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THE BRITISH THREAD II

 
 
Steve 41oo
 
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Reply Sun 23 Mar, 2008 11:42 am
**** come on you gooners
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Steve 41oo
 
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Reply Sun 23 Mar, 2008 12:00 pm
ok i'll settle for that because the **** did come on the gooners. If there had to be a win better it were chelsea. See I am magnanimous in victory.
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Walter Hinteler
 
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Reply Sun 23 Mar, 2008 12:14 pm
I had to watch three matches (two in Germany and that at Stamford Bridge.

I'd thaught, the gunners were back and concentrated more on supporting my team (won 2:1 in Berlin) and a more local one (draw) ...

Besides that ..

earlier Walter Hinteler wrote:
Luís Carlos Almeida da Cunha - he should join the Portuguese Olympic team in gymnastics! (And the goal wasn't bad either!!!)
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Steve 41oo
 
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Reply Sun 23 Mar, 2008 12:29 pm
Luís Carlos Almeida da Cunha

I feel as if I ought to know this bloke....no

no idea

ok trying google
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Steve 41oo
 
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Reply Sun 23 Mar, 2008 12:32 pm
well its obvious. Mr and mrs nani had a son. Called Nani. Who could fling himself about through the air doing cartwheels...

AFTER SCORING BRILLIANT GOAL AGAINST LIVERPOOL
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Steve 41oo
 
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Reply Sun 23 Mar, 2008 12:46 pm
as I was saying during the football before being rudely interrupted

Archbishop of Caterbury wrote:
The Archbishop of Canterbury has warned in his Easter sermon against nations' greed for oil, power and territory.
what the **** has it to do with him?
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spendius
 
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Reply Sun 23 Mar, 2008 01:38 pm
Oh Steve-- you are such a simple soul.
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spendius
 
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Reply Mon 24 Mar, 2008 05:11 am
This is good-

A grumpy Gov't spoke (as in spoke in the wheel) has just been on telly talking about hiding the fags in shops because they tempt young people into buying them when they are displayed and when you look at the display there's five rows of SMOKING KILLS and a stand-out one with a skull and crossbones.

Maybe Freud's death instinct is not as daft an idea as it sounds.

This Gov't seems to have one.
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McTag
 
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Reply Mon 24 Mar, 2008 08:16 am
Izzie wrote:
Good afternoon UK & Europe et al Smile

Mac - hope your glasses are fitting your face more comfortably now :wink:


Thank you, Izzie, not so bad now. Maybe my face is fitting my glasses better.
I went back to the shop twice, to have them fettled.
A fairly silly and un-involved assistant saw to me both times (I nearly asked for her to be replaced, second time, but I'm too polite) and I'm getting used to them now, thank you.
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spendius
 
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Reply Mon 24 Mar, 2008 09:46 am
I saw a bit in a programme about Haiti with a witch doing some mumbo-jumbo over the Beeb's travelling piss-pot and gently beating him with a bunch of twigs. It was to make sure, she said, that he had a wonderful year to look forward to.

Why the incantations only work for a year they didn't say.

I hope he gave her a tip big enough to compensate her for entertaining millions of viewers for ten minutes on a par with the one he was getting.

Mac- you can't really expect an optician's assistant to become involved with a silly chump like you. I once bought a pair of reading glasses off the shelf (£2.99), alas those predictions of Father Hall were true after all, and I have worn them from then until now, at least ten years, without the slightest difficulty or one murmur of complaint.

And jobs like she has require at least ten A-levels so how can she have been fairly silly unless you are making a serious criticism of our educational system?
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McTag
 
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Reply Mon 24 Mar, 2008 12:17 pm
For the money I pay to get the glasses I need, I can certainly expect better attention than that particular young woman gave.

Okay if you can get by on the kind of reading glasses you may get in a Xmas cracker.
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Steve 41oo
 
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Reply Mon 24 Mar, 2008 12:39 pm
I find the girls (one girl in particular) in the dispensing chemist to be equally surly.

"Name?"
Address?
First name?
do you pay?
enter your pin
(no hint of a please or thank you)

last time she didnt even give me the prescription. It was left on the counter in a bag so I took it then checked and asked if this was mine...."well whats your name?" the silly cow said. Professional...not. These are local girls. The Polish/Romanian/Czech girls could not be nicer. In an unintelligible way.
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Steve 41oo
 
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Reply Mon 24 Mar, 2008 12:52 pm
Steve 41oo wrote:
as I was saying during the football before being rudely interrupted

Archbishop of Caterbury wrote:
The Archbishop of Canterbury has warned in his Easter sermon against nations' greed for oil, power and territory.
what the **** has it to do with him?
Nobody "rudely interrupted" me. Sorry nobody. I was just in full flow and fired up with Nani's goal.

So Spendi could you explain please to a simple soul such as myself why the Archbishop of Canterbury should be so animated by fossil fuels?
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spendius
 
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Reply Mon 24 Mar, 2008 01:59 pm
As the Queen's, and the Nation's, spiritual guide it is expected of him.

He would look silly sat in Lambeth Palace and having no opinions on anything.

If he has said something foolish on the matter you mention it should come as no surprise as it is impossible to say anything on such a subject without being foolish.

There would soon be questions asked regarding his upkeep and that of his staff if he remained unanimated about the burning issues of the moment and there would be no point in having synods either and that would be economically destabilising in the environs of Canterbury's pleasure spots. Such a prospect might require smorgsie to be transferred to the Job Centre there.
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McTag
 
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Reply Tue 25 Mar, 2008 02:34 am
Not too many Brits on show, here. Easter hangovers? Too much chocolate? Feeling liverish? Poor things.

Anyone see Hamish McBeth last night? Anyone watching Damages?
Excellent.

Russell Brand made the connection between oestrogen and Easter in his humorous newspaper column recently. Quite clever, if he thunk it up himself, but then he's a clever bloke under all that hair and bling.
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Steve 41oo
 
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Reply Tue 25 Mar, 2008 07:18 am
spendius wrote:
As the Queen's, and the Nation's, spiritual guide it is expected of him.

He would look silly sat in Lambeth Palace and having no opinions on anything.

If he has said something foolish on the matter you mention it should come as no surprise as it is impossible to say anything on such a subject without being foolish.

There would soon be questions asked regarding his upkeep and that of his staff if he remained unanimated about the burning issues of the moment....
certainly fossil fuels are the burning issue of the moment. Please tell me this was intentional humour.
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spendius
 
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Reply Tue 25 Mar, 2008 12:17 pm
Steve wrote-

Quote:
certainly fossil fuels are the burning issue of the moment.


That is certainly true for those people who do not live the carbon heavy lives we lead, and especially those who live near sea level.

As for those who engage in such things as international air travel, motoring and temperature controlled living and working spaces it is more a twee affectation than a burning issue. It is an excuse to have a burning issue ready to hand in order to sound a responsible and caring parson when the fact is that they are irresponsible and don't give a flying fornication about the matter.
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Steve 41oo
 
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Reply Tue 25 Mar, 2008 02:17 pm
I understood the last phrase, will think about the rest.
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McTag
 
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Reply Tue 25 Mar, 2008 04:24 pm
Right I'm going to Newcastle tomorrer. Anything worth seeing up there? I've been to the Gateshead Armadillo.

Not seen Smorgs for a while, probably busy with the paint roller and screwdriver. Is that strike over yet? Must be someone who can tell. :wink:
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spendius
 
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Reply Tue 25 Mar, 2008 06:36 pm
Let's have a general strike. It's not fair that smorgsie can have all the fun of being on strike and the rest of us have to carry on as normal.

When MPs are trying to avoid how they got their fingers in the till by voting that nobody should know it is getting time to ask the generals to step in and restore order.
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