THE BRITISH THREAD II

Hells Angels are a non profit 501 (c)-3 under the US tax code.
They are able to protect you weenies while you merely talk it to death.

Maybe you can call in a favor from the IRA, they seemed to have stymied the bulldog for many a year

Ignorant shite fm. Let's eat the pudding eh? Your violent fantasies are not wanted. Either talk like a reasonable man or **** off.

Agreed.

Actually there is a HA chapter in Southampton, a lot of them were really pissed off about constantly having to send money to America to pay legal bills. It's the main reason a lot of them leave.

From what I heard Americans had collections to enable the IRA to buy weaponry off Gadaffi.

Who cares about legal niceties when what they really are is an organised gang of cowardly bullies throwing their excessive weight about and attacking in a pack. A Marine platoon would have them scuttling down the nearest dark alley with their tails between their legs.

What's a woman doing interviewing bloke after bloke after their rounds in an all bloke Open Golf Championship invented and organised by men.

Our lady cricketers are world champs and they don't allow women anywhere near cricket commentaries.

I bet Hazel Irvine couldn't get round Royal Lytham under 120.

It's as incongruous as Frank Bruno doing nappy rash programmes coming the cod compassion courtesies.

Reviewing John Ranelagh's The Agency: the rise and decline of the CIA, George Stern wrote--



Blandness and brutality is exactly what fm conveyed. And it's supposed to be funny too. fm with his underpants round his ankles is funny.

Nor should they. A woman's place is in the kitchen, or pleasing her man.

Am I right? Can I get a high-five?

We've the "three K" here, where women should be: Küche (kitchen), Kinder (children) and Kirche (church).

Cricket could be spelled Kricket in German ....

Certainly

Saturday afternoon between 2 and 4 is going to be a bit frantic. Today was bad enough.

On top of the Test Match on Sky Sports 1, the climax of the day's stage in the Tour de France on Eurosport, the opening holes of the leaders in the Open on BBCs 1 and 2, there's horseracing on CH 4 with 7 races.

It's finger-flicking good eh?

I think it is necessary to convey to a woman how important it is for a man to keep abreast of these things so that her natural inclination to please him will readily suggest to her what her duties are in this respect.

Why I'm happy that the Naked Rambler is free to roam

I've been corresponding with naturist Stephen Gough since I interviewed him earlier this year. He was stubborn, but also persuasive





Stephen Gough, AKA The Naked Rambler, who hopes to get home to Bournemouth without putting his clothes on. Photograph: Murdo MacLeod for the Guardian

Stephen Gough, AKA the Naked Rambler, has finally been released from Perth prison after six years of near-constant, naked, incarceration. I interviewed him there in January, while he was serving his 17th conviction. It appeared that Gough and the Scottish legal system had unwittingly created the perfect legal quandary. How to release a naked man who is in prison for being naked?

Gough's imprisonment began in May 2006 when he stripped off on a flight from Southampton to Edinburgh. He was returning to Scotland to face charges connected to the second of his Land's-End-to-John-O'Groats naked rambles that had seen him make jovial appearances in the national press, and less jovial appearances in the docks of various Scottish magistrates' courts.

The mid-air strip (which in court was described as having little effect other than exciting an onboard hen party) earned Gough a four-month sentence for breach of the peace. Those four months have been extended over and over again as Gough has each time insisted on leaving prison without any clothing. The prison authorities notify the police, the police pick him up outside, he's charged with a further breach of the peace, taken to court to receive another sentence and sent back to jail.

It was clear when I interviewed him that he was never going to back down on his cause. I found him extremely likeable and highly persuasive. "What I'm doing isn't about me," he said. "I'm challenging society and it must be challenged because it's wrong." It was extreme naturism mixed with equally extreme stubbornness. Yet at a philosophical level Gough was persuasive. "We can either end up living a life that others expect of us or lives based on our own truth," he wrote to me afterwards. "The difference is the difference between living a conscious life or one that is unconscious. And that's the difference between living and not living."

In the months after, Gough and I exchanged a series of amicable letters. The difficulty of housing a naked prisoner had left him in virtual solitary confinment, and he was greatly enjoying the mail he had received as a result of the piece. "No offer of a wife or girlfriend yet though," he joked in one letter. Gough was glad people would no longer think he was just an attention-seeker, or indeed mad.

His position remained unaltered though. I gently inquired about his plan for his pending release and he said he intended to walk out of prison naked and hoped he would be left to tackle his long hike home to Bournemouth.

Gough told waiting press on Tuesday, "this is my vocation" before striding south, naked, his possessions in prison-issue plastic bags. If he makes it over the English border, he will find himself on safer ground – the Scottish interpretation of a breach of the peace charge has been far more stringent than its English counterpart.

Right now he should be somewhere in central Scotland, enjoying the pouring rain. If you live between Perth and Bournemouth, and police forces continue to look the other way, he could be coming to a town near you soon.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/shortcuts/2012/jul/18/why-happy-naked-rambler-free?INTCMP=SRCH

He's a local boy, from Eastleigh, and there's been a lot about him in the local paper. He's a lesson of the value of stubbornness. According to the Echo, the state has spent half a million pounds locking him up. What a criminal waste of money.

What a twat that Boris Johnson is. If he had said what he's said today at the bidding ceremony Paris would have got the games.

What a diabolical liberty Chris Hoy is not in the individual cycle sprint event, although he's the current gold medal holder.

He's been training for July, and he came second in the British trials. Only one may go forward.

If the same rules were applied in athletics, Usain Bolt would not be in the 100 metres event.

But you got Philip Hindes now
(He said he had not been getting a chance in the German squad, as there were two faster men in his role, so he moved to Manchester during the winter of 2010 and joined up with British Cycling.)

Well good luck to him, I say. Although I don't follow his logic.

Meantime, enjoying the fact that our cyclists have done superbly well in the Tour, Wiggins and Froome looking like finishing first and second, and Cavendish the top sprinter.

What a trip around France we couchies have had. One of the commentators said that their surveys have shown that 50% of viewers watch the Tour de France to see the country.

By the side of it the BBC's coverage of the golf is pitiful. Newsnight is getting a bit gimmicky. Too many females too near too many buttons at the BBC is the likeliest cause I think.

At one point in the golf there was a shot of Calcavecchia heaving his lunky bulk along the fairway with a slip of a lass, his young wife I think, in his wake lugging his heavy bag of clubs and other kit to ensure his comfort in any foreseeable circumstances. One of the commentators asked the other one, they are both ex-pro golfers, whether he had ever asked his wife to carry his bag. The other one said "no" because his wife would have said "earn some more money and then you can hire a caddie". That's a proper feminist. Whether there was a crude expletive immediately pre-ceding "caddie" and a ""you big ape" after "money" we were left to guess but from the tone in which the guy said it I shouldn't be surprised.

I dare say that guy is happily married.