Originally Posted by dremble wedge

As Steve says you really shouldn't believe anything you read in the Daily Mail (except possibly the date on the front cover).

Originally Posted by David Brent

East European immigrants with nowhere to live have been camping in tents beside the River Lea in East London.
But wait, it gets worse.

Locals have revealed that the immigrants, mostly Poles and Romanians, have been slaughtering the swans in that area for food.
The royal swans are of course protected birds.
Piles of swan carcasses have been found in the area where the immigrants were living.
Police and RSPCA officers were called to the scene but the immigrants had fled before they arrived.

Dave.

Originally Posted by samkydd

When I worked out in The Third World for months on end I liked the hot climate and the culture of the countries I stayed in, but boy when I got home and stepped off that aircraft on a rainy, cold and windy December evening the smell of England was just fantastic!

Even after an hour or so of bloody annoying hold-ups when trying to perform the simple task of hiring a motor car from a large car hire company based at the airport, I was still grinning as I embarked on my 120 mile journey home. It was wet, dark and miserable but I had the windows open just to breathe in that English smell!

You just can't beat it and I'd rather fight to the death to preserve my country than abandon it to be ruined once and for all by a rather idiotic amateurish government, criminals, yobs, and a corrupt half-witted bunch of tossers called the EU!

Originally Posted by TimR

Nice post.

What's a tosser?

Originally Posted by dremble wedge

You can find the meaning of tosser and lots of other interesting English colloquialisms here

Originally Posted by David Brent

East European immigrants with nowhere to live have been camping in tents beside the River Lea in East London.
But wait, it gets worse.

Locals have revealed that the immigrants, mostly Poles and Romanians, have been slaughtering the swans in that area for food.
The royal swans are of course protected birds.
Piles of swan carcasses have been found in the area where the immigrants were living.
Police and RSPCA officers were called to the scene but the immigrants had fled before they arrived.

Dave.

Originally Posted by penfold

Tell me David, do you think the immigrants cooked the bird, ate it, then rearticulated the neck and reassembled the ribcage and then reattached the feathers?? .

Originally Posted by TimR

Oh very nice. Thanks dremble.

So it means an "idiot". A "contemptible person."

What about this:

I found the name "Tim" followed by this definition:

Noun. A supporter of Celtic Football Club, a Glasgwegian based team with a Catholic following, hence Tim also referring to Catholics. Cf. 'hun'. [Mainly Glasgow use]

So the name Tim also means a Celtic Football supporter? Why?

Originally Posted by TimR

Eating swans? I didn't know swans were edible....

Swans are a hardy bunch. I just read this week that the Queen personally apologized to a child who was bitten - or nipped or chewed or partially eaten - by a swan. The queen wrote a letter in response. (It must have been a slow day at the palace) Maybe it was some sort of royal, high strung swan.

The child was very upset and sent a letter directly to the Queen. No courtiers getting in the way. Apparently the swan was also upset - or would not have upset the child. The queen and the chewed tot: like a weird update of The Mudlark.

So they know how to defend themselves.

Originally Posted by dremble wedge

Tim Malloy was/is a generic Glasgow term for a Catholic (the Tim Malloys may have been the name of a gang, I'm not that familiar with Glasgow history). This has been shortened to 'Tim' over the years and can now mean a Catholic or a Celtic supporter.

Originally Posted by TimR

Oh very nice. Thanks dremble.

So it means an "idiot". A "contemptible person."

Originally Posted by Steve Crook

Definitely. Most people keep away from them because they are taught the old canard (pun intended) about a swan being able to break a man's arm with its wing. Total nonsense of course but it means that most people leave swans alone.

Originally Posted by Steve Crook

Yes, that's its usual meaning.
A descriptive word for something that rhymes with Merchant Banker

Steve

Originally Posted by penfold

I knew, just knew, that someone would post this story when I saw it in my local transport cafe's Sun this morning. David, have a look at the photo used to illustrate the story....supposedly of the remains of the cooked and eaten swan. Tell me David, do you think the immigrants cooked the bird, ate it, then rearticulated the neck and reassembled the ribcage and then reattached the feathers?? Yes, the swan has been stripped of flesh...by bacteria, maggots ...nothing bigger than a rat, at most. It's a dead, rotted-away-clean corpse of a swan that died, probably of natural causes, about two months ago., and nothing whatsoever to do with immigration...unless the swan was from overseas.
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