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[harryg]

Bringing our store to your door - it actually says it on the lorry

[Budge]

Bringing our store to your door - it actually says it on the lorry

Sorry Harry. Being multi-lingual like I are, let me translate for our US brethren:

"....it actually says it on the (t)ruck."

[Budge]

Comment on the nature of US politics from Andrei Martyanov's blog by Johnny Rotten:

[SOL]

Comment on the nature of US politics from Andrei Martyanov's blog by Johnny Rotten:

Russian Roulette was a term actually coined by the USA. The Russians in general, still find that term to be idiotic. However, I digress, regarding politics nothing will change, it's the same pigs or skunks or worse, with different clothes and perhaps more expensive perfume to mask the stench.

Ukraine might be on the chopping block because win or lose, the big players already made a killing and all the money allocated for this fight has already been disbursed. So now they are likely to move onto the next killing field.

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https://imgur.com/gallery/VTKmCQ8

[harryg]

Best animal to be in the winter? A little otter...

Told that joke when I was 6



The image below was taken from Yahoo! UK just now

[harryg]

Husband: "When I die, I want to die having sex."

Wife: "At least it will be quick."






I was at a funeral, bit bored, asked the widow if she knew the wifi code.

She said "Idiot! What an appallingly insensitive thing to say!"

I said "Is that all lower case?"






I've just joined the Jehovah's bystanders.

It's like being a Jehovah's Witness but we don't like to get involved.







Was in the pub having a few swift halves and got chatting to a girl. She had a tattoo on her shoulder and asked me if I had any tattoos myself.

I said: "Well, as it happens, I do have the name of that famous Welsh town tattooed on my you-know-what."

She said, "What, no, I don't believe it! You don't mean Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch?"









I said "Erm, no - Rhyl."

[SOL]

Best animal to be in the winter? A little otter...

Told that joke when I was 6



The image below was taken from Yahoo! UK just now

It took me some time to get that one. I guess too much MB or too much thinking. You had some skills if you told that joke at 6

[harryg]

It took me some time to get that one. I guess too much MB or too much thinking.

Too much thinking.



Bane of my life...

[SOL]

https://www.tiktok.com/@misstiffinylee/ ... 8726665473

[Yodean]

The main problem with religion is that it just ain't True ...

Mostly, a made-up story about an Adversary that goes "Boo!"

Love isn't the solution,

The world needs a stronger lotion.

When the PTBs make you bend over,

No succor will be found in a Divine Lover ...

Instead, that's when you gotta run,

So well-preserved will be your bun(s).

[jonnyfrank]

Yodean,

Religion comes in many forms, and I respectfully disagree with your overall assessment of things in your post here. One of the most difficult aspects of believing in "God" is that we don't want to be disappointed in Him (or Her, if one insists) and thus many often shun Him out of fear that if they do throw themselves at Him and embrace Him and the rituals surrounding Him AND somehow he does not come through on the level we believe he should come through on, then there is truly no hope beyond this one life. This is why it is important to have the faith that he works in ways that we simply cannot comprehend. Think of giving a differential equations math book to a 5 year old and asking him or her to make sense of it. This is the position we place ourselves in when we cast out such nonsense as "if there was a god then those people would not have died in that fire!"--we cannot even remotely comprehend His plan. Faith is hard work, but in this world living without faith is even harder. If you embrace the idea of eternity there is so much more to live for, and you will perhaps find comfort in the idea that the light at the end of the proverbial tunnel is indeed warm sunshine, and not a freight train bearing down on you to introduce you to the darkness of death.

[harryg]

[SOL]

Very interesting, especially now that they might be returning to a place where the lights might go out permanently.


https://youtu.be/ij5mw_eqKuc

[harryg]

Cockney rhyming is quite an interesting slang.

It supposedly started in the prisons so that the warders would not undestand what the Cockneys were saying to each other.

Ronnie does it here in full form so others can understand (and most of his is made up), but the full form is almost never used. So, for example, wife is 'trouble'. If you don't know that it stands for trouble-and-strife (!) then you don't have the rhyming part so there is no way to get from trouble to wife.

It's dying out, although some individuals take stubborn pride in artificially 'keeping it alive' and talking in code (a bit like people speaking to each other in Occitan in SW France).

However, many people, particularly in E & S London still commonly use it for certain words, for example:

Butchers = look (butcher's hook) eg: let's go and take a butcher's at that car
Rosy = tea (Rosy Lee) eg: a nice cup of Rosy'll warm you up
Syrup = wig (syrup of figs) eg: anyone can see that's a syrup
Aris = arse (this one is a bit convoluted - Aristotle - Bottle & Glass - arse) eg: he needs a kick up the aris
China = mate (china plate) eg: alright me old china
Berk = [not saying] - extremely vulgar, many English people happily use this word to refer to an idiot without knowing the origin
Porkies = lies (pork pies) eg: stop telling porkies
Loaf = head (loaf of bread) eg: don't be silly, use ya loaf
Boracic (usually pronouned Brassic) (Boracic Lint) = skint (no money) eg: sorry mate, I'm brassic
Bread = money (bread & honey) eg: low on bread

and so on