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I'll only use foreign reusable shopping bags in the UK. I doubt anyone notices but I think it makes me look well traveled and cosmopolitan.

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Wouldn't you just die without Mahler
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I generally only sup beer brewed on the islands. Nice smugness :obscene-birdiedoublered:
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I don't do pretentious, I am actually better than you. :D
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I've been using bags I bought in UK supermarkets when shopping over here! But really only because the designs are generally more fun - lots of people have asked me where I got the Star Wars bags and even the unicorn design one :lol: :lol: :lol:

Aside from that I don't do pretentious - I hate VW and love TLs FFS :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
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I often see an Italian neighbour whilst out. I always greet him in Italian and then look around to see who has clocked that I'm exotic and wind-swept.

The conversation invariably switches to English due to my poor language skills after three or four sentences, but the passer-by are gone by then, their dreary lives made a little brighter by forrin banter. ;)
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Yorick wrote: Sat Jun 29, 2024 3:38 pm I generally only sup beer brewed on the islands.
Same, oh, and Cider obvs
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cheb wrote: Sat Jun 29, 2024 3:20 pm I'll only use foreign reusable shopping bags in the UK. I doubt anyone notices but I think it makes me look well traveled and cosmopolitan.

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I doff my Fedora to you :thumbup:
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I like to use a Lidl bag in Waitrose
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Oh lord, yes, same here. The car boots are stuffed with Jodofi & Carrefour bags... It's more for the sentimentality though, honest.
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Sadlonelygit wrote: Sat Jun 29, 2024 3:32 pm Wouldn't you just die without Mahler
Actually, I would darling :obscene-drinkingcheers:
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Gregor wrote: Sat Jun 29, 2024 5:31 pm
cheb wrote: Sat Jun 29, 2024 3:20 pm I'll only use foreign reusable shopping bags in the UK. I doubt anyone notices but I think it makes me look well traveled and cosmopolitan.

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I doff my Fedora to you :thumbup:
When I'm next on the big island I'll doff mine back.
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When walking our mongrel dog in the posher bits of town and when people ask what he is I tell em he's a long legged, long nosed, long tailed Jack Russell.
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demographic wrote: Sat Jun 29, 2024 10:06 pm When walking our mongrel dog in the posher bits of town and when people ask what he is I tell em he's a long legged, long nosed, long tailed Jack Russell.
A cockerlabrusseladoo?
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gremlin wrote: Sun Jun 30, 2024 12:28 am
demographic wrote: Sat Jun 29, 2024 10:06 pm A cockerlabrusseladoo?
Dogue de Bordeaux/Staffy father, German Shepherd/Saluki mother but we bought him from a place just past Barnard Castle so I sometimes call him a Barnard Castle Partial Sighthound as well.
Technically it's trus(ish) cos Salukis are sighthounds and he"s 1/4 Saluki but really I'm just taking the piss out of the Domenic Cummings eyetest fiasco.
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Since I got Misty's DNA checked. (Rottweiler/Doberman with some added Cane Corso! 😲) I've taken to calling her a Tyrolean Molosser.
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When Wilko's been especially good he's called by his Pedigree name - Surfin' Blueberry Muffin...
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ChrisW wrote: Sat Jun 29, 2024 7:01 pm Oh lord, yes, same here. The car boots are stuffed with Jodofi & Carrefour bags... It's more for the sentimentality though, honest.
Auchan, Action or super U for the win.
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:: Another foreign shopping bag owner here. :thumbup:

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Taipan wrote: Mon Jul 01, 2024 7:41 pm :: Another foreign shopping bag owner here. :thumbup:

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But does that count as more or less pretentious, as you have to know.