THE BRITISH THREAD II

Are you assigning roles, here, Spendy?

btw Smorgs is about as fragile as Rockall.

That's your view Mac.

Evening All...

Gosh... I missed a whole heap here a?

Lots of ... not sure what.

I love being British - well, for the most part!

MAC - love that beast - really am looking forward to your pics and travelogue (no matter what Spendi says) - hope the jet lag has gone now... does it feel like you've been back forever already?


Spendi - you know, you do make me laugh - for all your curmudgeonly rants - you do actually make sense in my world - SOMETIMES... (yep, that's the nice little idealistic world I live in where I protect myself - HA! - not that that is of any importance to you - but, thought I'd speak my mind!)


Stevie - how's Mrs.S? Glad for the weekend So... c'mon - what are you and the cyling fraternity up to this weekend???? No doubt the POW will be welcoming you. Thinking of you and Mrs.S regarding your friend - I hope you and their family are OK... well... you know what I mean a?

Smooches all x

Smorgs

Snap your fingers Mac and all those birds will fly away squawking and screeching.

I somehow got stuck tonight in front of the 2nd part of Friday's two-part Coronation Street.

Why aren't there demonstrations outside Granada's offices by hordes of chanting women.

It was enough to cause any intelligent young man to go banging on a monastery door.

Even the racial minorities were not granted absolution.

It was almost Shakespearean.

However gumpy the chaps are at least they exude an air of innocence.

When you see a woman allow a chap to kiss her passionately on Corrie you can confidently go short on his future prospects.

I don't watch Corrie, possibly because I'm a snob. My pal watches it though.

No, I don't think that's the reason. I don't like it, that's why.

A lot of people didn't like the sort of movies which you took as models for your choices Mac.

Imagine an intelligence officer not being interested in what the other side have in store because he doesn't like it. He would have to carry a white flag around with him.

Spendy, whatever you're on, I think you should lay off it for a while.

It has a shallower green footprint that what it is you're on. That's a certainty.

Maybe you should lay off coming on international discussion forums expecting everybody to be clones of yourself.

I thought this interesting, from The Independent today

http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/dominic-lawson/dominic-lawson-it-all-went-wrong-when-we-left-the-gold-standard-960268.html

Where's Steve? Digging up his gold? Good move. I wonder if ManU are ripe for a buy-out.

I have already explained the idea somewhere on the threads. I did it much more efficiently than Dominic, a gent I used to know a bit when he edited The Spectator, but I do understand that writing for the Indie requires a lot of padding so that a lot of adverts can appear on the backside.

I predicted that the Dow would go to 8000 at the same time.

I think it is impossible to go off the gold standard. It is only possible to pretend you have done for a short period. I bought gold shares when the metal was $350 an ounce. And the only bank I have shares in is HSBC and it's where my store of nuts is kept.

We have been stuffed goodstyle by spendthrifts who end up with nothing but a load of stupid photographs and a need to show them to everybody.

If an interest rate looks too good to be true it probably is.

Spendy, you are just so sour it's untrue.

As far as "a need to show them" is concerned, I wanted to show them it's true, but also quite a few people asked to see them. More than once.

Congratulations on the gold investment, you are evidently not so green as you're cabbage-sounding.

Basically Mac, I am trying to persuade you, and any others who might come this way, not to do anything quite so daft as going to foreign parts again. The way I see it I'm doing you a favour. And our country. I'm in favour of dissuading any of them coming over here as well.

Take a look at the ones trying to persuade you to engage in such foolish activities. And dragging your lovely wife along to face the indignities I have heard are involved at entry points. Or the risk of them.

One such was a friend of mine being required to tick a Yes or a No box to the question--"Are you now, or ever have been, a member of a terrorist organisation?" He said giggling got you an anal investigation.

And anybody who wants to see pictures of these sights has a veritable cornucopia of them to choose from and all taken by professionals. And both Mr Sachma and Mr Fry are over there right now with production teams and video cameras and a bag of drolleries. It's possible those asking you to post them can only think of such things to create an entertaining post out of. They could even be taking the piss.

And if you or Fiona had got a tick-- well. Our ticks are harmless.

It's time for the rocking chair and the Darby and Joan scene. An unruffled calm routine. £2 grand telly, last hour at the pub, Ovaltine and cheese and tomato butties and a snuggle and a snooze until about 10.30. Then read the paper waiting for the snooker or a nice long, drawn test match with meat and potato pies simmering in the oven.

You could end up like Mathos if you're not careful.

I think I'm a better friend than your flatterers.

Your remarks are noted. And the next time my wife says she has a yen to drive in the States, I'll tell her to watch a repeat of Stephen Fry. Thanks for the advice.

I see gold is about $850 an ounce now, so I wish I had some.

moi ici

not been digging it up, looking frantically for where I buried it. I had no idea earth looked so similar.

Not quite. You need to make her comfortable as well. Just watching a repeat of Stephen Fry is not enough on its own.

You can subtly hint that these yens she gets from time to time are mere passing fancies which it is better to avoid translating into actions. Better for her I mean. You're the oil rag mate.

Has Gordon really saved the world?



And Tony is being investigated by the Speaker for lying to the House.
Good.

I believe he has shown insight leadership courage and determination in the last few days that will secure his place in history. Unfortunately. I had hoped an old Christian Socialist like Brown would have relished the spectacle of the capitalist system crashing down. Instead he has rescued the capitalists from their own worst enemy...themselves.