Racism in CTC?

raisethe said:

Following the international diplomatic furore over supposedly racist
comments on Big Brother recently, I thought you may be interested to
see an excerpt from the CTC Grampian DA newsletter recently passed to
me. (For those who are geographically challenged, Grampian is in
Scotland.)

Start of quote:

"SHORT ARMS IN GRAMPIAN?

The <recently ordered> jerseys.... have sleeves that are too long for
us in Grampian. Some people say they are 5 inches too long. They were
made somewhere in England. Could it be that the average arm's length
is longer down South? Is it because down South they are closer to the
tropics and thus more closely related to forest-dwelling primates?"

No, we need longer arms down here so that we can reach to the bottoms of our
pockets to get the money to buy a round :-D

....

....

I'll get my coat.

raisethe wrote on 02/02/2007 20:39 +0100:

Quoted message said:

"SHORT ARMS IN GRAMPIAN?

The <recently ordered> jerseys.... have sleeves that are too long for
us in Grampian. Some people say they are 5 inches too long. They were
made somewhere in England. Could it be that the average arm's length
is longer down South? Is it because down South they are closer to the
tropics and thus more closely related to forest-dwelling primates?"

End of quote.

I thought it was well known that Scotsmen have deep pockets and short
arms ;-)

--
Tony

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raisethe said:

Following the international diplomatic furore over supposedly racist
comments on Big Brother recently, I thought you may be interested to
see an excerpt from the CTC Grampian DA newsletter recently passed to
me. (For those who are geographically challenged, Grampian is in
Scotland.)

Start of quote:

"SHORT ARMS IN GRAMPIAN?

The <recently ordered> jerseys.... have sleeves that are too long for
us in Grampian. Some people say they are 5 inches too long. They were
made somewhere in England. Could it be that the average arm's length
is longer down South? Is it because down South they are closer to the
tropics and thus more closely related to forest-dwelling primates?"

End of quote.

I think we should have Gordon Brown's comments on this.

Perhaps if they ate less fish and chips their bodies would be better
proportioned? IIRC Scotland is one of the fattest places in Europe.

(I'm a Scot, though living in Cambridge for the past 12.5 years)

Simon

Simon Proven said:

Perhaps if they ate less fish and chips their bodies would be better
proportioned? IIRC Scotland is one of the fattest places in Europe.

(I'm a Scot, though living in Cambridge for the past 12.5 years)

Deep-fried Mars anybody??

"Dan Gregory" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
news:[email hidden]...

Quoted message said:

Simon Proven said:

Perhaps if they ate less fish and chips their bodies would be better
proportioned? IIRC Scotland is one of the fattest places in Europe.

(I'm a Scot, though living in Cambridge for the past 12.5 years)

Deep-fried Mars anybody??

My wife's only experience of that delicacy was from a chippy in Cambs
somewhere.

cheers,
clive

Dan Gregory said:

Quoted message said:

Deep-fried Mars anybody??

and Clive George responded:

Quoted message said:

My wife's only experience of that delicacy was from a chippy in Cambs
somewhere.

I used to get one once every week or two at lunchtime from a chippy in
Tunbridge Wells. I don't believe I know of any treat more delicious.

--
Danny Colyer <URL:http://www.colyer.plus.com/danny/>
Reply address is valid, but that on my website is checked more often
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Simon Proven said:

raisethe said:

Following the international diplomatic furore over supposedly racist
comments on Big Brother recently, I thought you may be interested to
see an excerpt from the CTC Grampian DA newsletter recently passed to
me. (For those who are geographically challenged, Grampian is in
Scotland.)

Quoted message said:

Start of quote:

Quoted message said:

"SHORT ARMS IN GRAMPIAN?

Quoted message said:

The <recently ordered> jerseys.... have sleeves that are too long for
us in Grampian. Some people say they are 5 inches too long. They were
made somewhere in England. Could it be that the average arm's length
is longer down South? Is it because down South they are closer to the
tropics and thus more closely related to forest-dwelling primates?"

Quoted message said:

End of quote.

Quoted message said:

I think we should have Gordon Brown's comments on this.

Perhaps if they ate less fish and chips their bodies would be better
proportioned? IIRC Scotland is one of the fattest places in Europe.

"Encouragingly, we did also find some evidence of the penetration of
the Mediterranean diet into Scotland, albeit in the form of deep-fried
pizza," said Petticrew, director of the social and public health
services unit of the UK Medical Research Council, a government health
research body.

http://julesandjames.blogspot.com/2006/01/quote-of-day.html

:-)

James

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

Perhaps if they ate less fish and chips their bodies would be better
proportioned? IIRC Scotland is one of the fattest places in Europe.

"Encouragingly, we did also find some evidence of the penetration of
the Mediterranean diet into Scotland, albeit in the form of deep-fried
pizza," said Petticrew, director of the social and public health
services unit of the UK Medical Research Council, a government health
research body.

http://julesandjames.blogspot.com/2006/01/quote-of-day.html

My school used to serve deep fried cheese toasties......

Clive George said:

"Dan Gregory" <[email hidden]> wrote in
message news:[email hidden]...

Quoted message said:

Simon Proven said:

Perhaps if they ate less fish and chips their bodies would be better
proportioned? IIRC Scotland is one of the fattest places in Europe.

(I'm a Scot, though living in Cambridge for the past 12.5 years)

Deep-fried Mars anybody??

My wife's only experience of that delicacy was from a chippy in Cambs
somewhere.

I had one in an 'authentic chop house' on Fleet Street.

Cost a fiver, and came with a raspberry coulis.

A

Danny Colyer said:

Dan Gregory said:

Quoted message said:

Deep-fried Mars anybody??

and Clive George responded:

Quoted message said:

My wife's only experience of that delicacy was from a chippy in Cambs
somewhere.

I used to get one once every week or two at lunchtime from a chippy in
Tunbridge Wells. I don't believe I know of any treat more delicious.

Recipe?

John Kane, Kingston ON Canada

John Kane called:

Quoted message said:

Recipe?

Take 1 Mars bar. Deep fry in batter. Yum.

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Reply address is valid, but that on my website is checked more often
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Danny Colyer said:

John Kane called:

Quoted message said:

Recipe?

Take 1 Mars bar. Deep fry in batter. Yum.

You forgot the can of Irn Bru to wash it down.

But for anyone who wants to try it at home, remember to start from a
*frozen* Mars bar (at a minimum, a very cold one).

James

"[email hidden]" <[email hidden]> whizzed past me shouting

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

Recipe?

Take 1 Mars bar. Deep fry in batter. Yum.

But for anyone who wants to try it at home, remember to start from a
*frozen* Mars bar (at a minimum, a very cold one).

B*gger, I didn't know that!
My Mars bar leaked out of the batter and made a mess in the dripping.

BTW you can get them at Southam north of Banbury, and mince pies fried
in batter at Hogmanay.

--
Sue ]🙁🙂

On Feb 3, 7:32 pm, "[email hidden]" <[email hidden]>

Quoted message said:

Danny Colyer said:

John Kane called:

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

Recipe?

Quoted message said:

Take 1 Mars bar. Deep fry in batter. Yum.

You forgot the can of Irn Bru to wash it down.

I don't know where I'd find that. Wikipedia says it's produced here
but I certainly have never seen it.

Quoted message said:

But for anyone who wants to try it at home, remember to start from a
*frozen* Mars bar (at a minimum, a very cold one).

James

Thanks for the tip.

John Kane, Kingston ON Canada

On Sun, 4 Feb 2007 22:55:22 +0000

Sue White said:

B*gger, I didn't know that!
My Mars bar leaked out of the batter and made a mess in the dripping.

Just goes to show, wimmin can't cook. You need your

<gd&r very fast>

--
definitely not me guv

(the gourmet bachelor who loves cooking and refutes stereotypes)

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Quoted message said:

Danny Colyer said:

John Kane called:

Quoted message said:

Recipe?

Take 1 Mars bar. Deep fry in batter. Yum.

You forgot the can of Irn Bru to wash it down.

But for anyone who wants to try it at home, remember to start from a
*frozen* Mars bar (at a minimum, a very cold one).

And do /not/ fry it in the same oil you use for fish...

--
Dave Larrington
<http://www.legslarry.beerdrinkers.co.uk>
Stop it! You're scarin' the Hippo...

Dave Larrington <[email hidden]> whizzed past me shouting

Quoted message said:

In news:[email hidden],
[email hidden] <[email hidden]> tweaked the Babbage-Engine to
tell us:

Quoted message said:

Danny Colyer said:

John Kane called:

Take 1 Mars bar. Deep fry in batter. Yum.

You forgot the can of Irn Bru to wash it down.

But for anyone who wants to try it at home, remember to start from a
*frozen* Mars bar (at a minimum, a very cold one).

And do /not/ fry it in the same oil you use for fish...

Why not, the chippy does.

--
Sue ];(🙂

Fried in batter isn't cooking, it's industrial engineering.

In news:[email hidden],
Sue White <[email hidden]> tweaked the Babbage-Engine to tell us:

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Dave Larrington <[email hidden]> whizzed past me shouting

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And do /not/ fry it in the same oil you use for fish...

Why not, the chippy does.

Here is why not, courtesy of my grate frend Dai Infidel:

"A chippie in my folks' hometown in Wales starting selling these. So, I
tried one, as a bet. The Mars bar was dipped in vanilla flavoured
doughnut-stylee batter, fried in a separate fryer from the savoury items and
dried so that it wasn't greasy. So, what you had was a doughnut filled with
an amorphous chocolate-caramel-nougat centre. The sugar-rush was
breathtaking and it didn't taste too bad.

So, of course, I started recommending them to my friends, but in the
meantime the MURDOCK'S DELIGHT [The Censor]-shop owner decided that he
couldn't be BOTHERED [The Censor] with all that faffing around and started
to dip the Mars bar in the same batter as the savoury stuff and fry them in
the same fryer. So my friends, acting on my recommendation, one day found
themselves eating sausage-flavoured greasy battered burning-hot Mars bars.

I've never lived down the shame. My recommendations on food, drink, cinema,
music, literature are now completely discounted because everyone remembers
when I recommended deep-fried Mars bars."

--
Dave Larrington
<http://www.legslarry.beerdrinkers.co.uk>
Wood is an excellent material for making trees, but is otherwise
not to be trusted.

"Dave Larrington" <[email hidden]>typed

Quoted message said:

Here is why not, courtesy of my grate frend Dai Infidel:

Quoted message said:

I've never lived down the shame. My recommendations on food, drink,
cinema,
music, literature are now completely discounted because everyone remembers
when I recommended deep-fried Mars bars."

That must have wiped the lovely grin from his face; what a shame!

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Edgware.