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    Water Restrictions .

    in Gardening

    Posted

    Hi Hoddy, hope you are well? Do you know what the restrictions are? My patron lives just inside the Dordogne and I went his mairie but could see nothing posted on the notice board about water restrictions.[:)]

    Blonde Jokes...sorry it had to be done!

    in Other Topics

    Posted

    A blind guy goes into a pub and steps up to the bar; he

    orders a drink then says, “does anyone here want hear a blonde joke?”

    From behind the bar a female voice informs him “mister, the

    person sitting to your right is blonde and is the World Women’s Champion at

    Judo and weighs in at 18 stone and the person sitting to your left is also

    blonde and is the World Women’s Full Contact Karate Champion, behind you are ‘The

    Blond Bombers’ they are the national Tag Wrestling team champions for 3 years

    in a row with a combined weight of 40 stone, I am also blonde and I am also the

    Women’s National Heavyweight Boxing Champion…now ask yourself, do you really

    want to tell a blonde joke?”

     

    The man thinks for a

    moment and then says “ nah…not if I’ve got to explain it 5 times……..”[:D][;-)]

    "to all those that I have offended may I just say [:P]"

    best regards

    Dago

    Peace & Love

    Do you think I put in enough smilies?

    Ad Hominem

    in Other Topics

    Posted

    OK, let's see if I have this right. Dick posts some info, I hated school, Dick is a teacher (sorry if I have that wrong Dick) therefor Dick must be wrong? I've read the whole page of the encyclopedia and still I don't understand[;-)]

    Love & Peace

    Dago[:D]

    Serve him right

    in Driving in France

    Posted

    [quote user="Dick Smith"]

    If they were professional racing drivers, fine, but the messages we have seen, the little dummyspits and silly false 'logic' (not to mention the spelling) all suggest to me that the speed proponents are not fully mature men.

    OK 'boys', do your best. Now it's time for the Ad Hominem argument. Try not to make any old jokes about my name, though...

    [/quote]

    Hi Dick,

          can we know who exactly you are referring to in the above statement? As I have no idea at all what Ad Hominem means I do not know if I am falling into the category of 'boys'.  I make spelling mistakes but they are usually typos, sorry if it offends you. [:D]

    Serve him right

    in Driving in France

    Posted

    It's really nice to hear that all (nearly all) of you here are law abiding when it comes to the law & speeding in particular, there have been refrences to the mad French drivers but there is a very nice stretch of road here that I drive regularly to work and the speed limit is 90 kms and most of the time because it is a windy road I drive at around 80 kms. The majority of cars/vans that come screaming up behind me are UK registered, 4 x 4's, BMW's, Mercs....now don't for one minute think that I have a downer on people driving nice cars but the point I am trying to make is that "does speed/risk taking increase with the type of car you are driving" and do UK drivers over here either on holiday or visiting their Maison Secondaire get out on these lovely quiet roads and just let themselves go, by the way sometimes I do drive the same stretch of road at around 100 kms but that is uasually dependant on the music playing on the CD at the time...does this have an effect too? Does it make me a bad person? Just a thought.[;-)]

    regards

    Dago

    Does your cat look like Hitler?

    in Other Topics

    Posted

    This is one of the 5 toed cats at Ernest Hemingways house at Key West, all of the cats are named after film stars and this is Charlie Chaplin.[:)] Yes AVIV the one on the right even has the guys eyes....

    [IMG]http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g130/dago49/Charlie-Chaplin.jpg[/IMG]

    Netiquette

    in Other Topics

    Posted

    By the time I joined the Queens Regiment it had just changed to from being the Home Counties Division and was made up from the 1st Battalion The Queen's Royal Surrey Regiment (1 Queen's), The 1st Battalion The Queen's Own Buffs (2 Queen's) 1st Battalion The Royal Sussex Regiment (3 Queen's)  and the 1st Battalion The Middlesex Regiment (4 Queen's) I trained at Canterbury and joined the 4th Battalion (Middlesex) and then when the 4th was disbanded I went into the 1st Battalion (Surrey's)

    here endeth my military history, as my wife says and my friends wives too, this is all so bl**dy boring, can't you lot talk about anything else?

    regards

    Dago

    Netiquette

    in Other Topics

    Posted

    Yes Dick, it is now the Princess of Wales Regiment but back then it was The Queen's Regiment, neither sweet nor innocent but escaping from a stay at HRH's convenience. Yes Daryl but I was trying to protect the innocent, after all who would want to admit to being a 'Bootneck' [:D] sorry, my last post seems to have driven us all off track, but do I sense a general feeling of friendly banter creeping back into the forum[B]

    Honi Soit Qui Mal Y Pense  'Shame be to him who thinks evil of it'

    regards

    Dago

    Netiquette

    in Other Topics

    Posted

    Now then,  I am an ex squaddie and Daryl was probably a 'ruff tuff' Para or something.....[;-)] ooh, they used to hit us really hard when we had them as enemy on Salisbury Plains - School of Infantry - Squaddie Heaven! Sorry to go off track but we all need to lighten up a bit here?

    best regards

    dago

    [IMG]http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g130/dago49/The-New-Recruit.jpg[/IMG]

    OK...NOW you can start larfin'

    Number Plate Warning

    in Driving in France

    Posted

    Hi All,

        this morning on the way home from work for lunch we were stopped by the Gendarmes in a normal roadside check, OK I thought, nothing to worry about, I handed over all of my papers we walked round our VW Transporter and he pointed to the number plates and told me that they were illegal! A lot of you will already be aware of this but for those who are new  to France or planning the move, the number plates MUST be secured with rivets and NOT screws as our are. We had been to the Prefecture in Cahors for our Carte Gris and after called in at LeClerc Autos in Cahors where they made and fitted our plates. The fine for this offence? €45.00 per plate, luckily they were doing good cop, bad cop and the good cop gave me a paper to produce along with all the vehicle documents and the properly fitted plates with a garage receipt (mustn't DIY) at the Gendarmerie in Gourdon by Wednesday 21st June, failure to comply will mean that the fine will double, we will be going this afternoon.

    Moral? check your number plate fixings....today![blink]

    regards

    Dago

    Netiquette

    in Other Topics

    Posted

    Well I did try to get the thread back on track but it seems that the 'Grammar Police' don't want to give it up.......[:D] It was a quote from an American site about Netiquette, not my own words, I am not that learned!

    "This post is not intended to offend"

    Netiquette

    in Other Topics

    Posted

    Just found this site about Netiquette, I am going to see if I can learn something there, maybe some others here may also benefit......[:D]

    A quote from the first page:

    (Ask yourself, "Would I say this to the person's face?" If the

    answer is no, rewrite and reread. Repeat the process till you feel sure

    that you'd feel as comfortable saying these words to the live person as

    you do sending them through cyberspace.

    Of course, it's possible that you'd feel great about saying something

    extremely rude to the person's face. In that case, Netiquette can't help

    you. Go get a copy of Miss Manners' Guide to Excruciatingly Correct Behavior.)

    http://www.albion.com/netiquette/rule1.html

    "This post is not intended to offend"[:P]

    Netiquette

    in Other Topics

    Posted

    [quote user="SaligoBay"]

    If you don't like txt spk, what kind of English do you think should be preserved as the Real Thing?   Anglo-Saxon, or something more advanced?   Chaucerian?   Shakespearian?   Victorian?  

    [/quote]

    I didn't actually say that I wanted to preserve any English as the 'Real Thing' I just wanted to make the point (as did Daryl, I think) that if posters continue to analyze posts and correct the Spelling, Grammar and Puntuation it will lead to a decline in new members posting, only MY opinion though and probably not worth much as I am one of those living in the 'Real' world but then, aren't we all? Also I am one of those 'being ruff and tuff, building roads and bombs' and I have never said "Those that can...etc" it seems that you may have an 'attitude' towards those of us that have less of an education or as Dick kindly pointed out to me "lack of intelligence" perhaps there needs to be a Forum Heading entitled 'Educationally Challenged' that is probably not an actual word and if it is I have most likely spelt it wrong but I am sure to be corrected....

    The content of this post is not meant to offend or upset anyone who is 'Educationally Challenged' or indeed any of the Forum Members.[;-)]

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