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Post by Faceless on Mar 21, 2020 15:05:11 GMT
I could easily live in France. Except for the need for money and football. I'm pretty sure they have money in France. |
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Post by Faceless on Mar 21, 2020 15:54:44 GMT
Faceless jnr has already gone full Rear Window. He's camped in the bedroom with some fisher price binoculars trained on the flats opposite.
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Post by Sheep2 on Mar 21, 2020 16:05:03 GMT
Best break his leg for full immersion.
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Post by Ozymandias Kane on Mar 21, 2020 17:28:05 GMT
Best break his leg for full immersion. RJ on YT comment which I found funny: "Do you know why there is a shortage of toilet paper"? "because when one guy sneezes ten people sh*t themselves"! I can't believe how empty London's streets are (from watching his vids) Ps: it's very quiet here also - I just dropped a pin, did you here it! |
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Post by crankcaller on Mar 21, 2020 17:29:08 GMT
Macaroni and cauliflower cheese bubbling away. Scenes.
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Post by Destry on Mar 21, 2020 17:31:13 GMT
Best break his leg for full immersion. I just dropped a pin, did you here it! I herd it. |
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Post by Ozymandias Kane on Mar 21, 2020 17:47:42 GMT
I just dropped a pin, did you here it! I herd it. #misstype I meant to say ear it!  |
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Post by Chumbles on Mar 21, 2020 17:51:25 GMT
I don't think i've been to Hesdin. It does look nice. I really like Arras and that area. They make some fantastic beer round there. Naours which is quite close is fantastic as well. The underground city is amazing. I could easily live in France. Except for the need for money and football. NE France, besides some horrible industrial centres like Mantes Les (not so) Jolies, where close by open cast mining provides a splendid pall of dust over the surrounding villages, has plenty of really nice places. The outskirts of Amiens has a huuuuge Carrefour near the N1/N25 junction on a par with the one at Cité d'Europe, but it's a bugger to navigate to without SatNav* - but you have to go through a ton of traffic to get into the interesting centre. Lille town centre IS worth the effort. *I don't like them As you rightly say, the beer is excellent and this area was anciently Picardie + Artois and the latter area has always brewed effing good stuff on the Belgian side. I'm a bit of a pleb, so I like Pelforth. If you hunt around there are some splendid seafood restos in coastal towns; avoid ones with beaches... Le Tréport has a lot of them all competing with each other - the whole seafront here is entirely seafood restaurants...  Boulougne-Sur-Mer is good too, but avoid the chains... the Restaurant Brasserie Chez Jules is good; sadly the subterranean restaurant near Les Remparts seems to have gone... I ate my first meal in a French restaurant there... even after having had a rough crossing and literally biting my tongue (in that way that every second mouthful you bit it again) I tasted my first Ficelle picarde, Entrecôte au poivre vert... I couldn't believe it! And then my friend's elderly father** couldn't finish his Rognons flambés sauce moutarde... **He was watching in fascination as I engulfed my meal; the groans of ecstasy and the use of my bread, leaving behind a near spotless plate probably put him off his own food. This has been another excerpt from Chumbles' Voyages of a Greedy Bastard... |
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Post by RollingEscargot on Mar 21, 2020 17:57:17 GMT
I got pished in Lille town centre one balmy night in 1997. It was banane superieure and no mistake.
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Post by Destry on Mar 21, 2020 17:58:59 GMT
ChumblesWhat happened to Chumbles' Chunterings? Is it extant?
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Post by MrTiddles on Mar 21, 2020 18:29:03 GMT
@french chat
I really, really regret not buying a tin of frogs legs from a supermarket, on a school trip in the '80s. As I recall, and I'm still bitter about it, the cashier ripped me off for other goods to the tune of 30 centimes in change.
Fucking bitch.
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Post by MrTiddles on Mar 21, 2020 18:32:56 GMT
No offence.
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Post by MrTiddles on Mar 21, 2020 18:34:18 GMT
Froggy bitch.
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Post by lonewolf on Mar 21, 2020 18:54:25 GMT
Remember when we took the piss out of doomsday prepers? Good times. Remember the times when I used to rant about how Theresa May was the most incompetent twat ever to be PM, and how Brexit / environmental collapse was going to fuck us all? Good times. Ah you see I always said it would be a bacteria/virus that would be the more pressing issue. Im not often right but when I am I wish I wasnt. |
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Post by Sheep2 on Mar 21, 2020 19:01:21 GMT
Chumbles
Pelforth is a delight. The only problem with it is if it isn't properly cold it is very very sweet.
There are some great bieres de garde from around Lille.
And of course the whole area is infested with Belgian beers as well.
I've got lost in the Carrefour shopping centre at Amiens. It is properly confusing.
I love those giant Carrefours. Such good selections of beer and wine at very good prices.
I am all out of French and Belgian beer. I'd love to get some more. I'm not sure this weekend is ideal though.
A weekend easily pays for itself with the cheap wine and the beer at €1.70 a bottle rather than £6 or 7 in the UK when you can get it.
When everything is back to normal I am going to go to Cologne for a weekend and spend a couple of days in Belgium/France as well.
I still cannot believe we have left the EU. Such a stupid thing to do.
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Post by Chumbles on Mar 21, 2020 19:17:03 GMT
Chumbles What happened to Chumbles' Chunterings? Is it extant? Yes (not being shut down as opposed to extinct), but the stuff I would've posted there I post here. The blogger host uses html tags whereas here it's bbcode and it's a lot of donkey work to move across and sanitize it. It's hardly worth it, because you have to pay a small annual sub to keep it hosted. So, when I go extinct so do the Chunterings. Today's posts have taken about 3 hrs. and I would rather play some games, eat and sleep in the rest of the time. |
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Post by Chumbles on Mar 21, 2020 19:19:50 GMT
Chumbles I still cannot believe we have left the EU. Such a stupid thing to do. This. In spades. |
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Post by Chumbles on Mar 21, 2020 19:20:41 GMT
Clocking out for a while - stuff must get done
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Post by Ozymandias Kane on Mar 21, 2020 19:29:44 GMT
Clocking out for a while - stuff must get done Don't forget your loo rolls, it looks like the Easter queues are early this year because of the virus!  last pack has been grabbed and the six foot rule is being ignored! |
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Post by RollingEscargot on Mar 21, 2020 19:37:01 GMT
@french chat I really, really regret not buying a tin of frogs legs from a supermarket, on a school trip in the '80s. As I recall, and I'm still bitter about it, the cashier ripped me off for other goods to the tune of 30 centimes in change. Fucking bitch. On my school French trip everyone bought booze, fireworks and flick knives. The fireworks were deployed on a beach, the knives concealed in tubes of toothpaste, and the booze downed in a short period as we approached customs, leading to a strong smell of vomit on the bus all the way back to Edinburgh. Oh to be 14 again! |
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Post by Chumbles on Mar 21, 2020 19:53:20 GMT
FYI - putting catering tub soup into ebay yields some interesting results, like this for £40  or The seller of this has a great variety of other stuff, like bulk cereals etc. |
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Post by Sheep2 on Mar 21, 2020 19:53:53 GMT
I went to Greece on a school trip when I was 15.
On the first night a group of us bought a bottle of ouzo as you do.
One lad drank a lot more of it than the rest of us.
We got him back to the hotel. He immediately passed out in bed and threw up everywhere.
The smell was appalling. Plus because we couldn't get him to wake up we had to fess up.
I still hate the smell of ouzo (petrol and aniseed)
We did not buy flick knives though, as stabbing each other was not a hobby at the schools I went to.
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Post by Felice Landry on Mar 21, 2020 20:00:00 GMT
Tom Nook is seriously dodgy, well I paid off first debt now waiting for a house and another building to be build.
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Post by Sheep2 on Mar 21, 2020 20:00:04 GMT
The fessing up resulted in a strong bollocking. Oddly there was not a booze ban. Tho we took things more gently from then on.
Also another strong bollocking when we got back to school.
There was also another a year later when two of my year ended up in hospital the same weekend for collapsing while drunk at different parties.
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Post by RollingEscargot on Mar 21, 2020 20:00:17 GMT
Tbh even though it was the 1980s, I was a bit appalled by the flick knives and did not partake. I suspect it was just the thrill of the purchase rather than an intent to use. The fireworks guy is now a professor of computer science.
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