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#26 2011-10-28 07:45:25
- fxh
- Big Down Under.
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Re: Beret
yeah thats what those kids are doing.
Slip on a shirt, slop on sunscreen and slap on a hat
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#27 2011-10-28 07:49:03
- Harpo
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Re: Beret
On a par with "Clunk-click, every trip"!
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#28 2011-10-28 07:58:58
- 4F Hepcat
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Re: Beret
Rico Rodriguez is a beret sporting hero.
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#29 2011-10-28 08:03:44
- Harpo
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Re: Beret
^ Now you're talking! Bit of a hero of mine since I was a kid, from the Specials days. Played on more classic original ska, rocksteady and reggae tunes than you can shake a stick at. If anyone can get away with a beret, it's a super-cool Jamaican trombonist.
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#30 2011-10-28 09:28:10
- 4F Hepcat
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Re: Beret
Indeed, Rico's retired now, but he's still a ska legend.
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#31 2011-10-28 10:14:58
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Re: Beret
I agree with GG wearing a beret is very difficult to acheive
without feeling self concious.
Frank Spencer did for Berets, what Alfred Hitchock did for shower curtains.
The beret is a simple and a functional bit of kit and I have worn one on many occasions with no level of success.
If someone wasn't taking the piss out of me, I was taking the piss out of myself. "Gives us a poem", "lost your saxophone", "you pretencious fucker" and those were the ones that I thought of!
I now subscribe to Henry Ford's non quote. "Any colour as long as it's not black" Give the beret a chance, but in a complimentary colour. Beige, Cream, Tan.
But be prepared, there are Philistines in our midst.
#32 2011-10-28 10:59:45
- Oo Bop Sh'bam
- Ivy Iconoclast
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Re: Beret
I and I say get a Tam instead!
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#33 2011-11-12 14:36:15
- Kingstonian
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Re: Beret
My old man's a Provo with a beret and a gun
I haven't seen him lately he's always on the run
He looks so really trendy in his shades and DM boots
Far cooler than those other dads with ties and shirts and suits
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ob5mw6xGYes&feature=related
#34 2011-11-13 00:07:30
- 4F Hepcat
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Re: Beret
One of the easiest ways to get a free drink here in the Hague, was to walk in one of the Irish bars and start singing rebel songs Robert Nairac style. Beret was optional.
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#35 2012-10-22 11:38:09
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Re: Beret
Even Guardianistas hesitate before wearing a beret:-
http://www.guardian.co.uk/fashion/2012/oct/22/man-beret-won-man-booker
"Florid, smug, middle-aged golf club bore in this country I'd say. Propping up the 19th hole in deepest Surrey bemoaning the perils of immigration."
#36 2012-10-22 11:59:39
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Re: Beret
I have a friend who looks super cool in a beret, and I severely doubt anyone has mocked him for wearing it. He's Angolan. I'm European and I wouldn't even consider trying.
I did have one as a teenage mod, however it looked gay (as in gay, rather than a generic insult). Not an effect I have ever desired.
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#37 2012-10-22 12:04:37
- Drum Thunder !!!
- Son of Odin
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Re: Beret
But one you achieved with ease?
Last edited by My Grandfather's Pants (2012-10-22 12:05:18)
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#38 2012-10-22 12:11:53
- Liam Mac
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Re: Beret
I'm struggling to remember if I've won the Man Booker prize. I'm going to go out on a limb and say I think I have, so I'm going order me one of those Berets.
#39 2012-10-22 12:20:30
- Drum Thunder !!!
- Son of Odin
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Re: Beret
There is a simple rule with hats, put one on, and ask yourself if you look better for it, if not, take it off. Berets are cool on he right people, typically homosexuals.
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#40 2012-10-22 12:26:31
- Liam Mac
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Re: Beret
I'm struggling to remember if I'm a homosexual. I'm going to go out on a limb and say I think I'm not, so I'm not going to order me one of those Berets.
#41 2012-10-22 12:29:10
- Drum Thunder !!!
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Re: Beret
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#42 2012-10-22 12:47:30
- Liam Mac
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Re: Beret
I'm an extremist in everything I do but I'm struggling to remember if I voted SNP.
Actually I didn't vote for Salmonds SNP. Not because I'm pro union, but because the man valued the quick dollars of Donald Trump more than the natural integrity of the sand dune habitat Trump wanted to build his golf course on. Not only that but his decison to give planning permission and disregard the 'Site of Special Scientific Interest' designation the site had puts all other areas of conservation interest in the country on shaky ground, from a legal standpoint.
The fat fuck gave an interview a month or so later at my Uni for BBC Scotland and the plan initially was to stage a wee question and answer with our BSc Ecology class for the cameras. When he got the drafted questions handed to him that was quickly forgotten about.
#43 2012-10-22 12:54:07
- Drum Thunder !!!
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I thought he was a bit of a hoho from the few minutes I saw of him speak at the Ryder Cup, clearly pushing Trump Land to the Yankie golfers.
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#44 2012-10-22 13:08:48
- Liam Mac
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Re: Beret
I have no problems with building golf courses for fat rich Americans to come and spend all their money on. It was just completely the wrong place to build it and he had no balls when it came to standing up to the bully boy Trump.
He's a spineless wimp. Not like those big brave ETA boys.
#46 2012-10-22 14:54:25
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Re: Beret
Not that gays cannot look cool, however in SG's case he looked hetero whilst looking cool.
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#47 2012-10-22 14:57:41
- Yuca
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Re: Beret
I'm not dissing gays. I love gays!
Not in a gay way.
It's a minefield.
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#48 2012-10-22 15:52:24
- Armchaired
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Re: Beret
A touching poem from the Army study Guide site
Pink Beret
Created by: Chris Brooks
Who's that man in the black beret
Army's how he earns his pay
OH that's just the life for me
Be all that you can be
Who's that man in the red beret
Jumpins' how he earns his pay
OH that's just the life for me
Airborne Infantry
Who's that man in the tan beret
Fighting's how he earns his pay
OH that's just the life for me
Ranger Infantry
Who's that man in the green beret
Killing's how he earns his pay
OH that just the life for me
Special Forces Infantry
Who's that man in the pink beret
I don't know but i thinks he's gay
OH that's NOT the life for me
HOMOSEXUALITY
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#49 2012-10-22 15:57:42
- Liam Mac
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Re: Beret
Black's the only colour to have if you are going for a beret.
But what about something bolder? Say a raspberry beret? you know, the kind you find in a second hand store.
#50 2012-10-22 16:04:25
- Armchaired
- Ivy I.V.
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Re: Beret
(url=)http://cgi.ebay.com/281000235425 (/url)
Got to be honest here, i haven't got a clue when or where it was made.
Must be off i am taking a ride out to old man Johnson's farm.
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