howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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that should put tom's mind at rest knowing there won't be a knock on his door at 2 a.m.
Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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Indeed Howard, that you Mark. I can open the curtains again and remove the loud-haler from around the dog's neck.
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Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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Mark, the EU has made issues about eggs having to be sold by the ten, not the dozen or half dozen.
Yesterday I chose a very large, curved cucumber at the greengrocer. It would have been banned until a few years ago, destroyed in the field. Alas, some crazy EU laws have been overcome, due to popular uproar.
Bananas are also sold curved again, because too many people around the world questioned the sanity of EU commissars, which had practically banned the import of the vast majority of bananas, driving the economy of many nations into near bankruptcy.
The EU commissars have tried to use the 12 stars as a halo over their head, but they kept falling off, and the choirboys enforced to sing hymns of halelujah at the arrival of the commissars in the EU parliament with halo on (hovering over) head, kept giggling, spurred on by Nigel Farage, which was cause of great embarrassment to the commissars.
They also attempted laws that cockcrows may not be heard before 6 AM, that red telephone boxes must be replaced with "a dozen stars" booths, London black cabs must be taken out of circulation, and the English Channel be called "the Pond".
Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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Alex, do you still confine yourself to the one can of cider per evening?
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Brian Dixon
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no tom just bent cuecumbers and bananas.alex has been reading scare storys from the current bun again.
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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Those scare stories Brian, are everywhere not just the Sun.
Everyone knows the net cost of being a member of the EU - in financial, legal and many other ways - we can't even send terrorists back to their home country because of the EU. It is a corrupt organisation and encroaches too far and to often on our daily lives.
People are suffering badly here and we are giving away £45 million every day; we would still have trade - don't forget we are net importers too.
Roger
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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the straight bananas/cucumbers etc are just an urban myth, the e.u makes enough daft rulings without the tabloids making new ones up.
Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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Roger, good morning. I trust all is well in your world on this bright and sunny day. Oh, and by the way the ECHR has nothing to do with the EU.
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Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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Thank You Tom - I am well, my dear Lady is very poorly though, but we get by.
Did I mention the ECHR ?
Roger
Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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Yes, I am afraid you did, in a way, mention the ECHR, for it is this, surely, that prevents the expulsions of unsavoury characters from these shores, and not the EU as such.
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Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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Point taken Tom - thank you.
Roger
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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roger,i hope your wife gets better soon.
now back to the current bun,early reports sugest the tomatos are next on the list,square ones that is.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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[QUOTE=] "THE United Kingdom Independence Party has joined the chorus of calls for an urgent investigation into the "total failure" of Kent County Council to grit the highways ahead of Monday night's chaotic scenes in Dover and Folkestone.
The new Ukip candidate for Dover Paul McMullan - who was left stranded on Jubilee Way during the "shambolic" scenes - said it was a mircale no one died.
Mr McMullan - who runs the Castle Inn and was returning from a trip to Tesco in Whitfield when he became stuck - added: "It was a total nightmare. It was a complete shambles - these roads were not gritted, they couldn't have been. We need to find answers and quickly.
"I suspect there was a total failure to salt the highways properly. It is a minor miracle that no one died in that madness.""[\QUOTE]
Oh dear,another person that blames others when they venture out unnecessarity - with 5000 miles for roads and snow in blizzards there is little KCC could have done !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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much more about being in the limelight prior to an election, paul mcm knows exactly what he is doing.
Keith Sansum1
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post 27 !!!!
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Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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The EU laws on bent bananas and curved cucumbers are not an urban myth, but sheer reality.
They were repealed due to public uproar.
From Newser.com December 2008
"The EU took a U-turn on curved cucumbers and bent bananas and voted to repeal strict laws that ban the sale of imperfect produce, the Washington Post reports. Shops are barred from selling cauliflower less than 4.33 inches in diameter and not-green-enough asparagus until July, when such laws—long mocked by the British tabloids—will be wiped for 26 fruits and vegetables."
Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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It's possible the EU has been trying to introduce and enforce genetically modified produce, and chemically-treated fruit and vegetables, and get rid of organic crops, because bananas and cucumbers are often by nature curved, and the best-tasting fruit and vegetable is usually smaller in size.
Massive vegetables and fruits that exceed the natural average measurements usually taste less, or are tasteless, and usually are produced through the use of chemical fertilisers, or are genetically modified.
There is probably a lot more to it than many think, behind these EU laws that were anything but urban myths.
What kind of lobbying went on behind the scenes to get these laws proposed and approved in the first place, is open to speculation, but my bet is on chemical fertilizers and gene-manipulation.
Yes, mullti billion $-£ industries.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Spoken like a true European Mark!
Never give up...