THE BRITISH THREAD II

I played hockey!

Should have seen me bully off.

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Amy Winehouse- pissed. Drunk in charge of a microphone.

Will she be made an icon of the misunderstood, a symbolic butterfly broken on the wheel of publicity and cocaine and public expectation, like Judy Garland?

Or should she get a grip?

A nation waits.

I vote for get a grip.

Tell me about Roman women McT

Still can't help liking her though...

Amy, living up to her name:


http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ihFzr8QPfOg&feature=related


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Roman women?

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baby doing a school project.

I have read a lot about Roman women. Those who had choices I mean. The ones who had no choices haven't left much of a record behind them.

Poppea Sabina gave a fairly true picture of the unconstrained archetypal female nature I think.

Got any facts suitable for 8 year old spendius maximus?

This might give you some ideas. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8x14cLGh5o

Child abuse mate.

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Not about upper-class Roman women-NO! Nor for you either.

I don't know diddly about Roman women, nor women of any other place it has to be said.

I think they probably were responsible for the fall of the Roman Empire, though. At the height of its power, water supply to the city was introduced by means of lead piping, and lead in the drinking water eventually affected everyone's brains- adversely. And who do you think would have nagged their hubbies to have the house connected to the new water supply? Precisely. The rest is in Gibbons' Rise and Fall.

But before that, they put it about a bit. For example, they used to go on their holidays to Herculaneum, a kind of classical Blackpool.

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

I can't be expected to look at what I fear might be on the link provided by Mac at this time of night. I like to rest peacefully and confidently in my slumbers between the under and over blankets which the energy and temperature control technologies have provided for a tenth of the price of a week in some dump somewhere with a good publicity department. And especially on nights like this when walking back from the pub was akin to being attempting to traverse the Antartic ice-cap in a pink tutu but no gloves.

I'll peep at it in the morning after I have set myself up for the day with my masochist's breakfast.



I've studied the matter from all ends and directions and I fully agree with the speaker who just sat down.

What?

My other half came home with a photo yesterday of herself with two of her ex pupils. Taken on dress down friday when staff wear school "uniform" and pupils wear casual or what they want...in aid of Children in Need. These two 16 year old girls were seriously good looking. Should have been on the front page of Vogue or such like. I just felt extremely sorry for the boys. How is a 15/16 year old lad supposed to concentrate on Roman Britain or differential calculus with all that newly minted testosterone pumping through his veins and sat between two fellow students looking like that? This is not an argument for single sex schooling...just an observation.

Come on Steve-- that's called body fascism. All 16 year old girls are good looking surely? You've had a spell cast over you by the "glamour" industry.

You're talking trophy bints. Serious male chauvinist piggery of the worst sort and exacerbated by being in denial of it.

"I'm in love with the ugliest girl in the world". Bob Dylan.

You've obviously been poring over too many glossy pictures.

Can they cook? That's the main thing. And keep quiet unless required to chirp. By the time you have finished with them they'll have hubris to spare and be fit for nothing least of all making some chap a nice honest wife.

So Tony Blair acted as bad as some feared and voluntarily started an illegal war - even the Bush told him Britain could have stayed out of Iraq

Eee, my giddy aunt!

I don't even know what hubris is...

But I can cook.

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I've been ill as well, smorgs, when that was on at school.

And I can cook, too (want some potatoe soup?)

The little bastard. So much for democracy and cabinet government.

But he still couldn't have swung it without the lies.

So he's a criminal.