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PorFavor wrote:Just switched on BBC News24 to see how this raised threat level malarkey is being covered. You'd think WWIII has broken out. It's all very hysterical with added Dave. Best avoided.

rebeccariots2 wrote:

TheGrimSqueaker wrote:MI5 warning of dangerous terrorist threat from the East (aka Frinton)

With their webbed feet they can get into places inaccessible to the rest of us.

Frinton won't put up with that sort of thing at all. They have form in fighting back you know.

Proper is a word that suits Frinton. A small town on the Essex coast, it is best known to outsiders for the row that once grew to epic proportions over whether to allow a fish and chip shop to open. Some townsfolk feared it was a first step on the slippery slope to candy floss and amusement arcades, which are a feature of its better known neighbour, Clacton.

Frinton does not approve of that sort of thing. It barely approves of commerce at all. There are no pubs or fast-food joints, no shops or cafes on the front. There is no ice-cream van by the beach.
... Sometimes we call in at the aptly named Nice Fish and Chip Shop, whose controversial arrival is recorded in newspaper cuttings on the wall.
http://www.independent.co.uk/travel/oh-i-wish-i-was-in-frinton-1586855.html

in the first half of 2014 nearly 10,000 patients in England had to wait more than two months for specialist treatment after being told by their GP that they had a suspected cancer

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Murphy shelves Scots 'No' tour after 'intimidation'
http://politicshome.com/uk/story/44031/murphy_shelves_scots_no_tour_after_intimidation.html

RobertSnozers wrote:

TheGrimSqueaker wrote:Blimey Mr Snozers, it was in the way of being light hearted banter. I shall refrain from expressing any comments of a humorous nature in future.

Sorry, you must have caught me at a bad moment.

Tell you what, tell me where you're from and I'll make a crack about how everyone there has extra digits.

ErnstRemarx wrote:

RobertSnozers wrote:

TheGrimSqueaker wrote:Blimey Mr Snozers, it was in the way of being light hearted banter. I shall refrain from expressing any comments of a humorous nature in future.

Sorry, you must have caught me at a bad moment.

Tell you what, tell me where you're from and I'll make a crack about how everyone there has extra digits.

Sure is your lucky day, boy, ah'm from Alabama.

RobertSnozers wrote:

TheGrimSqueaker wrote:Blimey Mr Snozers, it was in the way of being light hearted banter. I shall refrain from expressing any comments of a humorous nature in future.

Sorry, you must have caught me at a bad moment.

Tell you what, tell me where you're from and I'll make a crack about how everyone there has extra digits.

In February, Croydon’s head of education asked the Harris Federation, a powerful academy chain with 38 schools across London, including nine in Croydon, to explain why many of its pupils ‘disappear’ before their exam year.

Since then the concern about ‘disappearing' pupils appears to have, well, disappeared. As if reading from the same crib sheet, the Harris Federation and the council issued a statement this week saying they had agreed to be better at sharing information with each other.

Earlier in the week, however, a council source had told the Advertiser that the Department for Education (DfE) had warned Harris to “stop their current practice and not exclude these children”.

A DfE spokeswoman said this week that the matter had been resolved without its intervention.

rebeccariots2 wrote:

Murphy shelves Scots 'No' tour after 'intimidation'
http://politicshome.com/uk/story/44031/murphy_shelves_scots_no_tour_after_intimidation.html

TheGrimSqueaker wrote:

RobertSnozers wrote:

TheGrimSqueaker wrote:Blimey Mr Snozers, it was in the way of being light hearted banter. I shall refrain from expressing any comments of a humorous nature in future.

Sorry, you must have caught me at a bad moment.

Tell you what, tell me where you're from and I'll make a crack about how everyone there has extra digits.

Profuse apologies, as I appear to have got under your skin somewhat. Perhaps my sense of humour is a little too much for this forum, best I take it elsewhere.

TechnicalEphemera wrote:

TheGrimSqueaker wrote:

RobertSnozers wrote: Sorry, you must have caught me at a bad moment.

Tell you what, tell me where you're from and I'll make a crack about how everyone there has extra digits.

Profuse apologies, as I appear to have got under your skin somewhat. Perhaps my sense of humour is a little too much for this forum, best I take it elsewhere.

Just as long as you don't post NFN.....


I will get my coat (and I quite like a bit of inappropriate humour. Being from Yorkshire I also love Osbornes housing boom. I find the matchbox is worth more after I use the matches).

rebeccariots2 wrote:

TechnicalEphemera wrote:

TheGrimSqueaker wrote: Profuse apologies, as I appear to have got under your skin somewhat. Perhaps my sense of humour is a little too much for this forum, best I take it elsewhere.

Just as long as you don't post NFN.....


I will get my coat (and I quite like a bit of inappropriate humour. Being from Yorkshire I also love Osbornes housing boom. I find the matchbox is worth more after I use the matches).

You have absolutely lost me with that post TE - have to admit I don't understand a word of it. But I do hope Grim Squeaker doesn't quit posting here. There's quite a diverse range of sense of humours on FTN ...

But Carswell’s defection has come at a price for both himself and his party. As we’ve seen, his attempts to stand on a point of high principle have ended with him balanced precariously on a pin head. Ukip’s claim to be practitioners of a different kind of politics is being single-handedly demolished by Roger Lord’s brave defiance. And within Ukip’s ranks, many existing parliamentary candidates will have been watching Lord’s treatment, seen the rumours of other possible Tory defections, and been saying to themselves “there but for the grace of the national executive committee go I.”

Douglas Carswell’s defection has been a coup for Nigel Farage. But it has not been a bloodless one.

TechnicalEphemera wrote:

rebeccariots2 wrote:

TechnicalEphemera wrote: Just as long as you don't post NFN.....


I will get my coat (and I quite like a bit of inappropriate humour. Being from Yorkshire I also love Osbornes housing boom. I find the matchbox is worth more after I use the matches).

You have absolutely lost me with that post TE - have to admit I don't understand a word of it. But I do hope Grim Squeaker doesn't quit posting here. There's quite a diverse range of sense of humours on FTN ...

You can google NFN.

As for the other one, it is a reference to the two Yorkshire men sketch - very approximately.

"When I were a lad, used t' work 97 hour days, live in matchbox and we were bloody lucky if they took matches out."

ChrisDean wrote:NFN?...I thought it was just us Foresters that were inbred...

TechnicalEphemera wrote:

ChrisDean wrote:NFN?...I thought it was just us Foresters that were inbred...

I have it on the authority of a retired police officer that I come from a part of the country historically known for that sort of thing. So I rather suspect anywhere a bit rural and backward (like Kew Gardens perhaps?) has that sort of meme.

Why Gerald Vernon-Jackson’s selection for Portsmouth South is good news
http://www.markpack.org.uk/59570/why-gerald-vernon-jacksons-selection-for-portsmouth-south-is-good-news/?utm_source=WordTwit&utm_campaign=wordtwit&utm_medium=referral

... it means the party has selected an out gay man to succeed a (now ex-) Liberal Democrat MP...

PorFavor wrote:Goodnight, everyone.

End of the tax disc: How to pay your vehicle tax when the law changes on October 1

Spacedone wrote:

TechnicalEphemera wrote:

rebeccariots2 wrote: You have absolutely lost me with that post TE - have to admit I don't understand a word of it. But I do hope Grim Squeaker doesn't quit posting here. There's quite a diverse range of sense of humours on FTN ...

You can google NFN.

As for the other one, it is a reference to the two Yorkshire men sketch - very approximately.

"When I were a lad, used t' work 97 hour days, live in matchbox and we were bloody lucky if they took matches out."

It used to be four Yorkshiremen but we considered four to be an extravagence...

It's socialism for the rich and capitalism for the rest of us in Britain
Who are the real scroungers? Free-marketeers decry 'big government' yet the City and big business benefit hugely from the state – from bailouts to the billions made from privatisation. Socialism does exist in Britain – but only for the rich

RobertSnozers wrote:I don't want anyone to leave on my account. I really don't. On the other hand, just because something's meant humorously doesn't mean some people might not justifiably take exception.