Gkirk From UK - Scotland, joined Jun 2000, 24621 posts, RR: 58 Posted (8 years 1 month 3 days 21 hours ago) and read 728 times:
Don't worry, I aint gonna do what I done last year
Hope those down South enjoy their day and fly your English flags with pride...
Dont get too drunk mind, don't want to hear about Banco slamming a chair over someone's head
When you hear the noise of the Tartan Army Boys, we'll be coming down the road!
JGPH1A From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 13, posted (8 years 1 month 3 days 18 hours ago) and read 658 times:
Quoting Banco (Reply 9): Dearie me. Fancy you missing a chance to have a pop at the Scots.
I know, but really, where's the challenge ? Mocking the Scots is like clubbing baby seals, viscerally satisfying but with no real sense of achievement at the end of it.
Besides, having a pop at the English is fun too, especially on National "Let's Clip As Many Flags As Possible To Our Vauxhall And Look Like Chavs" day.
JGPH1A From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 14, posted (8 years 1 month 3 days 18 hours ago) and read 652 times:
Quoting Banco (Reply 12): Oh, come now! You know what would happen, don't you? Not a single reply - overriding indifference
Are we amazed ? How worked up do you think England should get, celebrating the saints day (in a non-Catholic country) of an obscure Turkish martyr. OK, his martyrdom was particularly gruesome (according to Foxe's Book of Martyrs anyway), but still - he's not really an "English" saint, is he ? Wouldn't St. Edward the Confessor have been a better choice as Patron Saint ?
Banco From United Kingdom, joined Oct 2001, 14752 posts, RR: 55 Reply 19, posted (8 years 1 month 3 days 18 hours ago) and read 638 times:
Quoting JGPH1A (Reply 14): Wouldn't St. Edward the Confessor have been a better choice as Patron Saint ?
Oh, yes, he'd be great. Screwed up the Royal Succession by being utterly unable to control the Witan, thereby delivering us into the hands of the French. What a superstar.
We must make allowances. Kirkie still believes that using a glass rather than drinking from the bottle makes him cultured. It wouldn't be so bad, but we're talking Thunderbird here.
She's as nervous as a very small nun at a penguin shoot.
Cornish From United Kingdom, joined Feb 2005, 8187 posts, RR: 56 Reply 20, posted (8 years 1 month 3 days 18 hours ago) and read 633 times:
Quoting Banco (Reply 19): We must make allowances. Kirkie still believes that using a glass rather than drinking from the bottle makes him cultured. It wouldn't be so bad, but we're talking Thunderbird here.
Ooh Chunderbird wine .
Classy kinda guy is kirkie
Just when I thought I could see light at the end of the tunnel, it was some B*****d with a torch bringing me more work
JGPH1A From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 21, posted (8 years 1 month 3 days 17 hours ago) and read 626 times:
Quoting Banco (Reply 19): Oh, yes, he'd be great. Screwed up the Royal Succession by being utterly unable to control the Witan, thereby delivering us into the hands of the French. What a superstar.
Slight technical correction - it was the Normans, not the French. The Normans were little better then Vikings, so whoever won (William or Harold Harebrush) the result would have been the same.
OK so maybe not Edward then - there must be other English saints ?
Banco From United Kingdom, joined Oct 2001, 14752 posts, RR: 55 Reply 23, posted (8 years 1 month 3 days 17 hours ago) and read 619 times:
Quoting JGPH1A (Reply 21): there must be other English saints ?
There's Thomas Becket. But the trouble with him is that he was a religious fruitcake, and let's be honest, the last thing we want is some kind of bloody religious saint.
She's as nervous as a very small nun at a penguin shoot.
Cornish From United Kingdom, joined Feb 2005, 8187 posts, RR: 56 Reply 24, posted (8 years 1 month 3 days 17 hours ago) and read 619 times:
Quoting Myt332 (Reply 22): There's me. I'm a modern day saint.
Just when I thought I could see light at the end of the tunnel, it was some B*****d with a torch bringing me more work
25 JGPH1A: Not a Saint, but you qualify for the post of Blessèd Virgin Heaven forbid ! We want someone famous for slaying mythical reptiles, not someone who do
26 Banco: Exactly. Things we can believe in. None of that bible mumbo-jumbo.
27 JGPH1A: Careful, Pope Ratzi XVI will get you ! Or his attack dog, Falcon "Bernardo Gui" 84
28 Banco: I would refer him to the answer my honorable friend Henry VIII gave earlier.
29 JGPH1A: Oooh, burn the heretic - you're only making things worse for yourself !
30 Banco: Don't forget, we've still got (sadly) Ian Paisley over here. What a match up!
31 JGPH1A: Never mind - nobody lives forever (with some people, it just seems that way )
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