Random musings and general banter.

[Duke of Cheese]

We're in the City Centre as well. Got a package via Eurostar, both trains and 2 rooms for 2 nights in a 4* star hotel with breakfast, think it was around £370 each. I've always wanted to go there and will probably go back on my own when it's warmer so I will take on board your mosquito comment! We're really going for the Christmassy stuff like the market and don't need to fly. And I have been warned by others that the beer is really strong, thankfully I don't drink beer!

Bruges/Brugge is fantastic as I said before. My late wife and my previous wife to her went quite a few times. Lastly via the Eurostar from St. Pancras.

A calm and safe mood to the place. Avoid the awful rip-off straw boater waiters staffed restaurants in The Markt (Tompouce for one). The best places are to be found on the side streets. Cuisine is very frites and mayonnaise based in the basic sense, or gastronomical seven course menus at the other end.

The architecture is stunning. And being in Flanders, English is spoken by more or less all. Probably not the time of the year for it, but there is a stunningly beautiful boat journey along a verdant tree-lined canal from Brugge to picturesque and nearby Damme. Well worth it if anybody can.

Belgian beers are fascinatingly wonderful, too. Presented in bottles with splendid artwork and in many styles and served in shaped glasses beautifully illustrated. 9% proof is not uncommon, so you can get quite smashed rather quickly on them. The Belgians take great pride in their beers, and the choice is bewilderingly large. I loved both Brugge and Belgium in general. My partner, a solicitor, helps run a Belgian/British lawyers cooperation group. She tells me Ghent (where they meet) is as beautiful as Brugge, but much less touristy. Hope to go there soon, also.

 

[historymystery]

Following an internal review IW announced today it has replaced its entire TV production crew in an effort to improve broadcasting standards on the channel. They have released a picture of the new team in action, they go on to say.

We would like to welcome Simian Sally, Primate Peter, Monkey Mike and Chuckles Ferrara to IW. We are confident our new team will bring a new level of professionalism to our output, one that befits our high end luxury products. With the new staff in place IW can now boast that the combined IQ of our studio has now risen above 35 (a first for the shopping channel industry).
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Megabazus, this is just genius (but the biggest chimp is on screen, of course - and I don't mean the "designer teddy bear")....

Oops, my mistake - it says "high end" designer teddy bear. Well, you can have surgery for that these days..

 

[Megabazus]

Megabazus, this is just genius (but the biggest chimp is on screen, of course - and I don't mean the "designer teddy bear")....

Oops, my mistake - it says "high end" designer teddy bear. Well, you can have surgery for that these days..

I have to thank IW for making it so easy to take the P. If they ran a respectable operation I’d be out of a job. I just love that bear, for me it sums up everything about the company. They are constantly trying to convince people to buy overpriced, low quality goods with the promise of a luxury lifestyle.

 

[Duke of Cheese]

As I said…brilliant photos..

 

[Megabazus]

Wasn’t sure if this required an 18 rating
Meteorologist Peter Fish, famous for his unique ability to predict spells of very cold weather, last night predicted that this winter could be the coldest ever. This immediately sparked mass panic. Riots and looting broke out in Manchester, Birmingham and London as people realised that stocks of Homesmart 'CERAMIC' heaters (the ones with the very attractive flame effect) were selling out fast and they had forgotten to check out their baskets. Calm was finally restored when people saw they were still for sale the next day.

 

[Ant7t]

I have a memory like a sieve. I have watched the pre-TJC IW, but not overly enough to see 'how' it operated per se. But, this current version seems less 'professional' than its former life. I expect they were on a par with each other, but it makes you wonder why, when something is 'taken over', it suffers. Again, I know I'm 'swapping' channels, but it's like Gemporia. IMO, it was 'better' before Steve 'gave' it to the employees. See, a major change, however it be, seems to be for the worse.

 

[Muttley]

Bruges/Brugge is fantastic as I said before. My late wife and my previous wife to her went quite a few times. Lastly via the Eurostar from St. Pancras.

A calm and safe mood to the place. Avoid the awful rip-off straw boater waiters staffed restaurants in The Markt (Tompouce for one). The best places are to be found on the side streets. Cuisine is very frites and mayonnaise based in the basic sense, or gastronomical seven course menus at the other end.

The architecture is stunning. And being in Flanders, English is spoken by more or less all. Probably not the time of the year for it, but there is a stunningly beautiful boat journey along a verdant tree-lined canal from Brugge to picturesque and nearby Damme. Well worth it if anybody can.

Belgian beers are fascinatingly wonderful, too. Presented in bottles with splendid artwork and in many styles and served in shaped glasses beautifully illustrated. 9% proof is not uncommon, so you can get quite smashed rather quickly on them. The Belgians take great pride in their beers, and the choice is bewilderingly large. I loved both Brugge and Belgium in general. My partner, a solicitor, helps run a Belgian/British lawyers cooperation group. She tells me Ghent (where they meet) is as beautiful as Brugge, but much less touristy. Hope to go there soon, also.

Thanks Duke, that's a geat help. I'll make sure we avoid those restaurants and side street restaurants are usually a better option. When I did the Rome excursion from my ship the tour guides took us down a side street full of restaurants and said they are all reasonable. Where I went I had pizza for €13, I was expecting to pay more in Rome!

As I've said I'll probably go back to Brugge again on my own and do more touristy stuff like boat trips, we're only going to experience a Christmas market and things like that. And I've head that Ghent is very nice. And all I knew about Belgian beers were that they were strong, that's really interesting.

 

[Jazzydrury]

We’ve **** head on a double shift today

 

[Jazzydrury]

No doubt more Damp Bags and Heaters

 

[Jazzydrury]

Watch of the year at 8pm

 

[Hammy60]

Well it's the return of the Bombay glass watch crystal tonight.

The Mathey-Tissot Edmond (Green & Blue Dials), been a while since it was on the late IW but now at the new IW and at a bargain price. £1099.99, where the hell do they get that price from.

No doubt after some intense negotiations, between IW's buyers and El Fridgio, by the time of the show a loss making price will appear on screen and shock the life out of a totally dumbfounded Kevski. Peter will immediately demand a price check as obviously someone has made a mistake, but it's the weekend and they can't get a hold of management so will have to grudgingly go with the wrong price.

The price will probably end up closer to the price which Kevski is selling the watch at on ebay

 

[JonnyRyan]

does anyone else find the picture kinda grainy since the move to the new studio?

 

[galesgal57]

Alberto Fridgio? Is he related to Julio Geordio from the Fast Show?

 

[Francy19]

Pedro just said Vibroplate coming up and it helped him lose 5 stone in weight. ********. I have been watching him on TV since his Bid Up TV and Price Drop days and he was the same as he is now!

 

[Francy19]

The missing word is bullsh*t

 

[galesgal57]

I don't give a about collagen, if I've been losing it, so what?

 

[Samki]

Has anyone found out the truth of this multi gold winning athlete? What a crock of ****

 

[galesgal57]

The collagen hasn't helped his hair, and his nails are always veneered and varnished.

 

[Francy19]

I take collagen everyday but through bone broth. Cow bones boiled for 48 hours to get all the nutrients out. I have suffered with Achilles Tendinopathy for the last 4 years which is a major tendon and can’t say it makes a huge difference.

 

[Paul Laver's Wig]

Wow,.another product Pete is selling which he also coincidentally uses.