THE BRITISH THREAD II

Shhh...don't tell everyone about Lancashire and Cheshire, they'll all want to come.

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I was just thinking, when Walter was in New Mexico, (he's been posting photos of his itinerary) I was in Borrowdale.

Contrast a desert with the Lake District in May.

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Mac wrote-

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I went for a bike ride today Steve, to Styal.

That's where the women's prison is located isn't it. Did you take to your knees and weep at the injustice of those walls and fences Mac?

Stringing Ruth Ellis up was the last straw in my book. Reason having gone out of kilter. Where on earth did they find a bloke to do that? I would rather be thrown into a pit of snakes.

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I do hope that those days soon will have past - cars with national flags where you look, and then the cavalcades starting tomorrow every day ...

Eh, just in case you don't know that: tomorrow the European Championship starts in Austria and Switzerland :wink:

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Many of us can't avoid knowing, Walter.

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Francis wrote:

Many of us can't avoid knowing, Walter.

I know, Francis. But I addressed that primarily to the others, those on largest of the British Isles :wink:

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The BBC (who had bought the TV rights, I suppose) are talking it up like mad, as though it were some kind of significant event.

:wink:

Significant event? On the news this morning, talk of an EC army. Seems like a bad proposal to me. Will we go to war with President Obama? Armies, once in existence, tend to get used.
We could intervene in Africa, and find ourselves up against the Chinese. Bad.

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spendius wrote:

Mac wrote-

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I went for a bike ride today Steve, to Styal.

That's where the women's prison is located isn't it. Did you take to your knees and weep at the injustice of those walls and fences Mac?

As a matter of fact the prison gates was my turning point. I didn't go as far as Steve's water wheel, fine wheel though it be.

There was a miserable-looking group of women by the gates, visitors maybe, or possibly cleaners. That cast a little cloud over my mood. Prisons are sad places. We worked beside Strangeways, Manchester for a while and there is an intangible air of sadness and menace about the place.

About Ruth Ellis I know little. Was she fitted up? Convicted of murder, she was hanged.
There is tremendous controversy about all of the last few people hanged in Britain, I think: Bentley, Manuel etc. And since capital punishment was stopped, quite a few "murderers" freed on appeal.
Just goes to show, dunnit.

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Capital punishment renders the job of Home Secretary insupportable in this day and age in our European homeland.

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You wot?

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Walter Hinteler wrote:

Eh, just in case you don't know that: tomorrow the European Championship starts in Austria and Switzerland :wink:

European Championships of what??

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margo wrote:

European Championships of what??

FOOTBALL.

(That's "soccer" for ignorants.)

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It's not football this year, it's only fussball.

Crying or Very sad

Hey I believe the Polish papers have been trying to outdo The Sun.

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McTag wrote:

Hey I believe the Polish papers have been trying to outdo The Sun.

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It is Derby Day today.

There are certain races which I find it is necessary to have a wager on in order to feel English properly. A certificate of competence so to speak.

But strange goings on have been going on in the build up to today's race and I have not much confidence in trying to choose the winner.

But a choice there has to be and I have settled on Tartan Bearer hoping it can see off what looks to be a powerful Irish raid.

I'm tempted to think that my "too good to be true" record on A2K in regard to backing horses must be set for a fall but that amounts to a superstition so I'm risking my reputation as well as my money on this one.

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I saw a bit of the Derby broadcast and I thought the arab chappies with Sheikh Mohammed looked really silly in their top hats, sorry chaps.

And I don't think the sheikh's suit fits him very well, although it probably isn't from Burtons.

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McTag wrote:

It's not football this year, it's only fussball.

Hey I believe the Polish papers have been trying to outdo The Sun.

But The Sun still likes to be controversial....

http://img.thesun.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00502/news-index-1_502613a.jpg

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And I won 13 points on the race. So my winning streak is intact.

When Tartan Bearer came swooping down the outside from off the pace I thought I was up for a 33 point haul but that soft patch it hit which caused it to lose momentum, fatal at Epsom, and the ridiculous luck the Irish jockey on the winner found, possibly illegally, did for me and I have had to settle, chewing my gums, for the lesser amount.

A truly great race. Nothing else had a smell.

I'm not saying how much a point is.

Everything else is bullshit. Get your money on. Talk's cheap.

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As I was saying,

France has proposed a battery of measures aimed at boosting European military integration - including the EU's first permanent operational headquarters in Brussels for planning military missions abroad - threatening a bruising battle with the British government.

The proposals, circulated to European governments in a five-page document detailing Paris's security policy priorities, include common EU funding of military operations, a European fleet of military transport aircraft, European military satellites, a European defence college, and the development of exchange programmes for officers among EU states

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jun/07/eu.france

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From today's The Observer

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100 of the most difficult words

Orange, foreign, rhinoceros, properly, vomit, tambourine, tournament, tourist, heaven, engine, exquisite, opposite, advertisement, gnarled, rigid, risen, sinister, spinach, video, vinegar, tie, wheelie, quiet, science, crier, pliers, soldier, Monday, mongrel, monkey, courage, magic, manage, palace, four, journey, gnash, gnaw, gnome, ghastly, guard, miracle, miserable, pigeon, pity, prison, month, mother, nothing, once, smother, son, sponge, tongue, wonder, almost, both, comb, ghost, gross, most, only, post, programme, deny, reply, July, obey, caterpillar, chapel, damage, dragon, fabulous, family, famished, garage, glacier, habit, hazard, hexagonal, imagine, panic, radish, miaow, powder, cauliflower, plant, pyjamas, raft, rather, salami, task, vast, kiosk, kiwi, machine, encourage, somersault, swollen, souvenir.

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What do they mean by "difficult" Walt?

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