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THE BRITISH THREAD II

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Walter Hinteler
 
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Reply Thu 24 May, 2012 11:55 am
@spendius,
The driver asked for confirmation from the other passengers that the number was on show at the bus station, and told his inspector (or whomever he phoned) ...
McTag
 
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Reply Thu 24 May, 2012 04:10 pm
@Walter Hinteler,

Spendy, what are you on about? The twatty martinet ticket inspector should have punched me on the jaw, or I him?

We were having too much fum swapping insults.

Anyhow, the autobuses should appropriately numbered be, and it is clearly the duty of the citizen to alert the driver if his bus number has (due to inferior British workmanship) failed correctly to display.
McTag
 
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Reply Sat 26 May, 2012 03:04 pm
@McTag,

Not a very good Norwegian side tonight, and a lacklustre game.

I think these players are tired after too much football in a long season...tho' some had been out of their club side for a bit. Something's affecting them. Maybe it's an unwillingness to risk injury just before a tournament.
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Walter Hinteler
 
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Reply Sun 27 May, 2012 01:22 am
Usually, I don't refer to this newspaper, but since it's the only one, where that report is mentioned ...

The Queen gets a £44bn valuation for family 'Firm':
Quote:
The total value of £44.5 billion includes £18.1 billion of assets including the Crown jewels and royal palaces. On top of that, the monarchy is reckoned to be worth an additional £26.4 billion because of the economic benefits it brings to the UK, through the boost to tourism and other industries.
McTag
 
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Reply Mon 28 May, 2012 07:14 am
@Walter Hinteler,

Thanks, Walter, for the nice weather you brought us.

Appreciated.
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spendius
 
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Reply Sun 3 Jun, 2012 04:54 pm
It looks like it is up to me to record for posterity on A2K what a truly astonishing day it has been for us Brits.

What the rest of the world made of it I don't know but if it is not green with envy it needs its bumps feeling.

I've seen the front pages and it looks the Grauniad and the Indie are sulking. I hope you can all understand how sad that is.
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Walter Hinteler
 
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Reply Mon 4 Jun, 2012 10:13 am
I've toasted the Diamond Jubilee today with the nephew of bomber Harris, Peter Prideaux-Brune, at Prideaux Place in Padstow. Which is very patriotic, I think Wink
And it was most entertain, not only because he had one gin-tonic too much but because the Padstow "Obby Oss Choir and Band" were really entertaining ... as were some of the guests, including two pro-Cornish-tin-miners demonstrators (sic!)
izzythepush
 
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Reply Mon 4 Jun, 2012 11:45 am
@Walter Hinteler,
I've seen pictures, it must have been a good laugh. Were you tempted to do some morris dancing?
Walter Hinteler
 
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Reply Mon 4 Jun, 2012 12:39 pm
@izzythepush,
Fortunately not ... since we were in the Place at the time they did it Very Happy
Walter Hinteler
 
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Reply Mon 4 Jun, 2012 03:14 pm
@Walter Hinteler,
The concert really is a higlight!
spendius
 
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Reply Mon 4 Jun, 2012 05:24 pm
@Walter Hinteler,
It missed something for me. I'm not sure what though.

Yesterday was great.
McTag
 
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Reply Tue 5 Jun, 2012 12:41 am
@spendius,

A Welsh multi-millionaire sang a song to the assembled families about a murder carried out by stabbing.
Lovely.

Also, not so many years ago we would only have been told that the Duke of Edinburgh is" unwell, and has been kept overnight in hospital for observation".
Now the meeja shout gleefully from the rooftops that he has got a bladder infection.
Could have been worse, I suppose.

People interviewed on The Mall this morning, after camping out overnight, had been to ALL the jubilee events and camped out for them all!
That's dedication, and loyalty.
Considering they were all on telly.
spendius
 
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Reply Tue 5 Jun, 2012 03:19 am
@McTag,
Quote:
A Welsh multi-millionaire sang a song to the assembled families about a murder carried out by stabbing.
Lovely.


Yes- that was a particular low point.

Quote:
Also, not so many years ago we would only have been told that the Duke of Edinburgh is" unwell, and has been kept overnight in hospital for observation".
Now the meeja shout gleefully from the rooftops that he has got a bladder infection.
Could have been worse, I suppose.


Not by much.
spendius
 
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Reply Tue 5 Jun, 2012 04:57 am
@spendius,
Kate Burley has just upped the ante Mac. It's a bowel and a bladder infection. Do we really need these silly twats setting the agenda?

Let's set about de-mystifying Kate. That's a good idea.
spendius
 
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Reply Tue 5 Jun, 2012 07:05 am
@spendius,
Quote:
His greatness weighed, his will is not his own,
For he himself is subject to his birth.
He may not, as unvalued persons do,
Carve for himself, for on his choice depends
The safety and health of this whole state.


Hamlet. Scene 3 Act 1.
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izzythepush
 
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Reply Tue 5 Jun, 2012 09:39 am
@spendius,
spendius wrote:

Kate Burley has just upped the ante Mac. It's a bowel and a bladder infection. Do we really need these silly twats setting the agenda?

Let's set about de-mystifying Kate. That's a good idea.


Quote:
Being interviewed by Kay is, as we all know, like being interviewed by a backward child. That's obviously great most of the time. But occasionally she will throw you a curveball like a child might: 'Why is there war?' 'What is Europe?' – and if you can't answer it's you who ends up looking like the thick-as-pigshit chancer


From Armando Iannucci's The Thick Of It
spendius
 
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Reply Tue 5 Jun, 2012 10:51 am
@izzythepush,
I would throw her a curveball back about her floating gusset display at the Ice Dancing.
izzythepush
 
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Reply Tue 5 Jun, 2012 01:01 pm
@spendius,
It's all gussets with you isn't it?
spendius
 
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Reply Tue 5 Jun, 2012 01:08 pm
@izzythepush,
It's not my fault. It's that sodding evolution jazz. What can I do about it when I'm well fed, nice and warm and not in fear. I never think about gussets when I'm starving, freezing and running away from a lion.

I've been known to try other diversions but they never last long. That's why I'm illiterate, stupid and useless.
spendius
 
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Reply Tue 5 Jun, 2012 01:12 pm
@spendius,
Have you not read My Life and Loves by Frank Harris?

Dylan said "The key is Frank" and I can't think of anybody else he might have meant that chimed with the tenor of his poetry.
 

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