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Discussion in 'Hull City' started by Dr.Stanley O'Google, HCFC, Nov 20, 2015.

  1. petersaxton

    petersaxton Well-Known Member

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    Mobile phones do seem to have taken over people's lives
    This example is extreme but you see please walking down the street while staring at their phones - I'm sure you never saw people reading a book while walking down the street
     
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    Or at least if you did they were considered really weird. Funny old world ain't it.
     
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    Serves him right not one jot of sympathy for anyone who abuses animals
     
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    "Come fly with me..." :emoticon-0100-smile:emoticon-0105-wink:
     
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    :emoticon-0102-bigsm:emoticon-0102-bigsm
     
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  7. Chazz Rheinhold

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    WTF
    On bbc 2 now
    Artistic cycling!!!
    Never seen or heard of before
    Amazing
     
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  10. rovertiger

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    8.00 for his fluency.
     
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    DMD Eh?
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    Whole country is a car crèche..
     
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  14. petersaxton

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    Or she
    Or something else
     
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  15. SW3 Chelsea Tiger

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    Stolen from elsewhere

    Towel - A nocturnal bird of prey found in Yorkshire.

    Trifle - A Yorkshireman's firearm

    Toffee - Where a Yorkshireman buys his beer

    Toast - the organiser of the party the Yorkshireman went to

    Tart - What is hanging on the walls of a Yorkshire gallery.

    Trump - The back of a Yorkshire cow

    Tarot - What a Yorkshireman fires from his bow.

    Tarragon - an empty bow.

    Tut - What you find in a Yorkshireman's back garden.

    Tinker - A Yorkshire tattoo artist

    Tile - What a Yorkshire bride walks down.

    Triple - The wave made when a Yorkshireman steps into water.

    Terse - A vehicle that carries a Yorkshireman to his funeral.

    Toll - What they put him in when he gets there.

    Train - wet Yorkshire weather
     
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    Be interested to hear what other people think, but I've never heard this from an East Riding native; nor can I imagine it in the North Riding. So, is this purely West Riding? Where do the boundaries lay? Anyone with any ideas?

    Also, interesting how this gets projected as a whole Yorkshire thing.
     
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    There was only one Barry Cryer. :emoticon-0125-mmm:


    The views expressed in my posts are not necessarily mine.
     
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