Watch out , Poms ....

Dello wrote:

JKLever wrote:

eowyn wrote:most of the posters on here live in their middle class soft comfort

I reckon only Merls is a champagne quoffer.

She's from Yorkshire. Anyone who owns their own shoes is considered middle class up t'there.

It makes the shining business bloody difficult I can tell you.

Shoeshine/pedicure business, perhaps?

I have shoes, they just have cardboard in the bottom to stop the water seeping in...

Dello wrote:Shoeshine/pedicure business, perhaps?

He rubs things to make them shiny, anything...

Lever's head?

Like a snooker referee with this big white hanky, I'd think

Bit of spit n polish never did any guys head any harm...

Better if they swallow though.

Hanson misunderstood? Or Woman's Day lies?

Wouldn't be the first time that's happened in either case.

JKLever wrote:Bit of spit n polish never did any guys head any harm...

Shoeshine wrote:Better if they swallow though.

Sounds like the voice of experience

Apparently a dual citizen - will do well in the UK cooking fish n chips.

hopefully billydom will never be the same...tho you guys still have barnaby

bodyline wrote:Apparently a dual citizen - will do well in the UK cooking fish n chips.

phurt - she couldn't teach the poms anything about chips

G.Wood wrote:

bodyline wrote:Apparently a dual citizen - will do well in the UK cooking fish n chips.

phurt - she couldn't teach the poms anything about chips

Please explain......

They have the biggest Chips in the world

JGK wrote:Would she get in anyway? DIdn't she spend time in prison for electoral fraud?

The conviction was quashed ( a weird word & an even weirder finding).

eowyn wrote:It's not that entirely, most of the posters on here live in their middle class soft comfort and know bugger all about what goes on in the lower parts of society.

One of the vets at work, who's intelligent and you'd think was reasonably streetwise, actually said he didn't think there was anybody didn't have a credit card now a days...

How do you deal with that?

Passionate and laudable Ange, though I'm sure not entirely true about the middle class soft comfort bit!
Time spent with the underpriviledged through organisations like Round Table, Rotary and various charities does tend to sharpen one's outlook on those that are less "well off" which leads to both understanding and assisting. I reccommend it!
And whilst I admit freely to Lever's assertion that I enjoy a drop of bubbly, that in itself does not preclude from appreciating one's luck in life when associating with and meeting and assisting the less well off in our society. And trust me, there are many of those 'soft midlle classes' out there who get on with it without seeking any form of recognition.

Re your vet's comment - intelligence does not always go with being streetwise. You deal with his ignorance by making sure he's made wise to the fact that not everyone owns plastic - though there are some out there who do and haven't the first idea of how to deal with debt. The blame for that lies squarely with the Banks and daytime TV advertisements with Michael Parkinson leading from the front - who make large amounts of credit freely available and attractive to those who cannot, for whatever reason, strive to repay what they spend. Society as a whole, must also take the blame - the "keeping up with the Jones's" factor is still predominant, moreso today, despite the struggling economy. But in general, I have found that the most proud, prudent, sensible and caring person will be found in your "lower parts of society" ( not a phrase I'd associate with the lesser priviledged, as it sounds demeaning) - especially the matriarch.

As for Nick Griffin - he's nothing but a headline seeking prat whose outpourings ought to be publicised more often if only to make him look the illogical fool and rabid racist that he is.

Okay - soapbox put away!

To me, you're all a bit middle-class and soft as shit.

Anyway, Ben Elton is emigrating to Oz - I think the Aussies have got the better of that little deal.

Basil wrote:Anyway, Ben Elton is emigrating to Oz - I think the Aussies have got the better of that little deal.

Good riddance to him. Mind you, it's ironic he's gone to escape nanny-state meddling. He's in for a shock.

Does anyone remembeer Harry Enfield's "Benny Elton" sketch?

Prescient!

I thought of it as a bit of an easy target at the time, but if Elt was a bit too moralisingly right-on to start with (Harry Enfield's main thrust), he has turned into more and more of a self-righteous self-perpetuating smartarsehole ever since.

Basil wrote:Anyway, Ben Elton is emigrating to Oz - I think the Aussies have got the better of that little deal.

Not too sure about that . . .

cripes...tac in I aspire to be gabbadan/bodyline shocker

umm . . .I was thinking more of whether Ben will be able to satisfy RD to the same extent that Pauline did . . .

Brass Monkey wrote:To me, you're all a bit middle-class and soft as shit.

Yeah man ... **raises clenched fist**

Ben Elton is emigrating to Oz

Good.
Rabid socialist twat, he's only "emigrating" to Oz because he's p!ssed off at Bwown refusing him a knighthood .... and he knows that he's got no f'king chance of getting one for at least the next 5 years!