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# We're gonna need a bigger coat..
(, Fri 12 Aug 2011, 11:15, archived)
# hahahaha
top stuff!
(, Fri 12 Aug 2011, 11:16, archived)
# Happy Birthday for yesterday, sir.
(, Fri 12 Aug 2011, 11:20, archived)
# thenk yeaux, sire!
(, Fri 12 Aug 2011, 11:24, archived)
# There was a 'Happy Birthday, Taters' thread, last night, started by Wobbly.
Don't know if you saw it..
(, Fri 12 Aug 2011, 11:25, archived)
# yeah - he PMed it me
i was too late to post anything though. you know how quickly the board moves.

Hope anyone wasnt too scared by my chunky, bearded head! I darent show my real face on here - look what happened to clansoul...
(, Fri 12 Aug 2011, 11:32, archived)
# There is, as far as I know, only one picture of my face on the internet.
And I look a complete tit, so I leave it as a shameful reminder of taking too many drugs in my youth.
(, Fri 12 Aug 2011, 12:12, archived)
# Woo! :D
(, Fri 12 Aug 2011, 11:20, archived)
# Morning, Drim.
(, Fri 12 Aug 2011, 11:24, archived)
# Ning
Trust you are well, and not unduly singed?
(, Fri 12 Aug 2011, 11:37, archived)
# I'm good, and getting better as the day progresses towards the inevitable drunken meltdown, later.
No burnt edges in Hertfordshire, thankfully.
And I hope your day is running along similar lines to mine.
(, Fri 12 Aug 2011, 11:59, archived)
# ACE.
(, Fri 12 Aug 2011, 11:27, archived)
# This is great, I like it and have clicked it, BUT
I have found it particularly noticable over this week that increasingly the meeja is referring to "stores" and not "shops".

This strikes me as another example of creeping Coca-Colonisation, which has been going on for the past 50 years or so.
(, Fri 12 Aug 2011, 11:29, archived)
# oooh Coca-Colonisation
not heard that phrase before

I'm going to use it this weekend at a posh dinner party
(, Fri 12 Aug 2011, 11:31, archived)
# It'll probably turn out that stores is what shops are called in Yorkshire or Somerset or somewhere and it doesn't come from America
or that it was the old word for shops in the 15th century, and Americans just copied us and then we forgot.
*Takes another bite of coca-colon*
(, Fri 12 Aug 2011, 11:40, archived)
# I'm pretty sure this is the case
You see a lot of 'village stores' and 'general stores' in little villages
(, Fri 12 Aug 2011, 11:49, archived)
# There's the Old Camden Stores too
it probably doesn't predate America but it's pretty old
(, Fri 12 Aug 2011, 11:51, archived)
# Pall Shopping Centre?
(, Fri 12 Aug 2011, 11:48, archived)
# I took the rhyming option.
Made you this, by way of apology:
(, Fri 12 Aug 2011, 11:55, archived)
# Trainers4Justice innit
(, Fri 12 Aug 2011, 11:32, archived)
# Is that Ed Miliband?
(, Fri 12 Aug 2011, 11:39, archived)
# The face and eyes are from different pics, but yes.
*awards cigar*
(, Fri 12 Aug 2011, 12:00, archived)
# I like it
(, Sat 13 Aug 2011, 11:09, archived)