The cricket Test

[Captain Oates 911]

That's funnier than the WW2 jets. +1

roping all dopes and whupping all bums

and electrolysing the moustache on Orly Taitz

[Peikko 1,575]

Refuting your ridiculous inventions is not a personal attack. Disagreeing with you is not a personal attack. A personal attack is something like 'you are a curtain twitcher'. Your reply above is yet more 'interpretation' rather than quote

If you want to quote me then quote me exactly and in full and in context - but don't interpret me with wild stuff delivered with malicious spin

My last 2 places of residence in England were Darwen in Lancashire and Bradford in Yorkshire - I think they are the highest and the next highest concentrations of immigrants in England and not the village green England you seem to be describing. Crowded supermarkets there have many occasions where NO WOMAN is not wearing a Burka including the check out staff

I have no problem with that and many of them are charming - but their feel for English heritage is - not much - and that is quite understandable

That is my qualification for being close to the subject - what is yours - watching Imran Khan play cricket on telly ?

No facts then? Why am I not surprised.

[Ban Hammer 13,282]

I apologize if it sounded like a personal attack. It wasn't meant to be one. It's just that sometimes MC you sound so uptight.

This used to work for me... a fifth of tequila and then some hot sweaty and wild unprotected sex with a complete stranger(s) in a seedy hotel room.

are you suggesting mc meet you for drinks and a hotel room?

[Gary and Alla 3,694]

are you suggesting mc meet you for drinks and a hotel room?

OMG How did I miss this thread? It is TOO funny! Must have been the initial refernece to "cricket"

Edited May 1, 2011 by Gary and Alla

[Gary and Alla 3,694]

Nope I come from the Danelaw in the County of Yorkshire. The AVRO factory was near what is now Leeds airport, 10 miles north west of Leeds and I was born 2 miles north of that in Otley, Wharfedale. As was the famous cabinet maker Chippendale. No serial killer has ever been born in Otley.

A lot of names, just remember, in England they are all pronounced "grove-ner" so it is hard to tell for Brits where exactly they are talking about.

[Captain Oates 911]

A lot of names, just remember, in England they are all pronounced "grove-ner" so it is hard to tell for Brits where exactly they are talking about.

and cockburn's port is pronounced co-burn - it is important to know that

[Trompe le Monde 1,107]

and cockburn's port is pronounced co-burn - it is important to know that

I initially struggled with Loughborough but I have now mastered it

[Gary and Alla 3,694]

I initially struggled with Loughborough but I have now mastered it

Try to pronounce only the vowels.

[Trompe le Monde 1,107]

Well I could but that would be incorrect

[Usui Takumi 1,562]

Well I could but that would be incorrect

if i were to spell it out phonetically i'd have to say luff-bura. Though occasionally I've heard people throw an r on the end.

[Peikko 1,575]

if i were to spell it out phonetically i'd have to say luff-bura. Though occasionally I've heard people throw an r on the end.

You'd be wrong, there are only two syllables in Loughborough.

[Bad_Daddy 2,209]

You'd be wrong, there are only two syllables in Loughborough.

I'm counting three syllables. Lough = 1, bor = 2, and rough = 3

[Usui Takumi 1,562]

You'd be wrong, there are only two syllables in Loughborough.

Some people barely say the "u" in Bura if thats what you mean.

[Usui Takumi 1,562]

I'm counting three syllables. Lough = 1, bor = 2, and rough = 3

She's hinting that some people turn the borough into "bra"

[Gary and Alla 3,694]

She's hinting that some people turn the borough into "bra"

ESL students in the first two levels, for example.