Bung a Bob for a Big Ben Bong

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  • If it were I, I'd be printing up posters that read "Just wait" from one direction and "I told you so" from the other (flipped same-page orientation). Put up "Just wait" on the relevant day, and then every time a fresh hell appears, flip that sucker.
  • I'm going to collect Brexshit 50ps and hang on to them until I've got lots (thus keeping them out of circulation) Then I shall donate them to an organisation that helps EU citizens getting residency here.
  • Pendragon wrote: »
    I am planning to serve something Polish.

    Eating a pastel de nata to own the conservatives.

  • Enjoy it while you can. Before the Lincolnshire Sprout Curtain cuts us off from the free world.
  • O Deep Joy!

    The Blackshorts have triumphed! Lincolnshire given over to Sprouts, Wiltshire (IIRC) to Turnips...etc. etc.

    And every True Englishman™ to be provided with a Bicycle!

    HAIL SPODE!

    (with due acknowledgement to P G Wodehouse)
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    ... every True Englishman™ to be provided with a Bicycle!
    And how are the rest of us supposed to get around? Roller skates? :mrgreen:
  • Quidditch brooms? ;)
  • BoogieBoogie Shipmate
    edited January 2020
    I will be maintaining complete ostrich mode that day - no radio, no TV, no online news.

    :confounded: :cry:
  • MiffyMiffy Shipmate
    Piglet wrote: »
    ... every True Englishman™ to be provided with a Bicycle!
    And how are the rest of us supposed to get around? Roller skates? :mrgreen:

    I shall draw on my ancestry from North of the Border and whiz round the Home Counties on a self-propelling Haggis!

  • Time to hunt The Haggis, just in time for Burns Night.
  • MiffyMiffy Shipmate
    Time to hunt The Haggis, just in time for Burns Night.

    I’ve my haggis whistle bought on our trip through the West Highland Way. It should work a treat!
  • Piglet wrote: »
    ... every True Englishman™ to be provided with a Bicycle!
    And how are the rest of us supposed to get around? Roller skates? :mrgreen:

    Everyone who is not a True Englishman (c) will be deported! Exceptions may be made for True Englishwomen.

  • Everyone who is not a True Englishman (c) will be deported! Exceptions may be made for True Englishwomen.

    And unto how many generations wilt our Esteemed Leader be checking?
  • Yea, even unto the third and fourth generations of them that hate Him!

    HAIL SPODEBORIS!
  • HugalHugal Shipmate
    He will be busy then
  • Well, until He gets bored...
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    Piglet wrote: »
    ... every True Englishman™ to be provided with a Bicycle!
    And how are the rest of us supposed to get around? Roller skates? :mrgreen:

    Everyone who is not a True Englishman (c) will be deported! Exceptions may be made for True Englishwomen.
    I'm Scottish - sorry about that. :smiley:
  • Piglet wrote: »
    sorry about that. :smiley:
    Suggests Canadian influence... :tongue:
  • MiffyMiffy Shipmate
    Piglet wrote: »
    Piglet wrote: »
    ... every True Englishman™ to be provided with a Bicycle!
    And how are the rest of us supposed to get around? Roller skates? :mrgreen:

    Everyone who is not a True Englishman (c) will be deported! Exceptions may be made for True Englishwomen.
    I'm Scottish - sorry about that. :smiley:

    I’ll definitely have to call on my Scottish ancestry then...
  • Piglet wrote: »
    Piglet wrote: »
    ... every True Englishman™ to be provided with a Bicycle!
    And how are the rest of us supposed to get around? Roller skates? :mrgreen:

    Everyone who is not a True Englishman (c) will be deported! Exceptions may be made for True Englishwomen.
    I'm Scottish - sorry about that. :smiley:

    That's you gone then. Will we be allowed to talk to you after Brexit?
  • No. The Mad Mophead will NOT allow any fraternising with the non-English enemy.

    The border walls will be manned day and night to prevent such unspeakable behaviour.

    ION, I now have a nice big EU flag for the Episcopal Ark, and a small 'IN' sticker (with the stars) for the Chariot.

    If I get hauled away to jail, will some kind person send me CAKE (with a file hidden therein)?
  • la vie en rougela vie en rouge Circus Host, 8th Day Host
    edited January 2020
    In honour of Europe and like the good French person I am, I will send you oranges.

    (I have no idea why, but the French always talk about taking oranges to the hospitalised and incarcerated)

    ETA this could be like the Scarlet Pimpernel in reverse :smile:
  • Many years back now, I visited an inmate who worked in the prison kitchen, and who invariably gave me an orange to smuggle out.
  • What was concealed in the orange, I wonder?
  • Generosity.
  • HugalHugal Shipmate
    In honour of Europe and like the good French person I am, I will send you oranges.

    (I have no idea why, but the French always talk about taking oranges to the hospitalised and incarcerated)

    ETA this could be like the Scarlet Pimpernel in reverse :smile:

    What is the French for Sir Percy’s favourite was phrase “sink me”
  • 'Coule moi', according to Mr Go Ogle, so it must be right.

    Oranges would be welcome, even though they remind me of Tr*mp.
    :grimace:

    BTW, the traditional fruit gift for those in hospital in the UK was a bunch of grapes, though I can't think why. Easy to share around, perhaps?
  • I always thought it was because they were easy to eat. With oranges there's all that messy peeling.
  • Because you can grow them in a greenhouse fairly easily?
  • Because you can grow them in a greenhouse fairly easily?

    This is England. Simpler to buy them in a shop!
    I always thought it was because they were easy to eat. With oranges there's all that messy peeling.

    But Mr Tesco's Corner Shop sells orangey things (clementines, and others) which are very easy to peel. I know - I've just eaten one.

    True, peel remains, but the ease with which it can be removed from the fruit means that my daily intake of whatever vitamins the Easy-Peeler contains is much increased!
  • Yes, but the books I read (hundreds of years ago) always seem to feature grapes being taken from the hothouse--the local shop not being likely to stock such out-of-season exotica in those days. I imagine the habit has simply hung on till today.
  • Bishops FingerBishops Finger Shipmate
    edited January 2020
    Yes, that's true. Shades of Jane Austen et al...

    A throwback to the Good Old Days when Good English Hothouse Grapes were freely available to the Nobility, the hothouses being kept hot by means of coal, dug from the ground by the peasants.
    :grimace:

    Well, maybe The Mad Mophead will turn the whole of some sunny county over to the growing of grapes, whilst raping the whole of another county for coal (if we still have any?).
  • HugalHugal Shipmate
    The grapes thing always puzzled me. They contain seeds (seedless grapes are relatively new). Oranges do to. Surely a risk
  • The Easy-Peelers don't have pips, but yes, grapes certainly used to! Certainly a choking risk there.
  • Re giving oranges:

    To help ward off scurvy? (Originally.) IIRC, citrus fruit were crucial for the health and survival of sailors, back in the day. Otherwise, they developed rickets, due to lack of vitamin C.
  • BF--
    ION, I now have a nice big EU flag for the Episcopal Ark, and a small 'IN' sticker (with the stars) for the Chariot.

    If I get hauled away to jail, will some kind person send me CAKE (with a file hidden therein)?

    a) What is an IN sticker, please?

    b) What form of file?

    Wood file, metal file, ceramic/glass file, manila folder, MP3, ACE, .bak, CAB, DDZ, .egg, (...) CWK, .doc, .docx, .dotx, ELF...???

    ;)



  • How do you grow a seedless orange or seedless grapes if there's no seeds to grow them from?
  • Cuttings.

    Which is what I'm getting increasingly tempted to do to this thread.
  • HugalHugal Shipmate
    As Doc Tor is getting frustrated I will bring it back to the op. Has anyone else seen any other schemes to try and celebrate leaving
  • I expect that most events will be fairly low key and privately organised. A quick google shows nothing happening in our area.

    Big organisations, such as councils, will either be
    a) in mourning (probably including most NHS trusts)
    or
    b) studiously ignoring it as it's such a divisive issue.

    The local council have confirmed that the civic clock isn't going to chime 11 for Brexit, it's switched off every night before then, and despite a request from the Tories, the Labour Powers That Be aren't changing that.

  • I believe there is a movement for people to get together to play "Ode to Joy", the EU "anthem", and also a march https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/top-stories/let-them-mock-our-pro-eu-procession-we-just-want-to-say-goodbye-1-6476418[url="http://"][/url]
    I seem to be failing to make proper links. Sorry!
  • Golden Key wrote: »
    BF--
    ION, I now have a nice big EU flag for the Episcopal Ark, and a small 'IN' sticker (with the stars) for the Chariot.

    If I get hauled away to jail, will some kind person send me CAKE (with a file hidden therein)?

    a) What is an IN sticker, please?

    b) What form of file?

    Wood file, metal file, ceramic/glass file, manila folder, MP3, ACE, .bak, CAB, DDZ, .egg, (...) CWK, .doc, .docx, .dotx, ELF...???

    ;)



    Just a quick answer, before Doc Tor gets cutting:

    a) The sticker is the EU flag (circle of stars) with the word 'iN' in the centre. The meaning is quite clear, I hope.

    b) A metal file, please, prison bars for the cutting of.
    ION, nothing planned for our neck of the woods AFAIK, though our three Tory MPs will no doubt be raising a glass, and chanting 'Hail Boris!' ad nauseam, toadies and lickspittles that they are.
    :grimace:

  • Trailer on BBC News the other night, announcing that reporters around the country will be covering ocal Brexit events on the 31st. So the Beeb. must know something the rest of us don't - or they're making a gesture to appease the Tories.
  • Bishops FingerBishops Finger Shipmate
    edited January 2020
    O I daresay there may be some local events, but I doubt if they'll be worth reporting. Two people carousing in a phone box... :grimace:

    Mind you, a 'Mum' from not far from me is behind the Bong campaign. She's (IMHO) as daft as Bonkers Boris and his Brownnosing Brexiteers...
    https://kentonline.co.uk/medway/news/what-better-way-to-celebrate-our-golden-moment-220641/

    She clearly lives in the same alternative reality as BB and his BBs.
  • Farage is planning a party in Parliament Square on the 31st. I saw a report that it will include comedians, very likely.
  • These people always talk about unifying people. How will bongs do that?
  • Farage is planning a party in Parliament Square on the 31st. I saw a report that it will include comedians, very likely.

    It might be Black Comedy, were it not that black comedians would be rather...umm...unwelcome, shall we say?

  • It's interesting that most comedians are left wing, although there are a few right wing ones. I wonder who they've got lined up. Jim Davidson, star of "Boobs in the Wood"?
  • Possibly that King of Annoying Prats, Jeremy Clarkson, who thinks he's funny?
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