damn, I knew you were a bit older than most people here, but not that old!Originally Posted by InsaneApache
Re: 'Red' Ken does it again!
damn, I knew you were a bit older than most people here, but not that old!
Re: 'Red' Ken does it again!
haha...bloody leek crunchers....damn, I knew you were a bit older than most people here, but not that old!
I meant it was still talked about by my great-Grandmother who was born in 1874. I think some of her (mine) great-Uncles were there. She died when I was 8 years old.
I shall make enquiries from my dad.
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."
Re: 'Red' Ken does it again!
Was he referring to the Poll Tax riots or did he have something else in mind? For example:
The original Bloody Sunday
I expect even he knows that Peterloo happened in Manchester.
btw IA, I hope no-one else in Keighley reads this board or they will be expelling you. In a previous thread you described it as being "part of Bradford" and now you have admitted to being a Lancastrian! Your passionate support for Landlord ale is insufficient mitigation.
Last edited by Duke of Gloucester; 04-12-2006 at 07:53.
We all learn from experience. Unfortunately we don't all learn as much as we should.
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hehe I never claimed to be born in Yorkshire, in fact I have often stated that I am a Mancunian, although one of my sons, one grandson and three grand-daughters are Tykes ( ahh bless 'em).
And Timmy Taylors is still one of the best.
people from Keighley are strange though
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."
Re: 'Red' Ken does it again!
I'm surprised. I would have expected Ken to have been deported by now, forcibly.
Re: 'Red' Ken does it again!
I must give our cousins across the pond due credit. You're doing remarkably well with such a 'scandal'.
If Ray Nagin (the bonehead from New Orleans who decided 2000 busses weren't needed) were in Red Ken's shoes, we'd be apopletic over here. The right would be screaming for his head on a stake for treason, and the left would be falling over themselves defending him. The fact that you all can give each other the business, but in a friendly way, speaks very highly of you.
Have you ever noticed how Idaho lays low when these discussions of how wretched the honorable Lord Mayor truly is come to the surface?
As an aside, I strongly suspect your man Ken is holed up at the Grand Hyatt (about 2 blocks from Tianamen and a very swank hotel) and the Party has seen to it several rather attactive young ladies have joined him for evening cocktail parties in the bar. Such public statements are one way to ensure the 'tea-parties' continue.... The nationalistic Chinese (and actually, I've found most aren't) love hearing two things out of Westerners 1) we have misjudged them and maybe human rights aren't so bad 2) we could stand to learn a thing or two from their models of capitalsim. I can stomach the latter, as there's more than a little truth there. Being as he's "Red" Ken, I imagine he couldn't bring himself to that and had to focus on the former.
Last edited by Don Corleone; 04-12-2006 at 19:02.
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The thing is Don, (BTW congrats on gettin' bail, and I got that money I owe you, it's in the post
Now a politician that actually listened to and acted upon the wishes of the electorate after they get elected would be nice, but not remotely in sight, sadly.
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."
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