Chip shops

[Neo]

I want to see a Leyton Orient match, too.

Geeez you are a sucker for punishment!

[Authentic]

Hmmmmmm! Whitechapel isn’t how you think it is now. A few years ago I worked in Whitechapel on the large hospital there.
200 yards from the hospital is a huge Muslim mosque, it was funny because across the road from the mosque was a pub that has strippers every dinner time, obviously the muzzies hated it.

More Bangladeshi then in 1888? Is that cool church still around?

[Authentic]

Geeez you are a sucker for punishment!

I support Millwall too, even though I can't watch them in America. Well, I could, but I don't do apps.

[Neo]

Is that cool church still around?

You mean St. Mary Matfelon Church?

[Frankenvoter]

I'm lucky to live not far from Rusty's Wharf, which is an Arthur Treachers clone, which isn't completely fair to say as I've heard one of the owners was an AT owner or franchisee or whatever but basically the menu is the same and way better than Long John Silvers which sucks just about as bad as Captain D's, and I'm not a huge seafood person to begin with.

Who knows, they might ship you an order like Adam's Ribs did for Hawkeye on M.A.S.H.

Rusty's Wharf (rustyswharfpataskala.com)

[Neo]

Is that cool church still around?

You mean St Mary Matfelon church?

[Neo]

I'm lucky to live not far from Rusty's Wharf, which is an Arthur Treachers clone, which isn't completely fair to say as I've heard one of the owners was an AT owner or franchisee or whatever but basically the menu is the same and way better than Long John Silvers which sucks just about as bad as Captain D's, and I'm not a huge seafood person to begin with.

Who knows, they might ship you an order like Adam's Ribs did for Hawkeye on M.A.S.H.

Rusty's Wharf (rustyswharfpataskala.com)

That food looks great!

[Authentic]

You mean St Mary Matfelon church?

Christ Church, Spitalfields.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christ...,_Spitalfields

[jirqoadai]

Ye Gods man, these are 16th century houses made out of good old English Oak, of course they are warped.
All over our town we have period houses.

the Hre and Bru has period houses also. and the Kachin. but thats all that happened inside of them though.

[StanAtStanFan]

More Bangladeshi then in 1888? Is that cool church still around?

The reference to french fries in America in this thread reminded me of this essay about why English is hard to learn.

There is no egg in eggplant nor ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple; English muffins weren't invented in England or French fries in France. Sweetmeats are candies while sweetbreads which aren't sweet, are meat.

We take English for granted. But if we explore its paradoxes, we find that: quicksand works slowly; boxing rings are square; a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig.

And why is it that writers write but fingers don't fing, grocers don't groce and hammers don't ham?

If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn't the plural of booth, beeth? One goose, 2 geese? So one moose, 2 meese? One index, 2 indices?

Doesn't it seem crazy that you can make amends, but not one amend, that you comb through annals of history but not a single annal? If you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one, what do you call it? If teachers taught, why didn't preachers praught? If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat?

Sometimes I think all the English speakers should be committed to an asylum for the verbally insane. In what language do people recite at a play and play at a recital? Ship by truck and send cargo by ship? Have noses that run-feet that smell? How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites? How can overlook and oversee be opposites, while quite a lot and quite a few are alike?

Have you ever noticed that we talk about certain things only when they are absent? Have you ever seen a horseful carriage or a strapful gown? Met a sung hero or experienced requited love? Run into someone who was combobulated; gruntled; ruly or peccable? And where are all those people who are spring chickens or who would actually hurt a fly?

You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language in which your house can burn up as it burns down, in which you fill in a form by filling it out and in which, an alarm goes off by going on.

English was invented by people, not computers, and it reflects the creativity of the human race - which, of course, is not a race at all.

That is why, when the stars are out, they are visible, but when the lights are out, they are invisible.

And why, when I wind up my watch, I start it, but when I wind up this essay - I end it.



Stan (by proxy) I have no idea who the amazing author of this is.