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corydoras Member

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I haven't even got a passport.

My British one ran out 25 years ago and I don't want one with those stars on.

 

Which means that you don't HAVE to travel abroad. Those of us whose lifestyle or work takes us into the Eurozone will undoubtably have different views.

 

The Swiss aren't in, are they?

If they do go in then we'll get all that business perhaps, provided we stay out.

 

I don't see what that has do do with the price of tea in China.

 

The EU is all about big brother socialism. The Soviets went through 70 years of misery while they experimented with it.

NO THANKS!!!!

 

I'm sorry but I just do not agree.

 

My ancestry goes back to Germany not France, thank the Lord.

 

But Germany is in the Euro.

:)

Joining the Euro will not make us any less British. Do you think that suddenly the French are 'less French' or that Germans are less German than they were pre-Euro? :confused:

 

Do you think that we will lose some 'British way of life' that never really existed at least not since the 1950's just because we call the round thing in your pocket a Euro and not a pound? :confused:

 

This is the 21st century, get with the beat! :P

The problem isn't what people don't know, it's what they know that just ain't so.
Vaut mieux ne rien dire et passer pour un con que de parler et prouver que t'en est un!
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corydoras Member

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Jim Roper:

Jim Roper:

Any day now. Like Decimilisation, another bloody con.

So you 'can' remember that far back!!

 

Everything doubled in price in a couple of years didn't it?

I can remember it as wel, and it was inflationary. Again this was not the fault of the new currency per se, but caused by greedy retailers and wholesalers rounding everything up and whacking on 5%-10% to boot.

The problem isn't what people don't know, it's what they know that just ain't so.
Vaut mieux ne rien dire et passer pour un con que de parler et prouver que t'en est un!
Mi, ch’fais toudis à m’mote

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little onions:

This is going to get nasty, isn't it? :(

Why does it have to bee nasty? Joining the Euro is something the UK is going to have to do at some time. IMHO if you disagree with that then you are just burying your head in the sand. We all complain about living in 'rip-off Britain' and yet we cannot grasp this opportunity because 'we don't like change'. Nobody likes change but things change from time to time. The time has come for us to adopt the Euro and turn the change more to our advantage.

The problem isn't what people don't know, it's what they know that just ain't so.
Vaut mieux ne rien dire et passer pour un con que de parler et prouver que t'en est un!
Mi, ch’fais toudis à m’mote

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chesters1:

he has to back the frogs :P his wife tells him to :D

the word "rosbif" is a derogatory french word for the english a bit like the word frog we use for them its all based on dietry consumption :)

Actually Chesters she's an ex wife and I never was very good at taking instructions from her (hence the ex bit )

 

You are spot on about the 'rosbif' bit. Just like me calling a Frog a frog, nothing to get upset about. Most French folks get confused about us calling them Frogs though, because most French (at least most of the ones I know and I know a few) have never even tasted frogs legs.

The problem isn't what people don't know, it's what they know that just ain't so.
Vaut mieux ne rien dire et passer pour un con que de parler et prouver que t'en est un!
Mi, ch’fais toudis à m’mote

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(at least most of the ones I know and I know a few) have never even tasted frogs legs.

 

I tried them once at a French Army stand at an international fair held in Berlin. I found them quite........unremarkable!

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Leon Roskilly:

Leon Roskilly:

he has to back the frogs :P his wife tells him to :D

the word "rosbif" is a derogatory french word for the english a bit like the word frog we use for them its all based on dietry consumption :)

It's gone on long enough now.

 

Wessex should tell the so called 'United' Kingdom where to shove it.

 

Bloody beuracrats in Westminster, what do they know about life outside of London.

 

Bring back the groat, and bushels and chains, they all used to mean something!

 

And what idiot believed that the economy of the North Riding of Yorkshire and the ancient kingdom of Cornwall had anything in common?

 

And what a mess the so called 'Union' flag is!!

 

Bloody bits of real flags, thats all. Stitched together by some committee.

 

Thank god for the River Medway. At least that keeps Kentish Men and the Men of Kent apart!!

 

At least the frogs have the dignity of being citizens of their country.

 

Us, now we are merely subjects of the crown.

 

But no one would listen to me when I pointed out where we were heading, back in ..... Oh! I've forgotten. So long ago!

 

Tight Lines - leon

 

Tight Lines - leon

Well said that man!

The problem isn't what people don't know, it's what they know that just ain't so.
Vaut mieux ne rien dire et passer pour un con que de parler et prouver que t'en est un!
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(at least most of the ones I know and I know a few) have never even tasted frogs legs.

 

I tried them once at a French Army stand at an international fair held in Berlin. I found them quite........unremarkable!

I have never tried them myself. Snails are different, I love them to death.

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Vaut mieux ne rien dire et passer pour un con que de parler et prouver que t'en est un!
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Yep.....Snails in Garlic Butter. Yum! Accordingly to Hugh Fernley Whatisname out own common garden snails are equally as good to eat. You have to purge them for a while to get rid of all the unpleasant things they eat before cooking 'em. I keep promising myself to try this one day.

Paul

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Embrace your fellow Frenchman, after all most of us originate from Normandy anyway!!!!

Funny you know, I watched a program on BBC2 a couple of nights back, and it seems we all originated in Africa, started out as black skinned, then as we moved out of Africa and India, through Iran and Iraq, across the top of the Med. and finally into europe our skin colour evolved. It seems that in about 20,000 years time there will be no white australians they will all be black!

 

"G'day Cobber! Nice tan you've got there!"

 

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