Recent content by degsy

Politics

Dirty red brick mostly

Always a worry that

Oh, and Chinatown.

Some like it hot (honourable mentions; The Third Man. The Maltese Falcon, Zulu )

The star team is better than the team of stars?? Or 1 swallow doesn't make a summer?? Serbia are (allegedly) no dummies but the 'understudies' have earned the right to start the next game. Did Tuchal know what he was doing all along - or did he just stumble upon a formation that works?...I...

Hardly ever does - plays for the wrong team

Fixed that for you mert

Thats that then, Game Set and Match

We had one of them, or very similar, an Art Deco masterpiece - no doubt in the skip years ago

Performance

My Grans was the best, then the Mars, then Mrs degsy's - no slight intended as they were all pretty decent...with a bit of home made pickled red cabbage or beet root...not a bay leaf, mince nor other fancy stuff in sight either, aka, poor people's food. tbh the ranking is probably age related -...

Excused

They did dabble with it, as did half a dozen others, but as far as I know (not much) nobody has plans to reintroduce it mainstream

I saw these fancy VOLVOs in my Dublin hotel (crap hotel internet) carpark...then I spotted the not so ugly duckling hiding in plain sight. None other than a Wankel Rotary engined RO 80 what the I hear you say, so some back ground. lpThe NSU Ro 80 was a car ahead of its time, a sleek...