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#161 Millman

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Posted 24 November 2010 - 04:56 PM

QUOTE (GeordieSaint @ Nov 24 2010, 04:50 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
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... biggrin.gif

Good.

Pervert.

#162 WearyRhino

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Posted 24 November 2010 - 04:56 PM

QUOTE (GeordieSaint @ Nov 24 2010, 04:50 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
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... biggrin.gif


French Maid or Nurse? ph34r.gif

#163 Martyn Sadler

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Posted 24 November 2010 - 04:59 PM

QUOTE (Steve May @ Nov 24 2010, 06:04 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
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.

#164 Martyn Sadler

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Posted 24 November 2010 - 05:00 PM

QUOTE (Steve May @ Nov 24 2010, 06:07 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
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.

#165 GeordieSaint

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Posted 24 November 2010 - 06:05 PM

QUOTE (WearyRhino @ Nov 24 2010, 04:56 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
French Maid or Nurse? ph34r.gif


Nurse at the weekend! biggrin.gif

#166 Northern Sol

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Posted 24 November 2010 - 07:37 PM

QUOTE (bigred @ Nov 24 2010, 03:24 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
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?

#167 Northern Sol

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Posted 24 November 2010 - 07:38 PM

QUOTE (WearyRhino @ Nov 24 2010, 03:38 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
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.

#168 JohnM

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Posted 24 November 2010 - 11:10 PM

QUOTE (Steve May @ Nov 24 2010, 01:37 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
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

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Posted 01 December 2010 - 07:43 PM

QUOTE (Futtocks @ Nov 23 2010, 01:23 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Incidentally, Adolf'n'Eva married on the 29th of April too.

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

#170 Bob8

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Posted 01 December 2010 - 08:02 PM

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