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Post by auntieannie on Oct 6, 2016 1:26:01 GMT 2
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Post by auntieannie on Oct 6, 2016 19:21:05 GMT 2
an odd one from a couple days ago (I forgot):
A British man telling a foreigner he envies them for "having somewhere to go to" as the foreigner is about to leave the UK.
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Post by Netsuke on Oct 7, 2016 9:35:20 GMT 2
A "thing" on my dress and it was moving! I was sitting in the car at the time. It was a caterpillar. I used a paper napkin to remove it and toss it out the window.
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Post by auntieannie on Oct 7, 2016 10:10:06 GMT 2
oops..poor caterpillar. it probably wished its wings were ready to sprout when you threw it out the window.
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Post by slowcoach on Oct 7, 2016 13:14:01 GMT 2
an odd one from a couple days ago (I forgot): A British man telling a foreigner he envies them for "having somewhere to go to" as the foreigner is about to leave the UK. *Spits out coffee*
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Post by Scrubb on Oct 7, 2016 18:56:19 GMT 2
Here's an unpleasantly odd thing I'm seeing: SNOW IN EARLY OCTOBER. Grrrrrrrrr. They had 30 cm while I was en route from Switzerland back home!
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Post by slowcoach on Oct 7, 2016 20:04:30 GMT 2
^^ Coals, Newcastle.
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Post by auntieannie on Oct 7, 2016 21:45:16 GMT 2
sorry for the coffee, slow.
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Post by tzarine on Oct 10, 2016 2:38:09 GMT 2
"I Am My White Ancestors"
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Post by Netsuke on Oct 11, 2016 8:56:00 GMT 2
A pair of hideous green trousers on a man. When I commented on the colour he said they cost him $2.45. I asked if he bought them in the 1970's. He said no, about 5 months ago but it cost him $15.00 to have them altered. He couldn't get over how much they cost compared to the alteration price! Not only was the colour hideous, the style was hideous as well. They looked a bit like this - That man done his money.
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Post by Baz Faz on Oct 13, 2016 23:54:54 GMT 2
The king of Thailand died today. The heir apparent is his son, the crown prince. To call him a playboy is misunderstanding his condition. He is hopeless, self indulgent, borderline mad. For instance, he created his poodle an air vice marshall. The best hope for Thailand is if the crown prince takes a flight in a plane piloted by his pet dog.
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Post by auntieannie on Oct 14, 2016 0:13:13 GMT 2
baz, he's 60 something. apparently, he's asked for time to prepare to his new role.
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Post by tzarine on Oct 16, 2016 3:18:31 GMT 2
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Post by Baz Faz on Oct 16, 2016 13:10:15 GMT 2
baz, he's 60 something. apparently, he's asked for time to prepare to his new role. Annie, he is mad. His air vice marshall poodle died last year. To make up for the loss he created his latest girlfriend a lieutenant colonel in the Thai army.
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Post by auntieannie on Oct 16, 2016 13:46:22 GMT 2
fabulous. just what the world needs.
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Post by Baz Faz on Oct 18, 2016 16:15:34 GMT 2
Sign in the newsagent when I went to get the morning paper: Spend £1 and get woman for 24p.
No comment from me.
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Post by Baz Faz on Oct 22, 2016 10:09:50 GMT 2
I can't decide whether Alan Bennett is a grumpy old man (nothing good has happened in England since 1980) or a grand old English eccentric or a poseur. He has a bath in the dark to save electricity. And his biggest regret in life (he is now 82) is that he has never kept a donkey.
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Post by auntieannie on Oct 23, 2016 16:35:29 GMT 2
Last night, two bums trying to scam me out of my phone. She on the bench, him on the other side of the small street. She waits for me to walk past her, then asks politely if I would let her use my phone as she's trying to reach her brother, and she will let me hold onto a tightly folded banknote (or two) that she shows me whilst she calls. probably to let me think this is a proof of her good intentions to return the phone. or something.
sorry, silly people, this doesn't work with me.
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Post by Baz Faz on Oct 27, 2016 18:38:22 GMT 2
Last year President Hollande's poll rating was 12% - the lowest ever.
But... today I saw a poll which said only 4% - yes, 4% - of respondents thought he was a good president of France. And still he wants to run for reelection next year.
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Post by Baz Faz on Nov 3, 2016 14:32:20 GMT 2
Boris Johnson has said that Brexit will be "a Titanic success".
The Titanic struck an iceberg and sank.
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Post by rikita on Nov 3, 2016 14:39:22 GMT 2
recently i saw something odd and tried to keep it in mind for this thread. unfortunately i still gotta work on that "keeping in mind" thing ...
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Post by Voy on Nov 3, 2016 15:22:55 GMT 2
LOLOLOLLL^
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Post by Voy on Nov 6, 2016 0:55:52 GMT 2
Instead of the standard "I brake for animals" bumper sticker, a car in front of me this afternoon had one that said," I brake for interesting cloud formations "!
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Post by rikita on Nov 6, 2016 1:52:48 GMT 2
apparently someone lost their dog, whose name was dory - they put up one of those "lost pet" posters, with the headline "find dory!"
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Post by Netsuke on Nov 6, 2016 2:29:32 GMT 2
Thanks for that Tzarine, I've only gone and clicked on your link. Some things are better unseen. If that is what Thailand is getting, then heaven help that country. He looks more like a St. Kilda raver or a Fitzroy bohemian than a crown prince. And they still have Lèse majesté!
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Post by Baz Faz on Nov 6, 2016 11:22:54 GMT 2
Netsuke, Thailand certainly still has lese majesté. It is quite bizarre. Mrs Faz and I went in to our airline office in Bangkok (some nonsense about reconfirming flights) where an altercation was going on. Two men of Middle Eastern appearance were complaining loudly. They had missed their flight, it seemed, though we never found out why. They were being offered money presumably for a hotel for the night. One of them looked at the baht notes he had been given and threw them on the floor in disgust. The airline employee was shocked. "Those banknotes have the king on them. You have insulted His Majesty. I am calling the police." The two men fled (without the money).
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Post by Netsuke on Nov 6, 2016 22:34:33 GMT 2
Baz, I was in Thailand in 2011. Met up with a friend from a well known travel website, his wife called her brother who offered himself as a guide. (Keep it in the family!) Was actually very good, he showed me things most tourists don't get to see. He had great respect for the king and at that time the prince was in the news for some outlandish thing. He admired the king's daughter but couldn't quite bring himself to say anything non-flattering about the prince. He did however admit the princess would make a very good ruler. Lèse majesté indeed!
One thing used to bother me (well not bother but make me wonder) - if the king of Thailand was so well loved by his subjects, why didn't he get rid of the lèse majesté law?
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Post by Baz Faz on Nov 7, 2016 18:35:00 GMT 2
I don't know where else to post it but any Canadian, American or person who has been there or in Scandinavia will think it odd. I have just seen a headline: Travel chaos as - wait for it - two inches of snow falls.
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Post by auntieannie on Nov 7, 2016 23:33:42 GMT 2
where was that, Baz?
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Post by Baz Faz on Nov 8, 2016 0:44:48 GMT 2
I don't know, Annie. Scotland I guess. Or in the journalist's imagination.
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