POLITICAL REFUGE
This is the thread for discussions of anything but politics.

I don't know why they stopped selling Lucky Charms in England, they were my favourite breakfast cereal of all time. I know they sell them in Selfridges now, but they're well expensive!

What do you miss from times of yore?
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Thu 6 May 2010, 9:06, 159 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

Yore mum.

( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Thu 6 May 2010, 9:10, Reply)

Pan Yan pickle
I miss it with all my heart.
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Thu 6 May 2010, 9:11, Reply)

What is that?

( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Thu 6 May 2010, 9:27, Reply)

It was a small brand of pickle, far superior to that overly-vinegary Branston muck
I miss that too. It was seriously good stuff.
(LongJohnBaldry, Thu 6 May 2010, 10:04, Reply)

I'm upset that I've never experienced an alternative to Branston pickle
I did branch out the other day and buy Sainsbury's own mayonnaise and it's fucking gorgeous.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Thu 6 May 2010, 10:55, Reply)

There are efforts being undertaken to re-create PAN YAN.
They have found old jars and are trying to analyse the contents. The original recipe has been found too, or something.
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Thu 6 May 2010, 11:05, Reply)

I may be meeting the ops manager of facebook in the next month or so.

(PsychoChomp, Thu 6 May 2010, 9:13, Reply)

Are you going to tell him all the ways you would make Facebook better?

( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Thu 6 May 2010, 9:27, Reply)

I'm going to tell him that facebook chat being shit is why I'm single

(PsychoChomp, Thu 6 May 2010, 9:28, Reply)

Ask him why Facebook has got even shitter so that now you can only have "interests" that have a Facebook page of their own.

( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Thu 6 May 2010, 9:29, Reply)

it's to stop you perverts with your weird interests

( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Thu 6 May 2010, 9:43, Reply)

Can you please convince him to ban the "LOL LOOK AT THIS PICTURE, BECOME A FAN" type pages.
They're major sad-face groups.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Thu 6 May 2010, 10:40, Reply)

I do hate them so
I investigated one when they first appeared and it wouldn't let me off the webpage it took me to, so I had to close down Firefox, but it being Firefox it remembered the pages and opened them all up again next time so I had the same problem again.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Thu 6 May 2010, 10:56, Reply)

Legal magic mushrooms

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 6 May 2010, 9:16, Reply)

surely they're the same as the illegal ones

( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Thu 6 May 2010, 9:28, Reply)

Isn't it more fun when it's illegal?

( girlinthehole, Thu 6 May 2010, 9:28, Reply)

not always true
incest is illegal and that wouldn't be fun, my sister's horrible.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Thu 6 May 2010, 9:31, Reply)

No they aren't.
When they were legal you could get a huge variety of mushrooms: Thai, Australian, Mexican etc with ease. Since the law changed you can only get the UK native Liberty Caps. And they really are completely different from the foreign ones - for one thing they're about ten times smaller and the effect entirely different.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 6 May 2010, 10:39, Reply)

you'd get on well with Wiggy
he's all about the drugs.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Thu 6 May 2010, 10:56, Reply)

And who is Wiggy?

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 6 May 2010, 10:59, Reply)

*sighs*
Good morning chief.
(Tugnut Ex of this parish, Thu 6 May 2010, 10:07, Reply)

Greetings, sirrah

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 6 May 2010, 10:38, Reply)

sex

( girlinthehole, Thu 6 May 2010, 9:18, Reply)

Good bands with members under 50

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 6 May 2010, 9:22, Reply)

N Dubz

(PsychoChomp, Thu 6 May 2010, 9:24, Reply)

apart from them, obviously.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 6 May 2010, 9:25, Reply)

The Saturdays

(PsychoChomp, Thu 6 May 2010, 9:25, Reply)

Are they the ones with BO problems who wear tinfoil dresses?

( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Thu 6 May 2010, 9:27, Reply)

yes.
although the little one with the pixie hair is so pretty
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Thu 6 May 2010, 9:28, Reply)

They all look like tarty slappers from a YouPorn gangbang.
I'm sure I've seen the blonde one get a face full of jizz.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Thu 6 May 2010, 9:30, Reply)

link please
/also youporn is shit
(PsychoChomp, Thu 6 May 2010, 9:32, Reply)

It is shit, yeah.
But last time I mentioned it on here some people actually googled it and then complained that it was real and NSFW.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Thu 6 May 2010, 9:34, Reply)

This place is full of kids

(PsychoChomp, Thu 6 May 2010, 9:36, Reply)

Surely it would have been sufficient proof of its existence that Google returned a result?
It's their own damn fault for clicking it...where's that ascii head-in-hands bald guy when you need him?
(LongJohnBaldry, Thu 6 May 2010, 9:57, Reply)

BALD GUY??!?!?!!!

(PsychoChomp, Thu 6 May 2010, 10:07, Reply)

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(LongJohnBaldry, Thu 6 May 2010, 10:09, Reply)

Yeah, that's not just a bald guy you ignorant bastard
That's Captain John-Luc Picard.
(PsychoChomp, Thu 6 May 2010, 10:15, Reply)

Do you mean Jean-Luc?
You illiterate bastard
(LongJohnBaldry, Thu 6 May 2010, 10:18, Reply)

Yeah, it's a screen print of his head in hands when Q is fucking about.

(PsychoChomp, Thu 6 May 2010, 10:19, Reply)

sinigami.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/picard-facepalm2.jpg
(PsychoChomp, Thu 6 May 2010, 10:20, Reply)

Ah, with you now
Does this mean I need to watch more Star Trek...?
(LongJohnBaldry, Thu 6 May 2010, 10:24, Reply)

I wouldn't bother.
It's fucking shit.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 6 May 2010, 10:41, Reply)

There these ones
ilkerugur.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/the-saturdays.jpeg
I've not been allowed close enough to check their BO
(PsychoChomp, Thu 6 May 2010, 9:29, Reply)

I think chcb is talking about their adverts for deoderant.

( girlinthehole, Thu 6 May 2010, 9:30, Reply)

Though they have obviously been dress up and made up
don't you find them a bit funny looking? The one is yellow looks a tad "post-op"
( Peej, Thu 6 May 2010, 9:31, Reply)

this one's so cute
i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/04/23/article-1172881-049DC07F000005DC-635_468x618.jpg
I want her hair
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Thu 6 May 2010, 9:32, Reply)

She has no arse
No Arse = No Sale
( Peej, Thu 6 May 2010, 9:38, Reply)

And
leave her bald? That's a fairly unpleasant suggestion, if I may say?
(JohntheDane, Thu 6 May 2010, 9:39, Reply)

I know
I just want to cut it off and keep it in a bag. Maybe get someone to weave it into wool and have CHCB make me a jumper.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Thu 6 May 2010, 9:42, Reply)

I can crochet little flowers for the jumper too.

( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Thu 6 May 2010, 9:46, Reply)

that is awesome
I tried to learn popcorn stitch. It didn't go so well.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Thu 6 May 2010, 10:19, Reply)

I think it was Al who so eloquently described them as
"An Aldi own-brand Girls Aloud"
(LongJohnBaldry, Thu 6 May 2010, 9:59, Reply)

They played in my local shit hole town
in our local shit hole club and were in the local shit hole pub before the gig. My Step dad who has no clue who they are couldn't get to the bar because their entourage had picked a table right next to it and had spread out like they owned the place. He very loudly shouted at the one with the hat "Oi, you with the stupid hat, would you and your mates mind moving out of the way so the rest of us can get a drink" Mr Stupid Hat guy and his minders moved out of the way. I'm very proud of my step dad.
( Peej, Thu 6 May 2010, 9:30, Reply)

I thought you meant less than 50 members
which made me think of So Solid Crew and Slipknot
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Thu 6 May 2010, 9:28, Reply)

When I was at uni
my friend in the states sent me a package with 6 boxes of lucky charms in. I was over the moon, she sent them by surface mail so they took three months to get to me. I ate Lucky Charms every day until one day they were gone. I have not had any in ten years. I'm a sad panda.
( Peej, Thu 6 May 2010, 9:24, Reply)

Get your arse down to Selfridges
They're about £6 a box, but it's nice to treat yourself every so often. I went to Florida when I was a teenager and binged on them all week and then brought as many boxes back as I could fit in the suitcase.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Thu 6 May 2010, 9:29, Reply)

£6 and a 5 hour drive
I'm in deepest darkest Cornwall
( Peej, Thu 6 May 2010, 9:33, Reply)

there's probably a website where you can have them sent to you

( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Thu 6 May 2010, 9:40, Reply)

At £4.95 delivery!
Your Lucky Charms will cost a total of £12.40. It's probably worth ordering more.

www.selfridges.com
(ThomsonsPier consumes, Thu 6 May 2010, 9:45, Reply)

totally worth it.

( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Thu 6 May 2010, 10:19, Reply)

Surface mail?
Is it instead possible to transmit cereal via underground tunnels?
(LongJohnBaldry, Thu 6 May 2010, 10:00, Reply)

Surface mail is simply the alternative to air mail.
What that has to do with tunnels I don't know. The Ocean has a surface.
( Peej, Thu 6 May 2010, 10:04, Reply)

I'd just never heard regular mail described as such
And wondered if there was scope for a sort of sub-surface mail, involving tunnels which transmit cereal. Or other stuff, depending on your needs.
(LongJohnBaldry, Thu 6 May 2010, 10:06, Reply)

Surface mail is for Non urgent international mail
and its too big/expensive for air mail you send it surface mail, see. cereal tunnels direct to my home would be awesome, maybe a cereal tap next to my water taps.
( Peej, Thu 6 May 2010, 10:11, Reply)

Don't remember what they were called but....
In my teens I used to be mad for a bar made from peanuts all stuck together with soft toffee.
( girlinthehole, Thu 6 May 2010, 9:26, Reply)

I've never heard of this
do they still make peanut lion bars? They're pretty good.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Thu 6 May 2010, 9:30, Reply)

You probably weren't even born when I was a teenager.

( girlinthehole, Thu 6 May 2010, 9:31, Reply)

I did history at school though
hehe
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Thu 6 May 2010, 9:41, Reply)

Oh god, they were fantastic!
No idea what they were called though.
( M o D, Thu 6 May 2010, 9:30, Reply)

I have a recollection of them being called nutty bars or similar but can't be sure.

( girlinthehole, Thu 6 May 2010, 9:34, Reply)

They sound like the ones
www.aquarterof.co.uk/mtype2/whatever/archives/nutty_bars/
( M o D, Thu 6 May 2010, 9:37, Reply)

That must be it.
Hooray! I'm not alone in my appreciation of them.
( girlinthehole, Thu 6 May 2010, 9:41, Reply)

Mr Tom?
www.aquarterof.co.uk/mr-tom-peanut-bar-p-492.html

I looooove Mr Tom bars
( Peej, Thu 6 May 2010, 9:34, Reply)

No!
This was soft toffee and not brittle.
( girlinthehole, Thu 6 May 2010, 9:36, Reply)

Nutty Crunch?
www.sweetsandrock.com/prods/chewy_sweets/nutty_crunch_bar.asp
( Peej, Thu 6 May 2010, 9:39, Reply)

Texan Bars were the best
by a country mile.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 6 May 2010, 9:45, Reply)

Yes.
I think I love you just a little bit more than I thought possible.


Erm, like. I meant like
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Thu 6 May 2010, 10:32, Reply)

The above post contains unprecedented levels of rightness.
Edit: The one about the Texan Bars that is.
And Davros' Grandad, just hold on and give those of us still using the old mono-finger typing method a chance.
You youngsters, always rushing in.
(Cave Duck, Thu 6 May 2010, 10:34, Reply)

Young?
I'll be bloody 40 this year.
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Thu 6 May 2010, 10:46, Reply)

Wispa Gold
I know they staged a comeback, but even so, nowhere seems to cunting sell them.
/sadface
(berk, Thu 6 May 2010, 9:37, Reply)

They sell them in Sainsbury's you berk.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 6 May 2010, 9:45, Reply)

Nope
not round here they don't.
(berk, Thu 6 May 2010, 10:07, Reply)

i preferred the mint ones personally
do they sell those anywhere?
(bamboozled Can hear you getting fatter, Thu 6 May 2010, 10:12, Reply)

They're in the vending machine here

(PsychoChomp, Thu 6 May 2010, 10:15, Reply)

you're right

( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Thu 6 May 2010, 10:20, Reply)

Apparently
they are doing a limited edition mint one sometime this year. And since I live less than 3 miles from the Cadbury's factory, you'd think they'd be a bit fucking easier to get hold of. The only place I've found near me that has them is the post office, which is handily only open when I am at work.
(berk, Thu 6 May 2010, 10:23, Reply)

Cadbury's sucks
Galaxy/Mars is the way to go.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Thu 6 May 2010, 10:51, Reply)

Spangles.
The Coca Cola ones.
(Bear Pookie The Frankly Challenged. Halloween is coming to town., Thu 6 May 2010, 9:39, Reply)

what's a spangle?

( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Thu 6 May 2010, 9:41, Reply)

A spangle is a boiled sweet, kind of like a Jolly Rancher.
I wasn't allowed them as a child in case I choked on them. (I wasn't allowed to watch Grange Hill or Eastenders either but I was given free reign when it came to printed text. Oh, and I was never given colouring books because my mother thought it "stifled creativity" because you were supposed to keep within the lines.)
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Thu 6 May 2010, 9:43, Reply)

Whereas I wasn't allowed them as my parents were homophobic



Apologies for not knowing how to resize stuff.
(Cave Duck, Thu 6 May 2010, 9:53, Reply)

That's a slightly more draconian version of my own childhood.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 6 May 2010, 10:18, Reply)

fucking hippy

( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Thu 6 May 2010, 10:20, Reply)

What's a Spangle?
Meh, youths.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spangles
(Bear Pookie The Frankly Challenged. Halloween is coming to town., Thu 6 May 2010, 9:47, Reply)

I also miss
chocolate not being so bloody expensive. I spotted a chomp bar in the co-op the other day and was going to buy it for its retro appeal but it was 17p! Seventeen-bloody-pence! Not to sound tight arsed or anything, but I remember when they were 5p...
(berk, Thu 6 May 2010, 9:42, Reply)

17p for a chomp bar?
Daylight fucking robbery.
( girlinthehole, Thu 6 May 2010, 9:44, Reply)

I remember Polos always being 8p
Now they are closer to 50p
( Peej, Thu 6 May 2010, 9:45, Reply)

I've got 5p,
Wish that I had 5p,
What can you buy with 5p,
You can buy a Caramac Bar!

Fuck knows how much they are now.
(Bear Pookie The Frankly Challenged. Halloween is coming to town., Thu 6 May 2010, 9:48, Reply)

BLEURGH!
They tasted of ming.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Thu 6 May 2010, 9:49, Reply)

They were a bit greasy.

(Bear Pookie The Frankly Challenged. Halloween is coming to town., Thu 6 May 2010, 9:52, Reply)

Yeah, kind of like a cross between cheap chocolate, fudge, and lard, rolled out thin.

( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Thu 6 May 2010, 9:54, Reply)

No need to use the past tense
My flatmate came back from the cornershop the other day and proudly announced that he'd found one there.

(Of course, that's not to say it had been manufactured recently...)
(LongJohnBaldry, Thu 6 May 2010, 10:02, Reply)

Were Curlywurlys ever 2p?
or did I dream that?
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Thu 6 May 2010, 10:06, Reply)

They were free,
if you slipped them in your pocket when the shop guy had his back turned.
(Bear Pookie The Frankly Challenged. Halloween is coming to town., Thu 6 May 2010, 10:19, Reply)

Someone had better make a "finger of fudge" joke soon
or we'll be breach of the Nostalgic Chocolate Discussions (Internet) Act.
(Cave Duck, Thu 6 May 2010, 10:21, Reply)

And...
Do you like sweeties?
Well open your mouth; I have a Treat for you.
(Tugnut Ex of this parish, Thu 6 May 2010, 10:34, Reply)

I loved Simon Bates on Our Tune.
Weekday mornings, 11am, big doobie and a little cry. Simon's voice could make glaciers melt.
(Bear Pookie The Frankly Challenged. Halloween is coming to town., Thu 6 May 2010, 9:53, Reply)

I loved sitting with my tape to tape deck
recording the top 40 trying to get the whole song and cut out as much Bruno Brookes as possible.
( Peej, Thu 6 May 2010, 10:06, Reply)

The problem with Our Simes was
When he did the Golden Hour (songs and bits of news from a year that you had to guess - a format still used by most local stations to this day)he'd quite often throw in "It was the year that the Queen Mother celebrated her XXth/st/nd/rd birthday." which when you knew that the Queen Mother was born in 1900, removed all kudos from working out the year from which Ian Dury song he'd played.
(Cave Duck, Thu 6 May 2010, 10:11, Reply)

Leg braces, apartheid, women not having the vote....
...wars with Germany, bodyline bowling, being able to flog the poor, easily obtained opiates, gin-houses, local girls who become prostitutes, music hall and good old fashioned racism.
(Tugnut Ex of this parish, Thu 6 May 2010, 10:06, Reply)

Them were the days.
You forgot "white dog shit" though.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Thu 6 May 2010, 10:10, Reply)

I force feed the hounds with cow bones...
...just so I can rub children's faces in this rare delicacy.
(Tugnut Ex of this parish, Thu 6 May 2010, 10:29, Reply)

local girls still become prostitutes
it's just less obvious
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Thu 6 May 2010, 10:24, Reply)

I want to pay for sex with royalty....
...who have fallen on hard times.
And squabble about the charges after.
(Tugnut Ex of this parish, Thu 6 May 2010, 10:32, Reply)

Princess Madeleine of Sweden ...
... ditched her engagement a couple of weeks ago from a fellow commoner (a lawyer - albeit, I'm not a lawyer).

She's utterly gorgeous and wildly, magnificently out of my league.

For a start, I'm Danish - not Swedish - but even still. Wow.

princessculture.com/wordpress/?tag=princess-madeleine
(JohntheDane, Thu 6 May 2010, 10:38, Reply)

Wood!

(Tugnut Ex of this parish, Thu 6 May 2010, 10:42, Reply)

If I were Swedish (and much better looking)
... so would I.
(JohntheDane, Thu 6 May 2010, 10:45, Reply)

who says you have to be Swedish?

(bamboozled Can hear you getting fatter, Thu 6 May 2010, 10:50, Reply)

Not sure
I think it's either Swedish law or convention. I believe that the consort of a royal has to be approved by the Swedish parliament in the same way that it has to be by the Danish parliament.
(JohntheDane, Thu 6 May 2010, 10:54, Reply)

But that just leads to them all being so inbred!
What they need is an influx of fresh genetic material from, say, some dirty Englishman, e.g., me. I'll make her feel my influx.
(LongJohnBaldry, Thu 6 May 2010, 10:56, Reply)

You mean
a *reverse* Viking invasion?

A bit of filthy Dane is necessary, I feel.
(JohntheDane, Thu 6 May 2010, 11:06, Reply)

Is a 'Filthy Dane' similar to a 'Dirty Sanchez'?

(Tugnut Ex of this parish, Thu 6 May 2010, 11:21, Reply)

Having
just looked up the definition of Dirty Sanchez - no.
(JohntheDane, Thu 6 May 2010, 11:24, Reply)

The Swedish are cunts and everyone knows it.

( Devil_In_Tights the *real* DiT!, Thu 6 May 2010, 11:16, Reply)

^^^
What he said.
(JohntheDane, Thu 6 May 2010, 11:18, Reply)

I can't understand
how everyone seems to remember and love Lucky Charms.

If they really were as popular as everyone makes out then why the fuck were they stopped?

The truth is people don't really like Lucky Charms and are just being rose-tinted and sentimental. They tasted like shit - the Marshmallows weren't even real ones. They were the cheap shit variety.

I remember when this was all fields. Now the packs and jews have taken my job. I didn't pick the pieces of my mate Joe's brain out of my uniform in the trenches of Amiens for all this bullshit.
( whenanimalsattackhumans clad in global hypercolour, Thu 6 May 2010, 10:10, Reply)

ARGH! You're right the marshmallows were crunchy!
But I still miss them!
( Peej, Thu 6 May 2010, 10:13, Reply)

You're right
Well, I thought they minged anyway. I do miss Golden Grahams though. The cinammon ones they do now are just gross.
(berk, Thu 6 May 2010, 10:24, Reply)

Cinnamon is a crude American bastardisation of breakfast
They stick that shit on anything - cereal, bread, scones, biscuits even fucking chewing gum. They can keep away from me, thank fuck for the Atlantic.
( whenanimalsattackhumans clad in global hypercolour, Thu 6 May 2010, 10:28, Reply)

Cinammon
danish pastry bun type things are ok. But chewing gum? Seriously?
/bokes
(berk, Thu 6 May 2010, 10:30, Reply)

Think it was called "Big Red"
It's also just occured to me that places like Starbucks and Costa encourage you to put cinnamon in your coffees.
( whenanimalsattackhumans clad in global hypercolour, Thu 6 May 2010, 10:34, Reply)

Cinnamon toothpaste is the wrongest thing ever to have happened.

(wellgroomedwookiee is a filthy-minded hobgoblin, Thu 6 May 2010, 10:52, Reply)

who the FUCK invented that

(bamboozled Can hear you getting fatter, Thu 6 May 2010, 10:54, Reply)

Americans.

(wellgroomedwookiee is a filthy-minded hobgoblin, Thu 6 May 2010, 11:24, Reply)

Cinnamon on eggy bread is wrong as well.
It's ketchup, you fools! KETCHUP!
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Thu 6 May 2010, 10:55, Reply)

mmm Eggy bread
or French bread as I call it.

and HP sauce is good too - think I'll make me some tonight
(bamboozled Can hear you getting fatter, Thu 6 May 2010, 10:58, Reply)

French toast, you oaf.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 6 May 2010, 11:01, Reply)

it's not been toasted
ergo it is not toast
(bamboozled Can hear you getting fatter, Thu 6 May 2010, 11:04, Reply)

ha!

( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Thu 6 May 2010, 11:05, Reply)

I fucking love Lucky Charms!
They weren't marshmallowy bits, they were foamy bits and they weren't crunchy if you let the milk settle into them a bit, it kind of rehydrates them. Like cereal with dried fruit. I had them only a few months ago and they were just as delicious as I remember!
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Thu 6 May 2010, 10:26, Reply)

O.K. I accept that some people can like them
but there is a disproportionate amount of rose-tinted mongrels. It was always a huge let down for me finding out that the marshmallow was merely dehydrated weirdness.
( whenanimalsattackhumans clad in global hypercolour, Thu 6 May 2010, 10:30, Reply)

i read that as dehydrated weirdos

(bamboozled Can hear you getting fatter, Thu 6 May 2010, 10:51, Reply)

I miss the times when I was automatically suspected of being a terrorist on the basis of my accent.
Now we Norn Irish have been usurped by anyone looking vaguely dusky.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Thu 6 May 2010, 10:14, Reply)

How about a dusky Norn?
That would be the gallows.
(Bear Pookie The Frankly Challenged. Halloween is coming to town., Thu 6 May 2010, 10:18, Reply)

My dad was in the navy
and when we were younger if he heard anyone with an Irish Accent when we went out anywhere he wouldn't let us near the car until he had checked for bombs. An awful lot of IRA bombings targeted Cornwall. I remember at least none happening in my lifetime.
( Peej, Thu 6 May 2010, 10:30, Reply)

That is because it is too sunny down there...
...our Nosferatu skin would fry in the midday sun.
(Tugnut Ex of this parish, Thu 6 May 2010, 10:33, Reply)

I once got badly sunburned just looking at a postcard of Newquay.

( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Thu 6 May 2010, 10:44, Reply)

My nephew Padraig...
...was burnt to a crisp when the song 'Barbados' by Typically Tropical was played on Radio 1.
The family complained - DLT was very nice and sent them a signed photo.
(Tugnut Ex of this parish, Thu 6 May 2010, 11:23, Reply)

Exploitative child labour
And slavery. Damn the human rights brigade. What about MY right to have my chimney swept by a loveable street urchin and my family's silver to be polished by a lady with a tan to die for?
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Thu 6 May 2010, 10:35, Reply)

PCGM.
Tchah.
(Tugnut Ex of this parish, Thu 6 May 2010, 10:39, Reply)

Innit?

( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Thu 6 May 2010, 10:39, Reply)

not to mention
having your shoes spit-shined in the high street
(bamboozled Can hear you getting fatter, Thu 6 May 2010, 10:55, Reply)

Quite.

( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Thu 6 May 2010, 10:58, Reply)

Sweep yer chimney, guv'nor?
*cockneys*
( Devil_In_Tights the *real* DiT!, Thu 6 May 2010, 11:18, Reply)

Is that a euphemism?

(Cave Duck, Thu 6 May 2010, 11:26, Reply)

But of course.

( Devil_In_Tights the *real* DiT!, Thu 6 May 2010, 11:29, Reply)

The Galaxy Secret bar.
Like a bit of Milky Way in a chocolate bird's nest lattice of a bar. And Nova bars were nice too.
( Devil_In_Tights the *real* DiT!, Thu 6 May 2010, 11:18, Reply)

My heart too
was broken by the Secret.

I also kind of miss Walnut Whips. But I'm sure they're still around.
( whenanimalsattackhumans clad in global hypercolour, Thu 6 May 2010, 11:20, Reply)

Crunchy peanut butter and jam sandwiches.
It's almost 15 years since I had one of those bad boys.
(porkylips looks better as the sun goes down., Thu 6 May 2010, 11:26, Reply)