[Tom]

I wouldn’t be caught dead in a German car. I’ve never been to an Irish pub my life, I go to either Wetherspoon’s in town or my local village pub which is a Yorkshire pub (Samuel Smith’s), and I drink Yorkshire bitter, Smith’s brewery from Smith’s obviously or I partake in the locally brewed Real Ale at the ‘Spoons. However, I do enjoy a vindaloo – which is not infact an Indian dish, but a British-modified Goan dish brought back by the Portuguese, ‘aloo’ meaning potato, the dish is more British than Indian, you won’t find any true Indian that eats vindaloo – would you want to eat it in that heat? My furniture is made in the village furniture shop down the road, hand made, it keeps the old man and his son in business and I can’t stand American shows. I’m watching On The Buses right now on DVD. However, can’t get around the foreign tele bit. Although it was made in Hong Kong, not Japan.

And the most British thing of all?
Suspicion of anything Foreign.

That’s not true, in many nations, especially in the middle-east or sub-Sahara, anything strange or ‘foreign’ is treat with a lot of suspicion. So much suspicion that it’s usually beheaded or culled in one form or another.

Only in Britain . Can a pizza get to your house Faster
than an ambulance.

Took 5 minutes for an ambulance to get to my house when I rang up with severe pains in my chest and sides. Took 40 minutes for my 16″ ham, pineapple & pepperoni pizza to arrive from 1 mile down the road on Saturday.

Only in Britain . Do supermarkets make sick People walk all the way
to the back of the shop to get their prescriptions While healthy
people can buy cigarettes at the front.

That’s not true. In the Tescos in town the pharmacist is right next to the entrance, and the cigarette counter is near the beer aisle, at the other end.

Only in Britain . Do People order double cheeseburgers, large fries
and a DIET coke.

Think you’ll find America beats us hands down on that one.

Only in Britain . Do banks leave both doors open and chain the pens
to the Counters.

Again untrue. It was the same when I went to Canada, when I went to France – and I’ve seen it on American TV, too, with the pens chained down. Besides, my local bank always has its doors closed.

Only in Britain . Do we leave cars worth thousands of pounds on The
drive and lock our junk and cheap lawn mower in the garage.

To be fair most people in Britain aren’t lucky enough to have a garage, considering the majority of society our council estate tenants. I have a garage, but I tend to leave my garden tools in the garden shed. I think any country you go to you’ll see cars parked on the street. I find it very difficult to believe that ‘only in Britain’ are there cars on the street.

Infact there’s so many of these inaccuracies, fallacies and plain down right lies I honestly can’t be bothered to reply to every single one so I’ll leave it there!

[Tom]

Reet I’d really best go. I’ve got buses to get out on time, those two lecherous layabouts I rely on won’t get ’em out on time. Ohh I ‘ate ’em, ohh they upset my stomach, creatin’ acids. God I ‘ate you Butler! I’ll ‘ave you!

[Tom]

Political Correctness ruined TV.

Bring back Alf Garnett.

[Tom]

Gay as in happy by the way. Not gay as in meeting in the public toilets down the road where there are holes in the cubicle.

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Nope. Not Kateee.

Kate, as in the woman of a million names. Like I said, I’m going back a looooong time, before I was even a Guide, when I was a bit of a troublesome youngster and was turned all respectable by the great PB. 2004 at least. Possibly earlier, I started my first site after I stopped Guiding in 2007, and I was a Guide for 2 years so well before 05. I knew them back when they used the chat forums and we ruled the F1 Pub. Back when the site was gay and blue.

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Zone Alarm is doing my head in a bit lately. I have to use IE to use my HTML editor and it randomly says “no connection” after about 5-10 minutes of IE being idle so I have to restart the browser, it’s not the net cos the rest of the net works.

I’ve downloaded Maxthon anyway, I’m just sipping my tea before getting in bed, so shall install it later, if I install it now I’ll have the urge to play with it.

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@will wrote:

only boyf kate had was jonboy.

lol I’m going back 5-6+ years here. Ant and “Kate” were going out before Kate was Kate, and when they were normal.

[Tom]

@will wrote:

@tom wrote:

To be honest I really didn’t know her that well.

I only knew her via Ant.

And no, Pete, I’m afraid I was just given far too much credit than I really deserved. I was simply people’s ‘fall guy’.. it was fun back then, but it’s really boring now; and I find it fascinating how that’s the only thing people seem to be talking about now’a’days. “The old days”. Why can’t people move on?

I am curious as to where one old chap got to, though, what ever happened to Owen Kash? I was quite fond of him, he just seemed to disappear one day. I think he ended up at Stoats for a while but not seen him since. Anyone still in contact?

who’s ant?

Her boyfriend.

[Tom]

Anyway speaking of living in the past, I’m off to watch On The Buses (got a bit of an obsession on that show lately :lol: ). Take care all.

[Tom]

@pete wrote:

Soooo no under 18’s ever view sex sites cause when the sites ask are you over 18 they say oh dear i cannot lie and click on no ?
It’s cuddles and hugs and that’s not a busines it’s exploitation.
That aside why should self employed have advantages PAYE dont get. Sure there should be help setting it up but not handouts as such, or many more will try and fail, then the handouts wont get paid back.
The banks went bust through bad debts, with the number of small businesses that go belly up then any “loan” is a bad debt waiting to happen

It’s a sex site, Pete. That is, it sells products of a sexual nature. You need a credit card to verify your account. Again, have I posted some sort of invisible URL to the sex site that only I can’t see? I’ve got one person accusing me of spamming the URL and another who apparently has seen it, which is strange considering I haven’t even promoted it on search engines yet!

Blimey. I’m sorry I started a blooming thread, I shall leave the thread-making to you in future as the self-appointed master of the forums.

There’s really no need for you to get so hostile and start thumping your chest to make a point that this is your territory and I’m just the small fish here etc etc now. I’m honestly not into the alpha male trolling tosh any more. Was only trying to start a thread on how the rich seem to be getting richer while the poor seem to be getted taxeder!

You’ve blown it completely out of proportion just to try and defend your position as king of the jungle while at the same time ruining what started out to be a civil conversation, and a subtle hint that I need advice re: accounting and whether there’s help out there for the self-employed starting a family, and your alpha male behaviour is really all needless because I have no interest in “challenging” you or threatening your position.

I’ll go post on other people’s threads instead and I apologize for offending you or making you uncomfortable, but I’m afraid I’m being generous by apologising as it’s all in your head and I really haven’t done anything wrong.

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