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  1. Posted

    We will go through our trials,  disasters like Katrina or Kurdish uprisings in Iran

     

    I thought the Kurdish uprising was quite successful and just showed what you could do with a bit of air-cover, aid, encouragement etc - I think you'll find they were pretty much independent of Saddam by 2003. If we hadn't sold the Marsh Arabs down the river in 1991, we could have achieved much the same there without fighting a dirty great war.

     

    With regard to your comment that:

     

    the air we breath has been breathed by every other human, that the water we drink has circulated around the earth a million times

     

    all I can say is "urgh....."

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    Don't know where the nearest farm land is to The Oval, but if you see any cows lying down in fields, that's a sure sign of rain on the way (they don't like to get

    their undersides wet)

    That's British cows then. When it rains Dutch cows turn their arse in the wind and go on with their business.

     

    regards,

    Hein

    From what I hear from a mate of mine who works for a Dutch bank, his management do that too...

  3. Posted

    I'm a bit confused too. But hey you know how clever these aussies are :D

     

    Richie Benaud retiring will surely leading to a 2006 nomination.

    Yeah but he's only 74 I think. And a fitness nut (he goes power walking at 5.30 every morning , for God's sake). I reckon he'll hang on for a good few years yet.

     

    Re the cows, I'm afraid we're a bit short of them in EC2 - which is strange given the amount of bulls*it in the area...

  4. Posted

    It's raining hard down here, our weather usually arrives in London the next day (if the winds blowing in the right direction)

    Hmmm - not sure that helps much in Devon, does it? My folks used to live there and they said that if you could see the Isle of Lundy it was going to rain and if you couldn't, then it was raining already....

     

     

    Oh hurrah - bad light stopped play - umpires offered the light after tea and the Aussies took it! What's that about? They have to win!

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    Place: West London

    Time: Tea on the 2nd Day

    Weather: Really nasty black clouds in every direction, no rain yet, but here's hoping!

     

    DWB  :D

    Well here's hoping - I reckon we need to lose a good 2 sessions tomorrow if we're going to get away with this.

     

    I heard Richie Benaud saying that he saw Alec Bedser today and he is in his 80s - candidate for next year? Probably very healthy I'd guess - sportsmen tend to live a long time so long as they don't fall off the booze and drugs wagon after they retire.

  6. Posted

    I am next to St Pauls (thats central london - non Brits) and it is sunny with hardly a cloud in the sky. Damn. :D

    Nice weather here too, tho since I'm only about 1/2 a mile from St Pauls that's not too surprising.

     

    Pity Jones is out really...watched the first hour after lunch and it looks like Hayden and Langer are starting to up the runrate big time. Need wickets, guys, need wickets.

     

    Or rain....

  11. Posted

    hmm mr O'Sullivan is in the home after all and the home has a website, perhaps they would link into this thread??

     

    Just off to send Tony the good news.

    Maybe they could arrange for some kind of early warning system with the DL. Eg: send us a list of residents in order of who's bed is closest to the door....

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    The Duke of  Wellington was born in 1769 in the Kingdom of Ireland. 

     

    Before 1801 Ireland was a separate state, ruled by England and latterly Great Britain. 

     

    So the Duke of Wellington was more Irish than Oscar Wilde. 

     

    (But less popular with some French, probably.)

    When asked about his being born in Ireland, the Duke was said to have retorted: "Just because you were born in a stable doesn't make you a horse"

  16. Posted

    Yep agree with that too!

     

     

    Muber, v. intr.

     

    To gaze off into space in mid-sentence while absent-mindedly holding willy through trousers. Practised by 7-8 year old boys intent on irritating and embarrassing their fathers.

     

    "Don't just stand there mubering, boy, where's the sodding remote control?", VileBody September 7th 2005

  17. Posted

    Anubis, I think your comments above are absolutely spot on.

     

    I just read the Dom Mintoff thread for the first time and was struck by the quality, passion and downright weirdness of many of the contributions - together with some very funny interjections.

     

    I have to say that it really puts to shame the recent bickering and bitching, particularly about who's posting too much and how the site works.

     

    If contributors think someone is posting a load of boring rubbish, just ignore it and start a thread on something interesting/controversial/funny instead (preferably it might even be connected with doomed celebs....). I don't really like the idea of moderators editing the site too much because the liberty to say pretty much what you like is great; however, if the recent drivel continues, a bit of judicious pruning by the powers-that-be might be a good idea...

  22. Posted

    I first met Charlie when i was 8 years old, it was november 5th , my pals and i had been out all day collecting money, you know "penny for the Guy". any way my two pals and i were in a sweet shop on Monument Hill, Weybridge, we were spending the money we had collected it was 4pm and getting dark, we only had a couple of bob between us (10pence today) and as my pals and i broused the display of fire works in walked this man, i'm not sure what he was buying but as he was paying he turned to look at us and said to the shop keeper " and give these lads a 10 bob box of fire works each" WOW! we thanked him after being prompted by the shop keeper, who was this man i asked as he walked out, Charlie Drake the shop keeper replied.

    I have never forgoten that moment and it  made me realise the pleasure you can give some one by giving.

    When i 11 years old i my parents sent me to Haliford School , a year later 2 boys or was it 3, joined the school they were the sons of charlie Drake. he was often at the school, he obviously did not reconise me from that day, 5th november, and i never said. A nice man

    I used to live quite near Halliford School and had to walk past it to get the train to my hugely expensive and poncy prep school. This regularly involved being filled in by gangs of older lads from Halliford because I was obviously a toff and a poof.

     

    Gosh, what japes we had...

     

    It's not as if I hold any grudges tho...I just hope that one day a firework blows your f****n' hand off...

  24. Posted

    I said I was a gay piano tuner from Uttoxeter....

    Is that you: "IvbyrgObl"?

     

    regards,

    Hein

    Now how could you have known I signed on with that name?????

     

    J'ACCUSE!!!!!!

     

    YOU ARE A MODERATOR OF THE ROYAL FORUMS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  25. Posted

    Dear VioletBoy,

     

    Unfortunately your registration at The Royal Forums did not meet our membership

    requirements. Therefore your registration was deleted.

     

    Sorry,

    The Royal Forums team

    I think we've been rumbled, chaps....

     

    I was going to post the following

     

    "As a gay man with HIV, I’d like to share with you a story of how Diana changed my life. In 1996 I was being treated for HIV in Manchester when she visited our centre. How her eyes glowed and sparkled as she walked around stopping here and there to speak with my fellow sufferers in those dark days when hardly anyone understand the suffering/anguish we all had/felt but her. I so hoped she would stop on my bed but instead she held the hand of a young gay blind man in the next door bed before she had to leave to go on her way to help others more needy than me. The young man died 2 weeks later but I still carry in my wallet a photo from the local paper of her holding his hand and stroking his dog.

     

    Since then my HIV has been no longer an enemy to be feared but a part of my life to be respected for having brought me the joy of seeing Diana. Oh Diana how could you be taken from us and left us in our pain! How can so many be cruel about you and those who loved you!"

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