I was actually taught how to ring a chickens neck and pluck it at quite an early age. Forced to learn how to do it. I have never used the 'skill'.
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I was actually taught how to ring a chickens neck and pluck it at quite an early age. Forced to learn how to do it. I have never used the 'skill'.
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
equationgirl
Respect my existence or expect my resistance
Not very bright are you, stan?
Idiot.
Come on, you are supposed to be a creative type - what are synonyms for idiot and dumb?
equationgirl
Respect my existence or expect my resistance
Wring. Wring a chicken's neck.
Calamity1971
If Mr Peanut says It's okay, then it is.
If you were forced and taught how to learn it, then surely you used it when being taught which means you used the skills you were taught.
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
I'm telling you that he chokes his chicken!
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
If you were forced and taught how to learn it, then surely you used it when being taught which means you used the skills you were taught.
Any bloke who claims he hasn't choked a chicken once or twice, is a liar.
equationgirl
Respect my existence or expect my resistance
Nothing I would like more.
I liked the recipes and the travel descriptions. It has shown the best of urban too - JuanTwoThree was prepared to drive several hundred miles to check on him at one point. Stanley barely acknowledged this generous offer until prompted.
You can't blame urban for responding to unwarranted abuse.
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Spymaster
Plastic Paddy
Oh will you give it a rest for fucks sake? Does spanglechick really need a chearleader here?
Look at all your posts on this thread since midnight. Two pages of headmistress shit and riding the coat tails of other posters, 'Spangles, Spangles!' ... 'Go VP, Go VP!'
Can't really blame VP for laying into Stan for calling him a twat and a cunt, or Spanglechick for quoting a remark to her; but you? You've just been cheerleading and shit stirring. As per usual.
You're a nasty piece of work and I'm surprised more people haven't got your number.
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Spymaster
Plastic Paddy
Sure there isn't.
Spymaster
Plastic Paddy
This; after you've just spent a dozen posts poking Stanley with sticks.
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The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
I really liked Tavira , beautiful looking town set by a river. Some great inexpensive restaurants , a fairly lively square , some lovely little villages nearby and a couple of islands to visit .wish it would rain here it's as dry as a bone. I'm off to the municipal market to buy sardines for lunch, get some fresh bread and have a milky coffee and a cake.
Spymaster
Plastic Paddy
Don't jump on the wagon. You're better than this.If you were forced and taught how to learn it, then surely you used it when being taught which means you used the skills you were taught.
lazythursday
Averagely-Known Member
I am interested Stan, in why you find certain places 'boring' and others excellent - apart from whether it's a good place to make money you don't tend to explain this. Is it just the people you come across or something else?
existentialist
Tired and unemotional
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
Well spotted
I often explain more in other places on the web. This thread was just supposed to be about food and cooking on the move.
I like diversity mostly in a place. Money obviously affects your mood - if I don't have tobacco, I am a miserable git. Tavira is good for cash. Looks like the Mayor is collecting my sketch tomorrow if I don't sell it this evening. I find it a little to contrived - just a show put on for tourists and visitors. I rarely hit a town, or city (or, village for that matter) simply as a visitor. Always a guest, but I look for a bit more than a quick photograph and Fado experience. The locals appreciate this. They also appreciate that I am taking time to get to know their place, the way it works, what their lives are about at different times of year, or even years ago, what they hope for etc.
Tavira isn't real. It will all shutdown at the end of September and become a very quiet ghost town with just the local bars and shops remaining open for local people. I would probably enjoy the place much more in February.
Some places give me a very genuinely spiritual feeling, like people were always supposed to live here. Nazare especially gave me that in Portugal - I would love to spend a winter there. Get right inside the guts of the place long after the neon has stopped glowing. Tavira is very pretty. Great if you are just visiting for a day, or Two, but it has fuck all to offer the locals out of season, never mind visitors.
I like guts and reality. I find tourist dust far to superficial to enjoy for more than an hour, or so. Deep culture. Diversity and a reality I can feel and believe in. I need to see the way people function day to day. The way they interact and socialise with each other.
Porto was fabulous. Nazare I loved. Coimbra was pretty cool also. Many of the small towns and villages were extremely friendly and had a liveable quality. On the whole, Portugal has been fantastic for all sorts of reason - a fabulous, very enlightening adventure. So many good people! I preferred the north. The Algarve is stunning and much more interesting away from the coastal hotspots.
Nothing for me to do in Tavira other than sit here with my computer drinking alone, and listening to a pretty average Fado show. I always have a favourite bar in every town - most probably end up there by 11PM talking about fucking England with the younger people here desperate to escape and sold on the false promise that the UK is heaven, rock and roll, easy money and cool. I was young once also.
OK. That's me done. Last Portugal sketch sold goes to a very well known person in the World of football, currently based in Lisbon. He bought it as a gift for his Two young children, and paid very handsomely (well, his wife gave me the cash actually). I am chuffed to bits with that.
I will absolutely definitely return sooner, rather than later. I think I had a couple of things to moan about, but they have long been forgotten. Fucking loved it.
Erm... Chicken tika at restaurant Taj Mahal. I have left my fishing rod and tackle by the boats on the river.
Time to forget all about this thread and move ever forwards
Spain within Three hours!
I will absolutely definitely return sooner, rather than later. I think I had a couple of things to moan about, but they have long been forgotten. Fucking loved it.
Erm... Chicken tika at restaurant Taj Mahal. I have left my fishing rod and tackle by the boats on the river.
Time to forget all about this thread and move ever forwards
Spain within Three hours!
equationgirl
Respect my existence or expect my resistance
Have you got your winter plans sorted Stanley Edwards? Madrid or Grenada or somewhere else?
Well done on a big sale to end the trip.
Well done on a big sale to end the trip.
Calamity1971
If Mr Peanut says It's okay, then it is.
Suitably chastised. Although it wasn't a direct attack, more of a harmless piss take. Sorry
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Johnny Vodka
The Abominable Scotsman
I take it you're not going to Ibiza Stanley Edwards ? Was on the verge of cancelling this year, but now pretty sure I'm going in just a fortnight.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
And so we bid farewell to sunny portugal.
The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
To think at one point I was only 5klm away from him
JimW
支那暗杀团
That's four days walking for Stan though if there isn't a bus.
The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
With or without tobacco?
I take it you're not going to Ibiza Stanley Edwards ? Was on the verge of cancelling this year, but now pretty sure I'm going in just a fortnight.
I don't think so. Coincidentally just took a phone call asking if I was coming back. Craig is well - sticking to the routine.
My plan is Nazare. It is risky in some ways, but I think I can make it work. Porto, or Lisbon to work at weekends. Weekdays fishing and painting the Atlantic in Nazare. I'm sending out emails for an affordable 'out of season' rental. I am totally stuck on the idea. Will be wet and windy, but fuck - 6 months painting and fishing, just working Saturday and Sunday
Gonna do it.
Upwind, hopefully.
