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General => The Shed => Topic started by: lincsyokel2 on October 12, 2011, 18:28:59
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I see they finally got round to Knighting Bruce Forsythe.
Personally, I think it was ashocking that he was made to wait for so long. Very few people have delivered so much good clean family entertainemnt for so long, and never resorted to filth or sex, as pervades much of TV these days. He made an outstanding contribution to the culture of these lands. About bloody time.
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Boring old fart. Why don't he do the decent thing and let some young blood get in on the act.
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I like Bruce..he has been a good entertainer over the years.
The thing I have never understood though is why people get knighted for doing well paid jobs??
Would like it to be reserved for people who do exceptional things in life for others and have not gained personally from it.
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I agree with Ace, he used to be good on game shows & palladium.
Now he really is boring & should have retired years ago, he just cannot let go & will be remembered as a doddering old fool if he does not go now, you only have to watch strictly he bores the bum off you.
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A knighthood should be - I think used to be - for doing something "above & beyond"; a bit like a VC or GC. Someone who uses the success and status they have achieved through their career to put something back.
If it's just doing the job well, why haven't we all got one? (I've done the job well and put something back. I should have two!!)
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A knighthood should be - I think used to be - for doing something "above & beyond"; a bit like a VC or GC. Someone who uses the success and status they have achieved through their career to put something back.
If it's just doing the job well, why haven't we all got one? (I've done the job well and put something back. I should have two!!)
I agree, he's about as funny as the toothache, dances like a constipated rhino and tells jokes like an 8 year old.
About time he was pensioned off.
Peter
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I hate the way tells a joke and then has to explain it. How thick does he think we are?
I thought they gave honours for people who do something extra such as charity work Not to already overpaid presenters.
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Thirty years ago I thought he was a disgusting old lecher without an ounce of humour in any of his jokes/ shows. Now that he does a parody of a disgusting old lecher and admits that "his jokes are like his feet, flat and corny" and pretends they are so bad they need to be explained, I actually find him mildly entertaining.
More and more Strictly is showing nothing but socially acceptable foreplay with the behind scene sex scandals to match. ***
The knighthood business is a separate issue. I think he deserves one as much as most of the nonentities who get them, but I really question how they are awarded. Maybe the monarch should decide instead of the PM. If it were opened to the public to vote I'd be worried that Eastenders/ Corrie/ x-factor and the like might get quite a lot. Not sure politicians should be automatic recipients either!! Anyway I'm like Trevor. I deserve at least two!!!
;D ;D ;D ;D
*** I still enjoy watching it by the way! ;)
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I can't stand him! - but I do like to watch Strictly, so I hit the mute button whenever the camera is on him.
Tricia
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So all the people with a downer on this, presumably they woudl rather no talent brainless bimbos like Cheryl Cole or Chantelle Houghton, or cynicaly selfish people exploiters like Simon Cowell and Louise Walsh, or gang culture apologists like Nicki Minaj of Will.I.Am should be knighted?
Bruce provided more CLEAN UNSMUTTY UNSEXUALISED TV in any one year since 1939 than can be observed on TV these days in ten years.
Put it like this, i'd rather my grandkids watched Bruce and his clean corn, rather than Rhianna or Beyonce showing everything she 's got and simulating sex with herself on stage under the pretence of dance, or watching the bimbos in programs like TOWIE dress like prostitutes and behave with the morals of a tom cat.
Some peopel here need to get a perspective. I know which one is a better role model.
You judge, which picture would you rather your grandkids see on TV:
Btw, its a no brainer for most normal people with kids.
edit - Copyright images removed
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Brucies old hat and had his day, retire gracefully mate, mind you I would like to see him try on the shiney boots. :D
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Some peopel here need to get a perspective.
Btw, its a no brainer for most normal people with kids.
There is a hell of a lot more entertainers out there than you name, but perhaps you have been so long watching all the old washed out ones you have missed them.
I don't have the option of choosing my grandchildren's viewing but I bet their parents would not be letting them view your choices as well as switching over when the boring old farts come on. The mind numbing programmes like x factor, strictly, etc are aimed at wannabee's that have not achieved their own ambitions.
I resent YL and others of that ilk trying to win their points by stupidly comparing a few bad examples when there is loads of good entertainment out there, conveniently ignored
Edited to remove profanity
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I love Strictly - for the dancing, but I don't like Bruce Forsythe and am really pleased he's not doing the results show this year. I'm secrertary of a local dance club so enjoy seeing the dances, the choreography, the professional dance routines, the judges comments (except Alesha who's hopeless) and the improvements made by the celebs.
There are some real Strictly dorks this year but some are going to be really good given half a chance. It's good family entertainment, as is dancing. My club organises classes in ballroom, salsa, line dancing, RnB, Hip Hop, belly dancing as well as Funky for kids and we have members from 6 to 76 yrs old. It's a great social leveller, doesn't cost a fortune and is great fun - and I've even found gardening friends there.
I don't like Bruce's jokes or his innuendo about the relationships between the partners and I do question the wardrobe departments taste for some of the frocks. Apart from that it's a great show and, as we usually have to record it as we're out dancing, we can FF the irritating bits.
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I used to really like x factor but this year it has left me cold...........they are crying all the time and so far seen very little in the way of talent. :(
During audition most of the kids said they want to be somebody.I felt like shouting at the TV ....you are somebody .Value yourself.Why is it they seem to think life is not worth living unless they are a celeb???
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Remind me of that joke years ago about a man in the bookies.
He asked what the odds were on Anthony Eden dying in the next two years
He's an old man said the booky, odds on.
Well how about Anthon Eden and Wilfred Pickles
Booky, still odds on
Punter Eden, Pickles and Elvis in the next two years
Bookie 100 to 1 Elvis won't go yet
Punter I want better odds how about Eden, Pickles, Elvis and the Pope
Bookie still 100 to 1 the Popes getting on as well
Punter make it two popes then.
Bookie it will never happen all that lot and 2 popes dying within the next two years 10,000 to 1
Now the punter would have been a very rich man if he hadn't got greedy, because Arthur Askey let him down.
Even back then you could have used the same joke using Brucie instead.
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I used to really like x factor but this year it has left me cold...........they are crying all the time and so far seen very little in the way of talent. :(
During audition most of the kids said they want to be somebody.I felt like shouting at the TV ....you are somebody .Value yourself.Why is it they seem to think life is not worth living unless they are a celeb???
Firstly, the X Factor is fixed. Doesnt matter how you vote, the producers will change the rules so that the people the judges WANT to be in the final WILL be in in it. Secondly, it doesnt matter how you vote in the final. The show WILL manipulate and influence the vote, and they have been caught out aiding contestants with extra tutoring, electronic voice enhancement, and they will give peopel they want out poor songs. If the singer insists on a song, they can be stopped unde rthe pretenc eof copyright. SO dont have any illusions that the public has any influence on who wins X Factor, before the live programs start the judges know who they want in the top three.
They already have spotted which acts are the potential money spinners for them, and them we mean Louise Walsh, and SyCo, who of course not only make millions from licencing the show to the TV studio, they also make a fortune from signing the Acts up after, not to mention the money off the phone lines and the marketing. advertising and merchandising. Then of course if you want to keep an act in the public have inconveniently voted off you can simply refuse to vote (like Cheryl Coel did), or change the rules mid program, or just have a convenient phone failure on the line (like the way Rhiddian was stopped from winning one year)
Simon Cowel isnt worth £110 million because he knows a talented artists, its because he knows exactly what cack can be sold to the public for the most money when suitably hyped up. he also knows what makes a good TV show. In that respect, X Factor is little more than throwing Christians to Lions. People are exhibited bbecause they have a sob story, or they can be ridiculed, or they are in some other way momentarily entertaining, and because they are nobodies, once SyCo have done with them, they can be discarded with no fear of litigation.
Many of the Xfactor and BGT and Pop idol contestants who came in the top three have sunk without trace because the agents dropped them a year or two down the line when they didnt turn out to be the cash cow as expected.
One or two have managed on there own, mainly because they didnt sign the opressive and highly restictive contract SyCo waves at them, Diane Vickers being one, and the little six year old year who sang on X Factor about three years ago whos name escapes me - shes a big hit in the US because she signed up with Katherine Jenkins agent, SyCo having boosted her up, promised her the world then cruelly dropping her and walkinn away at the last moment.
And thats another thing about X factor, the way the deliberately build people up then drop them to get the tears and the tantrums, its all good TV as far as SyCO is concerned, never mind the emotional and mental torment they inflict on people simply to fuel for there own greed
I woudl like to see such programs regulated, and brought under control, so they cant be fixed, and dont hurt peopel like they do, the first step would be to ban anyone under 18 entering. I think enough is enough, now.
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Very succinct as usual ??? Lost the will to live halfway through.
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LOL Ace I do agree, but also agree that the X Factor is rigged and is known for exploiting vulnerable people in order to get a laugh out of humiliating them. Pathetic. And also true that people now think that unless they are a "celeb" they are worthless - but none of these so called celebs actually DO anything!!! It's completely absurd. But perhaps just a passing phase as the whole vapidness of it all begins to dawn on people.
Maybe Bruce Forsythe does charity work too? A quick google showed that he does give time and lends his name to many charitable events, especially for kids. And if he's been doing it for 60 years that's worth a nod I guess (despite his crap jokes). Perhpas he just does it modestly, which god knows is a rare thing these days - I mean look at some of them, with all the press at every humanitarian event - Angelina Jolie surely has "UN Ambassador" monographed on her knickers...
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Thank God I haver watched the X Factor it sounds horrendous, BUT thank goodnes for people like Brucie & the likes of Terry Wogan who never send anyone up more than themselves, both knighthoods richly deserved, especially for all the good they do very quietly in the background.
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Very succinct as usual ??? Lost the will to live halfway through.
here I am agreeing with ACE again!! LOL
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Very succinct as usual ??? Lost the will to live halfway through.
presumably you can cope with it if i produce a version in crayon?
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by the way, we ain't had a television in our house for over 10 years, don't buy 'celebrity' magazines or newspapers, and think the whole celebrity culture thing is a load of tosh.
as for knighting folk who have made a good living doing what they enjoy ??? ??? ???
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Very succinct as usual ??? Lost the will to live halfway through.
;D ;D ;D
And I thought Bruce was a boring old f@rt!
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Very succinct as usual ??? Lost the will to live halfway through.
presumably you can cope with it if i produce a version in crayon?
does your mummy allow you to play with crayons? she should be warned that they may be a choking hazard.
oh, on second thoughts..................................................
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Very succinct as usual ??? Lost the will to live halfway through.
presumably you can cope with it if i produce a version in crayon?
Crayon, chalk, pictures whatever, I would still come to the same conclusion. Perhaps I should have finished reading it and enlightened myself, but filling my head with all that sort of dross ain't my bag. Same with most of the other stuff you post, just too tedious to plough through, but keep on posting others might be interested. Doubt it, but I have been known to be wrong.
ps There you go Ceres not a profanity in sight, but am I allowed to think them?
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Think away ACE! Your avatar does make me laugh. ;D
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just too tedious to plough through, but keep on posting others might be interested.
First of all, theres a netiquette abbreviation for it, which ive no doubt you dont know, being a chan virgin
its TL:DR
but you'll need to google 'global village idiot' for further enlightement................
second, its also the least embarrasing way of admitting its over your head. I bet at school you sat on the back row and laughed at anyone who did well ?
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Very succinct as usual ??? Lost the will to live halfway through.
(http://www.freesmileys.org/smileys/smiley-sleep027.gif) (http://www.freesmileys.org/smileys.php) Me too.
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Linc you do have a mind of info but do you have to put everyone down and always be right, you seem to have an opinion about everything and always seem to be right, everyone has there own opinion but we have no right to tell our grandkids( by the way I'm no where near that old ) what to to and not to watch, do you not want them to have their own minds, I'm just off to find my crayons. ;)
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Boring old git,the bloke asked for a Knighthood, everytime he came on the box he whined because he was still at the end of the queue and thought that he might pop off before the next series of that other boring crap 'Come dine with me' sorry 'Strictly come Dancing', :)
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Linc you do have a mind of info but do you have to put everyone down and always be right, you seem to have an opinion about everything and always seem to be right, everyone has there own opinion but we have no right to tell our grandkids( by the way I'm no where near that old ) what to to and not to watch, do you not want them to have their own minds, I'm just off to find my crayons. ;)
Agree. There are some really knowledgeable folk who share info/knowledge without criticising others. I'd rather a crayon wielder than be dismissive of others.
ACE, love your avatar :)
edit to add missing word
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Better than the house of commons in here ;D
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What a relief to see this thread.
i cant bear thecringe making arogant gurning git.
This is where the digibox comes in very handy, just tape strictly and fast forward through his drivel.
Knighthood- a sudden inflamation of the voice box for him and Noel edmunds which lasts until 2030 would be a blessing. cannot bear them tess outshines him every night.
x Sunloving
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First of all, theres a netiquette abbreviation for it, which ive no doubt you dont know, being a chan virgin
its TL:DR
but you'll need to google 'global village idiot' for further enlightement................
second, its also the least embarrasing way of admitting its over your head. I bet at school you sat on the back row and laughed at anyone who did well ?
I also bet that I was not laughing at you boy. As for abbreviations why would I want to use them? I like words, I have a full querty keyboard in front of me, I do not have to pretent to be a supposedly elete computor whizzkid.
Linc you do have a mind of info
He has the same as the rest of us Kev, it is at his fingertips. It can't be up there in his head otherwise why would he be just working as a cook. (do you want fries with that sir). I tend to use my own knowledge base when answering threads on here, If I don't know I certainly ain't going to trawl through the internet to impress people. I do use search engines as tools if I am researching a new project and very useful it is. But in the wrong hands it's usefulness just gets tiresome.
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First of all, theres a netiquette abbreviation for it, which ive no doubt you dont know, being a chan virgin
its TL:DR
but you'll need to google 'global village idiot' for further enlightement................
second, its also the least embarrasing way of admitting its over your head. I bet at school you sat on the back row and laughed at anyone who did well ?
I also bet that I was not laughing at you boy. As for abbreviations why would I want to use them? I like words, I have a full querty keyboard in front of me, I do not have to pretent to be a supposedly elete computor whizzkid.
Linc you do have a mind of info
He has the same as the rest of us Kev, it is at his fingertips. It can't be up there in his head otherwise why would he be just working as a cook. (do you want fries with that sir). I tend to use my own knowledge base when answering threads on here, If I don't know I certainly ain't going to trawl through the internet to impress people. I do use search engines as tools if I am researching a new project and very useful it is. But in the wrong hands it's usefulness just gets tiresome.
Where did I say I worked as a cook? I actually worked in IT for 20+ years as a project manager, designing, implementing and managing large scale it rollouts of hardware and network infrastructures, mostly for the LEA but also for a large international engineering company. Then I got bored with it and worked in horticulture for 8 years. Now i do what i like, im curently landscaping a garden for somone, regardless of typos................
Neither do i 'trawl the internet to impress people', most of it is already in there, having worked in the business half my working life. I started using JANET on a DEC 11/750, writing programs on punch cards in COBOL 66 in the late 1970's before the internet was invented and possible before you were born as well. On the other hand i read huge amounts of scientific literiture such as New Scientist, Scientific American, The Journal of Physics, and Nature, and have done since I was about 12 years old, subjects that have interested me include stuff like Cosmology and Astronomy, Paleoanthrology, and lots of other subjects. This is becuse i like to know why the world is such, its called having an enquiring mind. Thats why im a mine of all sorts of information. And for the record, since you and your mate tonybloke have decided to launch an unwarranted attack on me and my integrity, i have a second class honours degree in Computer Science, and a masters in Information Systems and Technology, specialising in Expert Systems from UMIST. Consequently, when one is reasonably well educated, one tends to find the Sun and the Daily Mirror somewhat lacking in substance, although presumably you dont.
(Edited to remove personal insults)
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Sorry, I thought you was a cook, I should have googled you first. But lets go back to the beginning shall we. I happen to disagree with your thoughts on Brucie. because of that you deemed to insult me and a few others.
'Some peopel here need to get a perspective.'
'Btw, its a no brainer for most normal people with kids.'
Your spelling not mine. You assumed because we disagree with your views on Brucie we all let our children view the tosh you posted. I call that insulting. Also what's this normal all about. If we don't agree again, are we all sub normal?
So before you start casting the blame on us, look to yourself.
But when it really comes down to it you are just another internet (go to the watershed)
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Why does lincsyokel not get moderated to stop him being so rude to people? It's surely an insult to call someone uneducated!
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DNFTT
(I learn lots about internet stuff coming on here.)
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Why does lincsyokel not get moderated to stop him being so rude to people? It's surely an insult to call someone uneducated!
You're right - I think it's gone now?
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Why does lincsyokel not get moderated to stop him being so rude to people? It's surely an insult to call someone uneducated!
its an observation based on his self declared inability to read posts and links provided. Ergo the conclusions about his educational level is reasonable and based on the information supplied in his own posts.
If yo ugo round admitting you're unable to read a post because its by implication above your head, what other conclusion could we derive? And why therfore is it insulting to point out an inevitable conclusion? Surely, if dont want people to think such things, why then go round implying it about yourself, that alone is indicative of the implication separately.
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I like Bruce..he has been a good entertainer over the years.
The thing I have never understood though is why people get knighted for doing well paid jobs??
Would like it to be reserved for people who do exceptional things in life for others and have not gained personally from it.
+1
It does seem odd that someone receives public recognition for spending their lives craving public recognition. (And the massive financial rewards that come with it.)
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its an observation based on his self declared inability to read posts and links provided. Ergo the conclusions about his educational level is reasonable and based on the information supplied in his own posts.
If yo ugo round admitting you're unable to read a post because its by implication above your head, what other conclusion could we derive? And why therfore is it insulting to point out an inevitable conclusion? Surely, if dont want people to think such things, why then go round implying it about yourself, that alone is indicative of the implication separately.
Yeh right, how do they know my level of intelligence. But sadly such exciting work as working in the sewage farm is not for me. I am just a gardener. But I did do a wiki to find LY, must be doing that wrong as well because it keeps coming up as David Icke.
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This is just my opinion but I find ACE and LINCSYOKEL equally arrogant and opinionated so it's pots and kettles and best left alone.
Both have strong opinions, to which they're entitled, and both have interesting points of view. I completely agree with Lincs that Simon Cowell is an unprincipled money grabber and don't watch his shows. Can't stand karaoke in any form, let alone this format.
I agree with ACE about Bruce, but not about Strictly. My own experience of dancing is that it brings people together from a wide mixture of backgrounds, education and age and is a force for the good. SCD also raises money for Children in Need and shows people being encouraged to improve each week.
X Factor and its ilk just line Simon's pockets, just like News of the World lined the Murdoch family's pockets before they were found out.
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How comes that peeps have been banned for less than LY, comes out with . One law for 1 one for another your face must fit matey but not your gob. Just grow up & stop insulting people who have an opinion of there own.
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ooh, there's my ignore button ;D
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you and your mate tonybloke
I don't know why you think that me and ACE are mates? just because we've both been members on here for years doesn't mean we are mates. We do usually agree on horticultural topics, and I actually think ACE is one of the UK's best garden plant growers / installers. I've seen several of the award-winning gardens he's worked in/on, and images of others.
However, we quite often agree to disagree on other non-horticultural topics,(including politics) without degenerating into personal insults and slanging matches.
hope this clears up any misunderstanding you may have.
now go and play with your crayons quietly, please.
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I also agree with ACE, must be ill, especially after he refused two old biddies a lift from Ryde. (ha, ha). Don't blame him. My grandchildren love X-factor or whatever it is I was forced to watch on Saturday night, sure they would not like Brucey. He has had his day, but don't really care, if he is a Sir OK with me. I was told by my granddaughter on Saturday after saying all the acts were rubbish, and told her I was old, she said old people are meant to be nice, not an old misery like me, and I was spoiling it for her, so had to shut up, and when I said I liked Janet that was wrong. Thought old people were allowed to moan, I will try to be nice in future, and say how lovely it is or go to bed early. My favourite programme is Outnumbered, mummy killed my mouse, but even that is getting a bit silly lately, must have run out of ideas, but love the little girl, she is brill.
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My favourite programme is Outnumbered,
Me too Borlotti!
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you and your mate tonybloke
It might have been another insult bloke, You big tart ;)
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you and your mate tonybloke
It might have been another insult bloke, You big tart ;)
yep, he might have said we were secret lovers! LOL ;)
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everyone has their own opinion
I don't.
Ouch, I got a crayon up my nose. Little help?
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I think Tones Ace's lovechild, I have no photographic proof but I've seen a few crayon drawings. ;D ;)
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;D ;D ;D
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Hmmm. Ace doesn't give his age away :-X
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OOH missed most of that above as ive had LY on ignore for some time.
I'm sure im not alone.
:) x sunloving
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Age is an attitude.....
Which dope said that? ;D