THE BRITISH THREAD II

We Irish...

Aaaah the good old Ford Sierra, a nice sturdy car with a lovely saloon version, the "Sapphire" or for the wannabe bad boy dickheads eager to burn you off at the traffic lights, there was the Sierra Cosworth.....the Holy Grail of cars for knobheads with too much spare cash. God I love the 80's. Happy days.

Ah, a rare sighting of DP. How delightful.

Regards to Her Fragrance.

I think I had better avoid the first thought in my head.

I'd better not ask, I suppose. But please note the capital H.

The Olympics opening ceremony had a singing of

"Abide with me, fast falls the eventide
The darkness deepens, Lord with me abide..."

and the closing ceremony had "Imagine", with the lines

"Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too..."

quite a wide choice.

The electricians were the stars of the show.

They looked a bit ridiculous singing ""Imagine there's no countries/
It isn't hard to do" when over 200 national flags were being proudly waved.

The middle-aged mother of three looked daft on the end of the Spice Girls chorus line. The whole point of scantily dressed chorus lines is to make an offer to the audience and stimulate flowers being brought round to the stage door. When Annie Lennox got up of her kness she used a bloke as a bannister rail.

I laughed at the commentator who said that the Spice Girls started Girl Power. It was a trick perped by males for goodness sakes.

"Who you know" was the artistic principle. I bet a devious cunning festival was involved. Networking. Plus "cockney sparrer".

The idea of Boris Johnson for PM is enough to be thinking of emigrating.

You know he was born in New York, so he could conceivably run as president.

That's a good idea.

I know, I don't trust him as PM, but he's a lot better than anything the Republicans have to offer.

Fergie thinks he has the firepower to get back on top.

Well we'll see about that.

Why hasn't that man learned to speak properly?

13 to 10 City
9 to 4 Utd.
11to 2 Chelsea
14to i Arsenal
33to 1 Spurs and L'pool.

Get down to the bookies Mac and put £100 on Utd and watch your prejudices float away like a daft hat in a hurricane.

What odds on Saints?

With Vidic fit last year, they would have won.

Now he's back. Game on.

Why are the Saints shortened "SOTON"? (I'm multi-tasking in moment: watching City vs Saints, a couple of German first round (federal level) cup matches,typing here and having an ice-coffee .... at 38.7°C here ....)

Southampton has always been shortened as Soton. We're called Sotonians. The BBC never used clubs nicknames, So it's Soton not Saints, T'nham not Spurs etc.

I watch them on sky here in Germany

I'm relying on the radio, in order to get a new box for free I had to sign onto High def for a year, so I'm not getting anything else until the year is up and I can cancel it. Sept 12th is when I can cancel the upgrade and keep the box.

Well, we got HD free for a couple of months but had the sports chaces earlier (free some time, too).

Now, we pay a fortune .... but that's cheaper than buying stadium tickets or fllying to the UK any weekend

We all pay a bloody fortunce, that's why Murdoch was so ready to give up his newspaper titles.