Mmmmm… interesting point. Made me think. Thanks.
I’m gonna go grab my poppy now.
You have email.
Oh dear, I’ve been saving my guest membership for when I had something intelligent to say. 3 years and counting, I guess this is as good as it gets.
Charlotte
Just been reading about someone who walked into the BBC Lincoln office and a stole a poppy collecting box off the reception desk.
I work a couple of days a week in an Oxfam bookshop. We have a collecting box on the counter but its fixed to a strong chain to prevent any low life from stealing it.
I don’t know about not seeing the MoD begging, since I’ve also just chipped in to a collecting box to send soap and stuff to the troops, which I’d have liked to think went out in 1917. As for the Royal Family, they probably cost me about what my annual poppy costs. The crap about voters being all for underfunding old soldiers so we can feel good about tossing them a crust is something you can bake to a crisp and shove up your Hershey highway, cobber.
Off to check email for someone who apparently wants to do something instead of spout political crap. :rolleyes:
When I ran the Oxfam shop in Nottingham city centre, we had someone try to take the big collection box (one of those ones where the coins swirl 'round and around before dropping into the bottom). Fortunately, we had the foresight to have the bugger chained to the wall.
It was quite funny to see 'em fall down when the chain pulled tight as they headed out the door.
The equivalent of upper-middle class rednecks, like one would see in Ocoee, Florida; Kernersville, North Carolina or an=y exurb where people can afford to spend a lot of money as Bass Pro and Cabela’s?
BTW, the poppies I buy from the Amvets always fall apart in a few minutes. There’s a lot of Canadians in town this wekend for a curling bonspiel, and they all seem to have solid, durable poppies that would last through a harsh Nunavut winter.
Not quite. There are more working class with pretensions. Many of them live in towns built after WW2 to house people from the slums of East London and they still carry this folk memory of their original background . Although they have more money now it hasn’t improved their taste . Another aspect of them is that many of them are very right wing and xenophobic in their politics . A whole group of the fascist British National Party councillors were voted into one South Essex council earlier this year.
Heh, you think we’d have had you? 
What? No South Essex Girl jokes?
Thieving gipsy bastards. :mad:
Kal! Thought you’d cleared off. Good to see you, dude. 
I stand by my point. I wasn’t “spouting political crap”, but don’t think I need to defend myself against Malacandra.
The line you quoted was a joke aimed at me. Probably not wise for him to have posted it, but it made me laugh.
Should have capitalised ‘gipsy’, mind.
In other news; yeah, I was away for about 18 months, Mal’. You can blame jjimm for my returning.
Yo. Please note that the guy who is perhaps the Dope’s most-cited and readable authority on all matters relating to Rom and all other travelling peoples understood very well that the intent was to tease him. Why don’t you give up being offended by proxy? (Kal has licence to one (1) use of calling me a gorgio twat any time he likes by way of payback.)
Whatever the reason why, Kal, it’s good to see you about the place again.
OK just one.
“How does an Essex girl turn off the light after she’s had sex?”
“She shuts the car door”
Make that two…
How does an Essex girl fake an orgasm?
She drops her handbag.
Well, fair enough then. I probably should’ve remembered, but didn’t. Thanks to the both of you. I’ll return to reply to Malacandra’s post later, then. It’s past my bed time.
What does an Essex girl use for protection?
A bus shelter.
Ok, the other two are funny in a dark twisted way. But I dont’ understand this one. Does handbag have a double meaning in UK?
<Yank vowing never to even visit South Essex upon next visit>
No, I think what we’re saying here is that the Essex girl’s typical sexual experience occurs standing up in a dark alley, and she doesn’t let go of her handbag throughout the entire act - unless she either has an orgasm or fakes one.