I'd consume her pie.
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Today, if you're English...
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Muffins, buns & crumpet.
What a wonderful country we live in............
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I feel she has consumed just the correct amount of pies.
Depends if you like them a little chubby or not i guess. Each to their own.
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I'd consume her pie.
That is the kind of thing that makes me proud to be British!
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Depends if you like them a little chubby or not i guess.
Are you seeing the same picture - or do you like blokes???
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Rusty Spanner - Member
Muffins, buns & crumpet.
What a wonderful country we live in............
Yeah, not too shabby...
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Complete with oil drip tray.
British engineering at it's best, and each one lost money for the manufacturers.
<Wipes away a patriotic tear.....>
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Just got in. Is this 9 pages of infantile squabbling about racism or shall I read it?
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Sure, It was designed to leak a bit of oil so the front subframe didn't rust
Shame they didn't 'engineer' a similar solution for the rear!
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Depends if you like them a little chubby or not i guess.
I suppose I do a little, but I'm not quite sure what that has to do with the photo that was posted there, unless these are more to your taste?
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Just got in. Is this 9 pages of infantile squabbling about racism or shall I read it?
It's generally OK with just a few colonials huffing & puffing
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She's not what I'd call fat:
(edit -she's Miss England I think!)
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Perhaps its my widescreen monitor. As i said each to their own. rkk haven't looked at many blokes bums but obviously you have so i will let you educate us all on that!
edit: Oh i agree, she definitly isn't fat.
edit again: Although those thighs are a fair old size!
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Although those thighs are a fair old size
All the better for keeping my ears warm.
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**** nationalism, the few hundred million dead who died in the name of it is a good enough argument in itself, seems to me to just be a relic of our tribal past we would do well without, I'm with John Lennon, the whole world should be as one!
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**** nationalism
I totally agree, although I think the thread was started on the premise of patriotism...
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hmmm, I think patriotism and nationalism are so similar they are pretty much synonymous, hence 'the great patriotic war' (which incidentally left 20 million Russian patriots dead). I think there must be better things to celebrate than simply in which political boundaries you were born in/belong to, which seems pretty arbitrary. I'd like to see days celebrating specific huge advancements in science, medicine or engineering across countries as an achievement for humanity rather than promoting divides between countries through patriotism/nationalism! I just can't see how it can do humanity any good in the long term, if anyone out there can change my mind please do because right now I feel very left out! I want to change!
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Samuel Johnson was good as well.
Shame no one uses his ideas anymore........
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I just can't see how it can do humanity any good in the long term, if anyone out there can change my mind please do because right now I feel very left out! I want to change!
I very much doubt it'll ever do humanity any good whatsoever, but we're all animals, and the number one instinct of animals is to try to survive at all costs. Unfortunately, that either means being on your own, or being in a group. Humans as a species seem to like groups, and the key to this means being in the best group. When there aren't enough resources for the group (oil, food, water), members get a little tetchy. I doubt you'll ever get rid of the grouping mentality...
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zokes - Member
From your link, Fred...The word moron, along with others including "retarded", "idiotic", "imbecilic", "stupid", and "feeble-minded", was formerly considered a valid descriptor in the psychological community, but it is now deprecated in use by psychologists.
I've underlined the important bits for you...Well, I can't speak for 'Fred', but if you're aiming such a comment in my direction, I'd be interested in knowing why you think using such a term to describe me is valid?
Just interested in your reasoning behind your insulting behaviour, like.
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And whoever thinks that young lady's bottom is too fat, doesn't have any idea what a real woman looks like....
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Well, I can't speak for 'Fred', but if you're aiming such a comment in my direction, I'd be interested in knowing why you think using such a term to describe me is valid?
Just interested in your reasoning behind your insulting behaviour, like.
Well, 'Fred' was banned from here several times, hid for a while, then several people noted that you seem to be a bit like him, just without his slightly annoying 'duzznts' etc. Last time he cropped up after an enforced absence, he also stopped typing like that for a while, but still had the same stupid arguments, which ultimately gave him away. If you're not Fred, then hard luck for being very like him. Regardless of whether Fred deserved any of those insults in real life, he certainly deserved most of them (and more) online.
EDIT: See here: http://www.singletrackworld.com/forum/search.php?q=Talkemada+fred&x=0&y=0
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True zokes, but I'd say survival is on about the same plane as procreation when it comes to instincts and some people (monks, etc.) can control those instincts maybe it is possible to stop a grouping instinct that is an offshoot of survival? Hopefully a future without any of the archaic human instincts that do us no good will be a reality one day! I think the whole spitfire debate shows it well, and the people who first put the pics up then tried to argue that they were simply displaying British/English design and engineering are kidding themselves, it is a symbol of one group of peoples resistance against another countries nationalism! If you want a good example English brilliance, discovery of the structure of DNA anyone? Has done massive amounts for humanity as a whole and it all happened in good old Cambridge!
But can I being English be proud of that? what connection to Crick and Watson do I have to them, other than my passport bears the same stamp? I find my lack of patriotism deeply unnerving, most STW'ers seem pretty intelligent and the vast majority on here seem to be overflowing with patriotism today, so I'm now of the opinion that I must be missing something! What's wrong with me! 
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I'm not inger-lish.
But happy St. Georges Day!
Shame you don't have a bank holiday either-that would be nice!
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Still at it?
Blimey, that's very English of you!
Well done chaps.BTW - Did anyone mention the mighty Marshall Amplifiers? English!
Norton, Triumph, James, Francis Barnet, Villiers, Ariel, BSA - All English. Admittedly all gone, but....SB
Edit - Hang on!
it is a symbol of one group of peoples resistance against another countries nationalism!
....The spitfire is no such shiz. What u on about?
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I'd like to see days celebrating specific huge advancements in science, medicine or engineering
Gunpowder, Nuclear missiles and Spitfire.
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stratobiker - I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you read it as if I meant it is a general symbol for resistance against nationalism, which I didn't. Either that or you need some serious history lessons
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drac - ok then medicine...
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Crick and Watson do I have to them, other than my passport bears the same stamp?
Watson was American IIRC
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Going back to Alfred, it was Offa of Mercia who is first recorded as mooting the idea of an 'Anglaland' or land of all the English. Alfred of Wessex held defiantly fast in the face of the Danish Grand Army & eventually defeated it at the battle of Ethandun in AD 878.
However, it was his grandson AEthelstan who really created the boundaries of the modern state of England.
He led his army into the Danelaw & wrested it back into English hands, defeated the Scots, the Picts & the Strathclyde Welsh* before heading back down the Western coast to attack the 5 Welsh Princedoms.
The Princedoms capitulated and agreed to pay an annual tribute of:-
1500lb gold
3000lb silver
30'000 head of cattle * as many hunting dogs & hawks as the King did require - one hell of a tax on a dark-age economy!It was English stubborness & defiance that led in 50yrs from the 5 square miles of Athelney marsh, which was all that Alfred held before Ethandun, to the creation of the English state under his grandson AEthelstan.
Now, off to buy several bottles of Bombardier - hopefully the Burning Gold edition!
*In old English Walesch(Welsh) is a word meaning 'foreigner/outsider/other' therefore Strathclyde Welsh means the foreigners who live in Strathclyde.
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uplink - Yeah that is true! Didn't know that, point still stands though, it was just an example, albeit a semi incorrect one
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Well, I've got to say this isn't what I hoped it would be, but it is kind of what I half expected. I personally find it all a bit childish to be honest. One person posts something they associate with their Englishness and then half are trying to prove it is English, half of you trying to argue it isn't. Then all the people who feel that they need to tell everyone they don't feel English. Whoopee for you. No, really. You telling me why you think it's archaic will help me realise that I am wrong.
Here's what I meant to do. I meant to express my feelings about being English. I hoped (and for 50% of this I was right) that other people would say why they feel proud to be English. But instead we get petty arguments that mean nothing in the great scheme of things. Ok, you don't feel English. Ok, you don't think certain things are English. Ok, you don't feel any national affiliation and feel we should all get along together. Great. But this isn't "I don't feel English" day. It isn't "your idea of what's English is wrong" day either.
Whatever being English means to you, today is a day to celebrate it. Be it a spitfire, a pint of spitfire, stone henge, football, cricket, scones, fish and chips or whatever. Enjoy being English. Just for today, because as sure as a pound to a penny we'll all be reminded of our father's sins, our mixed heritage and not actually being English and inumerable other things tomorrow.
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well said.
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fish and chips or whatever
Fried fish: Dutch Jewish import
Chips: From potatoes; American import, first fried probably in FranceSorry!
Whatever being English means to you, today is a day to celebrate it. Enjoy being English. Just for today
Today is no different to any other, unless you're a Christian who recognises St George as a saint with relevance and influence on your life.
I'm proud to be English every single day. I don't need anyone to tell me to be.
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