Well, perhaps if Rory had anything to do with it!J.R. wrote:.. Probably got as p1ssed as one !!Richard Ruck wrote:Well, how did Ken's visit go?
Hope he didn't have to eat any newts.....
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What's wrong with eating newts??? as long as you add a bit of ketchup of course.
I suppose his visit went fine - he wasn't as provocative as I had hoped but then again - probably a lot of that is down to the press who report on him. He made friends with the mayor of Shanghai and promoted the UK (as well as London) for inward investment from China.
Had a good breakfast tho...
I suppose his visit went fine - he wasn't as provocative as I had hoped but then again - probably a lot of that is down to the press who report on him. He made friends with the mayor of Shanghai and promoted the UK (as well as London) for inward investment from China.
Had a good breakfast tho...
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Surely not a breakfast meeting?Rory wrote: Had a good breakfast tho...
Dirty American invention. I avoid them at all costs - breakfast is a time for getting your brain to wake up, not for being serious! I had my one and only breakfast meeting in Seoul years ago. The bloke I was dealing with was obviously more used to eating kimchi for breakfast, and his encounter with a poached egg left most of it running down his chin. Nice!
Not conducive to haggling over the export price of classical CDs........
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Certainly a breakfast meeting - and since when have I been serious - at breakfast or any other time.
Listen - either I have a coffee and a fag at home then go to work - or I get driven to some hotel and have a fry up on the pretext of showing my support for and interest in one of our eminent 'politicians'.
Its an easy choice.....
Listen - either I have a coffee and a fag at home then go to work - or I get driven to some hotel and have a fry up on the pretext of showing my support for and interest in one of our eminent 'politicians'.
Its an easy choice.....
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Well, the fry-up bit's OK.
And don't worry, I wasn't accusing YOU of being too serious....
It's just that I have memories of breakfasts in Japan, listening to some earnest Yank on the next table trying the hard sell approach to some poor Japanese guy who just sat there being polite, probably wishing he had put in for that transfer to a factory in South Wales........
And don't worry, I wasn't accusing YOU of being too serious....
It's just that I have memories of breakfasts in Japan, listening to some earnest Yank on the next table trying the hard sell approach to some poor Japanese guy who just sat there being polite, probably wishing he had put in for that transfer to a factory in South Wales........
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Thee's got'n where thee cassn't back'n, hassn't?
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