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Me too.

I have rarely heard the word ****** during my years in Canada. It's usually me talking to piece of wood that has just split on me while I was screwing it.

There is probably a mucky joke in there, somewhere.

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I've just typed that joke but thought the better of posting it. Errol Flynn's enormous 'ampton is not a fit subject for this board.

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<thinks>

Errol Flynn's enormous 'ampton?

Wolver-ampton?

Wolver... pullover?

Errol Flynn had an enormous jumper?

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Rhyming slang, poppet.

Hampton Wick.

Such lingo is only understood by shandy-drinkers.

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For all the non cockney's and those who are not familiar with the slang, Hampton Wick rhymes with p***k

Obviously its pronounced without the h

Sorry gents I had to add that ;)

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Why does dbd33 have Errol Flynn's penis in his tool bag? Those crazy cockernees. Gerraht moi pab!

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Probably for laying laminate flooring. One needs a rubber hammer.

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I'd be surprised if he had an enormous pullover, that wasn't usual for septics in that era.

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ouch , get ya claws out,

we're always to quick for our northen monkey friends ;)

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Metric or SAE, but you knew that.

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How kind of you Madame. I shall thus continue with my present avatar for as long as I don't feel like changing it.

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Well Shard, sorry about the gorilla thing but I forgot your monica! I can give you a quick run down on why us Brits (more specifically Englishmen) really do not like the French. They (the french that is) love to claim victory for 1066 which had Absolutely nothing what so ever to do with French at all. A big fat NOTHING. The Normans who invaded England were French settled Vikings they had only just started using French ( using Old Norse language from William the Conqueror's grandfather) and had conformed to the rules of Viking settlement eveywhere, small scale raids for plunder and slaves, larger raids for whole scale invasions of settlement. When the land was won and safe to settle they sent for their women. This pattern was repeated all over Northern Europe (Ireland,England,Scotland, the Faroes you name it)...But when it comes to France its totally different! The French will have us believe they only took local women. lol It's the one and ONLY victory on English soil by a French speaking enemy (though not of French race) and they need that fact after what we done to them during the 100yrs war which is, due to the Norman conquest the subsequent rulers of England had a claim to the French throne. We went to war with them over this a war that lasted about 113 yrs.They won (well they would, they out numbered us 4-1)but the embarrassment comes from how long it took to kick such a small nations army out of their country..Not to mention the Battles of Crecy, Poitier's and the big one Agincourt! whereby we absolutely decimated the French nobles. They eventually won that but we left them destitute.

One of you people mentioned France being our Ally in W11?They just did not bother with that one preferring to leave the people across the channel (Us) to deal with it alone. This is what really gets up my nose about french arrogance. Thousands and thousands of British troops blood and guts were spilled in both wars for france and THEIR freedom. Yet they are arrogant and hostile to British people even now. Those Normandy beaches and those battlefields of WW11 are OURS by the British blood spilt there. They need to show respect because without us, they'd have no country. We saw them through two wars not one!
The French troops actually went on strike(they still do I think) leaving us the burden of holding our lines and theirs Know something else, I also dislike the Germans. I remember the war and my Mother having to put blackout curtains up at the windows in the house to hide the light in the evenings The drone of the German bomber planes flying over our town, the sirens going off and my parents getting my two brothers and myself up to take us to the air-raid shelter in the garden in the middle of the night. Oh! you're all saying you should have got over that by now. Let me tell the person who mentioned a"psychiatrist" in one response to me, that they nearly always seem to stem things back to childhood.

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Don't forget Blenheim, Trafalgar and Waterloo ;)

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I've met lots and lots of French people in my life, and not one of them has ever even mentioned 1066 let alone claimed credit for it.

The key to getting away with having crackpot views is to do it with wit, style and humour. Otherwise they're just crackpot views.

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Hmmmm. May I remind you of the Site Rules re: racism? If you were ranting like that about Pakistani's or Chinese, you wouldn't get away with it, and the same rules apply across the board.