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| grayo |
Braintree........Who's going?Part 75 in a series of 241. Again, highly original and straight to the point. I know I usually end up arranging to meet everybody for a few beers and some addresses for local rehab centres but I'm afraid I'm probably going to give this one a miss unfortunately as I don't feel up to it. But at least those of you who are going can use this thread to sort out your meeting arrangements etc. Or should I just say fuck it and just go anyway?Fly straight with should I stay or should I go............ |
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| ladpinblack |
Im going.
Grayo - ladp b&b available at the normal rates. If you come over we can sit in the garden, drink Moet, eat Jalfrezi and with a bit of luck, get struck by lightening. 
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| theraven1979 |
What's up with you Grayo? I don't know anything that a couple of ales and a gig won't cure
Jim *medical research I shit em* |
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| C r a s s ! |
Go Grayo. Do it you cnut! Or I'll end up just mowing the lawn or trimming the hedge or sommat on the 2nd... | ||||||||||
| grayo |
Struck by lightening?? I should be so lucky. Hey hang on. sounds like a good idea for a song that. It been done before? Fly straight with the perv twins............... |
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| shah |
"Braintree....who's going?'
this is better than Nantwich! |
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| 50millionwatches |
braintreeMe and my little one!We are both wearing pigtails....its FREE for under 10s! |
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| grayo |
Re: braintree
Well that's me fucked then......... Fly straight with can I have a concession for OAP's?............... |
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| gizzard |
As much as I'd love to be there I just can't make it.
Next Strangs gig is Cardiff 29 Sep.
Now I need to find me passport for my venture into Wales. 
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| The Real One! |
Hurrah! Grayo has said the magic words!
I'm going and I'm taking my sadly recently missing gig walker, Neil with me. Room party in mine as usual. (Just keep your boots off the coffee table and bring booze for entry...) |
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| pigeon |
Could do this one will have to see what things look like next week. And that we don't have a home match on sep 2nd. | ||||||||||
| spaceace |
I'll be there, it'll be interesting to see the Blockheads with roly-poly funster "Never mind the buzzcocks" Phil Jupitus on vocals. Hope he lives up to the shadow of Ian. 
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| Kaoos |
Same here Gizz. I'm in Italy when Braintree is on! 29th seems a long way away don't it. Hope we all meet in a pub early and have a laugh before the event. Suppose you have Grayo's phone number (most people do) and I'll be with him, so give us a bell. |
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| gizzard |
Sure does Kaoos.. No I don't have grayos number but would like to meet up with ya'll before the gig.
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| stranglersfan |
Oh I wish i could come to your room party.................... |
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| Freddie Laker |
I'll be there, though I won't be arriving in time for any of the tribute bands - will get there in time for a beer before the Blockheads.
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| The Real One! |
We'll do a live video link up for you..... |
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| stranglersfan |
nice!!!!! |
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| pigeon |
Were not playing anyone that day, and theres something i want to get out of going to so i think i'll do this. | ||||||||||
| grayo |
IF I did go I would hope to see some new songs played there. I wonder?
Fly straight with but then the whispering starts when they spare you............... |
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| bry |
righto!!! anyone recomend a cheapo b'n'b(30/50squid region) for this gig??? | ||||||||||
| grayo |
http://www.ichotelsgroup.com/h/d/hi/925/en/hd/btxuk How Un Cool is this Bry? !!! |
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| grayo |
http://www.ichotelsgroup.com/h/d/hi/925/en/hd/btxuk How Un Cool is this Bry? !!! |
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| grayo |
http://www.ichotelsgroup.com/h/d/hi/925/en/hd/btxuk How Un Cool is this Bry? !!! |
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| C r a s s ! |
Only people going are obliged to post on this thread... Grayo? 
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| grayo |
Yeah?? So why are you on here then eh? eh? You want some?
I can post here ( )
Fly straight with I saw my love today, she's looking old, but some am I...... |
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| The Real One! |
Seems as if EVERYONE will be staying there. Try and keep the noise down..... |
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| grayo |
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| PeteL |
In between meetings earlier this week I nipped into one of those designer freeport outlet bargains are us 70% off villages to bag myself a shirt for the weekend. First thing I see on jumping out the car - big yelllow banner "Braintree Rocks - The Stranglers, the Blockheads, etc". Never been to Braintree before, quite unexpected. | ||||||||||
| grayo |
Hey Bry did you try that other hotel I gave you the link to?
http://www.superbreak.com/home.cfm?company=IN660&content=hotel&groupid=1988 Fly straight with I can't feel my legs.......... |
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| ThruBeingCool |
Re: braintree
We met last night at the Baz Warne gig in Langley Mill, right? 
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| 50millionwatches |
CORRECT!! Pretty damn good !! Enjoyed it and so did my little one, glad I had the foresight to book a B & B!
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| ThruBeingCool |
Pleased to meet ya both......I'll let you do the review then 
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| C r a s s ! |
I too can now post on this thread, with confidence! Eh, Grayo!
Fly straight with Windy Miller... |
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| gizzard |
Fly straight with... No sleep til Cardiff
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| C r a s s ! |
That'll be on the Fly straight with: Cardiff - who's going? thread!!
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| gizzard |
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| spaceace |
Anyone got any ideas on the set-list for Braintree? I'm going to be videoing as much of the Stranglers set as my memory cards will allow and if there's any new tracks played I'll post them on youtube like I did with Dartford?
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| ThruBeingCool |
btw...
Soz for hijacking this thread and going off topic when I'm not even going to Braintree! Fly Straight With....SO FUCKING SUE ME IN COURT!  
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| ThruBeingCool |
Fuck it!...I'll Do It Meself! |
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| ThruBeingCool |
Hey GRAYO!
pm'd ya twice but the messages are stuck in my 'Outbox' Fly Straight With..........fuck me! saying "Fly Straight With...etc" is addictive! 
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| paulinblack |
Do a cut and paste Bazza old chum - Some of us don't have access to that site. Paul Fly Straight With Can I Be Bothered With Another Site ? Meeeeeh ! |
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| grayo |
O.K quick review from last night. Anyone else heard of or been to Langley Mill? No? I recommend you keep it that way This was my 5th visit to see Baz at the local snooker hall in the land that time forgot. Went with my brother, darling wife and the 'Hugh Grant Of Banbury' aka Mr Paul Bibby (Paul B or Bibski to some of you) However we arrived a little earlier than planned and decided to try a pint in one of the local pubs near the venue. Hard to tell what it was like inside because all the curtains were closed but we thought "fuck it!" let's bite the bullet and entered. Oh dear! It was like the pub scene out of 'American Werewolf in London'.As soon as we entered the bar, the half a dozen or so locals halted their conversations and stared at us as if we were aliens. Deffo a local pub for local people! As we ordered our drinks the silence was deafening and to say that we felt uncomfortable there would be the understatement of the year! However, the locals did seem to tolerate us once they realised we were actually human. There was even something resembling warm social intercourse (I said SOCIAL! )between us & them before we left. Still, glad to get out of there all the same. Anyway, 10 minutes later after a short stroll down the street we entered 'Potters Snooker Hall'. As we paid our £3 and signed in we could see Baz tuning up at the other end of the room. Still early and the venue was basically empty apart from Baz's entourage (Shaggy & co), a few locals and us (the strangers from another planet!). During the next hour or so we started to get steadily pissed as the venue began to fill up with mainly locals who would be here anyway on a Saturday neet and also others who had travelled to actually see a Baz Warne gig.Kept hoping that Baz would join us for a while but he was in demand last night so we politely tried not to interupt his conversations - at least early on! Eventually Baz took the stage and we were treated to the usual mixture of jokes, banter and songs that are all equally essential ingredients of his solo gigs. And fuck me!..it was quality in all these aspects last night.Entertaining and funny as fuck! As you all know Baz gives as good as he gets and seems to thrive on working a difficult audience. When he gets heckled he usually puts the culprits down immediately with one of his quick-witted comments (I know this from experience)..but there were occassions last night where even he was stuck for words and couldn't help but laugh at some of the comments that were aimed at him. Best heckle... Bloke in audience: "Take that fucking swimming cap off!" There was a point where I turned into a tennis fan, looking left to right and back again as the heckles and retorts between Baz and certain characters in the audience went into quick  mode. Fucking hilarious and all good natured.
Baz's jokes and stories as usual were very amusing. The bloke has so much character and is a natural at 'stand-up'. Best joke: "Aye, them suicide bombers.........what makes 'em tick?" You had to be there. And on to the music. Often,in the past, I have found Baz's choice of songs to be questionable to say the least. However, he seems to have finely tuned his set and performed the best selection of songs last night that I've seen him do. So we had amongst others: Nice 'N' Sleazy Million Stars Down Under Peaches Long Black Veil Dutch Moon Rocking In The Free World My Friend The Sun Crime In The City Walk On By Where You Been Spectre Of Love So many more.....including the BBC Snooker theme, 'Postman Pat' (as a young kid walked past), 'Tainted Love' (A request from me which I smugly thought he wouldn't play but Baz went straight into it!)....oh and 'Strange Little Girl' (where he managed to change part of the lyrics to "Barry Spooner is gay!"..harumph!) Anyway, an amazing set which was performed to a more attentive 'Potters' audience for once. Was it my imagination or did more punters actually turn up to see Baz last night than usual? He went down very well indeed. That's about it. Met some good, good people last night including a chap who posts elsewhere as '50millionwatches' and his young daughter (little JJ fan)..also bumped into a mate I hadn't seen for years who only realised I was there when Baz was taking the piss out of me! Unfortunately Baz became aware of the situation due to my old chums rather over-enthusiastic response to our re-aquaintance. Cue some serious piss-taking from Baz for the rest of the gig There was also another guy I met, looked like he was an extra from a 'Mad Max' movie who seemed to just burp and shout "Sieg Heil" throughout the night. A total nutter who was proud,FUCKING PROUD of his England tee...as well as his tats & piercings no doubt Had a brief conversation with Baz where he told me everything about PR's departure, gave me a promo cd of 'Suite 16'plus a pass for every gig on the upcoming tour...... Sorry, the last bit was a lie! Did have a short chat with Baz at the end of the night but can't remember much about it. A bit pissed - like every fucker else there! Can't wait for the next one! I bet you all are now gagging to see Baz in Langley Mill in the future as I've sold the idea so well? Fly straight with get out of bed TBC...........
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| Eurofemme |
To everyone who's going to Braintree! Have a good ole knees up!! I can't go...mummy on call....
Bry, have a great time. I have posted ur ticket today. A good review would be nice m8! Grayo...have a BLAST!!! Get yourself right down the front, with Andy and do YOUR STUFF!!!! Btw, Baz Spooner! Excellent review!! Thanx for that! xxx |
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| grayo |
Aww thanks Shel! I'll have a go albeit with a splintered Family-In Black but will be thinking of you OK? Glad you're coming round a bit too as it won't be the same without you. AND......I'm gonna break with tradition and stand on JJ's side for a change so I can catch Ladpin just in case he faints again during the gig. I have brought some Barley sugar sweets with me this time so if I see him flagging I can pop one into him (Oo-er missus  ).
Fly straight with why do you impose you rules and treat the rest of us like fools.............................. |
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| ladpinblack |
I would just like to point out that at no point in the past, and certainly at not point in the future will Grayo be popping one into me. Im breaking with tradition at Braintree and Im going to stand on Baz side of the stage, just to get away from that loud bald welsh geezer. | ||||||||||
| Eurofemme |
May I suggest a suit of armour, Ladp?
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| grayo |
You saying I smell or something? Fly straight with it's been more than 25 years but I ain't forgotten.............. |
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| Eurofemme |
Grayo DOES NOT smell....I wore his t shirt at Nantwich...and I can honestly say it was freshly laundered and pressed!!! A credit to your breed honey! xxx
Fly straight with....Mrs Beaton's 101 Domestic Tips...(..NOT TITS)...  TSK ....men!!
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| grayo |
Cocktails at 2pm sharpish then GK! I'll get the first round in of a Magners (With ice, being the cultured bastard that I am) for me and a bottle of rioja for you but take your time as last time in Bilston I hadn't even poured my Magners in my glass before you said 'Right, my round.....who's for the Dettol and Camel Armpit juice 'Buy one, get a free ambulance to the hospital to have your stomach pumped out' special offer summer cocktail?' No wonder you were talking such complete bollocks before/during/after the gig and for the next three weeks. Hold on tiger as you know our OAP pensions don't go very far nowadays. By the way, instead of getting a pitcher full of alcohol which will save our tired little legs going to and from the bar, we can get Ladpin to bring the mythical 'Black Hat' and pour the aforementioned alcohol into that.......... Maybe not, just remembered he wiped his arse in it. Fly straight with If there's a better way, I'm all ears, tell me now...... |
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| ladpinblack |
The black hat is full of holes and also smells of shit. Wots the ETA for Braintree ? | ||||||||||
| grayo |
Need to get there by midday as if Crass doesn't get a drink by 12 he starts to get the shakes. Me and Johnsa hoping to get to our hotel at 12am then of course I have to wash my hair etc so I should be ready by 12.01. Then it's off to the gig to make a total arse of myself. Fly straight with mothers, daughters they will cry............ |
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| grayo |
And I'll bet you never wash that t-shirt again. Does it still smell of Anusol and Ralgex? And Cheesy Wotsits? And bras? and little tadpoles frollicking in a summer stream? Fly straight with The king sat upon his throne and waved his hand at the sea............ |
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| bry |
cheers shel.. will take some pix for u :) |
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| C r a s s ! |
True but it takes me hours to tease my hair into position for that just got up look. Why? Cuz I'm worth it! Plus I expect I'll be totally fuckedhungoverwankered by opening time as I'm at a wedding the night before, so I won't be leaving the first hotel till Sat 11am, and yes I will prolly have the DTs. Washing yer hair? I'll be more concerned with the hair of the dog. I'm almost certain you'll beat me hands down Grayo in the drink dept. I concede now. I lose!
FLY STRAIGHT WITH... I'll be the one who peaks too early and kips the whole gig out on the grass with perfectly tousled couiffeur
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| grayo |
Ahem... Mr Crass....have you ever heard of the words 'kip' and 'Grayo' in the same sentence?? Exactly....now be a good boy and Uncle Grayo will make sure you don't 'Peak too early and kip on the grass'. I mean like...have I ever let you down? (OK apart from your little spell in re-hab and anyway Gizzard was quite glad about that as he said when you 'collared' him in Bilston it was like being stuck in a lift with a Jehovah's witness and Jodie Marsh's biographer). Just don't get too wankered at the wedding 'cos if you end up 'spazzed out' on Saturday then I'm afraid it's gonna be a case of Mr & Mr's Spank taking a short sharp trip to Bottyland and we don't really wanna go there do we? Fly straight with You won't see me coming..........Until I STRIKE!!!!! |
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| grayo |
........And as for conceding defeat in the drinks battle........Now come on? I mean like.......you didn't start to liven up at Bilston until your 22nd or 23rd bottle of Chardonnay. And that's only because I was spiking your Brandy chasers with Baby Bio. Didn't you notice you were 7' 11" when you got to the hotel?? Good stuff that Baby Bio.
Fly straight with getting you to sell 'em your soul................ |
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| C r a s s ! |
You just broke my dream Grayo... this very morning when I woke to the stereophonic sounds of skylarks in the crisp blue ether and in-car entertainment inter-mingled with screaming babies in the neighbourhood courtesy of the unmarried lesbians and their toyboys revving up in their boy toy blue Subarus, I was dreaming of drinking Baby Bio neat from the bottle in a supermarket aisle. Fucking weird - you getting inside my dreams now, welsh person? Can I sue? Are you one of those psycho-philosososofophers like Beachy Colclough, or Brian Clough is it? I dunno, says I, sitting here supping pints of Baileys getting revved up for the weekend. Dylan - write me a tune with revved up for the weekend in it... and baby Bio in the M8 
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| pigeon |
Arrgh crap! don't think i'm going to be able to make it bloody stoketake coming up and im the only one that can count lol. (if this is as good as the last one i'm on for a top bonus £500 i'm aiming for ) Ahh well i'm seeing them 8 times this year but i hope they change the set around on the tour.
I still havent had the grayo day out yet though which should be in everyones top 10 things to do you and johnsa are the coolest 40 year olds ever!
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| grayo |
Pige I would LOVE for you to come out with me, Johnsa, Ladpin, Crass, Gizz, Kaoos, Eurofemme, Andyinblack, Strangler, the great Elmyra (wherever he is these days), Mish, Sid, Lost Control, Through Being Cool (the maddest cnut EVER!!) the other Adam and all the various Pauls as life will never be the same again!! Say goodbye to your innocence young man and be prepared to be sucked into the world of sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll, cricket, sardines, beach balls, girls in flowing summer dresses, boys with no actual heads, fish that drown, seagulls that can ride bicycles etc...... Fly straight with I'll get me coat.............. |
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| ThruBeingCool |
Hm!..maybe I ought to make the effort to get to Braintree afterall!
'Ang on though!...can't stand cricket..
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| grayo |
Crass is on his ass, sleeping on the grass No baby bio to save his soul Here comes Grayo, on the piss all dayo Looks down at Crass and see's he's lost control He tries to revive him, buggers and defiles him But soon discovers that it's really no go And it's just like the song that Meatloaf sang along He's all revved up with no place to go Fly straight with winner of the Ivor Novello song of the year 2006.................. |
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| ladpinblack |
Stoketake ???? Good job you can count. |
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| Eurofemme |
[quote="bry"][quote="Eurofemme"]To everyone who's going to Braintree! Have a good ole knees up!! I can't go...mummy on call....
Bry, have a great time. I have posted ur ticket today. A good review would be nice m8! Grayo...have a BLAST!!! Get yourself right down the front, with Andy and do YOUR STUFF!!!! Btw, Baz Spooner! Excellent review!! Thanx for that! xxx[/quote] cheers shel.. will take some pix for u :)[/quote] Thanx Bry...you have a great time (have a beer for me! Bud'll do)...look forward to seeing those pix!
WARNING: Keep away from "the black hat"!! |
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| gizzard |
Where you taking Stoke?
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| pigeon |
hehe i have to say stoketake now cos everytime i think of stock i think of stockaid in world of warcraft. Anyone else play that game?
That sort of festival with paul in the band would of been a gig to miss, but this could be the last of the non tour set, i think on the album tour it just going to be suite xvi mixed with norfolk coast and the hits i hope i'm wrong though. |
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| ladpinblack |
I disagree Pigeon. They have only been playing 3 from Norfolk Coast this year so I dont think it will feature that much on the tour. I think Braintree will be a similar set to Guilfest. Whatever they play, bring your coat, the forecast is for heavy rain all day. | ||||||||||
| MULLY |
You should bring 'the hat' - get it washed for free!! |
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| gizzard |
According to BTTF this gig is in doubt 
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| grayo |
We all set then?
Fly straight with family traditions just like before |
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| johnsa |
Ha ha my best buddy grayo,
Look forward to riding down to yours this evening thats if i don`t have a " BASIL BRUSH" with death bum bum. Stay rubber side down outside a library near you and you and you. Fly Straight with johnsa`s having mushy flash backs again.
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| gizzard |
Hope you all have a great time!
I'm not jealous 
A full report and pics tomorrow please.
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| yellowcakeuf6 |
Can't feckin' go..........feckin' Railway! Used up all me leave and the twat who I was gonna swap with has gone tom and dick!!!!! 
Talking about the railway, if anyone's thinking of travelling to Braintree via Witham, from the Smoke, check with your Train operator. The overhead wires are still down from yesterday afternoon in the Chelmsford area. Second time this week. It's good to work in such a technologically advanced industry! If it's all back up and running this PM and there's still some stragglersinblack waiting for a connection on Witham station, I'll be driving my very own train from Norwich to London past Witham at approx. 1413, (some hopes?!?). Give me a cheery wave ya lucky cnuts! I'll be the cnut sounding out peaches on me horn. ahem! |
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| C r a s s ! |
Those overhead cables made my wife 3 hours late getting home last night!
It ain't THAT windy out there is it? Soz you can't go mate - praps you should phone in sick and get yr tix on the door (2000 available)
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| ThruBeingCool |
Fucking classic!
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| yellowcakeuf6 |
Anyone back yet? (Not if you've used 'ONE' railway obviously!). For that all important 1st review.
Didn't make it to Witham. Got turned round at Colchester and told to feck off back to Norwich because "of course the overheads ain't back up yet ya cnut!"
Just as well I didn't I guess. Bearing in mind I've already got the 2nd week of October booked for a mild case of 'bird-flu'. I hate going sick when I'm actually sick. Seems like such a waste! |
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| grayo |
You didn't miss a lot....... | ||||||||||
| ThruBeingCool |
That link doesn't work!
Fly Straight With.......Daft Welsh Twat!
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| ThruBeingCool |
However, maybe it wasn't supposed to be a link and he was just typing in blue!
In which case...... Fly Straight With.......I'm the daft twat! Coat please!
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| grayo |
You said it..............knob cheese
Fly straight with TBC is indeed, a daft twat.............. |
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| C r a s s ! |
Is this LOCKED? | ||||||||||
| theraven1979 |
Nah this is a thread regarding meeting up and such like
Jim |
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| ladpinblack |
MK 1 meeting up. |