
Jim Roper
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I thought it was quite mild this morning!
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Classic Clarkson Rant Looking forward to reading Jeremy Clarkson's column in the Sunday Times? You won't get a chance to now because they pulled it after the lefties sniffled. Moderately insulting to a broad range of countries it is true but what was anyone expecting in an article by Clarkson? Anyway to prove a point a web site called "The Bear" reproduced the article in full, here it is, pass it on: "Get me a rope before Mandelson wipes us all out" Jeremy Clarkson for the Sunday Times I've given the matter a great deal of thought all week, and I'm afraid I've decided that it's no good putting Peter Mandelson in a prison. I'm afraid he will have to be tied to the front of a van and driven round the country until he isn't alive any more. He announced last week that middle-class children will simply not be allowed into the country's top universities even if they have 4,000 A-levels, because all the places will be taken by Albanians and guillemots and whatever other stupid bandwagon the conniving idiot has leapt I hate Peter Mandelson. I hate his fondness for extremely pale blue jeans and I hate that preposterous moustache he used to sport in the days when he didn't bother trying to cover up his left-wing anaticism. I hate the way he quite literally lords it over us even though he's resigned in disgrace twice, and now holds an important decision-making job for which he was not elected. Mostly, though, I hate him ecause his one-man war on the bright and the witty and the successful means that half my friends now seem to be taking leave of their senses. There's talk of emigration in the air. It's everywhere I go. Parties. Work. In the supermarket. My aughter is working herself half to death to get good grades at GSCE and can't see the point because she won't be going to university, because she doesn't have a beak or flippers or a qualification in washing windscreens at the lights. She wonders, often, why we don't live in America . Then you have the chaps and chapesses who can't stand the constant raids on their wallets and their privacy. They can't understand why they are taxed at 50% on their income and then taxed again for driving into the nation's capital. They can't understand what happened to the hunt for the weapons of mass destruction. They can't understand anything. They see the Highway Wombles in those brand new 4x4s that they paid for, and they see the M4 bus lane and they see the speed cameras and the community support officers and they see the Albanians stealing their wheelbarrows and nothing can be done because it's racist. And they see Alistair Darling handing over £4,350 of their money to not sort out the banking crisis that he doesn't understand because he's a small-town solicitor, and they see the stupid war on drugs and the war on drink and the war on smoking and the war on hunting and the war on fun and the war on scientists and the obsession with the climate and the price of train fares soaring past £1,000 and the Guardian power-brokers getting uppity about one shot baboon and not uppity at all about all the dead soldiers in Afghanistan , and how they got rid of Blair only to find the lying twerp is now going to come back even more powerful than ever, and they think, "I've had enough of this. I'm off." It's a lovely idea, to get out of this stupid, Fairtrade, Brown-stained, Mandelson-skewed, equal-opportunities, multicultural, carbon-neutral, trendily left, regionally assembled, big-government, trilingual, mosque-drenched, all-the-pigs-are-equal, property-is-theft hellhole and set up shop omewhere else. But where? You can't go to France because you need to complete 17 forms in triplicate every time you want to build a greenhouse, and you can't go to Switzerland because you will be reported to your neighbours by the police and subsequently shot in the head if you don't sweep your lawn properly, and you can't go to Italy because you'll soon tire of waking up in the morning to find a horse's head in your bed because you forgot to give a man called Don a bundle of used notes for "organising" a plumber. You can't go to Australia because it's full of things that will eat you, you can't go to New Zealand because they don't accept anyone who is more than 40 and you can't go to Monte Carlo because they don't accept anyone who has less than 40 mill. And you can't go to Spain because you're not called Del and you weren't involved in the Walthamstow blag. And you can't go to Germany ... because you just can't. The Caribbean sounds tempting, but there is no work, which means that one day, whether you like it or not, you'll end up like all the other expats, with a nose like a burst beetroot, wondering if it's okay to have a small sharpener at 10 in the morning. And, as I keep explaining to my daughter, we can't go to America because if you catch a cold over there, the health system is designed in such a way that you end up without a house.. Or dead. Canada 's full of people pretending to be French, South Africa 's too risky, Russia 's worse and everywhere else is too full of snow, too full of flies or too full of people who want to cut your head off on the internet. So you can dream all you like about upping sticks and moving to a country that doesn't help itself to half of everything you earn and then spend the money it gets on bus lanes and advertisements about the dangers of salt. But wherever you go you'll wind up an alcoholic or dead or bored or in a cellar, in an orange jumpsuit, gently wetting yourself on the web. All of these things are worse than being persecuted for eating a sandwich at the wheel. I see no reason to be miserable. Yes, Britain now is worse than it's been for decades, but the lunatics who've made it so ghastly are on their way out. Soon, they will be back in Hackney with their South African nuclear-free peace polenta. And instead the show will be run by a bloke whose dad has a wallpaper shop and possibly, terrifyingly, a twerp in Belgium whose fruitless game of hunt-the-WMD has netted him £15m on the lecture circuit. So actually I do see a reason to be miserable. Which is why I think it's a good idea to tie Peter Mandelson to a van. Such an act would be cruel and barbaric and inhuman. But it would at least cheer everyone up a bit in the meantime.
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Which, because of the turnout, was only 25% of the population.
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So, is she a chronic nymphomaniac or an accute nymphomaniac?
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I don't think they were made by a camel.
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My dad, a member of the AEU, used to say. "The only reason we have majority rule(democracy) is to avoid civil war, but majority rule cannot be the best system because the majority of people are fools" The lunatics have been running the asylum for too long!
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Stalin rules NuLab OK! Don't take too much for granted. It usually only take 70,000 floating voters to decide a general election outcome. There are 900,000 people in non-productive jobs, that Brown and Blair invented jobs for, that are just like turkeys and won't be voting for Christmass.
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It's supposed to be above zero all next week.
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We used to get a young solicitor come in to deliver some of our law lectures. He related how he was in court when a north Dorset farmworker was being prosecuted for having a young heifer from behind. The main witness was a friend of the accused. Prosecuting lawyer: "And what were your first words to the accused when you saw him committing the act?" Witness: "Marnin Jarge"
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A Bridport girl was once taken into Dorchester hospital with a Mackerel, with it's gills wide open, inside a certain orifice.
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No mention of anybody 'getting acquainted'!
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The Premium Bond prize payouts have always been governed by current interest rates.
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Pennsylvania - ~Three Reported Missing After Animal Rights Activists Take "War on Leather" to Motorcycle Gang Rally.~ Johnstown, PA: Local and state police scoured the hills outside rural Johnstown, Pennsylvania, after reports of three animal rights activists going missing after attempting to protest the wearing of leather at a large motorcycle gang rally this weekend. Two others, previously reported missing, were discovered by fast food workers "duct taped inside several fast food restaurant dumpsters," according to police officials. "Something just went wrong," said a still visibly shaken organizer of the protest. "Something just went horribly, horribly, wrong." The organizer said a group of concerned animal rights activist groups, "growing tired of throwing fake blood and shouting profanities at older women wearing leather or fur coats," decided to protest the annual motorcycle club event "in a hope to show them our outrage at their wanton use of leather in their clothing and motor bike seats." "In fact," said the organizer. "Motorcycle gangs are one of the biggest abusers of wearing leather, and we decided it was high time that we let them know that we disagree with them using it... Ergo, they should stop." According to witnesses, protesters arrived at the event in a vintage 1960's era Volkswagen van and began to pelt the gang members with balloons filled with red colored water, simulating blood, and shouting "you're murderers" to passers by. This, evidently, is when the brouhaha began. "They peed on me!!!" charged one activist. "They grabbed me, said I looked like I was French, started calling me 'La Trene', and duct taped me to a tree so they could pee on me all day!" "I... I was trying to show my outrage at a man with a heavy leather jacket. And, he... he didn't even care. I called him a murderer, and all he said was, 'You can't prove that.' Next thing I know is he forced me to ride on the back of his motorcycle all day, and not left me off, because his girl friend was out of town and I was almost a woman." Still others claimed they were forced to eat hamburgers and hot dogs under duress. Those who resisted were allegedly held down while several bikers "****** on their heads." Police officials declined comments on any leads or arrests due to the ongoing nature of the investigation, however, organizers for the motorcycle club rally expressed "surprise" at the allegations. "That's preposterous," said on high ranking member of the biker organizing committee. "We were having a party, and these people showed up and were very rude to us. They threw things at us, called us names, and tried to ruin the entire event. So, what did we do? We invited them to the party! What could be more friendly than that? You know, just because we are all members of motorcycle clubs does not mean we do not care about inclusiveness. Personally, I think it shows a lack of character for them to be saying such nasty things about us after we bent over backwards to make them feel welcome." When confronted with the allegations of force feeding the activists meat, using them as ad hoc latrines, leaving them incapacitated in fast food restaurant dumpsters, and 'farting on their heads,' the organizer declined to comment in detail. "That's just our secret handshake," assured the organizer.
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I had a 2WD R4 and it went through a lot. I heard about a 4WD version but have never seen one. Mine rusted out fairly quick, probably through carrying calves in the back and the salty Weymouth air. The only thing I have against them are the sheep-burners that make them.
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As you are about as near to the Equator as Morocco, it's hardly surprising.
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It didn't last long and most of it has now melted. I had a male Teal, and discovered that my waders leak again, must have done it when I walked into some barbed wire in the dark a few nights ago.
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Yeah, we can use them but those that have them, can't find them. Very rarely that the whole of your journey will be on roads that you need them. Not sure how long tyres would last with chains on snow-free roads. I remember seeing one of the first Mini's in the 60s with snow chains on the rear wheels!
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It's just started to snow in Weymouth! I'm off out with the duck decoys while we're still allowed.
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90% of 4x4s never go off the road! If only the Renault 4 was still made(preferably by the Japs)
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But only for those on benefits!
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Don't worry! Cold weather payments are on the way, according to the TV news.
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http://www.portland-gas.com/
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I think I read somewhere that the 'Mini Ice Age', after the 'Medieval Warm Period', lasted until about 1930.
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I suppose it's all down to global warming. The Gulf Stream is slowing down. We're aahhll doooooomed!
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If you know where this is, get round there and suggest they have there flat roof checked out by a surveyor for water penetration. The way the joist positions are grinning through along one side, I would say the boarding under the metal flat is sagging due to dampness. http://news.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/hi/newsbeat...000/7961224.stm