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Her Oscarness said:- "small children and people have started smiling at me in a peculiar way"

I can understand the 2smiling at me in a peculiar way" as our Oscarness is a Daily Mail reader (shiver), but myself was not aware small children (whatever they are) were not people..........

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<t>I have to assume that most of us who live in the UK have been lumbered win one of these. I applied the one I received to the appropriate purpose, given the content, but it wasn't much use. One of the photos looked helluva familiar for some reason so I went looking. I found this:- Grap...

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Who cares? They're all parasites anyway

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oscar;1191905 wrote: We are..... We're all coming to scotland :yh_rotfl:yh_rotfl

No you aren't. We've got the Geordies to fortify the border............

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oscar;1191862 wrote: We could all emigrate to Scotland and vote SNP

No you bloody can't. We're not letting you in...........

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What else would you expect from the gutless bastard?

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Nomad;1190630 wrote: Nomad gets the Gulag ?

Silly Nomad. The Gulag gets Nomad (and no choice in the matter)

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I have a very safe seat for him and another for his son.

In adjoining cells in Pentonville.

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spot;1189469 wrote: I'd call it right wing propaganda myself,.......

I'd call that an insult, but I'm civilised...........

Anyway, Oscar proved the point with two words- Brian Harvey

Besides, I checked Snopes before I posted the list.

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<t>It's time again for the annual 'Stella Awards'! For those unfamiliar with these awards, they are named after 81-year-old Stella Liebeck who spilled hot coffee on herself and successfully sued the McDonald's in New Mexico where she purchased the coffee. You remember, she took the lid off the coffe...

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Thankfully your Oscarness, we have very different versions of shaggableness.

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<t>According to this Griffin person (see, I can be polite), "the British Army pension isn't now enough for them to be able to do that." is he this fraking nutcase telling us that the British Army pension can't support someone in Nepal? What does that say about the financial prospects of ...

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oscar;1188834 wrote: ... you do that half hearted little skip to show the driver your making an effort.

Thereby proving you're English. Your civilised Celtic cousins merely instruct the driver in the use of sign language.........

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Fish Supper I was about third in the queue..........

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<t>fuzzywuzzy;1187755 wrote: You know you're British when... You believe that Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday are all good nights for drinking. Sunday is also entirely reasonable. - Nah After a big night out you find yourself looking for a ...

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Exactly how many of these damn things are needed to make a Coffee table?

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<t>The richest prize in pirate history was, perhaps surprisingly, not a Spanish vessel, nor was it in the Caribbean. In fact it was a Portuguese galleon, the Nostra Senhor de Cabo, which had been badly damaged in a storm. On the morning of 8th April 1720, this ship, while anchored in the harbour of ...

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oscar;1185149 wrote: Scotsmen are not aware of ironing. It's not been invented up there yet.

Silly Oscar, that is one of the reasons women exist....

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<t>Flyting is a contest of insults, usually conducted in verse. The word has been adopted by social historians from Scots usage of the fifteenth and sixteenth century, in which makaris (poets) would engage in public verbal contests of high-flying, extravagant abuse structured in the form ...

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<t>Clodhopper;1175439 wrote: I can tell you that the "c-word" was originally spelled "queynte" by Chaucer and was no ruder than "fanny". The word was almost certainly in use before then, but that's the first case I know of where it was actually written down. I was under the impressi...

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You'd better watch it Oscar - us Caledonians might be civilising you.....

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What?? 95 again??????

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Snowfire;1183722 wrote: Are some of those questions really preposterous or am I doomed to look distinctly daft

Yeah, join the club......

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<t>Pheasy;1183718 wrote: Am I the only person on this planet who thought Maggie was a women to be admired? A woman to be admired???? The bitch should be on the same pedestal as Pinochet and Hitler. She was a blight on the face of humanity and should have been charged with...

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Signed it.

Sorry your Oscarness, you're not allowed to vote SNP. We have instituted a resinential qualification.....................

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<r>CARLA;1175954 wrote: Sounds like your power supply went out which turns the fans to keep it cool. When that happens they won't turn on or they would burn up its a fail safe mechanism. Mac or PC it can happen to either. <E>;)</E> Nope, not the power supply. Everything is surge-pro...

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<t>Some of the more intellectualy aware dwellers in the belly of the beast that is FG may have noticed â€“ no doubt with great delight â€“ that I have been conspicuously not here lately. This was due to my computer dying last month. Now, this death of a computer was not of the normal sort, there was...

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<t>Ozone created by electric cars now killing millions in the seventh largest country in the world, Mexifornia, formerly known as California. White minorities still trying to have English recognized as Mexifornia's third language. Spotted Owl plague threatens northwestern Unite...

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oscar;1155981 wrote: Spot, I meant second term as in second term for the main man not the government.

Alas poor Oscar, the moron can't have a second term. The useless bastard was never elected in the first place.

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Seen on a cludgie (toilet) wall in London:-

Is anyone on this planet intelligent?

underneath in a different script:-

Yes, but we're only passing through

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<t>For those that don't know about history, here is the condensed version: Humans originally existed as members of small bands of nomadic hunters and gatherers. They lived on deer in the mountains during the summer and would go to the coast and live on fish and lobster in the winter. ...

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oscar;1155428 wrote: Lives in Brighton does she..... that's interesting

Well, somebody has to............

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<t>Brazil girl, alleged rape victim, aborts twins - Americas- msnbc.com Brazil girl, alleged rape victim, aborts twins The procedure on the 9-year-old girl draws complaints from Catholic church BBC NEWS | World | Americas | Rape row sparks excommunications <br/...

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oscar;1153229 wrote: And please don't class this rancid old hag in even the same league as 'The Great Swampy'.

I hate to tell you this Oscar, but your "rancid old hag" is not yet 30.

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<t>oscar;1153332 wrote: This is why britain has two Flags. The Union Jack most commonly seen is the flag of Britain and the four countries. The St george Cross as in my avitar is the flag of England. Alas poor Oscar. England has the Cross of St George (a totally imaginary person), N...

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<t>oscar;1153250 wrote: Ummmmm Perhaps because you've got the oil and the American warheads? :wah: Alas, poor Oscar. The Yanks have been gone for years............ oscar;1153257 wrote: You know as well as i do gmc that the only hope in hell you have of an inde...

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<t>JAB;1153223 wrote: No offense taken GMC, as I admittedly profess very little knowledge in the relationships between the Scots, Welsh, Irish and Brits (for the sake of distinction). I guess my asking about the distinction of Northern Ireland would further show my ignorance? Not at...

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<t>oscar;1152977 wrote: He is a member of our Government and a Lord. So what? The government is deeply unpopular and he is one of the reasons. The fact that was given a peerage doesn't make him any better than you or me. oscar;1152977 wrote: She should have b...

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<t>JAB;1153005 wrote: For now though, shall I assume (amid all the risks that come with using that word!) that the Welsh love the Brits more then the Scots do? Nobody loves the "Brits". We (Scots, Welsh and Irish) put up with the English as they are a sorry bunch who need to be supe...

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<t>There is a theory going around that all Scots are bi-lingual (Scots & English), but that doesn't cover it. My mother tongue is actually GÃ idhlig (Gaelic) - that's what we spoke at home. I've lived in the Central Belt long enough to acquire fluency in Scots, and at school I took German, Spani...

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US Congress give Gordon Brown 19 standing ovations.

All that does is point out the deficiencies of the collective American Political intellect.

In other words, they are a bigger bunch of incompetent tossers than the cretins in Westmonster.............

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oscar;1150766 wrote: Have you been reading the Daily Mail Mr Chookiness

Hell no. I peruse a proper paper.

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Imladris;1151063 wrote: Gordon "Psst...... Wanna buy a famous London landmark? London Bridge, $10 billion"

Sorry, they already did that. It's in Lake Havasu City, Arizona...........

(It only cost $2,460,000.)

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Gordon Brown's in Washington to meet Obama

Count the silverware both before and after....................

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Seven of Nine

You are an outcast learning to cope and understand the ways of those around you. Your blunt honesty and intellectual capacity cause others to mistake you for egotistical...when really, you ARE just smarter than everyone else.

Hey, cool..........

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<t>Chezzie;1150380 wrote: THE WEAKEST LINK (BBC2) --- ------- ---- ------ Anne Robinson: Oscar Wilde, Adolf Hitler and Jeffrey Archer have all written books about their experiences in what: - Prison, or the Conservative Party? Contestant: The Conservative Party. <...

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<t>oscar;1149304 wrote: They call to each other like a barking but that's no different to a domestic dog kicking off in the night. /QUOTE] From that, I would guess you've never heard a vixen in heat............ [QUOTE=oscar;1149304]Urban foxes don't do anything to d...

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<t>A few authentic Scottish words :- glaikit - ADJ. Stupid, foolish, thoughtless, vacant. As in "Awa, yi glaikit bastirt!" Often used of gadgies, minkers and schemies. nyaff - Annoying wee bugger, especially applicable to a politician. See you ya wee nyaff if ye di...

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Jester;1146823 wrote: But the bible covers all of human history,

But it doesn't, it reputedly covers the history of one tribe of middle-eastern nomads, from the Garden of Eden, via the Flood, to the Roman occupation of Palestine.

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The Steel Bonnets. Basically, how two bunches of thieving, murdering sociopaths (one Scottish, one English) terrified two kingdoms.

I'm usingSalvation in Death by J D Robb as a little light relief....

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