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Previously on "Standards Are Too Low on Here....."

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  • Kyajae
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    Originally posted by freakydancer
    I worked for most of 2005 in Brussels - picked it up over there.
    Belgium, man, Belgium...
    Wasn't that a quote by Ford Prefect in the hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy

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  • Troll
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    Originally posted by The Lone Gunman
    Are you from Macclesfield? (Look up Macc Lads if you don't understand the question).
    I'm from Macc!!!

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  • Rantor
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    Originally posted by EternalOptimist
    I was in North Berwick , Scotland a couple of weeks ago in a drunken stupid and I bought a scotch pie. I managed one bite before I baulked.It had been deep fried and even thinking about it makes me retch.






    When I moved down to England I was shocked that they didn't fry their pies. You should have started on something lighter like the deep fried pizza

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  • EternalOptimist
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    Originally posted by threaded
    Living in Denmark as I've done these last few years I now find the very smell of a steak and kidney pie makes me retch.
    I was in North Berwick , Scotland a couple of weeks ago in a drunken stupid and I bought a scotch pie. I managed one bite before I baulked.It had been deep fried and even thinking about it makes me retch.






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  • threaded
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    Originally posted by cityboy
    meat and potato pie, chips peas and gravy just to delicately float on 8 pints of bitter . A feast
    Living in Denmark as I've done these last few years I now find the very smell of a steak and kidney pie makes me retch.

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  • cityboy
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    Originally posted by Bagpuss
    mmm, steak and kidney pudding
    meat and potato pie, chips peas and gravy just to delicately float on 8 pints of bitter . A feast

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  • The Lone Gunman
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    Originally posted by EternalOptimist
    When I was looking for a career after leaving school I told my dad I wanted to be an astronaut, just like neil armstrong. I said 'I want to be shot into space'
    dad said 'Well little EO, if yer mother had had her way , you would have been'





    Shouldn't that be credited to Mr Roy "Chubby" Brown? or Royston Vasey as he is properly named.

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  • 2uk
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    Originally posted by EternalOptimist
    When I was looking for a career after leaving school I told my dad I wanted to be an astronaut, just like neil armstrong. I said 'I want to be shot into space'
    dad said 'Well little EO, if yer mother had had her way , you would have been'





    lol

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  • Ivor1
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    Originally posted by The Lone Gunman
    Are you from Macclesfield? (Look up Macc Lads if you don't understand the question).
    Ahhh great classics lines from the Macc lads like

    "We are the lads from Macc.... and we want some cra**"

    or "Charlottes the biggest s**g in Mac"

    or Uncle Nobby

    We should of put them in for Eurovison

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  • Bagpuss
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    mmm, steak and kidney pudding

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  • The Lone Gunman
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    Originally posted by SallyAnne
    There is only one acceptable topping for chips, and thats gravy....northern gravy!
    Are you from Macclesfield? (Look up Macc Lads if you don't understand the question).

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  • snaw
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    Originally posted by SallyAnne
    There is only one acceptable topping for chips, and thats gravy....northern gravy!
    Oooh, northern boys love gravy ..

    Actually chips and curry sauce is an old favourite after a night in the tiles.

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  • SallyAnne
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    There is only one acceptable topping for chips, and thats gravy....northern gravy!

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  • mictech
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    cheese and chips, grated cheese melt over the top piping hot chips.

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  • freakydancer
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    Originally posted by zeitghost
    Belgium, man, Belgium...
    I worked for most of 2005 in Brussels - picked it up over there.

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