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39 Steps to Being a Gentleman

29-10-2015 8:05pm

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Tesco Massacre

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Most of you are common as muck, so this should be useful:

http://www.countrylife.co.uk/features/the-39-steps-to-being-a-gentleman-78780

You're welcome.

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#2 29-10-2015 8:08pm

Cee-Jay-Cee

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I, as a gentleman, do declare that list as a load of old horse****e.

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#3 29-10-2015 8:08pm

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How/why the fcuk would you train a rose??

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#4 29-10-2015 8:09pm

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tomwaterford wrote: »

How/why the fcuk would you train a rose??

Dunno. Like a dog?

Rose, stay. Good.

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#5 29-10-2015 8:13pm

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Pfft, look at these guys with their wild roses

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#6 29-10-2015 8:14pm

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Can prepare a one match bonfire

I just buy the local kids a load of petrol and have them drown the bonfire in it. Easy.

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#7 29-10-2015 8:14pm

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Tesco Massacre wrote: »

Most of you are common as muck, so this should be useful:

http://www.countrylife.co.uk/features/the-39-steps-to-being-a-gentleman-78780

You're welcome.

Most of that reads like an "in joke" I'm not in on.

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#8 29-10-2015 8:15pm

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Can negotiate airports with ease? Fallen at the first hurdle.

Being a gentlemen would only slow me down anyway.

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#9 29-10-2015 8:18pm

Nib

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"Is good with waiters"

What about waitresses, can we be cunts to them?

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#10 29-10-2015 8:19pm

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19 Can undo a bra with one hand

1 outta 39 ain't bad.

Cake, and grief counseling, will be available at the conclusion of the test

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#11 29-10-2015 8:19pm

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tomwaterford wrote: »

How/why the fcuk would you train a rose??

You would train a climbing rose up a trellis.

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#12 29-10-2015 8:20pm

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Some load ah shyte!

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#13 29-10-2015 8:21pm

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#14 29-10-2015 8:22pm

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[Deleted User] wrote: »

You would train a climbing rose up a trellis.

This makes a gentleman how??

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#15 29-10-2015 8:25pm

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34 Sandals? No. Never

Damn straight.

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#16 29-10-2015 8:32pm

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If you are already 39 steps away from gentleman, you probably don't care.

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#17 29-10-2015 8:34pm

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I nearly dropped my monocle into my sherry reading that!

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#18 29-10-2015 8:42pm

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“A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn't.”
-Tom Waits

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#19 29-10-2015 8:46pm

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I ticked 30 boxes. Well.... 29, and two halves. Im a squire at best. I can't train a rose, but I can chastise a daffodil.

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#20 29-10-2015 8:49pm

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Anybody know where I can find a gamekeeper in a shooting field to tip?

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#21 29-10-2015 8:53pm

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This was probably written by a woman - a man doesn't need a woman to tell him how to be a man.

*drops mic and walks off-stage*

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#22 29-10-2015 8:55pm

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osarusan wrote: »

Anybody know where I can find a gamekeeper in a shooting field to tip?

Pheasant season starts on Sunday.

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#23 29-10-2015 9:04pm

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Pheasant season starts on Sunday.

excellent - cocks only though!

was at a complete loss since the fly fishing and red grouse season closed.

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