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I've suspected this for some time now but after the following items cropped up in the news in the last couple of days, I am now comvinced.

1. On the very day that a european report labelled the UK as one of the worst countries in europe for saving energy it is announced that Buckingham palace is to be floodlit at night for the remainder of QE2's reign.

2. An artist was paid £12,000 (funded by public money) to put on an exhibition in Cardiff. What did he exhibit? Well........ nothing actually!
He just opened an empty gallery where visitors were invited to 'experience the space' and re-discover works of art they had seen elsewhere by imagining them in the room.

3. From 'The Sunday Telegraph'
A GP surgery has updated its technology. After visiting for blood tests a patient was told to ring for the results the following week between 11.0am and noon. As he was passing the surgery at that time, he popped in and asked for the results. "Sorry," said the receptionist, "but you must telephone for test results." "But I was passing, so I'm here." "Sorry, you must 'phone in." The patient stepped back, took out his mobile 'phone and called the surgery. The same receptionist answered, asked his name and the nature of his enquiry. Then she gave him the results and replaced the receiver.😕

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Originally posted by Rene-Claude
I've suspected this for some time now but after the following items cropped up in the news in the last couple of days, I am now comvinced.

1. On the very day that a european report labelled the UK as one of the worst countries in europe for saving energy it is announced that Buckingham palace is to be floodlit at night for the remainder of QE2's reign ...[text shortened]... ture of his enquiry. Then she gave him the results and replaced the receiver.😕
The end of the world was at hand as soon more than one Starbuck's Coffee Shops moved into the same building.

FK!

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Originally posted by Rene-Claude
I've suspected this for some time now but after the following items cropped up in the news in the last couple of days, I am now comvinced.

1. On the very day that a european report labelled the UK as one of the worst countries in europe for saving energy it is announced that Buckingham palace is to be floodlit at night for the remainder of QE2's reign ...[text shortened]... ture of his enquiry. Then she gave him the results and replaced the receiver.😕
The worlds OK it's just us in Blighty. 😕

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Originally posted by Hand of Hecate
The end of the world was at hand as soon more than one Starbuck's Coffee Shops moved into the same building.

FK!
Black humour!

You can't swing a dead cat in downtown Seattle without hitting several Starbucks.


Originally posted by Rene-Claude
2. An artist was paid £12,000 (funded by public money) to put on an exhibition in Cardiff. What did he exhibit? Well........ nothing actually!
He just opened an empty gallery where visitors were invited to 'experience the space' and re-discover works of art they had seen elsewhere by imagining them in the room.
He should have been given an empty box and been asked to imagine £12,000 in it.

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At the risk of being called a philistine / moron / cretin etc etc etc, I've always drawn a kind of parallel between modern art and the story of the Emperors New Clothes

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Originally posted by GreyPilgrim
At the risk of being called a philistine / moron / cretin etc etc etc, I've always drawn a kind of parallel between modern art and the story of the Emperors New Clothes
philistine/moron/cretin etc etc etc

😵

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Originally posted by Rene-Claude
I've suspected this for some time now but after the following items cropped up in the news in the last couple of days, I am now comvinced.....
Rene-Claude, you must have woken up on the wrong side of the bed. If you want to play games then tell us how much stash is hiding in Swiss Bank accounts? Of that figure how much has been kept there by dictators and criminals?

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Originally posted by z00t
Rene-Claude, you must have woken up on the wrong side of the bed. If you want to play games then tell us how much stash is hiding in Swiss Bank accounts? Of that figure how much has been kept there by dictators and criminals?
The saying is, 'to get out of the wrong side of the bed' but I don't see the relevance to this thread.
As to your question, how should I know?

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Originally posted by Rene-Claude
The saying is, 'to get out of the wrong side of the bed' but I don't see the relevance to this thread.
As to your question, how should I know?
The relevance means your post is as useful as the stuff that comes out of the back of a cow. Leave the Queen out of it.

If you wanted to go on some sort of "crusade" , tell us how much stash is hiding in Swiss bank accounts. You can just go to one, knock on the door and they will tell you.

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Originally posted by GreyPilgrim
At the risk of being called a philistine / moron / cretin etc etc etc, I've always drawn a kind of parallel between modern art and the story of the Emperors New Clothes
I can see the parallel. Manet said people who objected to his Dejeuner sur l'herbe should imagine clothes on the woman's body...or so I'm told.

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Originally posted by z00t
The relevance means your post is as useful as the stuff that comes out of the back of a cow. Leave the Queen out of it.

If you wanted to go on some sort of "crusade" , tell us how much stash is hiding in Swiss bank accounts. You can just go to one, knock on the door and they will tell you.
You do post some rubbish don't you? but then you do seem to be a bit confused.

The post wasn't meant to be useful, it was meant to be humerous but clearly you do not have a sense of humour.

Switzerland is much too far away for me to go, perhaps you could go and get the answer to your own question.

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Originally posted by Hand of Hecate
The end of the world was at hand as soon more than one Starbuck's Coffee Shops moved into the same building.

FK!
The world is slowly being drugged through Starbucks, it must be a conspiracy. Probably originated in the Russian government.

That would explain why I can't stop going there for a Tall Iced Mocha, with whip! Gotta go get one now, can't sstop, can't ssssstop!!!

😳

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Originally posted by mlprior
That would explain why I can't stop going there for a Tall Iced Mocha, with whip!
Do they throw in a happy ending too?