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Sorry for sounding a complete cockend, C/T, but does a writer not have to have grasp of the English language first, to become a writer? Ouch! No. There are many well educated buffoons who may be able to quote and spout very high brow words, but have not a creative bone in there body. You also have to bear in mind the audience, children. Barely out of primary school there vocabularly is fairly limited. They are much more interested in the story than fancy words, hence the fact any idiot can enthrall a child with the re-telling of three little pigs, red riding hood etc. If you can put together a half decent rhyme or Limerick you are most of the way there. Most childrens picture stories such as the gruffalo are only 130 to 300 words long. It's quite amusing that what sent me down this route was Reading a few bedtime stories that were obviously wrote by a wordsmith, but the content was dullness itself. I almost deleted my post immediately after sending it, as it actually sounds far worse than I meant it to. The main point was that if a publisher received a story, or whatever, with poor English they would more likely chuck it in the bin, and move on to the next offer from someone else. As the yank most graphically spelled out, above, there seems a heck of a lot of competition out there!!

Golden opportunity for Oliver to write what he actually feels, for once. Now the fear has gone, it's time for him to open out and let everyone know what he really thinks about these arseholes running our club, no holds barred. Come on, Oliver, now is the time for you to show us what you're really made of.

Sorry for sounding a complete cockend, C/T, but does a writer not have to have grasp of the English language first, to become a writer?

Bev, darling, you're a modern lass with a bit of spirit about you. Have you ever had a bit of girl-on-girl action?? It's getting late where I am and I'm off to bed very soon, so please feel free to wax lyrically if the answer is yes Snakey A lady never divulges her secrets, especially on a message board Nice one, B. I do like you. Ever since you posted those pics for your husband (you remember, the christmas ones?), I've had a soft spot for you. You can always PM a pic if you want I'll bear that in mind sweetie I dont know why people made a fuss about those pics, its nothing we havent all seen before......or would have liked to!! True. It was something we've all seen before, but being posted by a chickaboo meant so much more to us feeble-brained blokes Get a grip I have, believe me, but a pic would help enormously I gotta luv ya snakey Oh well, I tried.

Bev, darling, you're a modern lass with a bit of spirit about you. Have you ever had a bit of girl-on-girl action?? It's getting late where I am and I'm off to bed very soon, so please feel free to wax lyrically if the answer is yes Snakey A lady never divulges her secrets, especially on a message board Nice one, B. I do like you. Ever since you posted those pics for your husband (you remember, the christmas ones?), I've had a soft spot for you. You can always PM a pic if you want I'll bear that in mind sweetie I dont know why people made a fuss about those pics, its nothing we havent all seen before......or would have liked to!! True. It was something we've all seen before, but being posted by a chickaboo meant so much more to us feeble-brained blokes Get a grip I have, believe me, but a pic would help enormously

That's canny good for you, Daniel (maybe should have been in the Olympics thread??)

Bev, darling, you're a modern lass with a bit of spirit about you. Have you ever had a bit of girl-on-girl action?? It's getting late where I am and I'm off to bed very soon, so please feel free to wax lyrically if the answer is yes Snakey A lady never divulges her secrets, especially on a message board Nice one, B. I do like you. Ever since you posted those pics for your husband (you remember, the christmas ones?), I've had a soft spot for you. You can always PM a pic if you want I'll bear that in mind sweetie I dont know why people made a fuss about those pics, its nothing we havent all seen before......or would have liked to!! True. It was something we've all seen before, but being posted by a chickaboo meant so much more to us feeble-brained blokes

Bev, darling, you're a modern lass with a bit of spirit about you. Have you ever had a bit of girl-on-girl action?? It's getting late where I am and I'm off to bed very soon, so please feel free to wax lyrically if the answer is yes Snakey A lady never divulges her secrets, especially on a message board Nice one, B. I do like you. Ever since you posted those pics for your husband (you remember, the christmas ones?), I've had a soft spot for you. You can always PM a pic if you want

Hope you to got mine. I sent quite a lot.

Bev, darling, you're a modern lass with a bit of spirit about you. Have you ever had a bit of girl-on-girl action?? It's getting late where I am and I'm off to bed very soon, so please feel free to wax lyrically if the answer is yes

Great post. I wouldn't spend a penny on the opening ceremony, we don't need to promote ourselves, we're England, we don't need to roll the red carpet out for no cunt, they know who we are and what we're about. What I would do is at the start of the first event, have a 5 minute video of the Second World War on the big screens, of this country standing up alone for the best part of two years to the evil tyrrant when every cunt else was either waving white flags, or bottling it, while we're going round battering their planes and flattening their cities in the name of democracy. At the end a message on the big jumbotrons, ENJOY THE GAMES.....YOU'RE ONLY HEAR BECAUSE OF US, then an ear piercing version of Nimrod on the big speakers followed by land of hope and glory. [/Alf Garnett] I love the idea of saving our economy by cutting back on the flowers as well. Personally I'd make it track and field and swimming only, get rid of the rest of it, that would save a packet. We'd get fuck all medals like but so be it. And the weightlifting. Gotta keep the weightlifting. I fucking love that event. If I could have tickets to any event during the whole games it would be that. Fuck the rest. btw, the flowers aren't exactly gointo wreck the economy, it's just something that has manifested itself as being part of the games over the years and is total shite. imo.

Yes, it was seawater. Better class of blit in the pool than on the beach though.

Aye, aye. MI6 should be notified, methinks. A potential zionist terrorist on our hands, here.

It just looks like a shitty polo shirt that companies give away at beer festivals. As Stevie would say, Wank!

Yes, yes but how does that affect J69 ffs? He's not called Joe. Are you sure the 'J' doesn't stand for Joe? Aye, Joe 90. A right specky cunt.

Danny B must be coating his laptops like a plasterer's radio to be breaking them so often. Either that, or sitting on them, the fat cunt.

The final phase of market capitalism is socialism which is where we are heading now with public money bailing out private infrastructure. China is playing the endgame. Is it not true that China basically owns USA? They (the Chinese) have been buying up bonds/suraties or somesuch gobbledigook to the tune of $100 trillion + ??

I was given to understand that the key to ending all this was a return to inter-bank lending? I would be surprised if Joe Soap in the street (who has debts on his flexible friend) isn't concentrating on clearing a bit of that first before he goes out and buys another plasma tv or holiday in Florida. In turn, the manufacturing in China/India of items Joe Soap would have otherwise been buying, dries up. Their economies subsequently falter. The demand on oil decreases. The price of oil decreases. Profits are down. Profit margins aren't maintained. Lay-offs occur to streamline 'the business (business talk for saving money to get the profit margin back). Joe Soap loses his job. Even less plasma tv's ect are made. The economy in China/India....etc etc. A vicious cycle.

Due to all this financial malarky, what a golden opportunity for the UK (fuck the IOC and what they think) to get these games back to some sort of normality. Stop the ostentatious, un-necessary, pain-in-the-arse, expensive opening ceremony. Stop all this flower giving to winners - they want their medals nowt fucking more. Not to mention the half a dozen folk that seem to attend the medal/flower giving; one guy should walk up with the medals in his pocket and give them to the 1st, 2nd and 3rd in turn. Make the IOC members pay for their tickets and accommodation like everyone else. I was going to say paint everything fucking grey also, but I thought I would come across as a bit curmudgeon

Forget about the differing social/general policies for one moment. Let's not forget the differing policies of Labour and New Labour. Two cornerstones of socialism i.e. Nationalisation and, dare I even say it these days, the 'R' word seem nothing to do with New Labour at all. Apathy in voters could well be a direct result of Blair and his cohorts changing the name/direction of the Labour party in the realiation that they were unelectable in their old guise. Their change in beliefs seem to have resulted in less of an obvious difference between Cons and New Labour. However, if the Conservatives are elected at the next election, there will be one massive difference for voters to observe: public spending will be slashed remarkably and the job losses in consequence will be for all to see quite clearly.

Thought that was Parky. What, Kid Basten denies the existance of Parky??

George Graham.

*clears throat* *strikes 'the pose'* *adopts the Jonny Gielgud voice* On yonder hill, stood a cow. It must have shifted, caus it's not there now.

Must be a 'southern/northern' thing. It was always considered a canny job up here to be working the bins.

I was just about to mention that chap. If he can do it, anyone can do it.