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16th January 2024, 07:59 AM
#111
Re: Passports
That’s because they are more self reliant and can think and act for themselves. And they don’t have the mob mentality that the big populated areas have. They are closer to the real Aussie than most. JS
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16th January 2024, 08:33 AM
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Re: Passports
#107 As long as it wasn’t Taffy was a Welshman Taffy was a thief Taffy came to my house and stole a leg of beef, I went to Taffy’s house Taffy was in bed so i took him by the left leg and threw him down the stairs ? JS.
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16th January 2024, 01:48 PM
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Re: Passports

Originally Posted by
j.sabourn
#107 As long as it wasn’t Taffy was a Welshman Taffy was a thief Taffy came to my house and stole a leg of beef, I went to Taffy’s house Taffy was in bed so i took him by the left leg and threw him down the stairs ? JS.
so, was wee willy winkie a Weshman than? or am I getting my nursery rhymes mixed up?
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16th January 2024, 02:55 PM
#114
Re: Passports
#109
I feel quite proud, I managed to translate that without having to go to Google........
O bydded i'r hen iath barhau.....
Austin
Last edited by Austin Carl Largan; 16th January 2024 at 03:03 PM.
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16th January 2024, 04:02 PM
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Re: Passports

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Austin Carl Largan
#109
I feel quite proud, I managed to translate that without having to go to Google........
O bydded i'r hen iath barhau.....
Austin
can you say that with your teeth in though.
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16th January 2024, 04:28 PM
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#110
You are a brave man, walking the streets of London.....I wouldn't do that not even if I were El Cocodrillo Dundee himself......
Austin
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Tony,
not the ones I have now I can't.....
Austin
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17th January 2024, 12:04 AM
#117
Re: Passports
John.
Ah! That would be an English one then, as if it was a Welsh one it would be a leg of Lamb.
Des
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17th January 2024, 03:23 AM
#118
Re: Passports
Would have said Marys wooden leg if Cappy had been around , so he could accuse me of shifting the blame for her missing article of apparel . The only other one to lay the blame on would be that VC winner recently convicted or near enough for just doing his job, and maybe pinched to use as a cup to drink out of at the RSL club. Cheers JS
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18th January 2024, 01:49 AM
#119
Re: The Police State ?
Apparantly you can be a citizen of 3 countries in the US, although they frown on it if you have 3 country passports, one of my daughters who was born in Calgary, is now a US, Canadian & British citizenship, her daughter's are US & Canadian citizens, she has left the British for them to decide.
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18th January 2024, 03:23 AM
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Re: The Police State ?
The last British Passport I had came from New Zealand Peter, where do you expect your daughters if they apply for one will come from ? . Today we live in a weird world and nothing struck me weirder than a post of mine yesterday when I said I phoned for a taxi last Sunday to book one for the following day , and was answered by the taxi despatcher 3400 kilometres away in Melbourne. Weird is hardly the word for it. Cheers JS
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