THE BRITISH THREAD II

You wouldn't really want to know how much pleasure I derive from my trips...

Tongue in cheek, that would be nice..

"Vauge interest!!!!" I'm fascinated. I've been fascinated with politics ever since I tried out my juvenile ideas at about 16 on my Uncle John who was a serious Tory in the proper sense of that word and is now sadly no longer with us. I can't say what his policies were because of the PC rules.

I even voted once. When I later saw the result from my constituency flash up on the TV screen I found a strange pride that the fifth digit of the votes given to the silly sod I had voted for was one more than it would have been had I exercised my intelligence to better effect. Shortly thereafter I found myself laughing at myself for feeling a frisson of pride at such a ridiculous prospect.

If a legal requirement was made for us to vote it wouldn't take long, in England, for a sewage worker on his way home from a hard, hot day with the ****, an outflow having had to be unblocked, to turn up, and the result, after a lengthy court battle, either involving the denial of his human rights on having been refused entry or the defence of later voters on the charge of not-voting that the polling station had been evacuated.

Or a conspiracy enacted whereby thousands of voters turn up all at once with two minutes to go before the official time limit which is exact as it has to be because if it didn't have to be exact all sort of tricks might take place.

The very idea Queenie that an English Rose should think we have it wrong and the Aussies have it right is ridiculous. I've seen too many Ashes series I'm afraid. You're treachery and disloyalty is duly noted.

I'd expect a more exquisite use of the language while apostrophising the ladies...

Apostrophe--The direct address of an absent or imaginary person or of a personified abstraction, especially as a digression in the course of a speech or composition.

I think that the "You're" in the sentence absolves me from your accusation. I wasn't turning away. I was gazing directly into the limpid and mysterious pools of Queenie's eyes.

Maybe I should have had "are" in place of "is".

I was in a cricketing frame of mind and so exquisite usage would have been profoundly inappropriate.

I will listen with interest to your justification though.

It was not an accusation, Spendi, it was a pun about the use of that apostrophe.

I duly noted the use of is instead of are but you could also have said, adding a comma: - You're treachery, and disloyalty is duly noted..


Careful, Spendi, in those pools one can easily drown, like Narcissus..

Well--yes--"You're" was a mistake. I hadn't noticed it.

I think " Your treachery and disloyalty are duly noted", is much better.

Narcissus died looking into his own eyes. It's a much under-rated myth. It points to a danger which those who don't believe in myths are never warned against.

Having my neck wrung is the likely outcome of gazing into Queenie's eyes.

I think what apostrophising means is when you break off a conversation to appeal to a third party audience which is usually not present.

I dissent that it's the sole use of apostrophising but it's too late for such debate..

I have been renting BBC TV shows from Netflix for the last few years. Right now I have been watching:
1-A Touch Of Frost
2-Monarch Of The Glen
3-Bonekickers
4-Johnathan Creek

You have my utmost sympathy Vic.

Please Explain!

Narcissus is dead ?? At last !!! I am the most beautiful boy alive !!! Yayhhhhhh !!

He doesnt like those shows. Never mind, lots more do than dont.

That Wembley pitch is a disgrace. They can't seem to get it right. Dashed poor show.

Well done, that Australian batting person by the way.

That is only reassuring Io to those who settle their tastes and standards by a show of hands. I have seen bits of A Touch of Frost but nothing of the others. But they are BBC productions and they carry that peeseeness in their marrow which I find so wearisome.

Now Footballer's Wives was a series worth seeing again. And again.

It wasn't so much seeing those shows as actually going to the trouble of renting the videos of them that I have reservations about.

The average person wants to belong to a group and discuss things they like...just like you Spendi.....I dont have a problem with that and I dont see it as being better to be different just for its own sake.

I loved that show, and I don't even like telly.

Sorry to be a traitor.
I didn't exactly get your argument as to why it would be a bad thing.

As of 4.30 today I shall be a real person not just a potential one. Last ever exam.

And the average person is a conditioned object and the BBC is a conditioning agent of great power. I once wrote to suggest that a tank was brought to the front door of Broadcasting House which pumped shells into the building for as long as it took to reduce it to a pile of rubble. And Mr Auberon Waugh, who sadly died at too early an age, agreed with me. And there are many more.

I had no intention of being different for its own sake. I understood, Io, that you are an enemy of PC. In which case you should have a problem with the BBC and with young people being influenced by its output. Otherwise your anti-PC stance could look like being different for its own sake.

TV is like a beautiful woman. It can be delightful and therein lies the danger. It is a temptation of monumental proportions and you know what Jesus thought of temptation. TV, particularly the BBC and ITV, which are interlocked through recruiting each other's staff, is an instrument for the South East of England having an armlock on the provinces. Almost every provincial newspaper is owned through complex subsiduaries by a parent in the SE. That's how we got the lottery and, I can argue, the crisis in the financial sector. On the other hand, the constantly growing list of dead soldiers is composed of provincial lads.

And it's how we got a lot of other things as well. Like atheism, paranoia and that feeling of deserving more than has been earned.

Product placement is about to enter the scene. Already has actually. Lord Thompson of Fleet said that the legalisation of advertising on TV was a "licence to print money".

Even the so-called public debates between our party leaders before the election, which was so distorting, were controlled by media. They chose the audience and they chose the questions to be asked. It was not as free a debate as one might get at a vicarage tea-party.

The BBC isn't called "Auntie" for no reason.

Is there anywhere I can get a bet on that you pass Queenie?



Because our traditions say it would. And you dismissed our traditions with a sweet wave of your hand and that's a really bad thing.

Well done to that English team.