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different languages would be used for different words, creole as Mooney says I'm fairly confident that the Welsh contingent would get their word for microwave adopted by all the others: popty ping schnell schnell stick the pizza a la popty ping, klootzak

there used to be loads of builders on here but nobody would pay £50 for a quote

If they'd been given the same TV opportunities as UKIP, it might have been better still. I am not sure about that. If the Greens had been subjected to as much scrutiny as UKIP, people might have got round to actually reading their manifesto and might have concluded that behind the benign Lucas smile is the sort of left-wing statist agenda which promises to bring about an environmentally sound version of East Germany. Euphemisms like, "quieter, cleaner, safer streets" can only mean fewer and slower cars, and "move away from an obsession with growth" means shrinking the economy. Raising the tax-burden from 36% to 40% of gdp is probably not what the 'squeezed middle' would want to inflict upon themselves, especially if that gdp is shrinking. Re-introducing the fuel-tax escalator, increasing tax on alcohol by 50%, and adding VAT to the price of a new house, are not the sort of things the vast majority of people want and would probably consider extreme. If members of the Green Party were subjected to the same amount of scrutiny as UKIP, there is little doubt that we would find all sorts of eco-idealists who would want long-haul flights banned, strict limits to be placed on the import of food, and a ban on the slaughter of farm animals etc. It is the Green Party's aim to base the UK economy on manufacturing and agriculture, which would take the country backwards. They would assume a lot more power to the state, control the economy centrally, and ensure capital flight would impoverish the country. This is far more extreme than UKIP's promise to control immigration and cut a few taxes. So you genuinely wouldn't want to live in a quieter, cleaner, safer street? That list has actually got me interested......

I don't know a single individual in my family, in my social group or through work that has ever said they would vote UKIP. Yet on driving around the country these last few days their posters and banners are everywhere. In fact, as I drove into my home town yesterday there was a guy driving a big old Seat with UKIP stickers all over the back of it. Ah, the irony, the guy has a shitty spanish built car that's part of a german car group and he's covered it in UKIP stickers.

i think you'll find your rattle is an organic butt plug cricket

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbB6itZycrA

Yes but we learnt from it ... closed our factories down and got someone else to build them that's a very Redwoodian definition of learning if I may say so I also forgot my Dolomite, you really did need muscles the size of a Merthyr girl's arse to get that thing to take a corner.

it's good to know your boundaries

I think I've worked out who was chicken shit at rounders in their all girl infant schools.

the country that gave us the Morris Marina, Austin Princess and triumph Spitfire can't really generalise about handling

I blame the fact that it goes on for 5 days, if the weather's nice, and nothing ever happens 20 / 20 lasts about 3 hours it's great fun as it's just a slog fest ... I ran out of beer went to get another one came back and 3 wickets had gone ... ( Including Ricky Ponting in his last ever limited overs game as it turned out ) With the risk of making CED jump in the bath with a toaster, give me a test match any day of the week. My Cardiff office now overlooks Sofia Gardens and we have a back gate that makes the journey from work to cricket about 3 minutes long. I worked on the design of the indoor cricket school there plus a few other bits n bobs so I have a couple of posh seats always available. This summer I will be availing myself of a pint, a newspaper and sitting there in the sunshine during day 2 or 3 or 4 of some match or other. Just wasting time.

I blame the fact that it goes on for 5 days, if the weather's nice, and nothing ever happens 20 / 20 lasts about 3 hours it's great fun as it's just a slog fest ... I ran out of beer went to get another one came back and 3 wickets had gone ... ( Including Ricky Ponting in his last ever limited overs game as it turned out ) getting loaded by setting a 15 minutes per pint pace out at the Ordnance Pub then walking into Lords and watching some fool* volunteer to buy the next round (Pimms at £10 a pint) is one of life's joys he insisted on buying 7 pints of Pimms, she served them up and said '£70' and quite literally his knees went - one of the funniest things I've ever seen

I was once fielding way way out across the park. The ball was given a decent thwack and was heading my way with me jogging lazily backwards, one hand raised. The ball sailed past me well above the height of my hand. Due to the distance nobody could see the unravelled twine trailing behind the ball like a comet tail. So it must have looked particularly impressive when the (invisible) twine caught on my hand and the ball swept back around in an arc and into my hand.

this could be the beginning of something wonderful, I like fielding now we just need somebody to bat for the other side

I think maybe different people like / want different things from their cars. I like mine soft sprung, quiet, fast and automatic. But then I'm doing 45k miles a year, something with live steering a manual box and stiff shocks would kill me.

I blame food additives, 4 star petrol, Sunny D, Chernobyl and one on one meetings with 1970's BBC celebs for a lack of cricket appreciation amongst some of the lower orders.

nothing quite says a job well done like a tired pussy

yes that was defo a contributory factor took my nipper with me, insisted on seeing where the cross went and then tried to blackmail me with a threat to shout it out!!! a simple 'go for it' soon put pay to that scam

Right now, I strongly suspect that Mercedes have some sort of subliminal signal / mind reading device in my car. A week ago I decided cars are just white goods and I'll drive what I've got until it dies to extract maximum value. Yesterday I saw a new CLA and fancied it, today I saw another CLA and thought yeah I might stick that on my 'must investigate further' list. An hour later I had a phonecall from my regular garage asking if I wanted an ex demo CLA for £8k off list and to just pop in for a coffee...... ....not planning a change whilst I'm doing silly miles, but I might get a few days of free test drive out of them.....

oh don't get me wrong, it's car number 364 on my car wish list, but it does have a certain cartoon fun charm about it I suspect it's a lot nicer for others to look at once in a blue moon than it is to own and drive as a practical piece of family kit and functional family kit is the new cool

well the ballot box at 'my' station was pretty full which was surprising

yep, that'd look pretty tidy in powder blue to be honest

Yeah, pick on the short balding fat guy with bad knees way beyond his best still living on his withered dream of what might have been still thinking he's a contender denying the fact he's on the down slope, ya bully. Don't worry Tony, I'm on your side.

Don't think Ajax is into 70's New Zealand progressive rock ... more of a Bucks Frizz kinda guy?

Canada? Something to match the whole lumberjack vibe?