Re: OT: Free TV Licence fee to be scrapped for >75s

From	Stephen Cole <usenet@stephenthomascole.com>
Newsgroups	uk.radio.amateur, uk.net.news.management, uk.local.devon
Subject	Re: OT: Free TV Licence fee to be scrapped for >75s
Date	2019-06-18 05:07 +0000
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Rambo <Rambo@thisaintreal.org> wrote:
> On 17 Jun 2019 13:05:33 GMT, Stephen Cole
> <usenet@stephenthomascole.com> wrote:
> 
>> Roger Hayter <roger@hayter.org> wrote:
>>> Jeff <jeff@ukra.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>>>>>> He has no concept whatsoever of the state >of bombed-out cities, tight
>>>>>>> rationing
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Didn't those GIs keep your mum stocked up with tights, Burt, in exchange
>>>>>> for "companionship"?
>>>>> 
>>>>> Tight rationing is fake news;  they hadn't been invented.
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> What about the ballet, Robin Hood, and panto??
>>>> 
>>>> Jeff
>>> 
>>> Obviously tights had been invented, but English women did not wander the
>>> streets in them.   What the Americans call pantyhose, hadn't.  
>> 
>> Pedantry aside, what we can all agree on is that Mamma Burt regularly put
>> out for the GIs from the local base. Its why Burt is so spectacularly
>> prejudiced against Americans; a platoon knocked his mum up and left her
>> holding the Baby Burt. 
> 
> No we cannot all agree.
>  Your 'e a bit out of order with that one Steve.
> 

If you put all the clues together, this is the only logical outcome, Rich. 

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Re: OT: Free TV Licence fee to be scrapped for >75s Stephen Cole <usenet@stephenthomascole.com> - 2019-06-17 13:05 +0000
  Re: OT: Free TV Licence fee to be scrapped for >75s Rambo <Rambo@thisaintreal.org> - 2019-06-17 19:40 +0100
    Re: OT: Free TV Licence fee to be scrapped for >75s Stephen Cole <usenet@stephenthomascole.com> - 2019-06-18 05:07 +0000
    Re: OT: Free TV Licence fee to be scrapped for >75s Stephen Cole <usenet@stephenthomascole.com> - 2019-06-18 10:58 +0000

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