RMweb Gold The Johnster Posted July 30 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 30 Ah, the good old days, pub food in plastic baskets, dried-out chicken portion and soggy chips. We thought we were Gods... 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul H Vigor Posted July 30 Share Posted July 30 26 minutes ago, The Johnster said: Ah, the good old days, pub food in plastic baskets, dried-out chicken portion and soggy chips. We thought we were Gods... It was a world away from a bag of nuts or a packet of scratchings! When 'gastro' meant a visit to A&E! 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium SteveyDee68 Posted July 30 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 30 11 hours ago, PeterStiles said: Cough Cough Cough I think I'm choking on someone's ambition.. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/285984776972?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=eVPCfnI_Q7a&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=v6cpl3kbqqi&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY I’m stunned, almost to silence, at this offering and - what a BARGAIN! 🤣 Forgetting the railway just for a moment (I know, it’s hard, once seen it’s difficult to unsee) but I’m wondering where exactly that large aircraft is going, given that no runway has been modelled for it to take off or land at? Or maybe it’s an outsized version of those Air BnBs converted from old Gulfstream Executive Jets? And I’m still left wondering why the outfall from that waterfall isn’t gushing out of the tunnel mouth and into the harbour - it appears to be the shortest route. Ah well, the wallet is safe for now! Steve S 2 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Hodgson Posted July 31 Share Posted July 31 3 hours ago, The Johnster said: Ah, the good old days, pub food in plastic baskets, dried-out chicken portion and soggy chips. We thought we were Gods... Ah, the good old days when we still had pubs! 5 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Hroth Posted July 31 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 31 9 hours ago, The Johnster said: Ah, the good old days, pub food in plastic baskets, dried-out chicken portion and soggy chips. We thought we were Gods... Scampi inna basket. Dead sophis!!! 1 2 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
40152 Posted July 31 Share Posted July 31 20 minutes ago, Hroth said: Scampi inna basket. Dead sophis!!! One of my relatives got sacked as a sales exec in the 80’s for not hard selling with sufficient vigour his company’s line of plastic baskets designed for the then-booming chicken in a basket market. Clearly more of a Berni Inns man! 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Enterprisingwestern Posted July 31 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 31 14 hours ago, Paul H Vigor said: Who recalls a time when we were driven into a frenzy of excitement over 'Chicken and Chips in a basket'!? Soup in a basket did it for me! Mike. 1 2 1 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Bucoops Posted July 31 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 31 2 hours ago, Enterprisingwestern said: Soup in a basket did it for me! Mike. Leak and potato soup? 1 1 6 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul H Vigor Posted July 31 Share Posted July 31 (edited) 3 hours ago, Enterprisingwestern said: Soup in a basket did it for me! Mike. Leak & Potato?? - Oh phooey! Bucoops got there first! 😎 Edited July 31 by Paul H Vigor to add information 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Tim123 Posted July 31 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 31 https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/375562108892 Bit expensive for something that can be downloaded for free? 1 2 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Hodgson Posted August 2 Share Posted August 2 https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/355897898077 Eh? 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Hroth Posted August 2 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 2 2 hours ago, Michael Hodgson said: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/355897898077 Eh? In terms of distance the guess isn't that far out! Good for a random guess by a M.C. from The Vale of Glamorgan.... 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWolf Posted August 2 Share Posted August 2 7 hours ago, Michael Hodgson said: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/355897898077 Eh? I'll see your Eh? and raise you a further Eh? https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/355911258102? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Enterprisingwestern Posted August 2 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 2 29 minutes ago, MrWolf said: I'll see your Eh? and raise you a further Eh? https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/355911258102? Well, it's not from Yorkshire, ergo, it's continental. Mike. 1 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium SteveyDee68 Posted August 2 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 2 1 hour ago, Enterprisingwestern said: Well, it's not from Yorkshire, ergo, it's continental. Mike. If it has leaky cylinders, would that make it incontinental? Hat, coat … 3 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Ramrig Posted August 2 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 2 10 hours ago, Michael Hodgson said: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/355897898077 Eh? The bit that amuses me is the line : runs but stutters on track. Does that mean in full Arkwright voice it goes chur, chur, chur, chuff as it moves along the rails 😂 1 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWolf Posted August 3 Share Posted August 3 4 hours ago, Enterprisingwestern said: Well, it's not from Yorkshire, ergo, it's continental. Mike. I've met a few from Yorkshire that are dyed in the wool flat earthers, convinced that if you go five miles south of Sheffield you drop off the edge into the abyss... 😉 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium SteveyDee68 Posted August 3 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 3 (edited) There’s been a long rivalry between Lancashire and Yorkshire - crikey, it even reached the status of being a war! - but when I was at university in Yorkshire I remember being told that that rivalry was as nothing compared to Yorkshire, where neighbouring villages could have fallen out sometime in the far past and still be holding a grudge against each other in the present day! I thought I was being wound up until some friends from Horbury (outside Wakefield) were talking in less than flattering tones about the people from Ossett (literally the town next door)! Also, having taken my 3 speed cast iron* bicycle to university with me, I can honestly state there is nowt flat about West Yorkshire! 🤭 Steve S * It wasn’t, but felt like it was! Edited August 3 by SteveyDee68 Removing random line breaks! Added asterisked comment! 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Enterprisingwestern Posted August 3 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 3 4 hours ago, MrWolf said: I've met a few from Yorkshire that are dyed in the wool flat earthers, convinced that if you go five miles south of Sheffield you drop off the edge into the abyss... 😉 , and? Mike. 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Johnster Posted August 3 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 3 12 hours ago, MrWolf said: five miles south of Sheffield you drop off the edge into the abyss... 😉 Which means i live in the abyss. At last, a credible explanation! 1 6 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Hodgson Posted August 3 Share Posted August 3 13 hours ago, MrWolf said: I've met a few from Yorkshire that are dyed in the wool flat earthers, convinced that if you go five miles south of Sheffield you drop off the edge into the abyss... 😉 Not far wrong ,,,, you'd be about half way to Chesterfield. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul H Vigor Posted August 3 Share Posted August 3 18 hours ago, MrWolf said: I'll see your Eh? and raise you a further Eh? https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/355911258102? The winner will be the one wearing the most clothes?? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Hroth Posted August 3 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 3 19 hours ago, MrWolf said: I'll see your Eh? and raise you a further Eh? https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/355911258102? Eh ba gum? 🤔 Discounting the daft description, its probably not a bad price for a Triang "Nellie", the body itself is in good nick, there aren't any apparent cracks around the body screw, the footsteps are all present, as are the buffers! And most M.C.s (Mendacious Chisellers) would charge even more for the X04 alone, contained within its simplistic body shell. What's not to like! 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWolf Posted August 3 Share Posted August 3 12 hours ago, SteveyDee68 said: There’s been a long rivalry between Lancashire and Yorkshire - crikey, it even reached the status of being a war! - but when I was at university in Yorkshire I remember being told that that rivalry was as nothing compared to Yorkshire, where neighbouring villages could have fallen out sometime in the far past and still be holding a grudge against each other in the present day! I thought I was being wound up until some friends from Horbury (outside Wakefield) were talking in less than flattering tones about the people from Ossett (literally the town next door)! Also, having taken my 3 speed cast iron* bicycle to university with me, I can honestly state there is nowt flat about West Yorkshire! 🤭 Steve S * It wasn’t, but felt like it was! There are people who could have an argument in a phone box with no change. We still have bicycles that are made out of recycled panzers, if you flattened out all the hills in Lancashire, part of the county would be in Ireland... 🤨 11 hours ago, Enterprisingwestern said: , and? Mike. Thanks for making my point so eloquently. 😊 4 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul H Vigor Posted August 3 Share Posted August 3 Seen on another thread: "Farish Class 40 - How to remove bogies?" I was SO TEMPTED! - 'Grasp tissue and blow hard!' 1 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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