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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).
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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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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.
What's the difference between emmetts and grockles?
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Skub wrote: Tue Aug 15, 2023 5:17 pm
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.
What's the difference between emmetts and grockles?
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. :thumbup:
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Mr Dazzle is right, as usual!
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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. :thumbup:
You are confusing a grockle with a bluddy furiner.
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Cousin Jack wrote: Tue Aug 15, 2023 5:26 pm Mr Dazzle is right, as usual!
I was gonna say "one splits pasty's the right way" but I didn't want to be cancelled :(
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Mr. Dazzle wrote: Tue Aug 15, 2023 5:33 pm
Cousin Jack wrote: Tue Aug 15, 2023 5:26 pm Mr Dazzle is right, as usual!
I was gonna say "one splits pasty's the right way" but I didn't want to be cancelled :(
Cancelled? Only for that apostrophe in pasty's. :lol:
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Short for "pasty's pastry". I deffo meant it that way. :thumbup:
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Count Steer wrote: Tue Aug 15, 2023 5:25 pm
Skub wrote: Tue Aug 15, 2023 5:17 pm
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.
What's the difference between emmetts and grockles?
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. :thumbup:
Noooooo - emmet is more southern! Grockle is 'oop north' (to a Cornish!! ) :lol: :lol: :lol:
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Noggin wrote: Tue Aug 15, 2023 6:45 pm
Count Steer wrote: Tue Aug 15, 2023 5:25 pm
Skub wrote: Tue Aug 15, 2023 5:17 pm

What's the difference between emmetts and grockles?
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. :thumbup:
Noooooo - emmet is more southern! Grockle is 'oop north' (to a Cornish!! ) :lol: :lol: :lol:
I cannot tell a lie. For years I thought emetts were tourists and grockles were the Cornish :lol:
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Heard in a pub on Dartmoor......

"Cornwall, its just a council estate with a beach around the edges......."
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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 pm
Noggin wrote: Tue Aug 15, 2023 6:45 pm
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. :thumbup:
Noooooo - emmet is more southern! Grockle is 'oop north' (to a Cornish!! ) :lol: :lol: :lol:
I cannot tell a lie. For years I thought emetts were tourists and grockles were the Cornish :lol:
:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

I'm from Somerset - tourists were Grockles there! Definitely oop north from Cornwall
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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......."
If the news is to be believed at the moment Hawaii isn't much different, cept there are extra pineapple farms.
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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...:)

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Mr. Dazzle wrote: Tue Aug 15, 2023 7:29 pm
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......."
If the news is to be believed at the moment Hawaii isn't much different, cept there are extra pineapple fritters.
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