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tinyclanger2 wrote:During a recent sobremesa with Lady R-M, her ladyship vehemently denied that Cameron had verschlimmbesserned the Tory meltdown with his cynical desenrascanco that boiled down to nothing more than Eton votes for English Laws.
After what happened to Pappa during the War, when all our Von Moggreiser relations batted for the wrong team, we won't have Kraut spoken Chez Moggy. Even Auntie Lizzie won't have it spoken at Windsor any more, even when the Greek tries it in jest....

I must point out to you that we had no "sobremesa" whatsoever. I issued you with instructions, as your lowly status is such that PLU nevah converse with PLY unless it's absolutely necessary and in an effort to correct noxious - and may I say, typical - plebeian behaviour.

Getting ideas above one's station invariably ends in tears, you know. You were sent to sunday school for a jolly good reason - "The rich man in his castle, the poor man at his gate; God made them high and lowly, and ordered their estate" is the hymn that your teahcers forced you to sing in order for you to understand your place. Are you some type of jonny foreigner bolshevik cove?

If you're not careful I'll have to have you evicted from your tied hovel. Lord Rees Moggy won't have this blatant lack of manners on the estate, and I'll insist that Mellors gives you a whipping on the way out. That's the trouble with the lower orders. Ingrates, the whole damn lot of 'em. One tries, one really does, to educate them in the correct way of doing things, but they are useless.

It must be congenital - rather as I have inherited my compassion and intelligence from my forbears, coming from first-rate stock.
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tinyclanger2 wrote:During a recent sobremesa with Lady R-M, her ladyship vehemently denied that Cameron had verschlimmbesserned the Tory meltdown with his cynical desenrascanco that boiled down to nothing more than Eton votes for English Laws.
After what happened to Pappa during the War, when all our Von Moggreiser relations batted for the wrong team, we won't have Kraut spoken Chez Moggy. Even Auntie Lizzie won't have it spoken at Windsor any more, even when the Greek tries it in jest....

I must point out to you that we had no "sobremesa" whatsoever. I issued you with instructions, as your lowly status is such that PLU nevah converse with PLY unless it's absolutely necessary and in an effort to correct noxious - and may I say, typical - plebeian behaviour.

Getting ideas above one's station invariably ends in tears, you know. You were sent to sunday school for a jolly good reason - "The rich man in his castle, the poor man at his gate; God made them high and lowly, and ordered their estate" is the hymn that your teahcers forced you to sing in order for you to understand your place. Are you some type of jonny foreigner bolshevik cove?

If you're not careful I'll have to have you evicted from your tied hovel. Lord Rees Moggy won't have this blatant lack of manners on the estate, and I'll insist that Mellors gives you a whipping on the way out. That's the trouble with the lower orders. Ingrates, the whole damn lot of 'em. One tries, one really does, to educate them in the correct way of doing things, but they are useless.

It must be congenital - rather as I have inherited my compassion and intelligence from my forbears, coming from first-rate stock.
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If prepaid benefit cards won't apply to the disabled why is North Tyneside including ESA/IB/SDA in their trials?
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Hobiejoe wrote:
51A wrote:
Hobiejoe wrote: I don't know about your neighbourhood, but we need a lot of visitors to help our trade, and when we're quiet we see sooo many people walk on. If we've got a few in, it reassures the grockles that we might be alright, despite not being on the waterfront, and so we get more business.

And don't even start me on the "gosh, what a wonderful pub! Wish we'd found you earlier, went to the R**** C*****, and T** C*****, and you're much better! Shame we're going home tomorrow. :wall:

So be the person who is there, and help a landlord!
Might be good if the landlord and staff did not refer to passing trade/holidaymakers as "grockles". It's an insulting word and shows an "us" (local) and them (cashcow who knows no better) mentality. I've run a pub and I eat and drink in them. I'd leave one that referred to me as a "grockle". Make everyone welcome. Sorry if that sounded harsh but "grockle" sounds harsh to me.
Which is fine, if I use grockle in a perjorative way. Which I don't. It's merely a local variation of "tourist or visitor", and so we continue to use an old word from way back, a local dialect word, and one I use here.

Now, if you, as a visitor, were to walk into my pub I'm pretty damn sure neither I nor my staff are going to say "Good evening grockle, what can I get you?" Because that's just rude and aggressive, as you suggest. And that's why we don't do so. But when I post something on a friendly forum like this I use idioms or local words, the vernacular, as I would in everyday conversation with "locals", and with actual "grockles" once we've got to know each other a little, some of those grockles are well up for a little ironic banter.

Hmmmph. You seem to think I'm some kind of tourist-hater. I'm not.
I know this risks outing you in public, but which town/village are you in, and can you name the pub, as if I'm planning a holiday in the UK knowing there's a pub in the area with a sane, non-taxi driver type landlord would be a bonus.
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AnatolyKasparov wrote:
tinyclanger2 wrote:http://www.itv.com/news/update/2014-10- ... eferendum/

Is there really an appetite for another in-out referendum within three years? One can't help but wonder about the motives of the SNP if they don't rule this out. Having failed to secure the yes vote that would provide their socialist Utopia, they are now working to discredit Labour, thus promoting the likelihood of a Tory/UKIP coalition, while apparently agitating (if not publicly) for another in-out vote. If they hate the English so much, that they would be prepared to foist such misery on so many, the time may be ripe for them to relocate to, say, France.
A lot of their grassroots genuinely believe last month's vote was rigged, or was illegitimate because "only old people voted 'no'" (false of course, but what do facts matter?) The leadership has to appease them - plus if they publicly admitted there wouldn't be another referendum for a generation, they might actually have to concentrate on governing at Holyrood.

Anything but that! :)
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They are, pretty much. There have even been calls for over-75s (or similar) to be barred from any future referendum :roll:
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AnatolyKasparov wrote:They are, pretty much. There have even been calls for over-75s (or similar) to be barred from any future referendum :roll:
:o :o :o
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norman smith ‏@BBCNormanS 35m35 minutes ago
Lib Dem sources confirm they wd back further welfare cuts provided also tax rises on better off #ldconf
Good luck attracting back the anti Tory vote with that strategy ....
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See a leaked draft copy of the Tories’ proposed UK Bill of Rights
http://tompride.wordpress.com/
It's a right goodun.
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AnatolyKasparov wrote: A lot of their grassroots genuinely believe last month's vote was rigged, or was illegitimate because "only old people voted 'no'" (false of course, but what do facts matter?) The leadership has to appease them - plus if they publicly admitted there wouldn't be another referendum for a generation, they might actually have to concentrate on governing at Holyrood.

Anything but that! :)
Ah good point. Wouldn't want to have to focus on the day job.
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Possibly the most telling indicator of interest and belief in the Lib Dems' future .... a mere 4 comments on the LDV open thread on yesterday's conference debates.
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ephemerid wrote:
tinyclanger2 wrote:During a recent sobremesa with Lady R-M, her ladyship vehemently denied that Cameron had verschlimmbesserned the Tory meltdown with his cynical desenrascanco that boiled down to nothing more than Eton votes for English Laws.
I must point out to you that we had no "sobremesa" whatsoever. I issued you with instructions, as your lowly status is such that PLU nevah converse with PLY unless it's absolutely necessary and in an effort to correct noxious - and may I say, typical - plebeian behaviour.
If I recall correctly, your ladyship, it was you coined the term sobremesa during the course of the - er - discussion. I suppose you might locate the cause of your alternative recollection in the inches of Bombay S you had "a little try of".
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AnatolyKasparov wrote:They are, pretty much. There have even been calls for over-75s (or similar) to be barred from any future referendum :roll:
That's quite some democracy they have in mind.
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tinyclanger2 wrote:
AnatolyKasparov wrote:They are, pretty much. There have even been calls for over-75s (or similar) to be barred from any future referendum :roll:
That's quite some democracy they have in mind.
I suppose all the anger, and bile that bubbled up in the last few weeks of the referendum, has to be directed somewhere.

Once those sort of feelings are released and given voice, they never fade.
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Martin Rowson @MartinRowson
Hang on, hang on. We all know that George Osborne isn't the sharpest knife in the drawer, but should he really be skipping after IDS into...

..The Valley of the Dolts and be attacking charities when they were to've been the backbone of the Big Society (stop laughing at the back)?

Likewise, he should beware of bigging up themarket at the expense of charities. I mean, when he's back in the job market, he'll need...

...charity or he'll starve. Of course, it'll be dressed up as a non-executive directorship at Kleinwort Nosferatu Hyena, but hey! What IS...

...the jobs market for towel-folding fuckwits with repulsive faces right this minute now? Well?

https://twitter.com/MartinRowson" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
He really doesn't hold back, does he. :lol:
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Has Dave never thought that if he put more money into peoples pockets. And I mean proper money, enough to live on, which would make them stop feeling so bad about themselves, those people are going to stop worrying about immigrants taking jobs and UKIP would lose a mass of working class support.
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rebeccariots2 wrote:
Martin Rowson @MartinRowson
Hang on, hang on. We all know that George Osborne isn't the sharpest knife in the drawer, but should he really be skipping after IDS into...

..The Valley of the Dolts and be attacking charities when they were to've been the backbone of the Big Society (stop laughing at the back)?

Likewise, he should beware of bigging up themarket at the expense of charities. I mean, when he's back in the job market, he'll need...

...charity or he'll starve. Of course, it'll be dressed up as a non-executive directorship at Kleinwort Nosferatu Hyena, but hey! What IS...

...the jobs market for towel-folding fuckwits with repulsive faces right this minute now? Well?

https://twitter.com/MartinRowson" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
He really doesn't hold back, does he. :lol:
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Peter Smith ‏@Redpeter99 3m3 minutes ago
36% of Lib Dem PPCs plan to use Nick Clegg in their election literature. The others will use the more appealing Pol Pot or Harold Shipman.


One of the few LibDem Tweets om my Twitter feed.

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ohsocynical wrote:Has Dave never thought
Fixed that for you.
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ohsocynical wrote:Has Dave never thought that if he put more money into peoples pockets. And I mean proper money, enough to live on, which would make them stop feeling so bad about themselves, those people are going to stop worrying about immigrants taking jobs and UKIP would lose a mass of working class support.

Thinking? Dave? (That's what he's got Angry Birds and other games for .... to prevent such a thing from happening.)
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Hobiejoe wrote:
51A wrote: Might be good if the landlord and staff did not refer to passing trade/holidaymakers as "grockles". It's an insulting word and shows an "us" (local) and them (cashcow who knows no better) mentality. I've run a pub and I eat and drink in them. I'd leave one that referred to me as a "grockle". Make everyone welcome. Sorry if that sounded harsh but "grockle" sounds harsh to me.
Which is fine, if I use grockle in a perjorative way. Which I don't. It's merely a local variation of "tourist or visitor", and so we continue to use an old word from way back, a local dialect word, and one I use here.

Now, if you, as a visitor, were to walk into my pub I'm pretty damn sure neither I nor my staff are going to say "Good evening grockle, what can I get you?" Because that's just rude and aggressive, as you suggest. And that's why we don't do so. But when I post something on a friendly forum like this I use idioms or local words, the vernacular, as I would in everyday conversation with "locals", and with actual "grockles" once we've got to know each other a little, some of those grockles are well up for a little ironic banter.

Hmmmph. You seem to think I'm some kind of tourist-hater. I'm not.
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Sadly we can't please absolutely everyone with what we do, and sometimes mistakes happen. When things go wrong we do our best to put things right, but some people will not say anything at the time and then go and post something nasty when they get home. It really is utterly depressing. On the brighter side, an awful lot of people understand what goes on, and can see through malicious posts.

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tinyclanger2 wrote:
ephemerid wrote:
tinyclanger2 wrote:During a recent sobremesa with Lady R-M, her ladyship vehemently denied that Cameron had verschlimmbesserned the Tory meltdown with his cynical desenrascanco that boiled down to nothing more than Eton votes for English Laws.
I must point out to you that we had no "sobremesa" whatsoever. I issued you with instructions, as your lowly status is such that PLU nevah converse with PLY unless it's absolutely necessary and in an effort to correct noxious - and may I say, typical - plebeian behaviour.
If I recall correctly, your ladyship, it was you coined the term sobremesa during the course of the - er - discussion. I suppose you might locate the cause of your alternative recollection in the inches of Bombay S you had "a little try of".
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Good afternoon.

I've been trying to watch the LibDem Conference on TV today but I'm honestly beginning to feel like a voyeur or a gatecrasher at a funeral.
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PorFavor wrote:Good afternoon.

I've been trying to watch the LibDem Conference on TV today but I'm honestly beginning to feel like a voyeur or a gatecrasher at a funeral.

Is the hall still almost deserted ?
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yahyah wrote:
PorFavor wrote:Good afternoon.

I've been trying to watch the LibDem Conference on TV today but I'm honestly beginning to feel like a voyeur or a gatecrasher at a funeral.

Is the hall still almost deserted ?
It was the last time I looked. I think they're out to lunch now (!) - I don't know if they'll rustle up some more people for the afternoon session or if people won't bother to come back. I did notice that there was a lot of seat-hopping in the hall this morning. I don't know what that was in aid of unless people were just doing it because they could, spoilt for choice as they were.
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Thanks PF. Would look for myself but other half is watching sport on TV.
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Oh dear. The Gulpy-faced wormling™ is trying for the casual look (no jacket or tie, open neck). It doesn't look good.
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Oh, apparently Labour are rowing back on the agreed new powers for Scotland and only the Lib Dems are keeping their word over it.
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The Lib Dems have saved the UK again (Scotland) "pulling it back from the brink 3 times".

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And I've turned the sound off. The pictures may follow shortly.
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refitman wrote:The Lib Dems have saved the UK again (Scotland) "pulling it back from the brink 3 times".

Give me strength.
And did you notice that he shamelessly pinched Jim Murphy's line (from the Labour Conference) about the taxi-driver and the Barnett Formula?
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refitman wrote:The Lib Dems have saved the UK again (Scotland) "pulling it back from the brink 3 times".

Give me strength.
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I see Beaker has just repeated Expenses Cheat David Laws lie about Liam Byrne's letter: "There is no money left".
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The hall has filled up a bit since this morning, I think - but the camera shots of the audience aren't very clear. Maybe I'll get a better idea once "Tieless in Glasgow" has come to an end.
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PorFavor wrote:The hall has filled up a bit since this morning, I think - but the camera shots of the audience aren't very clear. Maybe I'll get a better idea once "Tieless in Glasgow" has come to an end.
Very few wide shots. They're only showing the front of the hall. Hmm...

Sod it, I'm switching over to the rugby.
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refitman wrote:I see Beaker has just repeated David Laws lie about Liam Byrne's letter: "There is no money left".
It's tedious beyond measure, but also says something about how these - uhm - individuals see us. They really do regard their electorate as largely ignorant idiots don't they.
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PorFavor wrote:The hall has filled up a bit since this morning, I think - but the camera shots of the audience aren't very clear. Maybe I'll get a better idea once "Tieless in Glasgow" has come to an end.

One of FTN's more literary-minded put downs :lol:

[I'd have gone for 'clueless' though myself.]
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PorFavor wrote:The hall has filled up a bit since this morning, I think - but the camera shots of the audience aren't very clear. Maybe I'll get a better idea once "Tieless in Glasgow" has come to an end.

"Tieless in Glasgow"! That's brilliant. Just brilliant.

With a sub-title (being Scotland) of "Feignspotting"

I'm liking this a lot. Literary references to conferences.....

Tories - "Wolf (in sheeps' clothing) Hall". Or maybe "Blustering Shites".

Labour - "Sense and Sensibility" obviously......



I have been reliably informed by the butler that Lady Jacobia Rees Moggy needs a holiday. She's been far too busy lately.
She's off to the Riviera to do some fish-pointing, having worn herself out sacking and evicting people.

As her spokes-servant on all things U and Non-U, I have been left with instructions should you require advice on arcane matters of etiquette. As I also have the butler's keys to the cellar, shall we have the Margaux with our supper?
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Will her ladyship be nipping off with Rafe perhaps?
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ephemerid wrote:
PorFavor wrote:The hall has filled up a bit since this morning, I think - but the camera shots of the audience aren't very clear. Maybe I'll get a better idea once "Tieless in Glasgow" has come to an end.

"Tieless in Glasgow"! That's brilliant. Just brilliant.

With a sub-title (being Scotland) of "Feignspotting"

I'm liking this a lot. Literary references to conferences.....

Tories - "Wolf (in sheeps' clothing) Hall". Or maybe "Blustering Shites".

Labour - "Sense and Sensibility" obviously......



I have been reliably informed by the butler that Lady Jacobia Rees Moggy needs a holiday. She's been far too busy lately.
She's off to the Riviera to do some fish-pointing, having worn herself out sacking and evicting people.

As her spokes-servant on all things U and Non-U, I have been left with instructions should you require advice on arcane matters of etiquette. As I also have the butler's keys to the cellar, shall we have the Margaux with our supper?
Being a teetotaller, I'll be Mother.....

Ha! How about for Nigel Farage and Ukip - "Pie-eyed and Prejudiced"?
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refitman wrote:I see Beaker has just repeated Expenses Cheat David Laws lie about Liam Byrne's letter: "There is no money left".
They have to add the "left" as if it was omitted people would clearly see that it was an absurd statement and meant to be a joke whereas by adding the "left" it can then be taken as "...because we spent it all".
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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/busin ... 74889.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

More on Osborne bollocks, by Ben Chu.
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PorFavor wrote: Ha! How about for Nigel Farage and Ukip - "Pie-eyed and Prejudiced"?
Oh, very good, PF.

Songs suit them too - Andy Fairweather-Low's "Wide-eyed and legless" or Dave Edmund's "I hear you knocking, but you can't come in"

And for Shapps - with his phalanx of Jack-Shirts - a film: "The Three Faces of Evil" or "Apocalypse Now"

This is fun. More please.
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FFS. I've just worked out where the thanks button is....apologies to all those I have failed to thank. I've never been good at it. Must do better....
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ephemerid wrote:FFS. I've just worked out where the thanks button is....apologies to all those I have failed to thank. I've never been good at it. Must do better....
:lol:
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ephemerid wrote:
PorFavor wrote: Ha! How about for Nigel Farage and Ukip - "Pie-eyed and Prejudiced"?
Oh, very good, PF.

Songs suit them too - Andy Fairweather-Low's "Wide-eyed and legless" or Dave Edmund's "I hear you knocking, but you can't come in"

And for Shapps - with his phalanx of Jack-Shirts - a film: "The Three Faces of Evil" or "Apocalypse Now"

This is fun. More please.
For some reason the inimitable Ian Dury springs to mind. Includes Dan Hodges' middle name. Am sure you know the one I mean.
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2014 Lib Dem conference:

Far from the madding crowd

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Tories

David Cameron

featuring George Osborne as Uriah Heep
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What's with the strange scaffold arrangement on which speakers stand and address the backs of the assembled? (LibDem Conference)
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PorFavor wrote:What's with the strange scaffold arrangement on which speakers stand and address the backs of the assembled? (LibDem Conference)
Hmmm, scaffold - somehow appropriate methinks :idea:
"IS TONTY BLAIR BEHIND THIS???!!!!111???!!!"
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