The Christmas Thread

[Leyther_Matt]

56 minutes ago, Not in Crawley said:

I wonder how much they make through people just forgetting. I've done it loads - had a pasta order once, even Pavarotti couldn't have eaten the mounds of the stuff we had by the time I got round to stopping it.

Must be a fortune. I've contacted a charity in Leigh that is a bit of a halfway house and they said they'll take it off my hands so that's my good deed for Christmas (assuming they drop it off in time on Xmas Eve for me to be able to drop it off...)

[Not in Crawley]

2 minutes ago, Leyther_Matt said:

Must be a fortune. I've contacted a charity in Leigh that is a bit of a halfway house and they said they'll take it off my hands so that's my good deed for Christmas (assuming they drop it off in time on Xmas Eve for me to be able to drop it off...)

That's decent - at least it won't go to waste

[Leyther_Matt]

2 minutes ago, Not in Crawley said:

That's decent - at least it won't go to waste

Couldn't bear it to go to waste. That time of year where every meal has been planned to the nth degree for the next fortnight so it's not as if we could have hit for our dinner (lunch to you...) or anything like that. Had an £18 voucher on our Sainsbury's Christmas shop so that pretty much covers it anyway. Hopefully enough karma for us to get in to the play offs at the very least.

[Spider]

3 hours ago, Not in Crawley said:

Fuck - I knew there was something. Ah well, cornershop for a tin of Big Daddy's it is.

You can buy mushy peas in a CAN?

[DirtySanchez]

2 minutes ago, Spider said:

You can buy mushy peas in a CAN?

Doesn't matter what type of container they come in

They should not be allowed anywhere near anything called food 

[Spider]

9 minutes ago, DirtySanchez said:

Doesn't matter what type of container they come in

They should not be allowed anywhere near anything called food 

I’m off down the Tesco later. Gonna get me some tinned mushy peas.

[MancWanderer]

5 minutes ago, Spider said:

I’m off down the Tesco later. Gonna get me some tinned mushy peas.

Aldi’s are the best imo

[DirtySanchez]

4 minutes ago, Spider said:

I’m off down the Tesco later. Gonna get me some tinned mushy peas.

I reckon if you took the tins to a food bank you'd be turned away 

[Sweep]

13 minutes ago, Spider said:

I’m off down the Tesco later. Gonna get me some tinned mushy peas.

Can you buy lobby in a can? 

[Spider]

1 minute ago, Sweep said:

Can you buy lobby in a can? 

I bet you can’t.

and I know why.

[Sweep]

6 minutes ago, Spider said:

I bet you can’t.

and I know why.

If you can't buy it in a tin/can, then that should tell you all you need to know about it. 

[dave2980]

15 minutes ago, Sweep said:

Can you buy lobby in a can? 

That stuff doesn't need the preservative effect from the canning process. It'd probably survive a nuclear war! 

[Not in Crawley]

47 minutes ago, Spider said:

You can buy mushy peas in a CAN?

Yup, always have a tin in the cupboard in case we get fish and chips and end up with a shit southern chippy that doesn't do them (most do mind)

Although I do have them with my Carrs pasties which I get delivered a couple of times a year.

[MickyD]

5 minutes ago, Not in Crawley said:

Yup, always have a tin in the cupboard in case we get fish and chips and end up with a shit southern chippy that doesn't do them (most do mind)

Though Peter Kay made enough money to buy his mum a bungalow on the strength of southern chippies ‘avin’ nowt moist.

[Leyther_Matt]

1 hour ago, Sweep said:

Can you buy lobby in a can? 

It’s a culinary creation that only the truly great chefs can master. 

[athywhite1958]

They sell it in Carr's pasty shop in Athy, £2.60 for a medium dish full

[gonzo]

23 hours ago, stevieb said:

Got the 9 year old upset tonight as he's not feeling Christmassy yet. 

Reckon kids in his class are in his ear about the big man. 

How do you eek it out as long as possible?

We think he's rooted about and seen one present so that's getting wrapped into different paper to the rest and will be "from" his younger sister.

 

We had to tell our eldest before he went to senior school. Couldn't have him bowling about thinking santas real when theres kids in year vaping.

My 9 year old still believes although Im not convinced he actually does. He figured out the characters at Disneyland pretty sharpish so I reckon hes just playing along.

Weve always said Santa brings one special present rather than the whole lot.

You should do a stunt to make it more real, crush some ice up and make some snow prints for him to wake up to or summet.

 

[Cheese]

6 minutes ago, gonzo said:

We had to tell our eldest before he went to senior school. Couldn't have him bowling about thinking santas real when theres kids in year vaping.

My 9 year old still believes although Im not convinced he actually does. He figured out the characters at Disneyland pretty sharpish so I reckon hes just playing along.

Weve always said Santa brings one special present rather than the whole lot.

You should do a stunt to make it more real, crush some ice up and make some snow prints for him to wake up to or summet.

Crushed ice? How cold is your house? 😁

[SatanGreavsie]

2 hours ago, Not in Crawley said:

 

Although I do have them with my Carrs pasties which I get delivered a couple of times a year.

Talking of deliveries, a day or two ago I popped into the local, small-size, Co-Op on the way home. The lass at the checkout looked at bit taken aback by summat so when I asked her what was up, she showed a receipt she had from a Just Eat order. So presumably the staff get them like a normal receipt and then sort the stuff out for the delivery guy to pick up. But what had struck her was that this came to £20, which would be fair enough if it hadn't consisted of just a packet of ciggies...

 

[stevieb]

7 minutes ago, gonzo said:

We had to tell our eldest before he went to senior school. Couldn't have him bowling about thinking santas real when theres kids in year vaping.

My 9 year old still believes although Im not convinced he actually does. He figured out the characters at Disneyland pretty sharpish so I reckon hes just playing along.

Weve always said Santa brings one special present rather than the whole lot.

You should do a stunt to make it more real, crush some ice up and make some snow prints for him to wake up to or summet.

 

Yeah I think last year was the last year it was genuine when we got some mad bearded yank in a suit to ring them on zoom and they knew everything they wanted! 

He's more cynical now. Tinfoil cunt like his dad 

My Mrs is adamant that's she never telling em even when they are adults. 

I'm posting em the bank statements as evidence.... 🤣 

[tomski]

2 hours ago, Sweep said:

Can you buy lobby in a can? 

Yeah why would you do this?

oddly it’s the same as Scouse and everyone hates scousers.

Edited December 21, 2022 by tomski

[gonzo]

3 minutes ago, Cheese said:

Crushed ice? How cold is your house? 😁

Cant afford the gas on

[stevieb]

2 minutes ago, SatanGreavsie said:

Talking of deliveries, a day or two ago I popped into the local, small-size, Co-Op on the way home. The lass at the checkout looked at bit taken aback by summat so when I asked her what was up, she showed a receipt she had from a Just Eat order. So presumably the staff get them like a normal receipt and then sort the stuff out for the delivery guy to pick up. But what had struck her was that this came to £20, which would be fair enough if it hadn't consisted of just a packet of ciggies...

 

Horwich coop is a fucking joke for it. 

Half the staff dealing with deliveroo deliveries or John Lewis parcel pick ups rather than on the tills. 

 

[tomski]

5 minutes ago, SatanGreavsie said:

Talking of deliveries, a day or two ago I popped into the local, small-size, Co-Op on the way home. The lass at the checkout looked at bit taken aback by summat so when I asked her what was up, she showed a receipt she had from a Just Eat order. So presumably the staff get them like a normal receipt and then sort the stuff out for the delivery guy to pick up. But what had struck her was that this came to £20, which would be fair enough if it hadn't consisted of just a packet of ciggies...

 

Said this was coming a while back but a ww expert told me I was wrong.

[Cheese]

5 minutes ago, gonzo said:

Cant afford the gas on

Always used flour or talc in our house, sprinkled around my wellies to make the bootprints. Probably won't bother this year. 10 year old is too streetwise these days. Doesn't even believe me when I take my thumb off anymore. ☹️