THE BRITISH THREAD II

I know that Mac but it's no good for having a bit of fun with. You can't take the piss out of warm-hearted gregarious generous salt of the earth types.

The psychologists reckon that warm-hearted gregarious generous salt of the earth type are petrified of having the piss taken out of them and thus develop being warm-hearted gregarious generous salt of the earth types as a defence mechanism.

Very true.

Somebody one wrote "It is seldom difficult to tell the difference between a Scotsman with a grievance and a ray of sunshine."

I once went to Islay for a week to see if it was suitable for escaping the ****. The locals convinced me in 3 days that it was not and I returned dejected and determined to make the best of it where I was.

That's interesting.
I think half the folk on Islay are settlers looking for Shangri-La. The rest are inbred alcoholic Gaels.

Lots of things are irritating me today.

That's understanable Mac. Get Mrs Mac to put a wet towel over your head and lie down for a while.

How long can Cameron continue being propped up by a dead duck?

Tory-lite, that's what they're seen as now. And, as supporting an unpopular regime.
Watch Andrew Marr tomorrow, that's what I'm going to do.

So what did you learn from the Andrew Marr show Mac?

Can't say yet. We've got guests, so I recorded it.

I imagine they'll discuss Alex Salmond and the SNP.
Don't know what I'd do if Scotland seceded from the Union, but I don't think they will. Scots may be mad at odd times, but they're not all daft.

How about a line from the Wash to the Mersey being drawn, with a high electrified fence with mined moats, incorporating the northern part of England into Scotland. Then voting for independence and signing a mutual defence treaty with Russia.

You're not taking this seriously, Spendy.

But then, neither am I. I don't think there's any way the SNP would get a Yes vote, no matter how much we dislike being led by pompous overfed wet-lipped arrogant shysters like Cameron and Osborne and Gove.

Has Neil Lennon become the story now, instead of Scottish religious bigotry?

Turn the spotlight back where it belongs. Turn over those stones, expose the slimy, crawling things beneath.

Such is life Mac.

A little gem from an English sport's commentary. A Vignette.

In the dead space between the 2.00 and 2.40 at York they showed a sequence of an ordinary mum walking her 2 year old lad across the Knavesmire which is the park, I think open to the public, in which the racecourse is placed. Actually it was another excuse to show the cameras off. The kid and his Mum would be half a mile from the camera. He was holding an ice-cream on a stick which had pink stripes in it and wavy edges. About six inches of ice-cream and chunky. He drops it. The camera zooms in on the ice-cream lying it the grass. Then back in time to see Mum pick it up, the lad being busy watching something, and start getting the bits of muck and grass off it which we could see. Having done so she gives it him back and they continue with their meandering.

All this time, John Francome and his mate are talking about the scene and when Mum was cleaning the ice-cream JF said that *********, one of the other commentators, wouldn't bother about waiting for that process to take place, implying ********* is a gannet on the plates. When the kid took a lick, you could have cut my envy with a knife, JF then said "good for him, it'll immunise him."

A minute, minute and half. Modern English life at the working class level, mother and child, brilliant science and taking the piss out of *********. Ex tempore.

This kid wasn't at all like a sodding mascot in a Cup Final.

Any ex mascots should not mix with blokes who know they were mascots once.

I cannot divine any meaning in this.

Anyway, what a flaky draw ManU got yesterday. A miserable gift of a penalty. They should by rights have lost that match 2-0.

Yeah--it was a bit flaky I must admit.

The chairman of a sporting club I was a member of was making a pompous speech one day and the bloke next to me leaned over and whispered "he was a mascot for ****** ***** *** you know" and we both sniggered.

Ian Holloway gave a post-match interview, reported in The Guardian today, which was so wonderful it might have been uttered by you, Spendy.

Question Time!

a variety of pontificating prats tonight!

sheesh - GAG!