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  • greg66_tri_v2.0
    greg66_tri_v2.0 Posts: 7,172
    antfly wrote:
    Port out starboard home.It`s false.I claim my prize.

    Congrats. Your prize is: the sense of well being that comes with a job well-done

    (FFS, what were you expecting? A car?).
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  • antfly
    antfly Posts: 3,276
    Well a voucher for Wiggle would have been nice.
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  • greg66_tri_v2.0
    greg66_tri_v2.0 Posts: 7,172
    Always Tyred wrote:
    Greg66 wrote:
    Woah - stumble in here and it's like walking to a saloon brawl in Western. :shock:

    Ok, so while you all regroup and square up fro round 9, here's something for the intermission.

    WITHOUT USING THE INTERWEB who knows

    (a) what the usual story is for the origin of the word "posh"
    (b) whether it is true or false.

    15 minutes before the sound of bottles being thrown at bars, chairs being smashed over people, and people toppling off balconies after having been hit with big roundhouse punches resumes, please.

    It comes, supposedly, from cruise travel - port out, starboard home.

    It fell out of favour after the Titanic went down, as it was considered in poor taste to refer to the "sh" part, and equally poor taste to refer to the upper classes as "poo".

    Some or all of the foregoing may be false.

    Slow, slow, slow. No prizes for second place (aka first loser). :twisted:

    Does the interweb take longer to get to the Highlands? Is that your excuse?

    Ok, here's another one.

    Which English town has a *very* rude word in it?
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  • greg66_tri_v2.0
    greg66_tri_v2.0 Posts: 7,172
    antfly wrote:
    Well a voucher for Wiggle would have been nice.

    Yeah. So would a car!
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  • antfly
    antfly Posts: 3,276
    Greg66 wrote:
    Always Tyred wrote:
    Greg66 wrote:
    Woah - stumble in here and it's like walking to a saloon brawl in Western. :shock:

    Ok, so while you all regroup and square up fro round 9, here's something for the intermission.

    WITHOUT USING THE INTERWEB who knows

    (a) what the usual story is for the origin of the word "posh"
    (b) whether it is true or false.

    15 minutes before the sound of bottles being thrown at bars, chairs being smashed over people, and people toppling off balconies after having been hit with big roundhouse punches resumes, please.

    It comes, supposedly, from cruise travel - port out, starboard home.

    It fell out of favour after the Titanic went down, as it was considered in poor taste to refer to the "sh" part, and equally poor taste to refer to the upper classes as "poo".

    Some or all of the foregoing may be false.

    Slow, slow, slow. No prizes for second place (aka first loser). :twisted:

    Does the interweb take longer to get to the Highlands? Is that your excuse?

    Ok, here's another one.

    Which English town has a *very* rude word in it?

    Ramsbottom?
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  • greg66_tri_v2.0
    greg66_tri_v2.0 Posts: 7,172
    antfly wrote:
    Greg66 wrote:
    Always Tyred wrote:
    Greg66 wrote:
    Woah - stumble in here and it's like walking to a saloon brawl in Western. :shock:

    Ok, so while you all regroup and square up fro round 9, here's something for the intermission.

    WITHOUT USING THE INTERWEB who knows

    (a) what the usual story is for the origin of the word "posh"
    (b) whether it is true or false.

    15 minutes before the sound of bottles being thrown at bars, chairs being smashed over people, and people toppling off balconies after having been hit with big roundhouse punches resumes, please.

    It comes, supposedly, from cruise travel - port out, starboard home.

    It fell out of favour after the Titanic went down, as it was considered in poor taste to refer to the "sh" part, and equally poor taste to refer to the upper classes as "poo".

    Some or all of the foregoing may be false.

    Slow, slow, slow. No prizes for second place (aka first loser). :twisted:

    Does the interweb take longer to get to the Highlands? Is that your excuse?

    Ok, here's another one.

    Which English town has a *very* rude word in it?

    Ramsbottom?

    Bzzzt!

    Much worse than that.
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  • Clever Pun
    Clever Pun Posts: 6,778
    curry mallet
    cr@pstone
    chicklaid

    not overly rude just amuse me
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  • biondino
    biondino Posts: 5,990
    Scunthorpe.
    DDD wrote:
    Should Chris Rock a guy who has partly made a multi-million £/$ career from telling often vulgar jokes be frowned/looked down upon?

    If you were looking down on Chris Rock, I presume neither of you would be getting any sleep? Or have I missed the point?
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  • Rockbuddy
    Rockbuddy Posts: 243
    As the saying goes;

    "Who put the c u next Tuesday, into Scunthorpe" :wink:
  • biondino
    biondino Posts: 5,990
    Personally, I'm a champagne socialist. I'm privileged enough to be able to afford to see the good in left-wing policies without actually harming my own personal standing too dramatically. Some may call this hypocritical. But frankly, they can go stick their precious copies of the Daily Mail up their tight tory arseholes, because if this IS the way I feel (and it's certainly not some political points scoring) then great! It works!

    I also believe that young people SHOULD be socialists, because they are the ones who will bring in the next generations of social policy both in government and society. Also, the young seldom have much to lose, seldom have deeply ingrained opinions, seldom have a huge amount of experience, and since socialism is essentially the idealistic way to live, then damn right I want young people to be social idealists, rather than selfish, pessimistic nimbys who only look out for number one.
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  • Rockbuddy
    Rockbuddy Posts: 243
    Damm, too late, Blondie got there first...
  • Greg T
    Greg T Posts: 3,266
    biondino wrote:
    I also believe that young people SHOULD be socialists.

    But they all are....... they are paid for by other people, hate working and look scruffy.
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  • always_tyred
    always_tyred Posts: 4,965
    Clever Pun wrote:
    curry mallet
    cr@pstone
    chicklaid

    not overly rude just amuse me

    I once used to cycle commute past a "Bullcockspit Lane".
  • lost_in_thought
    lost_in_thought Posts: 10,563
    Greg66 wrote:

    Which English town has a *very* rude word in it?





    Scunthorpe?

    EDIT: Damn, pipped to the post.
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  • always_tyred
    always_tyred Posts: 4,965
    I was wondering about Scunthorpe as well.

    Perhaps the "rude filter" changed it.
  • DonDaddyD
    DonDaddyD Posts: 12,689
    edited May 2009
    biondino wrote:
    If you were looking down on Chris Rock, I presume neither of you would be getting any sleep? Or have I missed the point?

    Nope you got it in one. Though in this context I guess doing so (looking down on someone) sounds like fun :wink:

    Just don't try and look down at me... I know you want to.. :wink:
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  • cjcp
    cjcp Posts: 13,345
    rather than selfish, pessimistic nimbys who only look out for number one.

    That'll be present, "socialist" Govt then. :)
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  • Bassjunkieuk
    Bassjunkieuk Posts: 4,232
    Doesn't the answer to G66's question depend on what you class as a "very" rude word?
    Having said this my wife and I where discussing swear words the other day and she asked which is the worse and I did reply with that one.........
    As she pointed out that it is *just* a word, like any other word that has been branded by society as bad.....

    Besides that one isn't even funny, we have Pratts Bottom and Badgers Mount near me :-)

    I'm not even going to get started on the humor debate, Chris Rock is funny (for me) whear as some of the clips I've seen of Robby Chubby Brown just seem as if he's going out of his way to be offensive which isn't funny........
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  • cjcp
    cjcp Posts: 13,345
    Morecambe and Wise. Now that's funny.
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  • biondino
    biondino Posts: 5,990
    What an odd mistake, confusing new labour with socialist. And ignoring the vast amount of social improvements they've brought in. But you wouldn't expect a tory to notice what happens to other people, unless they're immigrants in £5m council flats obv :)
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  • artaxerxes
    artaxerxes Posts: 612
    IMO Chris Rock is a pale imitation of the legend that was Richard Pryor :P

    His impression of a Chinese man with a stutter was brilliantly funny, but would be too un-pc these days.
  • cjcp
    cjcp Posts: 13,345
    Hence the socialist in quotes. And depends whether you think you think the present incumbents of the front bench are "new labour", or even "socialist", or just "a bit cr@ap all round". Doesn't mean I'm a Tory either. :)
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  • Bassjunkieuk
    Bassjunkieuk Posts: 4,232
    linoue wrote:
    IMO Chris Rock is a pale imitation of the legend that was Richard Pryor :P

    His impression of a Chinese man with a stutter was brilliantly funny, but would be too un-pc these days.

    I think I did get a Richard Pryor stand up show a while back, but haven't had a chance to watch it yet........really should make the time!
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  • greg66_tri_v2.0
    greg66_tri_v2.0 Posts: 7,172
    cjcp wrote:
    Hence the socialist in quotes. And depends whether you think you think the present incumbents of the front bench are "new labour", or even "socialist", and in any event "devastatingly cr@ap all round".

    Fixed that for you.

    Have to admit, I went through a few adjectives before "cr@ap" before settling on that one. Sort of escalation of anger...
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  • il_principe
    il_principe Posts: 9,155
    cjcp wrote:
    Hence the socialist in quotes. And depends whether you think you think the present incumbents of the front bench are "new labour", or even "socialist", or just "a bit cr@ap all round". Doesn't mean I'm a Tory either. :)

    They're neither "nu labor" nor "socialist" just incompetent, meddling profligates that should be hounded of office ASAP. Not sure the next lot will do any better, but I am so tired of Brown era hypocrisy.

    Bunch of scunthorpes.
  • lost_in_thought
    lost_in_thought Posts: 10,563
    Comedy-wise... Last year I saw Eddie Izzard, Bill Bailey and Dara O'Briain... I have to say Dara was the absolute best of them all, laughed so much it hurt.

    I'd love to see Dylan Moran too...

    Never found Chris Rock that funny.

    Oh and I think cr@p is too mild for the current bunch of numpties... to steal a rather rude joke from someone or other... an empire has an emperor, a kingdom has a king. We're a country.
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  • Greg T
    Greg T Posts: 3,266
    The Government Front Bench isn't crap.

    It's a completely competent set of junior to middle managers who could run a moderately sized shop of some sort without too much trouble.

    Apart from Jaqui Smith.

    She's crap.

    Just ask her husband, if he doesn't pick up the phone - well - you'll know why.
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  • DonDaddyD
    DonDaddyD Posts: 12,689
    edited May 2009
    My Uncle, a self -proclaimed socialist, would argue that there is virtually no difference between both the current Labour or Conservative party and that they are both crap.

    Funny story:

    In my deluded youth and not really having an understanding on this I once voted Tory, I feel sick just typing it... If i had a time machine I would go back in time to that moment and punch myself in the face... Whoa!!! I've just got a scar under my left eye I've never noticed before... :shock:

    And no, I would never ever vote Labour having experienced this era, unless of course they got a black guy in as party leader then I'm flying the Flag! - but only if he was a real 'brotha' and not some token sell-out yes man. Though it'll never happen, if it ever did probably would happen with Labour before the Tories but more likely Lib Dem first...
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  • antfly
    antfly Posts: 3,276
    biondino wrote:
    Personally, I'm a champagne socialist.

    Is there any other kind of "socialist"?
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  • artaxerxes
    artaxerxes Posts: 612
    In my deluded youth and not really having an understanding on this I once voted Tory, I feel sick just typing it... If i had a time machine I would go back in time to that moment and punch myself in the face... Whoa!!! I've just got a scar under my left eye I've never noticed before...

    Did you fancy Edwina Currie at the time?

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