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Burney
11-29-2017, 11:31 AM
You just don't get enough people swallowing poison these days imo

https://www.theguardian.com/law/2017/nov/29/un-war-crimes-defendant-claims-to-drink-poison-at-trial-in-hague-slobodan-praljak

Sir C
11-29-2017, 11:32 AM
You just don't get enough people swallowing poison these days imo

https://www.theguardian.com/law/2017/nov/29/un-war-crimes-defendant-claims-to-drink-poison-at-trial-in-hague-slobodan-praljak

Nice work. If you fancy getting your stomach pumped.

Rich
11-29-2017, 11:36 AM
Nice work. If you fancy getting your stomach pumped.

He looks like the sort of man who gets the job done, tbh. I have faith that he’ll have done it properly.

Burney
11-29-2017, 11:58 AM
Nice work. If you fancy getting your stomach pumped.

To be fair, by the look of him, it might just have been vodka

Sir C
11-29-2017, 12:00 PM
To be fair, by the look of him, it might just have been vodka

Rakia, more likely. In which case the stomach pump would still be a good idea.

Luis Anaconda
11-29-2017, 12:22 PM
Rakia, more likely. In which case the stomach pump would still be a good idea.

We've all been there

PSRB
11-29-2017, 01:49 PM
You just don't get enough people swallowing poison these days imo

https://www.theguardian.com/law/2017/nov/29/un-war-crimes-defendant-claims-to-drink-poison-at-trial-in-hague-slobodan-praljak

Fair play to the chap, it worked. Just been announced he's dead

Sir C
11-29-2017, 01:50 PM
Fair play to the chap, it worked. Just been announced he's dead

Blimey. The worst that would have happened to him was a stint in a Dutch jail, whch isn't really like jail...

Burney
11-29-2017, 02:05 PM
Fair play to the chap, it worked. Just been announced he's dead

Splendid! How terribly Roman of him :clap:

Burney
11-29-2017, 02:06 PM
Blimey. The worst that would have happened to him was a stint in a Dutch jail, whch isn't really like jail...

Must we have these Americanisms? :rolleyes: It’s ‘gaol’ for goodness’ sake. Like the pub in Biggin Hill.

Sir C
11-29-2017, 02:09 PM
Must we have these Americanisms? :rolleyes: It’s ‘gaol’ for goodness’ sake. Like the pub in Biggin Hill.

It's one of those unfortunate instances where usage has rendered the correct form archaic, isn't it? I can't remember the last time I saw it written as 'gaol'. Perhaps I simply haven't noticed.

I shall revert to the English form, both written and verbal. "He spent fifteen years in gayole."

PSRB
11-29-2017, 02:11 PM
It's one of those unfortunate instances where usage has rendered the correct form archaic, isn't it? I can't remember the last time I saw it written as 'gaol'. Perhaps I simply haven't noticed.

I shall revert to the English form, both written and verbal. "He spent fifteen years in gayole."

That's just a camp Spanish greeting

SWv2
11-29-2017, 02:15 PM
It's one of those unfortunate instances where usage has rendered the correct form archaic, isn't it? I can't remember the last time I saw it written as 'gaol'. Perhaps I simply haven't noticed.

I shall revert to the English form, both written and verbal. "He spent fifteen years in gayole."

http://www.crumlinroadgaol.com/

Sir C
11-29-2017, 02:18 PM
http://www.crumlinroadgaol.com/

I'm surprised that website isn't written in jailic, sw.

(D'you see? 'Jailic'? Fúcking good, that is.)

SWv2
11-29-2017, 02:22 PM
I'm surprised that website isn't written in jailic, sw.

(D'you see? 'Jailic'? Fúcking good, that is.)

Probably would make more sense if written in Irish as opposed to this thing you refer to as Gaelic/Jailic is Scotch in origin.

Burney
11-29-2017, 02:23 PM
http://www.crumlinroadgaol.com/

Good to see the colonies retaining proper English, sw. :nod:

Sir C
11-29-2017, 02:25 PM
Probably would make more sense if written in Irish as opposed to this thing you refer to as Gaelic/Jailic is Scotch in origin.

Oh yes, the old 'it's not gaelic it's Irish' thing. :hehe: It's all just made up nonsense, who cares what it's called?

Burney
11-29-2017, 02:26 PM
Oh yes, the old 'it's not gaelic it's Irish' thing. :hehe: It's all just made up nonsense, who cares what it's called?

A language whose spelling and pronunciation appear to have been arrived at by committees working in different rooms and with absolutely no contact with one another.

TheCurly
11-29-2017, 04:11 PM
Oh yes, the old 'it's not gaelic it's Irish' thing. :hehe: It's all just made up nonsense, who cares what it's called?

Gaelic from the Latin Galli (the chicken people).You keep chickens don't you Sir C?