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Originally Posted by Sir C
Right. The break-up the Invincibles. A sad time.
Oh, hang on, that's not what you mean, is it? :-(
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Originally Posted by Sir C
Right. The break-up the Invincibles. A sad time.
Oh, hang on, that's not what you mean, is it? :-(
Not exactly, no :-(Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
I was ragging on Vieira at the time. He always gets sent off, he's a liability! Get rid! I was 8 thoughQuote:
Originally Posted by Monty92
All a long time ago now, though. Spilt milk under the bridge and all that. :-)Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
I think it was involuntary. I think he had an actual 'problem' :-\Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
It's why I didn't complain too much. To be fair, it was still less offensive than Micky's verbal emissions.
God I hated Micky. I sincerely hope he's dead.
Irritable bowel or colitis or what have you? I once went to a job interview with a chap who suffered similarly. He kept having to go out to fart loudly. Difficult to bring your interviewee A game in a situation like that.Quote:
Originally Posted by Monty92
I remember being rickrolled, I'm not clicking on that!Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
It's what originally turned me off The Eagles' Hotel California. "Warm smell of colitis/Rising up through the air..." :-(Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
This whole thing has got very bowel-centric. WES has just talked us through the 'massive' bowel movement he plans to unleash upon his (presumably) loving family as soon as he arrives home.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
The MD let one go as I sat down for an interview for my last permanent job. I assumed he was testing me to see if I'd hold my nerve, but moments later he excused himself and dashed off to the toilet. Weirdly, it had the effect of removing all my nerves as I instantly felt fundamentally superior to him, simply for being able to keep control of my bowels in public.Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
I must say my bowels are of a most sanguine humour; they give little trouble to me or to anyone else. On balance, I'm quite pleased with the bowels I was given.Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
Mine seem to do a job quietly and efficiently. Like Gilberto.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
WES's sound more like Terry Hurlock. Predictably destructive and carrying an air that they could lose their shÃ*t at any time.Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
Luckliy, when I woke early that morning to hear the news on the radio, I was off to Spain for a week on business. I hated travelling for work (and travel generally tbf) but I knew immediately that I'd been handed a fùcking lifeboat on that one.Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
Back in London on the saturday of the funeral, all the shops by my home off the Chalk Farm Road were shut, except for a motorbike shop and a french restaurant. I nearly bought a motorbike as a sign of disrespect.
It might have been a certain Mr B O'N who at the time came up with the phrase 'Mourning Sickness' to capture what you've described there.
Eh? Sorry, where does this come from?Quote:
Originally Posted by Monty92
My bowels are just fine, thanks. They even worked through that 12-14 year old Galician steak in a Glasgow steakhouse with surprising ease.
Wd my bowels.
That is kind-of what it feels like much of the time to be a republican, tbh. Just turned up to eleven.Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
I recall he was giving me both barrels over the EU in that strongly-worded manner of his when he suddenly said "Enjoy the game (Lester), chat to you on Monday". Doesn't sound like someone about to go on holiday for three weeks. I think he has a policy of avoiding politics on here and so has taken a hiatus. He's done it before.Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
Didn't manage to get through that tbh. It got rather dull.Quote:
Originally Posted by Monty92
Where do you stand on the monarchy, Monts? I know you generally sign up to all the standard-issue rightist shibboleths, but you strike me as the sort who who would see that particular institution as an illusion designed to bind together stupid people, rather than bowing and scraping to it deferentially.
I'm not having a go at the monarchy here btw, before anyone feels the obligation to fly in studs-up.
Timothy Taylor Landlord at a guess.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
Its an illusion that binds together badly designed branches of government and state. It does its job and saves us from having some ghastly elected head of state.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ash
Of course, if you want a head of state, a written constitution, a disestablished Church of England then it is a significant barrier.
The monarch seems terribly overworked, poor thing. Why is she not allowed to retire? Is it because that insufferable prÃ*ck would be next?Quote:
Originally Posted by Peter
Yes, but what sort of a cùnt would want those things?Quote:
Originally Posted by Peter
There's language now!Quote:
Originally Posted by Ash
To be fair, while I will obviously be loyal and bend the knee to him because of what he represents, I will struggle ever to muster any affection for Charles.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
Oh I quite agree, but referring to our next King using the c word seems to me the act of a scrub.Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
Would he not let the young lad take over, William?Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
Nobody really wants to look at that mutt Camilla while the other is relatively a fox.
I don't know really. But he's been itching to have a go for years and years. I suspect he's desperate for a taste of the top job.Quote:
Originally Posted by SWv2
I bet that Kate smells lovely :cloud9:
No, sw. That's not how a hereditary monarchy works. The clue's in the name.Quote:
Originally Posted by SWv2
Mind you, I am very struck with young Kate. I suspect she's sexually voracious.
To be fair, he called him a prick, which begins with p.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
Can you not step aside?Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
Mind you as King he could make a royal order to allow himself have a go on Kate and then step aside. Perks etc.
Fair one, fair one.Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
I've dropped a bóllock here really, haven't I? :-(
You can, but it's hardly the done thing and is only usually done if there is some pressing constitutional reason for him to do so. Also, it would be a bit of a swizz to happily lap up the very generous revenues from the Civil List and the Duchy of Cornwall for 50-odd years and then say 'Nah, you're alright' when asked to do the job for which you received those perks.Quote:
Originally Posted by SWv2
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Originally Posted by Sir C
Easily done. The confusion arose because I called people who want written constitutions, disestablished churches and elected heads of state *****s - which of course they are.
On this occasion, as so often, you have truly chosen le mot juste, b.Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
So that's all cleared up, then. Charles III is a prÃ*ck but I'm a cùnt. :nod:Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
:-( Oh he didn't mean you, a. He meant the others. You know the sort.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ash
Exactly. I would never be so rude to a, who is a chap for whom I hold the greatest respect.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
I am afraid I have to agree. Which makes me feel a little uneasy.Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
I think it's the thing where such people look around the countries that have these things and somehow convince themselves they're better run or more just than the UK.Quote:
Originally Posted by Peter
They aren't. :shrug:
They are symbols. I care little for them.Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
THe notion of separating church and state was a noble one, crucial in releasing law making and government from the narrow confines of religious doctrine. We couldn't do it so we separated state and government instead. Same difference, does the job.
In the same way it irritates me slightly when people go and see a metro system built 50 years ago and say it is so much more effective and rational than the tube. Of course it is, it was purpose built. Ours is centuries old and had had to evolve to cope with different eras.