The Reids

Following up to Jeremy Henderson

    >Didn't you know that alcohol is always harmful?

harm away.

    >Like nice weather.

sad isn't it.

    >And pretty girls.

if I only look?
--
Mike Reid
"Art is the lie that reveals the truth" P.Picasso
Wasdale-Lake district-Thames path-London "http://www.fellwalk.co.uk" <-- you can email us@ this site
Eat-walk-Spain "http://www.fell-walker.co.uk" <-- dontuse@ all, it's a spamtrap

Keeger

Tim Challenger <"timothy(dot)challenger(at)apk(dot)at"> wrote:

    >On Thu, 10 Jun 2004 23:26:35 GMT, Keeger wrote:
    >> The Reids <[email protected]> wrote:
    >>
    >>>US tourist overheard by local radio presenter here "shall we buy
    >>>it here (Covent Garden) or leave it till Istanbul?"
    >>>(if this mild piss take is offensive to Americans here is a
    >>>response to cut and paste for your convenience)
    >>>We won WW2.
    >>>Europeans dont bath enough.
    >>>English have bad teeth.
    >>
    >> http://members.aol.com/intwg/trolls.htm
    >> "An Internet "troll" is a person who delights in sowing discord on the
    >> Internet."
    >>
    >> K
    >>
    >> http://www.regimechangeusa.org
    >Don't be a twit, Keeger. Mike's one of the more level-headed regular
    >posters here.

I call them as I see them. Mike is *usually* a good poster, but every
now and then he feels the need to troll the group.

K



http://www.regimechangeusa.org

Owain

"The Reids" wrote
    | Prison sentence for the homeless?
    | Fine for the super rich?
    | Removal of passport for the non traveller?

Capital punishment for someone who doesn't want to live any more?

Flogging's fairer. (Or not flogging, for masochists.)

Owain

Iceman

    >On the London Eye "Hey Moira, look, the Eiffel Tower" (Crystal
    >Palace TV mast).
    >Japanese tourists in red shirts at Liverpool Street station
    >"please, where is Anfield?"

I overheard someone in Paris ask where the guillotine was.

Jim Ley

On Fri, 11 Jun 2004 07:44:06 GMT, Tim Challenger
<"timothy(dot)challenger(at)apk(dot)at"> wrote:

    >Don't be a twit, Keeger. Mike's one of the more level-headed regular
    >posters here.

but this being r.t.e. that doesn't actually say much.

Jim.

Magda

On Fri, 11 Jun 2004 18:06:21 +0100, in rec.travel.europe, Padraig Breathnach
<[email protected]> arranged some electrons, so they looked like this :

... Jeremy Henderson <[email protected]> wrote:
...
... >Didn't you know that alcohol is always harmful?
... >
... >Like nice weather.
... >
... >And pretty girls.
... >
... Let's be fair: it's French girls who are harmful, and I'm not sure
... that it's only the pretty ones.

What have they done to you ??

Padraig Breathnach

Magda <[email protected]> wrote:

    >On Fri, 11 Jun 2004 18:06:21 +0100, in rec.travel.europe, Padraig Breathnach
    ><[email protected]> arranged some electrons, so they looked like this :
    > ... Let's be fair: it's French girls who are harmful, and I'm not sure
    > ... that it's only the pretty ones.
    >What have they done to you ??

Unspeakable things (in my imaginings, anyway).

--
PB
The return address has been MUNGED

Ajh

Yeah, this sounds made up but two US tourists I met in Chester asked:

"Do you still have public executions in this town" and after a day trip to
Llandudno: "It must be hard living in Wales with all those different words
for stuff".

No kidding.
Al

The Reids

Following up to Keeger

    >>Don't be a twit, Keeger. Mike's one of the more level-headed regular
    >>posters here.
    >I call them as I see them. Mike is *usually* a good poster, but every
    >now and then he feels the need to troll the group.

theres no compulsion on joining in!
--
Mike Reid
"Art is the lie that reveals the truth" P.Picasso
Wasdale-Lake district-Thames path-London "http://www.fellwalk.co.uk" <-- you can email us@ this site
Eat-walk-Spain "http://www.fell-walker.co.uk" <-- dontuse@ all, it's a spamtrap

The Reids

Following up to Padraig Breathnach

    >>What have they done to you ??
    >Unspeakable things (in my imaginings, anyway).

funny you should say that..........
--
Mike Reid
"Art is the lie that reveals the truth" P.Picasso
Wasdale-Lake district-Thames path-London "http://www.fellwalk.co.uk" <-- you can email us@ this site
Eat-walk-Spain "http://www.fell-walker.co.uk" <-- dontuse@ all, it's a spamtrap

The Reids

Following up to The Reids

    >>I call them as I see them. Mike is *usually* a good poster, but every
    >>now and then he feels the need to troll the group.
    >theres no compulsion on joining in!

I think I should explain the underlying point of the post, the
urban myth type comments from the radio were the sort of thing in
all the threads like the current "how to not look like an
american" one, in it you will find all the french smell, UK bad
teeth, fat amercians with guns stuff you could ever want. The
idea of the cut and paste return insult was supposed to be that
perhaps it was a bit silly and predictable to keep doing that
here.
--
Mike Reid
"Art is the lie that reveals the truth" P.Picasso
Wasdale-Lake district-Thames path-London "http://www.fellwalk.co.uk" <-- you can email us@ this site
Eat-walk-Spain "http://www.fell-walker.co.uk" <-- dontuse@ all, it's a spamtrap

Tim Kroesen

...the Vatican must have gotten a hell of a deal on em'...<g>

BTW... was there any buzz here about how all the public attractions were
*free* in Italy, like the coliseum, Ostia Antica,etc due to the first
ever 'Italian culture week' at the end of May???

How cool was that to discover on the very week I was there! A new
Italian word for me... ***GRATUITO***

Tim K

"Tim Challenger" <"timothy(dot)challenger(at)apk(dot)at"> wrote in
message news:[email protected]...
    > On Thu, 10 Jun 2004 18:24:08 GMT, Tim Kroesen wrote:
    > > ...actually I got a much better price for Swiss Army near
Interlaken
    > > Ost than I saw at Covent Garden ...
    > I know the Swiss army is small, but that's just ridiculous.
    > --
    > Tim C.

The Reids

Following up to Owain

    >| Prison sentence for the homeless?
    >| Fine for the super rich?
    >| Removal of passport for the non traveller?
    >Capital punishment for someone who doesn't want to live any more?
    >Flogging's fairer. (Or not flogging, for masochists.)

after some though I come to the conclusion that corporal and
capital punishment do have a more equal result than other
penalties. so they do have one advantage!
--
Mike Reid
"Art is the lie that reveals the truth" P.Picasso
Wasdale-Lake district-Thames path-London "http://www.fellwalk.co.uk" <-- you can email us@ this site
Eat-walk-Spain "http://www.fell-walker.co.uk" <-- dontuse@ all, it's a spamtrap

barney

In article <1gf80lv.gtek09q770uyN%this_address_is_for_spam@ya hoo.co.uk>,
[email protected] (David Horne) wrote:

    > in Sitges
    > Barcelona

Where else did you go on your trip eventually? (I did remember to ask my
father if he had any recommendations for you beyond those two places - but
as it happened, on his recent trip he didn't get further than Sitges and
Barcelona, apart from one rather dull night at Girona to be near the
airport.)

David Horne

<[email protected]> wrote:

    > In article <1gf80lv.gtek09q770uyN%this_address_is_for_spam@ya hoo.co.uk>,
    > [email protected] (David Horne) wrote:
    >
    > > in Sitges
    > >
    > > Barcelona
    >
    > Where else did you go on your trip eventually? (I did remember to ask my
    > father if he had any recommendations for you beyond those two places - but
    > as it happened, on his recent trip he didn't get further than Sitges and
    > Barcelona, apart from one rather dull night at Girona to be near the
    > airport.)

Oh, 4 nights in Barcelona, and 4 in Sitges- took a daytrip to Montserrat
from Barcelona, and one to Tarragona from Sitges. The pacing suited us
very well. Both day trips were well worth it. The mountain walks around
Montserrat are very easy to do (made easier if you take the funicular
up), but you get really breathtaking views from the top, and on one of
the mountain routes, we hardly saw a soul, so there was a real sense of
peace. I'd recommend Tarragona just for a visit to the aquaduct alone-
it's an absolutely stunning building, and not much visited on the basis
of our visit anyway. In Barcelona, we didn't try to visit too many
places (we went to some of the obvious ones, Sagrada Familia, Parc Guell
etc.)- it's very much a place we want to revisit. An unexpected pleasure
for me was the Picasso museum. It's a very popular attraction (the most
popular there I think) but it doesn't house many well-known works.
However, it does wonderfully show the development of the artist- to the
extent that you see a real connection between the ideas of the teenage
Picasso and even what he was doing in his Cubist period. I found it
fascinating, and really felt that the gallery was well designed.

Sitges was busy, as we expected it to be- especially at the weekend when
lots of daytrippers came- but still had a certain kind of charm, I
thought. It also wins my nomination for most ATM's per head of
population- there seemed to be one on every corner!

I was slightly surprised (given I'd read that both Barcelona and Sitges
have become more expensive) how easy it was to find very good, cheap
food. We weren't disappointed anywhere, and there was lots of
interesting food on offer. Some of my favourites- grilled whole small
octopii (pulpito) and cuttlefish, rabbit which I tried cooked several
different ways, and excellent lamb. Even the house wines were all very
drinkable.

David

--
David Horne- www.davidhorne.net
usenet (at) davidhorne (dot) co (dot) uk