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THE BRITISH THREAD II

 
 
Dorothy Parker
 
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Reply Thu 20 Nov, 2008 10:53 am
@Steve 41oo,
'sup everyone?

We talking football? Ok, I saw it. Just enjoy listening to the commentator say the player's names in that really serious way they do.
spendius
 
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Reply Thu 20 Nov, 2008 02:44 pm
@Steve 41oo,
Such is the literary endeavour of the "downtrodden 'neath the rolling-pin British" male. And he boasts of it too.
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Izzie
 
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Reply Thu 20 Nov, 2008 03:17 pm
@Steve 41oo,
Steve 41oo wrote:

I bin an gon an dun it
But it is the most beautiful bicycle in the world...


YOU

DID


WHAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Shocked

Oh Lordy! Oh my oh my oh my! Can see Mrs. S face! So laughing Stevie - HA - did the boyz persuade you too a?

Good for you - know you will get huge pleasure from your new bicycle. And Mrs. S will get much peace and quiet. Razz "Hey" to the lady!

(I just ordered myself a door! It's my Christmas present to me) Very Happy
McTag
 
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Reply Thu 20 Nov, 2008 03:31 pm
@Dorothy Parker,

Dorothy Oh I Just Popped Out For Some Chips Twelve Months Ago wrote:

We talking football? Ok, I saw it. Just enjoy listening to the commentator say the player's names in that really serious way they do.


What, you mean like Ag-bon-la-hor?

And Germany had a Jones, and a Gomes, and a Podolski.

Sounds like the League of Nations.
Walter Hinteler
 
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Reply Thu 20 Nov, 2008 03:45 pm
@McTag,
Well, Jones' family is ur-Hessian, only that his father was a GI; Gomez' family is ur-Swabian ... with his father being a 'Gastarbeiter' from Granada ....
And in the late 19th century, some parts of Poland were German .... Wink
McTag
 
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Reply Thu 20 Nov, 2008 03:59 pm
@Walter Hinteler,

And there were some Scottish priests there nicht wahr?

Any McTavishes?

Oh sorry, they would be celibate I suppose. Embarrassed
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McTag
 
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Reply Sat 22 Nov, 2008 06:10 pm

Manchester "Christmas" market is now underway. Very good it is, and more popular than ever it seems. We went last night and it was mobbed.
Had a bratwurst with sauce and mustard, then later some Austrian potato salad and mushroom stuff. Very continental. Enjoyed it a lot, so we decided to go back again next Friday.
spendius
 
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Reply Sat 22 Nov, 2008 06:29 pm
@McTag,
Bloody hell Mac. Have you no idea how boring that lot is.

And Channel 4's Scoop Six was so fascinating this afternoon that any fiction writer who made it up would be laughed at or possibly led away by men in white coats.

It was Action Art. The latest thing. I've invented it. Found art in social settings and dynamic.

An unwashed plate from which double steak and kidney pudding , double chips, double bread and butter and a scoop of mushy peas with gravy has been consumed is easy found art in the static genre. Like the unmade bed.

It is impossible to explain to people who walk through art galleries at 4 mph eating a hamburger just so they can say they have seen something which they think qualifies them for the admiration of the rest of us.

It was brilliant.
McTag
 
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Reply Sun 23 Nov, 2008 10:51 am
@spendius,

Quote:

Bloody hell Mac. Have you no idea how boring that lot is.


You have evidently not yet become aware of the ultra-ironies and post-satirical themes in my work.
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Steve 41oo
 
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Reply Sun 23 Nov, 2008 11:17 am
@Izzie,
Izzie wrote:

(I just ordered myself a door! It's my Christmas present to me) Very Happy
Thats great izz and a good time to have a door. Winter can be a real bum without one, believe me.
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McTag
 
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Reply Mon 24 Nov, 2008 04:14 am
@spendius,

I find art galleries are spoilt by tourists. Who do these people think they are? Cars on the road too- there's far too many of them.

I added a beetroot (finely chopped) to a favourite sausage and onion dish last night, and it gave it a nice festive colour, reminiscent of cranberry sauce or pickled red cabbage.
Steve 41oo
 
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Reply Mon 24 Nov, 2008 11:53 am
@Izzie,
Izzie wrote:

Good for you - know you will get huge pleasure from your new bicycle.
Thanks for your support Izz! Its a Trek 1.5 road bike. Pearl lime green and white. In carbon it would be mega bucks but I have the aluminium alloy version (or al-OO-min-um. as our american cousins say...why is that?). At my level of cycling a few grams extra weight makes no difference. I must admit it scared the hell out of me to start with and I wondered if I did the right thing. But now when I ride it in anger...or in my case a state of mildly raised adrenalin...it really moves. In fact i dont understand why its legal, its great fun. (And bloody dangerous, but dont tell anyone). Lance Armstrong says its not the bike but the athlete...of course thats right, but on the other hand I'd like to see him win the tour de France on my Kettler.



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spendius
 
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Reply Mon 24 Nov, 2008 11:56 am
@McTag,
I'm flabbergasted. The FTSE has risen, Poseidon like, by 10% whilst a socialist chancellor has been unveiling the biggest spending and borrowing programme in recorded history. I need reorienting.

The decrease in VAT obviously cannot be allowed to result in a decrease in the price of alcohol, tobacco and car fuel for Presbyterian reasons. Hence taxes on these items have been raised to offset the decrease from VAT. Unfortunately the decrease in VAT will end in Dec 2009 but the increases to offset it will not end in Dec 2009 or at any other foreseeable future date.

I anticipate an election before Dec 2009.

PS. Mac-How can tourists spoil art galleries when there wouldn't be any art galleries if there were no tourists. You are an elitist. You want art galleries paid for by the public but reserved for your personal use whenever you fancy going down and having a shufti. Are you a member of the aristocracy?

Do you also wish the roads to be in tip-top shape for when your class want to use them?
Steve 41oo
 
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Reply Mon 24 Nov, 2008 11:59 am
@spendius,
why so surprised? the Dow shot up after trading in London on Friday. And surely you understand that vast spending on public works means lots of money for navvies and gang masters
spendius
 
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Reply Mon 24 Nov, 2008 12:04 pm
@Steve 41oo,
I was brought up in a world Steve where everytime a socialist made a policy speech the FTSE dropped a few points. Now it goes up a lot of points. I anticipate a decline in the City.
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Dorothy Parker
 
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Reply Mon 24 Nov, 2008 12:29 pm
@McTag,
Wasn't boring about the German Christmas market in Manc, McTag, I'm dying to get down there but can't face the crowds and parking traumas. Gonna go late one week night get proper wrapped up and try this mulled wine everyone's always going on about. Not keen on red wine but maybe it will be a festive revelation?
McTag
 
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Reply Tue 25 Nov, 2008 05:02 am
@Dorothy Parker,
Mulled wine gives me heartburn, but I enjoy drinking it, pay later.

Parking's not a problem when you use public transport. Even aristocrats like me do that, especially when proud holders of free bus pass.

Oh by the way, DP, many of the stalls close early, before six. Don't know why. So if you want some nick-nacks and not just the wine and bratwurst, go earlier or at the weekend.
Walter Hinteler
 
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Reply Tue 25 Nov, 2008 05:40 am
@McTag,
McTag wrote:
Oh by the way, DP, many of the stalls close early, before six. Don't know why.

The official opening/closing time is different, though.

(You may have a look at some German Christmas markets - usually they don't start before noon and close at about 20h.)
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Walter Hinteler
 
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Reply Wed 26 Nov, 2008 09:58 am
@Dorothy Parker,
Dorothy Parker wrote:

Wasn't boring about the German Christmas market in Manc,


Birmingham, try Birmingham's German Christmas Market:
Quote:
"Everything comes in from Germany. The key words here are traditional and authentic. [...]If it's not traditional and authentic, it doesn't come in."

The big business of German Christmas markets[/b]
McTag
 
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Reply Wed 26 Nov, 2008 01:24 pm
@Walter Hinteler,
Yes. Well, I had to complain about the standard of the cheesecake in Mcr Xmas Mkt a couple of years ago.
It was dry, cheap, tasteless & nasty, and I'm not talking about Spendy's posts here.
I got a nice letter back and some vouchers for free beer, and the standard has improved a lot since.
 

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