Cold Ale - The Blokes' Thread!

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09-20-2010, 03:30 PM
dafydd manton

Asbach Uralt, naturally. None of your cheap French muck!
09-20-2010, 03:42 PM
Emil Miller

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Originally Posted by dafydd manton

Asbach Uralt, naturally. None of your cheap French muck!

Reminds me of many happy days in Germany where the big thing among my friends was, I dare to say it, Asbach with Coca Cola accompanied by much smoking of HB cigarettes; I should point out that we were all very much younger in those days.
09-20-2010, 03:51 PM
dafydd manton

HB! You're brave! And it is sacrilege putting Coke in Asbach - and far too expensive, as well! What were you doing in Germany?
09-20-2010, 04:00 PM
Emil Miller

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Originally Posted by dafydd manton

HB! You're brave! And it is sacrilege putting Coke in Asbach - and far too expensive, as well! What were you doing in Germany?

Working in a steel works and learning the language.
09-20-2010, 04:46 PM
dafydd manton

Echt? Wunderbar! Sie ist eine herrlich Sprache!
09-20-2010, 05:31 PM
Emil Miller

Ich würde sagen, dass Deutsch ist eher eine interessante Sprache als eine herrliche. Es gibt wenig Gelegenheit Deutsch zu sprechen in England, obwohl praktisch alle Sprachen der Welt sind hier zu hören in diesen Tagen.
09-20-2010, 06:08 PM
dafydd manton

Oh, I loved German - worked in it for five years, lived amongst the locals, went to local shops, local pubs. Had a whale of a time - Berlin, too, which helps. I went to Berlin twice, once for a year, once for five, theree years in Celle, near Hanover, and one year on a roving commission, centred on Dannenberg. All booze tax free, too!!! What a life!
09-20-2010, 06:08 PM
Scheherazade

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Originally Posted by prendrelemick

Just back from Hols. After four days shopping, in Kendal (shoes) Keswick (A new top) Windermere (plate rack for draining board)and Lancaster (nothing, but we had lunch:rolleyes5:) I eventually persuaded Mrs P to go for a lesurely walk among the fells and lakes of Cumbria. It was after all the reason (I thought) we had chosen to head Northwest in the first place.
The day dawned bright and clear and we actually managed one and a half miles above Hawes water before being forced back by a chilly breeze. Coincidentally Mrs P had spotted The Hawes Water Hotel a few minutes before this ill wind struck, so we had a refuge from the storm. The rest of the afternoon was spent in the Hotel lounge sipping expensive tea and listening to Mrs P saying, "This is nice," every 10 minutes or so. After that it rained every day.:(

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Originally Posted by Paulclem

Shopping is the primary purpose of holidays apparently. I used to think the primary purpose was relaxing fun. My views have since modified themselves to the actual reality.

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Originally Posted by dafydd manton

Ah, the joys of going on to a million souvenir shops, in Rhyl, and looking at little models of London buses, asinine looking dolphins, dolls made in Hong Kong (sure, it says China....bit we all know) and other tat that you can buy in every other souvenir shop from Lands End to John 'o Groats. And that's the GOOD side of Rhyl!

I think I would like Mrs P, Mrs Clem and Mrs Manton (and better halves of the other members of this club) to join LitNet!
09-20-2010, 06:11 PM
dafydd manton

Do you really think we would even be so daft as to admit to it's very existence? This is our haven, our oasis, our sanity in a lunatic world!!!!!!
09-20-2010, 06:23 PM
Paulclem

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Originally Posted by dafydd manton

I'm not sure which is worse - the thought of Bournemouth or a Wetherspoons. A combination of the two, well....... One assumes the relationship was doomed!

I can answer that - the Wetherspoons in Nuneaton. Now I'm not a soft lad but I baulked at entering ...

Having said that, the Wetherspoons in Coventry offers coffee from 7am and does a cheap breakfast.

I find that quite civilised, though I haven't partaken yet.
09-20-2010, 06:26 PM
dafydd manton

The Wetherspoons near me is horriific - the Giro Jet Set, in Designer this that and the other, and tarty women with everything hanging out, tattoes and bottle blonde hair like drying straw. I went in once, left quickly and haven't been back. Dante couldn't have imagined it!
09-20-2010, 06:30 PM
Paulclem

I know what you mean. The one in Coventry is like that from the afternoon onwards too. It's right in the centre of town as well.

Just slipped the old avatar on again. Feels better.
09-20-2010, 06:32 PM
dafydd manton

Wot? No Watney's Red Barrel? (Now there was a horrific brew.)
09-20-2010, 06:33 PM
Emil Miller

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Originally Posted by dafydd manton

Oh, I loved German - worked in it for five years, lived amongst the locals, went to local shops, local pubs. Had a whale of a time - Berlin, too, which helps. I went to Berlin twice, once for a year, once for five, theree years in Celle, near Hanover, and one year on a roving commission, centred on Dannenberg. All booze tax free, too!!! What a life!

Germany is my second home, I first went there expecting to find it full of the ridiculously propagandist view propagated by UK governments, only to discover that my own people were either dupes or liars. While the 'Oh so liberal' UK sank beneath the weight of its own political and philosophical inconsistencies, Germany continued to rise to become the mighty industrial driving force for the whole of Europe. They are much more my kind of people than the English with their casuistic self-righteousness which continues to reduce them to the status of a third world country. Or to put it another way, es lebt Deutschland !
09-20-2010, 06:39 PM
dafydd manton

Bingo! I'd go back tomorrow, if I could!! I loved the lack of class distinctions, so long as you didn't sit uninvited at the Stammtisch! And the determination to enjoy life!