There, but for the grace of God, goes John Bradford
My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation.
Meh. I've long used various British terms and pronunciations. Perhaps not frequently, but enough that my friends no longer look at me strangely when I do. (Although gods help anyone within earshot when I'm drunk, as I tend to affect just about the worst Scottish accent in the universe.)![]()
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That is absolutely going into my sig.
"MTW is not a game, it's a way of life." -- drone
Ahh...good old Francis Urquhart. You don't get a better English name than that.
Although I was at school with a Farrington, a Carruthers, a Thompkinson and a Clive. Well not the last one, he was there 200 years earlier.
As someone who naturally pronunciates with 'flat' vowels, I have it on good authority that swearing in a Yorkshire/Manchester accent is very effective. Time to beat the whippet with me clogs.....
There are times I wish they’d just ban everything- baccy and beer, burgers and bangers, and all the rest- once and for all. Instead, they creep forward one apparently tiny step at a time. It’s like being executed with a bacon slicer.
“Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.”
To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticise.
"The purpose of a university education for Left / Liberals is to attain all the politically correct attitudes towards minorties, and the financial means to live as far away from them as possible."
Idk about you guys but if a girl used the term snogging in front of me, I would be attracted. Because there is only two possibilities:
1. She is British or has a some sort of connection to Britain (is American who's parents are British immigrants). AWESOME!
2. She read Harry Potter and picked it up from there.
STILL AWESOME! (I can role play with her.)
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