THE BRITISH THREAD II

Oh--I've knocked it off now.

It was a bit of nostalgia from when I had a devil may care attitude.

I could murder a scran like that but alas it is bad for one and I'm getting more and more delicate by the day. I know guys who have had by-passes who can't give up the fat. They take these Statins instead--the fools.

By the way- what I described was a regular Friday night event at a chippy with tables and sweating serving girls wearing nothing beneath their smocks after five or six pints. Sometimes more.

Those WERE the days.

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Servant girls? Smocks?

Charles Spendikens.

If you worked in a chippy you'd wear nothing beneath your smock either, because it makes your clothes (and your hair and your skin) stink.

Still you're right in your chauvinist way, you can't beat a lady with a glow and a bead of sweat amid the down on the upper lip.

And so to bed.

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I told you. No Smorgs, no thread.

The flock needs a shepherdess.

Rolling Eyes

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It seems everyone has taken a New Year's Resolution to have nothing further to do with The British Thread.

Crying or Very sad

Little Bo Peep has lost her sheep
And doesn't know where to find them
Leave them alone, and they'll come home
Wagging their tails behind them

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It's a shame. Oddly it is one of the few remaining convivial threads on A2K. A hard thing for me to say about you Brits, but there you have it.

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I agree, George. Although I don't (or rarely) write her, I do read
on occasion, and it's always nice to read the Brits humorous side of looking
at the world as such.

Makes me miss Lord Ellpus sorely too!

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Any mud slides or storm damage down there in La Joya, or rather northern San Diego?

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georgeob1 wrote:

It's a shame. Oddly it is one of the few remaining convivial threads on A2K. A hard thing for me to say about you Brits, but there you have it.

I'm only beating round the bushes, where they are lurking, keeping their powder dry.
Fear not, it's one of the hardest things in the world, to shake off a determinedly opinionated British pundit.

Probably suffering from eating too much Christmas cake, the lot of them, and needing some Epsom Salts administered.

There you are. I can't give any more mix to that particular metaphor.

Razz

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It's a boring thread.

All they ever do is talk about themselves, all touchie-feelie like, and their daily doings, which are invariably of the utmost banality with a touch of mopiness.

It has nothing to do with British and stiff upper lips. They've caught the dreaded American Narcissenza which from what I can see is at pandemic proportions in its homeland. It did prove fatal for old Narkie. He drowned in his own image.

I have tried injecting a bit of life in the hope of an insemination but it's been like barging at a barn door head first.

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georgeob1 wrote:

Any mud slides or storm damage down there in La Joya, or rather northern San Diego?

We're hanging in there. We had a land slide in September close
to where I live, that gave us enough excitement for years to come.
The road is still closed an it's a nuisance to drive all the detours.

How is it up there, George? I can see, the damage is substantial in
your neighborhood.

http://img242.imageshack.us/img242/97/damagefw5.jpg

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McTag wrote:

Probably suffering from eating too much Christmas cake,......

I got some Christmas pudding from Harrod's of London as a present.
No wonder, you're all keeping up appearances - that was nasty stuff!

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spendius wrote:

It's a boring thread.

All they ever do is talk about themselves, all touchie-feelie like, and their daily doings, which are invariably of the utmost banality with a touch of mopiness.

And your daily mentioning of taking a bath and going to the pub is....?

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If Spendy conducts his attempts at insemination as if he were charging at a barn door head first, I suppose that explains quite a lot.

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spendius wrote:

It's a boring thread.

All they ever do is talk about themselves, all touchie-feelie like, and their daily doings, which are invariably of the utmost banality with a touch of mopiness.

I thought the Brits understood irony? You of all people.

I didn't get Mr Hulot's Holiday at first, because I saw it first when I was too young.

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Tell us about it Mac. What did you find when you engaged with it in your maturity?

I've never seen it. What bits I've seen of Tati are woeful. No skid-mark jokes. Bit of a giveaway that. D.H. Lawrence has been laughed at for his avoidance of that aspect of British irony. A too rigorous nursery training they reckon.

It's a Protestant thing I believe.

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CalamityJane wrote:

McTag wrote:
Probably suffering from eating too much Christmas cake,......

I got some Christmas pudding from Harrod's of London as a present.
No wonder, you're all keeping up appearances - that was nasty stuff!

You're supposed to heat it up and have it with cream, or custard, or brandy butter.
Maybe all three.
It's not nasty at all.
Cool

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spendius wrote:

Tell us about it Mac. What did you find when you engaged with it in your maturity?

I've never seen it. What bits I've seen of Tati are woeful. No skid-mark jokes. Bit of a giveaway that. D.H. Lawrence has been laughed at for his avoidance of that aspect of British irony. A too rigorous nursery training they reckon.

It's a Protestant thing I believe.

D H Lawrence is not a very popular writer, compared with Jeffrey Archer for example. Or Norman Mailer. Quoted and alluded to maybe, but not often read. Po-faced. (Perhaps it's in the toilet training as you say.)

Tati, may Francis forgive me for misquoting the name of his film, took pleasure in simple everyday things and found endless humour in them, in the foibles of his fellow man.
Personally I don't mind hearing tales of the pink chubbies in the pub, or what ale the landlord's got on this week.

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Speaking of which I originally accused Robinson's Old Stockport for making me ill before xmas but it was norovirus.

Happy new year everybody.

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Its windy here but the sun is shining and Barak Obama won in Iowa!!!!!

I dont know about you guys but I'm really getting into these elections. The caucus system is admirable, and Obama is not George Bush.

I defy even a hard bitten old cynic like spendy not to find that a refreshing wind of change.

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Why pollute such a thread with American politics? George Bush looked a bit like Obama in 2000 - new face; relatively inexperienced; vague rhetoric laced with references to candor and humility in our international relations and compassion in our domestic policies. Obama is more glib and better able to modulate his communications, however experience has taught me that this, though important, is a relatively minor virtue in a leader. Certainly better than the corn pone huckster, Huckabee, but happily there are other choices as well.

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