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Classic Jorge
07-30-2013, 10:58 AM
...I've not got the faintest idea who she is.

As prison reformers and christian philanthropists go surely she's below the Rowntrees or John Howards. If you're going to stick a lady on there, ostensibly purely because she's a lady, then stick someone on there who's a leader in her field.

Barbara Windsor?

Berni
07-30-2013, 11:00 AM

Snin
07-30-2013, 11:00 AM
mint center of that is no doubt

Curly
07-30-2013, 11:01 AM

Snin
07-30-2013, 11:01 AM

Classic Jorge
07-30-2013, 11:01 AM

Snin
07-30-2013, 11:02 AM
or at least been buggered a few times anyhow

Classic Jorge
07-30-2013, 11:02 AM

Sir Charlie of Nicholas
07-30-2013, 11:02 AM
The only possible candidate to replace Churchill is Lord Wee Willie of Hague FACT.

Classic Jorge
07-30-2013, 11:03 AM
I'm not having Prince Edward though

Classic Jorge
07-30-2013, 11:03 AM

Berni
07-30-2013, 11:07 AM

Hillary
07-30-2013, 11:10 AM

Berni
07-30-2013, 11:10 AM
peace they all are. Mentals.

Classic Jorge
07-30-2013, 11:11 AM
given where she started and the disadvantages she had to overcome

Classic Jorge
07-30-2013, 11:12 AM

Hillary
07-30-2013, 11:12 AM

Berni
07-30-2013, 11:12 AM
God knows what he'll do when he finds out about Jane Austen on the tenners. He hates Austen with a passion.

Hillary
07-30-2013, 11:13 AM

Classic Jorge
07-30-2013, 11:14 AM
That said, twelve f**king years on the money and I've still only got a very limited idea of who she was, poor show.

Sir Charlie of Nicholas
07-30-2013, 11:14 AM
One is suffering with nervous tension.

Snin
07-30-2013, 11:14 AM

Berni
07-30-2013, 11:14 AM
No-one gives a toss about effort.

Classic Jorge
07-30-2013, 11:15 AM

Sir Charlie of Nicholas
07-30-2013, 11:15 AM
There are any number of things you could argue and still be wrong, j.

Berni
07-30-2013, 11:15 AM

Hillary
07-30-2013, 11:16 AM

Sir Charlie of Nicholas
07-30-2013, 11:16 AM
You know how life is.

Classic Jorge
07-30-2013, 11:17 AM

Sir Charlie of Nicholas
07-30-2013, 11:18 AM
I need a holiday.

Berni
07-30-2013, 11:18 AM
Nothing fatal, I trust?

Classic Jorge
07-30-2013, 11:18 AM
I think I'm just going to go back to whistfully looking at euros thinking "if only..."

Hillary
07-30-2013, 11:19 AM

Sir Charlie of Nicholas
07-30-2013, 11:20 AM
I'm supposed to go flying in my new gentleman's aeronautical carriage this afternoon but the weather seems to be determined to take away even that small distraction.

Curly
07-30-2013, 11:20 AM
http://www.thebanknotestore.com/british/firsttrust/NI421.jpg

Classic Jorge
07-30-2013, 11:21 AM

Classic Jorge
07-30-2013, 11:22 AM

Bergkamp's Brain
07-30-2013, 11:24 AM
What are all the wimmin complaining about. They have had a woman on all of the notes for over 60 years :-)

Berni
07-30-2013, 11:24 AM
stuff. So they all went into business semi-collectively - or at least fraternally. Also, chocolate appealed to them as an alternative to the evils of alcohol.
When they got successful, they split amicably into different family brands: Bournville, Fry, Terrys, Rowntrees, Huntley & Palmer, etc.

Curly
07-30-2013, 11:25 AM

Classic Jorge
07-30-2013, 11:26 AM

Berni
07-30-2013, 11:27 AM

Bergkamp's Brain
07-30-2013, 11:27 AM

Supermac1976
07-30-2013, 11:29 AM

Berni
07-30-2013, 11:30 AM
religious loonies. Kellogg was the worst - mad as a box of frogs and forever sticking yoghurt up people's bottoms, he was.

7evens
07-30-2013, 11:30 AM
http://pthumbnails.5min.com/10357073/517853605_c_o.jpg

Classic Jorge
07-30-2013, 11:30 AM

Curly
07-30-2013, 11:32 AM
http://www.thebanknotestore.com/british/firsttrust/NI411.jpg