A bit council (Vol 3)
Discussion
Frank7 said:
Europa1 said:
Blimey. Emily Thornberry would go into meltdown: https://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/local-news/e...
The Kirby Estate, Bermondsey, is 7 or 800 metres from my house in Rotherhithe, and my elder German grandson was over during the Euros in 2016, and expressed his surprise at all the England flags draped around it, “Why do they all do that Opa?”I said that I guessed they wanted to show their support for England, didn’t they do so in Germany?
He said, “We know who we support, there’s only one country, we don’t need a dozen flags on every house, the Turks and Croatians put their flags out, but that’s okay, we expect that, and respect it.”
ks. The German flag is flown by many houses all year round and during major international football tournaments you can't move for them. On Sunday, wherever you went, more people than not, from little kids to OAPs, were dressed in team colours, or had decorated their houses/bikes/cars. Huge shows of patriotism in Germany.mrtwisty said:
Right! That's quite enough of that, thank you very much!
You've all missed something even more petty to bicker about:
This place, really, I dont know....
They are two different things. A Bakewell Tart is the variant with standard pastry and icing on top and deeply frowned upon in Bakewell. Bakewell Pudding is the genuine product from Bakewell and is made with puff pastry and no icing.You've all missed something even more petty to bicker about:
Fermit The Krog and Sexy Sarah said:
Bakewell tart etc......
It's pudding man! The true, pure, incorruptible regional dish is Bakewell PUDDING! This place, really, I dont know....
That said, both are
Plymo said:
There are some specific requirements for companies using "British" or "English" in their names, including being "pre-eminent or very substantial in their field"
So that's why there aren't that many as its intended to stop there being an implication that the company has a connection to government or something else official
In fact there's an awful lot of words and phrases that have particular requirements for company names:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/incorpo...
That kind of makes sense. It does seem like there used to be a fair amount of companies that used the word 'English' but they have merged (or been bought out) and now have more generic names.So that's why there aren't that many as its intended to stop there being an implication that the company has a connection to government or something else official
In fact there's an awful lot of words and phrases that have particular requirements for company names:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/incorpo...
I suspect there will be quite a few small businesses that use the word 'Englishe' (ye old Englishe tea room) and stuff like that though.
V8mate said:
Frank7 said:
Europa1 said:
Blimey. Emily Thornberry would go into meltdown: https://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/local-news/e...
The Kirby Estate, Bermondsey, is 7 or 800 metres from my house in Rotherhithe, and my elder German grandson was over during the Euros in 2016, and expressed his surprise at all the England flags draped around it, “Why do they all do that Opa?”I said that I guessed they wanted to show their support for England, didn’t they do so in Germany?
He said, “We know who we support, there’s only one country, we don’t need a dozen flags on every house, the Turks and Croatians put their flags out, but that’s okay, we expect that, and respect it.”
ks. The German flag is flown by many houses all year round and during major international football tournaments you can't move for them. On Sunday, wherever you went, more people than not, from little kids to OAPs, were dressed in team colours, or had decorated their houses/bikes/cars. Huge shows of patriotism in Germany.
V8mate said:
What a load of bks. The German flag is flown by many houses all year round and during major international football tournaments you can't move for them. On Sunday, wherever you went, more people than not, from little kids to OAPs, were dressed in team colours, or had decorated their houses/bikes/cars. Huge shows of patriotism in Germany.
Stung by this, and a tad taken aback, I emailed my son, a long time resident in Germany, who told me this.ks. The German flag is flown by many houses all year round and during major international football tournaments you can't move for them. On Sunday, wherever you went, more people than not, from little kids to OAPs, were dressed in team colours, or had decorated their houses/bikes/cars. Huge shows of patriotism in Germany.You do find blocks of apartments with a few flags, particularly when the Euros or World Cup is on, but we don’t go all pik*y, and festoon every balcony and window with flags, your grandson Lars has a flag on his car aeriel, your other grandson is only interested in girls.
Individual houses will often fly the flag, in Bavaria and the south they seem to be copying the U.S., every other house has a flagpole.
When I emailed him back, querying his use of “WE don’t go all pik*y”, he said, “I haven’t held a U.K. passport for years now, in all honesty Dad, as much as I love you, England can sink into the North Sea, I’ve no intention of ever coming back, I think that you made a ricket coming out of the E.U., but I sincerely hope that Brexit works out okay and that you all live happily ever after, by the way, we have a large black, red, and gold striped flag flying in our front yard, Komm auf Deutschland!
Frank7 said:
my elder German grandson was over during the Euros in 2016, and expressed his surprise at all the England flags draped around it, “Why do they all do that Opa?”
I said that I guessed they wanted to show their support for England, didn’t they do so in Germany?
He said, “We know who we support, there’s only one country, we don’t need a dozen flags on every house, the Turks and Croatians put their flags out, but that’s okay, we expect that, and respect it.”
What a load of absolute toshI said that I guessed they wanted to show their support for England, didn’t they do so in Germany?
He said, “We know who we support, there’s only one country, we don’t need a dozen flags on every house, the Turks and Croatians put their flags out, but that’s okay, we expect that, and respect it.”
well I visited a number of housing estates yesterday.
one "whites" only estate (I say white only- its slightly mixed where Waynetta wanted a brown baby to be like the other mum's) was a complete fluttering sea of white/red Engerland flags. It was awful.
Before we start with some stupid racist debate, I'll advise you that we (me in charge in fact) cannot house Eastern Europeans, Pakistani's, or Afro-carribean people on here, as they will be hounded from their homes within moments of arriving. I wish I was jesting.
I was discussing this with my staff this morning, about the knuckle dragging racist scum on our estates and how they have adorned their homes.
A debate started about flying the flag with pride.
I reminded them that where I live, there is not a flag to be seen, hanging 10' wide across the front of a house, nor a flag clipped to a car.
Because we're not in bred white tattoo'd scum.
Complete bliss.
one "whites" only estate (I say white only- its slightly mixed where Waynetta wanted a brown baby to be like the other mum's) was a complete fluttering sea of white/red Engerland flags. It was awful.
Before we start with some stupid racist debate, I'll advise you that we (me in charge in fact) cannot house Eastern Europeans, Pakistani's, or Afro-carribean people on here, as they will be hounded from their homes within moments of arriving. I wish I was jesting.
I was discussing this with my staff this morning, about the knuckle dragging racist scum on our estates and how they have adorned their homes.
A debate started about flying the flag with pride.
I reminded them that where I live, there is not a flag to be seen, hanging 10' wide across the front of a house, nor a flag clipped to a car.
Because we're not in bred white tattoo'd scum.
Complete bliss.
Algarve said:
There are flags everywhere here in Portugal.
Flags fly around the world. Every country likes to come together for a common cause.Unfortunately, in England, we decided that it was shameful to be proud of who we are (even though I'm a Kraut at the core, I have lived almost my entire life here and love to celebrate England and the English as much as heritage kin)
But in adopting broad, cultural shame, the only folk who still make any show of national pride are the 'don't give a f
k' element of society. So flying the English flag has (sadly and unfairly) become synonymous with 'council'. V8mate said:
Unfortunately, in England, we decided that it was shameful to be proud of who we are (even though I'm a Kraut at the core, I have lived almost my entire life here and love to celebrate England and the English as much as heritage kin)
Is that the royal we?Around where I live, which is described as "middle class as f
k" you see flags flying for special events, but then put away until the next world cup rolls around. I'm seeing a few England flags on cars, but not much else.Personally I don't see an issue with that and I'm pretty sure most non-Daily Mail readers are the same. Its only the likes of the Daily Mail who wish to confuse patriotism and pride in ones nation with jingoism and nationalism, who are trying to tell us is shameful to be English... the reality is far from it, the only people getting offended at the St Georges cross are people who are upset the ones who want to complain about people being offended about it.
As for council, they're going to be council no matter what. Even something that can quite easily be done very tastefully, like supporting your chosen team in the World Cup, is something they're going to do in the tackiest and most tasteless fashion available.
It is a very English thing that national pride is a quite thing, English don't bleat about it at every opportunity like the Americans but that makes sense. if you truly do have one of the best nations on earth, surely that is self evident and does not need to be mentioned.
captain_cynic said:
V8mate said:
Unfortunately, in England, we decided that it was shameful to be proud of who we are (even though I'm a Kraut at the core, I have lived almost my entire life here and love to celebrate England and the English as much as heritage kin)
Is that the royal we?Around where I live, which is described as "middle class as f
k" you see flags flying for special events, but then put away until the next world cup rolls around. I'm seeing a few England flags on cars, but not much else.Personally I don't see an issue with that and I'm pretty sure most non-Daily Mail readers are the same. Its only the likes of the Daily Mail who wish to confuse patriotism and pride in ones nation with jingoism and nationalism, who are trying to tell us is shameful to be English... the reality is far from it, the only people getting offended at the St Georges cross are people who are upset the ones who want to complain about people being offended about it.
But others clearly do...
austinsmirk said:
A debate started about flying the flag with pride.
I reminded them that where I live, there is not a flag to be seen, hanging 10' wide across the front of a house, nor a flag clipped to a car.
Because we're not in bred white tattoo'd scum.
Complete bliss.
I reminded them that where I live, there is not a flag to be seen, hanging 10' wide across the front of a house, nor a flag clipped to a car.
Because we're not in bred white tattoo'd scum.
Complete bliss.
actually, I think in all honesty those flags I cite were reversible.
they had "vote Ukip" on one side
"Engerland" on the other.
A flag for all occasions.
Council merely alter as they see fit. Mind you I did pass a house yesterday that still had all its Christmas stuff stuck up and on the roof.
(I do jest a little folks you know- purely for the purposes of keeping this thread on track)
they had "vote Ukip" on one side
"Engerland" on the other.
A flag for all occasions.
Council merely alter as they see fit. Mind you I did pass a house yesterday that still had all its Christmas stuff stuck up and on the roof.
(I do jest a little folks you know- purely for the purposes of keeping this thread on track)
Johnnytheboy said:
Any spoken or written use of the word "bae".
No doubt this has been covered, but needs reiterating in the strongest possible terms.
See also "hun".
See also:-No doubt this has been covered, but needs reiterating in the strongest possible terms.
See also "hun".
Babymamma & Babydadda.
This keeps popping up on Jeremy Kyle (yeah, yeah shoot me. We all have a guilty secret and I love watching Kyle
) and I've got no idea where it comes from. It's usually used by people who know each other well enough to have had sex and get pregnant, but don't know each other well enough to remember each others names so refer to each other as above.Wobbegong said:
V8mate said:
Frank7 said:
Europa1 said:
Blimey. Emily Thornberry would go into meltdown: https://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/local-news/e...
The Kirby Estate, Bermondsey, is 7 or 800 metres from my house in Rotherhithe, and my elder German grandson was over during the Euros in 2016, and expressed his surprise at all the England flags draped around it, “Why do they all do that Opa?”I said that I guessed they wanted to show their support for England, didn’t they do so in Germany?
He said, “We know who we support, there’s only one country, we don’t need a dozen flags on every house, the Turks and Croatians put their flags out, but that’s okay, we expect that, and respect it.”
ks. The German flag is flown by many houses all year round and during major international football tournaments you can't move for them. On Sunday, wherever you went, more people than not, from little kids to OAPs, were dressed in team colours, or had decorated their houses/bikes/cars. Huge shows of patriotism in Germany.Gassing Station | The Lounge | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff