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Ladymuck Wrote:

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> brum Wrote:

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> > You can be exempted from wearing heels LM as

> long

> > as you provide a note from your doctor.

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> Wellies? They have a small heel...


Hmmm.... ok LM, but I'll have to put you in the middle of the squad if you don't mind. Striding heels clashing on mettled roads make for a more appealing sound than the thunk-thunk of wobbly wellies.

Jeremy

Jeremy

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I've never really been comfortable with patriotism. There's a thin line between loving your country and believing that it's superior to other nations, and from there on you're in dodgy territory.


I feel a certain amount of affection for the place I've lived my whole life, but looking at it objectively, I can't see that it has much going for it over other developed countries. And I find it hard to muster any deep affinity with the majority of the population.

Ladymuck

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katie1997 Wrote:

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> oh this is toooo tempting

>

> I mean, would it be very bad form to link notes

> from the doctor to the wearing of crocs? would it?

> ;)

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> * hides from LM *



Te audire no possum. Musa sapientum fixa est in aure.:))

karter

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katie1997 Wrote:

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> :)) :))

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> senito aliquos crocs contra me conspirare!

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> Edit: blimey, do I type that slowly?! where did

> all those posts appear from?

>


Time management love, time management, did Hugue not teach you anything??:))

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legalbeagle Wrote:

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> Well if he thinks he's stretching my Vivien

> Westwood's with his big ole clown feet he can

> think again!



Oi!! I would only wear Stuart Weitzman anyway. What kind of guy d'you think I am!


And same answer to you too DJKQ!

legalbeagle

legalbeagle

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So let's recap.


Brum the hunch back is hobbling down Lordship Lane is sparkly heels, chased by an angry lawyer who wants her shoes back, a woman in wellies waving a note from her doctor, some random blokes with medals pinned to their chests, and a bevvy of pert bottomed lovelies fluttering their Union Jacks.


All together now:


There'll always be an England.......


Are we done?

paragon

paragon

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Not sure what I think on patriotism. I am not particularly bothered about being British or English. I have more affinity with the places within England that I have lived than England as a whole. I think it is interesting that England had such an important part to play in world history but that is because I am interested in History generally.


Personally I think the concept of country will be eroded in the same way that the importance of counties and county identity have been eroded over the centuries. I think it will be a progression to the United States of Europe and common leadership.


And then, when eventually they find life further afield our affinity will be with Earth and the differences between Islam and Christianity and Atheists will be the same as the differences between Englishmen and Welshmen. Sounds slightly different but are essentially the same.


So, to sum, patriotism is pointless and time-limited. (Although the time-span will be quite long!)

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