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Most unusual thing i had was ricefield rat in Vietnam, spatchcocked and barbecued. They advertise it as being a mouse, but it's actually a rat. And very tasty. Quite like rabbit, i guess. I'd have it again. In the same restaurant we had a chicken stew - you take the lid off the pot and there...

I was surprised Willie Thorne was only 66 - i had him down as that in about 1988 - probably the premature baldness and crippling Lestah accent! Good chap though. Will be missed.

Napalm?

The way they make the glue on these packs of sliced meat, cheese, bacon, dips, ready meals, etc, stronger than the fucking film, so they never open as they are meant to!

No, i checked. Mablethorpe definitely isn't in Croatia! Happy to help :happy:

Ah bollocks, should have kept my trap shut!!

It's next week, pal!! Soz!

And gynaecologists!

Nick, i have to say that his comments pose a threat to the future of this forum if he isn't blocked. That hate speech towards Hill is criminal by its very definition.

He's probably struggling for words after reading that DEEPLY offensive post you directed at him. Mods, can we erase this poster please?

That's overdubbed to score points, i think - not that there is any excuse for this behaviour.

EDIT - sorry i misunderstood the tone of your post.

What I (as a Bristolian by birth) didn't know, until i watched that clip of David Olusoga which @David O'Day posted, was that Colston's statue wasn't erected until 1895, when he died in 1721. It was probably anachronistic when it went up, although Baden-Powell was still hanging Zimbabweans from...

The CovTel's sister paper - and no evidence of any of those 10,000 respondents being from Bristol. But enough people from wherever have answered, so it has SOME validity. Just didn't specifically answer @SIR ERNIE 's question.

I don't know all the statues in France and Holland, RoS

If you watched the recent series of Great Asian Railway Journeys with Michael Portillo, you'll know how fucking shady the Dutch and French were in their colonial past (in France's case in Vietnam, quite recent past where they were still guillotining the native population who dared to stand up...

Much of Bristol's wealth, as the biggest port in Britain for long periods of the 17th and 18th centuries, was founded not only on the export and import of goods, but also the slave trade (those taken from Africa to the Caribbean to grow the sugar, bananas, cotton, etc). It wasn't just the PEOPLE...

I suspect Nancy Astor being a woman trumped her being a Nazi sympathiser!

To be honest, RoS, I don't know what would help. I don't know the answer to this question (and it is not intended to be antagonistic towards you), but do you suppose that every person of African heritage in the Caribbean and the Americas spends their time feeling bitter towards Edward Colston...

He was a caricature; a parody of himself. It was comedy, and everyone loved it. As i posted on Twitter a little while ago, i though all this PC nonsense was left behind in the late 80s when the loony left Labour councils in places like Liverpool and Leicester (where i lived at the time) insisted...