Brendan

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I good friend of mine seems to always meet new people through his walking clubs. I think it is the Blackheath walking Group and the Saturdays Waling Group or Saturdays Ramblers or somesuch. It?s all fully clothed as far as I know.

Talking about heat the Thermos flasks. The heat doesn?t escape a flask because it is surrounded by a vacuum and heat can?t travel through a vacuum because there are no particles to pass the heat along. I get that but what worries me is that we get most of our heat on earth from the sun which is separated from us by 1.496?108 km of vacuum. I?m concerned that someone or something is going to realise and one of two things are going to happen, either the earth is going to suddenly freeze solid or thermos flasks everywhere are going to stop working.

That?s what you get for strolling through the East Dulwich German Quarter at stupid o?clock in the morning.

Only caring about how something can benefit you and yours and not just showing no regard for how it affects others but actually taking actively aggressive action against those that you are harming. This tends to be the Tory attitude whether it is about economic or social issues. We are talking about people who will happily take help away from single mothers so that they can allow those whose parents own 1million pound homes to inherit them tax free. People who see no problem with making people who earn less that ?10K a year pay income tax so that they can protect people like buy-to-let investors, who exploit young families and damage society, from tax. Those are just 2 recent examples. I?m not even getting into how their leadership is all from a privileged protected class, the type of social exclusion they exercise and that they will do anything to maintain it rather than break it down and cast it away for the evil filth it is. You may think it hyperbole but these are just my observations. I am not an unreasonable or unintelligent man. I have just watched and taken in, sometimes to my utter cringing amazement, the attitudes and ideas people have. Perhaps I am a product of my background but I often find little or no difference between conservative British people and the old white elite in South Africa. They have exactly the same attitudes except the Brits are more intelligent and devious in the type of discrimination they practice.

I think by now Theodore is sitting in his favorite wicker chair on the shady half of the club?s veranda, an upside-down copy of The Times in his lap, a lopsided grin on his face, a faraway look in his eyes and the memory of the heat forgoten for now. I sent a messenger ahead to instruct them to put two measures of Laudanum in his lemonade. This is of course not standard practice but the dear fellow was getting rather out of sorts what with the incessant swelter, talk of chaps toes and ladies wearing less than their under things about town. I fear it was my only course of action. We simply can?t have a repeat of what happened the last time.

I do not, nor do I ever wish to know what such a thing as a strapless sun dresses is but by jingo it does not sound like suitable attire for a lady riding a velocipede.

I do envy the effortless rapport you are able to strike up with your staff Theodore. The anecdotes you provide us with never cease to delight. I sometimes wish that I could pass the time of a journey listening to my driver relate a salted tale of common, domestic life. It would at any rate be a change from the cur?s usual blind-drunk ravings at the traffic as we traverse Piccadilly in the mornings.

frierntastic Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > for a year or two at least, the public will buy > the idea that the pain is only necessary because > of what the last government did. Well it?s either that or a sadistic attack on the weakest in society by a wealthy elite. But Tories wouldn?t do that. That?s not what they?re about. I mean, surely a party based around such viciously antisocial ideology would never be tolerated.

I fear, Theodore, that such talk of short trousers and exposed feet will only hasten the dampening of your collars. Perhaps you should retire to the club for the afternoon before we have a repeat of the Hyde-Williams incident. I recommend that you refresh yourself in the member?s bathrooms before requesting that they provide you with a cooling iced drink. I will see to it that the necessary sum for an afternoon?s work is deducted from your salary.

Possibly, if the process of recovering from South African leaves a chap dry, salty and moreish.

You mean they have been cured.

MickyP surely it isn?t particularly surprising that a team with so many South Africans in it beat Australia.

???? Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > If you've never seen someone crapping in a public > park before you've lived a sheltered life Yes, living a sheltered life really does have much to recomend it.

What is the subject?

Ah rhubarb, the grandmothers preferred tool for hitting boundaries.

I can?t watch that clip at work. Does it have a steam train in it?

Yeah the raves were good but there was no running water, the dunny was out back and you had to walk 5 miles to school, barefoot in the snow all year round.

I once got half a dozen potatoes each in its own plastic bag.

Dom donkie.

I?ve always been a fan of grass myself.

I don?t think they will change the rules because of one freak occurrence. All being equal the timetabling has normally already been more bollocks up because of rain in the first week than it is being because of this.

English is the de facto global lingua franca. A sentence that in itself is not short of a certain grammatical irony.

And that?s de facto.

Oh that?s good. And to think for a moment I thought you were going to be cynical about it Steve.