Hillary Benn

[Widgetone]

@Widgetone something I've been meaning to ask you for some time is how to pronounce your user name... 'Widget One', 'Widge Tone'* or what...?



*Up to now I've gone with 'Widge Tone', because it amuses me.

Theres the thing...well, it tbh was a online password WidgetOne. I've been called a lot worse than Widge Tone though so be my guest
Funnily enough I've wondered about yours on occasion!
Its wanton dwarf I worry about the most...

 

[Danllan]

Theres the thing...well, it tbh was a online password WidgetOne. I've been called a lot worse than Widge Tone though so be my guest
Funnily enough I've wondered about yours on occasion!
Its wanton dwarf I worry about the most...

Just pronounce mine as Dan (normal English) and llan as in the start of Llanelli, there's easy for you!

@wanton dwarf does have a strange name, from where?, what about @unlacedgecko ?

 

[arcobob]

Not for the first time , you've lost me .

Not for the first time , you've lost me .

Harry Houdini he means-the one who is always trying to escape.

 

[unlacedgecko]

Just pronounce mine as Dan (normal English) and llan as in the start of Llanelli, there's easy for you!

@wanton dwarf does have a strange name, from where?, what about @unlacedgecko ?

When younger (and lighter!) I was good at climbing. I tried using “gecko” for my first hotmail email address, but it was taken. As an alternative hotmail suggested “unlacedgecko” so I used that. I’m too stupid to remember more than one screen name.

 

[arcobob]

@Danllan
Oh that referendum yes I recall June the 24 2016. Also had one in 2014 you see.
Yes I do recall a bit about it now...
That's a bus something about £350 million a week and a pile of other stuff cannot recall clearly, but yes of course there was something about Northern Ireland getting access to arguably a better trading arrangement. It was also clearly laid out wasn't it.

But hey ho that is old ground.
So what is the problem with a confirmatory referendum of any deal?

PS Leave EU great source of material don't you think? Loved that xenophobic one about krauts and winning wars or something, classy. Old ground as I say.

General Election, never mentioned it.
PPS nice edit with video instead of the twatter feed.

Why have another ref? Would only be advisory unless the politicians said that they would stand by the result. I bet they wouldn`t do it a second time just to pacify a load of unhappy losers first time round.

 

[glensman]

When younger (and lighter!) I was good at climbing. I tried using “gecko” for my first hotmail email address, but it was taken. As an alternative hotmail suggested “unlacedgecko” so I used that. I’m too stupid to remember more than one screen name.

I had assumed it was related to your time in the army.

 

[unlacedgecko]

I had assumed it was related to your time in the army.

No, it’s from my school days. In the Army my nick name was c. unt.

 

[glensman]

No, it’s from my school days. In the Army my nick name was c. unt.

Surely not! You must have left an i out of the second part.

 

[Cowcalf]

Letwin looks to be putting a real spanner in the way votes will go

 

[unlacedgecko]

Surely not! You must have left an i out of the second part.

??

 

[bobk]

Letwin looks to be putting a real spanner in the way votes will go

He's voting for the deal anyway

 

[glensman]

??

It turns it into c.unit which sounds a bit military.

 

[unlacedgecko]

It turns it into c.unit which sounds a bit military.

I once had a girlfriend nicknamed g unit. But she wasn't in the military, just large.

 

[Danllan]

I once had a girlfriend nicknamed g unit. But she wasn't in the military, just large.

I once had a girlfriend called Taki, which she wasn't...

 

[czechmate]

No, it’s from my school days. In the Army my nick name was c. unt.

Really, I assumed that was saved for Danllan

 

[wanton dwarf]

Just pronounce mine as Dan (normal English) and llan as in the start of Llanelli, there's easy for you!

@wanton dwarf does have a strange name, from where?, what about @unlacedgecko ?

I think I was playing TotalWar Warhammer using the Dwarven race .. Wanton as in drinking and lewd behaviour.

 

[Danllan]

Really, I assumed that was saved for Danllan

Sadly, there are so few insulting names to go round that we have to share them...

But, I do know an amusing tale of that particular word... it was in the late 80s, or early 90s, and there was a young recruit, who I shall call 'Jock', fairly newly arrived at Depot Para, Aldershot. A relatively fresh and rather cocky Captain was running a part of the training and had his Toms looking about as smart as could be expected, waiting to be inspected by the RSM. Said RSM wandered up and down the lines, moustache bristling, caustic remarks a-plenty, and then he found... Jock.

Jock was not the smartest of recruits, in any sense, and the RSM began to berate him in no uncertain terms. Remarking on his stance, skill at ironing, smell etc.. Jock took this all pretty well, not moving even a fraction of an inch, not even wincing. Then the RSM went a step further, he poked Jock, very hard, right in the middle of his chest. Jock did wince, but gritted his teeth and stood steady. But, finally, the RSM went that step too far for Jock, keeping his finger firmly in Jock's chest he announced to the world in general and the recruits in particular:

'There is a CVNT on the end of my finger!'

And then, to the shock of all and without a moment's hesitation there came Jock's immortal reply:

'Well it's no at this end!'

History is vague and confused and there are conflicting stories as to what the immediate effects of this were but, not so many years ago, Jock retired from the Paras, having been an RSM himself.

 

[unlacedgecko]

Sadly, there are so few insulting names to go round that we have to share them...

But, I do know an amusing tale of that particular word... it was in the late 80s, or early 90s, and there was a young recruit, who I shall call 'Jock', fairly newly arrived at Depot Para, Aldershot. A relatively fresh and rather cocky Captain was running a part of the training and had his Toms looking about as smart as could be expected, waiting to be inspected by the RSM. Said RSM wandered up and down the lines, moustache bristling, caustic remarks a-plenty, and then he found... Jock.

Jock was not the smartest of recruits, in any sense, and the RSM began to berate him in no uncertain terms. Remarking on his stance, skill at ironing, smell etc.. Jock took this all pretty well, not moving even a fraction of an inch, not even wincing. Then the RSM went a step further, he poked Jock, very hard, right in the middle of his chest. Jock did wince, but gritted his teeth and stood steady. But, finally, the RSM went that step too far for Jock, keeping his finger firmly in Jock's chest he announced to the world in general and the recruits in particular:

'There is a CVNT on the end of my finger!'

And then, to the shock of all and without a moment's hesitation there came Jock's immortal reply:

'Well it's no at this end!'

History is vague and confused and there are conflicting stories as to what the immediate effects of this were but, not so many years ago, Jock retired from the Paras, having been an RSM himself.

Hang on, let me pull up a sand bag...

 

[Hindsight]

Farage appears to be supporting the Benn amendment via tweet now.
I'm confused.

He's seen the light, had a Damascene conversion. Become a Remainer. Praise be the Lord.