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Originally posted by Deane F:
Who would want to be completley free? Sounds a bit empty. Besides - freedom is/was attained by force and maintained by the threat of force.

I totally dissagree (surprise surprise) Our Deano, and find your words (if sincere?) absolute balderdash² innit

P.S. If somebody came up to me (depending on their approach and my mood at the time) in the sreet to either comment or inquire into my state of dress 'Chador's etc' I'd most likely tell them where to go in no uncertain terms:

quote:

Originally posted by Berlin Fritz:

P.S. If somebody came up to me (depending on their approach and my mood at the time) in the sreet to either comment or inquire into my state of dress 'Chador's etc' I'd most likely tell them where to go in no uncertain terms:

Quite.

I don't want to start a reasoned discussion on your thread - but I wonder where you think freedom comes from?

I believe in France even today, one can be arrested under 'vagrancy' laws requiring one to have a certain amount of money about ones person., innit?

Deano: Arrogantly enough, It's not a case of me thinking where freedom comes from me old China, it's a case of me knowing 100% (as I feel I always have done) where freedom comes from, and that is from within my very soul, innit

Well me old Taiwan - it's good to know you'll be free even if they invade.

Yup, the thought police are already there Our Deano


I wonder if Kiwi cops would shoot a guy dead in the street for carrying a table leg, and then get away with it scot-free? There again I expect yer average Wellington copper is required to have a few basic qualifications before training, unlike in today's UK farces. I was pretty shocked & stunned the other day too, to actually hear a senior politician (member of the government no less) utter the preposterous suggestion that the IPCC and other investigations into police cock-ups, etc, should be carried out by totally independent bodies and officials, how daft can yer bloody well get, really! I expect Our Tony will be shortly rapping his knuckles big style,(on the QT naturally) Oh Yes.

I didn't know that special branch officers were un-armed, especially on jobs of a terrorist apprehension nature?

Can't trust nobody these day can yer!!! though if you ask a 'Policeman' the time down Newham way these days, he'll probably inform you that you're 'standing on the edge of it' and try to provoke you by calling you a left-wing whingeing pinko scumbag

On my way back from my bank just now after an urgent begging session, I got myself a nice still-warm fresh baguette, and thought to myself, if I was in London right now, I'd probably feel far safer if I removed the paper bag from this bread so that everybody could see that it wasn't a table leg, innit

I expect that guy's family are thinking, Ah Well, if you've never made a mistake, you've never lived eh! or in his case died. I have great sympathy for the families of the coppers as well involved in this incident, and even the blokes themselves; but let's not deter from the point in hand, and get waylaid by emotion & time (as per usual), know what I mean?


The Jam ranted on about the public getting what the public wants, I reckon today it's more of a case of the public getting what the public deserves, through their sheer bloody apathy to do anything about improving their society (that includes public servants too naturally) dunnit.

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Originally posted by Martin D:
Anyone catch it or have a comment. Easy on the response!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/4360054.stm#
It was Joan Rivers and Darcus Howe BTW

After having just read that text, I found it pretty tame actually, and although personally I find Mizz Rivers rather old hat, tiresome, and spoilt bratty these days, her comments to my mind were quite correct, sincere, and in order, and in no way contraversial. I'm pleased that a small quality audience; of BBC listeners had the chance to hear it, as I'm pretty damned sure that the majority of folk around wouldn't understand a word if it anyway, and this 'Scandale' will no doubt soon be taken out of all context and proportion by HM 'Gutter Press' to educate those others out there to actually why Mizz Rivers is a bigotted racist, tax evading, benefit scrounger, and should be sent back to Yankyland on the next banana boat forthwith


You know it makes sense, and also does in fact sell exceedingly large amounts of silly out of date/old newspapers which due to 'new' digital technology have to be ready for press many hours before they previously were, though I expect most people who invest in them daily know that anyway, cos Our Rupe forgot to tell everybody about it surprisingly enough, innit:

N.B.
A history teacher at my old school (mr Booton) once commented on a school report for my parents (I was 14 at the time) that he thought my work and imagination were 'absolutely brilliant', in contrast to the 95% of other subjects expressing serious doubts over my dedication to the tasks in hand at the time. I distinctly remember both of my parents thinking (aloud) that this man was obviously totally mad, had got the wrong pupil, or was taking the piss, and that episode really set me up for a future life of listening to other peoples opinions regarding my own performance, I can tell you.


I expect Our Mick would find that ex Deputy Head teacher rather barmy too, no doubt!!!

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Originally posted by Paul Ranson:
If it were merely an expression of religious belief then there would be no expectation that non-Muslim women would cover up in some notionally Muslim countries.

Paul

I wonder if New Zealand's undercover female CIB officers ever wear Chador's on the job?

And here's one that you can make yourself at home too Boys & Girls, innit:

Sie verdrehen meinen Melonemann

quote:

Originally posted by JamieWednesday:
Sie verdrehen meinen Melonemann

Hard Luck

Just heard that Rivers tape, and I still think that she was right and didn't go over the top at all, though she's still as I previously said 'in my opinion at least for what it's worth?' well past her 'humour' sell by date anyway, inshee

She does look good on radio though!

I wonder if Iranian Queen ants wear Chadors when out in public?


P.S. When Margaret Rutherford played Miss Marple she looked rather dashingly-splendid in her mysterious cape I often thought

I always thought that 'The Battle of Hustings' was insider Gay terminology?

P.S. Chatting with an old Palestinian friend of mine earlier, he told me he'd just returned from a wonderful two month holiday by the sea in Denmark with the wife & kids to-boot (all seven of them) and they all had a brilliant time into the bargain. He reckons even though the Danish still haven't wised up to the €uro yet, beer prices were similar to here, and the old Old Holburn quality is fine too, so that's a nice little boost for Dänemark, innit Our Nime!!!

P.S. And no! He's not on the dole, he's a successful maths/languages teacher here, and has been for many years, innee

I wonder if people will still be harping on about the first anniversary of John Peel's death, when the second one arrives?


Eggy

I was nicely surprised to be able to order the PE Annual 2005 from my local bookstore earlier by e-mail. When it arrives, I just go along and pay for it, easy peasy. I just wish I could do the same with other British goods via a local outlet here too on occassion. No accounts, no farting around with dangerous online transactions using even more dangerous credit cards, and not having to send the wrong stuff back to UK at my expense (as has happenned in the past with Mickey Mouse fucking firms & Banks too for that matter, on more than acceptable occassions), I'm simply at a loss to understand why folk put up with such rubbish service and attitude, it's seemingly endemic, and when it's critisised everybody jumps up calling one anti-British, not to mention the unreasonable waiting, the damaged goods, and the pathetic excuses put forward as seemingly par for the course, innit

quote:

Originally posted by Mick Parry:
Chaps

Just a quick note to thank you for your advice and to let you know that I have ordered some cleaner from Gaggia.

Once again many thanks

Mick

What a relief Our Mick! I'd been fretting and worrying for days about your coffee machine cleaning quandry; I'll be able to sleep tonight with a clear head & conscience now at last old bean, phew, innit


Regards, The Berlin BBQ Meister:

I didn't know that the English supposedly hated the Scots, or possibly even the other way around?


Goodnight & sleep tight: (that's not an anti- Scottish joke by the way) issit:

They're narf Lucky Bleeders those Clever Bastards, eh Our Adam!!!


But you know me! I ain't sayin nuffink:

Bon Soir, as the Welsh say:

Perhaps the renewed interest in the already two year old Dan Brown special has something to do with the fact that the movie/DVD will soon be released? I read it recently and hardly understood a word of it, though there again, I'm probably not even half as intellectually orientated as many of you chaps & chapessess, so that would most likely explain the fact, innit

P.S. Should we turn a blind eye to domestic violence carried out in public, and not call the law?

Should pick-pockets & tea leaves be exempt from bringing assault charges against any undo force used against them when caught in the act?


Should Brothels be legalised and State run in the UK asap?

Are the Tories still a bunch of Wallys?

It seems almost impertinent to interrupt the you me old gas bag... but don't you feel that the physical transport of goods is still in the stone age while the internet is raging all around us? I've spent upwards of £1000 in freight & postal charges in the last year or so just buying stuff from the UK. In one case the postage was more than I paid for the goods! Just because they were a bit lumpy. (But completely unobtainable elsewhere) No, NOT pork pies!

Want to make a Dane laugh?

German beach towels on the danish beaches with "occupied" written on them.

Want to make a Dane cry?

Germans demanding the right to buy danish summer houses by using the EU rules.

Med venlig hilsen

Nime me old Beer-Can breakfaster, I'd have driven to the UK in that case and got the gear personally (plus you had no choice as you point out in getting it from the UK). The steriotypical German towels on the beach myth always amuses me, wether it's the Sun, Mirror, or British ex pats, living in Denmark and feeling British for 5 minutes. I personally have never; on holidays experienced this syndrome, or seen it for that matter, and most German folk I know, don't want to be anywhere near holidaying Brits for starters 24/7, and that I know from personal experience.

Some half a million 'Brits' have purchased cheap houses in France over the years, screwing up locals chances (as with the English in Wales previously) 'coming home to a real fire and all that'. I've heard of quite a few cases recently of Brits who's marriages have split up etc, and one partner plus kids wanted to live in France, only problem is, they've never bothered to learn the language, and Lord it as Brits (as Our Mick will no doubt do in the future in Sunny Spain) (I know Germans too in Mallorca, who are just as lazy and arrogant towards the locals cos they've got a few bob). These folk, expected, because they consider England as European 'when it suits them' to breeze through the beaurocratic paperwork and become legal etc, but Oh, did they get a shock most of them, cos they didn't have a clue, just as if a German or Frenchman lands in the UK (not speaking a word of English) and expects all of a sudden to get special treatment.

P.S. Greece & other EU lands do not allow foriegners to own property and land in their own names (Poland too), so as I said to you before about Denmark's NATO membership 'in case you'd forgotten?' The Danish government are quite within their rights to prevent Germans etc from buying Danish summer houses, but don't desire to do so for the obvious reason of the Germans turning round and saying the very same thing to them (the tens of thousands of Danes who visit Germany on the ferry daily for half an hour to stock up on cheap 'BOOZE' for instance:

Milk Coffee time, methinks, aaahh luvvly jubbly:

P.S. Not to forget of course that Denmark like Germany (even with our unemployment figures) enjoys a very high standard world class level of living and social care, unlike Spain, Portugal, Greece, and naturally the new-comers to the EU Club

One of the tasks in the last firm I worked for involved the classification of business's here in Berlin, and putting them into their correct legal catagorys, ready (after further editing of my work, surprise, surprise) for entry and subsequent printing of professional journals etc, for government stats, etc. As is with the UK, company's can have many guises to legally/taxwise duck & dive, to get up to this and that, here & there, for whatever their own agenda's and purses so deisre.

Of the many variations upon this theme in this land, it struck me that when the title or description of a business was described the professional qualifications of those concerned were always prevelent (immpressive) at the top of either a website, or headed paper. This may seem blatently obvious to many here on this forum, and here (in my experience at least) it's standard practice. Why then is it, that often when I see US or UK business 'cards' These details are often lacking? , and when one enquires further (with a view of spending money and using their services)(especially financial advice) one is hived off with a load of old baloney? Obviously things in; say the medical, 'serious-educational', and safety fields, must be proven to be led by qualified professionals for any possible legal redress afterwards (though naturally increasing their overall costs)! but much of the rest is 'simply experienced-capable folk, acting as if they are qualified in the field', which is I reckon the very essence of the German argument regarding relaxing it's labour laws to supposedly create more employment (but at what irreparable cost?), innit


I'b be most surprised if anybody constructively comments on this post !!!

I canny return to Blighty even if I wanted to Phritzers old chap.

I is mostly philosophically allergic to beer in cans and demonstrate this by deliberately not purchasing the same. Besides, my medicinal bottle of imported beer is a weekend ritual only. I canny drink a drop in in the week. (but canny say any more at this stage)

We knew the cans would hit the verge as soon as the EU forced Denmark into trembling submission on their cans v recycled glass bottles imposition from on high.
Denmark is now weighed down with roadside deposited cans. Teenagers now drive out into the unspoilt countryside to find nice verges to carpet-bomb the verges with their empty beer cans. They think they are providing free homes for the invasion of killer slugs, being so environmentally aware. The teenagers, not the slugs.

Drømme bollers to you too matey.

Since the heavy deposit imposed on cans (All) here about two years back, I personally haven't bought one single one (can't be arsed taking them back). The streets don't end up full of them, cos poor bastards take them back to cash them (good too) in at �0,50 a time (quite a lot) �0,08 on a half litre bottle of Bud which I normally buy, a difference indeed.

Nime me old cruncher 'Beer-Can' for breakfast was referring to a Jamaican asking for his grub, think about it Son, or are yer double whammying me?


P.S. I seperate my garbage as par for the course without even thinking about it daily, the yard has a bin for green glass & white & paper/cardboard, plastic & metal packaging, and a big standard skip too. (all emptied at least once a week)