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McTag wrote:

ASDA is Associated Dairies.

Hey Clary, and others, I just got a message from Vinsan (Clary and I met him in Mumbai) who is at the moment in Darlington! He is in England for a six-month contract with his company. He will get some free time later so will be able to come across on the bus, for a visit.

He has not been on A2K for a while (used to be a regular contributor) because his company blocked the site in India. So I asked him to try from Yorkshire, and he might come on.

Fantastic. I used to live at Greenbank Road Darlington. And drink at the Britannia. Down at the George they had a traffic light system (green yellow red) for last orders, drink up and f*ck off, also Fray Bentos pie tins for ashtrays. Darlington is in Co Durham.

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It means you buy things with money you've worked hard for...

Take no notice!

sussies in for it when I get back from my ruby...

x

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Mi knees is knocking and mi teeth are chattering like a lemur monkey in a dentist's waiting room.

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...that's exactly how I like my men!

x

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Steve wrote-

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as I am to be described in such terms. What does materialistic mean?

Given over to the exclusive preoccupation of the gross appetites the flesh is subject to.

In its modern sophisticated city form it grants credibility to snobbish variations learned from glossy Sunday magazines and such like in order to provide an easily seen through disguise. It cannot be said to eschew the consolations of philosophy because it is unaware of them due to the noise of its gobblings and slurpings and friggings and humpings.

Materialism-"Opinion that nothing exists but matter and its movements and modifications; doctrine that consciousness and will are wholly due to material agency: tendency to prefer material possessions and physical comfort to spiritual values."

I don't care for "tendency" and "prefer". It is wholly sold out. A pig is a perfect example.

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"Good morning, down under!"

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Walter my Hero, I didn't want to brag about our 5 - 0 whitewash in the series and regaining the 'Ashes', you've done it for me. Laughing

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A Government Minister, no less, has today described the airline industry as "the unacceptable face of capitalism".

This is a phrase used by another Government Minister many years ago to describe the Rachman rent racketeering of that time.

It is unthinkable that a Government Minister would employ such a phrase without being appraised of the emotive connections it jangles in the souls of the British thinking classes who are, after all, the only ones who really matter.

We are slowly arriving at the point where if 3% growth is an addiction you either take the cold turkey, and hot ones are not so good, or put up with global warming, in which case we may as well shut up about it and let future generations shift for themselves.

Getting global warming AND putting up with the ranting about it is the worst of all worlds.

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I'm too tired to chastise you, spends...

I can tell the cricket has finished though.

x

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Apparently, a man walked into a pub in Hampshire, ordered half a pint, strolled into the bog and removed a urinal from the wall. He then put it in his rucksack and calmly strolled out.

Personally, I think he was taking the piss.

Nick a bog an' glory......

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*Brits studiously ignore Walter and Dutchy.*

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dadpad wrote:

*Brits studiously ignore Walter and Dutchy.*

Hi there, the conquering Aussies.

I think your chaps did very well, jolly good show.

They would have beaten a stronger side than the one England fielded. They are a world-class group of kangaroo-shaggers, a fine body of men.

There, feel better?

McT

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dadpad wrote-

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Brits studiously ignore Walter and Dutchy.*

I don't think "studiously" is appropriate in the context.

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http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/42418000/gif/_42418107_urinal203.gif

i sure hope i won't be asked to pose with a missing urinal .
wouldn't be acceptable as a passport photo in canada - not allowed to smile for passport photo ! (it's a government regulation - and i'm not kidding) .
hbg

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Lord Ellpus wrote:

Apparently, a man walked into a pub in Hampshire, ordered half a pint, strolled into the bog and removed a urinal from the wall. He then put it in his rucksack and calmly strolled out.

Personally, I think he was taking the piss.

Nick a bog an' glory......

Nope that was KENNY
http://www.madman.com.au/incinemas/releases/kenny.html

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McTag wrote:

dadpad wrote:
*Brits studiously ignore Walter and Dutchy.*

Hi there, the conquering Aussies.

I think your chaps did very well, jolly good show.

They would have beaten a stronger side than the one England fielded. They are a world-class group of kangaroo-shaggers, a fine body of men.

There, feel better?

McT

Not quite. there is the small matter of a certain URN!!!!!!!!!!!

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That's ours mate. Forget it.

Tourists come from all over the world simply to gaze upon it and buy the meals, drinks and spin-off franchises which help finance cricket, and a few other things.

Most of that income would be lost if it was stuck in some dump down under where its sacredotal nature would be utterly lost in the ocean of philistinism as depicted in Bluey and Prisoner in Cell Block H.

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My wife once visited the british museum. She came away saying "the brits are the biggest thieves in the world! bar none."

I now concur.

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And dont bother with finders keepers, cause you lost.

Hand over the loot or we wont let you win again for anoher 18 years.. and whats more we are gonna kick your arses in the next football world cup.

so there. nya nya nya!

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I'm glad we lost.

It shows we are a nation of lazy,idle good-for-nothings rather than a bunch of rate-busting, teacher-pleasing sprogs with an inferiority complex which drives us to bust a gut instead of being abed till lunchtime after six or seven pints and a really debilitating shag.

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