169 replies to this topic

[Millman]

Dress up at 'your' expense? I pay an absolute fortune in tax to HM Government for the pleasure of dressing up in a uniform my own pocket paid for...

Good.

Pervert.

[WearyRhino]

Dress up at 'your' expense? I pay an absolute fortune in tax to HM Government for the pleasure of dressing up in a uniform my own pocket paid for...

French Maid or Nurse?

[Martyn Sadler]

I think you'd have to be a bit odd to seriously argue that France isn't a sensible, free and open country.

I'd like to think that I'm not a bit odd, but there are degrees of being "sensible, free and open". Of course I accept that France is at the same end of the spectrum as us.

[Martyn Sadler]

Pedantry again, but the "Founding Fathers" had nothing whatsoever to do with the 22nd amendment to the US constitution.

You can be as pedantic as you like, as long as you're correct, which of course in this case you are, although most previous presidents behaved as though the 22nd amendment had always been in place.

[GeordieSaint]

French Maid or Nurse?

Nurse at the weekend!

[Northern Sol]

I note that further down the page we find that a red double-deck bus is more than twice as popular with visitors than the head of the spongers!!

And?

[Northern Sol]

No doubt NS will argue that all tourists think the queen drives buses and the Duke of Edinburgh (Greek Branch) is conductor.

No doubt you think a smart-###### comment overrides actual evidence.

[JohnM]

And men. Sorry to digress but this is a pet thing of mine. Women got the vote for the first time in 1918 and at the same time, and now almost forgotten, the property owning restrictions on men voting were largely lifted which gave men universal suffrage, or something close to it, for the first time.

I doubt many of my male ancestors had a vote before 1918.

Universal suffrage in local elections in Northern Ireland only came in in 1973 with the abolition of the householder qualification. This restriction was one of the reasons for "the troubles"

Women in France got the vote in 1944

Women in Switzerland got the vote between 1971 and 1990

[Aristotle]

Incidentally, Adolf'n'Eva married on the 29th of April too.

That'll be his wedding uniform - sorry, outfit - sorted then...

[Bob8]

The wedding is now on most of the gossip mag covers here in the USA.