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« Reply #420 on: 22:01:50, 04-07-2008 » |
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The good news is that Starbucks are closing 600 shops in the USA...
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« Reply #422 on: 09:18:05, 10-07-2008 » |
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The Metro newspaper carried this story yesterday, illustrating it with a large photo of the girl wearing nothing but her bra and holding a large rubber bat (in case readers could not adequately visualise the event)  I'm trying to remember why I bother reading Metro...  |
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« Reply #424 on: 18:56:10, 10-07-2008 » |
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What made me snork over my coffee this morning was the New Statesman interview with Gordon Brown and his agreement of a comparison between him and Heathcliff of Dithering Heights!! Now, where's me Kate Bush? "Heathcliff, It's me, it's Cathy, I've come home!" "No you ain't sunshine, it's been repossessed by The Bradford and Bingley"  Who said satire was dead? |
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Reality, sa molesworth 2, is so sordid it makes me shudder
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« Reply #425 on: 00:53:46, 13-07-2008 » |
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The fabric of society begins to crumble! Golf club ends 113-year sock rule
Men have been given permission to show off their legs at an Essex golf club for the first time in 113 years.
Members of Frinton Golf Club were previously required to wear knee-length socks with shorts.
But now committee members have relaxed the rule and men can wear short socks - a move that officials said has divided the club's 600 members.
The issue was raised because the club had growing numbers of junior members who objected to knee-length socks.
Some visiting teams were also said to have been unhappy about having to don long socks at Frinton.
The club, founded in 1895, still insists that men's shirts must have collars and shorts must be tailored.
A dress code reminds golfers that: "No denim clothing, tracksuits or shell suits should be worn either on the courses or in the clubhouse."
Nick Sams, a club professional, said: "The rule's just been changed. Not everybody's happy. It's a very traditional club." http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/essex/7503576.stm |
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« Reply #426 on: 14:41:05, 13-07-2008 » |
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Andy,
That reminds me of 1990 when myself and wife and kids returned to UK after a two-year absence. We had booked into a local Holiday Inn as our own house was still occupied by tenants. Anyway the first morning back in UK we went down to the hotel restaurant for breakfast.
In the restaurant entrance I saw a man walking towards me wearing a blue and white shell suit, rustling as he came closer, and I burst out laughing, making eye-contact with him and laughing in his face almost because I really thought he was dressed up in some sort of fun suit for the kids. Thankfully he wasn't some local thug but was a bit of a weed and scuttled off terrified or embarrassed.
In the evening, in the bar, of course we saw several of these shell suits and a friendly waitress attracted by our kids' American accents explained what had happened to UK style sense while we'd been away.
I can't remember what WE were wearing at the time, probably shorts and various T-shirts from our recent hols in Wyoming/Colorado or from Ohio, our residence for two years.
John
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« Reply #428 on: 10:07:08, 14-07-2008 » |
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This was particularly eye-popping: "He loves being shampooed and will lie on his back with his legs in the air for me to wash him." My own sheep doesn't mind lying on its back, but it refuses to have its legs in the air. This makes for very unusual looking sheepish poses. |
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« Reply #429 on: 16:01:49, 26-07-2008 » |
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Compared to this, that bike had it easy.... |
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« Reply #430 on: 17:04:10, 26-07-2008 » |
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Compared to this, that bike had it easy.... Witnesses told police that he appeared to have been drinking. Surely not . A local retailer said that Mr Walendowski might now have difficulty getting his lawn mower repaired.
"Anything not factory recommended would void the warranty," said Dick Wagner, of Wagner's Garden Mart in Milwaukee. ... the local flower maiden specialist? |
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At every one of these [classical] concerts in England you will find rows of weary people who are there, not because they really like classical music, but because they think they ought to like it. (Shaw, Don Juan in Hell)
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« Reply #431 on: 17:15:59, 26-07-2008 » |
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Oh yes, pw, there is life after Bayreuth.  |
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« Reply #432 on: 17:22:36, 26-07-2008 » |
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There is indeed ....  |
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At every one of these [classical] concerts in England you will find rows of weary people who are there, not because they really like classical music, but because they think they ought to like it. (Shaw, Don Juan in Hell)
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« Reply #433 on: 12:53:13, 04-08-2008 » |
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"People hate anything well made. It gives them a guilty conscience." John Betjeman
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« Reply #434 on: 12:54:21, 12-08-2008 » |
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I didn't think this sort of thing happened in Switzerland: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/aug/12/3 |
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