Posts by Robert Fox
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He ain't playing the victim, right wingers generally don't
What an utter crock.What about Key bleeting like a little injured lamb everytime anyone attacks his integrity. And just take a look whats happening at the scary republican convention in the states. In defending Palin against the rabid media those mad shitbirds are taking victimhood into the stratosphere!
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I recall some real horrorshow meals. It was another 10 years before British restaurants broke out of their rut, I think.
I've not been home for 5 years but I'm sure there are still places in the UK that you can get served up Horroshow and chips and still get change out of a five!. And dont even get me started on the the pies. I suppose my point is that alondside the bog standard dross that british cuisine is always associated with there were always gems to be found as your Tapas bar experience shows.
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And better for it. The best Indian food I have ever had in my entire life was in this tiny Bangladeshi restaurant in a village twenty miles or so outside Oxford.
I've probably got the old rosies on the nosey, but I'd have to say tha Brick lane in the 80's before it was rebranded Banglatown and invaded by anoying Hoxtonistas was curry heaven. And also a great place for a post piss up salt beef bagel of epic proportions from one of the old jewish bakeries.
To point out the obvious, British food is just as imported and nowdays just as foreign. Despite the pretensions of monarchists and the Wizard of Christchurch/Oamaru, we ain't "British"
British food culture has always been more diverse that the sterotyipical boiled cabbage of the Mrs Beaton variety. I reckon Britain became more 'Un British' long before NZers returning from their OE cottoned to the trend but if you want to live with blinkered stereotypes then……..
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Those not familar with the Mighty Boosh might like go back and view from series One on youtube before attempting to make sense of remaining episodes on C4. The most darkly surreal psychedelia on TV since Reeves and Mortimer. A bit like the Goodies on a trip. Magic stuff. Watch out for the Crack Fox.
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This just came on the office playlist and thought id better share it with y'al
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Check the guys track record.
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Key is a politician cut from the same cloth as Blair and now Cameron in the UK. But while Key pretty good at the smiling at camera bit, his oratory skills are positively third division. Hopefully this will eventually be his undoing as I think he’s got the potential to really loose it when put under big pressure come election time. On the football thing, as an ex pat Brit living in NZ, Installing Sky was one of my non negotiable, pre emigration requirements as my wife always vetoed this in the UK on the basis that I would not leave the living room and see daylight during the season. I enjoy Rugby and Cricket here in but anyone who has been to a Football match in the UK (or any other european country for that matter) will understand that spectator sport in this country can seem a bit passionless at times. If you’ve ever been to Anfield to watch the mighty Reds and heard ‘You’ll Never Walk’ alone belted out by the Kop you’ll know exactly what I mean. Yes Liverpool 4 West Ham 0 is very good news.
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1 fundamental question.
Why are people / organisations affraid of identifying themselves as donors to political parties?
1 supplementary question
A paltry number of paranoid dickheads turn up for a rubbish protest in auckland and it makes headline news. WTF! -
Dennis Healy once said that being attacked by Geoffry Howe was like being savaged by a dead sheep. After what she's had to put up with over the years I suspect Clarke feels the same way today about Moores feeble and bitter attempt at a blind side. Saying that old Geoff the poodle did raise his game stick it to the Thatch pretty good in the end. I doubt if Moore's will have the same effect on Clarke's premiership though.
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The last time I was in London, it seemed like many people just loved a light dusting of the white stuff ...
Its when it hangs around for a couple of days and turns grey slushy and stinky that it looses its allure. Rom Com movie depictures of winter in london have a lot to answer for.