THE BRITISH THREAD II

Very amusing, yes I do. A bit embarrassing for the young lady in question, showing her to have a lot in common with a randy polecat. Of course, as she said, she didn't mean it "that" way.

As for sapphic trends on that famous island, I would like to know more.

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I thought quite the opposite Mac. She presents herself as being so exciting that the male hero and well known ladies man shoots his load opening the door to her room.

The Superbowl build up was hilarious. A three hour ceremony dedicated to the excellence and toughness of American Manhood and the USA itself was followed by a toss up by a guy who scratched his nose a lot, wearing a frontier style coat to protect him from the icy blasts, with a very special coin before heads or tail was called, requiring a second attempt, and a snap which flew past Manning's head resulting in an own goal.

You couldn't make it up.

The Sky Sports panel of experts, whose shoulder pads were too wide for the screen, obviously needed to believe that it isn't just a bunch of blokes running around a field chasing a ball, which isn't a ball as balls are spherical, as many intelligent ladies are often heard to say superciliously.

In similar events in N.Korea it is obvious they are all hamming it up but that lot meant it. A very great deal by the look of it.

When UKIP reaches out to the minorities they seem to do as well as when they reach our to women.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-26019668

Now, that brings back memories ...


(Vintage bus running because of the tube strike today - source: twitter via The Guardian)

TV subtitles reported in the paper: a reference to the International Baccalauriat was rendered as "back a lorry out".
And some Trojan on the plains of Marathon was reported to have been "on the plane at Marathon".

Tee-hee.

My favourite is The Ed Miller Band.

Being hard of hearing, subtitles are constantly "on" on my telly.

One I saw recently - former Indian cricket player, Rahul Dravid, became "a raffled rabbit."

There I was, writing away, thinking I was on The British Thread...may have puzzled quite a few people. Here's what I wrote

They're still using barges on the Thames...I was near River Street, quite near Millennium Bridge and therefore St Paul's, watching some rubbish containers being loaded into one, last year.
I often think on the changes wrought in the great ports (London, Liverpool, Glasgow, Belfast) by containerisation.
There is a marvellous documentary "The Box the Changed the World" which is well worth seeking out.
The days of dock labour...I notice that the docks in Liverpool have a very high wall around; probably very necessary. There was a story of a Liverpool docker called Diesel. As in, "Dese'll do the missus.... dese'll do di daughter."

The first ever consignment of Scotch whisky to reach America intact, was the first one sent sealed in containers.

It is the second consecutive year that a pub in Lancashire has been crowned Camra's national pub of the year : The Swan with Two Necks in Pendleton, following last year's The Baum in Rochdale.

Your thoughts, spendi?

I can't say that I like real ale Walter. Rochdale is tricky place for strangers to find their way in. Pendleton is a very nice village. It's near the boundary with Yorkshire and famous for Pendle Hill and witchcraft lore as one might expect with its reputation for the prettiness of its young ladies.

The MP for Ribble Valley, a bachelor Welshman of considerable stupidity, is in a spot of bother with the police over allegations I am loathe to mention.

The Queen was once asked where She would retire to if we ever decide to pension Her off, which is highly unlikely, and She said it would be the Ribble Valley.

The gap between the Ribble Estuary and the Penines is only a few miles and thus Lancahire has always been, since Roman times, the centre of the west coast transportation routes.

It was the cradle of the Industrial Revolution. About 20 years ago the Financial Times published tables of industrial and agricultural productivity and Lancashire was No 1 in both. The Heinz factory near Wigan produces over a billion cans of soup every year.

It is a wonderful place to live. There is very little bullshit.

I've been to Clitheroe and thus passed a bit of that really beautiful part of the UK.

We might gold in the skeleton.

Are you in the Yarnie Army?

Have you ever tried to drive in Wigan?
You'd be better off in Royston Vasey.

What about all these people in Conservative seats doing being surprised that flood plains sometimes flood and that their choosing to live on one is all our fault?

That is indeed a good question.
Similarly, there was a punter complaining bitterly on TV this morning that the authorities had not given him any sandbags.
If I lived in a flooding area (which he plainly does) I would make bloody sure I had a supply of my own sandbags, or better, have a barrier at my doors which could keep the worst of the water out.
Wouldn't you?

I learn the planning authorities, because of other pressures, frequently give permission for building on flood plains and water meadows against Environment Agency advice.
Interesting times.

There was more than a hint from an expert that water in the Thames is being held upstream to prevent London flooding.

We often see pictures of churches above the flood line which seems to suggest that the builders of them knew all about floodplains hundreds of years ago.

The larger the ponds to hold excess water upstream the less the levels rise for a given amount of rain.

I heard the opposite, that the Thames barrier has been closed during high tide to stop tidal water going upstream.