THE BRITISH THREAD II

Coolwhip, don't worry about understanding Spendy's posts. Nobody does, I suspect not even he.

Come on you Super Blues, Sven's Stunnas!

Funny thing today, City are at home, but I bet the stadium is more familiar to most of the United players.

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I know spendius is famous for his ramblings here on a2k but I thought I'd give him a fair chance.

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How do you see a policy developing without an energy source?

Energy source is a pretty vague word in this context.

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I hope you don't think that your Government is going to send you to an English university out of the goodness of its heart.

I would guess it is an advantage for 'my Government' to have as many educated citizens as possible.

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My question about a socialist paradise embracing "free love" was a separate matter. I wondered if it was politically incorrect in Norway to take a fancy to a bloke because he had the most money.

I guess this was an attempt to be funny. In that case; Hardy-har-har.

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For eff's sake spends!

Everyone knows there's no such thing as 'free love'...

I'tll cost you at least a kebab.

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Hey not too many people were clamouring to see my legs, so maybe I'll just keep them covered.

CW, you don't want to get into a pissing match with Spendy, not in English anyway, unless of course you are imbued with the high blood and the fighting spirit of your Viking ancestors, in which case, devil take the hindmost.

Funny joke Smorgs, I liked that, though in my case it usually cost me five or six pints of lager into the bargain.

Only joking.

Right I'm off to Nantwich today for a piss-up, sorry housewarming, and I hope they've got the telly on around two.

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I think I've got Viking in me.

I don't LOOK Irish, I don't like Guinness, I once built a 'Kontiki' out of lolly sticks and I can pillage like nobodies business.

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Right, Sven's Stunnas vs Fergie's Prawns!

Bring it on, and may the best team win.

Er, lose.

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You've just bloodied Jonah'd it now, Muchty.

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ONE - NIL!

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smorgs wrote:

ONE - NIL!

Still the same .... and three rather desperate looking people here watching (I'm not among this number :wink: ).

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Ten minutes of nail-biting to go.

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Well ... done, City. A wonderful start for them in the saison.

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CW wrote-

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Energy source is a pretty vague word in this context.

Well- I did say it would be interesting to speculate about it. If your Government is investing in an expensive education in England for some of its brighter sparks it has a reason. I could think of a few. It might seek to provide itself with a few people who can better read the subtext of British diplomacy in the idiom of our language. Make contacts and stuff.

Anyway- thanks for giving me a fair chance. That's the sort of thing you might learn to avoid saying by a stint here.

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I would guess it is an advantage for 'my Government' to have as many educated citizens as possible.

Educated in what?

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CW, you don't want to get into a pissing match with Spendy

Our potential customer from Norway might learn something in one of those. In one with Mac there would be nothing to learn except what he had had for breakfast and other minor matters of a similar nature.

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For eff's sake spends!

Everyone knows there's no such thing as 'free love'...

I'tll cost you at least a kebab.

Don't I know it. Kebabs are merely ticklers designed to lure a man to his doom. Aren't they made from little lambs?

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All together now:

Blue Moon, you saw me standing alone
Without a dream in my heart
Without a love of my own

Blue Moon, you knew just what I was there for
You heard me saying a prayer for
Someone I really could care for

And then there suddenly appeared before me
The only one my arms will ever hold
I heard somebody whisper, "Please adore me"
And when I looked, the moon had turned to gold

Blue Moon, now I'm no longer alone
Without a dream in my heart
Without a love of my own

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Aren't they made of little lambs

No...

Quorn!

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spendius wrote:

Well- I did say it would be interesting to speculate about it. If your Government is investing in an expensive education in England for some of its brighter sparks it has a reason. I could think of a few. It might seek to provide itself with a few people who can better read the subtext of British diplomacy in the idiom of our language. Make contacts and stuff.

Anyway- thanks for giving me a fair chance. That's the sort of thing you might learn to avoid saying by a stint here.

Oh no, you misunderstand. Education in Norway is free for everyone, even if they choose to study abroad. In which case they are given a stipend. There isn't any agenda, apart from the fact that education is a resource to society. If I wanted to study in Poland I'd get the same stipend.

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I would guess it is an advantage for 'my Government' to have as many educated citizens as possible.

Educated in what?

Well, education in general is an advantage. Competent people are a resource.

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CW wrote-

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Well, education in general is an advantage. Competent people are a resource.

Only up to a point. The law of diminishing returns starts to take effect and you start having to import labour to do those millions of jobs competent people don't think it is proper for them to do.

Then the competent people are too big a number for the tasks that require their type of competence (which wasn't, of course, specified) and they start to hunker down on society like a big fat toad dreaming up stupidities like the ban on smoking in pubs. The end is not far off after that as is inevitable in all socialist paradises.

A supply of free oil covers up for them for a while and when that tails off there they all are established and unshiftable. The dear Paperwork Party, who are making farmer's lives a nightmare merely in order than none of them can ever be held responsible for anything and allow giant retail chains to grind their faces in the dirt. "Competence" tempts people to control freakery especially when they don't say what they are competent at or discuss whether it is any use or not.

Maybe our new Government's repudiation of the way parking restrictions have been managed over recent years is a hopeful sign and that there might be some repudiations of the type of competence we have had to put up with with that load of nincompoops Blurr brought in.

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spendius wrote:

CW wrote-

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Well, education in general is an advantage. Competent people are a resource.

Only up to a point. The law of diminishing returns starts to take effect and you start having to import labour to do those millions of jobs competent people don't think it is proper for them to do.

Then the competent people are too big a number for the tasks that require their type of competence (which wasn't, of course, specified) and they start to hunker down on society like a big fat toad dreaming up stupidities like the ban on smoking in pubs. The end is not far off after that as is inevitable in all socialist paradises.

A supply of free oil covers up for them for a while and when that tails off there they all are established and unshiftable. The dear Paperwork Party, who are making farmer's lives a nightmare merely in order than none of them can ever be held responsible for anything and allow giant retail chains to grind their faces in the dirt. "Competence" tempts people to control freakery especially when they don't say what they are competent at or discuss whether it is any use or not.

Maybe our new Government's repudiation of the way parking restrictions have been managed over recent years is a hopeful sign and that there might be some repudiations of the type of competence we have had to put up with with that load of nincompoops Blurr brought in.

Haha. Sure, why not.

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Well I've come back from Nantwich now. I could tell you what we had to eat, and very fine it was, but Spendy would not be interested.

However

Sven's Stunnas 1, Fergie's Wallets 0.

What a travesty that the fine team assembled at goodness knows what cost by Mr Ferguson had the bad luck to be goalless at Eastlands today. It was raining after all, and the audience there were not terribly sympathetic despite their unstinting effort. How unfortunate. Bad luck, chaps.

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I'm interested in the nosh, MT. Never mind spendice (he only eats legumes).

Do tell.

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Mac wrote-

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Well I've come back from Nantwich now. I could tell you what we had to eat, and very fine it was, but Spendy would not be interested.

I can't imagine anybody being interested in what you had to eat Mac. It cannot help but call to mind where it is now and where it will be tomorrow assuming all goes well.

The others are too polite to tell you or are prepared to pretend to be interested in return for you pretending to be interested when it's their turn to tell you what they had to eat. Like monkeys flecking each other.

It is my plan to try to force you to tell us something interesting such as what the more passable ladies at the gathering were wearing with some commentary on how you thought the garments added to their allure which is of course the purpose of them.

We have had smorgsie's denim hotpants having the farts ironed out of them recently and allusions to her winciette nightie being lifted up.

Have your feet recovered from the beating you inflicted upon them on your latest trip.

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No not yet, feet and leg only 50% okay but was it worth it I hear you cry?
Of course it was.

Today on arrival at our friends' new house (and what a lovely house it is, brill) we had a glass of champagne and some posh nibbles (olives wrapped in anchovy, mozzarella with tomato and basil leaves, gherkins, crisps, peanuts and more nice olives) and for our meal a little while later, chicken breasts wrapped in bacon with new potatoes, green beans and various breads whose names I don't know.
Plum tart with cream, cheese and biscuits.
Wine with the meal, coffee then whisky to follow, not too shabby at all.

A blue moon over Manchester this evening, and all is well.

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