The angry thread

[Bealman]

St Patrick's Day? Not at my watering hole....

Figtree bowing club, my preferred place of refreshment, went to a lot of trouble on Sunday putting up flags and Guinness promo material in readiness for today (buy a Guinness win tee shirts, etc).

Stuck me head in at lunchtime, thinking I'd have one as I'm quite partial to it, only to find half the bar (the part with the Guiness) being refurbished!

I know the directors of this club personally and to say they have their heads buried in the sand is understatement. Couldn't run a chook raffle.

The barmaid said she'd put some green food colouring in me Victoria Bitter to make up for it - I can't repeat my reply here.

Have a Guinness for me, folks! 

[talisman56]

Oh, the annual let's celebrate the Irish national saint day, even though none of our genes has been anywhere near the emerald isle. Bar extensions, temporary music licences, the works all granted by the local council licencing committee.

Try and do that for April 23rd* and you get ignored, applications rejected and told off for being too nationalistic... 

*Feast day of St George, the national saint of England, for the uninitiated...

[ParkeNd]

I can't understand the compulsion either for people to stick "Wales" stickers on their cars. No- one sticks England stickers on them.

[Trainfish]

I can't understand the compulsion either for people to stick "Wales" stickers on their cars.

I think it's a 3rd world thing. The Welsh do it. The Scots do it. The Cornish do it..............

I'll be off now then.

[Kipper]

I was told many years ago, by a Welsh mate, that putting a Wales sticker on the rear of your car is a sure way to avoid the Welsh Nats setting it alight, when parked outside your holiday cottage in the Brecon Beacons or Snowdonia. I think the locals had a code, where the sticker was stuck, to show the difference between a true Welshman's car, and a tourist's!

[scotsoft]

No- one sticks England stickers on them.

That does not surprise me, there is very little to be proud of 

[Agrippa]

Some Jocks put Ecosse stickers on their cars. Don't know why .

[Newportnobby]

Some Jocks put Ecosse stickers on their cars. Don't know why .

I can only assume they have more affinity with the French than the English

[Bealman]

None of it's as bad as the brain-dead Aussies that drive around here with little stick figures of "My Family" on the windows of their huge four-wheel drive vehicles, which are used for the sole purpose of dropping and picking their kids up from school and getting mum to her coffee appointment. 

[Bikeracer]

That does not surprise me, there is very little to be proud of 

Dunno, Hadrians wall did its job okay

Allan

[Bealman]

 

[Agrippa]

Dunno, Hadrians wall did its job okay

Allan

Reminds me of a trip one spring walking Hadrian's wall , very pleasant . Called into a pub at Hexham,the publican asked what we'd been doing and one of my pals said we'd been walking on Hadrian's wall.

The publican then said (Geordie accent) " Weel ah hope yiv squeered it wi' Hadrian"

Great trip and great countryside.

[Bealman]

As a Geordie ex-pat, I salute your excellent Geordie accent, Sir! 

[scotsoft]

Dunno, Hadrians wall did its job okay

Allan

That was the Romans who built that because they were terrified of the Scots 

[ParkeNd]

I was told many years ago, by a Welsh mate, that putting a Wales sticker on the rear of your car is a sure way to avoid the Welsh Nats setting it alight, when parked outside your holiday cottage in the Brecon Beacons or Snowdonia. I think the locals had a code, where the sticker was stuck, to show the difference between a true Welshman's car, and a tourist's!

When I worked in Merthyr for six years I learned by visiting the same petrol station about every four days to fill up my company car, that there are special Welsh cars. They have only a one pint fuel tank - so Taff can stop at the petrol station every day to buy 50p of petrol and £10 of fags. Whilst I put 60 litres in the tank five or six such cars would arrive and then leave.