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leif
13 Apr 20 00:31
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Just heard this quote watching,

'A Fish Called Wanda'

Would there have been any economic benefits?

Would we have less unemployed?

Generally speaking, would we be driving a better standard of car?

Would our 'unemployment payment' be better paid under furlough etc.

John Cleese, to Wanda:

"Have you any idea what's it's like being English all the time"?

Laugh

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By:
casemoney
When: 13 Apr 20 02:10
A former King of ours certainly thought so ...
By:
jucel69
When: 13 Apr 20 03:30
Hitler had a lot of admiration for the Brits, he wanted us to join forces.
We very nearly surrendered too, which looking back is almost unbelievable
If it had just been Tories voting, the general consensus is that we would have surrendered.
However, Atlee and a few others, who were hugely patriotic & part of a unified govt refused and the vote went in favour of us fighting on.

I think Hitler knew really he could never invade the UK and operation sea lion/battle of Britain was only going to go one way as the German fighters had to travel so far and were losing 5 planes to 1.
The admiralty hadn't even been used by this time and they were an awesome force

We couldn't win the war on our own and Germany couldn't invade us, so it would have been a catastrophic loss of life on both sides, much like the terrible waste of life in WW1.

He then made an even worse decision to take on the Ruskies in their own country and that sealed his fate.
By:
jucel69
When: 13 Apr 20 03:41
Then again!!LaughCry

https://twitter.com/cricketwallah/status/1239847800038285313?s=20
By:
Lady Faye Verrit
When: 13 Apr 20 07:49
The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was the other possibility.

As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5- year phase-in plan that would become known as "Euro-English".

In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make the sivil servants jump with joy. The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter. There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like fotograf 20% shorter.

In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible. Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling. Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is disgrasful and it should go away.

By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with "z" and "w" with "v".

During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou" and after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl. Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali **** tru.

Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze forst plas.
By:
Steve Voltage
When: 13 Apr 20 08:02
Very clever lady Faye!
By:
Steve Voltage
When: 13 Apr 20 08:05
The Furher would not let his people suffer like this without retribution. Wuhan would’ve been erased from the map by now.
By:
Whisperingdeath
When: 13 Apr 20 09:07
Obviously no is the answer.

The perfect sports car must have something wrong with it to be perfect. Things like having to use a wooden clothes peg to hold the manual choke open in the morning.

How could the Germans build a car like that?
By:
leif
When: 17 Apr 20 22:41

Apr 13, 2020 -- 7:49AM, Lady Faye Verrit wrote:


The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was the other possibility. As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5- year phase-in plan that would become known as "Euro-English". In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make the sivil servants jump with joy. The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter. There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like fotograf 20% shorter. In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible. Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling. Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is disgrasful and it should go away. By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with "z" and "w" with "v". During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou" and after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl. Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali **** tru. Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze forst plas.


Funny and clever that.

Was it Mark Twain that came out with that first?

By:
Foinavon
When: 17 Apr 20 23:04
F.U.N.E.M?
By:
betting_masta
When: 18 Apr 20 01:29
funny and clever, that's why we get on i think. similar.
By:
Whisperingdeath
When: 18 Apr 20 08:04
N.O.V.F.No.M
By:
leif
When: 18 Apr 20 09:49
FUNEX?
By:
Whisperingdeath
When: 18 Apr 20 10:22
V.F.E.10.N.E.X

Laugh

I dare yo to finish thatLaugh
By:
leif
When: 18 Apr 20 10:28
YFUE10ZX?
By:
leif
When: 18 Apr 20 10:32
O.I.C.U.F.N.10.E.X.
By:
The Leopard
When: 18 Apr 20 10:34
Watchout.....MI5 will be along soon !
By:
Whisperingdeath
When: 18 Apr 20 10:35
I think the ending was ashley

silly cowLaugh
By:
Foinavon
When: 18 Apr 20 10:58
9.E.S.N.E.10.C.X.N.M.
By:
the.mad.dog.man
When: 18 Apr 20 11:26
if this goverment been in control last war we would have been under the germans
By:
macarony
When: 18 Apr 20 12:43
We were under the Germans every day we were in the EU
By:
edy
When: 18 Apr 20 13:08

Apr 18, 2020 -- 12:43PM, macarony wrote:


We were under the Germans every day we were in the EU


questionable

By:
sofiakenny
When: 18 Apr 20 13:13
My only grouse with our German friends is that their women have a fondness for body hair which I find a huge turn off.
By:
leif
When: 06 May 20 22:47
We'd be looking forward to a resumption of top flight football later this month.Cry
By:
Cardinal Scott
When: 06 May 20 23:00

Apr 18, 2020 -- 1:13PM, sofiakenny wrote:


My only grouse with our German friends is that their women have a fondness for body hair which I find a huge turn off.


Nothing wrong with a Bush or a Landing Strip!

By:
UBLE/REGY
When: 07 May 20 15:40
I think we would be better of under the Germans at present
Bundesliga restarting 15th May
When is the Premiership starting?
Some of us need football to gamble on. Faroe IslandShockeds on b/f tomorow
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