He's a Very Nice Mane, a Very Very Nice Mane...

[FoxForceFive]

Some woman spotted Mane in the Asda (Hunts Cross) in his traditional African garb & asked for a photo.

She was carrying her kid so he took the baby off her so she could take the photo of him!

I just love the look on the kids face though, it just screams, "Who the fuck is this fella?"

 

[Halmeister]

Gah when was this? I don't live far from there. Not that i would've done anything had I saw him.

 

[Oncy]

Fucking Asda?!

 

[Esoteric]

The Asda.

 

[Portly]

The Asda.

Yes, you say "the Asda" and "the Aldi."

But you don't say "the Tesco" or "the Sainsburys."

One of those mysteries of language.

 

[Oncy]

Not down south you don't.
You say Asda.
Because that's what it's called.

 

[Portly]

I'm talking Scouse, obv.

 

[juniormember]

Yes, you say "the Asda" and "the Aldi."

But you don't say "the Tesco" or "the Sainsburys."

One of those mysteries of language.

I remember lots of people saying Tescos instead of Tesco. Me included.

 

[Red Astaire]

A man of his talents should be shopping in Waitrose anyway... 😉

 

[doctor_mac]

Mane of the people. Who needs your Marks and Sparks and Waitrose. Bet you he shuns brands and buys the Asda economy brand.

 

[Rosco]

I'd buy Asda economy if i had an entire village to feed

 

[LarryHagman]

Makes a change from pyjamas in The Asda. Not that much admittedly.

 

[Portly]

The garment that Mané is wearing looks more Arabic than African. It looks like a dishdasha or jellabia . I have one myself, I wore it a lot on my Nile cruise. It was very comfortable in the heat.

 

[doctor_mac]

The garment that Mané is wearing looks more Arabic than African. It looks like a dishdasha or jellabia . I have one myself, I wore it a lot on my Nile cruise. It was very comfortable in the heat.

Yes, well it can get quite hot in Asda near the rotisserie section, so it was probably comfort that Mane was thinking about. He'll have avoided the chilled goods aisles though. Bet you he was there late on a Sunday afternoon when all the rotisserie chickens go for 50p.

 

[Halmeister]

Racist.

 

[Judge Jules]

The garment that Mané is wearing looks more Arabic than African. It looks like a dishdasha or jellabia . I have one myself, I wore it a lot on my Nile cruise. It was very comfortable in the heat.

I wonder. We have a fair number of African folk in our church congregation and a few of them regularly turn up in these. Aren't the Arab ones generally white?

 

[Portly]

Aren't the Arab ones generally white?

Yes they are usually white or cream-coloured. But in the Middle-East you do see them in pastel shades too.

 

[Bradley]

Never met Portly but I'm imagining him looking like Homer Simpson in that episode when he decides to get fat and wear a dress.

 

[Portly]

Never met Portly but I'm imagining him looking like Homer Simpson in that episode when he decides to get fat and wear a dress.

Possibly except that I was not yellow. The dishdasha saved the discomfort of belt or braces, and allowed what breeze there was to waft around my nether regions while climbing around temples.

I got away with wearing it in Egypt because the Egyptians are comparatively easy-going, but if I had tried it somewhere like Saudi Arabia I would probably have been beheaded in the market place with a large sharp sword.

 

[Bradley]

Possibly except that I was not yellow. The dishdasha saved the discomfort of belt or braces, and allowed what breeze there was to waft around my nether regions while climbing around temples.

I got away with wearing it in Egypt because the Egyptians are comparatively easy-going, but if I had tried it somewhere like Saudi Arabia I would probably have been beheaded in the market place with a large sharp sword.

Never met Portly but I'm imagining him like Indiana Jones in that marketplace that time with the whip.

 

[Atlas]

I'd imagine there's just variations of the Arab robe across the 'muslim world' from Asia to Africa each with their own cultural twist to it.

African ones tend to be much brighter and more colourful.
it's clearly not cut price chicken he's going for most likely baked goods

 

[JurgenKlopp]

A man of his talents should be shopping in Waitrose anyway... 😉

Or booths

 

[Fabio]

If he lives near hunts Cross, asfuckingif he's going to drive to Formby for fucking waitrose

 

[Halmeister]

I'd fucking hope he doesn't live near Hunts Cross.

Probably lives in Woolton which isn't that far.

 

[moron]

Asda sometimes do a Halal range ... i think that is why he is there.

 

[gkmacca]

Possibly except that I was not yellow. The dishdasha saved the discomfort of belt or braces, and allowed what breeze there was to waft around my nether regions while climbing around temples.

I got away with wearing it in Egypt because the Egyptians are comparatively easy-going, but if I had tried it somewhere like Saudi Arabia I would probably have been beheaded in the market place with a large sharp sword.

Same in Preston.

 

[FoxForceFive]

If he lives near hunts Cross, asfuckingif he's going to drive to Formby for fucking waitrose

Tbf Waitrose is overpriced as fuck anyway.

Their food is about on par with Lidl or Aldi's special/deluxe ranges, but at a much higher price.

M&S food, on the other hand, is worth the stupidly high prices cos it's usually excellent quality, unfortunately we can very rarely afford to shop there otherwise I would do a lot more often.

The Asda is just shite & is usually full of chavs no matter which store you go to (in & around Liverpool anyway, I dunno about elsewhere) I always find it amusing that you get a nicer class of customer in aldi or lidl than in asda or Tesco.

 

[HC]

Nah fuck that. The meat and fruit in waitrose shit all over the Aldi/Lidl equivalents

Thats probably the only real area that they drop the ball in my opinion but their fruit is bollocks in taste terms and how long it lasts and the meat selection and quality is just meh

Yeah its more expensive but its also infinitely better in those areas, probably those areas alone though

 

[Woland]

I was with one of the head dudes at one of those chicken genocide places, he was proudly telling me how many tens of millions of chickens they slaughter every week... well anyways I asked him what the difference between the chickens that go to lidl and waitrose is, and the christmas turkeys etc, and he said absolutely zero. The only possible differential is that Waitrose and M&S guarantee British... but this is how the vast majority of orders are fulfilled. Sometimes at Christmas week it goes mad and they have to murder some in Holland as well, and they don't go to those two. Other than that, not one bit of difference, same farms, same process, same slaughterhouse, same pallets, different packet, different price.

 

[gkmacca]

It's the customers in Waitrose that spoil the place. Stuck-up twits who seem to think they own the bloody place.