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Come Inside... => Saloon Bar => Topic started by: Nick on June 05, 2007, 09:17:42 AM

Title: Barrow in Furness
Post by: Nick on June 05, 2007, 09:17:42 AM: I shall be paying a visit to this place the week after next. Do any of our esteemed members know the place and, if so, do they have any recommendations about its culture and people?
Title: Re: Barrow in Furness
Post by: Snoopy on June 05, 2007, 09:19:37 AM: Don't do it! confused:
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Post by: Darwins Selection on June 05, 2007, 09:44:02 AM: Have you made a Will?
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Post by: Berek on June 05, 2007, 09:48:51 AM: whistle:
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Post by: Nick on June 05, 2007, 10:11:01 AM: Is that all?
Title: Re: Barrow in Furness
Post by: Snoopy on June 05, 2007, 10:14:58 AM: Does this help?

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Title: Re: Barrow in Furness
Post by: Berek on June 05, 2007, 10:24:23 AM: (https://www.virtual-pub.com/SMF/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.southlakes-uk.co.uk%2Fchip%2Fyorkst.jpg&hash=ba9c026073643076b249382aaa577d6b83c9db7f)
Title: Re: Barrow in Furness
Post by: Nick on June 05, 2007, 10:25:28 AM: cry:
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Post by: Grumpmeister on June 05, 2007, 11:19:40 AM: You could always ask Berek to entertain you and show you the sights....

Be afraid...

Be VERY afraid... scared2:
Title: Re: Barrow in Furness
Post by: Berek on June 05, 2007, 02:07:08 PM: Quote from: Grumpmeister on June 05, 2007, 11:19:40 AM
You could always ask Berek to entertain you and show you the sights....

Be afraid...

Be VERY afraid... scared2:

whistle:

we would have gone to the Tally Ho for a pint, but it's closed down because the landlord did a runner with the money censored:
Title: Re: Barrow in Furness
Post by: Barman on June 05, 2007, 02:09:46 PM: Quote from: Berek on June 05, 2007, 02:07:08 PM
we would have gone to the Tally Ho for a pint, but it's closed down because the landlord did a runner with the money censored:
Did he get away with it? rubschin:
Title: Re: Barrow in Furness
Post by: Snoopy on June 05, 2007, 02:11:25 PM: Last heard of in Cyprus ~ setting up a new pub rubschin:
Title: Re: Barrow in Furness
Post by: Berek on June 05, 2007, 02:30:33 PM: i'll introduce Nick to Bone-ed
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFVi9XxZCfk

I just remembered, Camilla is naming the new Astute submarine this weekend and it will be in the dock. We have tickets to go and look around.

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Title: Re: Barrow in Furness
Post by: Barman on June 05, 2007, 02:42:47 PM: Quote from: Berek on June 05, 2007, 02:30:33 PM
i'll introduce Nick to Bone-ed
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFVi9XxZCfk

I just remembered, Camilla is naming the new Astute submarine this weekend and it will be in the dock. We have tickets to go and look around.

(https://www.virtual-pub.com/SMF/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.copper.org%2Finnovations%2F2006%2F03%2Fimages%2Fastute3.jpg&hash=a21fe4a7461e786778ed1eb7c791205863504294)

Don't let Nick near it! doh:
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Title: Re: Barrow in Furness
Post by: Darwins Selection on June 05, 2007, 03:01:02 PM: Quote from: Berek on June 05, 2007, 02:30:33 PM
Camilla . . . We have tickets to go and look around.

How interesting.

Do let us know if she really has got one of these tattooed on her bum.

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Title: Re: Barrow in Furness
Post by: Uncle Mort on June 05, 2007, 03:02:47 PM: You can't tell the scale from the picture so I found this:

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Now that's a carnival float.
Title: Re: Barrow in Furness
Post by: Darwins Selection on June 05, 2007, 03:04:57 PM: Quote from: Uncle Mort on June 05, 2007, 03:02:47 PM
You can't tell the scale from the picture so I found this:

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Now that's a carnival float.

Is Cherie at the launching ceremony as well then?
Title: Re: Barrow in Furness
Post by: Uncle Mort on June 05, 2007, 03:11:15 PM: eeek: ;D
Title: Re: Barrow in Furness
Post by: Grumpmeister on June 05, 2007, 03:12:48 PM: On visiting the Astute class Nick asks "What does this button do?"

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point:
Title: Re: Barrow in Furness
Post by: Nick on June 05, 2007, 05:06:42 PM: evil:
Title: Re: Barrow in Furness
Post by: Grumpmeister on June 08, 2007, 09:10:21 AM: Sorry Nck, I know that you would be more cataclysmic but other than a supernova I couldnt find a bigger explosion point:
Title: Re: Barrow in Furness
Post by: Berek on June 08, 2007, 09:13:00 AM: Quote from: Darwins Selection on June 05, 2007, 03:04:57 PM
Quote from: Uncle Mort on June 05, 2007, 03:02:47 PM
You can't tell the scale from the picture so I found this:

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Now that's a carnival float.

Is Cherie at the launching ceremony as well then?

my brother-in-law did a lot of welding on it. He was telling me that they are scared to put it in the dock incase it leaks, so it's going back in the shed on Monday whistle:
Title: Re: Barrow in Furness
Post by: Grumpmeister on June 08, 2007, 09:16:11 AM: WEll I suppose if it leaks it'll help it submerge faster point:
Title: Re: Barrow in Furness
Post by: Nick on June 12, 2007, 09:04:47 AM: June 20th it is. Berek v. Nick.

News of the encounter will follow, but don't believe his version!
Title: Re: Barrow in Furness
Post by: Berek on June 12, 2007, 09:44:14 AM: dont forget a gum shield
Title: Re: Barrow in Furness
Post by: Berek on June 12, 2007, 07:05:50 PM: I worked out that if I walk home from where i'm meeting Nick i'll have to pass 11 pubs. Mrs C is in away for a few days so a late night may be in order whistle:
Title: Re: Barrow in Furness
Post by: Nick on June 12, 2007, 07:57:02 PM: Can I stay with you then?
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Post by: Barman on June 12, 2007, 08:02:16 PM: Quote from: Nick on June 12, 2007, 07:57:02 PM
Can I stay with you then?
eeek:
Title: Re: Barrow in Furness
Post by: Berek on June 13, 2007, 10:06:05 AM: Quote from: Nick on June 12, 2007, 07:57:02 PM
Can I stay with you then?

censored: eeek:
Title: Re: Barrow in Furness
Post by: Bar Wench on June 13, 2007, 10:14:47 AM: Is that a wise question Nick? You, Berek and Ritalin Boy in one house? I'm not sure the world could handle the catastrophes that might cause! eeek:
Title: Re: Barrow in Furness
Post by: Nick on June 13, 2007, 11:33:02 AM: sad24:
Title: Re: Barrow in Furness
Post by: Grumpmeister on June 13, 2007, 11:48:22 AM: Quote from: Bar Wench on June 13, 2007, 10:14:47 AM
Is that a wise question Nick? You, Berek and Ritalin Boy in one house? I'm not sure the world could handle the catastrophes that might cause! eeek:

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scared2:
Title: Re: Barrow in Furness
Post by: Nick on June 13, 2007, 11:49:35 AM: My new hire car has just given up the ghost too!
Title: Re: Barrow in Furness
Post by: Snoopy on June 13, 2007, 11:57:22 AM: I bet there are days when you don't dare go to the toilet in case it comes off in your hand! eeek:
Title: Re: Barrow in Furness
Post by: Nick on June 13, 2007, 12:02:27 PM: Define "it" and "comes off" please.
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Post by: Snoopy on June 13, 2007, 12:04:46 PM: lol: lol: lol:
Title: Re: Barrow in Furness
Post by: Berek on June 13, 2007, 01:52:16 PM: Quote from: Nick on June 13, 2007, 11:49:35 AM
My new hire car has just given up the ghost too!

I thought you were flying into Walney airport whistle:
Title: Re: Barrow in Furness
Post by: Nick on June 13, 2007, 01:57:06 PM: In a Tiger Moth? Hve they reached Barrow yet. Down here we have the "jet engine"./ Hard to explain
Title: Re: Barrow in Furness
Post by: Grumpmeister on June 13, 2007, 03:15:15 PM: Quote from: Berek on June 13, 2007, 01:52:16 PM
Quote from: Nick on June 13, 2007, 11:49:35 AM
My new hire car has just given up the ghost too!

I thought you were flying into Walney airport whistle:

Careful Nick, they still have cargo cults in Barrow so if you go flying over there they'll think you are some kind of deity scared2:
Title: Re: Barrow in Furness
Post by: Nick on June 13, 2007, 03:16:22 PM: Reasonable, in my view. I walk on two legs. Not common in that part of the world
Title: Re: Barrow in Furness
Post by: Mr Happy on June 13, 2007, 08:42:26 PM: Quote from: Berek on June 05, 2007, 02:30:33 PM
i'll introduce Nick to Bone-ed
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFVi9XxZCfk

I just remembered, Camilla is naming the new Astute submarine this weekend and it will be in the dock. We have tickets to go and look around.

(https://www.virtual-pub.com/SMF/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.copper.org%2Finnovations%2F2006%2F03%2Fimages%2Fastute3.jpg&hash=a21fe4a7461e786778ed1eb7c791205863504294)

Is anybody else seeing the designs of a guy with a small cock?