http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=54638 The NewsBiscuit Community en-US Tue, 18 Jun 2013 06:32:31 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/search.php http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=54638#post-157931 Tue, 15 Jan 2013 17:04:24 +0000 Squudge 157931@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Dunno - I loved it apart from the gravy. Horrid bit that. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=54638#post-157928 Tue, 15 Jan 2013 16:54:03 +0000 Sir Lupus 157928@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>John Donne was a mediaeval british christian philosopher/poet who wrote "no man is an island". well he spelt it funny but that's what he meant. and of course lots of people have written it, but he wrote it first...</p> <p>anyway he wrote it as part of a very serios (and moving) sermon about how "the fate of humanity concerneth us all" or something like that. which makes using the phrase in connection to mooring Eric Pickles off Clacton particularly good! i think my favourite line of this sub, altho the gravy comes close... </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=54638#post-157921 Tue, 15 Jan 2013 15:13:21 +0000 Dick Everyman 157921@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Hey Dawson there's you getting all metaphysical without realising it ;o) </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=54638#post-157920 Tue, 15 Jan 2013 15:10:58 +0000 Lens Cap 157920@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I thought John Donne was a French policeman </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=54638#post-157917 Tue, 15 Jan 2013 15:06:33 +0000 Dawsons creek 157917@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Who is John Donne though? Is he something to do with the plimsole line? </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=54638#post-157913 Tue, 15 Jan 2013 14:57:03 +0000 Lens Cap 157913@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I read this and thought It had made me wet myself. Turns out my bag was overflowing </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=54638#post-157908 Tue, 15 Jan 2013 14:28:15 +0000 Dick Everyman 157908@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>How is Zygmunt these days? </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=54638#post-157835 Tue, 15 Jan 2013 08:32:29 +0000 Yikes 157835@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Very good! In fact I laughed my arse off. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=54638#post-157778 Mon, 14 Jan 2013 23:31:52 +0000 Vertically Challenged Giant 157778@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>One of the best headlines I've seen for some time. I haven't even read the rest of it yet. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=54638#post-157771 Mon, 14 Jan 2013 22:53:46 +0000 Sir Lupus 157771@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>A splendid mixture of surreality, satire and some revolting detail; and a John Donne reference! good stuff. Surprised he'd only house up to four migrants though. Up to five stars from me. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=54638#post-157746 Mon, 14 Jan 2013 19:04:45 +0000 Dawsons creek 157746@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Communities Secretary Eric Pickles will become a haven for European immigrants, if plans to moor him as an artificial island become reality. The buoyant politician has already received a sea-worthiness certificate, and could soon provide a home for up to four migrants off the coast of Clacton.</p> <p>“The PM has presented me with a set of hand-woven underpants, featuring my new crest of a gypsy eating a swan”, said Pickles. “I’m prepared to do what’s necessary to welcome my new community: if I float on my front, they can keep themselves warm in my luxuriant back hair.”</p> <p>Pickles has not yet decided whether or not to apply for full EU membership, but if he does, he may struggle to meet their exacting regulations on marine pollution. “That’s not an oil slick, it’s just a spot of gravy seeping from my belly button”, insisted Pickles. “And fed enough pork, I can double-up as a self-sufficient wind farm.”</p> <p>Pickles has been penciled in on navigation charts and can be seen from Google Earth, proving the lie to claims that no man is an island. But the politician admits he isn’t entirely comfortable with how he’s flagged to passing ships: “When I agreed to having a pole in my arse, I didn’t think they meant a firm young man called Zygmunt Nowak.” </p>