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Old May 18th 2015, 2:33 pm
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everybody else on the road apart from me, and a select few I add to and subtract from on a whim, are incompetent twatnuggets.
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Old May 18th 2015, 2:37 pm
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Expresso (sic) Love. Good driving song
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Expresso (sic) Love. Good driving song
6:15 this morning, or thereabouts.
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Old May 18th 2015, 2:39 pm
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Originally Posted by Nutek
6:15 this morning, or thereabouts.
Lots of good driving songs on that album, actually. Not Les Boys, of course, but Tunnel of Love and Solid Rock are
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Originally Posted by Nutek
If bacon was meant to be horrid and stiff and crispy, how come pigs are so cute and soft and bendy?

You are burning out the cuteness! Won't someone think of the pigs???
Come on, pigs are actually rough and bristly! Have you never enjoyed a nice piece of crackling?!
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Old May 18th 2015, 2:46 pm
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Come on, pigs are actually rough and bristly!
Shhh..

Be gone with your factually accurate ramblings I say!

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Originally Posted by Nutek
Shhh..

Be gone with your factually accurate ramblings I say!

It only applies to pigs when they're alive. My dad made a tobacco pouch out of pigskin when I were t' lad, and it was very soft, smooth and bendy. Plus, it smelt of pipe tobacco too, which was a smell I quite weirdly liked as a kid
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Am I the only person on BE that prefers American bacon?

Don't get me wrong, British-style back bacon is yummy too and I'll happily est it when back in Blighty, but my default preference is towards American-style, the crispier the better.
I like them both. Says he having just returned from breakfast at the Pig & Pancake.
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I like them both. Says he having just returned from breakfast at the Pig & Pancake.


That sounds like an excellent place to eat.
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Originally Posted by Nutek


That sounds like an excellent place to eat.
It ticks all the right boxes, doesn't it?
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Originally Posted by SultanOfSwing
It only applies to pigs when they're alive. My dad made a tobacco pouch out of pigskin when I were t' lad, and it was very soft, smooth and bendy. Plus, it smelt of pipe tobacco too, which was a smell I quite weirdly liked as a kid
Tried to make a silk purse and failed
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How did you know ... ?

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Originally Posted by Nutek


That sounds like an excellent place to eat.
One of the delights of spending a few days at the beach. That and breakfast at Sambos, which for some reason they have changed the name from Little Black Sambos as it was called until quite recently.
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I didn't

The whole context of the sentence would have changed if I had remember to put 'once' or even 'I' in it
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