THE BRITISH THREAD

That's okay, MT...

Though we would accommodate your deafness by shouting extra loud at you :wink:

I forgot all about Torchwood, is it BBC3? If so, then it's on 2 one night next week.

I'm looking forward to it!

I'm always game, MT

See you soon.

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What about Spendi, smorgsi, I bet he's be up there for a free pint. :wink:

Don't have much on mate!

you are semi naked?

No doubt stood in front of the mirror making wishes..... :wink:

More projection.

It had never entered my head that psychoanalysis could be so scientific.

I had thought they were making it up.

It was obvious really.

People can't think up things they are not familiar with and possibly deeply ashamed of.

Sheesh- am I thick?

We didn't win!

Came a respectable third, and there were a lot of teams, ours was the smallest..

Fell down on the geography, something about naming borders with Paraguay?

The two men got most of the sport ones right, although no-one knew Pele's real name!

I did well on history and film - but I think the answer for when did the NATO Alliance was wrong, we said 1949, and the question master said 1948?

No prise for third, though a good time was had by all. AND I only had two diet cokes the entire night!

PS: We got the question about which South American country was named after an Italian City...

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In today's Independent:
Northumberland is most tranquil place in England


Map by the Campaign to Protect Rural England

Source


(Withington is marked as really loud, yesterday, :wink: )

That's it - I'm going to live in Northumberland!

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Don't think I would have been much help to your team, then, Smorgie.

Milton Nascimento, or something like that?

Can't think of the SA country/ Italian city answer

Relative frequency of police sirens at different cricket matches was just a mildly poetic way of making the same point that a team of researchers on tax funding and the resources of The Independent have used a bludgeon to get over and the researchers and the reporters etc added to the racket to wield it.

As for pub quizzes.

They are Blackpool front scams. Conversation substitutes and conversation direction pointers. Like drill.

Fancy going to a pub and some bureaucrat has already worked out a road map for your evening. And he/she, more likely a he, has decided some of the content of the British thread as well and every aspect of it is not only pointless but gets in the way of anything that does, or might, have a point.

What does it add to life knowing, or even caring, which SA country is named after an Italian city or what won the Grand National in 1971 or 2 or 3.

They might as well have a raffle. The questions are carefully tailored to fit the socio-economic profile of the area the pub is in and to find a winner who doesn't win by too much and a room full of losers who haven't lost by too much.

Your brain is being mismanaged with great skill.

By the way spendius, I'm actually quite interested in the ID thread, the only thing that makes it boring is you.

Little Venice.

Venezuela, really? Well I never.

Spendy, I quite like pub quizzes, as a change....it only lasts for an hour or so, and usually has the effect of "lifting" the atmosphere in the pub, stimulating conversation afterwards, that sort of thing.

I daresay the people you favour with your opinions in your local boozer don't need any extra stimulation or having their spirits lifted by such a harmless diversion, but spare a thought for ordinary mortals.

Milton N is a musician, of course, Pele is Edson N.

I'm sorry Mac.

I didn't know you needed your spirits lifting. Are you suggesting it's a therapy? Good grief!! I wouldn't have gone that far myself.

They are for Guardian and Independent readers aren't they? They think people are daft who point to the frequency of police sirens despite the fact that the frequency is so obviously directly proportional to all the other factors the article lists, after the "journalists" have copied out the report of the researchers delivered at great expense, that it stands in the same relation as a temperature guage does to that which it measures. They need to read it in their paper you see. They need guidance.

Although I haven't forgotten that you expressed interest in the idea.

It boils down to the fact that spendi told you something useful for free and scooped the newspaper which you have to buy.

No doubt the "researcher's" "jobs" would have been advertised in one or other paper or both.

DP wrote-



I'm the main man on it. What interests you about it?

Does it have an effect on people in your circle when you assert something is boring. It's only effect in my circle is to cut the asserter out of the conversation. Nothing is boring if you are a fully paid up member of the human race. Once the emptiness of the assertion is grasped it doesn't take long to realise that the other one about being "actually quite interested" is just as meaningless and safely ignored and that a trend is setting in.

I think I'll apply to become the new voice behind the speaking clock:

Ayup, chuck, it's 1p.m.

Sounds good doesn't it?

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6076378.stm

Amerigo Vespucci, coming upon an island off the Paraguaná peninsula (probably Aruba), nicknamed it Venezuela (little Venice) because of native villages built above the water on stilts; the name held and was soon applied to the mainland.

So that's how. Not a lot of Withington folks know that.

surely it was mathos who said this?

How very dare you, MuckT...

I knew that!

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Smorgsi doing the voice over for the speaking clock!

You got my vote smorgsi. When they putting you up for it?


Well said DP he is a total arsehole, that gobbin, boring and ineffective.

Spendi!!!

Main man????


Your bloody egotistical outlook is beyond comprehension matey. Your about as welcome on that 'egg-head' thread as rabies in a dogs home. Them Yanks are taking the bloody piss out of you left right and centre, you stand there shilly-shallying like a pet dog with worms and identity problems!

Isn't it about time you did something about it?


Walter.

I checked out the two cameras you mentioned and nearly had a heart attack, most I ever paid for a camera was about £150..00 for my Olympus and I thought that was over the top. Never mind, they have an agents shop in Chorley, so I'll take a look in and see what kind of advice I get. It is important to me and the calibre of photographs I take that I get the right finished product at the end of the day. I was going to buy Mrs Mathos a new hoover for Christmas, if I go for the flash Nikon camera, she'll have to put up with a new horse hair sweeping brush and a plastic dustpan.