Only if I get desperate.Quote:
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Only if I get desperate.Quote:
Originally Posted by spendorman
If you will insist on mingling with the general population...actually given it's London a cold is getting off lightly. Could have been yellow fever or bubonic plague.Quote:
Originally Posted by walpurgis
My sisters were both born there. For some reason I've never been able to fathom, I was born in Mill Lane Maternity Hospital in Wallasey, even though my family were still living in Liverpool, just off Scotland Road, and didn't move 'over the water' until I was two. Neither Mill Lane Hospital nor the street we used to live on are there any more.Quote:
Originally Posted by Macca
Greenwich District Hospital, where our two daughters were born, has also been demolished. It was built in the 1970s, and knocked down in 2006.
'Over the water', that is . Doesn't count as Liverpool. Just thank God you're not a woollyback.Quote:
Originally Posted by Joe
I never said it did. I'm just baffled as to why I was born there, rather than in Liverpool, given that we as a family lived in Liverpool. I guess my eldest sister might know, but as she was only three herself when I was born, I doubt it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Macca
The probably thought they didn't want 3 scouse children so when the contractions started they got on the ferry quick time.
Said on the radio this morning that today is the start of the hay fever season, but I'm betting that's a lot less fun than a cold.Quote:
Originally Posted by walpurgis
It's weird how we are not adapted to this planet. Cold kills us, heat kills us, too much exposure to the sun kills us and loads of us are allergic to the plant and animal life. Makes you think.
Maybe mum and dad had gone there for their holidays, and mum went into labour early and the charabang couldn't get back quick enough.Quote:
Originally Posted by Joe
Nobody goes to Wallesy for their holidays, man. No-one ever went there unless they had to. If he'd been born in Rhyl you might be onto something.
the city styled life did that i think.Quote:
Originally Posted by Macca
What's a "woollyback"? Sounds like a great insult, and just rolls off the tongue
It's what people from Liverpool call people from the rest of Lancashire (except for Manchester, they're Mancs).Quote:
Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony
At school they would bus them in on the 'woolly express' from places like Great Sankey (as weird as it sounds) and Skem. Obviously their accent was very different, so they stood out a bit.
You're from Chorley, and therefore a woollyback.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony
The back bit has to sound like you're clearing your throat of phlegm :eyebrows:
This is true.
I don't mind that, I've been called a lot worse.Quote:
Originally Posted by Stratmangler
I think I'll build up a list of names for folk from other parts, but so far I've only got "pie eaters" and "monkey-hangers", oh and "soap-dodgers" as soon as someone tells me whether this is Glasgow or Edinburgh.
I don't know how old the term is but I'd guess it goes back to the middle-ages when Lancashire was full of sheep farms. Liverpool was all about ships and docks so a fairly marked difference from the territory immediately around it. And there is no Liverpool word for anyone beyond Lancashire. Which implies that it must at least pre-date the railways.
The term is a lot more recent https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/woolly_back
Never been to Shrewsbury, but we'll give it a go for next Christmas shopping trip - time for a change.Quote:
Originally Posted by Marco
That's my theory dead then, If the Liverpool Echo says so then that's it ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Stratmangler
Interesting that they reckon it can also be used for the Welsh, never heard that.
I too am surprised to see Welsh people described thus. I'd have expected them to have more wool on their fronts :D
..and here’s me thinking it was mainly people from Southport or St Helens 🤣Quote:
Originally Posted by Macca
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Cooked some chicken goujons in my new oven. First time I have used an oven in over 20 years. First time I have had chicken goujons in 30 years.
Overcooked them a little; the oven is fan assisted and I didn't allow for that. I still ate them though, with a bit of Tabasco on them to jazz it up a bit.
That's what I had tonight.Quote:
Originally Posted by Macca
That's freaky man. What are the odds?Quote:
Originally Posted by walpurgis
Dunno. Bet you didn't have creamy home cooked buttered mash with them though. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Macca
No, I had rice noodles. Tasteless, but easy and cheap and they fill you up. I like mash with butter but my mash is always dry and lumpy. It's a skill I never seem to have acquired.
My mate used to drive corn bulker lorries . He took cow ration/nuts to all over Powys , Cheshire , Shrops ,Clwyd.Quote:
Originally Posted by Macca
He very often referred to the Welsh lads as Wollybacks ,or Hurdlebunters :lol:
What do the Welsh people called the English? Is it repeatable? Is it pronounceable?
Only joking, I think it's important that our regional languages and dialects are preserved.
A family from Cardiff that we met on holiday told me that the people in north Wales are a lot more vocal in this regard
Advisory. Today is the first day of the 180 degree A/C phase shift in UK mains. Frequency remains at 50Hz, but it now 'pushes' when it would previously have 'pulled'. Please ensure to check that your equipment is compatible.
Thank Geoff, I now have an amplifier-shaped pile of soot on my shelf.
Don't say you weren't warned! ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony
I'm loving my new Dac :mex:
What a miserable looking chick!Quote:
Originally Posted by struth
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Originally Posted by southall-1998
Having turned all my mains fuses round the other way as a precaution, I think I've got everything covered now.Quote:
Originally Posted by walpurgis
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Originally Posted by walpurgis
Unless you adopt the Masonic viewpont...then its all about turning your socks inside out?
PS: Have you gone 180 degrees and now referencing yourself? :)
lol, believe it or not just before reading this I ate a handful of currents. I'm all charged up now.Quote:
Originally Posted by walpurgis
London murder rate now higher than New York's:
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknew...cid=spartandhp
The Met Commissioner, Cressida Dick, has vowed to tackle the epidemic of knife crime across the capital and has suggested that social media could be responsible for street violence.
Clearly. Because before the internet there was no violence at all. With people this stupid running the show expect it to get worse before it gets better.
Perhaps that comes from putting a dick in charge?Quote:
Originally Posted by Macca
She was responsible for the operation that resulted in the shooting of Jean Charles De Menezes, Coroner's inquest found that this disaster was down to:Quote:
Originally Posted by walpurgis
A failure to obtain and provide better photographic images of failed bomber Hussain Osman to surveillance officers.
The fact that the views of the surveillance officers regarding identification were not accurately communicated to the command team and firearms officers.
A failure by police to ensure that Mr Menezes was stopped before he reached public transport
The fact that the position of the cars containing the firearms officers was not accurately known by the command team as firearms teams were approaching Stockwell Tube
Shortcomings in the communications system between various police teams on the ground.
Failure to conclude at the time that surveillance officers could have been used to carry out the stop on Mr Menezes at Stockwell
So a complete disaster of an operation that resulted in an innocent man being shot to death. What's the best thing to do with the person responsible for it? Promote them of course!
I thought that was a try-out of new SOP's for dealing with illegals?
Not always so good with guns our police. I still remember the Stephen Waldorf shooting. They hit the poor bugger five times. He was lucky to survive. And there was that bloke carrying a table leg for repair, they killed him.
Not as bad as the lunacy in the states though.
As with all these things the people on the ground were doing what they were told to do/trained to do. Fault lies with the management, which was sub-standard in all respects.Quote:
Originally Posted by walpurgis
serves him right for carrying a concealed tableleg;)
There was a case three or four years ago in Chorley, where a blind man was tasered because the police thought his white stick was a samurai sword. Even a blind man could tell the difference. Imagine him leaving the house "hmm, that's not my stick, feels more like a sword".
Perhaps crimes involving weapons, particularly firearms are still relatively rare compared to US (that looks set to change) so our officers haven't had enough practice.
We're told that the police and the courts are coming down hard on knife crime, but I saw a programme earlier this week where a scumbag was stopped in his car, and the police saw that he had a steak knife in the door pocket, with the handle sticking up, presumably for easy access. The youth received a police caution for this.
Prisons are already full of people who did actually stick the knife in someone so there's no room for those who have the knife but haven't got around to sticking anyone with it yet.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony
Know what id do with the trash, but its not for public consumption
Visited Ikea today. Easter Bank Holiday Monday - bad idea, very bad! :doh:
Place was packed and I was starting to feel agoraphobic (a dislike of crowded spaces). Had to 'swim against the tide' at some point, as I refuse to be 'herded' and obliged to follow their one-way system. The queue for the restaurant was impossible - so we bailed out and managed to pay and leave surprisingly quickly.
only been in once at edinburgh. didnt like it much tbh although the stuff is good. it was too much, not like a shop for my taste.Quote:
Originally Posted by Barry