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Aye, they don't even bother ringing the bell here. I've caught the fucker in the act as well. Shameless, I tell you, utterly shameless!

Will you be battling for the Bouquet with the Bridesmaid's? Course not. I might bat for the other team but I'm still shit-scared of commitment like any normal bloke.

The thrust of your original post notwithstanding, what's the solution, anyway? (That's a question to the room, not just to Fop.) Is it even possible to remember in the way you describe once the first-hand witnesses have all died out? Or are we simply teaching it all wrong?

Mate of mine from back home's getting hitched here in the big smoke, so that'll be basically the whole weekend taken up with social frolicking, starting from tonight. I'll be thinking of the plight of our fallen WWI soldiers throughout, though.

Then "no" is the answer (as it would have been for my suggestion, as it happens ). Sounds interesting though, my PC speakers are pitifully weedy.

A propos of nothing, I'd love Badoer to get a last shot at a proper drive, though I assume his time has been and gone now. My heart's still broken after the 1999 European. Gotta love Minardi.

Knowing the links you normally post, I'm scared to click. Is it a deluxe pube-trimmer?

So who here shaves their bollocks?

There's a camp-as-tits German comedian who does an excellent one of those for Nicole's "Ein bisschen Frieden". Just me then...?

Monday was my first day off work sick since I started this job about 18 months ago. Did me the world of good, too. I must do it more often.

Happy birthday to ya!

Fucking hell Davey, you're getting tardy in your old age. That was posted hours ago. You been practicing your vooooooowels???? Practising his bowel control more like. Poor lad's getting on a bit.

No and yes respectively. Nobody likes getting pubes stuck between their teeth, after all.

Beirut - The Flying Club Cup

Bruce Springsteen - Magic I feel so manly.

We lost on penalties and took our ball away in a strop?

Could be interesting. Could be horrendous!

For is it not written in the BIBLE, "Thou shalt put up a couple of bits of tinsel, and not a moment before the first of Advent, thou dumb consumerist twonk"

I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue on Radio 4. 50th series and still as filthy as ever.

What r they gong to do about BARTON ...what?

Gawd. This is like that fire in a plastics factory (or similar) near London City Airport a while back. There's nothing wrong with vigilance, but people can be proper daft these days.

Only because everything you say comes with that trademark Fop taint of "I know all and everybody else is inherently flawed". That might not be your intention, but it's certainly how it reads, particularly when you provide no actual discussion of exactly how "people" - whoever "people" may be, in all their pigeonholable, homogeneous glory - are going about being so staggeringly ignorant. Or, to put it another way: I don't believe anyone who's posted in this thread is unaware of the specifics of what went on in WWI, nor do I think they consider the rememberance process as mere lip service to some dates, names and numbers. And I'm pretty bemused that you seem to think otherwise. So again, tell me, what do you do that makes you so much better informed than the rest of us? Maybe we can learn from your example.

OK, I bite. How? And are you talking about the lessons of history in a broader sense, or the specific horrors of (e.g.) trench life in WWI? You seem to be addressing both so far. This is now an insult me thread (for whatever reason), I don't think discourse on that has any place here. Huh?

OK, I bite. How? And are you talking about the lessons of history in a broader sense, or the specific horrors of (e.g.) trench life in WWI? You seem to be addressing both so far.

Fop is the only one who feels the PAIN