THE BRITISH THREAD II

One of my most prized possessions, still in regular use (there's a joke in there somewhere) is a car windscreen ice-scraper which has its own woolly mitt.
Scrape ice off, stay warm, a godsend.
I got it in a supermarket in Westphalia!
Smile

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Thought it was deck the halls - fa la la lalala la?

Or is yours the Scottish version?

Howdy peeps!

Been poorly, sorry for not posting...

Anyone see that (very rude) prog last night on female sex blogs?

It were really great - apparently, they call it 'cliterature', not that I expect you to understand that...

But women live in hope.

x

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Cliterature is nice..

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I got a goose from ALDI- so deep-frozen it took two days to thaw, in this weather.
Anyhoo it's going in the oven now.
I'll let you know.

Nice to see Smorgs back....you must be feeling champion, pet, else you wouldn't be looking at porn on t'telly.
Smile

Did you see Cranford on Sunday? Excellent.

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It was on channel FOUR you cheeky bugger!

Playing catchup with Cranford...

Yes, Francis, I like it too.

Queue spendy tirade on the adverse effects of feminism.

x

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McTag wrote:

I got a goose from ALDI- so deep-frozen it took two days to thaw, in this weather.
Anyhoo it's going in the oven now.
I'll let you know.

Nice to see Smorgs back....you must be feeling champion, pet, else you wouldn't be looking at porn on t'telly.

Did you see Cranford on Sunday? Excellent.

How much was it?

Why are you having goose on 12/12/07?

Will ye be a'stuffin' it?

What are you having with it?

Are you saving the fat for your roasties on Crimbo day?

How big is it?

Did you go to the Aldi in Didsbury?

How do you rate it's wares?

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...I'm exited about Crimbo

I keep getting a 'festive frisson'...

Makes me tingly in festive places.

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Doowop wrote:

And is there anyone else here that thinks this is dead good?

Just something about this, and I'm not quite sure what.

yes Doowop, I too think it's dead good.

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smorgs wrote:

McTag wrote:
I got a goose from ALDI- so deep-frozen it took two days to thaw, in this weather.
Anyhoo it's going in the oven now.
I'll let you know.

Nice to see Smorgs back....you must be feeling champion, pet, else you wouldn't be looking at porn on t'telly.

Did you see Cranford on Sunday? Excellent.

How much was it?

Why are you having goose on 12/12/07?

Will ye be a'stuffin' it?

What are you having with it?

Are you saving the fat for your roasties on Crimbo day?

How big is it?

Did you go to the Aldi in Didsbury?

How do you rate it's wares?

x

ALDI Stockport, Portwood
4800 g
sixteen quid (and what do you get? Another day....)
A goose is not just for Christmas. You can kill them all year round.
No stuffing this time, but Delia says prunes go well in the apple sauce, so I'll try that.
I think it'll be a bit much for just two of us, so there'll be some to hack about later.
Swimmin' in grease
Yahoo

Seven swans a-swimming
Six geese a-laying
Five roasted spuds

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I've been to Aldi in Didsbury once and I was not impressed. The guy on the checkout was almost throwing my stuff at me, the cheeky bastard. I'm all for a bargain but the place kind of depressed me a little bit.

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Well- if you hate men it's only natural you get depressed easily.

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4800 g

That means nothing to me...

I'm still an imperial girl.

16 quid and what do you get
another day older and deeper in debt
So Muckty don't ya call me 'cos I can't go
I owe my soul to the company store

Is it only you and me that knows that song?

Are we THAT old?

Who sang it?

x

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Evenin' spenders.

xx

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This is the sort of thing that tells me which way up I am.

At the end of ITV's regional news from the North west Mr Gordon Burns suddenly appeared looking very grave and said that they had some "BREAKING NEWS!!!!!!!"

All breathless like. I can't remember the exact words but it doesn't matter to the point I want to make about these out of control zombies who we allow to manage our TV.

"We are hearing from our sources in Rome that three Manchester United fans have been stabbed in distrurbances between rival fans before the match tonight. A bit more blather and then -- our sources tell us that they are only slightly injured.

There are a few thousand United fans in Rome and for each one there will be half a dozen close relatives and a good number of friends- say 200,000 people- all of whom had to sweat the 10 to 15 seconds which elapsed before the reassurance came that "stabbed" didn't mean dead and actually meant "scratched".

That is a good measure of how the well being of viewers is a long way second to those silly buggers wanting to sound dramatic so we will all gawp at their stupid fissogs more intently.

Every policeman who knocks on a door to tell relatives that someone has been injured always begins with the reassurance, assuming injuries requiring him to call are not serious.

Not these tosspots. They do it the other way round. They just did.

They should all be fired tonight for that sort of thing but, of course, as we all know, they are a law unto themselves.

When caught red-handing stealing off people daft enough to ring them up on pay calls they just said they were sorry and offered to pay back anybody who filled one of their stupid forms in.

Why were they not arrested? Why were they not required to consult their records and repay everybody who's pocket they had picked?

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I know where that cash would be now if they hadn't been caught.

Too true. In wine bar tills and cocaine dealer's wallets.

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smorgs wrote:

Quote:
4800 g

That means nothing to me...

I'm still an imperial girl.

16 quid and what do you get
another day older and deeper in debt
So Muckty don't ya call me 'cos I can't go
I owe my soul to the company store

Is it only you and me that knows that song?

Are we THAT old?

Who sang it?

x

Tenessee Ernie Ford.

Ten and a half pounds

(10.582 lb)

Quite tasty is was, and quite chewy too. More that two pints of grease came off it, wow.

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spendius wrote:

This is the sort of thing that tells me which way up I am.

At the end of ITV's regional news from the North west Mr Gordon Burns suddenly appeared looking very grave and said that they had some "BREAKING NEWS!!!!!!!"

All breathless like. I can't remember the exact words but it doesn't matter to the point I want to make about these out of control zombies who we allow to manage our TV.

"We are hearing from our sources in Rome that three Manchester United fans have been stabbed in distrurbances between rival fans before the match tonight. A bit more blather and then -- our sources tell us that they are only slightly injured.

There are a few thousand United fans in Rome and for each one there will be half a dozen close relatives and a good number of friends- say 200,000 people- all of whom had to sweat the 10 to 15 seconds which elapsed before the reassurance came that "stabbed" didn't mean dead and actually meant "scratched".

That is a good measure of how the well being of viewers is a long way second to those silly buggers wanting to sound dramatic so we will all gawp at their stupid fissogs more intently.

Every policeman who knocks on a door to tell relatives that someone has been injured always begins with the reassurance, assuming injuries requiring him to call are not serious.

Not these tosspots. They do it the other way round. They just did.

They should all be fired tonight for that sort of thing but, of course, as we all know, they are a law unto themselves.

When caught red-handing stealing off people daft enough to ring them up on pay calls they just said they were sorry and offered to pay back anybody who filled one of their stupid forms in.

Why were they not arrested? Why were they not required to consult their records and repay everybody who's pocket they had picked?

This is quite a common device in the meeja.

headlines of "Hurricanes Devastate South" usually means there have been quite strong winds in Devon and Cornwall.

Get used to it Spendy, it isn't going to change anytime soon.

I believe the BBC once had a news-spot bulletin which announced "There is no news today" but they wouldn't put that out now. "Kitten, Tree and Fireman in Death Drama" more like.

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Mac wrote-

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Get used to it Spendy, it isn't going to change anytime soon.

Not a chance of me getting used to it. If everybody does that they'll cream us.

Your comparisons were pitiful by the side of my example. Can't you see the effect of what they did on Mums, wives, sisters etc. Why did they use the word "stabbed" like that. They knew what they were doing.

Jeff Stelling on Sky Sports referred to "one or two little incidents outside the ground". He's a gent. They are bastards IMO for doing that.

You lack empathy Mac.

Save your goose grease. It's okay on bruises I think.

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You are right, Spendy, but I think you're over-sensitive.

Nobody believes the bastards now, and they've only got themselves to blame.

All news is propaganda of some kind. And public service doesn't seem to matter as much as sensationalism.

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I don't think I'm too sensitive. I'm a lot less sensitive than most.

There about 15,000 military in Iraq and Afghanistan. Why do they come on and say the 3 have been killed, or even one, and their names won't be released until next-of-kin have been informed. Why can't they hold the news until those people have been informed? After all, the Commanding Officers out there have communications to the MoD. The MoD has communication with the regimental base here. Why should the families and friends of all the people at risk be on tenterhooks, often overnight.

Sweating Mac. Stressed.

Think of the phone calls that start up when they make such an announcement. We know the media is in cahoots with phone companies to generate phone traffic.

Perhaps that scene in Brass where Hardacre's floozie, a polite expression, was taking a pea out of each pod and glueing them up for re-sale was a metaphor for how to avoid even one drop of water passing the mill wheel.

Each minute of phone time a pea or a drop of water.

I think-like Rider Haggard taught me--"There's plenty more where they came from". That's how sensitive I am mate.

I'm thinking of the families. Not me.

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