On 11/24/2018 at 10:56 AM, Spidey said:

And why not indeed. Always been my favourite Englishmen, down to earth and call a spade a spade. Mind you, I've met some pretty decent Mackems, Monkey Hangers and Smoggies too. Must be the water in the North East.

True, if you can understand a word they are saying!!

 

Yorkshiremen call a spade a f...ck..g shovel....

4 minutes ago, Tofer said:

Yorkshiremans advice to his Son, 

 

See all, hear all, and say nowt.

Eat all, drink all, and pay nowt.

And if thar ever does owt for nowt, allas do it for thisen.

 

Where this comes from I really don't know???

 

Salt of the earth us Yorkshireman, straight shooters, no BS, tell it as we find. Probably not many diplomats come from Yorkshire.... Some would say can be tight as a ducks a.se, not true just want value for money.

 

On 11/24/2018 at 2:34 PM, balo said:

Sorry to hear that , not the England I remember from the 80's .

When I lived there I did some extensive travelling and most people I met were fun to chat with and curious about my nationality. 

I have good memories not only from the Midlands, but Brighton, Southampton, Cornwall , Liverpool, Manchester and even some weird accents up in the north , I can't remember , some small towns I visited , nobody understood me , and I couldn't understand a word. 

 

Muslims? I can't remember I spotted one. 

 

 

 

Must have been a bl..dy long time ago!

 

Sorry just re-read your post, it was a long time ago. Don't go back!

 

But where do you reign from?

9 hours ago, joecoolfrog said:

Born in Stevenage Herts , brought up in Essex , currently Chislehurst in kent.

I used to lunch in the nice pub on the green in Chislehurst when I worked for Balfour Beatty in Sidcup. Nice spot.

Ee by gum, the memories...

7 hours ago, vogie said:

The only haulage company I knew he worked for was the one on Canal Rd, Clarks Transport. I did get pulled in my car in Keighley to see if I had a Geordie accent and was in the Black Bull in Haworth when they played the infamous ripper tape. But sadly the very first of his victims was in Silsden and the woman survived and gave the police a nearly exact photofit of him, but they dismissed it.

The police checked my step fathers car for tyre tread on an old Austin Cambridge related to the ripper case. Small world!

5 hours ago, Andrew Dwyer said:

Huddersfield Town

 

5 hours ago, Spidey said:

Yea! Up the Town!

 

Wasn't born there but was raised and went to school in Rawthorpe. Leeds Road was the first football ground that I ever went to. Have the dubious distinction of being on the pitch at the same time as Dennis Law. My Dad used to sit me on the wall at the visitors end at 3 years of age. During a particularly exciting goalmouth scramble, I jumped up and ran onto the pitch to try to put the ball in the net myself. Happy days.

I worked on the new extension to Rawthorpe Secondary school for Abbey Hanson Rowe & Ptnrs, came to do a site inspection one day and you b.gg..s had burnt the place down almost!

3 hours ago, shy coconut said:

I was born in North Harrow, used to watch the Wasps when they played in Sudbury.

Lived in Watford 20 odd years then sold up and bought a wee house in the Highlands

20 miles from Fort William.

Jees, we could have been neighbours. I worked in HRC and lived in Inverness for 3 years, nearly bought a place on a remote plot near Fort Augustus, but wife dragged me back to Yorkshire to be near to MIL - suffice to say that didn't last!

For the record, although Huddersfield born, I must confess to being somewhat vagrant.

 

Hudds - Inverness - Sheffield - Seychelles - London (sideline Sidcup) - Westerham, Kent - Al Khobar, Saudi Arabia (mental hiccup) - London - Limpsfield Chart, Surrey - Sultanate of Oman - back to LC - Phuket -  Caterham, Surrey - Kuala Lumpur - Lingfield, Surrey - Huddersfield (again, sucker for punishment) - Manila - Pattaya - back to Hudds- Koh Lanta (final resting place - maybe!)

 

I used to get a 3 year itch to move on, now I'm getting too old to be bothered with the stress and upheaval....

I am from USA and really enjoyed my visit to Liverpool. The city has a lot of new growth and old history and the people were friendly IMO. The Cavern Club was a lot of fun. 

13 hours ago, Tofer said:

I used to lunch in the nice pub on the green in Chislehurst when I worked for Balfour Beatty in Sidcup. Nice spot.

Ee by gum, the memories...

Probably the Tigers Head , good grub. Half a dozen pubs on or about Chislehurst Common , makes an enjoyable crawl in the summer.

13 hours ago, Tofer said:

 

I worked on the new extension to Rawthorpe Secondary school for Abbey Hanson Rowe & Ptnrs, came to do a site inspection one day and you b.gg..s had burnt the place down almost!

When was that?

I had a small business nearby (moldgreen) and had a friend who was quantity surveyor for Abbey hanson rowe

1 hour ago, slappy said:

When was that?

I had a small business nearby (moldgreen) and had a friend who was quantity surveyor for Abbey hanson rowe

About 44/45 years ago. I was at Abbeys between 1972 - 1976.

 

what was his name?

I was born in Fort William and raised in the village of Caol, about 5 miles away (pronounced 'Cool', which would be have been funny if it wasn't so depressed in the 70s and 80s). Caol was, at that time, renowned to be the largest village in the UK - not exactly a claim to fame, more an acknowledgement of a large number of shoddily built council houses placed around very few amenities. 

4 minutes ago, RuamRudy said:

I was born in Fort William and raised in the village of Caol, about 5 miles away (pronounced 'Cool', which would be have been funny if it wasn't so depressed in the 70s and 80s). Caol was, at that time, renowned to be the largest village in the UK - not exactly a claim to fame, more an acknowledgement of a large number of shoddily built council houses placed around very few amenities. 

Stop complaining. I built you a nice new fire station back in those days when I worked in Highland Regional Council...

1 hour ago, RuamRudy said:

I was born in Fort William and raised in the village of Caol, about 5 miles away (pronounced 'Cool', which would be have been funny if it wasn't so depressed in the 70s and 80s). Caol was, at that time, renowned to be the largest village in the UK - not exactly a claim to fame, more an acknowledgement of a large number of shoddily built council houses placed around very few amenities. 

You live/lived in a beautifull part of the world. Did you ever get out and up the Munros. We've stopped at the Clachaig Hotel at Glen Coe a few times but never did the infamous Aonach Eagach ridge walk opposite the Hotel. Climbed many Monros in Scotland, one of my favourite holiday destinations, but the west coast was famous for its rain. Best whiskey distillary Glen Turret.

Included is part of Muriel Grays 'The Munro Show' never missed a show, infact my wife bought me the whole series on VHS. A very entertaining lady, she says there are parts of the ridge walk where you need a 'man with a beard' and refers to midges as 'cleggies'

 

 

 

1 hour ago, Tofer said:

Stop complaining. I built you a nice new fire station back in those days when I worked in Highland Regional Council...

The one in Claggan? I believe it is gone now, with a new station at Blar Mhor. Things are probably looking very different since you were last there. There is, according to my mother, even an M&S in the town now. 

Dubai a few years ago. Oil Barons Ball. Invitation read.

 

Dress Code. Black Tie or National Dress.

 

I sent the invitation to a scouser and said National Dress does not mean a Shell Suit. 

 

Northern Lad through and through.

 

 

45 minutes ago, vogie said:

You live/lived in a beautifull part of the world. Did you ever get out and up the Munros. We've stopped at the Clachaig Hotel at Glen Coe a few times but never did the infamous Aonach Eagach ridge walk opposite the Hotel. Climbed many Monros in Scotland, one of my favourite holiday destinations, but the west coast was famous for its rain. Best whiskey distillary Glen Turret.

Included is part of Muriel Grays 'The Munro Show' never missed a show, infact my wife bought me the whole series on VHS. A very entertaining lady, she says there are parts of the ridge walk where you need a 'man with a beard' and refers to midges as 'cleggies'

 

 

 

Indeed it is a beautiful part of the country - but it felt so remote when I was a kid. I always longed to live in a big city where 'things that mattered' were taking place.

I wasn't a very outdoors kid but during my apprenticeship we got sent on a week's Outward Bound course so I did my first Munro at 17, hiking up Carn Dearg under the leadership of an old guy who had been the first Brit to climb Mt McKinley in Alaska. Despite being in his 70s at the time, he was supremely confident as he led this unwilling gang of spotty youths through the snow up a Scottish hill. I wish I could say that it awoke in me a passion for mountaineering but it took another 20 years before I made Munro number 2, Ben Nevis.

2 minutes ago, RuamRudy said:

Indeed it is a beautiful part of the country - but it felt so remote when I was a kid. I always longed to live in a big city where 'things that mattered' were taking place.

I wasn't a very outdoors kid but during my apprenticeship we got sent on a week's Outward Bound course so I did my first Munro at 17, hiking up Carn Dearg under the leadership of an old guy who had been the first Brit to climb Mt McKinley in Alaska. Despite being in his 70s at the time, he was supremely confident as he led this unwilling gang of spotty youths through the snow up a Scottish hill. I wish I could say that it awoke in me a passion for mountaineering but it took another 20 years before I made Munro number 2, Ben Nevis.

I have met Scots whilst on holiday in various parts of the world, and they are unaware of what they have got in their back garden, shame.

39 minutes ago, vogie said:

I have met Scots whilst on holiday in various parts of the world, and they are unaware of what they have got in their back garden, shame.

Having lived in both Dover and Canterbury I was amazed at how many locals had never set foot in the Castle or Cathedral despite being able to see them since birth.

Wow - Brits won this one by a landslide.

Couple Yank, couple Canucks, few from Down Under ...

Seems the Empire is alive and well !

Im from Sweeden, and not proud of it 

 

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I'm from Joisey.

Not really but it's fun to say that.

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6 hours ago, Tofer said:

About 44/45 years ago. I was at Abbeys between 1972 - 1976.

 

what was his name?

This was about 20 years ago, but is name was Alan Hunt

 

5 hours ago, RuamRudy said:

The one in Claggan? I believe it is gone now, with a new station at Blar Mhor. Things are probably looking very different since you were last there. There is, according to my mother, even an M&S in the town now. 

I expect it is, it was an awful long time ago that I was disturbing the peace in that neck of the woods. 

 

Got to say though, I absolutely loved the Highlands. I spent many happy days driving and flying around the beautiful countryside for work, had a lot of fun and met a lot of super friendly people.

 

Very fond memories of my time spent there.

8 minutes ago, slappy said:

This was about 20 years ago, but is name was Alan Hunt

 

Way too late for me. I stopped calling in to say hello to old colleagues over 35 years ago.

 

I'll bet if we kept this going long enough someone we actually know from our travels will pop up on this post, excluding the obvious friends in Thailand.

I thought you all spoke English, guess my history books growing up in New England were telling lies................you guys should get together and create a dictionary for us Yanks.

I hail from a quiet little fishing village on the east coast of Northern Ireland, called Belfast. Born and dragged up during the 60's and early 70's, at which point I joined the armed forces (to prevent me getting 'involved' in the troubles if truth be known, which was a big risk for every 16 yo at the time living there, both sides of the divide). Never looked back.

 

Just one point on Belfast though, IMO it is one of the friendliest cities in the world, majority of trouble coming from the minority (as is normally the case everywhere). As an example, as I mentioned above I joined the armed forces to get away from the place, but ironically I was only away for 3 years and returned for 5 straight years doing different jobs on active service. During this time I have seen English, Scottish & Welsh guys who were drafted there, not wanting to be there, close to, and in one case, actually in tears when their stints were up. Majority of these guys were living in 'safe' communities in Belfast and not in the barracks.

 

Probably one of the reasons I have never trusted the media as, while admittedly there was trouble and tragedy there at the time, what they were reporting and the picture they painted and published was of a place I never knew.

 

When a place breaks through religion and politics, and becomes plain organized crime under the umbrella of those two points, it is time to become a shepherd and get the flock out of there, which is exactly what I have done..........................

 

Ooops, just re-read what I wrote, sorry for being so serious, I didn't mean to be, got a bit carried away there.