Friday - Reo Speedwagon's Quark in a Dog Food Risotto

[Drago]

She bought me a Gollywog as she just thought it was a funny little thing.

She didn't know the context of them in this country! 🤣

Didn't she know they are associated with marmalade, marmalade of all things?

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Didn't she know they are associated with marmalade, marmalade of all things?

She's Italian, so obviously appeared to have missed the whole UK cultural reference completely. 🤣

I kept it for years anyway until it was sent to a charity shop, against my knowledge, during a house move 🙄🤦‍♂️

 

[Drago]

I kept it for years anyway until it was sent to a charity shop, against my knowledge, during a house move 🙄🤦‍♂️

That'll be the charity shop where all the staff were sent to prison for having them innthe window.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

That'll be the charity shop where all the staff were sent to prison for having them innthe window.

I was not impressed, I wanted to keep it as a curio!

So, sorry Pat.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

I am now up.

Have you managed to find a ladder to get back down?

 

[Pinno718]

Have you managed to find a ladder to get back down?

I've searched everywhere on the internet and can find no picture of a Yeti up a ladder. So don't tell him to come down until you've taken a picture. I think this could bring millions of tourists to Poshshire. It could draw them away from the Highlands.
You see, that damn Nessie legend malarkey has drawn in countless number of bloody tourists to what was a very quiet area of the world now made unaffordable to natives. It was a very silly thing to promote.
Drago can deal with the hoards and the traffic and the lack of parking and the parking fees and the £20 latte's (and dried up iced buns for more) and road construction and extra potholes and no longer being able to buy a pint of milk 'cos all the bloody retail outlets is Mountain warehouse or souvenir shops with silly 'I love Yeti's' and Mugs with Yeti pictures and on coasters (made in China) and a Lidl or Aldi superstore somewhere on the outskirts on an old industrial site that the sat nav cannot locate next to a trampoline park just off the A whatever where they haven't finished building the road to it so you end up stuck behind a long queue at the roadwork traffic lights in and out of the store that ran out of bloody sandwiches in the time it took you to get there. Have it. Have all of it.
Get me that picture now!

 

[Pinno718]

>breathe<

 

[Ming the Merciless]

I've searched everywhere on the internet and can find no picture of a Yeti up a ladder. So don't tell him to come down until you've taken a picture. I think this could bring millions of tourists to Poshshire. It could draw them away from the Highlands.
You see, that damn Nessie legend malarkey has drawn in countless number of bloody tourists to what was a very quiet area of the world now made unaffordable to natives. It was a very silly thing to promote.
Drago can deal with the hoards and the traffic and the lack of parking and the parking fees and the £20 latte's (and dried up iced buns for more) and road construction and extra potholes and no longer being able to buy a pint of milk 'cos all the bloody retail outlets is Mountain warehouse or souvenir shops with silly 'I love Yeti's' and Mugs with Yeti pictures and on coasters (made in China) and a Lidl or Aldi superstore somewhere on the outskirts on an old industrial site that the sat nav cannot locate next to a trampoline park just off the A whatever where they haven't finished building the road to it so you end up stuck behind a long queue at the roadwork traffic lights in and out of the store that ran out of bloody sandwiches in the time it took you to get there. Have it. Have all of it.
Get me that picture now!

Had to be quick, but here’s @Drago coming back down.

 

[cookiemonster]

It's Friday.

Not now it isn't and what has Reo Speedwagon got to do with it?

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

I've searched everywhere on the internet and can find no picture of a Yeti up a ladder. So don't tell him to come down until you've taken a picture. I think this could bring millions of tourists to Poshshire. It could draw them away from the Highlands.
You see, that damn Nessie legend malarkey has drawn in countless number of bloody tourists to what was a very quiet area of the world now made unaffordable to natives. It was a very silly thing to promote.
Drago can deal with the hoards and the traffic and the lack of parking and the parking fees and the £20 latte's (and dried up iced buns for more) and road construction and extra potholes and no longer being able to buy a pint of milk 'cos all the bloody retail outlets is Mountain warehouse or souvenir shops with silly 'I love Yeti's' and Mugs with Yeti pictures and on coasters (made in China) and a Lidl or Aldi superstore somewhere on the outskirts on an old industrial site that the sat nav cannot locate next to a trampoline park just off the A whatever where they haven't finished building the road to it so you end up stuck behind a long queue at the roadwork traffic lights in and out of the store that ran out of bloody sandwiches in the time it took you to get there. Have it. Have all of it.
Get me that picture now!

So... What are you saying?

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Not now it isn't and what has Reo Speedwagon got to do with it?

No idea. I think it's probably best not to ask too many questions, to be fair.

 

[Drago]

Not now it isn't and what has Reo Speedwagon got to do with it?

I don't remember, although I'm pretty sure I heard it from a friend.

 

[Pat "5mph"]

She bought me a Gollywog as she just thought it was a funny little thing.

She didn't know the context of them in this country! 🤣

Yes, yes, I did get it eventually Someone posted a thread on it, I got enlightened!
Yes, I thought it was a funny little thing. After all I didn't know you in person, I though you were too young to appreciate a box of chocolates or biscuits.
Should we meet again, I'll bring you a bottle of vodka

Didn't she know they are associated with marmalade, marmalade of all things?

Ahem, no, I didn't.
I came to the UK in my 20's (that was in the 80's), I don't buy jam or marmalade because I don't like them.
Continental history is (obviously) different than British history: meantime I have expanded my cultural horizon.

She's Italian, so obviously appeared to have missed the whole UK cultural reference completely. 🤣

I kept it for years anyway until it was sent to a charity shop, against my knowledge, during a house move 🙄🤦‍♂️

The charity shop must have binned it immediately!