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Should TLW move to Jockland?

pinnopinno Posts: 48,454
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He'll have to be able to drink McEwan's 80/- and learn to get right intae it.
The ups: Chips and curry sauce, Whisky, deep fried battered Mars bars, Irn bru, Cumbernauld, Wishaw, Dumbarton, Carol Kirkwood, the Highlands, Loch Tay, Bridies, smoked Salmon, the Istanbul Kebab shop.
The downs: Midges, blokes in skirts, Irn Bru, deep fried battered Mars bars, Chips with curry sauce, Cumbernauld, Wishaw, Dumbarton, the Krankies, Judith the terrifying weather woman, rain and wind, the Ivy Leaf fish and chip bar.
seanoconn - gruagach craic!

Should TLW move to Jockland? 18 votes

Yes
33%
seanoconnveronese68oxomanslowmart50x11MattFalle 6 votes
No
5%
Ben6899 1 vote
Buy a holiday home here instead
11%
thistle_beansnikpoh 2 votes
Who?
33%
daniel_bFirst.AspectDeVlaeminckkatanivincesummerskRoxcBTrHilaryAmin 6 votes
Ask the wife
16%
Stevo_666wilberforcepblakeney 3 votes
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  • oxomanoxoman Posts: 11,277
    Yes
    Wee Nicola Fish face wouldn't let him move there.
    Too many bikes according to Mrs O.
  • Stevo_666Stevo_666 Posts: 53,646
    Ask the wife
    Even if she did let him in, he might get a bit of this:

    "I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]
  • johngtijohngti Posts: 2,481
    edited April 2022
    Only sensible answer. To everything.

    (Ask the wife, btw)
  • seanoconnseanoconn Posts: 10,259
    Yes
    Yes. Pub situation and running routes need to be scouted first of course. Can always get a new wife even if you can’t understand what she says.
    Pinno, מלך אידיוט וחרא מכונאי
  • pblakeneypblakeney Posts: 22,349
    Ask the wife
    seanoconn said:

    Yes. Pub situation and running routes need to be scouted first of course. Can always get a new wife even if you can’t understand what she says.

    Understanding what a wife says and what she means are two entirely different things. 😉
    The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
    I am not sure. You have no chance.
    Veronese68 wrote:
    PB is the most sensible person on here.
  • pinnopinno Posts: 48,454
    seanoconn said:

    Yes. Pub situation and running routes need to be scouted first of course. Can always get a new wife even if you can’t understand what she says.

    The pub situation?

    Newton Stewart. More pubs per head of population than anywhere in Scotland (and there are hotels too for those key/iphone swap evenings).
    Through the middle of it is a river that he can swim in, it is in the foothills of the Galloway hills and the 7 Stanes for cycling where he can also. satisfy his odd running fetish.
    The wenches in NS are okay.
    The one's next door in Minigaff are free range and 4 foot tall. They do not take kindly to 'no'.
    seanoconn - gruagach craic!
  • tlw1tlw1 Posts: 21,195
    Need to be decent bars, the current wife does like to dress up for going out
  • First.AspectFirst.Aspect Posts: 11,751
    Who?
    Who?

    Main advantage, outside of Edinburgh and Aberdeen, is house prices. Main disadvantage is the prospect of the Scottish pound, which would fall faster than Jurgen Klinsman if it was ever created.

    Scenery is great in Scotland. Weather is not.

    People can be friendly. People can be astonishingly ignorant and unfriendly. It is a bit polarised.

    And you need to be able to tolerate relentless Scotishness and re-telling of world events from the Scottish perspective, and how that in fact is evidence that it should be independent.

    And the council roads are basically gravel up here to pay for free education, free prescriptions, loss making shipyards, and really shyte bikes for every child who wants to go to school and get bullied for only having an SNP bicycle.
  • photonic69photonic69 Posts: 1,871
    tlw1 said:

    Need to be decent bars, the current wife does like to dress up for going out

    From my experience of North of the Border, dressing up appears to be wearing your hoodie and trackie bottoms WITHOUT the curry sauce stains.
  • MattFalleMattFalle Posts: 11,644
    Yes
    Why not?

    He lkes it, mega. Doesn't like it, leaves. Nothing to lose really.

    #carpediem
    .
    The camera down the willy isn't anything like as bad as it sounds.
  • orraloonorraloon Posts: 11,389
    FA, sounds like you should upsticks and relocate to somewhere more inclusive and all-welcoming like Crawley, or Alsager? Or just get yourself a gravel bike. Simples.
  • First.AspectFirst.Aspect Posts: 11,751
    Who?
    orraloon said:

    FA, sounds like you should upsticks and relocate to somewhere more inclusive and all-welcoming like Crawley, or Alsager? Or just get yourself a gravel bike. Simples.

    I like the scenery.

    If the independence thing went away and my retirement was secured I'd be happier.

    I tend to take a dim view of expats expressing strong opinions either way, incidentally. You kind of need to have direct experience of the political mismanagement up here to be able to disagree.
  • Stevo_666Stevo_666 Posts: 53,646
    Ask the wife
    seanoconn said:

    Yes. Pub situation and running routes need to be scouted first of course. Can always get a new wife even if you can’t understand what she says.

    I hear they are good value up there. Although I guess you get what you pay for?
    "I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]
  • pinnopinno Posts: 48,454
    tlw1 said:

    Need to be decent bars, the current wife does like to dress up for going out

    This:

    https://www.booking.com/hotel/gb/creebridge-house.en-gb.html?label=hotel-34091-gb-5i0QAPv0Rr6DxTSZ0EjU1AS253710486194:pl:ta:p1:p2:ac:ap:neg:fi:tikwd-6485162334:lp1007273:li:dec:dm:ppccp=UmFuZG9tSVYkc2RlIyh9YVujEjbMrKBVEQO8hCDrg-c&sid=064b1e65251d7d7aeafee0ef91cbfe76&gclid=EAIaIQobChMInczXrqeM9wIVi-3tCh0UPQ5aEAAYASAAEgKJIfD_BwE&aid=311076&ucfs=1&arphpl=1&dest_id=-2604111&dest_type=city&group_adults=2&req_adults=2&no_rooms=1&group_children=0&req_children=0&hpos=1&hapos=1&sr_order=popularity&srpvid=c2906bae51b1000b&srepoch=1649690334&from=searchresults#hotelTmpl

    You can fraternise with the owner, he drives a Lamborghini.
    It's actually a very nice hotel.
    seanoconn - gruagach craic!
  • orraloonorraloon Posts: 11,389
    ^ Lamborghini! Is that where Vtech ran and hid?
  • pinnopinno Posts: 48,454
    Vtech never had a f*cking Lamborghini.
    Vtech only had pictures of Lamborghini's.

    Vtech actually only managed to re-map VW Golfs, which were pretty f*cked once they passed through his hands.

    At a track meet, a little boy asked him what he as looking at on his mobile phone. Vtech told the boy 'live telemetry data' (of a car that was going around).
    That's bollox. Impossible.

    He told a boy in a hospital who was seriously ill that he was going to get him in a race car and go around a circuit when he got better. Never happened.

    Let's see if this c*nt will respond... @VTech
    seanoconn - gruagach craic!
  • orraloonorraloon Posts: 11,389
    Oooh, pressed a hot button there.

    I was being mildly flippant; isn't vtech claiming to be in Dubai scamming crypto currency fanbois?
  • slowmartslowmart Posts: 4,315
    Yes
    Ahhhh posters from the past.

    Who was the noodle with kitchen foil as bar tape? He was glorious in his own world.

    And the conspiracy theorist from Manchester

    Do any others spring to mind.
    “Give a man a fish and feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and feed him for a lifetime. Teach a man to cycle and he will realize fishing is stupid and boring”

    Desmond Tutu
  • pblakeneypblakeney Posts: 22,349
    Ask the wife
    slowmart said:

    Ahhhh posters from the past.

    Who was the noodle with kitchen foil as bar tape? He was glorious in his own world.

    And the conspiracy theorist from Manchester

    Do any others spring to mind.

    Manc33?
    The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
    I am not sure. You have no chance.
    Veronese68 wrote:
    PB is the most sensible person on here.
  • slowmartslowmart Posts: 4,315
    edited April 2022
    Yes
    That’s the one

    Here’s the kitchen foil bar tape thread

    https://forum.bikeradar.com/discussion/13034619/dogma-down-but-not-out/p1
    “Give a man a fish and feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and feed him for a lifetime. Teach a man to cycle and he will realize fishing is stupid and boring”

    Desmond Tutu
  • seanoconnseanoconn Posts: 10,259
    Yes
    slowmart said:

    That’s the one

    Here’s the kitchen foil bar tape thread

    https://forum.bikeradar.com/discussion/13034619/dogma-down-but-not-out/p1

    Good work by @imposter2.0

    Those were the days.
    Pinno, מלך אידיוט וחרא מכונאי
  • vincesummerskRoxcBTrvincesummerskRoxcBTr Posts: 299
    Who?
    No, please keep away , Scotland is already overpopulated , honest.
  • pinnopinno Posts: 48,454
    vincesummerskRoxcBTr said:

    No, please keep away , Scotland is already overpopulated , honest.

    It is. I saw a bloke walk past my house 3 days ago.
    seanoconn - gruagach craic!
  • Ben6899Ben6899 Posts: 9,680
    No
    No. It's too cold.
    Ben

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  • Ben6899Ben6899 Posts: 9,680
    No
    pinno said:

    Let's see if this c*nt will respond... @VTech

    You need to @ him three times.
    Ben

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  • pinnopinno Posts: 48,454
    Ben6899 said:

    pinno said:

    Let's see if this c*nt will respond... @VTech

    You need to @ him three times.
    He's not Beetlejuice, he's a [email protected]
    seanoconn - gruagach craic!
  • Stevo_666Stevo_666 Posts: 53,646
    Ask the wife
    pinno said:

    vincesummerskRoxcBTr said:

    No, please keep away , Scotland is already overpopulated , honest.

    It is. I saw a bloke walk past my house 3 days ago.
    You've got so much space it would be an ideal place to film the next 'Lord of the Rings' movie. And they wouldn't need to put any make up on the extras.
    "I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]
  • pinnopinno Posts: 48,454
    Stevo_666 said:

    pinno said:

    vincesummerskRoxcBTr said:

    No, please keep away , Scotland is already overpopulated , honest.

    It is. I saw a bloke walk past my house 3 days ago.
    You've got so much space it would be an ideal place to film the next 'Lord of the Rings' movie. And they wouldn't need to put any make up on the extras.
    There's no artistic merit in a bunch of glazed eyed locals staring gaping mouthed at the cameras/crew/cast.
    seanoconn - gruagach craic!
  • johngtijohngti Posts: 2,481
    slowmart said:

    That’s the one

    Here’s the kitchen foil bar tape thread

    https://forum.bikeradar.com/discussion/13034619/dogma-down-but-not-out/p1

    Blimey - an actual editor/moderator got involved! Don’t know how I missed that one.

    Silver bar tape is definitely abitshit though
  • First.AspectFirst.Aspect Posts: 11,751
    Who?
    johngti said:

    slowmart said:

    That’s the one

    Here’s the kitchen foil bar tape thread

    https://forum.bikeradar.com/discussion/13034619/dogma-down-but-not-out/p1

    Blimey - an actual editor/moderator got involved! Don’t know how I missed that one.

    Silver bar tape is definitely abitshit though
    I quite like the silver bar tape.
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