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- Fri Oct 21, 2005 1:05 am
- Forum: General Chit Chat
- Topic: tea, iced tea, nestea
- Replies: 44
- Views: 2057
tea, iced tea, nestea
<t>Jab what a proper tea drinker you are!!<br/> <br/> the rest of you with your "Iced Tea", well it's an outrage, and I expect a somewhat French custom designed to undermine the drink that made this country great. I suspect this fashion for cold tea comes from you colonials fishing tea out of Boston...
- Thu Oct 20, 2005 4:45 am
- Forum: Fashion Clothing
- Topic: should we ban the burka
- Replies: 24
- Views: 3207
should we ban the burka
<t>There have been several femail suicide bombers.<br/> <br/> get the burkas off, France did it because they ban all outward signs of religion in schools the same goes for cruxifixes etc.<br/> <br/> The security one is easy to understand, you have no idea who or what is under there, the Koran as alr...
- Thu Oct 20, 2005 4:35 am
- Forum: England
- Topic: just give them a tag
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1688
just give them a tag
<t>the alarm would alert the police ...hopefully<br/> <br/> <br/> Would it were so, that scumbag who recently got life in Nottingham for shooting the wife of the owner of a jewellry store he was trying to rob had just taken his off. Not only taken it off but got a gun and shot the woman who stood in...
- Wed Oct 19, 2005 9:26 am
- Forum: Links to the Fascinating
- Topic: National Breast Awareness Month
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1781
National Breast Awareness Month
<r>I have always tried to be as Breast aware as the next man, but I will try harder in the future.<E>:D</E> <br/> <br/> Seriously how can anyone be offended, any thing that helps has got to be good, recently a Prostrate awarness radio ad was subject to an attempted ban here, they had recieved 22 com...
- Wed Oct 19, 2005 8:59 am
- Forum: General Chit Chat
- Topic: Australia
- Replies: 191
- Views: 11754
Australia
<t>Thank you all so much for the concern for my safety, it is reassuring, actually I spit in the face of such dangers and may even venture to Queensland to wrangle the odd "Saltie" a la steve Irwin.<br/> <br/> I am more concerned with breathing avian flue virus in my 23 hours on a plane that stops o...
- Wed Oct 19, 2005 4:39 am
- Forum: Just For The Fun Of It
- Topic: Tommy Cooper
- Replies: 2
- Views: 916
Tommy Cooper
One of my heroes, a genius of the first order, my God how I miss them :
Spike Milligan
Peter Cook
Eric Morecambe
giants of comedy all of them
Spike Milligan
Peter Cook
Eric Morecambe
giants of comedy all of them
- Wed Oct 19, 2005 2:23 am
- Forum: General Chit Chat
- Topic: Australia
- Replies: 191
- Views: 11754
Australia
<t>Thank you all so much for the pictures!!!!<br/> <br/> i have read up extensively on the so called Sydney Funnel web, so called because it's home territory extends in a radius 160km from Sydney, I have now relocated my hotel 161km from Sydney but will almost certainly be bitten by one that cannot ...
- Wed Oct 19, 2005 1:02 am
- Forum: General Chit Chat
- Topic: Australia
- Replies: 191
- Views: 11754
Australia
<t>Abbey everyone knows that Koalas are deadly, they can leap up to 12ft and have large fangs that they sink into your extremeties, their preferred method of attack is to lure you close by looking cute then they pounce, after subduing you with their venom they drag you up a tree to feast on you fles...
- Wed Oct 19, 2005 12:57 am
- Forum: Crimes Trials
- Topic: Yorkshire Ripper
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1285
Yorkshire Ripper
<t>Some twenty years after Peter Sutcliffe was caught for the murder of 14 (I think but Google will get you the actual number) prostitutes in the north of England a man has been arrested for sending hoax letter and tapes to the police.<br/> <br/> This man who was dubbed "Wearside" Jack because of hi...
- Wed Oct 19, 2005 12:50 am
- Forum: Wide World of Sports
- Topic: Angels/Astros in World series?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 945
Angels/Astros in World series?
I am supporting the White Sox in memory of the peerless Shoeless Joe Jackson, maybe if they win he will get in the hall of fame "say it ain't so Joe"
- Wed Oct 19, 2005 12:45 am
- Forum: History
- Topic: A Good Read For You Brits
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2359
A Good Read For You Brits
<t>Don't forget all the help the Spanish and French gave you. <br/> <br/> Beat me to it GMC especially those perfidious French.<br/> <br/> Also dont forget the heinous tactic of the Americans NOT wearing bright Red coats into battle and marching slowly in squares towards the rebel troops!!!.<br/> <b...
- Wed Oct 19, 2005 12:41 am
- Forum: General Chit Chat
- Topic: Billy Connolly
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1086
Billy Connolly
<t>He was funny right up until he started letting his wife (aka pamela Stephenson) talk him into analysis and producing a stream of books about his terrible childhood and how she had helped him understand it blah blah, his early stuff was terrific.<br/> <br/> I would be interested in what out Scotti...
- Tue Oct 18, 2005 6:01 am
- Forum: General Chit Chat
- Topic: Australia
- Replies: 191
- Views: 11754
Australia
Cheers Orange:D
- Tue Oct 18, 2005 5:24 am
- Forum: General Chit Chat
- Topic: Australia
- Replies: 191
- Views: 11754
Australia
<t>I shall be touching down in Sydney on 24th of Nov til the 3rd of dec. I am at an exhibition all day and want to know what attractuions may be open after about 6pm (apart from the bars). I know I can search on tourist sites but a little local knowledge would be apprectiated. I am staying in Darlin...
- Tue Oct 18, 2005 5:02 am
- Forum: General Chit Chat
- Topic: Political Correctness
- Replies: 130
- Views: 6873
Political Correctness
<t>There are far too many parents, and this has been said her before, who are totally unable or are unwilling to take ANY responsibility for the upbringing of their children. Those children will either fail in life or hopefully take on advice and guidance given by teachers, whether that be voluntari...
Trafalgar
<t>It's getting closer so I have to post again.<br/> <br/> This friday it is 200 years since IMO the greatest Englishman that ever lived routed the combined Franco-Spanish fleet in the battle of Trafalgar. I am at present looking for any french in my vicinity so I can be near them on the day and rem...
- Tue Oct 18, 2005 2:05 am
- Forum: Introductions
- Topic: re:greetings
- Replies: 9
- Views: 568
re:greetings
Quick Abbey get out the bacofoil and start fashioning one of those natty anti-alien devices because I think we have another one here
- Tue Oct 18, 2005 1:00 am
- Forum: Gun Control
- Topic: UK Gun Ban: No Guns = No Crime. Right?
- Replies: 79
- Views: 6874
UK Gun Ban: No Guns = No Crime. Right?
<t>First off where are those figures coming from, what legitimate source.<br/> <br/> <br/> <br/> <br/> Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.<br/> <br/> I think the answer has already been given, more guns more deaths. The figures are for Gun Homicides they do not include suicides etc, Of cours...
- Mon Oct 17, 2005 7:32 am
- Forum: Gun Control
- Topic: UK Gun Ban: No Guns = No Crime. Right?
- Replies: 79
- Views: 6874
UK Gun Ban: No Guns = No Crime. Right?
I ask my American friends again
USA population = 275 million
Gun deaths = 10,000+
EU population = 375 Million
Gun deaths = 1,000+
Explain please
USA population = 275 million
Gun deaths = 10,000+
EU population = 375 Million
Gun deaths = 1,000+
Explain please
- Mon Oct 17, 2005 5:56 am
- Forum: Gun Control
- Topic: UK Gun Ban: No Guns = No Crime. Right?
- Replies: 79
- Views: 6874
UK Gun Ban: No Guns = No Crime. Right?
Bit like dads army. Are you Cpt Mainwaring or me
I think I will be Coporal Jones "Don't panic"
I think I will be Coporal Jones "Don't panic"
- Mon Oct 17, 2005 5:08 am
- Forum: Gun Control
- Topic: UK Gun Ban: No Guns = No Crime. Right?
- Replies: 79
- Views: 6874
UK Gun Ban: No Guns = No Crime. Right?
Typical Arnold you want across between a Greek liquer ouzo and an Israeli gun Uzi:D
Actually we could form the old farts militia, I am sure we would both have no trouble completeing basic again:D
Actually we could form the old farts militia, I am sure we would both have no trouble completeing basic again:D
- Mon Oct 17, 2005 1:26 am
- Forum: Gun Control
- Topic: UK Gun Ban: No Guns = No Crime. Right?
- Replies: 79
- Views: 6874
UK Gun Ban: No Guns = No Crime. Right?
USA population = 275 million
Gun deaths = 10,000+
EU population = 375 Million
Gun deaths = 1,000+
Explain
Gun deaths = 10,000+
EU population = 375 Million
Gun deaths = 1,000+
Explain
- Mon Oct 17, 2005 1:22 am
- Forum: Gun Control
- Topic: Three-fifths of Britain's Youth Gangs have guns
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4540
Three-fifths of Britain's Youth Gangs have guns
<t>What action they take is what determines how much trouble they will be in. You have always and still are allowed to use "Reasonable" force to protect you and yours.<br/> <br/> It has been said many times in discussions on FG but there is a huge difference between the UK and USA on this. The right...
- Fri Oct 14, 2005 12:19 am
- Forum: The Library
- Topic: What are you reading now?
- Replies: 230
- Views: 23468
What are you reading now?
Swapping between The Spartans and Maximum Bob
- Thu Oct 13, 2005 2:00 am
- Forum: Ancient Wisdom
- Topic: Nostradamus
- Replies: 22
- Views: 11702
Nostradamus
No powers whatever, just broad enough stuff that could be interpereted any which way
- Wed Oct 12, 2005 7:40 am
- Forum: Home Management
- Topic: Should I use my home as an investment?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1959
Should I use my home as an investment?
<t>Clint, Location, location, location , if that is sound I would reckon prperty is the way to go.<br/> <br/> Randall the law changes in England next year to allow private individuals to use their property as part of their pension plans, which also gives the 25% tax relief on such. Not sure whther i...
- Tue Oct 11, 2005 8:12 am
- Forum: Films Cinema Forum
- Topic: great movie quotes
- Replies: 43
- Views: 5462
great movie quotes
If you build it he will come
- Tue Oct 11, 2005 8:11 am
- Forum: Bizarre News Stories
- Topic: all in good working order
- Replies: 3
- Views: 729
all in good working order
I think he is absolutely correct:D
- Tue Oct 11, 2005 6:23 am
- Forum: General Chit Chat
- Topic: Whats it like where you live?
- Replies: 170
- Views: 8324
Whats it like where you live?
<t>Chris how come you did not show the cricket ground flooded. It's the stock flood picture the tabloids seem to use every year, with the benches floating around.<br/> <br/> Is the Swan with two nicks pub still there ?<br/> <br/> I used to go a lot years ago to the Shambles where there was a guy sel...
- Tue Oct 11, 2005 1:40 am
- Forum: General Chit Chat
- Topic: Meeting your childhood self
- Replies: 20
- Views: 2267
Meeting your childhood self
<t>I don't seem to have any really early memories and there may be loads of reasons for that. My earliest memory is being in an orphanage and my brother telling My prospective adoptive parents that if they wanted him they had to take me as well (he was looking angelic, I was across the playpen rubbi...
- Tue Oct 11, 2005 1:22 am
- Forum: General Chit Chat
- Topic: Whats it like where you live?
- Replies: 170
- Views: 8324
Whats it like where you live?
<t>Tosca is no longer in my posession and no he has not been processed into meaty chunks, he had an injury that meant I could no longer jump him so now he is frightening every one at a centre where disabled children and adults ride. Although he looks a beast he is actually very gentle, his only flaw...
- Mon Oct 10, 2005 11:34 am
- Forum: General Chit Chat
- Topic: Favorite Childhood Memories
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1309
Favorite Childhood Memories
<t>Long summer holidays swimming in the river (probably get typhus now). Me and my brother camping in the woods and actually catching stuff to eat (sorry everyone but I have eaten squirrel). Summer holidays in Jersey where it was so long ago you had to dress for dinner and me and my brother wear sui...
- Mon Oct 10, 2005 7:20 am
- Forum: General Chit Chat
- Topic: Whats it like where you live?
- Replies: 170
- Views: 8324
Whats it like where you live?
I live just outside Cheltenham in England, the Heart of The Cotswolds apparently.Now I will have to go on bended knee and get LC to post some pics as I always mess it up if I can ever do it at all.
- Mon Oct 10, 2005 7:09 am
- Forum: General Chit Chat
- Topic: Arnolds back
- Replies: 9
- Views: 581
Arnolds back
What part of Ireland Arnold?
- Mon Oct 10, 2005 4:26 am
- Forum: General Chit Chat
- Topic: I Can't Beleive It!!!
- Replies: 27
- Views: 1550
I Can't Beleive It!!!
MONSTER possum whaat is this some other man eating creature that inhabits the USA that I have not been told of, just how big is a monster Possum, is it poisonous, does it bite, I need to be told
- Fri Oct 07, 2005 4:44 am
- Forum: General Music
- Topic: Frank Sinatra
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2808
Frank Sinatra
How dare he criticise Frank, if he was still alive the boys in sharp suits and sunglasses would be paying hubby a visit:D
Frank singing "It had to be you"
Frank singing "It had to be you"
- Fri Oct 07, 2005 4:41 am
- Forum: Gun Control
- Topic: Three-fifths of Britain's Youth Gangs have guns
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4540
Three-fifths of Britain's Youth Gangs have guns
<t>Have to agree with GMC and this as an ex firearms owner (legally Held).<br/> <br/> The big unsaid truth is that the highest number of killings is among black gang members, a large part of whose culture is copied straight from Compton and elsewhere. It's always said that we are 10 years behind the...
- Fri Oct 07, 2005 12:37 am
- Forum: General Chit Chat
- Topic: Prisoner's rights
- Replies: 15
- Views: 1784
Prisoner's rights
Carla I was a bloody shoe-in for it as an Angelic 7 year old, OK I have gone downhill a bit since then but I am going to get that evil Mrs Hedges
- Fri Oct 07, 2005 12:28 am
- Forum: General Chit Chat
- Topic: childhood cereal , whats your fav......
- Replies: 28
- Views: 1778
childhood cereal , whats your fav......
Grits, no, no, no
- Thu Oct 06, 2005 9:19 am
- Forum: General Chit Chat
- Topic: Iou £7million .........
- Replies: 2
- Views: 510
Iou £7million .........
Can you believe Abbey that he P****d it all away, what a pillock, if I had nicked 7 million quid I would be on a beach somewhere (probably Islamorada) downing margaritas with a certain person known to us both:D
- Thu Oct 06, 2005 9:15 am
- Forum: General Music
- Topic: What was the first record you ever bought
- Replies: 68
- Views: 7476
What was the first record you ever bought
<t>Running Bear and Little white girl, God I loved that song, how they swam towards each other.<br/> <br/> RUNNING BEAR<br/> <br/> (J.P. Richardson)<br/> <br/> Johnny Preston (Mercury 71474, 1959<br/> <br/> On the banks of the river<br/> <br/> Stood Runnin' Bear, young Indian brave<br/> <br/> On the...
- Thu Oct 06, 2005 9:10 am
- Forum: General Chit Chat
- Topic: The return
- Replies: 25
- Views: 3259
The return
Ah there you are.
- Thu Oct 06, 2005 7:19 am
- Forum: General Chit Chat
- Topic: If you were president....
- Replies: 163
- Views: 6320
If you were president....
I would like to be British Ambassador and introduce the compulsory wearing of hats by ladies after 6pm, the outlawing of flavoured tea, mandatory use of the word "Bibble" in mixed company and the immediate removal of persons with ginger hair from public spaces.
- Thu Oct 06, 2005 6:34 am
- Forum: General Chit Chat
- Topic: Prisoner's rights
- Replies: 15
- Views: 1784
Prisoner's rights
<t>The European court of Human rights ruled today that the British practice of withdrawing prisoners right to vote is illegal and should be reinstated.<br/> <br/> I obviously wholeheartedly agree, I mean the poor lambs, it's bad enough being caught but to have your vote cancelled must keep them awak...
- Wed Oct 05, 2005 11:58 pm
- Forum: General Chit Chat
- Topic: aaahhhhhhh Can you HEAR me!!!!!!!
- Replies: 12
- Views: 919
aaahhhhhhh Can you HEAR me!!!!!!!
Annoyance is a relative term:D
- Wed Oct 05, 2005 12:44 am
- Forum: General Chit Chat
- Topic: childhood cereal , whats your fav......
- Replies: 28
- Views: 1778
childhood cereal , whats your fav......
Porridge definitely, made with a pinch of salt correct!! You must have scottish heritage somewhere theia.
The Banana Splits
The Double Deckers
Shreddies
Weetabix with hot milk
My gran giving me bread and dripping
The Banana Splits
The Double Deckers
Shreddies
Weetabix with hot milk
My gran giving me bread and dripping
- Wed Oct 05, 2005 12:41 am
- Forum: General Chit Chat
- Topic: Political Correctness
- Replies: 130
- Views: 6873
Political Correctness
<t>I know we have had these before but I had to post this one. A benefits office (social security) in the midlands here in the UK has had to remove a charity collection box off its counter because it has a picture of Winnie the Pooh and Piglet on it.<br/> <br/> The presence of Piglet is considered a...
- Wed Oct 05, 2005 12:35 am
- Forum: Photography More
- Topic: Gone Fishing
- Replies: 21
- Views: 7323
Gone Fishing
Was she complicit? Bang to rights as we would say over here, lucky that she was "Kidnapped" by my namesake. She was by all accounts a saucy trollop
- Tue Oct 04, 2005 8:02 am
- Forum: England
- Topic: perpetuating the many problems our society is facing today
- Replies: 48
- Views: 2726
perpetuating the many problems our society is facing today
<t>You are already construted as racist so bring it on<br/> By whom?<br/> <br/> Do you know what policy is and how policy is implemented? <br/> Do you?<br/> <br/> Rurual Britain dislikes anything which seems different and destroys lives because of it.<br/> <br/> <br/> It's Rural by the way, and as a...
- Tue Oct 04, 2005 7:14 am
- Forum: England
- Topic: perpetuating the many problems our society is facing today
- Replies: 48
- Views: 2726
perpetuating the many problems our society is facing today
no it's not just the police it's English northerners, some areas of the government, add to this lady bikers, and me no doubt