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Mycatisahacker Sun 19-May-19 15:40:07

So I see Anne Widecome was cheered by former miners in the north at a working mans club.

Yes seriously it’s true grin

Mycatisahacker Mon 20-May-19 12:52:09

Blimey that didn’t happen on any day in my dads club. Still I expect they were all different.

trisher Mon 20-May-19 12:49:16

Mid 70s and into 80s

trisher Mon 20-May-19 12:48:31

It was Sunday lunch times. Never in an evening when women might be in the club. I had a misspent youth and was probably one of the few women who went in. (There was food as well) Black pudding, pickled eggs etc -such delicacies!)

Anniebach Mon 20-May-19 12:36:13

The Committee would have to agree and approve, it certainly didn’t happen in the 80’s here .

Fennel Mon 20-May-19 12:32:57

Let's hope some people don't cheer Trump for the same reasons (they're in a jolly mood, he's a celebrity.)

Mycatisahacker Mon 20-May-19 12:21:45

Yes I have never seen a stripper in any working mans club I have ever been in and my dad belonged to one in the 70s.

Mom would have killed him for one thing!

Anniebach Mon 20-May-19 12:16:23

Not in our Workmen’s trisher

Mycatisahacker Mon 20-May-19 12:09:49

And I expect strippers will still strip although no idea what strippers have to do with it. I hope Anne wasn’t stripping I would need eye bleach for that one grin

Mycatisahacker Mon 20-May-19 12:07:35

tricher

No it is simply a trade agreement. However many people attatch far much emotion and significance than it really deserves.

The ludicrous comments from such as Geldof that music will die are just such.

The links of art and culture will remain maybe in a different form but remain. People will still work and travel. The planes will still fly and kids will still go on exchange visits etc etc.

The sun will still shine and life will go on.

Seriously the hysteria surrounding Brexit on all sides is quite extraordinary.

trisher Mon 20-May-19 11:51:53

Good try again at disrailing a thread for your own obsessions Annie, But you missed the point. The men who drank in working men's clubs in the '80s were busy playing dominoes and reading their paper whilst the woman stripped. They were there for the pint not the stripper. Ditto I imagine with Widdiecome ( Now I've got that Victoria Wood song as an earworm again!)
Anne Widdiecome Anne Widdiecome....

Anniebach Mon 20-May-19 11:24:11

Suppose you are comparing women who chant ‘Jeremy ‘ with women who chant ‘get em off’ to male strippers ?

paddyann Mon 20-May-19 11:13:39

lets face it ,as my old granny would have said the world has gone to hell in a handcart! She would be absolutely right .Labour has been in the last throes of death in Scotland for a quite a while, Brexit is just the last nail in their coffin,Tories haven't had a decent vote since the mid 1950'S so nothing new there .

trisher Mon 20-May-19 11:09:48

Doubt it but neither did the strippers!

Anniebach Mon 20-May-19 11:05:49

Did she turned up unexpectedly?

trisher Mon 20-May-19 11:02:10

It was a working men's club Annie they turned up for a pint (because it's cheaper). Widdie was the equivalent of the strippers in the '80s. They were there, but if they hadn't been the men would still have come out for a pint

Anniebach Mon 20-May-19 10:55:49

So they turned up not because they wanted to hear a candidate standing for the Brexit Party but because she had been in Strictly trisher ?

Widdie wants out of the EU ,

Corbyn ? Yes, no, maybe , don’t know, not saying,

trisher Mon 20-May-19 10:50:06

Mycatisahacker calling our membership of the EU a "Trade agreement" is a bit like referring to your laptop as a screen. It is so much more. The links of art and culture have already begun to be severed and this will impact on our society for years to come. We will be out of the loop and so much poorer in those areas.

Mycatisahacker Mon 20-May-19 10:45:28

To add u have friends and family that have voted both remain and leave and I can defiantly say the leavers are no less thoughtful or intelligent or well informed than the remainers.

They just have a different view point you know like people do in a democracy wink

Mycatisahacker Mon 20-May-19 10:43:25

I know Anniebach it’s so sad and so counterproductive because it’s this sneery silly attitude that actually brought about the Brexit vote these same people are squealing about.

As I have previously stated I am not really either a remainer or a brexiteer. I can see benefits and problems in either senario and I am actually quite baffled at the passion and the hate on both sides.

It’s a trade agreement!!! That’s it! We have far far more important issues in this country and In the world and the obsession with this trade deal is crazy.

trisher Mon 20-May-19 10:42:01

Nothing to do with politics it's the "Strictly" effect. They would probably cheer Ed Balls as well. Celebrity matters more than policies now.

Anniebach Mon 20-May-19 10:38:15

The men were there because they support leaving, not to discuss the miners strike or pit closures .

What nasty comments here by remainers , if those who voted to leave are stupid, remainers are highly intelligent?

Mycatisahacker Mon 20-May-19 08:48:26

Right! hmm

MaizieD Sun 19-May-19 23:57:08

Stupid is not an insult. It's a statement of fact.

Mycatisahacker Sun 19-May-19 23:05:28

Okkkkaayyyy! Thick and stupid are very different insults. One is ok the other is not?

MaizieD Sun 19-May-19 22:59:09

However calling people thick still got us Brexit.

I've never approved of calling people 'thick'. Do acquit me of being responsible for the Brexit vote.

I think there's a big difference between 'thick' and 'stupid'. Even very intelligent people can be remarkably stupid at times.