commonwealth games

[Muley]

Ah DM, I can picture you taking a turn around the quiet room on a Pashley Princess, sporting a floral print sundress, a G&T and a huge handbag, but winning an Olympic gold or the Tour de France? Mais non!

Oh, BTW Dulwich Village Idiot, this is how it's done. Watch and learn...

[dulwichmum]

Red Devil sweetie, I noticed that some of those nudist cyclists were on BORIS BIKES! OHMYGOD!

There is a great big line of those putrid bikes outside my office building! I shall have the aupair use Cillit Bang on the saddles. God only knows what sort of vile infection hazard they now pose. I have been vomiting for the last hour.

Does anyone have Boris' mobile phone number? I deleted and blocked him from my mobile phone after the incident with the false tan watermark he left on my hot tub. He is beyond vain!

[Alan Medic]

Can someone explain this concept to me.......'commonwealth'. Bit late in the day I know. Why would you want to share anything with your previous oppressor?

[Jeremy]

Alan Medic Wrote:

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> Why would you want to share anything with your previous oppressor?

You get a realistic chance of winning a medal, because China and the US don't compete in the commonwealth games.

Not much else, really.

[El Pibe]

aah, come on alan, we're all mates now http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/duke-of-kent-lays-wreath-honouring-easter-rising-dead-29235980.html

But to answer your question briefly, i imagine most chaps who signed up to it were probably eton and oxford educated chaps who'd done a stint in the city, I doubt the little folk (the newly oppressed rather than leprechauns obviously) had a say. ;)

[Otta]

I have just discovered that The Commonwealth Inistitute closed down 12 years ago. Remember school trips there as a kid. That's what I always think of when I hear the word commonwealth.

[Bhoy in Singapore]

Oh I loved that place when I was a kid. Remember the arctic/antartic scene? I swore it felt colder there even though, in reality, it was the same temperature as the rest of the place.

[El Pibe]

that was my favourite bit too.

Just looked at some photos of the empty building, it loks much smaller than it does in my memory, i was about 9 when i went there though

[red devil]

El Pibe Wrote:

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> that was my favourite bit too.

> Just looked at some photos of the empty building,

> it loks much smaller than it does in my memory, i

> was about 9 when i went there though

I have the same feeling when I see Wagon Wheels...

[El Pibe]

didn't they actually shrink though?

[El Pibe]

[red devil]

El Pibe Wrote:

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> didn't they actually shrink though?

Dunno, my mitts have definitely got bigger though...

[Otta]

Bhoy in Singapore Wrote:

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> Oh I loved that place when I was a kid. Remember

> the arctic/antartic scene? I swore it felt colder

> there even though, in reality, it was the same

> temperature as the rest of the place.

That's EXACTLY the bit I thought of when I thought of the place. That and all the flags out front.

[nashoi]

I was talking about this place to some friends just the other day, explaining to an Australian that before Neighbours the flying doctor exhibit was pretty much most of what I knew about the place. I was shocked to find none of the other brits present (none originally from London or SE) had ever heard of it. The North is a strange place.