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Otta Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > And I don't like all this "if you stay we'll give > you this and that" either, it's stinks of > desperation. > > If you go, then God speed and good luck. If you > stay then we're all in the same boat. Why should > anyone have their cake and eat it? Have to agree. And if it IS a yes vote I think the remaining British Public will be dead against any softening of the stance on currency etc. and will be very much in a "Right, well sod you!" frame of mind. I'm not saying this is right (based as it may be on petty revenges arising from feelings of frustration and powerlessness/impotence throughout this whole process) but any party that promises to be uncompromising with the new Scotland would get a lot of support; which will be exactly what the hard-line nationalists have been counting on, i.e. "See? We telt ya they were bastards!"

aquarius moon Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > So what do you think about our new(ish) manager? I initially read that as "new shit manager", then I thought... what's new about that? B)

steveo Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Blair's look in those pictures: Hunted, paranoid, > grinning with his teeth, terror in his eyes. > > Off his rocker Exactly. Especially if you do that covering-the-right-side-of-the-face-and-just-looking-at-the-left-side thing with his GQ pic - psychotic.

All Government business and parliament etc should be moved to Coventry if only so we can do weak jokes about Ministers being sent there. There's plenty of room now the motoring industry has been eradicated and then London could relax and enjoy its status as the 'New York' (or Sydney?) of the UK - all the fun and none of the yawn. Let's see MPs insisting on maintaining flats THERE.

Otta Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > The recentish use of the word "wow", or "wow, just > wow". Annoying but preferable to the Californian-inspired stoner-delivered "whoah!" (as in "whoah dude!"). If you are ever over-enthusiastically and needlessly "wowed" (or "whoahed") I believe the correct response is "yeah, waw"* *what a w-anchor

JohnL Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > (Don't believe the new peace deal in Welsh Rugby > either - it's a short break) While they take a leek?

Apparently Former UK and/or Future UK (both serious suggestions for a Scots-less country) have been ruled out due to unfortunate abbreviation problems.

JohnL Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > The Irish don't like the term British Isles - an > argument that goes > on every time the British and Irish Lions are > referred to as > British Lions (as in British Isles). Yes hence the term British Islanders as being distinct from British - it's a geographical description not one of nationality - something as emotive as sport might find British Isles Lions too clumsy and too close to the implied Britishness of it all to work - but these are the kinds of questions that may have to be looked at. Would an independent Scotland be part of the Lions? And if so would it now have to be The British and Irish and Scottish Lions? Get's even clumsier and British Isles Lions starts to look less so - kind of a 'West Indies' thing. I like the term but I'm not suggesting it be pressed into service for anyone else let alone those disgruntled Irish who would feel slighted by it. If they feel strongly enough they could call the island group the Celtic Isles if they like - it might catch on; after all the French call the English Channel La Manche, the Dutch The Channel and the Germans The Sleeve Channel so they could choose their own name (is there not already a Celtic/Gaelic name? Maybe - as JohnL suggests - the Gaelic for These Islands?) - or maybe run a Blue-Peter style competition to find one. Suggestions? Malvinas has a ring to it. The Scots could also choose a new name if they go - which leads me to wonder what we would then call the 'big' island if not 'Mainland Britain'?

Louisa Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > maxxi that all sounds great, but if you speak to a > resident of the Shetland Islands who > geographically and culturally speaking has more in > common with Oslo than it does Edinburgh then this > argument starts to fall apart. > > Louisa. Cultural differences arise from the influence the mainland has had, historically, on the Isles and are what make our island group what it is. A Cornishman may have more in common with his Norman counterpart and an East Anglian may feel kindred spirit with the Dutch - geographically they are both (as is this Shetlander) British Islanders - that's what I meant about politics and flags aside.

david_carnell Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Oh, undoubtably he had his faults. But show me a > PM that didn't? > > Churchill? Bombastic war criminal > MacMillan? Disloyal > Eden? Conceited > Douglas-Home? Unelected > Wilson? Devious > Callaghan? - Weak > Heath? - emotionally unstable > Thatcher? - blind to pragmatism > > And so it goes on.... Yes... well, we'd all have been stumped when it came to choosing the adjective that would most accurately have described Blair.

I've always thought of us all (English, Irish, Scots, Welsh) as British Islanders. No matter what the flags or politics, we are all inhabitants of the British Isles and thinking of ourselves as Islanders goes some way to explaining what we have in common (with each other and, say, Iceland?) i.e. a suspicion of the mainland and them thar ways.

let joy be unconfined

Otta Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I am hoping that a lot of poeple will vote based > on personality, which surely means they'll vote > "against" Salmond. Not if it's seen to be an alternative to voting against Cameron. The whole thing has been turned into a Nationalistic rant of 'Get those Tory bastards at Westminster oot of our country!" and that might just work.

Be grateful she doesn't have a gazunder. (I sometimes shake a tablecloth in the garden... for da boids)

Must be a pronunciation-comprehension issue - lot of foreign players asking for wage rises being told to go to Hull.

I know Diame wanted to leave but... Hull? Is this who Song was drafted in to replace - one of the few players who showed some class last year swapped for an unwanted/unhappy/shunned loanee? ETA - I know he's (Diame) been a tad off colour but we've still kept bleedin Vaz Te and can't seem to shake of Carlton either!

Nah keep up, she's too English. This is the Orla Kiely thread.

aquarius moon Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > No social media. No 'likes'. Just don't eat living > things. Most of the things I eat are well dead. The nicest have even been hung up to 'mature' (basically so they start to rot a bit and get some real flavour going). Oh - except for leaves and stuff. When they're dead they're a bit yucky. They're best when alive or in the process of dying. ETA - oh, don't know where to stand on 'live' yoghurt. Any advice?

vgrant Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > how come the ED pedant suicide cadre have not > declared this post null and void 'cos the the > spelling of kerbs ? Ok... I blame little Miss Muffet- Oh wait, that's curds- No, they're the ones fighting Ices- No wait, they're cold deserts- No wait, that's the atac-Karma... a-and so on...

numbers Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > oh my good god. another cycling thread! No.. same thread .. just recycled.

I don't think VG gives a fig for the league cup or the players that may soon be on their way, he knows it will be forgiven if he does the business. Bigger problem is getting the players to do it 'his way' and play the system he thinks is right (I don't see him as the kind of manager who admits his way ISN'T right and changes it) - bit of a round peg/square hole thing at the moment. As for BFS - playing a clearly unfit Valencia in a team made up of the unfit/not-yet-ready and sidelined against a side most West Ham fans really wanted a win against shows how far from 'getting' the club the hippo-headed old tosser really is.

DulwichBorn&Bred Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Love it here but I am biased since I was born in > Dulwich hospital so I have a very strong > attachment to the area. They don't make umbilical cords like they used to.

StraferJack Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > ;-) > > I'll always care > > How many regs on here still live with SE22 these > days I wonder But... I mean,... who in their right mind would continue to post on here if they didn't???

LondonMix Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > The restaurant chain pre-dates the Japanese > Tsunami of 2011. It's kind of unreasonable to > expect a business that has been trading for 9 > years to change its name. Tell that to the Hitler Bar & Grill

I think it was having Barry Davies back on the mic - an extra reason to look forward to MOTD