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Dick Braine elected leader of UKIP.

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  • #2
    odyssey06
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,878 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    You are implying some sort of nominative determinism?

    I've never believed in it

    Although you have to wonder about the parents. Did it just not occur to them, or they were just very determined to ignore it?

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



  • #3
    biko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,219 ✭✭✭✭biko


    He is 63.
    Back then Dick was just a nickname for Richard, nothing else.


  • #4
    dudara
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,518 ✭✭✭✭dudara


    Moved from AH > CA


  • #5
    Florence Fast Tomcat
    Posts: 13,688 ✭✭✭✭ Florence Fast Tomcat


    Still funny.








    And fitting.


  • #6
    odyssey06
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,878 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    biko wrote: »
    He is 63.
    Back then Dick was just a nickname for Richard, nothing else.

    Was it still an American slang word only back in the 50s?

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



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  • #7
    kneemos
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    biko wrote: »
    He is 63.
    Back then Dick was just a nickname for Richard, nothing else.


    Dick was a dick long before then.

    https://www.grammarphobia.com/blog/2011/01/dick.html


  • #8
    batgoat
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,423 ✭✭✭batgoat


    The US Ambassador to the UK is Woody Johnson.... :pac:


  • #9
    greencap
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,102 ✭✭✭greencap


    Ok, ha ha. very good.

    you had me up to the epstein thing.

    wheres the camera.

    discussion/2058195983/russia-threadbanned-users-in-op/p3135

    😁



  • #10
    [Deleted User]
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    batgoat wrote: »
    The US Ambassador to the UK is Woody Johnson.... :pac:

    And more importantly, although less funny, one of the richest people in the US by virtue of being one of the billionaire owners (inherited wealth and its almost non-existent taxes - yay!) of Johnson and Johnson so when he talks about the US making post-Brexit deals with Britain, feel free to make a judgement about who is going to get screwed there.


  • #11
    briany
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    I'm surprised UKIP still exists, to be honest. What's their voter demographic? Open racists? Stubborn elderly people? Anyone who's a Dick Braine? Edge lords like Sargon of Akkad?


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  • #12
    mikeym
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,987 ✭✭✭mikeym


    :D


  • #13
    rom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,148 ✭✭✭rom


    BJ as PM and now this.


  • #14
    kneemos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,661 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    briany wrote: »
    I'm surprised UKIP still exists, to be honest. What's their voter demographic? Open racists? Stubborn elderly people? Anyone who's a Dick Braine? Edge lords like Sargon of Akkad?


    There wont be a UK the way it's going,even Wales has a growing independence movement.


  • #15
    Annasopra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,214 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    batgoat wrote: »
    The US Ambassador to the UK is Woody Johnson.... :pac:

    Yeah but that's not that funny compared to the new ukip leader

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



  • #16
    Kermit.de.frog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,839 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


    Dick Spring was a politician here.


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