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13-07-2019, 09:06 AM
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As part of the ongoing free trade agreement negotiations with the EU the wonderful Australian prosecco, feta and parmesan have come under threat.

The French already stopped Australian wine producers using the name Champagne because, as every one knows, Australian Champagne was better than the pathetic French stuff so Australian producers were forced to call it the far less alluring Sparkling Wine. Now these other damn foreigners are trying on the same trick.

Even changing the spelling might not work.


Where will it end? We might have to send a gunboat gumboot.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-07-...trade/11185078
Good for them.
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13-07-2019, 09:36 AM
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Re: Those Bastard Greeks and Italians

Not a lot of folks know this, Brum Brums were made in Birmingham!
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13-07-2019, 10:35 AM
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Re: Those Bastard Greeks and Italians

... and Canadian Cheddar comes from Canada.
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13-07-2019, 11:00 AM
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Re: Those Bastard Greeks and Italians

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And when you enter those rhubarb sheds you can actually hear the rhubarb growing...it's very peculiar a sort of rustling sound.....only in Yorkshire
Is it the sound of growing or are the plants talking .....
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13-07-2019, 11:27 AM
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Re: Those Bastard Greeks and Italians

I believe the Japanese make whisky now! Do they call it
Scotch or Japtch?

Regards Donkeyman!
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13-07-2019, 02:20 PM
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Re: Those Bastard Greeks and Italians

Wot abaht French Letters?

Or Dutch Caps?

Or the Bombay Trotts?

And can you only have a Mousehole in your skirting boards if you live in Cornwall, and as for Cockermouth -----
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13-07-2019, 02:22 PM
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Re: Those Bastard Greeks and Italians

Originally Posted by Donkeyman ->
I believe the Japanese make whisky now! Do they call it
Scotch or Japtch?

Regards Donkeyman!

I've tried it.

Its Pish.
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13-07-2019, 02:28 PM
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Nice one Floydy.
I know Leicester is a nest for Pakistani's but I never knew there were actually deepest jungles up there to.
Only concrete ones mate
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13-07-2019, 05:45 PM
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Re: Those Bastard Greeks and Italians

They're just protecting copyright, so what's the problem. Don't the Ozzies have anything of their own to market to the world, or are they only capable of copying others?
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13-07-2019, 08:18 PM
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Is this the right time to quite Monty Python...

"Many people poo poo Australian table wine... "
 
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