THE BRITISH THREAD II

Top football clubs employ tutors to help their foreign signings with their English.

That's why they quickly learn to speak better than our lads.

Although they probably learn more from the WAGS.

Hola, senorita.... estoy Futboll star. Tu jiggy-jiggy ??

Are you sure they need it ?

Look Cal--I'm in bottom gear. Do you seriously think I should change up and step on the gas?

And I don't give a damn that "others" consider me a troll and get annoyed. I know why they do.

Why?

Too late the phalarope.

It would be obvious to you Cal if you read the exchanges.

I make a point or ask a question and if they can't or won't respond to them they accuse me of being a troll, derailing the thread, being off topic, being drunk, stupid, a dipshit or variations on having my head up my arse or talking out of it.

They think, I presume, that any of those responses, either singly or in combinations, constitutes a satisfactory reply and that they are thereby absolved from dealing any further with the point or question.

All of which is trolling.

Not that I'm bothered mind you. The stupider they make themselves look the better.

If you think their asserting that I'm a troll is evidence that I am a troll I will have to learn to live with it. The record is there for anybody to come to a conclusion about it who has any interest and what can I say about anybody who hasn't any interest.

No-one here to discuss the current issues over the Catholic Church? They have been around since about the IV century, and authors (in the left-wing press at least) think they may be finished, at least in their present form, at least in northern Europe.

Is this not an important subject?

will there still be beer?

What, you mean like monks brewing beer? I believe some Protestants (and not a few heathens) do that too.

ok then...

i'm good with their passing.

I did discuss it Mac. Two posts on the previous page.

Did you not read them?

You had better grit your teeth then Rocky. The Catholic Church shows no sign of passing to me.

Sorry to barge in McTag, I didn't realize that you follow a theme here

Apropos catholic church. In Germany there is a rather nice satire magazine
"Titanic" and their front page is this (I put it up as I know you speak German).

Translation, please.

Thank you

For the rest: It's a play on words Abtreibung = abortion
Abt = clergy. The headline reads: "Abtreibung ab sofort erlaubt!" ("Abortion allowed now!") The clergy said " So, my son? Have you already rubbed an Abt (clergy) today?" and the boy replied "Oh God, not again!"

I guess it only makes sense in German...

This one is easier: Molestation problem solved!!
Vatican decides: mandatory warning!
"This church is not suitable for children under the age of 12"

Everyone knows the trick of titillating a readily exciteable audience, in the service of easy money, or some lesser imperative, under the guise of moral outrage. Mr Frank Harris perfected the art well over 100 years ago and the News of the World has been at the game many a long year.

A feast for timid adherents of certain propensities masquerading as squeaky-clean little puritanical homilies which are capable of eliciting mild arousal simply by slight and safe references to the objects of the obsession.

I indulge the vice a little myself with my references to corsets, garters, elasticated gussets, zippers, nether clefts and whatnot so I know how easy it is to tangentially convey certain ideas into the receptive minds of whatever section of the public taste the author wishes to please.

A research project in the 60s on recognition of visual patterns discovered that most normal members of the public could spot the word "****" on any page of The Times (when it was a broadsheet) on which it appeared within 10 seconds of perusing the page.

Henry Fielding was accused of such low tactics in the 18th century and penned these lines in response to the frowns of the ladies in the theatre.

These kneejerk attack-dog ejaculations would not pass muster in the tap room of the Dog & Duck at chucking-out time.

Obviously Mac you are catching assertivitis. It is not a nice condition. It alieniates you from sensible discourse and leaves you talking to "Yes sir No Sirs Three Bags Full Sirs."

The subject you raised, for whatever reason, concerns a foreign country and is off topic on a British Thread.

I said I was too idle to start another thread. And I don't feel it's my place, somehow, despite the importance of the subject. Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

If I do, I'll link it here.