THE BRITISH THREAD II

Have you any idea how much money the British taxpayer is coughing up to keep that young lady in her opulent lfestyle? A flash of her norks is the very least we should get in return. Fair's fair. (I don't think the French should be allowed to see them though.)

Di Maria, magic. City were lucky to keep the score close.

Norks?

The norks of the duchess are modest and small
One might almost say they are scarce there at all
Itie paparazzi have come for a look
And decided she might be mistook for the duke.

Cheating!!

No it's not, that piece of film is the very reason I used the word 'norks,' as opposed to any other.

I could take a piece of film of you and dub a voice-over saying that the Palestinians should be run in to the sea.

It's cheating. Those who made that piece of **** should be run off TV. The sooner the better.

Spendy, you're never stuck for an opinion.

Johnny Morris (was it he?) made a whole career out of making up dialogue for film of zoo animals.
And there is a very funny short film series available, using dubbed animals in imagined conversations..

"Alan!"

So your criticism is nobbut eyewash.

You could, but it wouldn't be funny.

If you've got five minutes, this is funny. Creative, too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7798h1siNO8

Hillsborough



After reading David Conn's excellent piece in The Guardian this week, I would like to retract that.

Apparently this section of the ground was known to be, and had been widely reported as being, quite unsafe, in respect of gradients in the tunnel, unsuitability of the turnstiles and of the crush barriers, and addition of pens which exacerbated a bad situation.

Sheffield Wednesday FC did nothing to improve the ground layout after a similar earlier incident, and there was no safety certificate in place for the ground. Knowing this, the FA still accepted the application to hold a cup semi-final there.

The police of course knew how the fans would behave. An incident on the M62 motorway earlier was responsible for most of the late arrival of traffic from the west. Yes, boisterousness and anti-social behaviour can be expected from any large travelling football support, but the police did not cope well with that. Instead, their actions in opening the gate was the worst thing they could have done in the circumstances.

So what next? A class action against SWFC, the FA and South Yorkshire Police? Liverpool-based spokespersons last week were careful to avoid uttering the word "compensation", I noticed.

In london Sunday night, but only for a few hours (

Enjoy Heathrow

Better than any Eurosion song ...

Sounds a bit like me. I'll be in London (blah! Heathrow only) for 5 hours in 2 weeks and then for 12 hours at the end of the October. At least then I'll get out of the airport. Hampton Court Palace anyone?

Channel 4 news did a bit on jokey responses to the waitrose Twitter page. I shop in Waitrose because....

My favourite was, I once heard a dad say 'Put the papaya down Orlando.'

Will you foreigners stop being so silly. This is a serious British thread, about royal tits and official murders.

We've been in the Waitrose in Wimborne Minster. (The missus for the first time ever in a Waitrose.) There's just this shop ... but you had to pay for parking.

What's so special about Waitrose?

I wonder, too. It's just an upmarket place ...