carcajou

In reverse: last week I used "if ifs were skiffs, we'd all be sailors" which I first heard used by Denis Potvin during a hockey broadcast a few decades ago. The Australians I said it to did not know what I was talking about even after I broke it down.

Pulaski

Maybe that's because the expression is "..... all mouth and no trousers." Even Google/ Chrome prepopulated that as the complete phrase when I had typed in "all mouth and " to check that I wasn't misrembering the phrase.

dbd33

Were people familiar with the expression, I'm sure they would have corrected me. As, I'm sure, would have carcajou had she, or he, caught the dig.

carcajou

I caught the dig. I simply ignored you and responded to Tumbling_Dice. Whenever a political radical takes a shot at me, it means whatever I said wasn't far off the mark.

dbd33

Chuckling at "political radical". I think my positions, that Trump is an evil narcissist and Johnson a bumbling fool, the welfare state and especially socialised medicine are good things, are very much in the mainstream. They also represent a good reason to move to Canada. At least Trudeau isn't going to kill you for the profit of his mates.

Hurlabrick

Sounds like 'political radical' is right. With those views, you are clearly one of those dangerous commie liberals Trumps has been warning us all about!

Teaandtoday5

bbc America feel it needs explaining https://www.bbcamerica.com/anglophen...h-and-trousers

dbd33

At the risk of courting controversy, I think that piece is rather hard on Paris Hilton. The Simple Life much amused me.

cheeky_monkey

There is a lot of BS when i hear people say we are emigrating due to a better quality of life and or its better place to bring up children..as stated its all about the context of where you are moving from to where you are moving too..i found not one jot of difference living in Calgary or Edmonton to living in a large provincial city in the UK..when it comes to quality of life or in how children are brought up..each has their pros and cons but essentially they are the same..the easiest way to improve the quality of life for you and your children is to look in the mirror.

carcajou

Exhibit 1A - you continually equate people on the centre-left, and who have never voted for the right-wing, like me, with Trump and Johnson and their supporters. Not because I am a Trump and Johnson supporter, but because the centre-left is so far away from where you sit that you are unable to distinguish between it, the centre, and the right. All I have done is challenge blanket (and, frankly, wrong) assumptions of how working class people would automatically be better off under a universal system - and all it took to do so was a calculator. Why has that triggered you? It should not have done so. You're "not a radical."

Not to mention your wild-eyed conspiracy theories. "At least Trudeau isn't going to kill you for the profit of his mates." Nutter talk.

Again - this is not the thread for this. Go open something up in TIO.

bats

All fur coat and no knickers is another version. One I use

bats

Wtf is "centre left"? Anyone who does not support a welfare state and socialised medicine can't claim to be any kind of lefty.

MillieF

That’s a bit scary! I’ve always held the same beliefs but saw myself as ‘whishey washy left of central’

Siouxie

Do not turn this thread into yet another bloody political one ............... any more and they will be moved.


Now back to the OP's topic.............

iaink

To be fair, politics is the number one reason I am mulling a move back to Canada right now.