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okenobi
Spends far too much time on here
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:59 pm Posts: 4932 Location: Sestriere, Piemonte, Italia
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Fri May 21, 2010 2:28 pm |
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John_Vella
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 7:55 am Posts: 7935 Location: Manchester.
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That's only beacuse you're eccentric. 
_________________John Vella BSc (Hons), PGCE - Still the official forum prankster and crude remarker  Sorry  I'll behave now. Promise 
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Fri May 21, 2010 2:37 pm |
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timark_uk
Moderator
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:11 pm Posts: 12143 Location: Belfast
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Is this normal?
Mark
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Fri May 21, 2010 2:42 pm |
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okenobi
Spends far too much time on here
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:59 pm Posts: 4932 Location: Sestriere, Piemonte, Italia
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Thanks John! I wouldn't have said so, but some of the guys down here can get mightily patriotic if the mood takes them.
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Fri May 21, 2010 3:10 pm |
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l3v1ck
What's a life?
Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 10:21 am Posts: 12700 Location: The Right Side of the Pennines (metaphorically & geographically)
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A patriot loves his country. A nationalist hates everyone else's country.
What do you call people like this who hate their own?
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Fri May 21, 2010 4:05 pm |
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pcernie
Legend
Joined: Sun Apr 26, 2009 12:30 pm Posts: 45931 Location: Belfast
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Pfft, getting into arguments over flags... 
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Fri May 21, 2010 4:18 pm |
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okenobi
Spends far too much time on here
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:59 pm Posts: 4932 Location: Sestriere, Piemonte, Italia
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Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious. And it's all perspective relativism. To these people, Cornwall is their country, not England. I may not agree with their extreme view, but it's their view nonetheless and they have a right to hold it. Cornwall has had a national identity at least as long as Wales (not sure about Scotland). And was seen as discrete from England by the rest of the country and abroad, as late as the 16th century. It has only been with the decline of the Cornish language that this place came to be seen as part of England.
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Fri May 21, 2010 4:24 pm |
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John_Vella
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 7:55 am Posts: 7935 Location: Manchester.
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_________________John Vella BSc (Hons), PGCE - Still the official forum prankster and crude remarker  Sorry  I'll behave now. Promise 
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Fri May 21, 2010 5:14 pm |
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timark_uk
Moderator
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:11 pm Posts: 12143 Location: Belfast
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A new class of people. It reminds me of the tagline for the film Howard the Duck … a new breed of hero. Mark
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Fri May 21, 2010 5:15 pm |
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John_Vella
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 7:55 am Posts: 7935 Location: Manchester.
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Now that was one brilliant film!
_________________John Vella BSc (Hons), PGCE - Still the official forum prankster and crude remarker  Sorry  I'll behave now. Promise 
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Fri May 21, 2010 5:21 pm |
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JJW009
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:58 pm Posts: 8767 Location: behind the sofa
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I enjoyed it very much. Absolute classic of the era. 
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Fri May 21, 2010 7:12 pm |
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pcernie
Legend
Joined: Sun Apr 26, 2009 12:30 pm Posts: 45931 Location: Belfast
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I caught the Howard the Duck film late on ITV one night when I was a kid - even then the scene between Lea Thompson and Howard was clearly wrong on every level, but my God she looked cute 
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Fri May 21, 2010 8:28 pm |
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