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I said it on the 'why are you upset' thread too but RIP Billy McNeill.

First Scottish/British/Northern European captain to lift a European cup.

I read his biographies and he came across as an absolute gentleman, as he did on TV and on videos too. I never got the chance to actually meet him in the flesh.

Hi guys, just checking in for a bit - hope you're all doing well!
Nothing drastic to report. Just my damned mono-mania keeping me away; an amateur coding project and spamming WP with my pathetic humour is too much multi-tasking for my poor little brain!

If my neighbourhood is anything to go by, I doubt anyone here would notice much - the fly-tips are valuable navigational landmarks around these parts. If you're ever up this way, I'll take you to see the glorious view from the top of Bagsofsoilednappies Hill - it's a stunner! [breathing-apparatus/tetanus-injections not included]
(but really; )

[quote="TUF"]At the beach today there was a café (like a burger stand) and they were selling pot noodles for £2 as if it was a proper meal. I can get a pot noodle for 50p from Iceland and I wouldn't want to eat one at a café...[/quote







..." Pot noodles " in a British sense means regular noodles?.Not ramen?

I think the closest you have is ramen.

It's like instant noodles with flavouring in a plastic tub.

Really unhealthy but tasty. Costs like a quarter of the cost just to make it at home and it's really simple - I've been able to make them since I was in my teens and I'm dyspraxic.

So essentially they were ripping people off. I think they got away with it a bit because people didn't want to leave the beach. But the people must have been a bit dumb as they were selling chips (fat French fries) and burgers too, which were surely more appealing?

Also it's a bit weird they weren't doing fish and chips but I think they lacked the deep fat fryers.

...I don't want to get too involved in going back in in this thread, so I will ask: Who are the ' they " referred to ?

...Who's Om Nom?

My soccer team.

They decided to do bright lights and a light show before some games. So I emailed them to tell them not to because of autistic people and epileptic people etc. I told them it was inaccessible to me. I did a long email about the pain it would cause me. They told me they'd think about it.

Their solution was a sensory room for 15 kids.

I'm an adult and, even if I wasn't, plenty more than 15 kids go there every match and I can't believe only 15 are affected. Feels like a bit of a token gesture.

I don't like to insult them at the best of times and now isn't the best of times but I wish they'd just rethink the lights.

...Thank you. Perhaps I'd seen the phrase only in British writing, perhaps more generally. Actually, that sounds not a million miles from a kind of instant noodlsoup I've had s lot of in my time, this add-water to a cardboard container (It's supposed to be boiling, but you can get away with hot - They say on the container not to microwave it.), you then close the top to have it mix then, after s tad, open it. Hey presto ! I guess it's maybe a trifle humbler still than the pot noodles ? Kraftie, surely you've had these and maybe can come up with a generic phrase? They"re pretty cheap.
I have certainly, in the past, eaten plenty of ramen - this cheap " _ for a dollar " kind, in plastic packages with a little metal paper packet, I now forget whether you add the powder before or after boiling - I guess after, that came to me as I wrote this. Ramen is rather identified as " starving artists'/students' food " (And of course, I was never truly a " student ' - Let's drag myself through that for the umpty-ba-jillionth time .).
I guess ramen can be rather fancier food, but...Conversely for an Asian dish, sushi tends to be seen as rather fancy food in the U.S....but I've read that in Japan less expensive versions are cheap, filling, food. There's a mall near me that has this vending machine of pre-made ramen meals, I guess more Asisn-style, you pay for it with your card - I've been wanting to try it. Though it's probably got lots of the salt that I guess conventional wisdom will tell me landed me in the hospital this time! (& before) But how many pleasures do I have left in life ?
Even with a place to boil things, with my mostly-missing teeth, ramen rather loses much of it's - Perhaps " pleasure " is too strong, maybe " the point " is bad word choice. But...
Thank you re: the team, Tuf. Who do you support? Believe it or not, I do know that you guys/ you all call it " football ' !

Pot noodles are literally just heat kettle, put hot water in, stir, wait 2 minutes, stir, add flavouring.

I'm a Celtic fan.

We lost our greatest ever player yesterday* which is why I'm hesitant to bring up past niggles I've had with them. But it is quite annoying that they didn't bear it in mind. Especially because one of the charitable aims they have at the moment is making things better for autistic people in wider society - they ought to begin with making the stadium fully accessible to us (us meaning autistic people).

*sure feels like a few days though

...Who was that player?

We first had this kind of "noodle soup" around the late 1970s when there was "Lipton's Cup of Soup."

Americans, these days, usually call these sorts of soups "ramen noodles."

I think ramen was originally a Japanese food. What Americans are used to eating is the instant microwavable version.

Billy McNeill

Picture on the front of the Daily Express today... a photo of Anne Widdecombe next to a gurning Nigel Farage, with the headline... the Brexit Dream Team.

Dream? It's the stuff of nightmares... that image will be in my head for the rest of the week.

Nichola Sturgeon is after a second referendum for Scottish independence (no "will of the people" there then). Maybe I can go and live there... if they don't build a wall (or maybe patch up Hadrian's first effort... although that's mostly in England now... I think).

I'm going for a lie down.

Yikes, I'm glad that image has escaped me. I can't believe ANYONE would find those people relatable!

Yeah, Billy McNeill. Only King Billy, Cesar. I notice most of us youngsters are misspelling that as Caesar and I don't think it's a bad thing - he'd mind because it's hero worshipping but he did conquer Europe. In a way I approve of (I'm anti imperialist, I'm cliché about a lot of things...)

What gets me is I was watching the headlines of the EPL last night and there was the Manchester Derby and they didn't say anything about a minute's silence. But he managed Man City. I hope there was one.