Eurovision

Uk drafts in Andrew Llyod Webber to he;lp break our embarrassing run of losses. We come 5th which is RARE!
normally we wallow around amongst the bottom of the pile, maybe next year we might get even higher

MP’s Expenses

wow finally proof that MP’s are saying one thing and doing another. Personally I think its time for a shake up in parliment, time to clean out all the dirt. People blatantly abusing the expenses system should be fired or removed fomr senior positions at the very least…..do we really need anything else to be embarrassed about in this country, uk politics is already a laughing stock

BRITISH TRADITIONS: DUKE OF EDINBURGH’S GAFFS

The Queens husband the Duke of Edinburgh is notorious for his gaffs while on official visits, here is a list of some of his classic gaffs….

During a state visit to China in 1986, he famously told a group of British students: “If you stay here much longer, you’ll all be slitty-eyed”.

And speaking to a driving instructor in Oban, Scotland, he asked: “How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to get them through the test?”.

Other eyebrow-raising pronouncements have included:

# Still throwing spears? (Question put to an Australian Aborigine during a visit in March 2002)

# “British women can’t cook.” (1966)

# “Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemployed.” (during the 1981 recession)

# “We didn’t have counsellors rushing around every time somebody let off a gun, asking ‘Are you all right? Are you sure you don’t have a ghastly problem?’ You just got on with it.” (commenting in 1995 on modern stress counselling for servicemen)

# “If a cricketer, for instance, suddenly decided to go into a school and batter a lot of people to death with a cricket bat, which he could do very easily, I mean, are you going to ban cricket bats?” (in 1996, amid calls to ban firearms after the Dunblane shooting)

# “Bloody silly fool!” (in 1997, referring to a Cambridge University car park attendant who failed to recognise him)

# “It looks as if it was put in by an Indian.” (in 1999, referring to an old-fashioned fuse box in a factory near Edinburgh)

# “Deaf? If you are near there, no wonder you are deaf.” (in 1999, to young deaf people in Cardiff, referring to a school’s steel band)

# “They must be out of their minds.” (in 1982, in the Solomon Islands, after being told that the annual population growth was only 5%)

# “You are a woman, aren’t you?” (in 1984, in Kenya, to a native woman who had presented him with a small gift)

# “Your country is one of the most notorious centres of trading in endangered species in the world.” (in 1991, in Thailand, after accepting a conservation award)

# “Oh no, I might catch some ghastly disease.” (in 1992 in Australia, when asked to stroke a Koala bear)

# “You can’t have been here that long – you haven’t got a pot belly.” (in 1993, to a Briton in Budapest, Hungary)

# “Aren’t most of you descended from pirates?” (in 1994, to an islander in the Cayman Islands)

# “You managed not to get eaten, then?” (in 1998, to a student who had been trekking in Papua New Guinea)

# “If it has got four legs and it is not a chair, if it has got two wings and it flies but is not an aeroplane, and if it swims and it is not a submarine, the Cantonese will eat it.” (at a 1986 World Wildlife Fund meeting)

Why do people reference books they have never read!?

today in the newspaper I was reading an article that mentions “big brother society”, now this is a reference to George Orwells book “1984″ and its now become just an accepted phrase but I wonder how many of the people who reference it and use this phrase actually have read the book, without reading the book they do not understand the subtleties of what this phrase means and a number of people probably use this phrase with no idea exactly what its referencing. They just know its something to do with the government monitoring their citizens in some vague way…the phrase has taken on a new life and new meanings…I wonder how many viewers of channel 4′s reality TV show have read 1984…fair enough you don’t need to have read the book to watch the tv show… but what stops them? DAMMIT go buy the book and read it, then use the phrase in the knowledge you know what it means.

A few pages on in another article in the same newspaper a journalist made a reference to “lord of the flies”… now here is another example of something which is now just assumed that people know what it means, and has taken on a similar life of its own beyond the novel itself, it is now widely used to reference children doing something horrible to other children. But if people read the actual novel they may think twice about using the phrase as the book is more subtle than just kids being evil.

SO MEDIA…STOP MAKING ASSUMPTIONS THAT READERS WILL HAVE READ THESE BOOKS

and the PUBLIC…GO READ THESE BOOKS…you might like them… or at the very least next time you use these phrases or references, think to yourself if you fully know why your using these phrases…is it cos you want to look intelligent and are following the herd or are you using it cos you have read the books and actually know what they mean!….who knows… you decide…

LIB DEMS MAKE LABOUR LOOK STUPID AND WIN GURKHA VOTE

Hurrah, today I heard MPs voted in parliment to over throw Labours unreasonable rules which prevent Gurkha veterans settling in UK unless they meet certain criteria. The vote was put forward by the Liberal Democrats, and once again in the current climate the Lib Dems seem the only ones that seem to have any common sense!

The vote doesn’t mean the law will be changed but it means that everyone thinkgs Labour has made a collossal balls up! Which of course they HAVE!

to read the full info see link below

Gurkha vote

POLL!

Britain was once a great nation…what happened?!

Recently been thinking that I think there has never been a worse time to British…sure living through the PLAGUE would be a nightmare to say the least but I am not talking about standard of living I am just talking about how the rest of the world sees us as a nation. We are a country known for inventing some of the worlds greatest inventions, for having a huge empire, and for standing up against the Nazi’s….amongst others…but the sad fact is, all the things Britain is famous for are in the past, what are we known for now? where did our greatness go? what on EARTH HAPPENED! Now all I seem to see on the news is how much we are meddling with every other countries foreign affairs, we are known for getting in wars, we are known for chavs and hoodies, we are known for a media that is so invasive it hounds people to their death. What has Britain got to be proud of now, we can’t rely on our past glories… Britain needs its pride back…ideas on a post card please!

Bill Bailey British Comedy Genius

Bill Bailey is a British comedian from the west country in England, he is one of our best British comedians, so as British people are known for their sense of humour and Bill often sums up what its like to be British in his shows, I thought I would post a video for you all, here is a fine example of Bill summing up what its like to be British and an accurate insight into our transport system!!

For a fine example of British humour please view the above video…I really can’t sum it up any better… so just watch Bill do it for me!

St George’s Day

St Georges is the patron saint of england, now I am not devoutly religious or some kind of supreme patriot but I do think that St Georges Day should be celebrated properly. I mean hardly any english people actually know when the day is (23rd April), for political correctness most government institutions wont fly the Cross of St George (the flag of england) even on St George’s Day.
I find it bizarre that in this country when it’s St Patricks day (Irish patron saint) this is celebrated by thousands upon thousands of english men and women. This might be due to the fact that this day is usually accompanied by heavy drinking, which is a British passtime, the english love to have a massive excuse to get legitimately out of their heads on whatever alcohol they can lay their hands on. WHY ON EARTH DO WE NOT CELEBRATE OUR OWN PATRON SAINTS DAY!
This is a perculiar British/English quirk that we would rather celebrate someone else’s national day. It is also very English that St George himself was not actually English, it seems its always been part of our culture to embrace other cultures wholeheartedly. This should be something we should celebrate as part of St Georges day, our multi cultural-ness (is that a word?!)

The English flag has now become almost solely associated with  football or extreme patriots (…or drunken nutters with a flag painted on thier face like warpaint who are smashing up the streets in a drunken rage becuase their football team just lost…but thats another issue), it’s TIME TO RECLAIM OUR FLAG AND OUR NATIONAL DAY AND CELEBRATE IT PROPERLY, BEING PROUD OF ALL THAT IS ENGLISH (is there anything left to be proud of?….we can think of something!) …and anyway on the most base level its an excuse to have a massive party! come on brits its an excuse to get drunk and you know you love that!
For more info about our national day visit this site dedicated to St Georges Day view their site HERE

PIG FLU STRIKES UK

PIG FLU confirmed in UK now….this is getting worrying, hope this is not the beginning of pandemic