Think of what our Nation stands for,

Books from Boots' and country lanes,
Free speech, free passes, class distinction,
Democracy and proper drains.
Lord, put beneath Thy special care
One-eighty-nine Cadogan Square.

[note for jafski: I did not write this. It is part of a satirical poem by John Betjeman.]

Posted By: Old Git on April 23rd 2008 at 15:35:35

Message Thread

On this St George's Day (General Chat) - Nelsons final flanel, Apr 23, 15:21:46
- not being proud of being English (n/m) (General Chat) - Tricky Hawes, Apr 23, 16:44:11
- Making sure that every sunny place on this earth has at least one place that does a "Full (General Chat) - malkybarkid, Apr 23, 16:07:23
- sharing out country with every tom dick and harry under the sun.. (General Chat) - Dirty Delia, Apr 23, 16:00:58
  - we're all immigrants DD (n/m) (General Chat) - pants, Apr 23, 16:49:16
- Irony (n/m) (General Chat) - shoddy, Apr 23, 16:00:33
- The Sun page 3 that unique. (n/m) (General Chat) - Dirty Delia, Apr 23, 15:57:22
- Fish 'n' Chips (General Chat) - BerlinCanary, Apr 23, 15:57:02
- Peter Thorne (n/m) (General Chat) - pants, Apr 23, 15:56:57
  - lol (n/m) (General Chat) - Small, Apr 23, 15:58:12
  - idiot (n/m) (General Chat) - BerlinCanary, Apr 23, 15:57:17
- Dogging (n/m) (General Chat) - Small, Apr 23, 15:56:40
  - i went to a doging site last month but no-one else turned up. (n/m) (General Chat) - Dirty Delia, Apr 23, 16:01:55
    - Where was it? (General Chat) - Small, Apr 23, 16:03:08
      - well it was in a carpark near hackney.....when i arrived there was a car.. (General Chat) - Dirty Delia, Apr 23, 16:09:22
      - Mouseholds (n/m) (General Chat) - malkybarkid, Apr 23, 16:08:32
- Being brilliant at inventing the rules of sports (General Chat) - Old Git, Apr 23, 15:56:17
- Monty Python (n/m) (General Chat) - Old Git, Apr 23, 15:54:53
- Opening and holding doors for others (General Chat) - BerlinCanary, Apr 23, 15:54:25
  - I know russians don't do that, as work and live with them, but they.. (General Chat) - Dirty Delia, Apr 23, 15:56:14
    - Not in my experience (General Chat) - BerlinCanary, Apr 23, 16:02:22
      - The Danes, my Grandmas side of the family were danish, to be honest.. (General Chat) - Dirty Delia, Apr 23, 16:04:34
        
        Reasonably so (General Chat) - BerlinCanary, Apr 23, 16:09:49
        
        somtimes its awkward when they visit as are very....matter of fact.. (General Chat) - Dirty Delia, Apr 23, 16:13:49
- Piss-taking (n/m) (General Chat) - Hertz van Rental, Apr 23, 15:54:15
- Cliff Richards (n/m) (General Chat) - Small, Apr 23, 15:53:32
- Gallantry in failure (n/m) (General Chat) - Old Git, Apr 23, 15:51:47
- The breasts of Amanda Howllet from Hunstanton (n/m) (General Chat) - Dirty Delia, Apr 23, 15:51:43
- Pile of Shit Public Transport (n/m) (General Chat) - Small, Apr 23, 15:50:15
- Parliamentary democracy (n/m) (General Chat) - Old Git, Apr 23, 15:48:28
  - Do we still have that? (n/m) (General Chat) - BerlinCanary, Apr 23, 15:52:35
    - We have bollocksed it up a bit since, but it was a top idea (n/m) (General Chat) - Old Git, Apr 23, 15:54:27
- Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh (General Chat) - Old Git, Apr 23, 15:47:58
- Nelson (n/m) (General Chat) - meeky, Apr 23, 15:47:50
- Bitter beer (n/m) (General Chat) - Old Git, Apr 23, 15:47:42
- William Wilberforce (n/m) (General Chat) - Old Git, Apr 23, 15:45:31
- Steven Redgrave (n/m) (General Chat) - Old Git, Apr 23, 15:45:01
- Chop houses. yum yum (n/m) (General Chat) - shoddy, Apr 23, 15:43:16
- Polite silence on public transport (n/m) (General Chat) - Old Git, Apr 23, 15:42:26
- Mr Miah's Magdalen st spice shop. (n/m) (General Chat) - lovely old job, Apr 23, 15:40:20
  - Queenie's Chocolate Box what was on Magdelen St. (n/m) (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Apr 23, 15:43:03
- Think of what our Nation stands for, (General Chat) - Old Git, Apr 23, 15:35:35
  - Thank you for crediting your references OG. That's what's great about England. (n/m) (General Chat) - jafski, Apr 23, 16:28:26
- Queuing (n/m) (General Chat) - Old Git, Apr 23, 15:30:22
  - Queefing? (n/m) (General Chat) - APB, Apr 23, 15:40:39
  - Speling (n/m) (General Chat) - yarmyyarmy, Apr 23, 15:30:54
    - People who can't spell "queuing" (General Chat) - Old Git, Apr 23, 15:33:38
      - Flipping heck. Queueing is also correct though, and surely preferred. (n/m) (General Chat) - yarmyyarmy, Apr 23, 15:39:31
        
        Preferred (General Chat) - Old Git, Apr 23, 15:41:52
        
        Nonsense (General Chat) - yarmyyarmy, Apr 23, 15:48:35
        
        Bitch. (General Chat) - Johnny Comecardiff, Apr 23, 15:48:18
        
        Not yet (General Chat) - Old Git, Apr 23, 15:50:50
        
        It's not the best. (General Chat) - Johnny Comecardiff, Apr 23, 15:53:10
- He was Turkish (n/m) (General Chat) - malkybarkid, Apr 23, 15:30:04
  - so kebabs for me (n/m) (General Chat) - malkybarkid, Apr 23, 15:30:20
    - salad, no onion though - it makes me burp up (n/m) (General Chat) - malkybarkid, Apr 23, 15:36:59
- Stilton (n/m) (General Chat) - Old Git, Apr 23, 15:30:03
- Seb Coe (n/m) (General Chat) - Old Git, Apr 23, 15:27:55
- A cup of Tea! (General Chat) - phrankin, Apr 23, 15:27:38
- Toilets (n/m) (General Chat) - APB, Apr 23, 15:27:02
- The war in iraq (n/m) (General Chat) - pants, Apr 23, 15:24:04
- I'm having a day off from my main project on principle, 'cos it's for a Welsh client. (n/m) (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Apr 23, 15:22:53
  - I'm a citizen of the world (n/m) (General Chat) - pants, Apr 23, 15:26:29
- Scones are a Scottish invention (n/m) (General Chat) - yarmyyarmy, Apr 23, 15:22:34
  - And of course Tea originates in China (n/m) (General Chat) - yarmyyarmy, Apr 23, 15:23:30
    - and the Irish drink more tea per capita than the english (n/m) (General Chat) - blindasabat, Apr 23, 16:13:40
    - Rubbish, it's from Yorkshire, everyone knows that. (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Apr 23, 15:25:47
      - Shackleton's high seat chairs (General Chat) - yarmyyarmy, Apr 23, 15:29:17
      - like tea used to be (n/m) (General Chat) - pants, Apr 23, 15:27:24
  - Also, afternoons were invented by the Egyptians. (n/m) (General Chat) - Hertz van Rental, Apr 23, 15:23:23

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