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Post by serpico on Oct 26, 2008 13:25:17 GMT
We, Who the fuck is this we, not in my name mate, they may steal my money in taxes to do this but cant remember them asking me for my approval, on a tax form they should ask what you want them to spend your hard earned on. Yes, sorry , I mean the Government, I need to get out of the habit of saying "we".
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Post by mermaidsal on Oct 26, 2008 13:28:49 GMT
Shock horror, wizzard and serpico talk great sense yet again. bondy, I'm not knocking your right to free speech but I've seldom read quite so much hysterical, ill-informed, borderline psychotic bollocks, can I mildly suggest that you go and do some basic reading (preferably not by Holocaust deniers)??
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Post by edinburghstokie on Oct 26, 2008 13:35:30 GMT
how did the vote go sal?
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Post by mermaidsal on Oct 26, 2008 13:37:12 GMT
Thumbs down for the Mayor (on a highly motivated 18% turnout).
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Post by bondygodfatherleek on Oct 26, 2008 15:07:13 GMT
My next door neighbours family are from India and Mr Singh sits in The Seddon Stand..he's been supporting Stoke since 1964...a long time before I did...in the days when white people spat at him and called him 'Paki' all the time... I thought those days were gone but after reading some of the comments on here, from some of the more psychiatrically-challenged people, I realise they are not.. I lived in Northern Ireland myself, in Belfast, and saw the terrible damage and carnage that was done by two sets of people..living in the same city..because of the hatred they shared for each other...but in another part of Belfast..Malone..Loyalist/Protestants and Nationalist/Catholics..lived side by side throughout all the devastation.. Why? Because they were intelligent to know that hatred was being whipped-up by people on both sides who had a vested interest in doing so.. hello Mr wizzard, i like Sikhs Hindu every other religion except islam.. i to wish people would or could notice the difference, my son works with a sikh and he hates muslims with the same passion as i do. in the mainland Britain i know we had those terrible IRA bombing, but apart from that we have hardly ever had any troubles .so many and i include "everybody" is sick to death of muslims. i,m sorry to anybody who mistakenly called a paki . the end of this matter will indeed end, and i,m afraid to say this bloodshed. oh and by the way i have not wrote to you, i hope your lass is improving, i have a lass too and still worry myself sick about her.
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Post by wizzardofdribble on Oct 26, 2008 20:06:58 GMT
A up Bondy and Chirper... Bondy..you're spending too much time up on Blackshaw Moor..looking at The Roaches.. ;D There's good and bad in everybody lads..the world over...even Ricardo Fuller has his off-days..
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Post by mermaidsal on Oct 26, 2008 20:16:14 GMT
But even the Roaches got their name from immigrants ;D
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Post by wizzardofdribble on Oct 26, 2008 20:27:15 GMT
Flippin' French Monks.. ;D
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Post by powchirper on Oct 26, 2008 20:47:34 GMT
Flippin' French Monks.. ;D Named by prisoners who were held in Leek during the Napolionic war, held in a part of Leek called Petty France which is a matter of yards from my house. Image stolen from wiki. ;D
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Post by Huddysleftfoot on Oct 26, 2008 20:56:46 GMT
Flippin' French Monks.. ;D The pottery industry owes a lot to the French artisans who came over form Sevrés and Solon integrating their unique skills, particularly a technique known as pate sur pate. Wedgwood became famous for it.
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Post by mermaidsal on Oct 26, 2008 21:30:49 GMT
Huddy, I thought of that when those knuckledraggers in Hanley beat up the guys who came over to do a French market, remember that a couple of years ago? It was so different when the pottery industry was in its pomp, people came from all over to work with Minton, Wedgwood etc. Not a happy comparison to make about the city now and the way it's closed its mind.
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Post by wizzardofdribble on Oct 26, 2008 21:56:57 GMT
I like the way the 'tone' of this thread has been raised..incorporating Napoleonic Wars..pate sur pate..Wedgwood..Chirpers house.. ;D..
Doesn't 'The Roaches' mean 'The Rocks' in French?
And wasn't it those French Monks who lived in The Abbey (now called Abbey Green) who called the rocks 'Le Roches'?
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Post by blurtonboy66 on Oct 26, 2008 22:08:56 GMT
Sal, not to sure wether those market traders were actually beat up but i seem to remember that they were verbally abused, still no excuse though
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Post by powchirper on Oct 26, 2008 22:13:07 GMT
Wizzard, I always thought it was the prioners who named them but now you've got me searching the soddin net and cant find any info on who named them, anyway here's a picture of a wallaby to be getting on with.
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Post by mermaidsal on Oct 26, 2008 22:15:40 GMT
Chirper, how long is it now since anyone officially saw a wallaby, do people reckon there are any left up there?
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Post by Pretty Little Boother on Oct 26, 2008 22:23:54 GMT
Doesn't 'The Roaches' mean 'The Rocks' in French? Sooo really a "cockroach" is called a "cockrock"? Hehehe! ;D
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Post by powchirper on Oct 26, 2008 22:27:04 GMT
This is the only mention of the Roaches and petty France i can find.
Subject: The Roaches
I see that Leek Online spell 'The Roaches' as it sounds. I can understand why the non-anglicised spelling would be 'Roches' but if this is the case, perhaps we ought to start pronouncing it in the French way. As far as I remember The Roaches have been spelt so for many years - why change now? Otherwise we might have to apply the same rules to Petty France.
I love the web site and often call in. It's great to catch up with local news - I'm now in bonny Scotland but still miss the area after 14 years away!
A big 'Hi' to anyone who remembers me!
Anne Doyle (nee Davison) leekexpat@aol.com
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Post by powchirper on Oct 26, 2008 22:28:42 GMT
Chirper, how long is it now since anyone officially saw a wallaby, do people reckon there are any left up there? Seen a picture dated 2000 tonight Sal but cant find it again they were said to have died out in the mid 90s.
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Post by powchirper on Oct 26, 2008 22:31:15 GMT
This picture was taken in 2007. Bit blured but you get the idea.
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Post by Huddysleftfoot on Oct 27, 2008 0:46:14 GMT
Huddy, I thought of that when those knuckledraggers in Hanley beat up the guys who came over to do a French market, remember that a couple of years ago? It was so different when the pottery industry was in its pomp, people came from all over to work with Minton, Wedgwood etc. Not a happy comparison to make about the city now and the way it's closed its mind. So sad..and so bloody true Sal.
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Post by wizzardofdribble on Oct 27, 2008 12:08:39 GMT
Wizzard, I always thought it was the prioners who named them but now you've got me searching the soddin net and cant find any info on who named them, anyway here's a picture of a wallaby to be getting on with. When I was 12 Chirp, and my older brother was 15 we heard about some 'kangaroos' running wild near to Leek so we decided to cycle up to Leek from Campbell Road in Stoke, where we lived, to see them..that was over 30 years ago.. None of us knew where Leek was but we ended up getting to Stockton Brook and a couple of hours later Deep Hayes Country Park..where we thought they were..all we saw though was an alsation dog and a couple of rabbits...which my brother claimed later-on..to his mates..that he'd seen some baby kangaroos... Anyway we got lost on the way back home and eventually got in the house at about eleven...when we got a severe bollocking..for being out so late.. Thirty years on Chirper I'm still looking for those Wallabys..Roach-End..Luds Church..Gradbach...Swythamley...Wildboarclough...we've even camped-out near to Luds Church..in the woods...waiting to spot them...but I never have.... I thought they were a myth but a woman I used to work with said she'd seen some..Luds Church way about 15 years ago..they escaped from a private zoo (Swythamley Hall)..after the second world-war.. Not bad eh Sal..from the BNP to Wallabys without any mention of Mark Meredith.. ;D
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Post by mermaidsal on Oct 27, 2008 13:37:13 GMT
wizzard, I was truly about to say the same thing. Wallabies are cute things with a great talent for survival in inhospitable places, whereas Meredith....
Seriously, if the second mayor had had any personality and balls at it might have been a different story.
I love Lud's Church, that is such an extraordinary place. It feels like going back a thousand years being there. Although sadly it's one of the places I really can't get to now so I'm twice as glad I did when I could walk.
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Post by wizzardofdribble on Oct 27, 2008 14:00:55 GMT
This picture was taken in 2007. Bit blured but you get the idea. Is that a wallaby..or is it Mike Wolfe hiding from Meredith? Is it me..or does that 'apparition' have short ginger-hair and why is it hiding? ( ;D) Luds Church is a truly magical place Sal..we used to go there a lot..park-up at Roach-End...walk down to the woods alongside the old stone-wall..then through the woods to Luds Church..picnic on the rocks..then down to the river for a paddle..and up the hill to Gradbach...aahhh The Memories ;D Still try to walk over The Roaches on New Years Day (and any other day if I can) weather permitting..from Hen-Cloud up to Doxey Pool then over to the 'trig' point with its 360 degree views...and then walk down to Roach End..and back all along the road to Five-Clouds..where we started... Great Stuff ;D
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Post by powchirper on Oct 27, 2008 20:48:23 GMT
Flippin eck Wizzard it was just one of many playgrounds when we were kids, When i go up there now and look at some of the places we used to climb it scares the crap out of me, We would spend a great deal of the summer hols up there and come Autumn me mam and dad would drag us to the back forest to collect billberries, The wallaby will always be a source of great debate, One mention of the word in any public place will have everybody telling tales of when they saw one or more of the wonderful creature, boing boing.
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Post by powchirper on Oct 27, 2008 20:51:39 GMT
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Post by Huddysleftfoot on Oct 27, 2008 20:57:13 GMT
Flippin eck Wizzard it was just one of many playgrounds when we were kids, When i go up there now and look at some of the places we used to climb it scares the crap out of me, We would spend a great deal of the summer hols up there and come Autumn me mam and dad would drag us to the back forest to collect billberries, The wallaby will always be a source of great debate, One mention of the word in any public place will have everybody telling tales of when they saw one or more of the wonderful creature, boing boing. Roaches were a bit too far for us but I recall having similar days out through the summer hols as a kid up in Mow Cop and Knypersley....ahhh happy. happy days.
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Post by Mr_DaftBurger on Oct 27, 2008 21:29:58 GMT
None of us knew where Leek was but we ended up getting to Stockton Brook and a couple of hours later Deep Hayes Country Park..where we thought they were..all we saw though was an alsation dog and a couple of rabbits...which my brother claimed later-on..to his mates..that he'd seen some baby kangaroos... PMSL ;D;D Not bad eh Sal..from the BNP to Wallabys without any mention of Mark Meredith.. ;D Errrrm I wish we had the Australian immigration rules! (Not really but I thought it would fit in with the fred! )
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Post by wizzardofdribble on Oct 27, 2008 22:32:49 GMT
None of us knew where Leek was but we ended up getting to Stockton Brook and a couple of hours later Deep Hayes Country Park..where we thought they were..all we saw though was an alsation dog and a couple of rabbits...which my brother claimed later-on..to his mates..that he'd seen some baby kangaroos... PMSL ;D;D Not bad eh Sal..from the BNP to Wallabys without any mention of Mark Meredith.. ;D Errrrm I wish we had the Australian immigration rules! (Not really but I thought it would fit in with the fred! ) ;D ;D We stll talk about those 'baby kangaroos' now.DaftBurger. ;D We still walk round Knypersley Huddy...as the wifes from Brown Edge...and across Marshes Head...with its views over to Mow Cop on the right and The Wrekin on the horizon..and you can see The Brit as well... You're really lucky living in Leek Chirper..with all the hills and lakes and scenery..fantastic views from Doxey Pool..great place to bring up your kids..
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Post by mermaidsal on Oct 27, 2008 23:30:26 GMT
I love the way this started with two of the worst things about North Staffs (BNP and Meredith) and here we are doing the best ones
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Post by Huddysleftfoot on Oct 27, 2008 23:35:18 GMT
I love the way this started with two of the worst things about North Staffs (BNP and Meredith) and here we are doing the best ones As it should be ;D
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