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    #81
    Originally posted by TheBigYinJames View Post
    Where else but a northern chippie can you buy (and pay good money for) 'scrapings' - which are the burnt frazzled pieces of crapola left over after the fish are all gone?

    Ah, you can feel your arteries hardening as you read it!
    We never used to pay for scratchings/batter bits. The chippy would give them away along with pea wet (sauce of peas)

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      #82
      Originally posted by sasguru View Post
      With all those advantages you'd expect them to be fitter, slimmer and healthier wouldn't you?
      Shame that all the stats show the opposite.
      Is it coz Northeners is thick and can't stay of the lard?
      because

      are

      off

      Southerners can't spell?
      The cycle of life: born > learn > work > learn > dead.

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        #83
        Originally posted by TheBigYinJames View Post

        Ah, you can feel your arteries hardening as you read it!
        I can indeed.

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          #84
          Originally posted by chris79 View Post
          because

          are

          off

          Southerners can't spell?
          Irony, sarcasm or wit are not your bosom bedfellows, are they?
          Hard Brexit now!
          #prayfornodeal

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            #85
            Originally posted by sasguru View Post
            Irony, sarcasm or wit are not your bosom bedfellows, are they?
            Sorry, babelfish doesn't have a Shakespeare translator.
            The cycle of life: born > learn > work > learn > dead.

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              #86
              Originally posted by sasguru View Post
              With all those advantages you'd expect them to be fitter, slimmer and healthier wouldn't you?
              Shame that all the stats show the opposite.
              Is it coz Northeners is thick and can't stay of the lard?
              It's cus there's fewer people up north, to keep the balance the same they need to be fatter than you poncy southerners; be thankful otherwise Saaarf England would tip into the sea!


              /Was never much good at geography/ology....


              hmm i'm reminded of the guy who did the weather on those floating bits of the UK...
              B00med!

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                #87
                Originally posted by Advocate View Post
                It's cus there's fewer people up north, to keep the balance the same they need to be fatter than you poncy southerners; be thankful otherwise Saaarf England would tip into the sea!



                /Was never much good at geography/ology....
                Yeah, thanks to Labour's really great immigration policy this effect is now starting to be seen.
                The cycle of life: born > learn > work > learn > dead.

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                  #88
                  Originally posted by Advocate View Post

                  hmm i'm reminded of the guy who did the weather on those floating bits of the UK...
                  Fred the weather man, the floating bits were at the Albert Dock in Liverpool

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