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  national service

  by Ellie in

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  what do you all think about national service?.

  do you think they should bring it back?

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  Paul

  There is evidence of some middle class aping the chavs, hence the rise of Estuary English. My time at uni here was while chav culture was on the rise. The uni attracts a ridiculously large proportion of upper middle class kids (yes, friends of Prince William were in my year) and in first year they were still all Yahs, long scarves, ethnic beads, flicky hair and moth eaten jumpers -shabby chic that you have to be rich to get away with. By 4th year however there was a notable difference in the first year intake with a lot of fake tan, pram-face (tight blonde pony tails) and high street fashion on the kids from Marlborough, Cheltenham Ladies and Ampleforth.

  Chavitis seems infectious.
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  national service

  by Ellie in

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  what do you all think about national service?.

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  scotsman

  taken from chavworld.co.uk

  What is a Chav?

  'chav' (slang) - a young person, often without a high level of education, who follows a particular fashion; Chavs usually wear designer labels including the chav favourite 'Burberry', and if they’re girls, very short skirts, large hoop earrings and stilettos. Chavs see branded baseball caps as a status symbol and wear them at every opportunity. Normally found hanging around shopping centres. Also known as Townies, Kevs, Hood Rats, Charvers, Steeks, Stigs, Bazzas, Yarcos, Ratboys, Chorer, Skangers, Scutters, Janners, Kappa Slappers, Scallies, and Spides. Also known as Neds in Scotland, knackers & skangers in Ireland, and Guidos in the USA
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  national service

  by Ellie in

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  what do you all think about national service?.

  do you think they should bring it back?

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  scotsman

  And a ned is a schemie.
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  national service

  by Ellie in

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  what do you all think about national service?.

  do you think they should bring it back?

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  scotsman

  what's a chav?

  a chav is a ned.
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  national service

  by Ellie in

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  what do you all think about national service?.

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  scotsman

  Don't forget the birch too. Wearing anything Burberry should result in a public birching, hooded tops a lynching.
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  the society is "encouraging" chinese converts to go back to china to preach

  by in a new york bethel minute in

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  my mother told me this at dinner tonite.

  has anyone else heard of this?

  she didn't know if the work was still under ban there, and neither do i. but either way it's pretty stupid.

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  scotsman

  You are wrong about the Chinese "using" the Witnesses to learn English. My mum offers bible studies and tells them that if nothing else it will help their English. She's got loads of studies with students, is learning Chinese and has a ball with them. They cook for her, bring her small gifts and letters from their parents thanking her for taking an interest in their kids. They all treat her with tremendous respect. None of them are baptised and I don't think any of those that have returned to China have continued their study.

  She's also in contact with Witnesses in Beijing. They are ther under the auspices of learning Chinese but are missionary sleeper cells. They email each other in a kind of code stripped of any religious/spiritual terminology in case it's read.

  Here they have a Mandarin congregation and in Glasgow they have Mandarin and Cantonese congregations and she's been to Belfast for a circuit assembly and Birmingham for the district assembly.

  It's all the rage.
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  Could You Stay Friends With Someone Who Visited Prostitutes?

  by Englishman in

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  a while back, an aquaintance of mine told me that he liked to visit prostitutes.

  although we weren't that close, i'd worked on and off with him over the years.

  i knew his wife too and would often see her around town.. he'd told me that when he had something to celebrate, like his birthday or maybe a commercial win, he and a pal of his would do the pubs and clubs first and then go kerb crawling until they found a pair of street girls who would play the swopsy's scene.

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  Trevor

  You've got me, you wise old coot.
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  Could You Stay Friends With Someone Who Visited Prostitutes?

  by Englishman in

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  a while back, an aquaintance of mine told me that he liked to visit prostitutes.

  although we weren't that close, i'd worked on and off with him over the years.

  i knew his wife too and would often see her around town.. he'd told me that when he had something to celebrate, like his birthday or maybe a commercial win, he and a pal of his would do the pubs and clubs first and then go kerb crawling until they found a pair of street girls who would play the swopsy's scene.

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  scotsman

  influencing the situation in a positive way

  So you do think that curb crawling is negative - interesting!
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  Could You Stay Friends With Someone Who Visited Prostitutes?

  by Englishman in

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  a while back, an aquaintance of mine told me that he liked to visit prostitutes.

  although we weren't that close, i'd worked on and off with him over the years.

  i knew his wife too and would often see her around town.. he'd told me that when he had something to celebrate, like his birthday or maybe a commercial win, he and a pal of his would do the pubs and clubs first and then go kerb crawling until they found a pair of street girls who would play the swopsy's scene.

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  scotsman

  I will discuss the situation with the person who is confiding in me and see if I can help. I am told many things by male and female friends but what is said to me remains confidential and does not affect my affection or friendship with that person or their partner.

  That sounds like you are making a value judgement. In what way would you help Englishman's acquaintance?

  but I personally don’t feel forced to make a judgement or end a friendship because someone lives by a different standard to me.

  Even if they skin kittens for a hobby?
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  Ouija board?

  by out of the box in

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  i was a teenager i bought a ouigja board and my sisters and i played with it.

  it scared us so much we threw it away!

  but, i was forwarned about it, so i guess i could have driven myself to madness with my own mind!

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  scotsman

  Played with one recently and zilch occured.

  There have been a few threads on this recently and it struck me that it was primarily women that were having questions answered and prophecies come true through a ouija. It was also my experience while a Witness that the majority of incidences of "demonic" activity was visited upon women (books flying across rooms, voices, something pinning them to the bed etc). The only man I came across having similar problems was bi-polar and had starved himself into oblivion and I would guess was hallucinating.

  At the risk of being labelled a misogynist... Have any men on the board had anything happen with a ouija board?