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AngryAsWell wrote:LabourLordsUK ‏@LabourLordsUK · 5 hrs5 hours ago
Even 4 Tory Peers joined with us to ban #paydayloans ads before 9pm watershed but 72 LibDems helped vote it down http://bit.ly/1hMQqLn" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

seeingclearly wrote:

PaulfromYorkshire wrote:http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/po ... 85725.html

miliband-ally-lord-wood-leads-condemnation-of-daily-express-over-its-definition-of-hidden-migrants

That makes me a hidden migrant for 65+ years, while all along I lived under the delusion that I was British. Funny that. Up to how many generations, I wonder, because by that logic, if you are a hidden migrant then your kids must be doubly hidden. And so on..... Would seven generations be enough? Too much, too little? Does it work the other way? Can English hidden migrants all over the world return?

Tizme1 wrote:

seeingclearly wrote:

PaulfromYorkshire wrote:http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/po ... 85725.html

miliband-ally-lord-wood-leads-condemnation-of-daily-express-over-its-definition-of-hidden-migrants

That makes me a hidden migrant for 65+ years, while all along I lived under the delusion that I was British. Funny that. Up to how many generations, I wonder, because by that logic, if you are a hidden migrant then your kids must be doubly hidden. And so on..... Would seven generations be enough? Too much, too little? Does it work the other way? Can English hidden migrants all over the world return?

For some years I have been tracing my family history. One of my ancestors came over with William the Conqueror [as is true no doubt for many of us]. Does that make me a subterranean, deep cover, double bluff, hidden agentmigrant? It could of course explain my anti authoritarian, rebellious attitude.

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gilsey wrote:Apropos of nothing, a letter to the G.

Ludwig Wittgenstein and the Tractatus of talkative Geordies

“Geordies like to talk … allow at least 10 minutes just to buy a newspaper,” advises Harry Pearson (The UK’s best city: in praise of Newcastle upon Tyne, theguardian.com, 22 November). Wittgenstein worked as a lab assistant in Newcastle’s Royal Victoria Infirmary during the war. His Jesmond landlady said he was chatty in the morning, to the annoyance of the other lodgers, but morose in the evenings. From the poem “Geordie Henderson replies to the biographer of Ludwig Wittgenstein” (Mugs Rite, Bay Press, 1996), by the recently late poet, eccentric and bibliophile Mike Wilkin: “Div aa knaa oot more / aboot him? Fella, arl else / aa remember, is that / the only gala time / aa got im near a pint, / knaaing he was a Delphi / Oracle, aa askt him / if the Magpies would ever / climb back to the Shangri-La / of Division One. And he wrote / doon arl magisterially / on a raggy beer mat / (which is clagged-up / in wor netty yet!) / “Whereof one cannot spowt / Thereof one must say nowt.”
Joan Hewitt (@TurkishBathsNCL)
Tynemouth

seeingclearly wrote:

PaulfromYorkshire wrote:http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/po ... 85725.html

miliband-ally-lord-wood-leads-condemnation-of-daily-express-over-its-definition-of-hidden-migrants

That makes me a hidden migrant for 65+ years, while all along I lived under the delusion that I was British. Funny that. Up to how many generations, I wonder, because by that logic, if you are a hidden migrant then your kids must be doubly hidden. And so on..... Would seven generations be enough? Too much, too little? Does it work the other way? Can English hidden migrants all over the world return?

Tizme1 wrote:

seeingclearly wrote:

PaulfromYorkshire wrote:http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/po ... 85725.html

miliband-ally-lord-wood-leads-condemnation-of-daily-express-over-its-definition-of-hidden-migrants

That makes me a hidden migrant for 65+ years, while all along I lived under the delusion that I was British. Funny that. Up to how many generations, I wonder, because by that logic, if you are a hidden migrant then your kids must be doubly hidden. And so on..... Would seven generations be enough? Too much, too little? Does it work the other way? Can English hidden migrants all over the world return?

For some years I have been tracing my family history. One of my ancestors came over with William the Conqueror [as is true no doubt for many of us]. Does that make me a subterranean, deep cover, double bluff, hidden agentmigrant? It could of course explain my anti authoritarian, rebellious attitude.

ephemerid wrote:Re. Migrant children - I'm one of them. Me Mam was a Kraut, Dad a Geordie (and that's a whole other continent) and I live with a Welsh bloke.
Nige can deport me any old time he likes. Any Greek island he fancies.

Re. Osborne - I am actually quite worried about him. No sympathy for coke/Bullingdon crap and hate what he's done. But he does look poorly.
If it's the white stuff again, we'll never find out anyway.
The thing is - who would replace him if he disappeared for a while? Hammond? Can't think of anyone else.
Maybe he's just bricking it because he's got to deliver his (winter) autumn statement.

I've just been watching the Killing Fields. I've never seen it all the way through before, just fantastic. I know the bloke who wrote the screenplay and thought I'd see if it was as brilliant as everyone says it is. It is. I won't tell him, mind. He'll get ideas.

seeingclearly wrote:

PaulfromYorkshire wrote:http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/po ... 85725.html

miliband-ally-lord-wood-leads-condemnation-of-daily-express-over-its-definition-of-hidden-migrants

That makes me a hidden migrant for 65+ years, while all along I lived under the delusion that I was British. Funny that. Up to how many generations, I wonder, because by that logic, if you are a hidden migrant then your kids must be doubly hidden. And so on..... Would seven generations be enough? Too much, too little? Does it work the other way? Can English hidden migrants all over the world return?

TechnicalEphemera wrote:

AngryAsWell wrote:LabourLordsUK ‏@LabourLordsUK · 5 hrs5 hours ago
Even 4 Tory Peers joined with us to ban #paydayloans ads before 9pm watershed but 72 LibDems helped vote it down http://bit.ly/1hMQqLn" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Lib Dem scum.

I can only assume it is some strange self harm compulsion.

This government is over, why bother defending it?

TechnicalEphemera wrote:

Tizme1 wrote:

seeingclearly wrote: That makes me a hidden migrant for 65+ years, while all along I lived under the delusion that I was British. Funny that. Up to how many generations, I wonder, because by that logic, if you are a hidden migrant then your kids must be doubly hidden. And so on..... Would seven generations be enough? Too much, too little? Does it work the other way? Can English hidden migrants all over the world return?

For some years I have been tracing my family history. One of my ancestors came over with William the Conqueror [as is true no doubt for many of us]. Does that make me a subterranean, deep cover, double bluff, hidden agentmigrant? It could of course explain my anti authoritarian, rebellious attitude.

Nah, French Commie immigrant coming over here, eating our chips and forcing us to use metric.


Back off Brussels - Mustard is yellow not brown.

I bet you even LIKE garlic.

(With apologies to Al Murray for stealing his mustard joke).

I did try to find an anti French rant from Al's pub landlord, but all I could find was this wonderful rant about England from Julia Sawalha's excellent Australian bar maid to a clientele that are so UKIP they didn't know it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuIceaokABA&sns=em

TechnicalEphemera wrote:Aha, perhaps there is some connection between events at PMQs and this.

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014 ... 0kg-seized

ephemerid wrote:Re. Migrant children - I'm one of them. Me Mam was a Kraut, Dad a Geordie (and that's a whole other continent) and I live with a Welsh bloke.
Nige can deport me any old time he likes. Any Greek island he fancies.

Re. Osborne - I am actually quite worried about him. No sympathy for coke/Bullingdon crap and hate what he's done. But he does look poorly.
If it's the white stuff again, we'll never find out anyway.
The thing is - who would replace him if he disappeared for a while? Hammond? Can't think of anyone else.
Maybe he's just bricking it because he's got to deliver his (winter) autumn statement.

I've just been watching the Killing Fields. I've never seen it all the way through before, just fantastic. I know the bloke who wrote the screenplay and thought I'd see if it was as brilliant as everyone says it is. It is. I won't tell him, mind. He'll get ideas.

TechnicalEphemera wrote:For a bit of culture, William Gibson on how he wrote Neuromancer.

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/n ... -book-club

Different times, which oddly look quite a lot like he predicted.

ephemerid wrote:I am actually quite concerned about the Chancellor of the Exchequer.

I've just seen a video of him at PMQs today, and he looks absolutely dreadful.

I can't work out if he looks ill or drugged. Which are pretty much the same sort of thing, really, in effect.

Much as I dislike him, my professional eye was drawn to him today as he really looked awful - and much as I dislike him, I hope he's not ill.
He's lost a scary amount of weight, too.

If he's been playing with the Bolivian marching powder again then I'm considerably less sympathetic.

adam wrote:I seem to have the proper poorly version of whatever Osbourne has given himself, I need some honey and lemon and I'm out of lemons. I'm not sure which of you is closest but if someone could pop round with a couple that would be lovely. *sniff*

LadyCentauria wrote:

adam wrote:I seem to have the proper poorly version of whatever Osbourne has given himself, I need some honey and lemon and I'm out of lemons. I'm not sure which of you is closest but if someone could pop round with a couple that would be lovely. *sniff*

No lemons. Would limes do? I prescribe snuggling up with a hot-water-bottle, a favourite book from childhood, and boiled egg with soldiers. Get well soon.