What have you done today thread?
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Got the ZH2 MOT'ed at the "deaf" MOT station.
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Seen Sarah Moore (Money for Nothing) being filmed outside a house just down the road from home. (Not an expensive production by the look of it, just her and a cameraman. No dedicated sound person, no other crew etc at all).
(Probably going to explain to the householder how she'd made £4.50 by converting a Chippendale table into a pallet).
(Probably going to explain to the householder how she'd made £4.50 by converting a Chippendale table into a pallet).
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Been out for a bimble in the Cornish lanes. Main roads, and no doubt all the beaches, are rammed with emmetts, but I've been to the places they don't go. Nice ride, mainly in 2nd and 3rd gear.
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What's the difference between emmetts and grockles?Cousin Jack wrote: ↑Tue Aug 15, 2023 4:32 pm Been out for a bimble in the Cornish lanes. Main roads, and no doubt all the beaches, are rammed with emmetts, but I've been to the places they don't go. Nice ride, mainly in 2nd and 3rd gear.
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An emmett is someone visiting for a short time, a grockle is someone that's bought a house there but lives or has lived somewhere else most of the time.Skub wrote: ↑Tue Aug 15, 2023 5:17 pmWhat's the difference between emmetts and grockles?Cousin Jack wrote: ↑Tue Aug 15, 2023 4:32 pm Been out for a bimble in the Cornish lanes. Main roads, and no doubt all the beaches, are rammed with emmetts, but I've been to the places they don't go. Nice ride, mainly in 2nd and 3rd gear.
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You are confusing a grockle with a bluddy furiner.Count Steer wrote: ↑Tue Aug 15, 2023 5:25 pm An emmett is someone visiting for a short time, a grockle is someone that's bought a house there but lives or has lived somewhere else most of the time.
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I was gonna say "one splits pasty's the right way" but I didn't want to be cancelled
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Cancelled? Only for that apostrophe in pasty's.Mr. Dazzle wrote: ↑Tue Aug 15, 2023 5:33 pmI was gonna say "one splits pasty's the right way" but I didn't want to be cancelled
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Noooooo - emmet is more southern! Grockle is 'oop north' (to a Cornish!! )Count Steer wrote: ↑Tue Aug 15, 2023 5:25 pmAn emmett is someone visiting for a short time, a grockle is someone that's bought a house there but lives or has lived somewhere else most of the time.Skub wrote: ↑Tue Aug 15, 2023 5:17 pmWhat's the difference between emmetts and grockles?Cousin Jack wrote: ↑Tue Aug 15, 2023 4:32 pm Been out for a bimble in the Cornish lanes. Main roads, and no doubt all the beaches, are rammed with emmetts, but I've been to the places they don't go. Nice ride, mainly in 2nd and 3rd gear.
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I cannot tell a lie. For years I thought emetts were tourists and grockles were the CornishNoggin wrote: ↑Tue Aug 15, 2023 6:45 pmNoooooo - emmet is more southern! Grockle is 'oop north' (to a Cornish!! )Count Steer wrote: ↑Tue Aug 15, 2023 5:25 pmAn emmett is someone visiting for a short time, a grockle is someone that's bought a house there but lives or has lived somewhere else most of the time.
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Heard in a pub on Dartmoor......
"Cornwall, its just a council estate with a beach around the edges......."
"Cornwall, its just a council estate with a beach around the edges......."
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Nothing more bitter than a pissed-up Janner.MingtheMerciless wrote: ↑Tue Aug 15, 2023 7:09 pm Heard in a pub on Dartmoor......
"Cornwall, its just a council estate with a beach around the edges......."
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Count Steer wrote: ↑Tue Aug 15, 2023 7:05 pmI cannot tell a lie. For years I thought emetts were tourists and grockles were the CornishNoggin wrote: ↑Tue Aug 15, 2023 6:45 pmNoooooo - emmet is more southern! Grockle is 'oop north' (to a Cornish!! )Count Steer wrote: ↑Tue Aug 15, 2023 5:25 pm
An emmett is someone visiting for a short time, a grockle is someone that's bought a house there but lives or has lived somewhere else most of the time.
I'm from Somerset - tourists were Grockles there! Definitely oop north from Cornwall
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If the news is to be believed at the moment Hawaii isn't much different, cept there are extra pineapple farms.MingtheMerciless wrote: ↑Tue Aug 15, 2023 7:09 pm Heard in a pub on Dartmoor......
"Cornwall, its just a council estate with a beach around the edges......."
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Working over in Minehead this week...i have never been to that area before and was expecting a bustling seaside resort...NO!
Everything shuts down at 4pm, a lot of the pubs stop serving food at 4 and none of the fish and chip shops except the shitty tourist ones on the seafront are open till 5pm! It's pretty dead except a few drunk chavs in the seafront pubs!
It is also chav central, and this is coming from someone who was brought up in Kingswood in Bristol!
Back there for the next 3 days....Local bakery is good though which is right next to the academy i am working in....
Gonna hang around for the 5pm chip shop the locals have rec'ed me tomorrow and eat on seafront...
#12 hour working days this week!
Everything shuts down at 4pm, a lot of the pubs stop serving food at 4 and none of the fish and chip shops except the shitty tourist ones on the seafront are open till 5pm! It's pretty dead except a few drunk chavs in the seafront pubs!
It is also chav central, and this is coming from someone who was brought up in Kingswood in Bristol!
Back there for the next 3 days....Local bakery is good though which is right next to the academy i am working in....
Gonna hang around for the 5pm chip shop the locals have rec'ed me tomorrow and eat on seafront...
#12 hour working days this week!
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FTFYMr. Dazzle wrote: ↑Tue Aug 15, 2023 7:29 pmIf the news is to be believed at the moment Hawaii isn't much different, cept there are extra pineapple fritters.MingtheMerciless wrote: ↑Tue Aug 15, 2023 7:09 pm Heard in a pub on Dartmoor......
"Cornwall, its just a council estate with a beach around the edges......."
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