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THE BRITISH THREAD II

 
 
McTag
 
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Reply Thu 4 Dec, 2008 04:37 pm
@spendius,

La donna e mobile, Spenders old fruit, and 'twas ever thus. Desmond Morris would give you evolutionary reasons why women are so adept at playing both ends against the middle. What about the Sabine Women? Did they go on a sulk, or say they were washing their hair? No fears, they knew when they had perforce to change horses in mid-stream, and accomplished same without missing a beat.

My cheesecake letter was nothing but a simple statement of fact, followed by a simple question. Why was I paying superior prices for inferior product?

Power to the people.
spendius
 
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Reply Thu 4 Dec, 2008 06:54 pm
@McTag,
Don't you think we have it?

Isn't that the problem?

Why do you think Media is so obsessed with these cases when there's millions of human beings living short, nasty and brutish lives all over the place.

Do you think institutional racism is the cause or a fascination with abducted little girls?

I'll bet the Sergeant at Arms in the Palace of Westminster is happy to have the spotlight removed for a time. A pal of mine suggested that she should have been a dinner-lady or on a lollipop crossing.
Steve 41oo
 
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Reply Fri 5 Dec, 2008 04:11 am
@spendius,
Remarkable broadcast on the Today programme this morning. Apparently it is 50 years since the introduction of National Trunk Dialling in the UK. The historic first call was made between Bristol and Edinburgh...and was recorded for posterity.

(phone rings) This is the Lord Provost of Edinburgh speaking.

Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. This is the Queen. Good morning Lord Provost. Please convey my best wishes to the people of Edinburgh.

LP Good morning Your Majesty. It would be a great honour for me to convey your best wishes to your loyal subjects in Edinburgh.

HMQ I am speaking to you today directly from Bristol, a city nearly 300 miles away, by the marvellous innovation of National Trunk Dialling.

LP Thank you Ma'am. It is most gratifying to receive such a call.

HMQ National Trunk dialling will soon enable subscribers to speak directly with other subscribers by the simple expedient of dialling a number. This is the first such call made today between Bristol and Edinburgh. Other cities within the United Kingdom will soon be connected.

LP It is indeed a great achievement Ma'am and a credit your Majesty's Royal Post Office Engineers.

HMQ. Thank you Lord Provost. Lord Provost, is the Duke with you now?

LP ......er Duke who ma'am?

HMQ The Duke of Edinburgh. One's husband Philip.

LP Oh I do beg pardon Ma'am, but we are expecting Duke Ellington. The Duke of Edinburgh is not here.

HMQ I see. National Trunk Dialling will enable subscribers to connect directly with Scotland and other parts of the Realm and due time abroad. Lord Provost, is the Duke of Edinburgh in Scotland do you know?

LP To the best of my knowledge he is not Ma'am.

HMQ Thank you Lord Provost. If he were to show up perhaps you would be kind enough to pass on One's National Trunk Dialling telephone number.

LP It would be an honour Your Majesty. Has your Majesty tried a direct call to Greece?

HMQ. Thank you Lord Provost. That is an excellent suggestion. Goodbye Lord Provost.

LP. Goodbye Your Majesty, it has been a great honour....etc etc




McTag
 
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Reply Fri 5 Dec, 2008 04:22 am
@Steve 41oo,

Sound like the Lord Provost was taking the mick. Phone Greece for Phil, indeed.

Anyway, in Glasgow they call him the Chookyembra.
Steve 41oo
 
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Reply Fri 5 Dec, 2008 04:28 am
@McTag,
morning mac

and anyone else

chookyembra...like it

did you hear the broad cast? it was much funnier than my spoof. Priceless bit of social history.

McTag
 
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Reply Fri 5 Dec, 2008 04:32 am
@Steve 41oo,

No, didn't hear it. Shame. No doubt it'll be on "Pick of the Week" on Sunday....or maybe will be available for replay on the BBC website. I may look later.

Later Steve, for luncheon, we're going to the Woodheys at Marple for my parents-in-law's sixty-fourth wedding anniversary.

And taking them along, too. Very Happy

You know it?
McTag
 
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Reply Fri 5 Dec, 2008 04:59 am
@Steve 41oo,

Here it is

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7766631.stm
spendius
 
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Reply Fri 5 Dec, 2008 08:22 am
@McTag,
Well you must admit it was very good. And it was a revolutionary moment. And Her Majesty was just lovely. Lovely.

She might have said, " Now we have got you on this newfangled blower Provvie we beg to inform you that we will be up your way in a couple of weeks so would you be so kind as to remove those silly bed-warmers in the west tower and install under and over electric blankets. This is the technological age after all, (meaningful glance at the stud, who titters behind his programme notes), and it would be sad to think of Scotland falling behind. And we would prefer more fleecy sheets than those you provided during that cold spell last year. We need proper rest you know. We can't afford to rise in the morning and look like you now can we? We are the beautiful new Queen of England and the realm and Her dependents are full of hope. A new age of white-hot technology is dawning, or being forged, as Mr Wilson said in my speech at the nuclear reactor shin-dig.

And before we go will you bring whatever influence you can to make these numbers a little shorter. We forgot what we were going to say when we were rotating this dial with the Royal digit.
Well--goodbye then and it has been very nice talking to you." Click.

It was cutting edge stuff at the time. I presume it had us in awe. Apart from the seedier wing of the National Union of Mineworkers.

If you are going to laugh at our forbears you might be better going to the zoo and doing it in style. To laugh at that video with that superior, smug laugh is so, so Indy Grauny leftie mushy you know. Go and watch a bunch of monkeys for a few hours. Get serious.
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Steve 41oo
 
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Reply Fri 5 Dec, 2008 03:41 pm
@McTag,
McTag wrote:


No, didn't hear it. Shame. No doubt it'll be on "Pick of the Week" on Sunday....or maybe will be available for replay on the BBC website. I may look later.

Later Steve, for luncheon, we're going to the Woodheys at Marple for my parents-in-law's sixty-fourth wedding anniversary.

And taking them along, too. Very Happy

You know it?
Yes. I'm sure I replied to this earlier. Congrats to all. My parents friends had the Rock Tavern on the Glossop road.

original reply somewhat more detailed... off to bed now...cycled too far.
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McTag
 
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Reply Sun 7 Dec, 2008 01:28 pm
Such a beautiful day was it, that we decided to go up into the Derbyshire hills near Macclesfield and have a walk. We parked near Windgather Rocks, and walked up the edge on to Shining Tor above the Cat & Fiddle road.

The sun shone all day, and the temperatures were low enough to have kept a crust on the remaining snow, and to have frozen the boggy spots, so that walking was fairly easy and very pleasurable. Visibility was first-class, affording lovely views on all sides. The green and pleasant land never looked better.

Quite a few paragliders were enjoying the breeze up there.

http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c277/Tags1/IMG_0610.jpg

http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c277/Tags1/IMG_0629.jpg

http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c277/Tags1/IMG_0622.jpg

spendius
 
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Reply Sun 7 Dec, 2008 01:42 pm
@McTag,
I trust you were on at least the minimum wage Mac. I'd want £20 an hour myself. And expenses both ways to include lunch and drinks.

Suppose you had started feeling a bit wobbly. Don't forget Robin Cook.

Helicopter job eh after a long wait with dizzy spells alternating with periods of great lucidity. That's £10 grand up our shirts for a start. Assuming no winch is required.

It's obvious why it's so desolate and there are no billboards advertising soft three-seater couches up there.

Did you not wear a hair shirt? Do you watch telly in a deck-chair?

Lovely views my arse.
spendius
 
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Reply Sun 7 Dec, 2008 06:43 pm
@spendius,
It's official. We are being feminised. They said it was the cod but I think that's snow. It's Media casting the blame elsewhere.
Steve 41oo
 
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Reply Mon 8 Dec, 2008 11:48 am
@McTag,
We used to go rock climbing at Windgather rocks.

Goyt valley must be nice too. I'm getting nostalgic.

Meanwhile in Essex we had a sharp frost yesterday morning. Didnt stop 6 of us cycling to Hertford via a roundabout route. Lost several toes and fingers to frost bite but apart from that most enjoyable. Paul fell off on ice. No one seriously hurt, except the CTC from Enfield two of whom ended up in Barnet General hospital.
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McTag
 
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Reply Tue 9 Dec, 2008 03:11 am

Yo Victoria and Albert
Magnificence of the Tsars

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/visual_arts/article5308333.ece
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Steve 41oo
 
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Reply Fri 12 Dec, 2008 05:15 am
@spendius,
I know what you mean about tv being feminised. You get one poor bloke on the sofa surrounded by very attractive young women reading the news or telling us about snow and ice and to wrap up warm...and he has a forced little laugh about something trivial...all girls together. yuk. Its not just feminised, its childish and trivialised. Presumably they are catering for their audience who are mainly female and like childish and trivial things, thats the impression I get anyhow.


Watch Bloomberg tv. Its a refreshing change. Actually these days called Doomberg.
Francis
 
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Reply Fri 12 Dec, 2008 06:28 am
So guys, you're pesting about tv?

Does tv matter, anyway?
Steve 41oo
 
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Reply Fri 12 Dec, 2008 08:27 am
@Francis,
Francis wrote:

So guys, you're pesting about tv?

Does tv matter, anyway?
no

here are a few things that matter and my take on them

Gordon Brown saves the world. "Crass Keynsianism". True
Climate change agreement. Europe leads the world. Nowhere.
The police did not illegally kill Jean Charles de Menenez. (that is not a joke)
Senate votes down multibillion rescue plan for US car industry. Good. who wants cars anyway?
Zoo elephants should take more exercise. Take them a walk round the block.

so as you can tell I am being rather flippant today. But I dont know what is the politically correct reaction to the End of Capitalism.
Francis
 
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Reply Fri 12 Dec, 2008 08:41 am
@Steve 41oo,
Steve 41oo wrote:
. But I dont know what is the politically correct reaction to the End of Capitalism.


Other than capitalism is a beast hard to kill, why do you need a politically correct reaction?
Steve 41oo
 
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Reply Fri 12 Dec, 2008 09:47 am
@Francis,
Francis wrote:
Other than capitalism is a beast hard to kill, why do you need a politically correct reaction?
That's my point. I didn't kill it, I'm not guilty. Capitalism died at the hands of capitalists. It strangled itself, my hands are clean. But I dont know whether to be pleased sad or just fearful about what it all means.
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spendius
 
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Reply Fri 12 Dec, 2008 10:18 am
@Steve 41oo,
Quote:
I know what you mean about tv being feminised.


It's not just TV Steve. It's everything where there's no danger and no shite. Where words speak louder than actions.

A woman was in charge of the shooting of John Charles and reading between the lines of the jury's criticisms there were "turf wars" which you always get with women mixed with power. Whoever put her in charge, probably that Blair guy, are in the frame.

A woman was in charge of Harringay social services.

A woman let the cops into the shadow immigration minister's office in the House of Commons without a warrant.

The Home Secretary is obviously out of her depth as a number of the Blair (no relation) babes proved to be. They have Jack Straw minding her. And why does she have the tit crease on display when the PM is passing the nation's condolences to families of dead servicemen. What's that all about? It's not an accident.

A woman was in charge of the Ross/Brandes fiasco.

A woman lost her handbag on a space walk. What the bloody hell is a woman doing on a space walk for ****'s sake? A gimmick. Positive discrimination. I bet thousands of men were better qualified.

I'm hoping that the one who is doing Sky weather when close to term drops the kid during a broadcast.

A woman was sacked yesterday, to general acclaim, for telling a class of 8 year olds that Father Christmas doesn't exist. (Stealing their childhood

Women are all over that "get Darwin into schools" rubbish.

A woman used Dunblaine's victims to promote herself and get shotguns banned and all sorts of other consequences to drag production workers down.

A woman called Thatcher did unquantifiable damage. But she did well for her Mark eh what?

And it isn't women in general. It's these career women. A very small minority but they are the ones who get into Media and justify mothers with young kids going out to "work" from which they return exhausted and stressed. And the "work" is on another level to that of those in Media. And, IMO, they have screwed up the lives of millions of ordinary lasses who I used to be lost in admiration for but steer carefully around now.

I had a woman tax inspector. Ye gods. She had to have male company in case I tried anything on. Then I had a VAT inspector who told me that she didn't know what she wanted.

I'll not go into detail on Cherie Blair for obvious reasons.

A woman launched her career, which is still going strong, on the slogan "All men are rapists" and spawned a raft of nonsense held afloat by giant hot air balloons.

Women drove the anti-smoking legislation through on a pile of lies and Goebbels type propaganda. Now they are working on booze.

We men have let our womenfolk down by letting these 1%, at most, cow us into submission with staged photo-ops.

They have women pilots now on the long haul routes . Has anybody flown on a jet which has a woman pilot AND a woman co-pilot? If not, then the airlines are having another "playing at it" session whilst accepting my general position.

I fought my local paper, and some national ones, on these issues for five years through three editors. They had a "Free" Womanpost supplement and it was surreal. It wasn't a local newspaper either. It was owned in London. Along with a lot of other "local" newspapers. "Free" was a lie. That it was a local paper was a lie. The most prominent female "journalist" (another lie- they wrote feechewers not features) was the wife of one of the editors. In one article she admitted enjoying weeing on the heads of young lads in her class at school. And much else. She once said that she would like to be "forced" sometime. She had refused to take her husband's name on getting married. I knew two of the blokes who worked there. One left the country and the other went to follow Jesus. I had the inside track.

It has to be admitted that the females in the world of our betters have their men by the balls. And there are enough of them to garuantee that their IQs are average but there they are are, all the daughters and nieces, wielding influence over millions with articles and programmes of the direst stupidity.

And kids are going to minding units at a younger and younger age. And human milk production is almost dried up.

A financial crisis was inevitable. I'm surprised it took so long.

We have barmaids who go to university. And they can barely read or write let alone add up.

What a bum deal it is for women working. It lowers men's wages. And gets them home earlier. So they are working for nothing and have to put up with us for longer. And produce millions of problem kids.

I see the funny side since I mellowed.

 

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