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Charles Foster Kane replied

8 November 2007, 16:51
Originally posted by sasguru View Post

Strange. I still know me old muckers from school. Don't you?

Yeah, but most of them have moved to Kent et al. They refuse to pay the house prices in London.
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sasguru replied

8 November 2007, 16:49
Originally posted by Charles Foster Kane View Post

You'd be lucky to see any Londoners walking around at all these days. As a Londoner I am a minority, heavily outnumbered by non-Londoners.

'Oh, I've never met anyone that's grown up in London before' If I had a penny for...

Strange. I still know me old muckers from school. Don't you?
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Charles Foster Kane replied

8 November 2007, 16:47
Originally posted by SueEllen View Post

The only Londoners you see walking around grinning in public are the mad.

The rest of us and the Finns like laughing and smiling in private. Keeps the mad away from us.

You'd be lucky to see any Londoners walking around at all these days. As a Londoner I am a minority, heavily outnumbered by non-Londoners.

'Oh, I've never met anyone that's grown up in London before' If I had a penny for...
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SueEllen replied

8 November 2007, 16:37
Originally posted by Bagpuss View Post

Thing is they never seem to have reason

The only Londoners you see walking around grinning in public are the mad.

The rest of us and the Finns like laughing and smiling in private. Keeps the mad away from us.
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Bagpuss replied

8 November 2007, 16:04
Originally posted by sasguru View Post

Quite right, Londoners and Finns don't walk about grinning for no reason like the gurning idiots up north

Thing is they never seem to have reason
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Charles Foster Kane replied

8 November 2007, 15:58
Originally posted by DimPrawn View Post

What are you? Yesterday's news?

lol, apparently so.
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sasguru replied

8 November 2007, 15:57
Originally posted by Bagpuss View Post

The Finnish sense of humour is very similar to ours, they're facial expressions are as miserable as the ones Londoners pull though.

Quite right, Londoners and Finns don't walk about grinning for no reason like the gurning idiots up north
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Bagpuss replied

8 November 2007, 15:41
The Finnish sense of humour is very similar to ours, they're facial expressions are as miserable as the ones Londoners pull though.
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Churchill replied

8 November 2007, 14:30
Originally posted by zeitghost

We had a very intense Finn as a student here last year... did some good work.

Finland has the highest suicide rate in the world.

Apparently.

They have a rather nice word though, Finlandisation... I blame the Russians.
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SueEllen replied

8 November 2007, 14:26
Originally posted by sasguru View Post

The Finns have always been nuts.

True. The Finnish people I know and have met are/have been eccentric.
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sasguru replied

8 November 2007, 14:23
The Finns have always been nuts. This is not news. Not too long ago a student at Helsinki Uni blew himself and 7 other people up in a shopping mall. And no it was NOT Islam related.
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DimPrawn replied

8 November 2007, 14:15
Originally posted by Bagpuss View Post

House prices, immigration anyone?

They will be tomorrows news. Mark my words.
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wendigo100 replied

8 November 2007, 14:12
I heard a quiz on the radio once where the Disc Jockey asked for the name of a country in Europe beginning with "F". He wouldn't accept Finland because, he said, "I think you'll find that's over in Scandanavia".

So the poor sod lost.
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Bagpuss replied

8 November 2007, 14:09
Originally posted by DimPrawn View Post

What are you? Yesterday's news?

House prices, immigration anyone?
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DimPrawn replied

8 November 2007, 14:07
What are you? Yesterday's news?
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