Why On Earth Do People Go Out For a Meal?

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  • Serial_Apologist
    Full Member
    • Dec 2010
    • 37876

    Originally posted by jean View Post
    But not kiss my hand, even though I should proffer it?
    I'm wondering if I would have the cheek!

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    • Serial_Apologist
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      • Dec 2010
      • 37876

      Originally posted by jean View Post


      Is she curtseying, or just trying to get down to his level?
      He looks a bit glazed over doesn't he, poor little fellow? As if he's convinced himself "I'm not here, I'm really not here".

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      • BBMmk2
        Late Member
        • Nov 2010
        • 20908

        Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View Post
        He looks a bit glazed over doesn't he, poor little fellow? As if he's convinced himself "I'm not here, I'm really not here".
        Poor chap. Has his life mapped out for him.
        Don’t cry for me
        I go where music was born

        J S Bach 1685-1750

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        • MrGongGong
          Full Member
          • Nov 2010
          • 18357

          Originally posted by Brassbandmaestro View Post
          Poor chap. Has his life mapped out for him.
          Until he discovers noise music, gets a tattoo and tells the lizards where to get off

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          • Beef Oven!
            Ex-member
            • Sep 2013
            • 18147

            Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View Post
            He looks a bit glazed over doesn't he, poor little fellow? As if he's convinced himself "I'm not here, I'm really not here".
            On the contrary, I think he's very focused. More red blood than blue I'd say, given the direction of his gaze.

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            • Serial_Apologist
              Full Member
              • Dec 2010
              • 37876

              Originally posted by Beef Oven! View Post
              On the contrary, I think he's very focused. More red blood than blue I'd say, given the direction of his gaze.
              To be accepted as future king he'll need to keep abreast of everyday concerns.

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              • Pianorak
                Full Member
                • Nov 2010
                • 3128

                Did the lady have to wait to shake hands with HRH Prince George of Cambridge until he had offered his hand? We need to know.
                My life, each morning when I dress, is four and twenty hours less. (J Richardson)

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                • P. G. Tipps
                  Full Member
                  • Jun 2014
                  • 2978

                  Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View Post
                  To be accepted as future king he'll need to keep abreast of everyday concerns.
                  On the contrary, S_A, Royalty should leave that to the politicians and just get on with the day job .

                  Either way, the likely alternative could be a lot worse, though ...




                  And swiftly back on topic, here's something to cheer our enthusiastic 'eating-out' advocates!

                  Restaurants and takeaways in England should be made to show their ratings by law, councils say.

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                  • Richard Barrett
                    Guest
                    • Jan 2016
                    • 6259

                    Speaking (as we were before big pictures of scroungers and Stalinists began to appear) of restaurants in France: here in the balmy Balkans, lunch is generally eaten at 2pm or later, and every time we're in France outside the big cities there is at least one day when it's forgotten that this is the time when restaurants close for the afternoon, which seriously spoiled a visit to the aforementioned (in another thread) Brioude two months ago. (Are there any good restaurants in Brioude? I have no idea, having had instead to buy sandwiches at a supermarket.) With the benefit of hindsight (and a non-empty stomach) it makes me happy that in a country that receives so many tourists you have to do things their way or go hungry.

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                    • Dave2002
                      Full Member
                      • Dec 2010
                      • 18052

                      PG - I don't recognise the protagonists in your photo. Well not for sure - one is very hard to make out.

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                      • Pianorak
                        Full Member
                        • Nov 2010
                        • 3128

                        Originally posted by Dave2002 View Post
                        PG - I don't recognise the protagonists in your photo. Well not for sure - one is very hard to make out.
                        Brezhnev and Erich Honecker
                        My life, each morning when I dress, is four and twenty hours less. (J Richardson)

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                        • Nick Armstrong
                          Host
                          • Nov 2010
                          • 26575

                          Originally posted by Pianorak View Post
                          Brezhnev and Erich Honecker
                          What an extraordinary photo!

                          Tempted to think it's a photoshop fake but not sure how it could have been. (For all I know, it's a famous photo)

                          Perhaps they are exchanging top secret microfilm?



                          Originally posted by Dave2002 View Post
                          one is very hard to make out.
                          He doesn't seem to finding it that hard to make out !!
                          "...the isle is full of noises,
                          Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
                          Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
                          Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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                          • Pianorak
                            Full Member
                            • Nov 2010
                            • 3128

                            Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                            He doesn't seem to finding it that hard to make out !!
                            Plenty of practice! https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Br...gKoslnSUJKK8M:
                            My life, each morning when I dress, is four and twenty hours less. (J Richardson)

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                            • ahinton
                              Full Member
                              • Nov 2010
                              • 16123

                              Originally posted by Richard Barrett View Post
                              Speaking (as we were before big pictures of scroungers and Stalinists began to appear) of restaurants in France: here in the balmy Balkans, lunch is generally eaten at 2pm or later, and every time we're in France outside the big cities there is at least one day when it's forgotten that this is the time when restaurants close for the afternoon, which seriously spoiled a visit to the aforementioned (in another thread) Brioude two months ago. (Are there any good restaurants in Brioude? I have no idea, having had instead to buy sandwiches at a supermarket.) With the benefit of hindsight (and a non-empty stomach) it makes me happy that in a country that receives so many tourists you have to do things their way or go hungry.
                              Spain (or at least those parts of it - principally Catalunya - that I've visited) tends to have a similar situation in which they start to eat lunch when the French finish doing so.

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                              • Dave2002
                                Full Member
                                • Dec 2010
                                • 18052

                                Originally posted by Pianorak View Post
                                Brezhnev I got, but the other guy. I didn't know they were so much into that kind of thing.

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