:hehe: Embrace it, my friend.

[redgunamo]

Self-catering? Is this some sort of sick personal attack?

I 'take a cottage'. I most certainly do NOT 'self-cater'.

Good for you. That sort of thing makes you go blind, so I gather.

[World's End Stella]

Could you please stop saying 'resort'. Just the thought of it makes me depressed.

You'd love them if you had children, Charles. :shrug:

[World's End Stella]

You used to feel the same about self-catering, so you may change your mind.

I think the very worst thing on earth must be a cruise, though. When I was in Amsterdam, there was a cruise ship moored up outside our hotel and all the ancient, nearly-dead American tourists were milling around the place shouting and asking staff where the 'restrooms' were. I thought about being trapped on a boat at sea with such people for days on end and nearly collapsed.

Oh yes. Did one once as the family in Canada insisted upon for a sort of family reunion for Dad's 80th thing.

To call it hell would be an understatement. :-(

[World's End Stella]

Besides I was going for deranged passion as requested :(

Oh, well, if that was a Nic substitute play then there is only one thing to say.

Well played. :thumbup:

[Luis Anaconda]

Oh, well, if that was a Nic substitute play then there is only one thing to say.

Well played. :thumbup:
Thank you my friend