mockney piers

I may be mistaken, but other than a worshipper of the great god Syphil, would a syphilite be a syphilis sufferer? If so, I may be mistaken, but wasn't syphilis a south american illness brought back by columbus' crew (and indeed by columbus himself)?

aaah, beaten by blinder D enmark, riiiiggght.

Mark, here you go http://landcrofthouse.blogspot.com/ I'm not entirely convinced enmark is a word, that's the graudian for you. the land of nod?

I refer you to the photograph CrystalClear posted more than some moments ago .

Yeah, I love the "there is a debate". Presumably it's the same people Tony Blair keeps referring to everytime someone says 'Iraq is a disaster' and he replies 'there is an argument about that'. Yeah, the one in your head you freak!! Sorry, wrong side of bed, apologies Mr Admin. Green and Blue Two Point Oh, busy on a tuesday, good work fellas!

Just to reiterate that Dave is indeed a very nice pub and I'm sure I'll be back. I seem to have been given a severe mauling by the beer monkey and his thieving ways, so I'm guessing I contributed to the bill, and probably insisted ;) (but have no memory whatsoever, I blame the Cathars)

Now you're just being cruel PD, just because we're going down :(

Chip and pin is the worst thing that's been done to joe public by the banking industry for a long time. For starters it puts the onus of detecting fraud on the consumer, not the banker, and are you aware that for 40 minutes after using a chip'n'pin the store is legitimately able to take more money from your account. If you disagree you won't have a clue 'til your statement arrives. That means if you withhold service from, oooh say the Palmerston*, because it's rubbish, they'll take your cash, and once you're out the door they'll add 20% just for good measure, and they'll be within their rights to do this. Travesty I say. more details here http://devilskitchen.me.uk/2006/11/chippin-away-at-fraud.html *I should point out that although the Palmerston's sins are many, they've never done this.

Polly, *shuffles feet shyly* actually that's San Lorenzo De Argentina, looooong story. Chinese lead cake is quite the bizarrest food i ever ate. Everything you wanted to know but were afraid to ask While i'm on a still drunk from the Drum mood and dishing out sites This one has had me chuckling for days Africa needs citing as being southeast of asia apparently, presumably by another 8 year old and kangaroos floated to Oz on mats!!

sadly I am, and don't call me shirley!! and ever the one for a spurious photo call, here we are drinking the stuff

I'm a BIG fan of the Leapfrogmilch, but it's white, but it's called Leapfrogmilch!! :)

so what you're saying is that now I look like some sort of weirdo ranting about ties? CC - ten past 8, and that after the owner of the Drum kept pouring me free shots of finlandia vodka all night!! Did I mention what a jolly nice chap he is?

Am I missing something? Ties?

You're not Jade Goody are you?

I once had a 500 quid bar bill put on my credit card at a bulgarian ski resort, my never having been skiing or in bulgaria. It took 6 months to get it back from the bank the rotters, and I'd never used it in any machine of any sort, which leaves some clever internet scam, or dumb banks. As it only happened once I'm going with the latter.

*fourth one doh, yep more than half an eye on the clock ticking toward half 5, yep slough's just a bit grubby*

Well we do go to the plough for the irish sports, but I have to draw the line at the pool side bar (makes it sound so glamorous) *as an aside firefox' spelling nagging feature thinks plough should be spelt slough* *as an extra aside it thinks spelt should be spelt smelt, weirdo*

Wates U Child?

Tumbleweed indeed for the former, but i'm a bit stumped on the latter CC more swedes

You've been on mine for weeks, for all the good it's done you. Or me for the matter.

Are you insinuating that snorky is in some way a yahoo? Surely a google no? Eedish does sound a bit like eedjit though

Ooh ooh, please.

Good effort Huguenot, and my heart goes out to Dan who's always been great every time we've visited.

Is that eedeeish (almost rhymes with seediest) or edish (rhymes with reddish)? Except you snorky, as an original Dulite you can forshorten it to Dul ;-P word

I don't think it's especially off message as the tenor of the thread wasn't really to do with swimming sessions but with gender discrimination. I think your sample set of 2 is a little narrow in highlighting whatever it is you're trying to highlight however. I know two of my friends who have wanted to be the most supportive fathers they can but have had access to their children blocked simply because the ex-partners could do it, and they were spiteful, hurtful harridans, but I don't let this colour my opinion of the millions upon millions of brilliant mums there are in this world (of which we have many shining examples on our own dear forum). Yes of course there is plenty to be done regarding gender inequality, but as this thread was about reverse gender discrimination, it strikes me that you are doing your best to foster this sort of behaviour, tarring all men with some sort of selfish-laziness feather (taken from a dodo, damnably lazy birds who got their comeuppance) and hardly contributing anything positive or useful to the debate. Aaaanyway, back to swimming....sploosh And for the record I'm lovely, got any washing up you need doing ;)