Vegas & The Aftermath - Diary

[outragous76]

[tonytats]

Looking back, most of my posts seem to have a food theme. This one is no exception.

Only Brits and Americans eat Bacon egg and sausage for breakfast.  Everyone else eats fruit & yoghurt or bread and cheese.

Yeah but you never see em smiling ( everyone else that is ) they may live longer but are they happy ?
65 years of doing what I like or 80 years eating yoghourt n fruit ? No ta

[tikay]

Dear Guy,

Piss off.

Best regards,

[outragous76]

Dear Guy,

Piss off.

Best regards,

 

[Doobs]

Watched the Budget being delivered today. Being a Tory I hope Ed Miliband stays as leader of Labour for a long time to come. He is brilliant.

It upsets me to watch it. Them all sat there having a whale of a time mucking about.
I don't normally vote but I will be voting conservative as long as Ed Miliband continues to be the most useless idiot I have ever seen.

I managed to sit through most of the budget speach quite interested.  Ed Milliband stands up and I struggled to do two minutes.  I think he managed to repeat some phrase about same old tories about 3 times in those 2 minutes.

It really astonishes me how they managed to elect him instead of his brother.  The labour party have such an open goal to shoot for at the moment, albeit one they played a big part in creating. 

[tonytats]

Unless you are wealthy can anybody say that they have been better off with a conservative or labour government ?
They are all very samey to me get elected run the others down get their nose in the trough
Then shaft the voters

[Rod Paradise]

I'm in the Charlemagne building. It has an incredibly high tech conference room complete with big screen, banks of interpreters in glass booths, desks with microphones and headphones etc.

The security procedures are phenomenal.

I'd hate to see the security bill for Brussells - must be immense. Was there for a Celtic Anderlecht game, and was in a pub full of Celtic Fans (and a few locals we'd kidnapped to have a beer with us) when 4 police bikes with lights flashing blocked off the junction for all traffic. Naturally having a football fan's distrust of the police we thought the place was getting raided/shut down, 2 limos then pulled up outside. First one started disgorging guys in suits with short haircuts, little curly wires from collar to ear, and strange bulges under the open suit jackets. 3 stayed outside , a few came in and spoke to the owner. The 2nd limo then emptied - another crew of security types & a wee guy in a suit who looked like he couldn't fight through a paper bag. They came in and the wee guy had a pint. They then left, a couple of the security guys thanking us. Never found out who it was but some high heid-yin wanted a drink with the Celtic support - and they used all those resoources for him to have it.

[AlunB]

Ty Tony. Will follow now.

Good man.

Am not sure what "FoieGras" is, I assume it is some sort of pate. (Posh peeps fish paste).

Am I being levelled here?

[Karabiner]

Ty Tony. Will follow now.

Good man.

Am not sure what "FoieGras" is, I assume it is some sort of pate. (Posh peeps fish paste).

Am I being levelled here?

No he's a 24-carat philistine.

[tikay]

I'm in the Charlemagne building. It has an incredibly high tech conference room complete with big screen, banks of interpreters in glass booths, desks with microphones and headphones etc.

The security procedures are phenomenal.

I'd hate to see the security bill for Brussells - must be immense. Was there for a Celtic Anderlecht game, and was in a pub full of Celtic Fans (and a few locals we'd kidnapped to have a beer with us) when 4 police bikes with lights flashing blocked off the junction for all traffic. Naturally having a football fan's distrust of the police we thought the place was getting raided/shut down, 2 limos then pulled up outside. First one started disgorging guys in suits with short haircuts, little curly wires from collar to ear, and strange bulges under the open suit jackets. 3 stayed outside , a few came in and spoke to the owner. The 2nd limo then emptied - another crew of security types & a wee guy in a suit who looked like he couldn't fight through a paper bag. They came in and the wee guy had a pint. They then left, a couple of the security guys thanking us. Never found out who it was but some high heid-yin wanted a drink with the Celtic support - and they used all those resoources for him to have it.

A "heid-yin" Rod? What that, please?

[henrik777]

high heid-yin - High head one.

Sandy

PS not the tefal variety

[tikay]

high heid-yin - High head one.

Sandy

PS not the tefal variety

Thanks, but still none the wiser. You mean "one of the heads", "suit", "collar & tie man"?

[henrik777]

Generally important people who are decision makers etc. High up in the ranks, towards the head.

Sandy

[tikay]

Ty Tony. Will follow now.

Good man.

Am not sure what "FoieGras" is, I assume it is some sort of pate. (Posh peeps fish paste).

Am I being levelled here?

Not at all - I kind of guessed it might be pate, but had no real idea.

Suitably embarrassed by my ignorance (I came up the other side of the street) I just googled it, & I am simply astonished.

It is a sort of posh fish paste, but they make this stuff from duck or goose livers, & to do that, they need to fatten up the bird. They do this artificially, by forcing food down it's throat via a tube!

Now it's my turn to ask - am I being levelled by wiki?

Surely, in this day & age, that can't be so?

See "Fattening" here.....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foie_gras

Click to see full-size image.

[AndrewT]

Yeah - it's why a lot of people kick up a fuss over foie gras. The birds are force fed food over a period of time up to the point where their livers are about to explode, then it's gg goose.