miserableoldgit

Good sensible post. Mind you, you do realise that you will now be branded "A Daily Mail Reader"!

Is this genuine????

I rest my case.

But surely, if we are honest, we all use some of these phrases, whether we admit it or not.

Totally agree.

Sadly, the biggest problem with the Americans is that they don`t learn from history. Because they are the biggest, most powerful country on earth, this is their answer to everything. I just know, however, that if this country has to align itself to anyone, it has to be the U.S. I am not happy about it but what are the choices?

I am no lover of America, but where would we have been in 1918 or 1945 without them? Nothing is black or white. Where would we have been during the Cold War without the backing of the Americans? Would Russian influence have spread further into Europe? Unfortunately, America is a neccessary evil.

I quite agree. This thread is not about the rights or wrongs of war (although I defy anyone to say that the war against Hitler was not justified). It is about those who went and did what they were asked to do and sacrificed their freedom and their lives doing it, whether on the beaches of Normandy, at Ypres , Waterloo, Iraq or Afghanistan. Without them we may have been speaking French or German now!

You are right but sadly today too many young people don`t seem to accept this and think that old people are "fair game" forgetting (or not really knowing) what they forfeited to give them their freedom. My old man (now well into his 80`s) gave up HIS youth and served in the RN during WW2, taking part in the Battle of the Atlantic, the Russian Convoys and D-Day. He (along with thousands of others) deserves respect.

Saw him at The Anvil last night. Absolutely brilliant! Having seen a lot of comedy recently (Frankie Boyle, Russell Howard, Jo Caulfield, Andy Parsons, Lucy Porter, Milton Jones etc) I thought he was the funniest and he managed it with resorting to (too much) bad language or bad taste. Well worth catching up with.

Here You Are! Don`t Lose It Again!

"For your tomorrow, we gave our today." NEVER forget.

I`ll go with 8 & 7. The use of "of" instead of "have". Annoys me intensely. On the subject of grandmothers phrases, mine, when asked what was for dinner/tea, used to say "Wommle" (wommall??). Don`t have a clue what that meant!

Perry McMillan??

Kenna and Bridge come to mind. I`m sure people can think of a few others.

I think to be fair that injuries (Lee Holmes, Morgan S, Perry etc, etc) along with the continual influx of (loan) signings will have had a detrimental effect on continuity. In the whole scheme of things these issues combined with the fact that JP is new to the English league and hasn`t really had THAT many games to get a settled side have made it difficult for him. As for the original question - I would like to see him given the chance to carry things forward but with a bit of money being available to bring in some better more experienced player in the particularly weak areas.

I tried to take out a book on "How to Commit Suicide" from the library once. They wouldn`t let me have it though. They said that I wouldn`t bring it back!

Yes very much so! Along with many others! http://images.google.co.uk/images?sourceid=navclient&hl=en-GB&ie=UTF-8&q=lewes+bonfire&um=1&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&resnum=4&ct=title

If you have the time the place to be is Lewes in Sussex. The whole town is shut off the streets are packed, there are flaming tar barrels rolled down the streets etc. A wild and exciting experience! http://www.room139.lewesonline.com/

I have had the odd migraine and they are BAD! Tried Imigran Recovery. Expensive but seemed to do the trick.

You mean the "Flint" shirts, surely?!

Seems like a pretty cool guy to me! http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=wzyT9-9lUyE

I believe that they were given Andrew Sachs number because they were supposed to be doing an interview over the phone. When they called Sachs was not there and they got the answering machine. At this point the "schoolboy humour" took over and the rest is history. For the record, I actually like JR, although I can take or leave RB (too much reliance on sex and bodily functions from both of them though) and although I have Sky "Everything" I probably watch more BBC than anything else. I have no axe to grind one way or the other. To me it is just about what is and isn`t acceptable behaviour. IMHO, what happened to this ageing grandfather (regardless of who he is) goes beyond the bounds of acceptability. This was pre-recorded and could have been pulled by the Beeb and no-one would have known.

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Can we make a dinstinction between a prank (a planned action to elicit laughter albeit at someone elses expense) and two rich "lads" being unable to control themselves, not worrying about the results of their actions, and thinking that they cannot be touched. Is this "quality" broadcasting ( whatever your definition of "quality" is?