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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.
Gives him a chance to chair another COBBLERS meeting, or whatever that lot's called. Nice photo op for the clearly concerned Dave to look a bit grim and do the deliberate, repeated "Look, I keep pressing the button on this pelican crossing, with my fist all balled up - see I really am a heavyweight, gosh, yes, I mean it" gesture to an awed and enraptured BBC interviewer.

I am obviously more concerned about this very real terrorist threat, and not at all interested in Dave's party slowly rendering itself down to pig fat.
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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
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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. ;-)
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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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Empty Dave should tweet.

Defection of Carswell to UKIP means I have increased my terror level from run to hide.
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Yes, everything they ever said about Philip Davies being not the sharpest knife in the drawer is true...


Jim Pickard
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Philip Davies, Tory Euroscep MP: "I've always told Douglas (Carswell) that he is not a true Conservative, he is an anarchist or communist."


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Bacon sarny anyone - or should that be squirrel bap? Somehow I get the impression that journalists and commentators have found Cameron a bit hard to take seriously - despite the nature of the announcement.
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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.
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Actually, I'm not, but I don't live very far from Bacup, the only town I know where they still point at aircraft flying above, and hail each other with the greeting "Gimme six!".
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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.
:lol: :lol: :lol: And I don't even know why I'm laughing - but I am, uproariously.
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There seems to be a new addition to the Steve Bell stress buster range ... sorry, if you've all seen it before - I must have missed it.
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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.
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Concern about 'disappearing' pupils at Harris Federation's Croydon schools has, well, disappeared

http://www.croydonadvertiser.co.uk/Concern-disappearing-pupils-Harris-Federation-s/story-22844020-detail/story.html
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.
Which roughly translates as "Damn! Got caught out. Don't do it again....or be more crafty about it"
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rebeccariots2 wrote:
Here's the statement from Jim Murphy:
http://bettertogether.net/blog/entry/statement-from-jim-murphy-on-suspending-his-tour
(The video clip is worth watching).

The statement at the end of the politicshome article is a bit misleading. The Survation poll shows 48% no; 42% yes. On 1st August they had 46% / 40%. In between (7th August) it was 50% / 37%. This seems to show a slight blip after the first TV debate, settling back after the second. To my simplistic mind, this seems to indicate that the much-advertised debates were a waste of time!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/events/scotland-decides/poll-tracker
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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.
Just as long as you don't post NFN..... :o


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).
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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..... :o


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 ...
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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..... :o


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."
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NFN?...I thought it was just us Foresters that were inbred...
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Tee hee..Hodges knows how to get under the skin of the kippers...

Whatever happened to Ukip, the 'people's party'?

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/danhodges/100284448/whatever-happened-to-ukip-the-peoples-party/
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.
Oh dear...they don't like this at all BTL!

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barroso Frank Fisher • 7 hours ago
It is actually embarrassing now isn't it. It's really not even worth responding to his stuff any more. No one, and I mean no one is going to pay attention to these ramblings.
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I love that "no one is going to pay attention to these ramblings"...so far...1,276 comments and growing fast...
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Right Telegraph muppetry alert.

Some famous actress has posed topless as part of the feminist "free the nipple" campaign.

Here is how the Indy reported it. The article makes some interesting points.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/peopl ... 99912.html

Which makes the Telegraph's photo amazingly crass.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/womens ... women.html

Talk about missing the point. Presumably the UKIP Taliban will take up arms faced with the sight of an actual nipple (still traumatised by Dave's Micky Mouse towel picture).

(First FTN photo of a pair of Tits that didn't feature Nick Clegg and David Cameron).
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TechnicalEphemera wrote:
rebeccariots2 wrote:
TechnicalEphemera wrote: Just as long as you don't post NFN..... :o


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."
It used to be four Yorkshiremen but we considered four to be an extravagence... :rofl:
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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.
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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.
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Goodnight, everyone.
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When I tell you that reason no 1 is:
... it means the party has selected an out gay man to succeed a (now ex-) Liberal Democrat MP...
you will understand just how pathetically, tokenistically and deludely low the barrel is being scraped to present a good front for Mr Vernon-Jackson.

Has to be read to be believed.
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PorFavor wrote:Goodnight, everyone.
Night PF :)
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Good night PF :)

I missed this one
End of the tax disc: How to pay your vehicle tax when the law changes on October 1
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Evening all. At the Telegraph Peter Oborne suggests that Cameron should beg Boris to stand against Carswell in Clacton:

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/peter ... n-calcton/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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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... :rofl:
And there was I thinking it was to make way for two Yorkshire women.

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Good piece by Owen Jones, over at the Graun:
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
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/aug/29/socialism-for-the-rich
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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.
I quite take your point Robert.

Essex has been the butt of off colour jokes for about as long as I can remember - and I've probably forgotten more Essex jokes than I can now recall (not many thankfully). I hope it didn't get under your skin,and I'm pretty sure that it wasn't meant with any malice. I don't think that that's how FTNers work.

I take the piss out of my own home county (Cheshire) and my adopted county (Lancashire) and the north in general as I see fit, not because I'm ashamed of any of it but because I can see the absurdity of it all, and it doesn't harm me or anyone else to joke about it.

If you ask me to, I'd die in a ditch for my adopted home, but I can laugh at its reputation because it's detached from the reality I know. My Lancastrian friends are smart, sassy, funny and serious about their politics. I expect no less elsewhere, so any ribbing or piss taking of other regions I greet with the same sense of superficiality as I would piss taking of Bury and its folk - we're all thick fuckers who are only known for black puddings, if you wish to deal in stereotypes.

Let's just forget this one and move on.
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