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@pepsi wrote:
Why are men so territorial ….? :shock:
Because of the women who keep asking when we’re going to fix the fence
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@tom wrote:
@sceptical guy wrote:
a lot of xenophobia on this thread.
Hi, Tom!!
Hi, Sceptical!!!
I’m not xenophobic, I just hate the French b*stards!! Bananas are SUPPOSED to be bendy!! And God damnit if I want to buy knobbly carrots, then knobbly carrots I will buy!! AND I WILL BUY THEM IN LBS!!! Back off, France!! Leave our bendy bananas and knobbly carrots alone!! :x
Bananas and Cucumbers are and always will be bendy, carrots will always be knobbly. The EU, Common Market etc has never even suggested they should be otherwise, it’s an urban myth. Of course Tom if you have reliable sources for your information I will apologise and retract.
The absence of reliable sources suggest either an irrational bias or a hugely ironic sense of humour on your part, neither of which will be tolerated.
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@jen_jen wrote:
However “facts” were demanded and so “facts” I have provided. The majority of it came from the Office of National Statistics or from recognised economical analysis experts.
Thank you Jen, at last someone reveals the source of their figures, so they can be validated if necessary, instead of just acting as if the mere presence of zeros will bedazzle the ignorant and emotional.
Of course, being emotional the numbers don’t matter to me, but rest assured I do know how to use them if I think they do matter and I can usually tell how well they are being used.
Just to brighten the picture though, experience of immigration has also brought out good things from people prepared to help communities to re-form and cohere.
Enough welcome and support has been provided on a personal and institutional level to show that not all British people are xenophobic or panic-stricken by newcomers.
I guess the spirit of the the words “Welcome, come and be part of our maturing community” are not usually shouted, painted on placards, or brutally backed up by statistics, but shown by action, smiles and friendly acceptance.
@sceptical guy wrote:
@mrs_teapot wrote:
@eve wrote:
y do men get sores on their feet from wearing sandals without socks? Women dont wear socks with sandals and it doesnt seem to be a problem. ? Maybe get sandals that fit?
men have sweaty feet eve.. thats why they smell a bit… and rub on sandals……. advice for all the men….. talcum powder :D
so you want a man’s feet to smell like a whore’s handbag??
What were you doing sniffing whores’ handbags?
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@terry wrote:
@wordsworth60 wrote:
Terry, your figures are woefully unsubstantiated and you have a track record of changing them from post to post.
In other words you couldn’t be bothered to research them.
give me some examples of figures I’ve quoted and why (exactly) they’re “woeful”.
And also give me an example of where they’ve changed form “post to post”.No
@terry wrote:
I’m not British, nor am I anti-British either.
It’s a strange world when there seems to be no pride or faith in the British from the British people themselves.
The Muses, still with freedom found,
Shall to thy happy coast repair;
Blest Isle! With matchless beauty crown’d,
And manly hearts to guard the fair.
“Rule, Britannia!Don’t dismiss the pride and faith of the British people until you have canvassed them all Terry.
We’re about to enter into an orgy of heart-stirring jingoism that will loosen the nations wallets and fill it’s streets and green spaces with rivers of Pimms and mountains of cucumber sandwiches.
We remain a proud nation, a safe and influential one. A haven for many, envied by more. If measured by the callow values of cash we absolutely rool! Measured by cultural and political diversity we absolutely rock! And measured by charity, care and mutual tolerance we absolutely grow!
A nation which combines enterprise with social care, freedom with responsibility, where these things are recognised by the horror when they are breached. Our relaxed demeanour confuses many and has fooled past enemies into challenging our vigour, only to be thwarted by our steel.
Sure we have replaced ranks of yeomanry providing easy, red-coated targets with a smaller elite of skilled professionals. And we no longer rejoice at killing our competitors, but constantly strive to best them in our chosen fields of endeavour. Our geographical boundaries no longer expand, but our people travel the globe and along with riches earn respect for integrity and endurance.
And at home an easy complacency no longer protects the tyrant and the enslaver (thanks for the line, Ireland) but we continue to wrestle with the challenges of the modern world and create a future, not just for our own children but for the world to which we belong.
Anti-British? The hell we are!!!!
Harrumph!
@terry wrote:
@jen_jen wrote:
The UK economy was built off the back of immigrants, slaves and the colonies…
The first immigrants arrived in this country following the end of World War II. Their jobs were limited and didn’t really build the economy at all.
We’ve never had slaves working in this country either.
Again, a case of facts over fiction. And I don’t really want waste my time discussing – with you – a subject that you don’t seem able to discuss rationally.
The first immigrants?
So the generations of people who can count their ancestors back to Somalia, Ethiopia, other European and non-European countries who are recorded in our Port cities from hundreds of years ago and elsewhere didn’t exist? The jobs in manufacturing as well as public sector and infrastructure didn’t really build the economy? Thanks for re-writing history in such an entertaining way for me Terry.
We didn’t have slaves working in this country because we used them in the colonies and extracted approximately 50% of revenues from said colonies into the British exchequer.
As to rational discussion, Terry, your figures are woefully unsubstantiated and you have a track record of changing them from post to post.
You are entitled to feel emotionally wedded to the idea of a land of hope and glory outside the EU, but the world continues to change and we are a very different nation from Switzerland, which is not problem-free in any case.
To claim that your arguments are valid because they are rational and everyone else’s are invalid because they are emotional remains unsound without more evidence.
As us non-Terries are emotional, we don’t need evidence, but by claiming a wholly rational stance you have staked out an onus all of your own.
This is fun!! Please keep it up!!! =D> =D> =D> =D> =D>
@terry wrote:
@wordsworth60 wrote:
Better in than out I say!
May I ask why?
The Swiss don’t belong to the EU and still trade in Europe (as do the Chinese..)
It costs this country close to £50,000,000 per day to be a member of the EU. Please explain why we need to be ‘in’. :roll:
No.
@wordsworth60 wrote:
@anc wrote:
Personally I can’t be up my bum . . . . . .
And yet what’s up yer bum is still basically you . . . . . . . . :lol: :lol: :lol:
By that I mean DNA and that, not poo
(keeps digging . . . )
@tom wrote:
Bomb the EU! They use the metric system! Bomb it!!
Nooooo! I like showing off my conversions from decimal to real money and metric to imperial!
We need them to prove our superiority!!
