Belgians apparently but nonetheless purveyors of popular dance music.
These chaps have managed to combine crusty old school disco tunes with spanking new dance music thus making it possible for old gits like the Chaps to feel young and au courant
Abbreviated version of The trouble and strife
Cockney rhyming slang - rhyming with wife
AKA the Old Ball and Chain, the Memsahib, her indoors, the missus, she who must be obeyed &cet.
Used extensively by gangs in war-torn Somalia and particularly the capital Mogadishu.
Mad Max style customised Land Rovers and picks-ups with huge ack-ack guns mounted on the back. Some even featured the missile systems from Soviet MiGs, though if fired these would implode destroying everything in a hundred metre radius including the Technical.
Driven by 'Technical Advisers' who spent their time protecting journalists and charities.
Or killing them, depending on who they were hired by.
Just like Two Chaps Talking Tea and Sympathy is a bastion of all that is correct in a world, or city, where much is not.
Specifically an English cafˇ in Greenwich Village New York. Specialising in the kind of food you probably haven't eaten since you left school but since you left England you've hungered for more than anything else. Run by the English, for the English.
Don't ask for a De-caf, skim latte with Sweet'n'Low, or you'll be (rightly) asked to naff off.
Do ask for a pot of tea.
During the old days of Empire chaps needed to spend long periods in far flung corners and so needed tailors who, while not being exactly Savile Row, could at least make a uniform and a blazer that would do him until a chap got back to Blighty. Since the Empire turned into the Commonwealth and most of the chaps came home these tailors all claim to have been Tailors to Her Majesties Armed Forces.
One of the Chaps patronised just such a tailor and wasn't wholly disappointed with the results. That they do the fittings in your hotel room, finish the suit in four days and charge less than dinner for four at Le Gav was also a pleasant surprise.
When wearing a suit made overseas it is not necessary to point this out. A Gentleman can tell from ten paces and wouldn't refer to the fact, assuming merely that a chap'd served abroad.
Antiseptic lotion that your mum puts on your knees or elbows when you fall off your bike and graze them
Apparently you can gargle with the stuff if you have a sore throat.
Or drink it if you're a boozer and trying to hide the fact
Various Little Unpleasantness' during which our dear friends in Europe came a creditable second place
The London train terminal for people arriving from Paris via the Channel Tunnel is called Waterloo
This is not thought to be a deliberate snub to our cross channel cousins, it just happened to be convenient. Honestly.
(OED) Each of a series of cricket (or Rugby Union) matches between a touring country and the host nation
Sometimes these matches are played for the Ashes
In spite of involving things like googlies and silly-mid-offs cricket is irrefutably the sport of gentlemen
A trading card game of abiding silliness fondly remembered by men of a certain age. 'Top Trumps - Cars', for example enabled you to play an elaborate form of snap using the statistics of motor cars on each card. Other sets featured football players, Olympic athletes, fighter planes, and, for all I know, rare breeds of sheep.
Most young men played the game obsessively until they discovered their penises.
Family owned shoemakers since 1829, still located in Jermyn Street and still owned by the Trickers family, see below
Essential footwear for shooting weekends or shooting out to the pub in inclement weather
James Bond would've worn Trickers if given the choice and Spectre would've been extra sorry he had
Still owned by the Trickers family i.e. not bought out and ruined by slippery Italians or crass Septics or Chippy Bombers. See also: Church's, Coventry's finest &cet.
The firm of Albert Thurston have been making fine English braces since 1820.
They have polished brass buckles and real goatskin straps.
They keep your trousers up and should not be red or seen.
Up to the beginning of the twentieth century those that could afford it would travel through France, Italy and other countries, sometimes as far as Egypt, to have a look at what Britain either owned or used to own or fancied having a go at in the future.
Ostensibly to broaden horizons and educate The Grand Tour enabled generations of English men and women as well as some of their European cousins to make themselves unpopular across wide areas of Europe and Africa.
See also modern-day Americans 'doing' Europe
Americans.
Cockney rhyming slang thus-
Septics>Septic Tank>Yank
Also-
Shermans>Sherman Tank>Yank
'America' - not to be confused with - a democracy
A children's television program presented by an obnoxious gimp called Chris Tarrant who had a crooked smile, custard-coloured hair and a fondness for flinging flans.
He was assisted by Sally Something-or-other who had exceptional breasts and a fondness for tight T-shirts
Or at least that's what an eleven year old boy remembered