For The Bloody Last Time

Diamond Geezer

Diamond Geezer

Gone But Not Forgotten
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1. Start at Manchester Airport.
2. Catch flight from Manchester to London Heathrow Airport.
3. Catch flight from London Heathrow to Dallas Fort Worth Airport.
4. Hire car at Dallas Fort Worth Airport.
5. Start going toward the "Airport Exit" on "International Parkway South" - follow for 0.2 miles.
6. Bear left onto the highway toward "Terminal East Parking" - follow for 0.3 miles
7. Bear left onto "International Parkway North" toward "North Airport Exit" - follow for 2.9 miles
8. Take the "Highway 114 west" exit toward "Fort Worth" - follow for 29.2 miles
9. Then continue on "US 287 north" - follow for 91.1 miles
10."US 287 north" becomes "Interstate-44 east" - follow for 0.7 miles
11. Take left fork onto "US-287 north" toward "Vernon" - follow for 104.0 miles
12."US 287 north" becomes "Avenue F (US-287)" - follow for 2.8 miles
13. Continue to follow "US 287 north" - follow for 104.9 miles
14. Take left ramp onto "Interstate 40 west" toward "Dumas" - follow for 7.8 miles
15. Take "Exit 70" onto "US 60 east" toward "Dumas" - follow for 0.5 miles
16. Take the "Buchanan Street" exit toward "Dumas/Pampa" - follow for 1.7 miles
17. Turn right onto "Old Route 66 (Interstate 40)" - follow for 0.1 miles






























18. Right now that's the way to Amarillo OK. Now for Christ's sake please stop singing it in the shops and pubs
 
This fella is the next fad !

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I don't see how my correct use of the word 'Scottish' equates to your 'crazy Frog' to describe a Frenchman, Mr. Foreverpickinguponothers...











... don't argue with me on this, or it's Lidl's sherry next time! :o
 
Originally posted by krizon@May 14 2005, 11:32 AM
I don't see how my correct use of the word 'Scottish' equates to your 'crazy Frog' to describe a Frenchman, Mr. Foreverpickinguponothers...











... don't argue with me on this, or it's Lidl's sherry next time! :o
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Nothing wrong with using the word 'Scottish', krizon. It was the stereotypical association with meanness which was objectionable.
 
Get your SOH back, Maurice, before too long. I'm taking Ardross to mock-task because he's politically correct about everything, but has implied that a Frenchman is both 'crazy' and a 'Frog' - not because I find it especially objectionable, being an insensitive, arrogant English person, but because he'd have ambushed someone like Merlin for using it. As for the Scots, I speak as I find from one lengthy liaison which proved the old adage pretty darn correct.


(Just remember, it was you who once insensitively suggested I be used as a bouncy castle, which was supposed to be hysterically funny.)









Which it was.
 
That was just banter, the type I would only ever use with someone I felt could take it the way it was intended.

I wouldn't have remarked on the Scottish comment if I wasn't acutely aware of the stooshie caused elsewhere by stereotyping nationalities.
 
Is there a difference between stereotyping: the Americans think all the English are lah-di-dah toffs or gorblimeymate Cockernees, the English think the Welsh are all sheepshagging rustics (and God knows we've done that old chestnut to a crisp on here), versus using a racially derogatory term such as 'frog'? (No, no, Ardross, I'm not having a pop at you here, just interested in this now that
it's going on rather longer than intended.) I don't think the old stereotype of Scotsmen as tightwads (which is usually set in a joking situation) is quite as offensive as Arabs being called ragheads or Jews kikes, do you?
 
Look, I realise that coming from Brum you have an inferiority complex - that's fine though my dear, you have to learn to live with it! And people who don't live in Brum aren't all toffs, you know.... ;) :lol:
 
Originally posted by krizon@May 16 2005, 02:17 AM
Is there a difference between stereotyping: the Americans think all the English are lah-di-dah toffs or gorblimeymate Cockernees, the English think the Welsh are all sheepshagging rustics (and God knows we've done that old chestnut to a crisp on here), versus using a racially derogatory term such as 'frog'? (No, no, Ardross, I'm not having a pop at you here, just interested in this now that
it's going on rather longer than intended.) I don't think the old stereotype of Scotsmen as tightwads (which is usually set in a joking situation) is quite as offensive as Arabs being called ragheads or Jews kikes, do you?
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I've never heard of 'ragheads' or 'kikes'. I must get away from my flock and spend more...
 
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