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gustavratzenhofer wrote:

Lord Ellpus wrote:
Pete, you're going to grimace when I tell you this. My mate had a spare seat going for the match, but I had to turn him down because my brother was staying (came over from France) for the weekend!

"Grimace!?" Did you just use that friggin' word?

"Grimace"

I can not believe it.

Why do you find it strange, Gus?

It's a word that's used a lot over here.

I believe it's because of all the American stuff that seems to be flooding our TV schedules recently.

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Lord, how often have you used the word "crepuscular"?

It is one of my favorite words and has come in quite handy during many a dinner conversation.

I have laid more than one woman using the word "crepuscular" as impetus.

Try it some time.

Try it on smorgs.

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I am waiting.

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His Lordship speaks sooth, my dear Ratzenhofer, while you utter poppycock!

Indeed we Britons grimace diurnally, with justified consternation at the neologisms abounding on these shores.

Certain expressions of the "New World" circulate like flies round the proverbial and, like flies, sometimes land outside the faecal matter on which they were suckled and make an unwelcome impression upon our own dear sceptred isle.

We fie on your impudence at questioning The Queen's English and refer you to the threads on the "English" forum for greater enlightenment and edification.

Your, etc.

KP

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gustavratzenhofer wrote:

Lord, how often have you used the word "crepuscular"?

Try it on smorgs.

I have just tried it on Smorgs, and she asked me whether I wanted it with one sugar or two.

Is it some kind of northern beverage?

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Oh, Gus?

Oh. Gus, sweetiepie...

You said the magic word

Quote:

"crepuscular"

Take me!

I'm yours completely... you can do things to me that are only legal in certain backwater areas of the good ol' US

Bugger! (smorgs grimaces, as she remembers the festive lesbian oath she took a few pages back)

What you doing over here, Gus?

Things a tad more lively than the USA thread? (sniggers through the grimace)

x

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kitchenpete wrote:

His Lordship speaks sooth, my dear Ratzenhofer, while you utter poppycock!

Indeed we Britons grimace diurnally, with justified consternation at the neologisms abounding on these shores.

Certain expressions of the "New World" circulate like flies round the proverbial and, like flies, sometimes land outside the faecal matter on which they were suckled and make an unwelcome impression upon our own dear sceptred isle.

We fie on your impudence at questioning The Queen's English and refer you to the threads on the "English" forum for greater enlightenment and edification.

Your, etc.

KP

Shut the hell up, Pete, before I give you a swift backhand

I have a very low tolerance for insolent Brits.

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I just hope my "crepuscular" ploy worked on smorgs and she will join this thread and offer her services.

Time will tell.

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Crepuscule? Whoa, Nellie!

(too obscure?)

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That looks like him lost interest for 24 hours.

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A question for people who set and invigilate IQ tests.

Which of the following people are insane.

The person who switches the telly off properly in order to-

A-Save money.

B-Reduce the risk of the house getting on fire.

C- Prevent the ice-caps melting thus causing Southport to have proper tides.

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When I went into the garden yesterday - the shed had been broken into!
And some bastards stolen our Cristmas Decorations and tree!

Why would you want to steal someone elses decorations - doesn't make sense - how can you enjoy xmas knowing your decorations and tree are STOLEN, sorta makes a mockery of 'peace on earth, goodwill to all'...

Not that I ever believed that!

I'm not going to tell my grandaughter, don't want her to feel insecure where we live.

This is what's left that they didn't get over the wall - left in the rain all night, even the crib that has been part of xmas for - ever since I can remember...

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This gives me the distinct urge to go and hit something young and hooded.

I shall resist.

Sorry, Sarah. You don't deserve all of this.

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That's dreadful, smorgs. Senseless, vile and utterly pointless.

I'm really sorry.

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gustavratzenhofer wrote:

I am waiting.

How does that senile old coote keep escaping from his cell?

Not very good with security those Yanks, are they?

Sorry to hear about your loss smorgsi, very sorry.

Catch up with you this evening, a busy day lies ahead.

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Simon Jenkins wrote in the Sunday Times-

Quote:

The paradox of "hypermobility" was set out in 1999 in an OECD report by the London professor John Adams. It stated that while mobility might be "liberating and empowering" for individuals, it was debilitating for society as a whole.

Hypermobility disperses communities, weakens social ties, polarises rich and poor areas, renders people less friendly, more obese and disinclined to discipline their young. In a hypermobile society, neighbours no longer know each other. Such mobility leads to what the American sociologist Robert Putnam calls "the death of civic space".

The state cannot force people to stay at home, but it can make them pay the social cost of movement in the hope, said Adams, "of forgoing some of the benefits of mobility to protect and enhance what we value in nature and our relations with friends and neighbours".

Government can adjust the tax system to discourage movement. It will penalise the poor and incur political odium. Against it will be ranged the car lobby, the oil lobby, the air lobby and the rail lobby, not to mention the out-of-town shopping and building lobbies. But they cannot be masters of the universe for ever. Green has come to town. Eddington makes sense.

And the Wunderkind Guardian/Independent supposed socialists are hypermobile by my standards and causing all the things mentioned above.

And here's me, the BIg Bad Blacksheep, who spends all his leisure time at home apart from a walk to the pub, getting nothing but stick from a bunch of "liberated and empowered" goodie-goodies.

Isn't it lovely eh?

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Very interesting article, spends

Of course, it's here already and as suggested there's not much anyone can do about it. Although I fully accept it as an argument/theory/suggestion as to why communities are in such crisis.

On the other hand...

I DON'T REMEMBER ANYONE HAVING A GO AT YOU 'COS OF YOUR HYPOMOBILITY!

Though, I'm sure you will correct me if wrong.

You are usually the first to yield the stick, and get criticism only as a response to something YOU wrote first (you know it's true, remember the science and maths thread when you were nasty to me out of the blue?)

And you're NOT the black sheep - you just like to think you are...

You're just your average grumpy old man!

x

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I'm not grumpy and I'm not average but I am getting on a bit I'll admit.

Anyway-saying I'm grumpy is just another assertion. I was a wierdo last week. I was an asshole before that.

Shoot the messenger stuff. What's new?

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SPENDI "OLD" Lad.

I am getting on a bit I'll admit

I knew it, I bloody well knew it!

A doddering ancient Victor Meldrew!

You fit the part, daft, thick, well read, (but that obviously means sweet FA as you exemplify) bald? fat? midget?

I bet you just received your winter heating allowance too! Isn't it nice that we have wonderful people employed as civil servants to look after you pensioners.

Well I won't be seen to be threatening old men, my most sincere apologies Spendi, for any stress I may have previously brought upon you.

PS

Why don't you play with that daft old Yank with the pitchfork?

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spendius wrote:

I'm not grumpy and I'm not average but I am getting on a bit I'll admit.

Anyway-saying I'm grumpy is just another assertion. I was a wierdo last week. I was an **** before that.

Shoot the messenger stuff. What's new?

You DO come accross as grumpy!

And mean sometimes!

But I knew you would take exeption to 'average' (tee hee)

I don't know why?

x

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