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Post by mids on Sept 24, 2024 16:29:36 GMT
Sounds gay.
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Post by voice on Sept 24, 2024 18:04:29 GMT
You'd know I suppose...
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Post by mids on Sept 24, 2024 18:26:10 GMT
Your etc...
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Post by flatandy on Sept 24, 2024 18:47:28 GMT
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Post by Repat Van on Sept 24, 2024 21:19:26 GMT
I mean come on - are you even British if you don’t do this:
“ 2. Encouraging the entire pub to erupt into cheers when someone smashes a glass.”
Also there needs to be something that says when catching a flight, no matter what time of day, you order an alcoholic beverage at the airport.
Also actually a fair few of us Britons do understand French. So there.
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Post by flatandy on Sept 24, 2024 21:48:23 GMT
I find the "must get to the airport pub" thing utterly weird. Always did. Even when I lived in Britain. It's very strange behaviour.
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Post by voice on Sept 24, 2024 22:05:56 GMT
Its a working class thing I expect, flights to Majorca full of, soon to be, lobster red council estate types.
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Post by happyhammerhead on Sept 24, 2024 22:53:51 GMT
That Guardian article entertained me.
Some of it was funny and the rest, happily, I hadn't got a bloody clue what they were talking about.
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Post by Repat Van on Sept 25, 2024 8:19:57 GMT
Its a working class thing I expect, flights to Majorca full of, soon to be, lobster red council estate types. My middle class friends do it too. But maybe it is more common for those of us from working class backgrounds and it happens irrespective of airport and location. |
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Post by perrykneeham on Sept 25, 2024 8:23:52 GMT
Well, if your holiday is based on alcohol-fuelled misbehaviour, you might as well crack on with it early doors. I don't drink before 5pm* and never when flying.
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Post by perrykneeham on Sept 25, 2024 8:26:04 GMT
*it's always after five somewhere, eh? Eh?
Seriously, I very rarely do. How times have changed. It used to be a two pint minimum at work.
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Post by Repat Van on Sept 25, 2024 8:32:24 GMT
Well, if your holiday is based on alcohol-fuelled misbehaviour, you might as well crack on with it early doors. I don't drink before 5pm* and never when flying. I don’t think it’s linked to that. I think it’s just a general habit. People could be flying to Peru to go trekking and would still have a Prosecco before boarding. |
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Post by perrykneeham on Sept 25, 2024 8:41:02 GMT
That might be the case, but it's the boozy holiday set. I get that some people might want a stiffener before flying, either for nerves or to send them to sleep. I'm usually asleep about thirty seconds after wheels-up.
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Post by flatandy on Sept 25, 2024 13:48:18 GMT
Even when I fly business class and they come round offering free champagne I turn it down and have a glass of orange juice.
I agree with Van, though, it's not a posh/non-posh rich/non-rich thing in Britain. It's basically across the spectrum. It also appears to not be something people grow out of once they travel enough. I see business travelers having their 7am booze enough at airports to know this.
I still don't get it, though.
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Post by perrykneeham on Sept 25, 2024 14:07:18 GMT
I guess people may be in different time zones.
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Post by perrykneeham on Oct 10, 2024 14:23:05 GMT
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Post by Repat Van on Oct 10, 2024 14:43:10 GMT
I am at a loss as to why Amazon is being criticised for this. |
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Post by Repat Van on Oct 10, 2024 14:44:53 GMT
“Joe Mulhall, the director of research at the campaign group Hope Not Hate, said: “Everyone has the right to write and publish a book as long as the content doesn’t break the law. The question is whether Amazon feel comfortable platforming him, and facilitating the sale of a book that will funnel thousands of pounds into the pockets of Britain’s best known far-right extremist. Freedom of speech is not freedom of reach.”
Does it break the law?
“A blurb on Amazon says: “For decades the political class have openly planned to replace the indigenous people of Europe and in Manifesto we focus on how they are doing this in the UK. To ensure no one disturbs their plans the elite manufacture a mythical far right, when in truth it is the elite 1% who run a Fascist system of state-control, censorship and discrimination.”
Stephen Yaxley-Lennon is a loon.
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