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Post by neilj on Jan 29, 2024 9:02:28 GMT
I see one or two of our regular posters, rather surprisingly and ill-advisedly too in my view, went dancing with the captain yesterday. Those who read my jottings know that I rarely get drawn into discussions about BBC political bias, so I resisted Birdseye's scandalous and outrageous provocations. As for the old Captain, I think I have solved the riddle within his user name that is disguising his real identity. I think we have a returning old friend here. Let me explain in the manner of Ted Rodgers, the host of one of my all time favourite TV shows, 3-2-1. Ted used to crack riddles that were impenetrable to most and inexplicable to the dumbfounded contestants. Here we go. Let's take the word Birdseye. Who were their biggest competitors in the frozen food market ( knowing hums from the intrigued audience)? Findus. Now let's break that word down into its two syllables. "Find" and "us". Is the "us" a word or acronym (another audience hum)? It's an acronym for US as in United States. This takes us to America and back to frozen food. What was Findus's best selling range (some applause in the audience now who think they've cracked it. Contestants still look perplexed but Ted's on a roll now)! Texan style Beef burgers is the answer. And Birdseye's top range? Turkey Rissoles in breadcrumbs. That gives us Texas Turkey. (Audience now cheering and Ted triumphant. Contestants still haven't the faintest idea what he's on about). So, ladies and gentlemen. Birdseye is none other than Texas Turkey. Turk has returned. At last! Tales from the Ranch to resume as the 2024 General Election looms! Birdseye is a chilled out version of a now less heated Turk. As much as I enjoyed your wild thought processes I know he's not Turk 😀
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Post by steamdrivenandy on Jan 29, 2024 9:11:53 GMT
I thought Turk was a victim of the Texan version of Russian roulette, i.e stepping outside your front door.
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Post by Danny on Jan 29, 2024 9:14:29 GMT
Why their actors their acting its fantasy that's how acting works they don't have to resemble the historic or fictional characters they play. Someone pretends to be someone else and once they've finished they stop pretending! I assume you had no problem with Lawrence Olivier playing Othello or the Mahdi. he would black up though....
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Post by barbara on Jan 29, 2024 9:18:29 GMT
Pity Me is a great place name. Lots of people walking around looking extremely sorry for themselves, I imagine. Rather like Redditch. I think we stayed close to the Twice Brewed Inn when my wife and I walked the Hadrian's Wall path in 2018. Near the famous, now sadly felled, Sycamore Tree, if I remember rightly. Is there a place called Twice Brewed, or is it just a pub name? Always remember there was a bus which went to No Place and a photo of the bus with its destination sign kept being used as a joke in several newspapers. But on wider point, we are under strict orders never tell anybody about the countryside in Weardale and Tynedale or the stunning unspoiled coastline, as we want keep it secret. Sadly having told you about these places I will now have to be not hiding. 😎 As a born and bred Mancunian I first moved up here in 2001 to just outside Sunderland and after a sojourn in Cheshire moved back to Durham in 2013. The relatively nearby surrounding beauty and peacefulness never ceases to amaze and enchant me
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Post by steve on Jan 29, 2024 9:25:56 GMT
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Post by crossbat11 on Jan 29, 2024 9:33:59 GMT
I thought Turk was a victim of the Texan version of Russian roulette, i.e stepping outside your front door. I seem to remember Turk telling us that he'd armed himself to the teeth just in case any Labour canvassers made it up his 500 metre Ranch driveway. UK domestic politics forever stalked old Turk, even in the darkest recesses of Texas.
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Post by steve on Jan 29, 2024 9:43:52 GMT
On the subject of hidden beauty spots anyone want to guess the surprising location of this place. Attachment Deleted
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Post by Deleted on Jan 29, 2024 9:44:16 GMT
I thought Turk was a victim of the Texan version of Russian roulette, i.e stepping outside your front door. No , he was a victim of UKPR's LP one man hit squad. Unpleasant personal attack , excused as banter, humour blah blah. I should think Texas is a comparative place of respect and good nature
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Post by wb61 on Jan 29, 2024 9:52:04 GMT
I thought Turk was a victim of the Texan version of Russian roulette, i.e stepping outside your front door. No , he was a victim of UKPR's LP one man hit squad. Unpleasant personal attack , excused as banter, humour blah blah. I should think Texas is a comparative place of respect and good nature I don't know if that is the case, I don't remember any specific attack (but I may be wrong) and as I recall Turk was a very robust poster. I seem to recall that Turk not only supported but canvassed for the Democrats in America, a demonstration of his political positioning. He also came across as what might be called an "Old Fashioned" Conservative and I imagine was not fully in line with the current iteration of the Party he had been a supporter and member of. My main criticism of Turk was his adoption of the soubriquet of the denizens of Llanelli as a username. ( Mark and eor will know what I mean)
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Post by steve on Jan 29, 2024 9:55:45 GMT
colinWith four times the murders of the entire UK and a pro rata murder rate four times higher than liberal Vermont this doesn't seem to be the case for the lone star state. Firearm fatalities are the highest cause of mortality in Children in Texas. Seems lovely!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 29, 2024 9:55:54 GMT
No , he was a victim of UKPR's LP one man hit squad. Unpleasant personal attack , excused as banter, humour blah blah. I should think Texas is a comparative place of respect and good nature I don't know if that is the case, I don't remember any specific attack (but I may be wrong) You are
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Post by Deleted on Jan 29, 2024 9:57:14 GMT
colin With four times the murders of the entire UK and a pro rata murder rate four times higher than liberal Vermont this doesn't seem to be the case for the lone star state. Firearm fatalities are the highest cause of mortality in Children in Texas. Seems lovely! Exactly !! It was a joke-banter.
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Post by barbara on Jan 29, 2024 10:20:30 GMT
No , he was a victim of UKPR's LP one man hit squad. Unpleasant personal attack , excused as banter, humour blah blah. I should think Texas is a comparative place of respect and good nature I don't know if that is the case, I don't remember any specific attack (but I may be wrong) and as I recall Turk was a very robust poster. I seem to recall that Turk not only supported but canvassed for the Democrats in America, a demonstration of his political positioning. He also came across as what might be called an "Old Fashioned" Conservative and I imagine was not fully in line with the current iteration of the Party he had been a supporter and member of. My main criticism of Turk was his adoption of the soubriquet of the denizens of Llanelli as a username. ( Mark and eor will know what I mean) Turk left this site, just like a few other ROC posters (Robert?) at the point when it became clear that the Tory Party had been consumed by cults, nonsense, corruption and illegality and was no longer defensible.
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Post by crossbat11 on Jan 29, 2024 10:24:12 GMT
Considering the incredible impact of the recent ITV drama about the Post Office scandal, this one might have an even greater impact. It's the forthcoming dramatisation if Dr Rachel Cooke's book recounting her front line hospital experience of the COVID pandemic. It's directed by Jed Mercurio of Line of Duty fame and airs next month. Cooke, a former journalist and TV Reporter, has been a staunch critic of the Government's handling of the pandemic from the very beginning. She wrote about it regularly in the Guardian and was, for a while, a lone and outspoken voice that highlighted the shortcomings in the Government's response. www.theguardian.com/world/2024/jan/29/i-detest-bullies-dr-rachel-clarke-on-jeremy-hunt-government-lies-and-the-long-legacy-of-covid
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Post by steve on Jan 29, 2024 10:31:34 GMT
I remember having some interesting conversations with Turk if we kept to U.S. politics we tended to be on the same page, his interpretation of U.K. current events was novel☺
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Post by isa on Jan 29, 2024 10:36:57 GMT
On the subject of hidden beauty spots anyone want to guess the surprising location of this place. View AttachmentIt actually looks spookily like the Kilver Court gardens at Shepton Mallet, here viewed against the stunning backdrop of Charlton Road viaduct, the architectural jewel in the crown of the much missed Somerset and Dorset Railway. images.app.goo.gl/JVgkxnHujENarjin9
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Post by crossbat11 on Jan 29, 2024 10:37:29 GMT
I don't know if that is the case, I don't remember any specific attack (but I may be wrong) and as I recall Turk was a very robust poster. I seem to recall that Turk not only supported but canvassed for the Democrats in America, a demonstration of his political positioning. He also came across as what might be called an "Old Fashioned" Conservative and I imagine was not fully in line with the current iteration of the Party he had been a supporter and member of. My main criticism of Turk was his adoption of the soubriquet of the denizens of Llanelli as a username. ( Mark and eor will know what I mean) Turk left this site, just like a few other ROC posters (Robert?) at the point when it became clear that the Tory Party had been consumed by cults, nonsense, corruption and illegality and was no longer defensible. You're quite wrong. He left because of my one man campaign of vilification, misrepresentation and scurrilous personal abuse. He complained regularly about it and pleaded with me to stop, especially my serious journalistic revelations about the Charles Manson-esque political re-education facility he had founded on a remote Ranch in Texas. I suspect he took this seriously and knew that I'd rumbled him. My devastating revelations that he was running a deep state Tory cell in Bible Belt America was, I suspect, the last straw. He knew I was on to him then. It's a bit like my allegations that Crofty, another habitual UKPR patron, is in fact a dog-crazed failed musician busking unsuccessfully in converted railway station cafes in Richmond. I'm surprised he hasn't sued me by now. I've taken legal action against him, by the way, in response to his slanderous allegations that I don't pay my food and drink bills and have a habit of leaving my fellow diners picking up the tab. This unpleasant abuse went too far, in my view, and suggested criminal offences committed by myself. I wasn't having that. No way 🤔😛
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Post by steve on Jan 29, 2024 10:39:10 GMT
isaIt does look similar think more urban.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 29, 2024 10:43:00 GMT
Turk left this site, just like a few other ROC posters Yes Like NEILA-UKPR's "acceptable" Tory. A UKPR version of Heath or Ken Clarke. I seem to remember him explaining why he left the warm embrace.
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Post by isa on Jan 29, 2024 10:49:12 GMT
@is a It does look similar think more urban. Is there still a railway connection?
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Post by steve on Jan 29, 2024 10:53:14 GMT
isaIt's near to a number of stations.
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Post by steve on Jan 29, 2024 10:56:50 GMT
Liz Truss says Sunak’s plan to gradually ban cigarette sales is ‘profoundly unconservative’
"While the state has a duty to protect children from harm, in a free society, adults must be able to make their own choices about their own lives."
Fine those who wish to smoke can then do so freely, in hermetically sealed rooms, as long as they don't exhale.
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Post by isa on Jan 29, 2024 10:58:08 GMT
isa It's near to a number of stations. Handyside Gardens near King's Cross, St. Pancras and Euston?
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Post by JohnC on Jan 29, 2024 10:58:26 GMT
isa It's near to a number of stations. The Japanese Garden in Holland Park?
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Post by isa on Jan 29, 2024 11:05:39 GMT
Visited his grave yesterday as I occasionally do living just down the road. People always used to leave coins on the headstone but this seems to have ceased recently for some reason. There are always fresh flowers on it. The same churchyard also contains the far grander final resting place of Asquith. I know I'm really annoyed. I spent so much time in Abingdon but didn;t realise I could hv visited two graves for the price of one. Odd that Asquith is there, but I guess there must be a local connection. When elevated to the peerage he took the title of Earl of Oxford and Asquith.
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Post by steve on Jan 29, 2024 11:06:32 GMT
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Post by steamdrivenandy on Jan 29, 2024 11:09:13 GMT
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Post by isa on Jan 29, 2024 11:10:23 GMT
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Post by crossbat11 on Jan 29, 2024 11:11:06 GMT
Turk left this site, just like a few other ROC posters Yes Like NEILA-UKPR's "acceptable" Tory. A UKPR version of Heath or Ken Clarke. I seem to remember him explaining why he left the warm embrace. Crikey, I'd forgotten about Neil. Thanks for reminding me. Didn't he "flounce out" in response to my well researched allegation that he was a bent copper taking bungs off illegal Cornish beachcombers and then using his ill gotten gains to fund Turk's re-education ranch in Texas? I often accused Neil, and Robert Newark, of periodically attending the political re-education retreats as guests of Turk in Texas. Interestingly, he never denied this, nor Robert, although I think you did when I proxy enrolled you for a much needed recuperation break chez Turk. I despair sometimes that people don't take me more seriously when I say these things. Neil obviously did, thankfully.
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Post by JohnC on Jan 29, 2024 11:13:35 GMT
Wow! At last I've won a competition after all these years! I have a photo taken a few years ago from almost the same spot and a quick visit to the website clinched it.
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