Heroes & Villains, the Aston Villa fanzine
Heroes & Villains => Heroes Discussion => Topic started by: Hillbilly on August 04, 2015, 06:20:49 AM
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We have three British players in the senior squad, Richards, Hutton and Cole who have played in the other big European leagues (not that it means anything). Given the rarity of such players, can anyone confirm that we have pretty much cornered this niche market?
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Whenever the subject of British footballers playing abroad comes up I recall how amusing it was as a school kid when Ian Wallace joined a French club called 'Brest'.
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The title of this thread sounds like one of those naff programmes off Channel 5.
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I watched a bit of one of those type shows a few years back. A Brit couple bought a little bar in France. It was in a very quiet and insular French town with no tourists or English speaking residents, they didn't speak a word of French and they had never even worked in the pub trade, let alone run one. They seemed surprised that things didn't work out.
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I watched a bit of one of those type shows a few years back. A Brit couple bought a little bar in France. It was in a very quiet and insular French town with no tourists or English speaking residents, they didn't speak a word of French and they had never even worked in the pub trade, let alone run one. They seemed surprised that things didn't work out.
My mate opened one in Nuneaton and much the same problems.
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I watched a bit of one of those type shows a few years back. A Brit couple bought a little bar in France. It was in a very quiet and insular French town with no tourists or English speaking residents, they didn't speak a word of French and they had never even worked in the pub trade, let alone run one. They seemed surprised that things didn't work out.
My mate opened one in Nuneaton and much the same problems.
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I'm cried with laughter reading the above post!
Funny as feck.......
Nuneaton is full of funny onions, they call a cob a batch for starters.
'Beduth' or Bedrock as the locals call it, is even less civilised than Nuneaton.
Bless em all.
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Nuneaton is full of funny onions, they call a cob a batch for starters.
Finding out what the locals call various types of bread-based product is always a very good litmus test as to how fucked up they are.
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Here in France it is "What do you call a half-litre of beer?" Depending on the origin of your interlocutor or your geographical position, it may be one of:
- un 50 centilitres
- un distingué
- un sérieux
- un baron
- or mime the size of a big beer glass with your hands.
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I always think of Ian Rush and that painful year at juventus for some reason.
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Nuneaton is full of funny onions, they call a cob a batch for starters.
Finding out what the locals call various types of bread-based product is always a very good litmus test as to how fucked up they are.
They're called cobs in Tipton.
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Baps down our way
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Round here, if it's smaller than a loaf and isn't a cake of some description, it is called a raowl.
Anything. Seedy, soft, crusty, pastry with fillin',bread plaits, turnovers, lattices wiv veg, it's a raowl.
(The sole exception is the pasty, the like of which has never been seen anywhere near Cornwall.)
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Cobs all day long, nice and simple.
Bread Roll if your super sensible.
Batch if you're trying too hard to be something your not.
Like a batch
It's a Cob
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According to family in Leicester, cob if it's crusty, bap if it's soft.
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I do recommened the crusty cobs from West Brom indoor market. It's the only thing worth going to West Brom for.
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Here in France it is "What do you call a half-litre of beer?" Depending on the origin of your interlocutor or your geographical position, it may be one of:
- un 50 centilitres
- un distingué
- un sérieux
- un baron
- or mime the size of a big beer glass with your hands.
Une pinte for me in Paris.
I used to frequent a bar as a student where the "serieux" was a litre.
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Nuneaton's food of choice is a faggot and pea batch.You need 6 fingers and toes to eat the fucker.
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Nuneaton's food of choice is a faggot and pea batch.You need 6 fingers and toes to eat the fucker.
I'm not doing myself any favours by saying that I bloody love them am I?
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Nuneaton's food of choice is a faggot and pea batch.You need 6 fingers and toes to eat the fucker.
I'm not doing myself any favours by saying that I bloody love them am I?
Real ale - check
Non league football - check.
I think we's disappointed if you didn't😉
I must confess, I thought it was something that Mr Underhill had dreamt up until you said that.
Still, can't be any worse than the curried herrings they serve over here as part of an acceptable lunch.
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Quite fancy the sound of curried herrings as well.
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Faggot and pea batches are wonderful...especially with HP sauce.
It's still COB though.
Crusty cobs are crusty.
Soft cobs are soft.
Cob.
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It has to be Chop brown sauce on a faggot and pea batch.
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Never heard of it.
Must be some inferior gunge from up north or down south.
;-)
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Stotties in the North East
Oven Bottoms in Lancashire
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Stotties in the North East
Oven Bottoms in Lancashire
Bread cakes in Sheffield.
Only crusty rolls can be cobs though, never soft rolls. Rules is rules. If we didn't have rules where would we be?
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Stotties in the North East
Oven Bottoms in Lancashire
Bread cakes in Sheffield.
Only crusty rolls can be cobs though, never soft rolls. Rules is rules. If we didn't have rules where would we be?
France :D
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Stotties in the North East
Oven Bottoms in Lancashire
If memory serves stotties are a bit of a different beast.
I'm sure that a full stottie was about the size of large frisbee and could be ordered as a quarter, half or full stottie.
If it's the same thing I'm thinking off, I once had a breakfast half stottie somewhere around Byker/Wallsend.
1 sausage halved length ways, 2 rashers of bacon, a fried egg, a spoonful of beans and a spoonful of mushrooms crammed into this half stottie that had been opened up like a pitta bread.
Could barely walk afterwards.
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I'm cried with laughter reading the above post!
Funny as feck.......
Nuneaton is full of funny onions, they call a cob a batch for starters.
'Beduth' or Bedrock as the locals call it, is even less civilised than Nuneaton.
Bless em all.
nuneaton not civilised? You never had a faggot and mushy pea batch from Jim's in town?
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Stotties in the North East
Oven Bottoms in Lancashire
A barm cake is the more usual term for a bread roll in Lancashire. Barm being an Old English word for yeast.
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So what's a roll, then?
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I'm from Nuneaton!
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I've never eaten a faggot and pea batch, but I'll admit it sounds nice.
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Would that be mushy peas and brown sauce too?
Would prefer garden peas myself
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According to family in Leicester, cob if it's crusty, bap if it's soft.
This ^^^^^
And I'm from Smerrick!
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The Lych Gate pub in the centre of Wolves sells cheese and black pudding crusty cobs for 50p. So cheap and very tasty.
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The Lych Gate pub in the centre of Wolves sells cheese and black pudding crusty cobs for 50p. So cheap and very tasty.
Dial 222!!!