goldfinger
- 09 Jun 2005 12:25
Thought Id start this one going because its rather dead on this board at the moment and I suppose all my usual muckers are either at the Stella tennis event watching Dim Tim (lose again) or at Henly Regatta eating cucumber sandwiches (they wish,...NOT).
Anyway please feel free to just talk to yourself blast away and let it go on any company or subject you wish. Just wish Id thought of this one before.
cheers GF.
Fred1new
- 03 Mar 2016 09:33
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Never mind 2,000,000 expats working abroad who will return to the UK because they will be losing their "perks" in Europe.
TANKER
- 03 Mar 2016 09:36
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our in campaigners tell us we are better off in the eu
well a few facts retirement age now 66 going up again
our children can not afford to buy a home
migrants living at over 8 to a home paying only one c/t and the services destroyed
migrant in work benefits between 6k and 10k old age pension 6k
and worked and paid for 45 years onavge
human rights mean we can not deport criminals and murderers
our schools are over run by non English speaking children
our a/e are full of immigrants
can not find one thing that is good for the working class
the uk tax payers are making up migrant wages to live in the uk
90 percent pay nothing in to the system but it very good for these foreign companies
and cheap labour
if any of you posters can post me any thing that is good for the uk post it
required field
- 03 Mar 2016 09:37
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Why don't the Italians and Greeks with EU help set up anti illegal immigrant patrolboats turning away the dodgy arrivals approaching their coasts.....if I lived there I'd be out in a boat seeing to it myself....unbelievable nobody gives a damn....the end result is that moron encampment outside Calais with muppet dogooders saying : let them all in to the UK...really....beggars belief....
Stan
- 03 Mar 2016 09:38
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Good idea Fred, I suggest concreting over/out into the English channel so we can do away with the tunnel and provide more land to house much more people.. keep an eye on Building shares SP's is my tip.
TANKER
- 03 Mar 2016 09:38
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Calais jungle are full of criminals shoot the scum
required field
- 03 Mar 2016 09:39
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A bit over the top Tanker...but I know the feeling...it's so frustrating....
TANKER
- 03 Mar 2016 09:39
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will any poster find anything good for the uk working classes
jimmy b
- 03 Mar 2016 09:43
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There is nothing good for UK working class to stay in ..
Stan ,100 000 poles on their way ,you would love that ,don't Fred and your self hate Britain .
jimmy b
- 03 Mar 2016 09:48
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I will post this again , the idiot luvvie Jude Law ..
This is funny.
What do you think of them now Judy
Security guards hired to protect actor Jude Law were reportedly attacked and robbed by a gang of migrants during the star’s recent visit to the notorious “Jungle” refugee camp in northern France.
The 43-year-old British actor was in Calais with a film crew and singer Tom Odell to highlight the plight of child refugees who are being evicted from the camp, which is set to be demolished, Mirror Online reported.
Moments after the celebrities had boarded the production team coach to head back to Britain, their security team was ambushed by a group of migrants, the Daily Mail reported.
The attackers reportedly hurled stones at the men before stealing their mobile phones.
“We were shocked to see some of the migrants acting like football hooligans,” an unnamed source told Mirror. “The security team had stones thrown at them and two had phones smashed and stolen.”
Fred1new
- 03 Mar 2016 09:55
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The figures are probably a little out of date but are indicative.
And probably too long for the exits to read!
Revealed: thousands of Britons on benefits across EU
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/jan/19/-sp-thousands-britons-claim-benefits-eu
Stan
- 03 Mar 2016 10:19
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JB (no jumper) looses it again, off out now be back in a while to no doubt answer some further RWR nonsense from the Muppets.. if I can be bothered.
TANKER
- 03 Mar 2016 10:52
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well no one can post anything good about the eu for the brits I thought not
vote out out out save our children from the future of the rotten stinking eu
TANKER
- 03 Mar 2016 10:54
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CAMERON THE LIAR HAVE SENT HIM 3 E MAILS CALLING HIM A DAM LIAR
IT MUST BE TRUE WILL NOT ANSWER WHEN HE WANTED MY VOTE HE WOULD REPLY
I MADE A MISTAKE VOTING FOR THIS LIAR
iturama
- 03 Mar 2016 12:39
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If you call him a damn liar, he might reply Tanker. He is easily confused. He may think you are talking about the floods.
ExecLine
- 03 Mar 2016 14:13
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Something to impress your (intellectual) friends with.......
English number words are pretty logical, but eleven and twelve don’t fit in at all.
Arika Okrent
25 Feb 16
English number words are pretty logical after a point.
From twenty-one to ninety-nine, the same principle applies: you say the tens place followed by the units place.
But the teens are different! Not only does the ten (which is where the word teen comes from) come after the units place (10+7 is not teen-seven but seventeen) and eleven and twelve don't fit in at all.
Eleven and twelve come from the Old English words endleofan and twelf, which can be traced back further to a time when they were ain+lif and twa+lif.
So what did this –lif mean? The best guess etymologists have is that it is from a root for "to leave." Ainlif is "one left (after ten)" and twalif is "two left (after ten)."
So then the question is, why don't we have threelif, fourlif, fiflif, sixlif and so on?
The answer has to do with the development of number systems over history. A long, long time ago, when the number words were first being formed, most people didn't have much reason to distinguish numbers above ten.
In fact, some languages of primitive cultures only have number words for one, two, and many (ie. more than two). So the basic number words up to ten formed first, then they were extended a bit with the –lif ending.
Maybe there was a threelif, fourlif type system, but 11 and 12 were used more often in daily life. Many number systems are based on 12 because it's divisible by the most numbers, and because you can count to 12 on one hand by using your thumb to count three knuckles on each of the other fingers. (We have the word dozen because 12 is so useful). If 11 and 12 are being used more frequently, the forms for them will stick, even when another system starts to develop.
You can extend that idea to other number words. We have more irregularities of pronunciation in the tens (twenty, thirty, fifty instead of twoty, threety, fivety) because we've been making everyday use of those numbers for longer than we have for two hundred, three hundred, and five hundred).
Thousand is an old word, but its original sense was "a great multitude," a non-numerically-specific, but very useful idea. The words we needed earliest, and used the most frequently are usually the most irregular.
So the short answer is, we created words for 11 and 12 a long time ago by calling them "one left after ten" and "two left after ten." They were more useful to us than the higher numbers, so we said them more and they became a habit that we couldn't shake.
iturama
- 03 Mar 2016 15:51
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It looks like we are in for months of apocalyptic warnings of a Brexit, together with a good dose of love-ins between our Dave and his new pals in the EU. He will be kissing Juncker next and telling us all what a fine experienced man he is.
Fact is that if these clowns really believe their own stories, they should be making contingency plans to mitigate them. Something which they refuse to do. At least publicly.
The more desperate and comical the orchestrated love fests, the more I am convinced the whole business is rigged. Little wonder much was done behind closed doors. Our Dave battling for Britain. Thank god we have finer men and women when the chips are really down.
Haystack
- 03 Mar 2016 16:14
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The betting are 4/11 on staying in and 5/2 against leaving.
jimmy b
- 03 Mar 2016 16:37
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Those odds mean nothing at the moment .
Talk to the public .
Haystack
- 03 Mar 2016 16:59
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Fear will keep us in
2517GEORGE
- 03 Mar 2016 17:44
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How nice of our so-called allies to bully and threaten us into voting to 'stay in'. What a fantastic relationship that will make. Just goes to show what most of us already knew, those unelected, undemocratic cretins don't give a flying fig (can't think of a better word) about the UK and it's people.
I was taught to stand up to bullies. Our forefathers would turn in their graves if they thought we gave in to them now.
2517