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22nd April 2023, 07:57 AM
#51
Re: Scare tactics

Originally Posted by
Johnny Kieran
Strange thing happened the other day.
I was cleaning the bird bath in the garden, and the hose created a rainbow with the spraying water. I immediately said to my Mrs "it must be a gay bird bath".
Now, there's nothing wrong with that really, but isn't it a shame that seeing a rainbow should cause such a thought, even in jest. I hope it's not going to happen every time I see a rainbow.
Just don't bend down to pick up the golden rivet at the end of the rainbow
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22nd April 2023, 08:53 AM
#52
Re: Scare tactics
Do You remember the colours ? Red Blue Green Indigo and Violet.? JS
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22nd April 2023, 10:37 AM
#53
Re: Scare tactics
Have a read of this the gays are upset that the NHS is using the rainbow colours.
https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/ent...b6cf66b2b40682
I personally viewed the Rainbow as a symbol of hope during the pandemic. My grand children enjoyed making and painting rainbows during lockdown, the eldest made one for grandma and wrote, my grandma under the rainbow with loads of xxxx, the youngest made one for grandpa with mon grand-père sous l’arc-en-ciel xxxx
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22nd April 2023, 10:44 AM
#54
Re: Scare tactics
I spent hours as a kid with my beach bucket and spade looking for that bloody pot of gold, con merchants were after us even as young kids,
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22nd April 2023, 10:45 AM
#55
Re: Scare tactics

Originally Posted by
j.sabourn
Do You remember the colours ? Red Blue Green Indigo and Violet.? JS
I thought they were political parties!
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22nd April 2023, 10:55 AM
#56
Re: Scare tactics
I've just fell in to why the NHS use the rainbow.
It's all about the place you go to, and the people you see, when you're feeling a little queer.
I remember my mum giving me a note for my teacher when I missed a day off school when feeling under the weather.
Please excuse Johnny as he was in bed, feeling a little queer yesterday. This is no joke, it's how people spoke in those days.
There was a street near us in Dagenham, called Gay gardens.
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22nd April 2023, 11:11 AM
#57
Re: Scare tactics
Are they still allowed to call the Scottish country dance the Gay Gordons?
https://youtu.be/8KkoExPh9H4
Mind you there are two there towards the end look suspect
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22nd April 2023, 12:45 PM
#58
Re: Scare tactics
#55 Think I missed out purple Ivan ? JS.
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22nd April 2023, 01:25 PM
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Re: Scare tactics

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j.sabourn
#55 Think I missed out purple Ivan ? JS.
That would be the 'Purple with Rage' party then, they are the ones who get offended on behalf of those people who were not offended in the first place, its a growing movement!
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22nd April 2023, 01:38 PM
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Re: Scare tactics
Only answer for them then is to increase their blood pressure medication. Maybe drop a diarohhea tablet in now and again to assist for their growing bowel movement .Cheers JS.
Last edited by j.sabourn; 22nd April 2023 at 01:59 PM.
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