THE BRITISH THREAD II

Rockhead wrote:

Auzzie rules (god help me) football is a lovely, scary, manly, crazy adaptation of the pure game,

RH

Adaptation!? of exactly which pure game.

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I'm still not sure, that's why I watch on occasion...(ssshhhhh)

RH

It ain't the one their playin' or they would not allow the Irish to participate.

:wink:

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Haven't seen ManU playing so ..... since ages.
And the Blues seem to be a quite different team compared to the last matches.

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dp wrote-

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Adaptation!? of exactly which pure game.

The fighting over territory game of course but adapted and refined by Christian civilisation and taking its message to the ends of the earth along with the values which accompany it.

What a great game that was today. Man U look quite tired to me.

I bet on goal difference and am disappointed to have only made a small profit. It should have been 3. At least. They battered them.

Rooney must be doubtful for the Barcelona match.

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Walter Hinteler wrote:

Haven't seen ManU playing so ..... since ages.
And the Blues seem to be a quite different team compared to the last matches.

know what you mean W

why ferguson didnt play ronaldo from the start i do not know

but utd are still 3:1 on to win the league

and surely they cant play worse at Old Trafford against Barca?

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Steve wrote-

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why ferguson didnt play ronaldo from the start i do not know

He would have a reason Steve. You can be sure of that.

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I saw the match on MoTD.
Ballack on Ronaldo at corner kicks: should behaviour like that be legal? I don't think so. But they're all doing it. Ballack, being German, only does it better than most.
Shocked

Rooney looks to be out for a longish time with a groin pull.
Common in young men.

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McTag wrote:

Ballack on Ronaldo at corner kicks: should behaviour like that be legal? I don't think so.

Its not legal!

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McTag wrote:

Hello, peeps.

Another bright new day has dawned.

Time for "gunfire".

Laters.

My dad was in the army and was due to come out just when Mr Hitler invaded Poland and he was a bit upset.
Anyway, he always called the first mug of tea of the day "gunfire", I suppose so called because it woke you up in the morning.

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He was born too soon eh Mac?

No fish and chips with smorgsie for him.

Still- he didn't do so bad I don't suppose.

It is a cool hat I must admit.

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Damn, I was typing a reply and it just bloody disappeared.

What's that about "the moving finger writes..."?
Not in the world of PCs, mate.

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bit like the brit 2 thread McT?

wurizevybdy?

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Waiting for Mac to bottle up to rewrite a lost post.

I know how tough it is.

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spendius wrote:

He was born too soon eh Mac?

No fish and chips with smorgsie for him.

Still- he didn't do so bad I don't suppose.

It is a cool hat I must admit.

Okay then, you may regret this, but as I was about to say when rudely interrupted by my PC's defiance of Omar

The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,
Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it

piety and wit being in scarce supply round here it was a big shock I can tell you.

Fish and chips with Smorgsie? Chance would be a fine thing. In my minds eye I can just see us, a silly dreamy smile on our faces, languidly feeding each other chips with greasy fingers and greasy chins, and but one thought in our minds: "I wish Spendy was here, watching this".

I was going to go on to tell you about my hat, but that will have to wait until after I have taken my sister-in-law to the hospital.

Good morning.

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Hope sil is ok.

You need a bloody hat here. Always raining.

And we are supposed to be in one of the driest parts of the country.

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Mac-

My dear Mother, bless her, drummed that Omar verse into me from a very early age. I could never understand how she came to know it because you wouldn't have ever thought she was an intellectual.

It is a verse for poets though. It isn't meant to apply to the likes of us.

I prefer the Book of Verse verse.

But now you've reminded me I'll look it through again and see if I can fault it. It is Oriental after all and we are Christians and I didn't understand the difference too well the last time I read it.

It's almost certain to be bullshit as your cancelled and washed out words proved only yesterday. I no longer wish to remould the world either. And fancy getting that bint under a palm tree on a balmy desert night and taking a book of verse along. Listen to Dylan sing Rita May. She is the book of verse.

Maybe she'd been spayed.

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It was kind of trendy at one time among a certain type of people. The translator deserves a lot of credit.
There is a pub in Glasgow's west end called the Rubaiyyat.
Good boozer, or it was forty years ago.

As a matter of fact, I've just remembered, my father, he of the gunfire mugs of tea, when we were camping used to wake us with "Arise, for morning in the bowl of night...."
He evidently thought this was very funny.
Maybe your mum and my dad would have got on like a house on fire.

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Steve 41oo wrote:

Hope sil is ok.

You need a bloody hat here. Always raining.

And we are supposed to be in one of the driest parts of the country.

Steve, my damp friend, the sun has been splitting the rocks all day up here. Just to make you feel more disgruntled.

SIL is in rude health, too much if you ask me. She needs calming down a bit. She was visiting, that's all.

My hat is a waxed cotton job which is very good for the fishing. I bought it a few years ago in Hawkshead when we were on a fishing trip to the Lakes, staying at Sawrey which has an excellent old pub and is famous for Beatrix Potter and all that, and popular with the Japanese who read Beatrix Potter in primary school apparently.

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it's hailing here. Hail to all!

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Glad to learn the sun is splitting rocks in Manchester. I know you dont rate Old Trafford as actually in Manchester, but I hope its not Ferguson who is spitting rocks tonight. Still support floods in from all over...from another thread,

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Well, Stevie - it's chucking it down here too today - absolutely torrential! Don't think its good cycling weather in Devon. So will don the hat and scarf for the match tonite - C'MON THE "U" (is that what they say? Rolling Eyes ) and send them posivibes.

With support like that how can they loose? C'mon you U's, thats a new one

Laughing

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