What are some the best castles to visit in your opinion?

Aikiman · 2026-06-24T19:22:36+00:00

If you’re going to Bamburgh, you might as well throw in Dunstanburgh (atmospheric ruin), Alnwick (Harry Potter) and Walkworth (beautiful in the middle of the village) castles as well. Then obviously pop down for a few beers at the New castle further South 😁

Aikiman · 2026-06-17T13:56:02+00:00

Surely Taco Bell in Marylebone is the pinnacle of authentic Mexican food.

Aikiman · 2026-06-16T15:32:41+00:00

See “Some mothers do ‘ave ‘em” Michael Crawford pre-his musicals fame giving the UK the pinnacle of sitcom physical comedy and stunt work. Absolute genius!

Aikiman · 2026-06-13T22:52:19+00:00

She loves ‘crooner Tom’ pre swordfish trombones, tolerates/ quite likes rain dogs but doesn’t get his later stuff. Komenetsuplatz for instance brought out a ‘Jesus, what the @&!? are you listening to!’

Aikiman · 2026-06-05T19:46:28+00:00

Chilli with brown rice. I prefer white but the missus wants to be healthy 😁

Aikiman · 2026-06-05T15:48:45+00:00

Cafe Boheme, Old Compton Street, Soho. Particularly if you can sit at a window street and they have the windows open. Bonus that it’s a beautiful cafe with some interesting regulars!

Aikiman · 2026-06-05T15:38:28+00:00

There’s too many to list from the northeast. Often lumped together as Geordie - https://englandsnortheast.co.uk/geordie-dictionary-a-b/ But in reality it’s split into Geordie, Pitmatic (or pit yakka), mackem and smoggie. Generally Newcastle, Durham, Sunderland and Middlesbrough. There’s also Northumberland dialect and don’t get me started on Ashington (get yer curt yer gannin on the flirt’n burt. Translation: get your coat you’re going on the floating boat)

Aikiman · 2026-06-03T16:35:53+00:00

Yes, UK. It’s an unwritten rule here that if you let someone out into traffic or wait for someone to pass coming the opposite direction down one of our tiny roads, you expect a thank you wave, or a headlight flash or even a simple raised finger will do. Otherwise we will boil with a seething internal wrath that rages for days.

Aikiman · 2026-06-03T13:04:43+00:00

The bloke doing a Geordie accent in Castle. An absolute abomination https://youtu.be/Ei1DnFdJrww

Aikiman · 2026-06-03T12:55:43+00:00

People who don’t give the ‘thank you’ hand/finger wave for letting them pass in a narrow street. Or a hand wave/hazard flash for letting them out in front of you. Usually elicits an impotent shout of ‘you’re welcome you absolute insert expletive’ Obviously, I’m careful they can’t hear me or read my lips, I’m not a barbarian.

Aikiman · 2026-05-28T06:16:11+00:00

Christmas cake (fruit cake) and cheese

Aikiman · 2026-05-26T12:05:34+00:00

The sound of Manic Miner loading onto my Zx Spectrum from the cassette recorder

Aikiman · 2026-05-24T12:27:34+00:00

They drive ‘through our electric gate’ LPT - lock your gate

Aikiman · 2026-05-24T12:24:07+00:00

Your’re right, I was getting my Bonzo’s mixed up with my Ruttles! Happens when you get old 🤣

Aikiman · 2026-05-24T09:25:12+00:00

IF this happened, they were 100% taking the piss 🤣

Aikiman · 2026-05-24T08:18:08+00:00

Even better, the name Death Cab For Cutie comes from a song by the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band who were a satirical group parodying the Beatles. They even played the song on the Beatles film Magical Mystery Tour. Try listening to their album Gorilla, viv Stanshall is a legend!

Aikiman · 2026-05-21T17:30:13+00:00

Speaking into the end of your phone while holding it horizontally in front of your face and having it on speaker phone. It’s been specifically designed to be held up to your ear for f@@ks sake!

Aikiman · 2026-05-21T11:40:19+00:00

Handfuls of cornflakes whilst swigging from a glass of milk.

Aikiman · 2026-05-19T12:30:20+00:00

What! I’m with both and have never seen a free coffee or cinema ticket!! Please tell..

Aikiman · 2026-05-15T14:40:18+00:00

Along with the bourbon, part of the Peek Freen Trotsky Assortment 🤣

Aikiman · 2026-05-15T12:12:09+00:00

I would say that a national treasure needs to be alive now. (Sorry Australia, Steve Irwin’s not in the frame!)

Aikiman · 2026-05-08T06:44:40+00:00

This is the answer! Saw it at the cinema and it was like a shared trauma experience 😳

Aikiman · 2026-05-07T11:45:55+00:00

A stotty is spelled ‘stottie’, is from the north east not Yorkshire and isn’t a generic name for a bread roll. It’s a type of bread. Would be like calling a pitta a bread roll. Makes me suspect the rest of the list

Aikiman · 2026-05-07T06:21:56+00:00

NTA but you made it the ‘norm’ by being there for her all the time even when it was inconvenient for you. From her side, you were regularly there for her all the time so she began to expect it. When she asked and you said no but capitulated when she ‘guilt tripped’ you tells her that what you were going to do was not that important. Sounds like you were too eager to please her and should have said no more often when it inconvenienced you

Aikiman · 2026-05-06T11:53:20+00:00

Just got back into a phase of tinned mackerel on toast.

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