Had a great trip. Will provide pics and anecdotes when I'm a bit more alert (if people are all that interested).
Until someone informs me otherwise I'm assuming that my combined travels secure me the largest land empire and population in Heartland history - taking the countries involved it would share borders with Norway and Vietnam - which is nice. Don't start re-writing songs for me, though. I'll get offended.
What did I miss? I heard we won the Olympics and got blown up, but the rest is largely speculative.
I'm back
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Names are just a souvenir ...
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Very unfair - I wouldn't have a 'tache at all if it wasn't for China's strange plugs which weren't compatible with my shaver.boudicca wrote:You be Hitler, I'll be Mussolini.
For obvious reasons I'm not going to start attacking my face with Chinese razor-blades, so I'm having a Dominion moment.
Names are just a souvenir ...
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Don't be too hasty; a good chinwig can make you look a million dollars!andymackem wrote:Very unfair - I wouldn't have a 'tache at all if it wasn't for China's strange plugs which weren't compatible with my shaver.boudicca wrote:You be Hitler, I'll be Mussolini.
For obvious reasons I'm not going to start attacking my face with Chinese razor-blades, so I'm having a Dominion moment.
Mine, on the other hand, was £2.99 from the charidee shop.
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So, who'll be Franco...
At least his empire will last a couple years longer
Glad to have you back, and please bring us all of your silly stories btw
At least his empire will last a couple years longer
Glad to have you back, and please bring us all of your silly stories btw
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Welcome back Mr Mackem.
Welcome home andy
I think someone set my soul alight
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welcome back. I hope you've prepared the Russian Federation for my visit next year.
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nice tan, Sir!
"And when you start to think about death, you start to think about what's after it. And then you start hoping there is a God. For me, it's a frightening thought to go nowhere".
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Did you leave some crying mongolian ladies behind?
Put their heads on f*cking pikes in front of the venue for all I care.
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Many a true word spoken in jest...timsinister wrote:Don't be too hasty; a good chinwig can make you look a million dollars!
Mine, on the other hand, was £2.99 from the charidee shop.
He has a girl in every port now, I don't doubt.
There's a man with a mullet going mad with a mallet in Millets
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I imagine THEY ( ) do.Petseri wrote:Do that all have £2.99 chinhair as well?boudicca wrote:He has a girl in every port now, I don't doubt.
He's not very picky, from what I've heard...
There's a man with a mullet going mad with a mallet in Millets
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oi and minelazarus corporation wrote:welcome back. I hope you've prepared the Russian Federation for my visit next year.
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Welcome home Andy,
Nice to have you back.
Nice to have you back.
it's all about circles and spirals
that ongoing eternity
that ongoing eternity
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Honeymoon in the inner Ural? How lovely.Brideoffrankenstein wrote:oi and minelazarus corporation wrote:welcome back. I hope you've prepared the Russian Federation for my visit next year.
Put their heads on f*cking pikes in front of the venue for all I care.
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It's not a honeymoon! (Well not yet anyway ) Personally I can't think of a more romantic place than Red Square in the snow......canon docre wrote:Honeymoon in the inner Ural? How lovely.Brideoffrankenstein wrote:oi and minelazarus corporation wrote:welcome back. I hope you've prepared the Russian Federation for my visit next year.
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we already spend far too long gazing lovingly at WW2 Maxim machine guns used at Stalingradcanon docre wrote:Honeymoon in the inner Ural? How lovely.Brideoffrankenstein wrote:oi and minelazarus corporation wrote:welcome back. I hope you've prepared the Russian Federation for my visit next year.
in Forum Thing t-shirts, if QB gets them doneBrideoffrankenstein wrote:Personally I can't think of a more romantic place than Red Square in the snow......
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welcome back!
Well I was handsome and I was strong
And I knew the words to every song.
"Did my singing please you?"
"No! The words you sang were wrong!"
And I knew the words to every song.
"Did my singing please you?"
"No! The words you sang were wrong!"
Does that joke work in German as well?canon docre wrote:Honeymoon in the inner Ural? How lovely.
A piece on German humour on Radio 4's Today programme wrote:Why did my grandfather cross the road?
To invade Poland.
And you know that she's half crazy but that's why you want to be there.
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Girl in every port? Not that picky? Pah!
More romantic than Red Square in the snow .... you could try Krasnoyarsk in a heat wave but I wouldn't dream of commenting on that.
I did have a chance to check about trains between Moscow and Georgia, and it's not good news. At the moment there are trains running into the Caucasus but not beyond. You can still go to Grozny if you want.
This might change, but I wouldn't hold your breath.
More romantic than Red Square in the snow .... you could try Krasnoyarsk in a heat wave but I wouldn't dream of commenting on that.
I did have a chance to check about trains between Moscow and Georgia, and it's not good news. At the moment there are trains running into the Caucasus but not beyond. You can still go to Grozny if you want.
This might change, but I wouldn't hold your breath.
Names are just a souvenir ...
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Russian footie in the run-up to the World Cup - my latest E-book available from https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07DGJFF6G
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Wow thanks Andy We changed our minds in the end and we have decided to have a week in St Petersburg instead!andymackem wrote:I did have a chance to check about trains between Moscow and Georgia, and it's not good news. At the moment there are trains running into the Caucasus but not beyond. You can still go to Grozny if you want.
This might change, but I wouldn't hold your breath.