THE BRITISH THREAD II

@georgeob1,

George, you do disappoint me so.

I thought you would be well versed in C S Forester and Patrick O'Brien books, and be rooting for the English (the British Navy) as you re-spooled history.

All the while singing a few lines from

When Adam and Eve were dispossess'd

Of the Garden hard by Heaven,

They planted another one down in the West,

'Twas Devon, 'twas Devon, glorious Devon.

Spirits to old-world heroes wake,

By river and cove and hoe;

Grenville, Hawkins, Raleigh and Drake

And a thousand more we know.

To every hand the wide world o'er

Some slips of the old stock roam,

Loyal friends in peace, dread foes in war

With hearts still true to home.

Old England's counties by the sea

From east to west are seven;

But the gem of that fair galaxy

Is Devon, is Devon, glorious Devon.

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@McTag,

McTag, my friend, think of it as something like your Scottish national loyalty.

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@McTag,

We used to celebrate Guy Fawkes day in Oz till they took away our fire crackers. Not much excitement left after that.

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@Ionus,

Just wait for the Ashes series to start Io. Taking your firecrackers away is nothing to what that's going to be as a dead loss.

I heard a French horse won the Melbourne Cup. What you need is more chaps with size 18 feet than you can restore national pride in the swimming.

Why do your aerobics girls wear such off putting costumes. Are they shy?

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@spendius,

I thought you would want to talk about the Australian Games...Ooops...I mean Commonwealth Games.

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I heard a French horse won the Melbourne Cup.

?????The horse spoke French ???

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Why do your aerobics girls wear such off putting costumes. Are they shy?

Well you are famous for your oggling qualities....

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Cricket - here comes the Poms.

Let's hope they put up some sort of show this time!

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@georgeob1,

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McTag, my friend, think of it as something like your Scottish national loyalty.

This makes some sense. In football (soccer), the Scots always root for whichever team is playing against England.

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@McTag,

McTag wrote:

This makes some sense. In football (soccer), the Scots always root for whichever team is playing against England.

Doesn't everyone!? And especially in rugby!

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@margo,

It's the international brotherhood of the anti-English.

They're not bad really, only joking.

ERU played quite well against the All Blix at Twickenham yesterday, they can take some positives from the game. And some bruises.
But they lost, natch.

The crowd were very unsporting (the Twickers crowd usually are, these days) and they sang loudly to drown out the Haka. That probably only served to make the NZ team angry. Bad move.

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The Wallabies are there soon - after a win over the AB's and mighty Wales!

Drowning out the haka - doesn't work.

Not a bad score against the AB's. I see all 3 southern hemisphere teams won.

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@margo,

Only Jocks and Aussies here....poor do.
I think the Wallabies will find England a tough nut to crack.
At least, I hope England give them a good game, one with not too many mistakes.
Rugby's a funny game, where a couple of mistakes in the wrong place can ruin everything.
Just the same, Aussie rugby league looks in a different class to the fare our team served up last week.

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There are 3 women, all tarted up to the gunwales, discussing the war on terror on Sky News at this very moment.

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@spendius,

he he he spendius you funny.

What are gunwales?????

Got to get tarted up if your going on Sky News!

he he

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@spendius,

Sky has not had my favourite weathergirl on for a while.
Maybe she's up the duff.
A lot of the women on TV seem to be pregnant. We must be in for a hard time nationally, when even our minor celebs are reproducing themselves so busily.

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@McTag,

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Sky has not had my favourite weathergirl on for a while.

I think I know the one you mean Mac. A bit "mistressy" eh?

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@McTag,

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even our minor celebs are reproducing themselves so busily.

I dont know why more of them arent so....God knows the entertainment industry will root anything, especially each other.

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Ian Duncan Smith and Nick Clegg are busy rolling out the most far-reaching programme of changes to the British social security system, which is going to change our society more than Adolf Hitler did. Potentially. But I think probably it will, if they get all their measures through.

And our resident expert is missing. I want to know how things are looking from inside the Buroo.

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@McTag,

More change then Magie Thatcher ? Will they abolish perks for polies or just workers and students ?

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@Ionus,

They haven't got a handle on tax avoidance by the rich yet, saying nothing of tax evasion, and are not likely to do so since they are also cutting Revenue staff.

But they are going to hit the poor very, very hard indeed.

Yes, I think harder than "no such thing as society" Thatcher. Ian Duncan Smith made a very interesting speech this morning, about how he was trying to "encourage " people back to work. That's "encourage" by stopping their benefits for three years. Work (even if there's no jobs) or starve.

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@McTag,

Or maybe, turn to crime. The implications are huge.

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