Boubacar Kamara - out for the season

[LeeB]

Can't use coke as a mixer for anything, induces waves of nausea from a bad experience in my youth with Malibu.

[Bad English]

I hope not it's poison.

*gasp* Sacrilegious talk! We're very protective of our aniseed-based paint stripper round these parts.

Tell me about it. As I mentioned above the French were not happy when we tried to introduce Ricardinhas. For them it was right up there with Americans buying up all our 1994 Vintage Port (a vintage of the century) and immediately drinking it.. with fucking Coca Cola. There are certain things in life that you just don't forget or forgive.

That actually made me angry.

Me too. Fucking Coca Cola!

Everyone knows Pepsi is superior.

Never tried Pepsi with Ricard. I may give it a go.

The Germans are wont to order Pastis and Coca Cola when on holiday in France.

Savages.

[pauliewalnuts]

I hope not it's poison.

*gasp* Sacrilegious talk! We're very protective of our aniseed-based paint stripper round these parts.

Tell me about it. As I mentioned above the French were not happy when we tried to introduce Ricardinhas. For them it was right up there with Americans buying up all our 1994 Vintage Port (a vintage of the century) and immediately drinking it.. with fucking Coca Cola. There are certain things in life that you just don't forget or forgive.

That actually made me angry.

Me too. Fucking Coca Cola!

Everyone knows Pepsi is superior.

Never tried Pepsi with Ricard. I may give it a go.

The Germans are wont to order Pastis and Coca Cola when on holiday in France.

Savages.

My ex wife was from eastern France (the Vosges) and round there the tourist-hatred of the locals was reserved for the Dutch, who swarm around there en masse every summer, towing their caravans, and bring all their food with them, ensuring they never eat out, and never really contribute to the local economy because they spend the whole time sat in their caravans, eating sugar on bread three times a day*.

(I always suspected she invented the sugar on bread thing for effect, but left it unchallenged, as I'd observed the dutch caravans element myself, which lead me to understand the local anger).




* and probably having lotsh of haat shecksh.

[AV84]

When I was in school we went on a trip to the Netherlands and we were all disgusted when we came down for breakfast and all that was on offer was slices of bread and hundreds and thousands. 

[Rudy Can't Fail]

When I was in school we went on a trip to the Netherlands and we were all disgusted when we came down for breakfast and all that was on offer was slices of bread and hundreds and thousands. 

Well as you said, you were 'on a trip'. Obviously when you 'came down' hundreds and thousands probably weren't so magical. #fussyjunkies

[Drummond]

I hope not it's poison.

*gasp* Sacrilegious talk! We're very protective of our aniseed-based paint stripper round these parts.

Tell me about it. As I mentioned above the French were not happy when we tried to introduce Ricardinhas. For them it was right up there with Americans buying up all our 1994 Vintage Port (a vintage of the century) and immediately drinking it.. with fucking Coca Cola. There are certain things in life that you just don't forget or forgive.

That actually made me angry.

Me too. Fucking Coca Cola!

Everyone knows Pepsi is superior.

Never tried Pepsi with Ricard. I may give it a go.

How about cassis?

[Risso]

I didn't know LeeB was Dutch.

[AV84]

When I was in school we went on a trip to the Netherlands and we were all disgusted when we came down for breakfast and all that was on offer was slices of bread and hundreds and thousands. 

Well as you said, you were 'on a trip'. Obviously when you 'came down' hundreds and thousands probably weren't so magical. #fussyjunkies

We were from a rough area but even so I don't think any of us were at that aged 10.

[Toronto Villa]

Can't use coke as a mixer for anything, induces waves of nausia from a bad experience in my youth with Malibu.

the snorted version is a great mixer...

[Bad English]

I hope not it's poison.

*gasp* Sacrilegious talk! We're very protective of our aniseed-based paint stripper round these parts.

Tell me about it. As I mentioned above the French were not happy when we tried to introduce Ricardinhas. For them it was right up there with Americans buying up all our 1994 Vintage Port (a vintage of the century) and immediately drinking it.. with fucking Coca Cola. There are certain things in life that you just don't forget or forgive.

That actually made me angry.

Me too. Fucking Coca Cola!

Everyone knows Pepsi is superior.

Never tried Pepsi with Ricard. I may give it a go.

How about cassis?

Try asking for:

Un Ricard s'il vous plaît ! = Ricard.
Une tomate s'il vous plaît ! = Ricard +splash of grenadine syrup
Un perroquet... = Ricard + splash of mint syrup
Une mauresque.... = Ricard + splash of orgeat syrup
Une canisse... = Ricard + splash of  cassis syrup
Un pélican... = Ricard + splash of peach syrup
Un rourou... = Ricard + splash of fraise syrup
Un mazout*... = Ricard + Coke

Etc.

* 'mazout' is 'fuel oil', (see colour of Pastis when Coke is added).

[pauliewalnuts]

What’s with the quirky space before the exclamation marks?

Is that some sort of linguistic French muck?

[Bad English]

Yes. In French you put a space before colons, exclamation and question marks and sometimes semi-colons...

[SamTheMouse]

What’s with the quirky space before the exclamation marks?

Is that some sort of linguistic French muck?

It is, and it's bloody annoying because French people are pathologically incapable of grasping that in English there's no space. So they go through my finished document and put all the spaces back. Twats!

[Bad English]

Ha! They do my head in with that.

[Sexual Ealing]

I will take this opportunity to complain about Americans and non-Americans who want me to write like an American and their serial fucking clauses. Thank you.