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English Civil War - spin off [message #47675]

Sun, 23 December 2007 20:07

Nigel

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Location: England
Registered: November 2003
Messages: 1756

This is really written with our overseas readers in mind in order to save them from confusion or embarrassment during a visit to our country. The English Civil War (1642 - 51) was fought between the Royalists (Cavaliers) and the Parliamentarians (Roundheads). And now a word of warning. Should you be asked whether you are a Roundhead or a Cavalier, this has nothing to do with your family's sympathies or affiliations all those hundreds of years ago, but whether you are circumcised - Roundhead obviously - or not - Cavalier by process of elimination. I just thought I would make that clear in a new thread.

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N

[Updated on: Sun, 23 December 2007 20:59]

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Re: English Civil War - spin off [message #47676 is a reply to message #47675]

Sun, 23 December 2007 20:13

acam

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Location: UK
Registered: July 2007
Messages: 1849

And so I am a Roundhead! And I want to be a Cavalier! And I'm not allowed to choose. My parents chose for me and made me a roundhead and I am not a Royalist and I am a socialist (but not of the Bliar [sic] tendency). My younger brother (now long since dead), who was allowed to be a Cavalier - and so my mother told me it was because I screamed so loud that she couldn't bear to have it done to him) was a capitalist entrepreneur and so on.

No-one should ever inflict genital mutilation on a child (or, for that matter, on anyone).

Love
Anthony

Re: English Civil War - spin off [message #47694 is a reply to message #47676]

Sun, 23 December 2007 23:24

timmy

Has no life at all

Location: UK, in Devon
Registered: February 2003
Messages: 13796

If you wish, you can restore your foreskin, though it requires a 3-6 year commitment.

I was a cavalier. I regret I had to become a roundhead, and that various unpleasant surgeries make it imposisble for me to restore. There is some stuff on the main site about it (left hand margin, one of the menu choices)

Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School

Surely there's something wrong here ... [message #47699 is a reply to message #47675]

Mon, 24 December 2007 03:57

cossie

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Location: Exiled in North East Engl...
Registered: July 2003
Messages: 1699

... I have it on impeccable academic authority* that Cavaliers are Wrong but Wromantic, whereas Roundheads are Right but Repulsive. Of course Cavaliers are Wromantic, but to suggest that they are also Wrong is surely the unkindest cut of all - especially as it's the Roundheads who have actually HAD the unkindest cut of all. Do I make myself clear?

* WC Sellar and RJ Yeatman; '1066 and All That".

For a' that an' a' that,
It's comin' yet for a' that,
That man tae man, the worrld o'er
Shall brithers be, for a' that.

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