Swagger Inn: Thread 93 - Carry on wenching, Musketeers ahoy!

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Doors open for Thread 93. The bar is stocked, the floor is mopped. Unleash the wenches....

Here's some pretty to get us started

Probably not an all-nighter mrsb, but I'm a night owl so am up quite late normally. I'll try to stay up as long as possible in the hope that I'll have some idea of how things are going before I go to sleep, so maybe 2am?

Armour you say? Hmm, you could have a point

Night ww

I am not a revolutionary republican but I do like to think I am broadly revolutionary in general nor a royalist. Although really bizarrely, when Charles and Camilla got married I did write them a letter of congratulations. Absolutely no idea why on earth I did that. None whatsoever, up until that point I just had no interest whatsoever in any living monarch. I am ambivalent, I would prefer a Republic, but also don't find they particularly offensive the pomp etc can be fun. I am annoyed that Nepal is pretty much forgotten.

DS1 tells me that William the Conqueror descended from Vikings as apparently did Normans in general.

I will stay up as late as I can but I suspect we are talking 10/11. DS1 has collected all the flyers that have come through the door. He keeps telling people to vote labour and when I asked why he said because Ed is cool. Not sure what to make of his Royal/Labour behaviour.

Right, i need to sleep last night off now.

Adieu.

Night Anne...and yes the Normans were "Northmen". Descended from Scandinavian settlers. The fuckers got everywhere

I've just snorted re the letter to Chaz & Camilla.

Bahahahaha!

I dont know if I will be able to bear watching it tbh mrsb. Its not looking good for me and annes ds1.

Its not that Im mad keen on labour or ed miliband. Im not. For me not voting labour is like not cleaning up after the cat voms on your bed. There's no other option.

#thewrongbrother I don't like Ed either, but I dislike him less than I dislike the others. Not sure that's a good reason to vote for someone but.....

Plus local MP looks like he will get unseated up here, which is a real shame as he works bloody hard. He is a real constituency MP, writes letters, intervenes, helps people. If he does go the new MP better be as good on that front.

I will find the whole election thing too boring for words and go to bed as normal. If I happen to wake up I might check online to see what's happening (I did for the referendum) but my being awake is not going to have any effect on the result so I can't be arsed.

I like your assessment of your voting intentions madame. I would be similar, but have spent many years in safe Tory seats and have voted tactically many times. I am now somewhere so safe that until recently I assumed that even a tactical vote would be useless. Then I saw that UKIP were in danger of coming second in my constituency. So now I feel I have to vote tactically to stop that happening. You couldn't make it up

I've just snorted re the letter to Chaz & Camilla.

Bahahahaha!

Night all...

Night helen

Night wenches

A great day of traditional bank holiday decorating here. Good progress made, bloody exhausted but quite enjoying the physical rather than mental tiredness.

2 key things I'm taking from recent pages: 1) Baddz's thing about a supermarket manager which is fabulous and I'm officially stealing to use myself. 2) Madame's thing about Miliband cats vom. I agree entirely.

Fancy ref the cat blanket, I made that washing mistake with one of the babies comfort blanket things once. Had to stuff it down my top for an afternoon to get boob/mum aroma reimpregnated. You could try that?

Sexy Musketeer Dreams to all xxx

Oh and just to say I fucking LOVE Tom's long hair with the new armour. Hair is quite akin to Eddie Vedder circa 1992. This is a VERY GOOD THING. And indeed gives me THE RIGHT HORN.

Night again

Xx

fancy where I live its safe labour so my vote doesnt make a bugger of difference either. Yep, you really couldn't make it up.

The electoral system is not the reason, but no wonder the youth of today cba with politics. The other week when we saw my nephew (an I would say fairly typical 18 year old), we asked him if he was going to vote. Turned out he didnt even know the name of the prime minister. We live in strange times...

comtess. Although now I'm worried about what sort of relationship you think I have with my cats

Ok everyone.

This is a supermarket manager.

This is Jeremy Renner.

So are we good?

I find that so odd madame, but then I grew up in a house where my parents always voted, they'd pile in the car with my elderly neighbours & drive off to the polling station together . My grandmothers always voted too. In fact the highlight of one's year was to accept a lift to the polling station off the Tory party workers & then vote Labour. God that made her happy

The one good thing about the referendum up here (imho) is that it woke folk up to politics. People are engaged. Turnout will be high, 16/17 year olds round here are mightly pissed off they can't vote.

It's why Russel Brand gives me the rage. Young people should vote. The reason why so many policies are OAP friendly is that as a demographic they turn out. If 18-25s disengage then it allows government to ignore them

Jeez, this is all a bit serious for a Sat night eh? Pfffft....

MrsB I tend to pull all nighters for general elections and also US presidentials. I will be on the sofa while DrIssy will be in bed - he just doesn't do election nights. Even in 1997 when we were on holiday in Prague but at least had Sky News, he slept through it all and was most grumpy when I woke him to tell him that his true blue home constituency had gone Labour. I even got quoted on the BBC NIreland live coverage blog last GE And that wouldn't have happened if I'd gone to bed at 10.30

When I was a hall warden at Bath, I would spend the evening of any election going around and getting the student vote as best I could. Didn't always succeed but I tried my best.
I dread to think what the student vote will be like this time given its individual registration...

Right off to do some staring at lovely pics and thenst to bed!

Night night