THE BRITISH THREAD II

Oh my God!

I'm up late this morning.

And I seem to have developed a giant quiff during the hours of darknes - don't ya just just hate that?

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ooOOooh.

Pota and kettles. Opacity is in the eye of the beholder, bud.

No I wasn't referring to that. Yorkshire was originally divided for administration purposes in three "ridings". There never was a South Riding. Hence the name for the novel. I blame the Local Government Act of 1970-something. But the Chieftain's sexual proclivities sound more interesting.

Interesting thanks..I didnt sleep too well last night, appear to have a bit of a fever. I got to think about when the Boys in Blue or rather Our Boys Splattered in Red were torturing the guy with an electric drill in front of his daughter, and parallels with today's methods. Binymen Mohamed had his penis slashed with a scalpel, and you know I couldn't help but think it was wrong somehow. Anyhow I did sleep eventually and I woke up to hear a Government Spokesperson say that "The British Government neither participates in, solicits, encourages nor condones the use of torture". Which no doubt is true, because anyone they need information from badly enough is put into the American system of extraordinary rendition. Of course back in the time of Red Riding, the British Government knew all about the various techniques they perfected in Northern Ireland. And if you read The Nemesis File by Paul Bruce, you'll find out exactly where the bodies were buried. (Co Antrim OS map ref 160534 and 182925). But that was fiction. Or so I am encouraged to believe.

Who's going to win the Gold Cup Spendy?

And yet we have no option but to do everything we can against the Islamic militants. Death has no meaning for them except as a portal to paradise. Do they already possess suitcase nuclear weapons? The situation is extraordinarily dangerous.

I was told to back Something Wells yesterday and it came in at 25:1, but I didnt.

Just like Cameron Diaz in "There's Something about Mary"?

hehehee

After my coup last year on Denman I am loathe to desert it but the Gold Cup is not a race for horses which have had an operation. I think the favourite is at too short a price bearing in mind the form of the Irish so I am flying a small bet on my Royalist colours with Barbers Shop.

Cheers spends ole buddy.

Off down the chemists to buy some lem-sip powders. Its next to the bookies.

I don't know that lem-sip powders are any use. Wait it out.

What I dont understand is why theses horses put up with all that beating. They only have to put the brakes on suddenly and that irritating little Irishman with a whip is departed. Then one good kick and they'd be fishing him out of the Bristol Channel.

Like all animals Steve they are completely stupid. The idea is to make them think a swarm of angry bees are stinging their arse.

Rich chaps love it I read.

So Kato Star it is. Good job I never made it to the chemists.

Yeah--great performance. 7 to 4 is a bit stingy though.

But Denman. To run like that after a heart op. is incredible.

H.M.'s horse couldn't jump in that class.

ahem

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Muckty! You are impuning my character, ya wee Scottish baaaastard ya!

...I find it quite amusing that you even dare comment on MY hair.

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I'm all in favour of a bit of banter between us Brits and our Aussie cousins who carry our DNA in their flang-flaps. But not that tasteless, witless type which Big Ears and Ms Olga have seen fit to disgrace the word "banter" with.

They are the sort of ladies who take offence when we describe their ilk, justly, as our experience of them dictates. They want us to see them in a golden glow of innocence and virtue so that when they shaft us we won't have seen them coming.

Steady on old bean.

Cycling here http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/uk/ee/andrewsfield_latest_weather.html

in a few minutes. 4 inches of snow by the time we get there I should think.

Noting that Steve did not mention football.

I thought Rafa's boys done well. (I still smile at that placard the Scousers waved when they went t0 Istanbul to play Galatasaray: "Rafa Is The Boss For Us")

And Vidic assumed that since he was playing at Old Trafford, he would get away with one of his trademark fouls. Sadly, not.

Well I didn't like to rub it in that Utd will win the Premier league and another 3 trophies as well besides being World Champions and winning the Carling Cup. Whats that the Quintuple? Sextuple? I'm please for the scousers, sends them back to their benighted city a little happier.

And as for cycling it was a beautiful spring day. Nobody punctured. Excellent breakfast at the Airfield clubhouse. I took it easy. 54 miles max speed 26, av 14.4. Our new Iranian member did not show so he was not there to fall off. Usual collection of Cessnas and stuff and someone turned up in a 1950's Super Sabre. Well he must have done because it was parked in a corner of the airfield.

Spends. mrs Steve, who likes cats, wants to know if you are getting a replacement for the British Blue that dropped dead?

It is being discussed. But there is a moggy around the place. Actually, we thought she would have missed him but she hasn't turned a hair.