THE BRITISH THREAD II

I checked the mileage door-to-door and it was 1409 miles. That includes some sightseeing on the islands too, though.

How many gallons of the world's last dregs of juice did you convert into noxious and dangerous fumes Mac.

I didn't do a drop. I'm greener than yoo-oo-oo!

They sell fish in the shops and they are nice and neat in the posher ones. And any species you fancy too. Within reason. In the tins they even flavour them to suit most tastes. No "eye" looking at you off the plate balefully. Just the best bits.

If you just open a tin of sardines, Spendy, you're missing out on quite a lot- the cameraderie of your jolly fellows, the agonising over the choice of lure and line, the twinkling of the sunlight on the clear water, the cunning stealth and skill of the cast by which the feathered lure is presented, the sudden BANG among the stillness as a fat trout hits the fly, the shining flank of the fish glimpsed tantalisingly through the disturbed water as it twists in fury, sometimes leaping clear of the surface in its bid for freedom, and the disappointment of the fisherman as the rod unbends and the line goes slack as the trout succeeds.

I was expecting a nice happy ending Mac.

Did you know that that penny on the ground you disdain to pick up is enough to take you 150 yards or so in a car that does 30mpg?

Which just goes to show how cheap petrol is. What makes petrol seem expensive is the distances people want to travel to indulge their whims.

And you should pick the penny up to prevent the Queen's image being trampled underfoot.

I was thinking how cheap petrol is as I was filling the car with diesel at 124.9p/l.

Also if a car will do 150yds on one penny's worth of fuel, how much would you actually be prepared to pay for fuel to get you to the petrol station- and hence avoid having to push it - if you ran out 150 yds away?

And whilst I'm on about it, how much is a tank of fuel worth to a farmer if he can plough 20 acres of heavy Essex mud listening to Britney Spears in air conditioned comfort instead of walking behind Bob and Joe as they take all day to plough 1 acre?

Why is that farmer using geldings? Or stallions?

Sorry McT, didnt make myself clear. I'm not really into horses or ploughing. Obviously he wouldnt use husky dogs. Just trying to illustrate the real value in terms of work done of a tank of fuel for his tractor.

Or do you know something about Bob and Joe I dont?

Oil companies are closing down some of their petrol stations so that a lot of their customers have to drive further to get it. (Petrol I mean).

Every customer is thus using a pennyworth more for every 150 yards extra they have to travel to get petrol and they get more work out of the till staff. The government then has to find jobs for the staff thrown out some of which are in job centres which have first pick and thus get the well stacked ones.

Gas guzzlers twice as much

How green are my valleys?

ah but how green are your wellies?

Okay I've come back from the bank now. They are a right shower.

I just thought that in a pair of draught horses, one would be a mare. But maybe not. I don't really know anything about it.

ok so thats two of us...anyone else know nothing about horses?

I know a bit about horses. Racehorses mainly but I rode a horse a good few times as a kid. Bareback.

The candidates in the Crewe election are as follows-

Dunwoody, Tamsin. (Labour Party)
Garrett, Gemma. (Beauties for Britain Party)
Shenton, Elizabeth. (Liberal Democrat Party)
Timpson, Edward. (Conservative Party)

I don't vote but if I lived in Crewe, which I am grateful for having been spared, I might trip off to the polling station to cast in my lot with Gemma who is an ex-Miss Great Britain.

I hope she saves her deposit.

The Flying Brick is the candidate for the Monster Raving Loony Party, I note.

Right up your street Mac.

When the Flying Brick Party and the Beauties for Britain Party constitute H.M.'s Government and H.M.'s Loyal Opposition sanity will be restored.

we use Belgians or PErcherons as draft horses mostly. I keep 4 in our farm . They are not mine but my neighbor's who owns 8 more and uses them mostly for draught shows and point-to-point dressage meets for those people whose noses are securely up their butts.
They dress up in ridiculous riding gear trying to look British. Must be a bunch of left over Torys that we didnt fully kick out back in 1782. Bunch of inbred trust-baby pillocks they are.

I know a man whose father breeds Clydesdales near Campbeltown. These are our biggest breed of heavy horse.
Many go to Japanese owners, where the breed is very popular I believe.
Strange, that.

As I know fm better than most on here I might as well explain that what he means by-



is that they have hobbies and interests other than he has. If they happened to have powerboats with bowthrusters, fossil collections, armouries and a tendency to protesting religious meetings the sun would shine out of their butts.

What I mean is that he is a specialist in protolinguistic Ur-phonemes and chaste, ocular auto-copulation with mirrors.

Anyway enough of this horseshit the Great Day has arrived, and even CNN are broadcasting live from the Luzinskii Stadium. I'm more confident with every hour. Terry Drogba and now Cole crocked. Avram Grant totally out of his depth. Lampard on his way to Inter. Meanwhile Utd fully rested relaxed and raring to go. Even the pitch favours the reds. And History beckons.

There's many a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip.

Hey the city fathers and AID mothers of this fair city have decreed there will be no official parade, win or lose.

Bloody Rangers.

Still. I hate bloody Ronaldo. Way too much hair wax.