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Bunburying and wassailing into winter - thread 7

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CaraDuneRedux · 02/12/2020 11:41

Time for a new thread. Please can someone c&p the header post? (Am on phone.)

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MichelleofzeResistance · 07/12/2020 16:57

Kinning Park? On a Monday? Hang on, are we going with the Blackpool '97 ruling on this? I thought that inquiry never completed.

ArabellaScott · 07/12/2020 16:31

KINNING PARK

WaveWalker · 07/12/2020 16:11

Hmm. I feel a bit of a spiritual pull towards st hilda of whitby, but haven't tried having a natter with her yet. Thank you for reassuring me we weren't in the same boat bar/car

Grin
AskingQuestionsAllTheTime · 07/12/2020 16:02

WaveWalker
"I was in a bar once in which a truly boring person was going on and on and on about something or other and several people started to play Mornington Crescent in self-defence. She then wanted it explained to her."
That's bar, not car, right?

Definitely. On the evidence of your posts I don't believe you are as boring as she was anyway. Nor have you ever gone on at length about Mediaeval torture, or at least not at me, and not at breakfast. And I don't suppose you think you are in psychic touch with Richard III either?

RufustheSniggeringReindeer · 07/12/2020 14:39

wave

😀

I’m not quick enough for Mornington Crescent

WaveWalker · 07/12/2020 14:14

^ I don't think any of you are horrible people btw...

I'm going to stop digging....

WaveWalker · 07/12/2020 14:14

I was asking them to explain it Blush and they just told me the rules were obvious and I'd pick it up as I went along.
Please don't feel the need to explain it to me - it was 20 years ago and I still laugh (bitterly) about it now - they'd been horrible people all weekend and that was the cherry on top.

WaveWalker · 07/12/2020 14:10

^using Thompson's third rule

That's it, I'm out Grin

WaveWalker · 07/12/2020 14:09

Don't let me stop the game, btw.

Brixton via kennington Hmm

WaveWalker · 07/12/2020 13:59

I thought I'd gone mad Grin

DeaconBoo · 07/12/2020 13:59

Oh dear, Wave! I can kind of see that sort of thing panicking me, though!

WaveWalker · 07/12/2020 13:59

@AskingQuestionsAllTheTime

Isn't that the Glamis Gambit, Cara?

I was in a bar once in which a truly boring person was going on and on and on about something or other and several people started to play Mornington Crescent in self-defence. She then wanted it explained to her.

That's bar, not car, right? Hmm
PopperUppleton · 07/12/2020 13:53

I miss Humph

AskingQuestionsAllTheTime · 07/12/2020 13:47

Isn't that the Glamis Gambit, Cara?

I was in a bar once in which a truly boring person was going on and on and on about something or other and several people started to play Mornington Crescent in self-defence. She then wanted it explained to her.

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CaraDuneRedux · 07/12/2020 13:40

Sorry WaveWalker. If it helps, I am not posh, just grew up in a house where my mum had radio 4 on pretty much all the time.

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WaveWalker · 07/12/2020 13:35

^ not implying that anyone on this thread is posh btw Grin
My brain still startles when I come across it in the wild Blush

WaveWalker · 07/12/2020 13:32

I had my first ever full blown panic attack 20 years ago when some v posh people started playing mornington crescent spontaneously in a long car journey. I had never heard of it before....

MichelleofzeResistance · 07/12/2020 13:31

Good grief Cara, I haven't seen a move like that since Queen Mary had that awful attack of gripe and they put all the Harrods flags at half mast.
My hat is off.

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CaraDuneRedux · 07/12/2020 10:35

So I'll play the Southern Arroward Drive from the Reubenstein solution and take a third through Green Park to Elephant and Castle.

Elephant and Castle before noon... A bold move. Given its proximity the Oval I'm a tad anxious about being caught LBW, but I'm really anxious to avoid ending up at Goldsmiths, so I'll risk playing off the back foot just this once... Charing Cross.

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MichelleofzeResistance · 07/12/2020 10:26

Much repeating of 'nothing to see here - I told you there was nothing to see here'.

Was it Rowan Atkinson who used to do that sketch about the French government scolding the English about "You keep eating prawn cocktail crisps although we have told you not to!"

MichelleofzeResistance · 07/12/2020 10:22

Posting on FWR is exactly like playing a card game called bedlam

Must look that up. It always seems to me like an endless game of Mornington Crescent.

I'll guess that the discussion of public interest around information in the public domain has been zapped (again) because of it being classed TAAT. But the posts this morning on the third one confirm it's causing high anxiety amongst the tedious who think deleting discussion means it never happened and the situation has been successfully hidden away, and I have no doubt this one will go too.

So I'll play the Southern Arroward Drive from the Reubenstein solution and take a third through Green Park to Elephant and Castle.

RufustheSniggeringReindeer · 07/12/2020 10:06

Very good game

Bunburying and wassailing into winter - thread 7
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CaraDuneRedux · 07/12/2020 08:50

@Wrongsideofhistorymyarse

The deletion message said the OP was against guidelines.
Interesting deletion message. IIRC, the OO was a screen grab of WMP'own Twitter feed, so not merely in the public domain, but an official source with the purpose of portraying to the general public how they as a police force wanted their key values to be seen. Now some OPs do (quite rightly, given MN's terms and conditions) get deleted solely for the link - eg BNP, antivax conspiracy nuts, libellous comments. But surely MNHQ are not putting WMP's official Twitter feed into that sort of category.

So it must be OP's comment on the image. But all OP had added to this was "posted without comment."

Confused
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RufustheSniggeringReindeer · 07/12/2020 08:50

@Wrongsideofhistorymyarse

The deletion message said the OP was against guidelines.
None in particular?

Or just secret ones

Posting on FWR is exactly like playing a card game called bedlam

Exactly!! I shit you not

Wrongsideofhistorymyarse · 07/12/2020 08:10

The deletion message said the OP was against guidelines.

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