THE BRITISH THREAD II

Can you not cut and paste it Mac. I can't believe the Grauniad would print anything I wrote.

If only it were that easy. The impossible we routinely do, but miracles may take a little longer.

You read that at the back of an auto-part shop.

It would be good over the entrance to a brothel.

Wilmslow/Arizona is a really sleepy little town - but in one way quite similar to Liverpool/Lancashire:
Ferry across the Mersey vs Take it easy.
(McTag will understand this.)

It should be Winslow/Arizona ...

Don't let the sound of your own wheels drive you crazy....

I am one of the 50% of the population who knows the name of the footballer in the super injunction feeding frenzy. If his wife isn't in that exclusive group he must have her tied up in the attic.

I'm in the other 50%.

Hold the front page. Rich footballer shags bird.

Sorry, has an affair with a young lady.

Reminds of the times that I was in two chinese snookers.

A shag is a bird. And a bird can be a shag. How amazing is that?

Apologies to ladies of refinement, but what are you doing here?

Shame about Blackpool, I'm rather sad for them.

Well done Mr Martinez's Wigan.

The skids seem to be well and truly under the FIFA management now. The recent TV documentary suggested that the Swiss government might throw them out of the country if thay did not clean up their act.
Too late for England's world cup bid, though.

Not too many Brits around these days.

I see the BBC Philharmonic have moved to Salford.
There was a good concert of theirs played on the Red Button this week, concert last Friday, of music from film. I enjoyed that, apart from Mark Kermode's harmonica playing in the theme from Midnight Cowboy, I think it was.

Sky News "What's in tomorrow's paper" was pretty funny tonight Mac.

The first front page to be considered by the geeks read "British families need £900 a year to stand still". The Daily Mail of course. The black geek with the big glasses opined that "people are really feeling the pinch" and just as he was saying it the moving strip at the bottom of the screen was saying "Two soldiers from the (I didn't catch the regiments) killed in separate explosions in Afghanistan. Families have been informed."

If Henry Fielding, or even Mr Dickens, had pictured such a situation they would have been taken away to a calming room.

Not an easy job, being a TV front man. The back-room boys are ever inventive in finding new ways to f... things up for them.

I like Sian in the morning, with Bill. She has depth, intelligence, and a lovely manner. She gets my vote, never mind the ITV weather girl Lucy.

C'mon Brits, up and atom.

The biggest news in Britain this weekend, if the BBC schedules are to be believed, seems to be the Glastonbury popular music festival.

Most of which is not popular with me. Why do young people feel they have to follow something with such zeal? Such quasi-religious fervour?

Glad to see U2's tax arrangements being highlighted. And Sean Connery lives in Switzerland. Shirley Bassey elsewhere- Jersey, maybe. Ringo Starr- who the hell cares where he lives? One for you, nineteen for me, I'm the Taxman.

Source

The News of the World, eh? Hacking into a murdered girl's phone and deleting messages. Distasteful, immoral scumbags.

I never liked that Rebekkah Wade. She should now resign, better, be sacked, and I hope she is prosecuted, along with Coulson.

I've never heard of the lady before today. Do people actually read newspapers edited by people who look like that. Sheesh!!!

She is on the greasy pole to nowheresville. The NotW is haemmorrhaging advertisers' money fast. Serious questions being asked in Parliament. The Met being kicked up the backside for inaction concerning the matter. Plenty of compensation claims to pay. Let's see if Rupert Murdoch's loyalty can get her out of this one.