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#551 2013-10-15 14:30:31
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What the world needs now is love, sweet love... And a jolly good kick up the harris.
#552 2013-10-15 14:38:58
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And the whistling becomes merely a solo performance.
I came up to see her sometimes.
#553 2013-10-15 14:46:35
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What the world needs now is love, sweet love... And a jolly good kick up the harris.
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#557 2013-10-16 01:52:39
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What the world needs now is love, sweet love... And a jolly good kick up the harris.
#558 2013-10-16 02:02:04
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... To import a debate from elsewhere... How about "The British Look" ?
Although I happen to be English, I know that 'our' look isn't remotely ours. It's an amalgamation of things we stole from elsewhere.
The English don't actually exist.
They're as substantial as the steam rising from the spout of a lovely old teapot.
What the world needs now is love, sweet love... And a jolly good kick up the harris.
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#563 2013-10-16 06:31:37
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A very good telling off.
And one heard.
So let me try to make a point to redeem myself...
We're back to marketing once more, aren't we? Things being sold as 'English'. 'England' as a brand. A construct.
Any use ?
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#566 2013-10-16 08:10:20
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"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."
#567 2013-10-16 08:21:12
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What the world needs now is love, sweet love... And a jolly good kick up the harris.
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#569 2013-10-16 10:31:47
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If you mean 'The Archers' it is at the forefront of political correctness. All sorts of 'alien peasantry' will feature in due course.
Nature programmes are not something that interest me a great deal. Paxman and Humphreys are celebrity interviewers. Just because they appear grumpy does not mean that their interviewing techniques are effective.
"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."
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#571 2013-10-16 14:33:59
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Never off duty, I've just been talking to an old chum about how, as a marketing term, 'English' is what's used abroad and 'British' is what's used in England. 'England', he opined, is our greatest export. A thing for the non-English primarily.
The chap's name is Peter Wallis.
On an unrelated note, what is thought of the style of Peter York ?
https://www.google.co.uk/search?newwindow=1&biw=1366&bih=651&tbm=isch&sa=1&q=peter+york&oq=peter+york&gs_l=img.1.0.0l3j0i24l7.17769.22051.0.23843.10.10.0.0.0.0.141.773.9j1.10.0....0...1c.1.29.img..0.10.770.U5_lLqv6j-c
Very West End.
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#572 2013-10-16 15:07:12
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"Dressing, like painting, should have a residual stability, plus punctuation and surprise." - Richard Merkin
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#573 2013-10-16 15:51:48
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Your view of Peter York's dress sense would interest me.
I see him as very English.
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#574 2013-10-16 16:22:58
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"Dressing, like painting, should have a residual stability, plus punctuation and surprise." - Richard Merkin
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#575 2013-10-16 16:49:06
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Got plenty of the English look last week in London. Gotta say, not as much adventurous dress as I usually see there. That a trend these days or just an aberration?
Hide thy infants, hide thy Lady, and hide thy husband, alas they art forcing sexual intercourse upon the entire populace. - Wm Shakespeare