Y'know, he's on the right track. What if we got ourselves a roast and trapped it in battery (as in batter, not Duracell's) goodness?
Y'know, he's on the right track. What if we got ourselves a roast and trapped it in battery (as in batter, not Duracell's) goodness?
A Yorkshire Wellington
I've seen Yorkshire wraps a fair bit. Never tried one though.
They’ve made these things called a Naanwich here. Pakora chicken nuggets bit of lettuce and onions and sauce inside Full sized cheesy naan It’s incredible.
Because we all have Telegraph subscriptions...
It says they've softened us up for this current state to continue into January in return for the prize of a week off at Christmas.
I don't think any softening up was required. There is a bizarre fixation on Christmas in this country. It has to be perfect. Everyone has to get what they want and no amount of credit card debt or inconvenience before or after Christmas is too much.
It’s almost like it’s the one time of year where families come together. Maybe I’m the outlier but from what I’ve seen of UK culture, it’s rare for people to live in the same place as their parents and their parents the same place as their siblings.
It’s not like Naples where there’s 35 variety of aunts/uncles/niece/newphew coming round for dinner every Sunday.
So in a year where that’s been largely impossible since March, I understand peoples anxiety over it.
There are numerous weekends and Bank Holidays where they can get together. And they can do so without accumulating ridiculous levels of debt or requiring the nation to go through a 2 month lockdown.
Where they can but they don't. What's with the whole 'everyone going bankrupt at Christmas' thing?
The obsession with Christmas is absolutely insane. I always find the people who bang on about it the most are the ones who end up enjoying it the least as well. Then they also envitably depressed throughout January as they've got nothing to look forward to, this time will be even worse!
My wife is on about isolating away form me in our spare bedroom for two weeks so she can go and visit her family for a few days over Christmas with a clear conscience and then isolate again for another 14 days when she gets back. Mental.
https://www.stepchange.org/media-cen...christmas.aspx
It's a big problem.
I'm all for Christmas, good food, good company, lots of alcohol and an Eastenders special but we have an unhealthy obsession with it.
People are willing to struggle financially for 3 quarters of the year to have a good Christmas and now, apparently, to isolate themselves from the people they love for 6-8 weeks so that they... can see the people they love for 5 days over Christmas?
There's a bit of what phonics said, but from my observation of colleagues etc Christmas gets completely turbocharged in (many) families which have kids aged 3-11, to the point where it's literally the focal point of the entire year and everything else is just building up to it. That's where you get the demand for decorations in the shop from October and so on.
It's a marketing orgy and there is no group of people that marketeers love more than 'mums', as they're often making spending decisions for four or five people across multiple arenas be it food and drink, presents, trips out or whatever else. Wrap those all up in tinsel with a Santa hat and you're sitting on a pot of gold.
So many people have got their trees up already “coz wot else can we do?” but I like that we’re sticking to tradition and all being polite enough to wait for Lewis to start our Christmas 2020 thread on December 1st. Well done, TTH.
I'm a twit
Unfortunately my time on the railway has taught me there is a spike in fatalities come January when the bills roll in and I worry this coming January could be an all time high.
Can't even enjoy the Delay Repays this year 2 or 3 years ago was superb, they were dropping like flies.
Can I recommend you Delay Repay Sniper. Works a treat when you have an annual season ticket.
Same in my job, I think that's why I'm so aware of it. It all starts in October when people can't pay their rent and offer various feeble excuses why. Then they end up in court in January/ February and end up with a court order that they start breaching the following October. It's nuts.
That said, they're not the ones that kill themselves in my experience. It's more likely to be the lonely and isolated people, which is where Phonics point does have merit and why the train cleaners may be very busy indeed this winter.
Part of me also feels a bit sorry for the other religions whose celebrations we happily trashed to Control the Virus, but then I remember 7/7 and think of all them girls in Rotherham and elsewhere and I might buy two advent calendars this year.
The sweet sweet days of https://www.recenttraintimes.co.uk/ for me. DRS is probably less work but also less satisfaction as a result.
Yeah fuck the minorities.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-55040635
Useless Oxbridge cunts.
Trump is gonna love the fact that it's only 70%.
You see in England, at Oxford, supposed to be the best school... just 70%. Our vaccine is 95%, best vaccine in the world most people are saying that. My Warp Speed program has been a tremendous success, such a legacy
"Our fridges are colder, too. Yeah!" <cut to syringes being buried in the arctic>
What time is Boris on?
The missus’ Maw tested positive on Friday having shown symptoms from Wednesday. She’s a deputy head so no surprises there. She’s only just turned 40 though and certainly not obese or anything and has been in bed since Friday morning and hasn’t moved. The Missus has had bad headaches since Saturday which is apparently a symptom.
The Maw has to self isolate until Saturday but we have to until a week Wednesday unless I start showing symptoms and it’s ten days from that day. Load of bollocks.
Is your girlfriend 9?
I've been on the headache train for the last week too. It was very mild until the middle of last night and when I woke up this morning. I'm alright now but watch this space.
Leader of the SNP at Westminster-
He really is a cunt.
Westminster should be telling these dickheads that they have no right to be closing 'national' borders.
We should just bin them off and they can make all the laws they like.
We can hear the 'drumming hooves' of your bumbling bollocks Boj. Get on with it.
Has Whitty gone blind? His eyes have gone weird.
Sign language really, really makes this.
Hands, Face, Space mother fuckers!
We're entering the final straight of this piece of shit time in all our lives.
I must be watching a different channel.
Get Baz back in that office.
Never again. The building was shut so long it's gone even mouldier. So what was previously seen as "not fit for a public library but fine for a workforce" is now just unfit for any purpose, it seems.
I mean, it's a crying shame that such an iconic building has been allowed to fall into such disarray, but if it means I can have naps and watch films on my dinner, I'm all for it.
I'm a twit
Well the shortest day isn't until this time next month so his daylight hopes are in ruins atleast.