"I've fried things you would never believe..."

So Belgium is going to split into two. Imagine the negotiations about
who gets Brussels.
"You take it."
"No, you can have it."
"It's a really nice place - go on, you know you want it."
"This is war."

 

Brussels is great.

 

Crazy country. I remember some years back visiting a friend who lived
in an officially French-speaking canton of Brussels, when her Dutch
boyfriend was unfortunate enough to have his bike nicked from outside
theirflat. I went down the nick with him to be treated to the bizarre
spectacle of a dutch-speaking policeman taking a statement[1] from a
dutch-speaking resident with all communication having to take place in
French.

Wierd.

[1] On a typewriter, carbo-paper and all.
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Ah, that brings back some happy memories...

 

You certainly can't say that about Uxbridge!

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"ogden" <> escribió en el mensaje

Mocking the English for eating Haggis would be like mocking the spanish
for eating frogs' legs.

Valencians do eat them. And eels (lovely!).

 

And I'm sure there are English who eat haggis. My point was that it's
not the stereotype.

 

There are. My wife for one.. (I can't stand the stuff - I *used* to
like it but have gone off it).

But then she's Celtic Fringe herself (Cornish descent) so it's probably
in the genes.

Phil.

 

I've had good haggis and bad haggis. On balance it's something I could
live without.

 

^^^^^
Unlike half the English population.

 

Which half would that be then?

 

I'm rather chuffed with the fact that my first years all pronounce the
'h'. Then again, I've drummed it into their shitty little heads so
often, that they'd have to be retarded not to have got it ...

D.