Weedon

Blimey Bugs! You'd need help in heaving it onto its centre stand wouldn't you? I agree though, it has a certain amount of "grab factor" about it.

[quote user="Dog"] If there is one think I hate more than golf it's Powerpoint Presentation. [/quote] My own personal hate much more than Powerpoint Presentation is squirty cream. This seems to be quite popular in France but in my view doesn't even come close to proper cream. Only my opinion though.

Is it okay for a piggy back in your section JJ?? Down and out goes into a hardware store and asks for a bottle of methylated spirits, the shop keeper tells him to clear off and to pull himself together. Down and out says"You have me all wrong, I am actually a talented artist just trying to turn my life around and I need the meths to clean my brushes in order to start painting again" Shopkeeper says, "Oh I am sorry I shouldn't have jumped to conclusions, just wait here while I get some for you" Down and out calls out, "Could you make it a cold one?"  

I was in petrol retailing back in the early 1970's when ration books for fuel were issued but never used....thank god! It was bad enough then as retailers had government rationing imposed on them via the oil companies. People who normally drove 5 miles a week were topping up full tanks. As I tried to separate fighting customers arguing over who was next in the long queues I used to think god help us if there was ever a food shortage. My tank is now full[:D] I remember seeing a poster in a shop window (when there was a shortage of something) it said "Panic buyers welcome here". It's an ill wind etc. etc.

[quote user="cooperlola"]  Whilst I agree with Evaniers in that a more mysoginist type it's hard to imagine than JC, I think one of the most beleaguered wives on the planet appears to me to be Mrs "The Booby" John McCrirrick.  Can you imagine living with that (and I don't mean his looks - I mean his behaviour towards her)?[/quote] We appear to think along similar lines Mrs Lola. IMHO Mrs Jeremy Clarkson is thanking her lucky stars that she is not married to the creapy John McCririck.  Imagine having that many rrrrrrs in your name grrrr! And he is an rrrrrs of the highest order.......Apparently he thinks the world of me[;-)]

IMHO Mrs Jeremy Clarkson is thanking her lucky stars that she is not married to the creapy John McCririck. [+o(]

[quote user="Jay"]Can I ask what this topic has to do with Living France, French life - or anything to do with France at all? Isn't there an English forum you can post on? [/quote] Blimey! I've been posting on here for years and never knew you had to confine it to all things French...you learn something every day, don't you?

You have a remarkable insight into what publications we might or might not read Nounours.  I'd guess there would be little point in telling you where I got my information as it would only puncture your puffed up bluster. I stand by the gist of my posting and hazard a guess that no politician has ever come close to any danger whilst in Afghanistan, furthermore I'd be surprised if it cost them as much as a brass farthing for their visits. 10/10 for any politician who goes out there though but please don't try to make out that it is any more than a photoshoot. That was some football league you played in if they could give out silver medals for any of the divisions, I only ever got plastic. PS. As I am English and like to read about what happens in the UK I reckon it's quite alright to post stuff on this site...sorry.

On a par with Doug![;-)]

I saw them on the news today Wooly, must be some exciting ride going at the reported 40 knots! I'd love to see them in action, bet they make a lovely sound.

I feel nothing except great sympathy for the poor chap...fancy having to live in Scotland.

When I was at secondary school we boys should have been taught self-defence as our teachers had their individual preferred weapons and were not in the least bit afraid to use them. Bunsen burner rubber hose with a piece of chalk at the business end. Size 12 plimsoll. Blackboard eraser re-inforced with a block of wood. You had to admire his accuracy when it was thrown! Assortment of canes for the ones with a lack of imagination. The maths master used his blackboard wooden thing with a spike at one end, is it called "a pair of compasses"? He must have been a bit of a wimp though as he never used the spike part. Our gardening master had a sense of humour, as he used his wooden dibber, telling us that he had made it when he was our age. I don't recall any boy stupid enough to show violence to any teacher.

[quote user="Frenchie"] I have never tried them, I suppose that, as for many of my fellow citizens, it evokes the privations of   WWII , only my grand parents told me about them. It was what you had when nothing else was left.......... [/quote] It wasn't only French people. I recall eating bread and lard, nowadays channel swimmers smear it all over to keep out the cold. 

[quote user="nounours"] [quote user="Weedon"]Spare a thought for our heroic MP's.  The brave ones who visit our soldiers in Afghanistan receive a medal for just turning up there for a photo shoot, soldiers have to serve a 6 month duty there to get a medal.[/quote] That is not true,  If you had bothered to look for the source and read it  rather than replicating inaccurate gossip from ex- pat forums you would know that MPs or ministers who just visit a war zone do not get a medal. What this is referring to is special scheme called the Armed Forces Parliamentary Scheme (AFPS).  A number of MPs have received the medals at ceremonies as a reward for 10 years' or more membership of the AFPS  which allows politicians to spend around 22 days a year with the military to show support.  You'll be telling us Cameron wants gay black people  from Uganda to be given political assylum next[Www].   Bet that bit of news caused the Kent and Sussex A&E department to call in extra staff for a major emergency after hundreds in the area choked on their cornflakes[:D] [/quote] I accept that I did put into one sentence the qualifying procedure for receiving a medal but I fail to see where I was incorrect in anything that was written. Of course I don't know for sure but I don't imagine the MP's are in any danger for the brief time they are in Afghanistan.  Why a medal and not a certificate, if they have to receive anything at all. Rest assured though that I shall not be telling you about gay black Ugandan's but thanks for the info, I shall bear that in mind next time I have cornflakes!

An explanation of the poem "The life that I have" so movingly used in the film "Carve her name with pride" can be read here. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/telegraphtv/3460867/Virginia-McKenna-recites-The-Life-That-I-Have.html Another book I found interesting is The Women Who Lived For Danger by Marcus Binney. It is about a number of women used as agents in occupied France.  As it contains information about 10 women it doesn't go heavily into detail about any one of them, nevertheless it is a useful addition to further research of these brave ladies.

Frenchie, James Blunt's possessions wouldn't be on the beach for 5 minutes before being re-cycled by some thoughtful scallywag.  In fact if you have to change a flat tyre in that area it won't be long before somebody comes along and says, "You have the wheels and I'll have the seats!"[blink]

[quote user="Frenchie"] [:D] What I didn't like in Brighton is that you had to pay to sit on those reclining chairs to look at the sea...   LOL [/quote] You should have walked along the coast a bit further, perhaps to Bexhill, there you can gaze out to sea for nothing.  It's the same at Hastings.  That really is a scandal that Brighton charges a fee to look at the sea. Fred also has a view on that. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVYxekAaFRU

So if I organised a grab-a-gran party you wouldn't want to come then?  Years ago that used to be a joke, nowadays I'd be older than the grans and be too slow to grab anything.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bHL_5eawxs

Spare a thought for our heroic MP's.  The brave ones who visit our soldiers in Afghanistan receive a medal for just turning up there for a photo shoot, soldiers have to serve a 6 month duty there to get a medal.

[quote user="Frenchie"] Nothing to do with what I ve just written, but I think I know what you were having at 5... ( as every saturday ) It's in a glass and has an Italian name...[:D] But it is not THAT [/quote] What's that then...spaghetti...pizza...lady moustaches? What! Nothing to do with anything. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IB1fis5QNMs  

Hello you two!  Can't stay as I have to watch some rugger.  Marvellous memories from the game of rugby, remember Erica Roe?

[quote user="just john "] [quote user="Weedon"] Should I try Googling it? [8-)][/quote] Don't do it Weedon . . . the things you'll find[:-))] Too late he's already been incensed  [:)] [/quote] The line I always remember JJ is when he says, "Don't look Ethel, but it was too late she already had a free shot!".[:D]

Apologies for bringing this topic back in from the cold, but did anybody see BBC's Question Time last night? The only thing of any note was the statement from Lord Falconer who summed up the Chilcot in one sentence when asked whether Tony Blair could be prosecuted. Lord Falconer revealed the utter futility of the whole affair by saying that even if the Chilcot Inquiry finds that the war was illegal, then the government did not act illegally, because they had a lawyer’s letter to say they were acting in good faith. He didn't go as far as to say what date was on the lawyer's letter though. As I said before, what a waste of time and money.  It will most certainly end up costing more than the amount paid back by nose in the trough MP's.  

[quote user="just john "] Lord knows what humour Weedon will see in this, I posted this before, OFortuna , this is such a spirited performance it's worth hearing again, but the FROCKS!, amazing, they obviously supplied their own, and boy, there are some powerful girls![:D] ps I liked the Michael McIntyre one underneath the Rhod Gilbert, . . . 'She really said that!' [/quote] JJ, I'm glad you said the quote in blue. From 1:11 to 1:20 it frightened the life out of me. Great performance though.

Well I couldn't find it on my satnav, and I downloaded new maps last year. Should I try Googling it? [8-)]