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Politician in N in a woodpile remark
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  Hrolf The Ganger  12 Jul 17 10.36am |
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Originally posted by dreamwaverider
You seem sure of yourself on that. Which bit wouldn't they understand?
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| jamiemartin721 Reading 12 Jul 17 10.38am |
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Originally posted by Hrolf The Ganger
You seem sure of yourself on that. Which bit wouldn't they understand? Woodpile, as that would be something the servants dealt with.
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| Hrolf The Ganger 12 Jul 17 10.49am |
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Originally posted by jamiemartin721
Woodpile, as that would be something the servants dealt with. Very good. It does make you wonder what sort of world this woman comes from if she uses or even knows phrases like that. Planet Upper Middle Class presumably.
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Kermit8  Hevon 12 Jul 17 11.51am |
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Originally posted by Hrolf The Ganger
Very good. It does make you wonder what sort of world this woman comes from if she uses or even knows phrases like that. Planet Upper Middle Class presumably. Yep. Type of thing of thing my father-in-law would say. Ex-colonial, African servants that sort of thing, and Sedburgh educated. Nice fella though.
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| hedgehog50 Croydon 12 Jul 17 11.54am |
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Originally posted by Kermit8
Yep. Type of thing of thing my father-in-law would say. Ex-colonial, African servants that sort of thing, and Sedburgh educated. Nice fella though. I'd love to know what he thinks of you and your views!
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| Kermit8 Hevon 12 Jul 17 12.01pm |
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Originally posted by hedgehog50
I'd love to know what he thinks of you and your views! We have gotten on extremely well for 16 years now. He doesn't live in the past like some.
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| kinky1960 Hampshire 12 Jul 17 2.53pm |
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Originally posted by Kermit8
It is about a person/people. Relates to Freedmen and escaping slaves/ex-slaves fleeing to safe states before getting lynched by the Southern lot post American Civil War by hiding amongst logs. If that is true and I have no reason to doubt you then I apologise wholeheartedly. I am an old git and never knew that I truly believed it was about wood!
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| hedgehog50 Croydon 12 Jul 17 4.29pm |
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Originally posted by Kermit8
We have gotten on extremely well for 16 years now. He doesn't live in the past like some. He's being polite I expect, ex-colonials like him have manners and are discrete in their opinions.
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| YT Oxford 12 Jul 17 4.36pm |
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Originally posted by hedgehog50
He's being polite I expect, ex-colonials like him have manners and are discrete in their opinions. Genuine question albeit probably naive....are there any current 'colonials' or are they all 'ex-colonials'? If the latter, when did the last one become an 'ex'? Any colonial historians in the HOL house?
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| jamiemartin721 Reading 12 Jul 17 5.02pm |
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Originally posted by YT
Genuine question albeit probably naive....are there any current 'colonials' or are they all 'ex-colonials'? If the latter, when did the last one become an 'ex'? Any colonial historians in the HOL house? The UK still has colonies, I believe (Falklands, Gibraltar). Colonials tends to refer to people who 'were born there'. Hence, George Orwell was a Colonial because he was British but Burma born.
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| Stirlingsays 12 Jul 17 5.25pm |
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Originally posted by jamiemartin721
The UK still has colonies, I believe (Falklands, Gibraltar). Colonials tends to refer to people who 'were born there'. Hence, George Orwell was a Colonial because he was British but Burma born. David Gower was born in India.
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| YT Oxford 12 Jul 17 6.19pm |
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Originally posted by jamiemartin721
The UK still has colonies, I believe (Falklands, Gibraltar). Colonials tends to refer to people who 'were born there'. Hence, George Orwell was a Colonial because he was British but Burma born. OK. So Kermit's father-in-law will have been born in a colony that subsequently ceased to be one, hence the 'ex' refers to the current status of the birthplace and not (say) the former residence or lifestyle of the individual.
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