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THE BRITISH THREAD

 
 
Walter Hinteler
 
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Reply Wed 4 Oct, 2006 01:34 pm
I remember to have had some 'nips' (long ago) in Scotland.

I could never remember, how many :wink:

(The last time was in the late 70's, during a "state visit" with the navy, and the Courier even ran a report about that crazy German[s] who didn't only like 'real' Scottish beer but prefered "lamb with mint sauce and mashed potatoes' to anything else Laughing )
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Mathos
 
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Reply Wed 4 Oct, 2006 01:46 pm
Well, I'm lost for words here Spendi, I had no idea Ossobuco was a dame!
You should have told me, I would never have taken the michael if I'd realised she was a she!

You wouldn't know what Chesters ale was Spendi, not in Yorkshire you wouldn't. In Manchester years back, all you had was Tetley's, Guinness and Chesters (Chesters fighting ale, it was known as). The Salford lads, being big softies and all wet behind the ears drank Tetley's with lemonade half and half they called it. They couldn't manage pints of the real stuff and didn't want to look dafter than they already were with half pint glasses in their hands. The girls were much cheaper to take out in those days too. They'd sit all night with three halves of mild and a bottle of IPA.

That pub in All Saints I was on about last week or so, it was called the 'Black Horse' The Landlord was Ernie and his wife Winnie.
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McTag
 
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Reply Thu 5 Oct, 2006 01:04 am
Looking out of the window, it's dry at the moment, but rain is forecast.
I believe it's raining heavily in Wales already.
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McTag
 
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Reply Thu 5 Oct, 2006 11:21 am
Hey how is the good lord "Spanky" Ellpus getting on?

Here's a virtual bunch of grapes, milord, no really, not a painful and embarassing condition. Very Happy :wink:
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smorgs
 
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Reply Thu 5 Oct, 2006 12:07 pm
I like rainy days...

(and nights)

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smorgs
 
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Reply Thu 5 Oct, 2006 12:16 pm
I'm going to listen to the Star Trek story on Radio2...

Did you know the first Captain was a woman?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/documentaries/

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Mathos
 
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Reply Thu 5 Oct, 2006 01:05 pm
Did you know it's not real?

Why do some people and most women in general watch science fiction and believe everything is fact, do you think there is an obscure inner wish to be part of the action your viewing?


When we were kids, we actually believed we were Cowboys and Indians, Jimmy Harrison thought he was bloody Superman and jumped out of his bedroom window with a sheet tied round his neck.

He were in Booth Royal for ages with all sorts of damage on top of two broken legs.
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smorgs
 
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Reply Thu 5 Oct, 2006 01:27 pm
Mathos!

Of course I know it's not real!

I was referring to the first script. I'm actually not a fan of science fiction, but I appreciate Star Trek.

It was considered quite controversial in it's day, and Gene Roddenberry was a very Liberal thinker (communist?).

The programmes were made during a period of great social change: the Vietnam war, Civil Rights Movement etc

I believe it also featured televisions television's first inter-racial kiss.

Star trek captured the zeitgeist.

I'm no Trekkie - but I am respectful.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek

Star Trek is an American science-fiction franchise spanning six television series, ten feature films, hundreds of novels, computer and video games, and other fan stories. All are set within the same fictional universe created by Gene Roddenberry. On Friday 8th September 2006, the Star Trek franchise celebrated the 40th anniversary of the first Star Trek television broadcast.

In Star Trek's fictional universe, humans developed faster-than-light space travel after barely surviving a 21st-century World War III. Later, humans united with other sentient species of the galaxy to form the United Federation of Planets. As a result of alien intervention and science, humanity has largely overcome many Earth-bound frailties and vices by the 23rd century. Star Trek stories usually depict the adventures of humans and aliens who serve in the Federation Starfleet.

The protagonists are essentially altruistic, although their enlightened values are often challenged by events. The conflicts and political dimensions of the stories allegorize contemporary cultural realities; The Original Series addressed issues of the 1960s, just as more recent spin-offs reflect more modern topics. Issues depicted in the various series include imperialism, class warfare, racism, human rights, and the role of technology.
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spendius
 
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Reply Thu 5 Oct, 2006 01:44 pm
Part of feminism's propaganda strategy.

I like rain too.
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smorgs
 
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Reply Thu 5 Oct, 2006 01:48 pm
spenders wrote:

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Part of feminism's propaganda strategy.


smorgs wrote:

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bollocks!


Although, someone nicked my umbrella at work today - ruined a perfectly good hair doo!

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Mathos
 
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Reply Thu 5 Oct, 2006 02:30 pm
Don't you girls get carried away with it though!

When I were a lad, you would all have been thinking of marriage and babies! Some had notions about being Marilyn Monroe, but couldn't master the walk with the sexy arse wiggle. Not so many can do it anywhere near as sexily she could today. Brigitte Bardot (wow!!!) had a special kind of seductiveness that emanated in her walk, talk, eyes and being, she was poetry in motion or sex on legs, very special. Now the silly bugger is saving cats or something. Sophia Lauren special, personally I didn't ever see much to write home about Liz Taylor or Sabrina. I actually towed Sabrina's Cadillac off the M6 in 1967 or so, it was pink. The driver had put a con rod through the block and it was beyond economical repairs. The registration number was S42. People were not into buying personal plates in those days. The whole lot was buried in a local council tip, daft isn't it. There are folk playing golf on top of it nowadays, and they have no idea. Madonna has it and Beyonce too, not so many others though, they try and manufacture it and you can't do that.

Tell me smorgsi, how the hell do you practice being Captain of a bloody spaceship?

You need to go to the lost office at Piccadilly Station, they have hundreds of brollies handed in.

I'm going to get one tomorrow, I was out in the wilds of Lammark today watching a good game of football. I took a brolly with me and it was blown inside out, well knackered. I was saturated when I left and was glad to get home, take a shower and change. The women who turned up to watch the game, all did runners when the rain started, they pretended to watch from the pavilion canopy or their cars.

Clever little things aren't they!!!! Rolling Eyes

Feminisms propoganda, you get some things right then Spendi.
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spendius
 
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Reply Thu 5 Oct, 2006 02:30 pm
smorgsie wrote-

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bollocks!


Hey- that qualifies you as a fully-fledged anti-IDer. That's the fundamental anti-ID position.

Congratulations.
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McTag
 
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Reply Thu 5 Oct, 2006 03:05 pm
Beyonce? Edwina Currie can give her a run for her money any day.
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Steve 41oo
 
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Reply Thu 5 Oct, 2006 03:14 pm
hey I saw a bit of gruesome tv last night

edwina c and john mcririck (sp?)

dunno eggsacckerly what was going on but they seemed to have swapped partners for a week or something, (really?) anyway mcriricik was in bed reading the racing post and calling for a nother bottle of champers when the ex government minister threw a wobbly

am I making this up? I really really wish I was

did anyone see it? Its nearly the final straw for me and my tv and tv license.

bye bye beeb
hello radio
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spendius
 
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Reply Thu 5 Oct, 2006 05:17 pm
Now,now Steve. Calm down my boy. There's no real need to be making any rash deshishuns at such an early stage in life.

You are just watching the wrong channels.

You should switch to Babestation 12345&6 it might be 7 by now. Whatever. It's on the up.

The scene you described is for the older generation who still think that wife swapping is exciting. Why else would they watch?

I could easy lie in a bed in a studio mock-up pretending to read the Racing Post and calling for a nuther bottle of 12% plonk and waiting to throw one on cue. (Choose reason as you see fit.)

You could miss Wayne having one bounce off the back of his head into the back of the net, as Paddy Crerand often said, in the 2nd minute of injury time to seal the Premiership on the last day of the season with Chelsea being held at home to a 0-0 draw by already relegated Sheffied United and the away team goalie making miracle saves every minute or so.

Radio is hopeless at that.

And at seeing David Cameron take those deep breaths which blew his cheeks out like a glassblowers before he went out to make his contentless speech yesterday. I thought he looked like somebody on their first parachute jump.

Don't do it.
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ossobuco
 
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Reply Thu 5 Oct, 2006 05:21 pm
Smorgs! Umbrellas can never be owned! They appear in one's life, they disappear in one's life. They have their own community...

This is harder to understand if one ever forks over good money for a serious umbrella, and it glides away like the rest of them.
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spendius
 
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Reply Thu 5 Oct, 2006 05:50 pm
I had an umbrella once.

A mate of mine gave it to me. He has about 5 or 6. It was a really flashy one in black and white. Must have cost £100 at least. Most of my mates have more money than sense.

One night it was pouring down and I took it to the pub. That was the end of that. But it was useful that night. It was coming down like a cow pissing on a flat rock.
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Steve 41oo
 
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Reply Fri 6 Oct, 2006 03:14 am
spendius wrote:
Now,now Steve. Calm down my boy. There's no real need to be making any rash deshishuns at such an early stage in life.

You are just watching the wrong channels.

You should switch to Babestation 12345&6 it might be 7 by now. Whatever. It's on the up.

The scene you described is for the older generation who still think that wife swapping is exciting. Why else would they watch?

I could easy lie in a bed in a studio mock-up pretending to read the Racing Post and calling for a nuther bottle of 12% plonk and waiting to throw one on cue. (Choose reason as you see fit.)

You could miss Wayne having one bounce off the back of his head into the back of the net, as Paddy Crerand often said, in the 2nd minute of injury time to seal the Premiership on the last day of the season with Chelsea being held at home to a 0-0 draw by already relegated Sheffied United and the away team goalie making miracle saves every minute or so.

Radio is hopeless at that.

And at seeing David Cameron take those deep breaths which blew his cheeks out like a glassblowers before he went out to make his contentless speech yesterday. I thought he looked like somebody on their first parachute jump.

Don't do it.
Very Happy Spendy, for all the bollocks you talk...sometimes its like a shaft of sunlight piercing the fug over Old Trafford. I used to go before it was the Theatre of Dreams, more like a Lowry painting + litter. I used to watch fascinated as the roof at the Stretford end filled up with purple smoke and started billowing out. Then there was the time we played Estudiantes de la Plata and they called Nobby Stiles an animal. Animals dont wear dentures. Anyway a fight broke out in B stand and I nearly got whacked...and I was only little. Such fond memories.


Now dont tell me you have a secret passion for The Cameroonians...
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Steve 41oo
 
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Reply Fri 6 Oct, 2006 06:03 am
Any one around like me who's getting a bit tired of Muslim News?

Lead headline in Guardian

Quote:
Take off the veil, says Straw - to immediate anger from Muslims


I woke this morning to a broadcast from Radio Ramadan (no kidding) in Blackburn. Bunch of very very angry sisters.
Quote:
"Straw is entitled to his opinion but what we are saying is his opinion is WRONG".


page 4

Quote:
Muslim PC in Israeli embassy row feared being targetted by Islamists


page 7

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A young mother who did not speak English and seldom went out has been found hanged at home besides her two infant sons....
The family were described by neighbours as "tidy sociable and nice" but several expressed concern that the mother, a British Asian who wore traditional dress including a burka, had been isolated and unable to mix.


page 11

Quote:
Man guilty of six-year old's 'honour killing'



Radio

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"Disturbances at a Muslim owned dairy's plans to open an Islamic centre"



phone in
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Isnt it time we gave Muslims a break



John Reid
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muslims must watch their children for signs of radicalism


Radio 4
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Downing Street says (always love that...how does a road speak?) Jack Straw's views on veil wearing is not government policy


like I said tired of it.
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spendius
 
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Reply Fri 6 Oct, 2006 06:16 am
Yeah.

So am I.

Attention encourages it.

Everybody knows that.

So why does media seek to encourage it?

Cancel papers. Read VIZ. Watch sports channels. Play on web. Read good books. Goof off. Get pissed. Bollocks to 'em.

Why doesn't Straw just put on a Napoleon Bonaparte mask when he's dealing with one. And talk broad Geordie.
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