THE BRITISH THREAD

To correct the above: I know McTag, Steve (stayed at both's and vice versa a couple of times), Pete and Clary personally.

Sorry that it only seemed to be so.

So an honest debate is only possible between people who never met?

Yes Walter- that's about the size of it I'm afraid. It gets a bit like ballet dancing otherwise.

I can't dance, especially not in a ballet (I don't watch strictly dancing either - BBC Prime only shows old versions of it.)

Hi Walter, would you mind being an honourary Brit for a while to inject some sense into this thread..thanks S

The sons of perfidious Albion in action.



What about an entente cordiale?

You inject some Steve. I'm sure you are capable.

What was not sensible anyway? It isn't done to say something has no sense without explaining why. That's blurting.

I don't have the sulks at all, Spendi.

Quite the reverse, actually.

My cockles are well and truly warmed at this moment in time, and I would like to say thanks to all on this thread, apart from you and Mathos, who haven't entered into the spirit of things at all, pretty much from the beginning IMO.

I'm pretty sure that this thread was set up for us to just generally chew the fat and have a pleasant gossip here and there, sharing local/national news and basically having a bit of a laugh.

It's a shame that it hasn't turned out that way yet, but there's hope for it to do so in the future, I think.

If people want to get all intellectual, and constantly try to beat each other up in a nasty battle of words every day, then may I suggest that those people start THEIR OWN BLOODY THREAD, specifically designed for such fun and frivolity, so they can go and play with themselves every day.

As far as Sarah is concerned, I refuse to give any information, as I know how some people get all excited at the thought of possibly using that against a person in a future argument.
All I will say is that I am aware that she is VERY busy with other things at the moment, but she'll no doubt be back and joining in with things soon enough. People have REAL lives as well as A2K, Spendi. We can't all be here at your beck and call.

DP I cannot speak for, so you'll just have to carry on with your pondering on that one.

Any other info you require?

Tarah perhaps?

I forgot about Tarah probably because she had given no hint of being in tight with the happy band. No offence to Tarah.

There's no-one here at my beck and call. I feel sure of that. Anybody here is here for their own reasons which have nothing to do with me. I can't imagine where an idea like that might come from.

Brits are nasty, horrible creatures as Francis has just reminded us. The idea that we are sweet and virtuous is laughable. And present day events are sufficient proof of that without dragging our history into it.

McTag, Pete, Steve and I certainly know Tarah .... as do others.

(Huhu Tarah ...wink, wink)

There are a SMALL number of Brits who like to do the stuff that you and Mathos get up to on this thread, Spendi.

It's a shame, but there y'go.

If both of you opened your OWN thread, and only came in here when you felt like being civil, this thread would be a lot more pleasant to read and enjoy.

MOST of us here don't want to bicker or pose. I happened to be the one to actually face up to you two loudmouths, and received a repreated kick in the bollocks from both of you because of it.
Let's face it, I'm nowhere near as good as either you, or Mathos, when it comes to belittling confrontation.

I'm rather proud of that.

I repeat...if anyone on here feels the need to have a verbal sh*t slinging match with someone on a regular/ongoing basis, I would kindly ask that they start their OWN thread.
That way, anyone entering such a thread would be fully aware of the rules, and therefore be fully aware that it may be potentially injurious to their welbeing on a regular basis, should they choose to participate.

Open your own argument thread, boys, 'cos it would appear that your present mode of behaviour isn't really welcome here. Just a suggestion, of course.

I agree its embarrassing. I'm off for cordial pint of beer. No, French red wine. Better than English wining.

If you read your earlier post it would seem that, if anyone goes "missing" for a short while, you begin to theorise about the absence.

Therefore, it would follow, that you seem to have some sort of expectation that people post here on a regular and prolific basis, or be talked about as to why they're absent.

Maybe we should do a roll call every day?

OK, I'll make it quite clear.

I have met (and excuse me if I've missed anyone on this thread...not my intention):

Walter, Mac & his wife, Steve, Francis, cicerone imposter, Clary, Tarah and The Prince.

I would happily have any of them to my home and actually take pleasure in the fact that these are probably friends whom I wouldn't know if it were not for a2k, largely because our lives don't overlap due to work, age, etc.

I haven't actually met Lord Sense for Brains but I would be happy to have a pint with him and discuss why the boys in Red'n'White aren't doing as well as we wish they would and to actually see what kind of person he is in reality. I know he's pissed off one or two people along the way but generally his humour is taken in the right vein.

I've not met smorgs or DP but have seen them on various threads and exchanged views and laughs which make them cyber-friends.

Now, as his Lordship says, it's all a bit ridiculous that a minority of two are "spoiling the game" for everyone else, isn't it.

I'm not bragging about having friends but as adults, which you clearly are (Mathos and Spendius), do you really want to go around pushing us about like bullies in the playground or sulking? In other words, acting like children who can't play nicely, which is the impression you give.

That's why several of us are asking you to leave it (the bullying, petulant behaviour), as we have done before. If my focus has been more on Mathos than Spendius in the last couple of posts it is because the offensive nature of the "bellowing" (as his Lordship puts it) has riled me, just as it was previously Spendi's commentary on Smorgs' job as being pointless which I found highly insensitive before.

You may call me overly PC or a Southern/Public School softie and I don't care one bit. I find you insensitive, uncharismatic, and generally tedious. In any case, I would defend anyone called "a cripple", whether or not they are my "friend" or even, as is clear in this case, if I hold certain views they have expressed in low regard.

Are I making myself clear or do I have to resort to four letter words again?

Looking through the photos I've taken last week ... ...



Or did you mean a different four letter word than sink, Pete?

What or which four letter words were you going to use this time Pete?

As I see it, it's ok for the clique to have their rants and be extremely undiplomatic, loudmouthed, foulmouthed and belligerent, but when the return fire comes it's too much to bear and Mathos can't come in the playground.


That is all well and good if the creator is of that opinion, I haven't heard smorgsi issuing a single word, when she gets around to turning in, maybe she will pass comment in your favour.

Lordy wants a bloody roll call now. That's a bit of government issue isn't it? We might need to wear fancy cravats in a bit, they have weird ideas on dress etiquette these southern boys. I'm not wearing a cravat in any event, so that could keep me out. You can't beat a good pair of jeans, a T shirt and decent trainers.

I don't see that you have been getting bullied either Pete, you came on here today like a charging bull, it was quite pathetic really, you made yourself look a total ass and to issue another statement as you did above, well I don't know what to say. Offering to break out into four letter derogatories is rather feeble, even for a southern public school boy. Did that sort of threat get you your own way or something?

Your probably watching far too many episodes of Eastenders, I wouldn't allow to be aired in the house. All that balling and shouting, it's a brilliant advert for southern Englanders. Before you chip in, I don't give Coronation Street room either, it's almost as bad. The scriptwriters may be from down south though, I've no idea.

Now we can keep going backwards and forwards for ever if you want. Or Lordy can make his apologies and finalise the matter. I'm not digging into it unless the insults keep coming, in which case I will retaliate. If smorgsi gives me the sack, then you have no problem. I'll not infringe on her decision regarding my presence on this thread or not. In short I just don't give a toss.

Have I made myself perfectly clear, if not let me know, I promise not to resort to gutter level language, we get brought up better than that up north.


( J. M. V. and L sorry, only way I can contact you---even my PM's and the spell check are inoperative....Have fault on comp. unable to reply to e-mail sorry about that, it keeps crashing as well, warning sign coming up saying some files are missing? I'll probably have to get it fixed up and may be off line and appear missing in action so to speak, have been advised to try regsvr32c:\progra~1\msn\corefiles\msailui.dll Has anybody had this problem? They're great machines until they go wrong)

You can resort to any words you like Pete. I'm not bothered.

I did not refer to smorgsie's job as pointless although I can see that a casual reading of the exchange might have construed it that way either through poor comprehension skills or to provide an opportunity to go on the offensive. I was using a particular to point to a universal. That's all. With a forty hour week for nearly 30 million workers the majority of jobs including most of the ones I have had are the result of job creation schemes.

I have had to read through descriptions of unsavoury scenes in Knobcentres and, I think, probation offices, which are trivial and nothing to bother about to someone who has witnessed what I have witnessed and in one of today's posts I suggested a cause of them through the agency of generating envy by parading one's consumption patterns. In that scheme Mathos is in the happy band only he seems, if he is to be believed, the best at it.

If I am going to be singled out because I am in a minority then I have every reason to single out a minority of the British population which constitutes the happy band. Six is it out of 60 million bent on mutual self congratulation.

What are the panel's views on the Conservative Party's latest initiative which goes under the label Breakdown Britain. Our second largest party no less and complacent smugness is hardly likely to do anything for that.

Surely a Brit thread is concerned with our fortunes and those of our descendents rather than a catalogue of trivial daily doings which serve only as an escape from responsibility. I'm alright Jack eh? And then use the inevitable losers as an excuse for a tirade about the evils of our society which the losers can hardly have caused due to their youth and their powerlessness. One doesn't need to go on an international forum to do that. It can be done in the pub or the queue at the checkout.

Why don't you write letters to each other or phone or even E-mail. What have the social dynamics of a handful of acquaintances, surely not friends unless you stretch that important word into the realms of meaninglessness, got to do with a Brit thread on an international forum.

One doesn't need to go on an international forum to find friends. There's classifieds and dating agencies and pen-pals and neighbours etc.

What are you on here for. The other 59,999,994 Brits have a day full of trivia as well. What's so special about yours? There's millions of bottles of wine drunk everyday and meals taken in eateries of one sort or another. What's so special about yours?

Just imagine if there were 500 of you. Boy-that would be some tripe to wade through. That would put the thread into abeyance quickstyle.

You've used the thread to meet. Goodluck but it's private after that. Get on with it discreetly like most others do. I hope you will all be very happy and find what you are searching for.

Oooh! Everyone will be flocking now to see what I've got to say...

Not much really (something trite as usual)

Mathos - you went too far, and you bloody well know it. You're a typical bloke...never back down! Small feet indeed!

spendius - you are not the Messiah, you're just a very naughty boy.

But I adore you all, I'd give everyone of you my last quid (especially Ellpus). And I'd most definitely piss on you if you were on fire.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Loc8bpczZPY

x

spendy wrote:



smorgs asks 'what are YOU here for'?

It's just the cyber equivilent to the old 'gossip boards' in peoples back yards...

It's just everyday banter, like turning on The Archers on, Humans are interested in minutia of other Human's lives. Not sure about the grammer, but you know what I mean...

It's the way we are.

x

Mathos-

I could tell you how to fix it but I won't because you're such a tosspot.

I haven't gone too far at all Mrs Smorgsi, I'm flitting between first and second, third is a cracker, fourth and fifth will be like Armageddon. I never wenrt into overdrive to date, so that could be special if it's required.


I might just think Spendi is the Messiah! Why shouldn't he be, if he wants my vote he's got it.


If only to get him nailed up on a big lump of wood somewhere.: Again!


(PS adore you too, but don't let that influence your decision if these morons are flooding you with instructions to kick me out. I'm a big boy, and it won't be the first club I've been barred from. In fact my mate Ralph is home for Christmas this week, my wife is already laying down the rules, but it makes no odds. I just know I will have cuffs as part of my dress code before next weekend is over and done with. Inspector H: an old mate of mine used to be a godsend if we were nicked in Preston, but he has retired now, I think we should go to Blackpool its years since Ralph took the pool table out of The Manchester and tried to get to Ireland on it. Surely they won't remember that, will they?)