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It goes something like this: Two con artists persuaded the king to buy a brand new set of clothes, which were only visible to clever people. The people throughout the land heard about the king’s new clothes and lined the streets to see him parade on his splendid white hoarse. Not wishing to be thought of as stupid, they all agreed that the king’s new clothes were the finest in the land. But one little boy, who had not heard about the king’s new clothes watched in horror as he saw the king sat upon his horse whilst stark naked. He tried to tell the other people but they just brushed him aside and called him stupid. If your second sentence is referring to me, then you got that wrong too. |
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Yeah ..and people started runnin around ..going ..we are all really confused and it's all gone balls up..and someone said.. hey.. we are all knackered..but the King said.. sort it out ..so a little kid said hey ..go and watcth the new Batman film.. and he did.. and it was sorted..
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But before you do get your facts right. Calling for the monarchy to be abolished is not advocating to overthrow the government. The monarchy is not government. One other point. I am not a subject of anyone let alone the female head of a dysfunctional family. |
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Funny little fellow.
Wears his sister’s clothes. Don’t know what to call him but we think he’s one of those. I’m going back to bed. I have to get up late in the morning. |
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no offense intended to anyone who served either 'regular' or 'national service' during these conflicts , the British succss in Malaya compared to the US debacle in Vietnam is something still taught in military schools and colleges .;) |
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Makes as much sense as your original statement! |
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If you are going to go spouting your head off, at least get your facts right. The other fact is that I did not swear allegiance to anyone when I joined the Royal Navy. We weren’t lined up in some drill shed made to raise our right hand and repeat what was spoken to us. We British are not that paranoid. If the British getting kicked out of Malaya is your idea of a success then words fail me. |
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Did you serve there or was it Googled?.....words failing you...that's a laugh. |
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To right BoyRoy.. no good talkin ****e as you know.. god it was hell.. on patrol with the gooks all over the jungle..had to eat my mates leg cos I was starvin!
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Bloody hell who cares anymore about Thatcher's state funeral?
This country is too far up financial crap creek to be worrying about our morals and principles in general let alone ones concerning evil old gingers. Stop posting in this thread. Turn off your computer. Save money on the leccy bill for when recession hits and we can't afford beans! :eek: Quote:
Lovely bit of ocd :) |
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THE APITAME OF SUFFERING All good things, must come to end, ... therein lies the apitame, of this stress (dukkha). 'But there is hope!' I hear you say, ...
groups.yahoo.com/group/dhamma/message/1382 - 25k - Cached - Similar pages Dream on |
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Well..I would like to add .. even I have gone down the new den to watch the lads..and people from spain, lancashire..or any other 3rd world country are welcome
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Seriously... that dictionary thing I mentioned... have a go. Lots of people on here should to the same. It's driving my ocd bonkers. |
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The art of communication Benipete, which is sadly lacking from some people on this forum, is to convey to others what you mean by choosing the right words and compiling them into a sentence that makes sense. The sentence does not have to be grammatically correct, although it would help if it were, to ensure that the correct message was conveyed. Punctuation is not vital although a comma in the wrong place can alter the meaning of a sentence. Correct spelling is not vital either unless the misspelling of a word gives it an entirely different meaning. Not everyone can spell correctly or can be bothered to use a dictionary/spell checker so the reader has to give the writer some latitude.
However according to the Oxford English Dictionary the word APITAME does not exist and in the reading of “No he's the apitame of a Millwall supporter” the reader could rightly assume that it should have been EPITOME if the sentence was to have any discernable meaning. Of course APITAME could be some obscure Amercianism that we mere mortals are not familiar with but it is not listed in Webster’s Dictionary either. I prefer to accept the word of the OED or WD rather than a post in a forum. Brushing off the furore with “I know what I meant” only serves to confuse the reader even more because we readers do not know what you mean if you do not write your message in a manner that we understand. Both spellings of patronise/patronize are correct. On the other hand OCD is a badly constructed acronym, as it does not spell an actual recognised word. What “Obsessive Compulsive Disorder” or “Oxford Classical Dictionary” (which relates to Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome) has to do with anything is beyond me though. Although here we can assume that shakermaker meant the OED – that is the Oxford English Dictionary. The art of communication Benipete, is to convey your message in the language that the reader/listener is going to understand. Thus the onus is on the speaker/writer to say/write what s/he means rather than the reader/listener having to try and guess what the message is. You wouldn’t speak in English to a foreigner who has no knowledge of English would you? However being English you would probably shout at the other person or use some weird pidgin English in some vain hope that by doing so, they would understand you. |
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Yeah you tell him jambutty.. bleedin geezer aint usin proper words to say whateva hes on about guv
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I get stressed and obsess over misspelled words and terrible punctuation. How hard is it to use a dictionary? It's the same with those incredibly irritating people who hold their fork with their right hand and knife with their left hand. Why would one do such a thing?! Those are the true terrorists. |
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In what way does the hand you hold you fork with make you a terrorist? I do that.... i also wear my watch on the 'wrong' arm....
anyway.........actually opened this thread to ask if anyone had been invited to join the facebook group 'we'll only pay for a state funeral for Thatcher if she's buried alive' ? |
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I would assume that people who hold their fork in the right hand do so because they are right-handed.
As for the silly group no not been invited to join it, actually beginning to wonder at the mentality of people who open such groups |
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For your information I have always held the fork in my left hand and knife in my right because that is the way I was taught and I’m right handed. So if some people hold the knife in their left hand and fork in the right it can only mean that they are left handed or trying to be contrary just to annoy you. Go to any restaurant that has the tables laid out with cutlery, the knives will be on the right. It is convention. But if you ask the waiter to lay the table for left handed people, the waiter will oblige by reversing the cutlery. It’s called “Live And Let Live”, a concept that seems to be alien to you. |
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Whether right or left handed, the yanks will cut up their food (just like babies get their food cut up by mummy), put the knife down and use just the fork in their right hand if they are right handed or vice versa to feed the food into their mouths. It’s a sloppy way of eating a meal from a plate but that’s the way it is. They also tend to lean in to the fork rather than sitting upright and manipulating the fork to the mouth. Of course with the food not properly speared on the fork, like it would have been had a knife and fork been used, it has a tendency to fall into the lap of the eater so that is why yanks lean forward to meet the food en-route to the gob. This leaves them free to (shock horror!) put their elbows on the table whilst eating. But none of this really matters any more as table manners are just about a thing of the past except for the “well bred”. However I must confess that I too have succumbed to the American way of eating because I’m getting lazy in my old age, even if I still sit at the table to eat a meal. |
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Have i missed something, is Maggie dying or something? I mean jesus, lets discuss of disposing the evidence when the time comes eh?
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Oh, and holding the knife in the left hand and the fork in the right hand doesnt make you a terrorist, just means your Un-civillised
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To drag this back on track, No she shouldn't be given a state funeral. She destroyed the manufacturing base of this country, privatised natural monopolies, ruined the lives of the working class and is utimately responsible for the vast majority of public sector overspends or shoddy work due to them having to put any new work up for bidding.
She made greed seem acceptable. She also made caring an alien concept in government. There is no way this woman deserves any plaudits at all. |
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found this cartoon - good en :D
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Thats A Cracker Margaret,,,,:d
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I don't know if anyone has previously mentioned this, but the funeral is to cost around 3 million. I hate Thatcher all over again. What I would do with that money. How the country could benefit from that money.
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Even better put her in one of the old mines an seal her in or we can just bring her up to accy an chuck her in the river Hyndburn.
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Thank God she did what she did. I couldn't have bared to live in a country ruled by the ideas of people who share such hatred for human life that I have read in this thread.
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just stick Thatcher inm one of the old mines an seal it up never to be seen or heard of again, she dosn't diserve a funeral at all.
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