http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=56786 The NewsBiscuit Community en-US Thu, 20 Jun 2013 04:19:19 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/search.php http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=56786#post-164648 Sun, 24 Feb 2013 11:58:08 +0000 sydalg 164648@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Oops, too late now...just when I'd finally learnt to distinguish Magdalen, Oxon from Magdalene, Cantab too... </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=56786#post-164620 Sun, 24 Feb 2013 09:46:46 +0000 Sinnick 164620@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Fine FP, congrats.</p> <p>[if I were picky, I'd mention the spelling of Magdalen, but I'm not so I won't] </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=56786#post-164430 Sat, 23 Feb 2013 13:08:54 +0000 Squudge 164430@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>&lt;blinks&gt;<br /> for some reason I read 'librarians' there</p> <p>draconian bunch they are - a few days late and the hard stare is as good as a public flogging </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=56786#post-164418 Sat, 23 Feb 2013 10:50:51 +0000 Tripod 164418@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>All the political ex-cons (Archer, Aitken, etc) seem to turn into libertarians after they've done their porridge. Give all the Tory MPs five years in the Scrubs and they'd never be a danger to society again... </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=56786#post-164415 Sat, 23 Feb 2013 09:46:28 +0000 Squudge 164415@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Reasonable idea beautifully written. </p> <p>You could add more bits (maybe on shivs and tattoos) just in time for sentencing for a top FP. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=56786#post-164316 Fri, 22 Feb 2013 20:18:39 +0000 dvo4fun 164316@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>He'll also need to learn 'Shower Protocol' pretty fast </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=56786#post-164272 Fri, 22 Feb 2013 16:12:33 +0000 sydalg 164272@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Amid the dismay at the outcome of the Vicky Pryce trial and the disillusionment with the jury system, one man is quietly pleased – Chris Huhne has been using what freedom he has left to acquaint himself with prison patois in an effort to blend in with his new environment on his inevitable incarceration. </p> <p>Mr Huhne admits to being concerned that, with his background of Westminster School, Magdelen College and the Sorbonne, his vocabulary might not blend seamlessly with that of burglars and drug dealers. He has borrowed a primer in convict lingo from his local library and admits to spending an hour or two a day memorising useful words and phrases, and frequenting the sort of dives where he has a chance to practise them. “It's fascinating”, he says, “all the things I have to relearn – 'bin' for prison, 'snout' for tobacco, and so on”. He is confident that he will be fluent in felons' argot by the time his ex-wife's retrial draws to a conclusion. He is also practising dropping his H's, and some of his former constituents have been startled to hear him shouting for “'alf of bitter” in their local pub.</p> <p>Observers have noted that Mr Huhne is now using every opportunity to emphasise that he has always been an advocate of civil liberties and sympathetic to the plight of prisoners. “I've never been a hanger-and-flogger”, he says, but he is also aware of the pitfalls of being perceived as an effete middle class liberal by his new acquaintances on the inside. “Ain't gonna be nobody's bitch”, he warned. </p>