France 40 - NZ 25 :o
Allez les bleus!!
Vive les crapauds! A bas les kiwis!
WE seem to be suffering from a surfit of French peeps,,,,,,,,
The French played a blinder and the All Blacks looked tired and out of sorts in the first half. They appeared to be missing some key players, not sure whether injury related or not.
Quote from: Lord Kermit of Birkenhead on 21 November 2021, 07:06:31 AMWE seem to be suffering from a surfit of French peeps,,,,,,,,
Good. Let them remind their neighbours how to cook!
You mean very small over garliced portions massivly ovewrpriced !!
That is Cuisine... not Cooking. Foreign Johnnies can Cook quite well, really... just tend to exuberance with the 'panache'... ;) :)
I must find out how to garlice something. Sounds appetising.
Quote from: Heedless Horseman on 21 November 2021, 09:25:08 AMThat is Cuisine... not Cooking. Foreign Johnnies can Cook quite well, really... just tend to exuberance with the 'panache'... ;) :)
But remember Chef Gusteau's manta "Anyone can cook" ;)
QuoteBut remember Chef Gusteau's manta "Anyone can cook" ;)
Ah, yes! Who could forget Jacques Cousteau's retort,"Sacre Blue! Un stingray zat can talk!!" ;D
Nice typo, Peter, nice typo!
;D ;D ;D
To quote that nice Mr Andy Hamilton, in Old Harry's Game.
"The French.....Can cook...but can't sing (Pause).....A sort of mirror image of the Welsh."
PAH !...the chippy in the village does damn good nosh....So does the kebab shop.....Ah ! Perhaps that's not a good example.
Cheers - Phil ;)
The Welsh can only cook leeks and sheep :d :d (and may be daffodills)
We are NOT daffodils. :D
(And...children...you should NEVER EVER eat daffodils..unless you have a death wish...Every so often you hear of some complete twerp who's tried to fry, then eat, daffodil bulbs..."Cos they look like small onions". X_X )
Talking of sheep.....there must be a dead one in one of the fields about half a mile from us.
It was like a scene from 'The Birds' when I was driving on the way into Cardigan, this morning.....
50-100 rooks or jackdaws bimbling/flapping around and having a fine old time, as I tried to drive through them.
Cheers - Phil. :)
To misquote James Davis Nicoll
The problem with defending the purity of the English cookery is that English cookery is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow recipes; on many occasions, English cookery has pursued other cuisines down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new ingredients.
Quote from: Techno II on 21 November 2021, 11:22:09 AMWe are NOT daffodils. :D .....
Cheers - Phil. :)
Nice one.
I like Steinbeck's remark that English cooks are afraid if they don't boil a vegetable into helpless submission, it may revolt and demand dominion status.
Here is my theory - it is mine.....
Vegitables are green - except carrots which should be purple - green is the colour of mold, so vegitables are danerous to eat. {Carrots are only orange to honour King Billy}
'Asterix in Britain' - Obelix is appalled when his host boils the boar - and everything else - rather than roasting it.
'Talking of sheep.....there must be a dead one in one of the fields about half a mile from us.
It was like a scene from 'The Birds' when I was driving on the way into Cardigan, this morning.....
50-100 rooks or jackdaws bimbling/flapping around and having a fine old time, as I tried to drive through them.'
Inspiring! :o We NEED Crows / Ravens/ Vultures and Kites to mount on 'wobbly' nylon flight stands above our casualty figures!
(Fan-Mon 26 might be a bit top heavy... though maybe accurate!). ;D
Quote'Talking of sheep.....there must be a dead one in one of the fields about half a mile from us.
It was like a scene from 'The Birds' when I was driving on the way into Cardigan, this morning.....
50-100 rooks or jackdaws bimbling/flapping around and having a fine old time, as I tried to drive through them.'
Inspiring! :o We NEED Crows / Ravens/ Vultures and Kites to mount on 'wobbly' nylon flight stands above our casualty figures!
(Fan-Mon 26 might be a bit top heavy... though maybe accurate!). ;D
Splintered Light miniatures manufacture a flock of ravens.
It requires a bit of assembly as the birds attach to a scaffold made form the same white metal.
Done well' the scaffold is mostly hidden and the viewer sees the mass of birds.
Adventurous modelers might craft their own scaffold from stiff wire to create a different shaped flock.
Do you know, Keith.....(Carrion) crows seem to be in rather short supply here.
Simply oodles of jackdaws......and rooks, if THOSE can be bothered to bothered to fly from the actual village, half a mile away.
Ravens ?....Still haven't seen one of those (for certain) for a few years.....Even the red kites and buzzards are (currently) noticeable by their absence.
Spadgers....chaffys...coal/blue tits, seem to be thriving....as do jays, magpies, woodpeckers and nuthatches.
Feral (flying rats) pigeons seem to have got the message that Von (aka Annie Oakley) will give them terminal lead poisoning if they turn up here.
Cheers - Phil. :)
Quote from: Techno II on 21 November 2021, 01:09:17 PMFeral (flying rats) pigeons seem to have got the message that Von (aka Annie Oakley) will give them terminal lead poisoning if they turn up here.
Cheers - Phil. :)
New campaign - "Save the Welsh Pigeons" along with the Polecats
'We don't just borrow recipes; on many occasions, English cookery has pursued other cuisines down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new ingredients.'
Ah! Pride! :) :) :)
When devouring our 'Full English Breakfast' or 'Roast beef Sunday Dinner', consider the origins of ingredients... or the current sources, thereof. Centuries of exploration, enterprenurial trade and the 'Brown Bess' musket have resulted in these pinnacles of cullinary expectation!
Vive Rule Britannia! :)
QuoteNew campaign - "Save the Welsh Pigeons" along with the Polecats..
Ian....arrange the following into a well known phrase, or saying.
And...off....bog...die. (That's the polite version.)
Cheers - Phil ;D ;D
QuoteAh, yes! Who could forget Jacques Cousteau's retort,"Sacre Blue! Un stingray zat can talk!!" ;D
Nice typo, Peter, nice typo!
Opps, your right...amazing what a difference one letter makes :-[ ;)