THE BRITISH THREAD II

I suppose so. Just old-fashioned overeating; the remedy is obvious and simple.

"La crise de foie" - Francis just folled us - certainly is just and only une affection française :wink:

It simply betrays a lack of self control.

A complex business which I can't go into at this time.

It's all those suppositories that the Froggies keep pushing up their derrieres, as opposed to taking good old fashioned tablets like us mega healthy Brits. :wink:

Bom bom bom bom bom bom bom bom bom bom bom bom bommm

Bom bom bom bom bom bom bom bom bom bom bom bom bommmm

Mr. Sandman, bring me a dream
Make him the cutest that I've ever seen
Give him the word that I'm not a rover
Then tell him that his lonesome nights are over.
Sandman, I'm so alone
Don't have nobody to call my own
Please turn on your magic beeeeeeam
Mr. Sandman, bring me a dream.

These lyrics have been in my head ALL morning.



Now they can be in yours as well.

No need for any thanks.

I don't feel the least concerned by what's implied in your comment, but I do think it still is much better than a broom...

Why do you think, Francis, that the French are so prone to liver disease?

Clary,

The French are not more prone to liver disease than any other people on earth.

Simply, they will not admit that they overstuff themselves with good food and throw the anathema to a bodily malfunction.

But, when tested for real liver disease, they pass easily the LFT (liver function test), which shows no abnormality.

After fasting a bit, everything is back to normal.

OK, but we don't do that.

Well, reading the previous posts, some of the British do, I mean, overstuff..

Overstuff, certainly, fast - not much. Hence we are on the whole fatter than you.

I'm not bothered by such small differences..

It's just been on the news that government scientists have been deliberately creating traffic jams. I wonder what they were studying. Nose picking rates in slow moving traffic maybe.

And they are running trials on abortions in doctor's surgeries.

Hello! What has everyone been up too?

My weirdo flatmate hired a prostitute the other day- and is now selling all of his belongings in order to pay for more prostitutes.
Hmm.
We are writing a letter to our landlord because it's getting dangerous. he hasn't been taking his medication, and we are all scared to walk around our flat at night.
They shouldn't have let him live with us- especially without telling us anything about him.

I paid for it once, in hamster jam when I was young and stoned/drunk. She looked like the blond one from Abba.
It was about the most soulless thing I've ever experienced.

Hmm sex with a blond in hamster jam. People would pay good money for that.

Just got back from lunch (well 1 1/2 hours ago) this time at the Nags head with bicycle nuts.

here

http://www.information-britain.co.uk/showPlace.cfm?Place_ID=27564

nice old pub. The professor talked about his time at the Pedagogic Institute at Sevres, where Robespierre plotted the Revolution.

Ken was complaining about it being dark all the time.

I had a baked potato and a pint of beer. (and 2p change out of £10 which was pretty outrageous).

on the way back went past Hunsdon from where they used to drop SOE operatives in France.

http://www.wartimememories.co.uk/airfields/hunsdon.html


It RAINED. Deck chair Dave who rides a recumbent

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

had to go through water so deep he nearly drowned. 25 miles.

I tried to warn you Queenie about the big time. You're not supposed to take provincial values into the higher reaches of the art establishment,

Taking the piss out of provincial values is the main motive of serious artsists. Vanity being No 1 on the list. Watch Cranford if you don't believe me.

Prostitutes are a regular feature in the life of traditional art. Something to do with intellectual honesty I think.