THE BRITISH THREAD

It's Rorschach, spendi .... but I'm sure, you know and wrote that with purpose

Good to see the world is back on it's correct axis!

Australia wins the final by 8 wickets!

Just as Flintoff et all fly into Sydney.

Bring it on!!!!
(and I may have landed a ticket for the Sydney test! Yee-hah!!!!!!!!!)

Hi Margo-

If you go to the Sydney test hold up a placard saying- HELLO A2K.

I'm not partisan. I just love cricket. Your guys are just as great as ours and all the others.

Love the lot.

But I prefer it on wide-screen HD with the class commentators.

It's what TV was invented for. Good old Rupe.

smorgs wrote-



LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD meets LITTLE RUDE HIDING ROD.

Hey Dorothy Parker, I just walked past the Algonquin on E 43rd (I think) yesterday and that's where you used to hang out in't'it?
Had some eggs in a diner but I didn't have them easy-over.

Now in Manhattan, it's nice here, and the weather is still sunny. Fab.

Yes but I don't bother with that place any more. I much prefer to hang out with my crew in the local park in Benchill with a bottle of cider.

Dorothy, I don't believe you. :wink:

It's because you are so easily shocked Mathos at the behaviour of young ladies when they get loose.

Mac wrote-



Did you notice any effects resulting from this dramatic event Mac? Did you need to visit Outsize Hats for example?

Spendy, you are so sad I want to give you a big hug.

So I saw the hotel unexpectedly (a place I have always wanted to see) and made the connection with DP. Can I not mention this without being accused of big-headedness? Or maybe we should all only write in with miserable moans, following your example.

And here I thought it was an oblique and predictably unexpected jab at the expense of the the McTag McHat.

McTag's reading is likely the more accurate, I suppose, though there may have been a hint of the above.

Is that which is not absurd surd?

Mac wrote-



With the general outlook being as it is miserable moaning might well be the only sensible response.

It seems pointless to me to present all these worries to the population if everybody just complacently carries on with the self indulgencies which are the cause.

Just what the hell are you doing in the US? Is your own country really that devoid of interest for you to spend your hard earned cash, suffer the indignities of air travel, dislocate your metabolism and contribute to the pollution to get away from it.

What is much worse, of course, is presenting such activity in a positive light to others.

Those soldiers are being killed and maimed to get the oil at prices low enough to feed such addictions and they are incomprehensible addictions to me.

Miserable moaning is better than creating more misery I should have thought. And to categorise it as that is only a self serving assertion anyway.

The English Tourist board might disagree with such a statement and I'm quite sure most English hotel managers (who pay their taxes here) would do also. And your local businesses.

You must be miserable to go to all that trouble to relieve it. I'm never miserable.

It is a British thread after all.

I might add, with all due respect, that the employment of gratuitous insults empowers others to use them in return unless it is claimed that only the first one has validity.

I can do them myself if I'm provoked.

I hereby provoke you...

You're a very naughty boy prince and you need a school where discipline is a lot stricter than I'm tempermentally suited to.

Spendy, you are one sad twat.

But I like you.

x

Hey I got bowdlerised!

That word was T*W*A*T

er no sorry cant make a rude word out of t-w-a-t

well not rude enough anyway

"Sad" means down in the dumps doesn't it?

Is that the sense you meant Mac.

Or is it "reachdown" from a selection kept on the short shelf to throw chaff over stumptedness?

I just feel sorry for your relatives and friends who you have gone to so much trouble to have some time off from. I would have to find a map in the attic showing where the treasure chest was buried in Pennsylvania to be tempted to abandon my relatives and friends.

That's how sad I am.

Flaubert taught me to get things like the Algonquin on E 43rd in their proper perspective. How big is the central turd pipe and that's the important part of the place I hope. Facades are just the veneer. There's chipboard underneath.

There are wonders in my gardens which far surpass any building you care to mention. Loads of them. And they ask for nothing. I'll bet the Algonquin asks for plenty. That's really aesthetically ugly from a Richardsonian point of view.

And it's a bit patronising some might say. Deliverance did say.

But I hope you make it safely back to our green and pleasant whatnot.