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take that you poms
on: December 05, 2006, 10:13:20 PM
two up whooo hooo  ;D

Vain dreams of victory shattered in an afternoon by the mighty Aussies.

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Re: take that you poms
Reply #1 on: December 05, 2006, 10:20:45 PM
two up whooo hooo  ;D

Vain dreams of victory shattered in an afternoon by the mighty Aussies.
Yes, dear A'straaaaaaalada that you are; problem is that I, as an illegimate Pom (i.e. a Scotsman) just don't dream about English victory over you Aussies in the first place, so it's all abit lost on me - which, nevertheless, it really isn't on many others here in England, given that BBC Radio 4 devoted most of a couple of its news bulletins this morning to nothing else...

Darts? Get the English to fire them at the rabbits, right? They'd still miss, it would seem...

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Re: take that you poms
Reply #2 on: December 05, 2006, 10:24:06 PM
I don't beleive it, i just don't.

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Re: take that you poms
Reply #3 on: December 05, 2006, 10:48:57 PM
There'll always be an England  ;D
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Re: take that you poms
Reply #4 on: December 05, 2006, 11:48:28 PM
There'll always be an England  ;D

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Re: take that you poms
Reply #5 on: December 06, 2006, 12:05:28 AM
There'll always be an England  ;D
You mean that there'll always be a country that can be slain 100% by the A'straaaaalians at what is supposed to be their own game - i.e. cricket?

OK - so be it, until and unless it is consistently proved otherwise...

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Re: take that you poms
Reply #6 on: December 06, 2006, 12:07:11 AM
You mean that there'll always be a country that can be slain 100% by the A'straaaaalians at what is supposed to be their own game - i.e. cricket?


could'na said it better meself.
You go, ahinton  ;D
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Re: take that you poms
Reply #7 on: December 06, 2006, 12:08:40 AM
We should never have transported the convicts. Far better to have dispatched them humanely over here.
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Re: take that you poms
Reply #8 on: December 06, 2006, 12:16:17 AM
could'na said it better meself.
You go, ahinton  ;D
I'll stay put, thanks, "ada" dear; you wait - you've never had to contend with the Scottish cricket team. That's because there isn't one. One up for we Scots for wisdom, then, wouldn't you say?!

You might be interested in this that I overheard today anent this so-called English national tragedy of the moment:
English twit to A'straaaaaalian: "Yeah, but we can beat New Zealand at rugby!"
A'straaaaaalian to English twit: "Sorry? I've never heard of rugby either".

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Re: take that you poms
Reply #9 on: December 06, 2006, 12:19:11 AM
you've never had to contend with the Scottish cricket team. That's because there isn't one. One up for we Scots for wisdom, then, wouldn't you say?!



But I've heard the national haggis throwing team is formidable.

Oh and that was another awful joke  ;D

edit: yours not mine  8)
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Reply #10 on: December 06, 2006, 12:44:42 AM
But I've heard the national haggis throwing team is formidable.

Oh and that was another awful joke  ;D
No, "ada" ma chère - not a joke but a barefaced lie. We Scots are supposed to be real skinflints - mean as hell - so throwing haggis for sporting reasons rather than consuming it would be a national anathema. It just doesn't happen. We even hate it when some British idiot goes and crashes a decent bottle of Brown Brothers' sparkling Pinot Noir (they cannot afford champagne for this purpose these days) against the hull of a vessel and declares "I name this ship..." - and, indeed, our only consolation at such times is that whichever twit it was at least had the decency and common sense not to go break a bottle of fine Scots malt...

By the way, in reality, Scots as a race are not at all mean; if they were so by nature, I'd probably consider applying for A'straaaaalian citizenship out of sheer shame...

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Re: take that you poms
Reply #11 on: December 06, 2006, 11:48:31 AM
We Scots

Scot? I thought you lived in Bath. That's a hell of a long way to throw a haggis.
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Re: take that you poms
Reply #12 on: December 06, 2006, 12:41:47 PM
Scot? I thought you lived in Bath. That's a hell of a long way to throw a haggis.
Yes, I am a Scot. Yes, I do live in Bath. The two are neither incompatible nor illegal, as far as I know! I've never thrown a haggis anywhere, incidentally - let alone over a distance in excess of 600km.!

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Re: take that you poms
Reply #13 on: December 06, 2006, 04:59:41 PM
You live in the bath?  Doesn't that rather wrinkle your skin up? I do think that in the Book of English Eccentrics there was such a person, but I didn't know that this was prevelant in Scotland also.  Doesn't the excessive use of hot water go somewhat against your misery principal?  Or is the water cold?  Either way I assume that you would have to change it from time to time, no?

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Reply #14 on: December 06, 2006, 06:25:57 PM
You live in the bath?  Doesn't that rather wrinkle your skin up? I do think that in the Book of English Eccentrics there was such a person, but I didn't know that this was prevelant in Scotland also.  Doesn't the excessive use of hot water go somewhat against your misery principal?  Or is the water cold?  Either way I assume that you would have to change it from time to time, no?

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I think that you have probably already heard of the city of Bath and know its location.

What living in that city does for one's skin is less of an issue than what it does for one's lungs at times, given that the proximity of seven hills around it (as with Rome but on a much smaller scale than the Italian capital) tends to ensure that the humidity is rather high here, regardless of temperature. My skin isn't wrinkled, anyway (although who knows what might be the dermatological side-effects of reading the frequently occurring God-never-forsaken content of our forum Goddess susanistimo's posts?).

I do not understand what you mean about a misery principal? - who is principal of what and why might misery be involved? - you'll need to explain this.

My attitude to bathing in cold water is analogous to the contemptuous one expressed by Delius and gleefully quoted by Sorabji in his book Mi Contra Fa: "it's all this bloody English Jesus Christ business with a cold bath first thing in the morning".

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Re: take that you poms
Reply #15 on: December 06, 2006, 10:04:38 PM

I do not understand what you mean about a misery principal?

Mi scusa signore  :)  That should read miserley (is that the correct spelling?) as in "in the scotch taste"  ;)
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Re: take that you poms
Reply #16 on: December 07, 2006, 12:52:48 AM
Mi scusa signore  :)  That should read miserley (is that the correct spelling?) as in "in the scotch taste"  ;)
OK - so now I understand you well enough to tell you that you couldn't be more wrong. We have these wonderful national myths here; all English believe in fair play, all Welsh can sing, all Irish are stupid and all Scots are mean - and if you believe any of those things, you'll believe that all Albanians are Chinese...

Just forget all that and enjoy the real Scotch taste...

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Re: take that you poms
Reply #17 on: December 07, 2006, 01:52:54 AM
We have these wonderful national myths here; all English believe in fair play, all Welsh can sing . . .

Well, the Welsh certainly used to give a fair impression of universal singing. I had to wait for a late train at Aberdovey Station in the 1960s (as a Boy Scout out camping), and the whole of two platforms burst out spontanteously into hymns, in perfect four-part harmony. I doubt I shall ever hear anything like it again.

Mind you, they share with the current leaders in the Test Match series a certain predilection for wool.
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Re: take that you poms
Reply #18 on: December 07, 2006, 03:04:24 AM
according to the latest reports, members of the barmy army are being offered psychiatric counselling to help them come to terms with the shock  ;D
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Reply #19 on: December 07, 2006, 03:22:15 AM
;D

Nice toothpaste, Ada, me ol' sport.
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Re: take that you poms
Reply #20 on: December 07, 2006, 08:41:52 AM
all English believe in fair play, .........., all Irish are stupid

Well, two out of four isn't too bad  ;D

Well, the Welsh certainly used to give a fair impression of universal singing. I had to wait for a late train at Aberdovey Station in the 1960s (as a Boy Scout out camping), and the whole of two platforms burst out spontanteously into hymns, in perfect four-part harmony. I doubt I shall ever hear anything like it again.

My one and only visit to the land of the long white leek was to Snowdonia in the early nineties.  On the Saturday night after dinner, I parted with my friend and headed towards the sound of singing, which was coming from the pub.  I then spent a very entertaining hour or so there.  They had a small electric organ, and everyone in the pub, man woman etc., were joining in the signing.  Hymns mainly but folk songs too.  It was amazing, like standing in the middle of a great pipe organ.  Like Mr Pianolist I doubt that I shall forget it. :)

So maybe its three out of four  ;D  which just leaves the Scotch.   I wonder how aged they need to be before losing that sharp edge?
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Re: take that you poms
Reply #21 on: December 07, 2006, 09:44:10 AM
Well, the Welsh certainly used to give a fair impression of universal singing. I had to wait for a late train at Aberdovey Station in the 1960s (as a Boy Scout out camping), and the whole of two platforms burst out spontanteously into hymns, in perfect four-part harmony. I doubt I shall ever hear anything like it again.
What a delightful greeting for them to have given you! (a pity it was hymns, but never mind - its was surely the thought that counted); that even beats - hands down - the firework display near Waterloo Bridge that the Lord Mayor of London kindly put on just before - and in close proximity to - the concert in which Jonathan Powell premièred my Sequentia Claviensis last month (and which you kindly attended).

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Re: take that you poms
Reply #22 on: December 07, 2006, 09:46:45 AM
according to the latest reports, members of the barmy army are being offered psychiatric counselling to help them come to terms with the shock  ;D
How many of those reports did you yourself write, "ada"? After all, you are a professional  medical and scientific journalist in A'straaalia, so it would seem to fit quite comfortably into your customary remit, would it not?!...

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Re: take that you poms
Reply #23 on: December 07, 2006, 10:10:32 AM
How many of those reports did you yourself write, "ada"? After all, you are a professional  medical and scientific journalist in A'straaalia, so it would seem to fit quite comfortably into your customary remit, would it not?!...

Bist (missp. deliberate),

Alistair

Hahaha it isn't at all beyond certain editors to ask for a medical angle on every story of the day, from the Ashes to the bloody Labor leadership challenge  ::)

While I can't claim credit for the above piece of brilliance (it was on the front page of today's tabloid Daily Terror) a far superior scientific slant on the Test series appears on a much more reputable site  ;) I will PM it to you.
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Reply #24 on: December 07, 2006, 10:43:44 AM
It was amazing, like standing in the middle of a great pipe organ.

In the 1970s, I remember doing an interview for Radio 4 from inside a WurliTzer as it was being played. Stupid idea that was. The interviewer thought it would be fun, but when he got back to the studio, he couldn't hear anything but tibias and air pressure.

Glad to see you use the correct English word for people north of the border. The English so often use the Scotch one these days. In many ways, I should have thought that the epithet "Scotch" might have been preferable to our Gaelic brethren, just as a Man of Kent, as you are residentially at least, is more embedded in the Garden of England than a Kentish Man, which I am by birth.
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Re: take that you poms
Reply #25 on: December 07, 2006, 11:39:54 AM
Hahaha it isn't at all beyond certain editors to ask for a medical angle on every story of the day, from the Ashes to the bloody Labor leadership challenge  ::)

While I can't claim credit for the above piece of brilliance (it was on the front page of today's tabloid Daily Terror) a far superior scientific slant on the Test series appears on a much more reputable site  ;) I will PM it to you.
PM received - many thanks!

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Re: take that you poms
Reply #26 on: December 07, 2006, 11:55:20 AM
just as a Man of Kent, as you are residentially at least, is more embedded in the Garden of England than a Kentish Man, which I am by birth.

For those who know not of what the bearded one speaks, there is a distinction between persons from Kent, England, based on geography. A Man of Kent comes from the area to the east of the River Medway and a Kentish Man comes from the west of the river.

Kent is known as the "Garden of England", though this referred not to decorative gardens, but market gardens.   The area was famous for apples and hops, and though both are largely gone, a distintive feature of the countryside is still the Oast House, which were once used to dry hops for beer making.
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