Ant Brown

Coming from the same people who said that leaving the EU would increase growth and lessen 'red tape', this is a shock.
/sarcasm

He’ll find that photo helpful in his personal injury claim. That door hinge should never have been engineered to clamp closed like that.

Like you, Sathnam, I’m now older than a great deal of politicians.
One thing which stands out is how looking at them in context, if these people had been seen in class or university, you’d have thought of them as the most pathetic weenies.
This, I feel, explains a lot.

Phew. I can keep making Wayne's World references... They're not that out of date it seems.
(Yes, I've listened to Derek and Clive LPs and tapes... I'm THAT old)

Very, very little meat on it from what I could see. Like whitebait, but if you’re not up to a meal that big.

Royal Marines Commandos force US Marine Corps troops to surrender in training exercise The Royal Navy Commandos alongside troops from allied countries held a five-day battlefield simulation in which they were victorious over their American counterparts.

The US could just go off the last result they had against the same regiment which fought in the Falklands and skip to fixing itself?

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I think that's an exquisite metaphor.

But why would people vote Reform when UKIP and Brexit did the UK so much damage?
Exhibit A:

Thanks. It's for the whole "our house is from about 1830" vibe. I've been asked if "as an architect" did I want to do something radical to it, with my reply being no. I may not have a huge amount of self- esteem, but I also don't have a tiny delicate ego which I need to manage by showing off.

A robin on a towel hanging on a clothes horse

A robin sitting on a tiled floor

A robin perched on a toaster

“Anthony, why were you late for the meeting?”
“Well, this thing happened.”

I voted for our local Green councillors.
That’s as far as I’ll go with that Party, though. There’s no cohesion above the level of local politics.

a blonde woman is sitting in a kitchen with the words `` sure , jan . '' written on her face . Alt: a blonde woman is sitting in a kitchen with the words `` sure , jan . '' written on her face .

Me when I saw the recent suggestions that left wing populism was the solution to right wing populism:

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The vibe of it is also comical.
“Hi, we’re a progressive left-wing Party. Here’s our first major announcement, we’re banning something!”
“Er, mate, have you ever heard of the horseshoe theory of politics?”

The more I think about this, the more crazed it is.
You ban landlords, fine. What about the housing stock. Is it compulsory purchased? Who defines the price? How do you ensure what it’s used for afterwards?
Banning things is easy, creating is hard.
Fringe madness.

They may as well make it a manifesto promise to ensure the moon is made from chocolate rather than cheese.
Still, at least a left wing party is now making some claims as crazed as what the right wing are doing.

Yeah, Europeans have smashed that. I’m trying, plus with my kids, even the youngest one (7) is doing Duolingo. And this is for sincere non-overheard in Waitrose reasons 😉

Hyacinth was fundamentally a decent person and would not have had time for the muckiness and prejudice you see with Reform’s positions on the worse off.
/ends
p.s. if anyone is offended by my reference to 90s homophobia, I will delete this reply.

It’s almost impossible to explain this now, because things have changed so much, but someone with less genius would not have been able to capture that in her character.
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You are 100% correct.
This is the brilliance of Patricia Routledge. You could tell that (and this show was in the 90s, which was completely different when it came to this) Hyacinth knew 100% what was going on with the one member of the family you never see, which was Sheridan, and didn’t care.
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I didn’t know the significance of the German prefix. Dankeschön (I’m in an online gaming group with German players, so that’s about all the German I actually know).

An Audi Ur Quattro photographed mid air on a rally stage. The car is about a metre off the ground with a cloud of dust behind it

I’d like to go for picnics in that universe, kind of like that thing in The Man in the High Castle.
Also, her having that title has now ruined this for me (it’s a Ur Quattro):

Rob’s stolen this photo from Paul Cowland’s phone.
It’s another of his meet and greets.
#withallmyfans

Absolutely loved it. I’ve the copy somewhere to this day and like Dave Lister, I’d also happily live in a simulation where my hometown was Bedford Falls.

Oh, it gets worse
The books actually put me off reading fiction and I only recovered when my older brother got me (as a form of punishment, as he knew I’d have to read it) the Red Dwarf omnibus book a following Christmas
It’s about two inches thick from memory and I did it in about a day and a half

Oh, playing that game are we?
Well, I tried Diggers, Truckers and Wings when I was a kid and thought them shit, so haven’t read Pratchett and don’t want to.
I will now be cancelled.

Really enjoyed this, but obviously pined for Alex all the way through.
I put Hyacinth down as a blue to orange Lib Dem, because I’m sure she’d mention that Ed Davey cares for someone and that no-one looks after her dear Daddy like she does 😉

Jill Murphy also gave us the excellent Large Family books as well, from what I can recall.
We were lucky to have her.

Excellent thread.
And no, I’ve never seen The Goonies.

Agree. Pretty Woman was very much of its time, whereas the WHMS is a classic.
True fact:
I went out incredibly early one Sunday morning to ensure I could buy the DVD from HMV as I had a date planned with my now-wife later that day.
One of my classier moves I reckon.