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pcernie
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Joined: Sun Apr 26, 2009 12:30 pm Posts: 45931 Location: Belfast
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Amnesia10
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Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 2:02 am Posts: 29240 Location: Guantanamo Bay (thanks bobbdobbs)
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First of all she is good friends with Stephen Fry so is clearly not homophobic. Then if you have ever seen the Craig Ferguson Late Late Show it is full of similar comments about other places in the US. In his usual opening monologue he makes comments about places and people. It is not serious. Anyone with a sense of humour will realise that. Anyway that happens in Henley not Isle of Wight. 
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Sat Aug 14, 2010 6:22 pm |
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Linux_User
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Tue May 05, 2009 3:29 pm Posts: 7173
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Oh dear, can't people take a joke any more? I hail from Somerset and often get cider/farmer/country bumpkin jokes, if not a horribly rubbish impersonation of a Westcountry accent. You just take it in your stride. I expect though the majority of people on the IoW aren't remotely bothered, just the council leader and a select few getting uppity about it. Mind you, that's not to say we don't take the piss out of they foreigners from outside zummerzet. 
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Sat Aug 14, 2010 8:52 pm |
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Amnesia10
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Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 2:02 am Posts: 29240 Location: Guantanamo Bay (thanks bobbdobbs)
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Is the Fatwah against all non Cider drinkers still in force? 
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Sat Aug 14, 2010 11:23 pm |
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Linux_User
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Tue May 05, 2009 3:29 pm Posts: 7173
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All foreigners are viewed with suspicion, those who don't drink zider more than most. 
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Sat Aug 14, 2010 11:29 pm |
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Amnesia10
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Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 2:02 am Posts: 29240 Location: Guantanamo Bay (thanks bobbdobbs)
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I suppose when the Chancellor put 50p on Cider they had to increase the security for him to protect him from Somerset Fundamentalists.
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Sat Aug 14, 2010 11:37 pm |
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Linux_User
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Tue May 05, 2009 3:29 pm Posts: 7173
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True, but the pitch forks were laid down when the increase was scrapped a month later. 
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Sat Aug 14, 2010 11:38 pm |
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Amnesia10
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Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 2:02 am Posts: 29240 Location: Guantanamo Bay (thanks bobbdobbs)
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I heard that the Wurzels were planning to mow him down with a brand new combine harvester. 
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Sun Aug 15, 2010 12:11 am |
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Spreadie
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 6:06 pm Posts: 6355 Location: IoW
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The councillor in question has been in trouble for spitting and swearing at members of the public. It's all rubbish anyway, we only stone gingers. 
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Sun Aug 15, 2010 7:26 am |
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bobbdobbs
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 7:10 pm Posts: 5490 Location: just behind you!
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Sun Aug 15, 2010 3:07 pm |
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Spreadie
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 6:06 pm Posts: 6355 Location: IoW
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Yep, I met a guy, who said "i'd like to intorduce you to my wife and my sister", but there was only one woman with him.
_________________ Before you judge a man, walk a mile in his shoes; after that, who cares?! He's a mile away and you've got his shoes!
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Sun Aug 15, 2010 5:14 pm |
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lumbthelesser
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Joined: Fri May 21, 2010 11:38 pm Posts: 442 Location: Manchester
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Misleading title. It was not a 'gay stoning' joke, it was a 'small, out of the way community' joke. Hate it when journalists mislead people like that. Although, I admit that 'Actress Upsets Isle With small, out of the way community Joke' would not be as catchy a headline.
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Sun Aug 15, 2010 9:01 pm |
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Amnesia10
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Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 2:02 am Posts: 29240 Location: Guantanamo Bay (thanks bobbdobbs)
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110 000 inbred voters is not a small community.
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bobbdobbs
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 7:10 pm Posts: 5490 Location: just behind you!
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no just a large family from the isle of wight 
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Amnesia10
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Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 2:02 am Posts: 29240 Location: Guantanamo Bay (thanks bobbdobbs)
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All on benefits? 
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