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Post by johnloony on Aug 13, 2024 17:23:27 GMT
There is, I submit, a difference between "unfortunate" combinations within one's own language (Emma Royds, Dick Head) and laughing at words that are rude in English but innocuous in the language which deploys them. I suppose other countries have their own examples in other languages. Cardinal Sin Lee Bum Suk |
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Post by peterw on Aug 16, 2024 17:55:57 GMT
Bit late to the party, I know but - I have a work colleague whose surname is Bennett and whose parents in their wisdom gave him the first name of Gordon. He is known as Ed (his middle bame) but our merciless IT department used Gordon Bennett as his email address.
I also knew of a school teacher whose name was Teresa Green.
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Post by iang on Aug 16, 2024 19:24:36 GMT
It's beginning to sound like those fake book titles in old joke books - "Tragedy on the cliff-top, by Eileen Dover"
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Post by nyx on Aug 16, 2024 19:38:42 GMT
I know someone with the surname Anker and a middle name beginning with the letter W.
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Post by john07 on Aug 16, 2024 20:17:00 GMT
It's beginning to sound like those fake book titles in old joke books - "Tragedy on the cliff-top, by Eileen Dover" The Haunted House by Hugo First. |
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Post by finsobruce on Aug 16, 2024 20:24:50 GMT
It's beginning to sound like those fake book titles in old joke books - "Tragedy on the cliff-top, by Eileen Dover" The Haunted House by Hugo First. I prefer A Good Read by Paige Turner |
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Post by batman on Aug 16, 2024 20:28:22 GMT
I used to work with a posh lad in the office called Greg Page-Turner. Usually he called himself Page
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Post by islington on Aug 16, 2024 23:36:52 GMT
The Haunted House by Hugo First. I prefer A Good Read by Paige Turner The Joy of Stamp Collecting by Phil Attlee and Penny Black. |
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Post by john07 on Aug 17, 2024 0:10:27 GMT
I have been reluctant to post Ben Doon by Phil McCavity.
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Post by riccimarsh on Aug 17, 2024 0:34:38 GMT
Mods, given that the August 15th thread was locked for unknown reasons, shouldn’t this thread also be locked for lack of relevance and indeed quality of discussion??  |
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Post by john07 on Aug 17, 2024 0:36:52 GMT
Mods, given that the August 15th thread was locked for unknown reasons, shouldn’t this thread also be locked for lack of relevance and indeed quality of discussion?? If that happened three quarters of the threads would be permanently locked. |
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Post by johnloony on Aug 17, 2024 1:16:02 GMT
Coming soon to BBC2: a documentary programme in which Katie Hopkins and Piers Morgan visit Oxford and speak to the Reverend Spooner about the repair and maintenance of the city’s traditional water craft. "Care of Punts"
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Post by sanders on Aug 17, 2024 1:58:13 GMT
Mods, given that the August 15th thread was locked for unknown reasons, shouldn’t this thread also be locked for lack of relevance and indeed quality of discussion?? It wasn't locked for unknown reasons... ...It was spammed to high heaven. It *had* to exceed my vote. So they spammed it to oblivion. Nuke it for all I care. |
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Post by Sandy on Aug 17, 2024 2:28:57 GMT
Mods, given that the August 15th thread was locked for unknown reasons, shouldn’t this thread also be locked for lack of relevance and indeed quality of discussion?? It wasn't locked for unknown reasons... ...It was spammed to high heaven. It *had* to exceed my vote. So they spammed it to oblivion. Nuke it for all I care. “a big boy spammed the thread to 40 odd pages long and ran away” |
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Post by sanders on Aug 17, 2024 2:49:36 GMT
It wasn't locked for unknown reasons... ...It was spammed to high heaven. It *had* to exceed my vote. So they spammed it to oblivion. Nuke it for all I care. “a big boy spammed the thread to 40 odd pages long and ran away” I responded to petty, personal aspersions. |
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Post by batman on Aug 17, 2024 7:09:02 GMT
Let’s confine ourselves to discussion of next week’s council by-elections.
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Post by sanders on Aug 17, 2024 7:14:10 GMT
Let’s confine ourselves to discussion of next week’s council by-elections. Happy to do that now yes. These ones are boring for me. I can't get to these seats. I'm backing Greens in Kentish Town. I might see you there then? It's just on the Overground IIRC. I would like to meet up. If you're open to accepting me again. I apologise for some tone issues. It's not meant to be snarly. I'm just an angry cunt ultimately. |
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Post by batman on Aug 17, 2024 7:32:23 GMT
I’m still unable to do most everyday things because of the broken bone in my shoulder and when I am mended I will have a lot of work to catch up on. I won’t be doing any election work until mid September at the earliest
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Post by batman on Aug 17, 2024 7:35:04 GMT
Of the three next week, one looks like a very easy Lib Dem hold, the other two look more interesting. EDIT: that appears to be the very first comment in this thread about the actual election! In the words of Willie Whitelaw, “I don’t blame anyone except, perhaps, all of us.”
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Post by sanders on Aug 17, 2024 7:41:15 GMT
You can always quote me btw!
West Lothian: Labour should take that;
Abbotts Langley: Looks Lib Demmy yes;
Cramlington: Reform will try pretty hard.
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