THE BRITISH THREAD II

Mac wrote-



Rule No 1. Anything difficult to get into is playing hard to get and is designed to increase the price. The open sesame is what you need to get at.

There is no such thing as a superb view outside of the horse you backed romping clear in the last two furlongs.

Obviously the performances, which hardly 0.0001 or 0.00001% of the population were privileged to gawp at would have to be a " sell out" and "rapturously received" in order to be worth mentioning and to justify the expenditure of vast amounts of after tax moolah.

I'm afraid old bean that your post adds up to you giving yourself a round of applause for being so astute and wise as to be engaging in activities which 99.999 or 99.9999% of the population don't give a flying fornication about and who prefer their Chopin to take them by surprise on Classic fm and who have never heard of Mr Szpilman.

It must have been very trying pretending that you were enjoying yourself when we all know you would rather have been getting a hand-job in a back-street massage parlour.

Morning, Spendy.

It must be a very sad day for you when you don't find anything to sneer at or moan about,

Morning Spendi, 'Tag!

I have a feeble ray of sun in the room, so I for one am not moaning! Isn't that story about the Beeb and the Queen a fart in a thunderstorm?!

Yes, but I also suspect it's spin. I bet her Madge DID have a paddy at Ms Liebowitz.

Ooh, the cynicism of the post-Blair mentality!
She looked pretty boot faced but so would I at her age, stage and station.

You have a ray of sunshine? No such look here in Manc.

All this rain makes the hair on mens heads smell even worse so got that to look forward to.

Great.

I always come here for a wee laugh each morn as I check my pulse. Now youve all got me depressed.
Poor spendi's ;ife must be a scene from any
Larry David Show

Weather is apparently just crap over there

McTag cant even scare up a converstaion on some apparently good times.

Watching the Queen must be your equivalent of watching Dick Cheney fossilize before our eyes.

Like you wouldnt know her maj isnt the queen without that bejeweled hub cap on her head.

Please be happier, otherwise the terrorists have won.

Were in this together, Im rootin for yas.

At the airpot (20km away and 150 m higher than here):



Here's not so clear but 31°C

Sorry to interrupt your thread but I have a question that I have asked people and I can't get a straight answer out of them. I really didn't want to make a new topic for this question so I was hoping someone would be willing to answer my question here.

This is the question: Why would someone say they live in the United Kingdom or Great Britain? Why don't they just say they live in England, Scotland, Wales or where they actually live? I guess I equate it to someone asking me where I live and I would say North America (I have never heard anyone from the United States say they live in North America btw)

Thanks in advance if you are willing to answer my question.

Well, you don't usually answer that question with your state's name either but say 'USA', isn't it?

The equivalent to 'North America' would be 'British Isles', btw, since that's a geographic term while the others are political.

Walter Hinteler
I answer with the name of the state, not USA.
When I was in Europe and asked where I lived, I answered WA state in the USA.

That's really good to do that way.

(I'm from NRW in Germany.)

I am still confused about my original question and why people
answer the way they do

Edit: What is NWR? My mom & sister are German and I visited Germany in 2001 for my first time.

NRW is my home state: Northrhine-Westphalia.

Mac wrote-



I'm a bit busy this morning having risen a little late but I might treat myself to a thouroughly rousing cheering up session later on the strength of the last two pages.

I was in Ludwigsburg mainly but my spouse and I traveled to other areas. I also did not expect people to speak English to me since I considered myself a visitor, so I brought a German/English dictionary and did my best at German.

You mean you'll answer the above when you get pissed!

Mathos, a strung-out ex-smoker has just left this on the Acronym game-



A crap contribution obviously.

That's an example of the sheer bloody-minded uselessness of the nicotine starved mindset. I'll bet he used to take his ball home when he lost a game of roundrers and sulk in his room pulling the wings off flies which would be plentiful around his person. Flies hate tobacco smoke. All insects do.

He knows very well that "X"s restrict the imaginative creativity of anyone who has a go at SEXUAL. He's been told often enough. There are very few words beginning with an X which can be usefully employed in a witty contribution. And those have been done to death. He has deliberately ignored "attains", "levitation"" and "sometimes" all of which are inspiring. I don't blame him for ignoring "etc" mind you. That's understandable.

ATTAINS. After Theresa trumped Auntie Irene nodded sagely.

LEVITATION. Latrine emptying vanquished Imelda's toffee-nosed affectations terminating in obliterated nervousness.

SOMETIMES. Sally often made Eddie try incredible manoeuvres emitting shrieks.

He's probably grinning all over his silly fissog at his having spoiled the game. Again. His purpose is to scupper everybody's wit so that his hopeless contributions don't stand out too much.

And that's the same purpose these smoking banners had. They want to render the rest of us as witless and boring as they are. They want to get us down in the hole they are in. And they couldn't say that so they said they were saving our lives and saving the NHS from bankruptcy. The latter being the opposite of the truth and the former just something they had read about and thought they could use as a cudgel without the botheration of looking into the matter.

Well, it seems to you that it is very witty using first names in acronyms.

I, for one, just abhor it. But it's of little importance, as I'm originally a non-smoker.

North America is not a country. The UK is.

Anyway, we're tending to split a little nowadays. English people have always usually said they come from England, and by that they have meant, from Britain. (In much the same way that Americans say England when they mean the UK) Scottish and Welsh folk are more keen nowadays to indicate a separate origin (because we don't like the English) and the Irish are always the Irish. Ulstermen are part of the UK. Folks from the south of Ireland are not. Is this becoming clearer? I thought not.