mockney piers

I love the bit where he punches the air at the top of the steps

First half was tentative, really enjoying this half though. City should have buried the game but seem to have forgotten how to kick a ball at the goal without introducing a comedy twist.

I'm pretty sure cunt-fest has at least one more ampersand and is almost certainly not hyphenated.

I've been there with my Norwich mate, but will give the WH game a miss, not worth the aggro, in this case quite literally. I actually quite like selhurst park, go there with my Norwich and my Wednesday mates most seasons, but the footie's usually pretty poor (from all sides). Though in fairness with a young mocklet I haven't been this season and am willing to believe in improvements in football and atmosphere (they usually go hand in hand). I look forward to the game between us next season, especially as we'll be filling an otter full of beer too.

Way to Godwin tarot. 440 deleted by admin? Wow, good going. Unless it's a text match in which case they were my pre-registered posts (back when you could).

"Sir Cliff would have won it if it hadnt been for the Iberian Fascists" So Franco was actually good for something then. Every cloud and all that...

i'm prety sure brendan did a while back, and quids aint far off. Has Jah got there yet?

Sorry HB did you say something? My molars are giving me awful gyp right now.

Then there is the old hole in the floor, which if there's any of the old Norman stock left in the royals, there must surely be at least one tucked away in the palace somewhere. (ooh 10001 a nice palindromic number there; is it possible to do an entire and meaningful post as a palindrome? HB, I challenge thee)

I can't believe my 10,000th post is discussing poo, thanks moos, but oh my word yes, I'd really not thought about that. As oppose to what Snor.. I mean Huncamunca?

I was always told off for my pronunciation of thesaurus at school by my grumpy english teacher Mr Ash. "It's not a bloody dinosaur" he'd say. I think of him every time I consult a thesaurus, which is really annoying because he was a right bastard.

Any chance of toning down the shouting there please bobbly?

But that would mean an end to Brendan's weird streams of consciousness or Huguenot arguing with himself.

Any Belle & Sebastian fans out there btw? I might have a spare ticket for the Roundhouse.

Too right, I was actually telling the mocklet this morning how I'll be taking him to Palace to hear the roar of the crowd and watch some good football. Which I had to temper a little, considering that it's Selhurst Park, that the crowd will probably murmur rather than roar, and the football will probably be dire, but he's still looking forward to it....not that he had the foggiest idea what I was talking about. A long winded way of saying, absolutely.

Me too tbh, tintin takes itself a little too seriously. I still want dogmatix as a pet!!

I believe that there were some rather stereotypical portrayals of Africans and Jews in a couple of the books ] The latter probably the dodgier especially given the time and what was going on. I'm inclined to think the former is just a cartoonish stereotyping, no worse than that seen in the Tarzan films of the time, but doubtless will get into hot water for saying so. Chinless fops anyone?

Very true D_C, though letchworth does have lots of nice turn of the century properties as well as dull 70s and 80s estates (though I can testify that they were very nice places to grow up).

I didn't bring any of it up, I was merely pointing out inaccuracies in previous posts. In fact I offered no judgements at all. Maybe once is enough, but I'm sure she won't do it again judging by the reported reaction. So we're really not dealing with some lynchian undercurrent here, but an honest mistake which has been corrected. Bravo OP. Meaning move on. As in this topic. No wider judgement about who should or shouldn't move on, just the rather enclosed loop this thread had become. I was attempting, light-heartedly to cut the gordian knot. I do believe however that modern human trafficking, drug trafficking and indentured labour (most of which produces goods for the west's high streets/back streets) is genuinely the most important concern, but rightly perhaps for another thread.

I meant the powdery variety tbh

I'm not sure golliwogs can be racist, they are inanimate after all, but that's just the language pedant in me talking. As for the woman on the stall, from what I can read she immediately refunded, looked ashamed and contrite, so the worst that can be said of her, as I infer it, is that she was naive and thoughtless. Classic storm in a teacup, move along people, nothing to see here. Oh and I have a very good book on the history of slavery if anyone wants to read it (rather giving the lie to the idea that European slavery by Barbary pirates has been 'airbrushed' from history). Ooh, and whilst I'm in full pedant mode, imperial Rome had something like 5 million slaves at any time for about 500 odd years (or about 90 odd generations), it doesn't take too much imagination to realise that this makes even the height of the transatlantic trade small by comparison (proportionally at any rate). And if we're really worried about it there's so much to be done today with hundreds of thousands in real slavery and tens of millions in effective slavery in the world. Not shopping at primark and realising that 'too good a dedal' is almost certainly true, ooh and stop buying fucking coke, is all a pretty good start.

Dftt

Wow, Nathan Rice's old house (not strictly his as he was we were both 8 when he lived there) is up for sale, ?329k for four bedrooms in Letchworth. It's looking eminently doable, especially if you move to slightly characterless Stotfold or Arlesey. http://www.primelocation.com/uk-property-for-sale/details/id/LBAC1209903/

:-D

The future's bleak I don't like it when people reaffirm commitment, it's usually done before bolting. Either way we've tough financial straits ahead, the silver lining(ish) being our wage bill is going to plummet!!