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by Ben Reilly Sat Apr 07, 2018 10:31 pm

So I've spent the last week with edds, and last night I asked her to marry me and she said she would.

(Pause for applause)

So the plan now is for me to move to the UK, get me citizenship innit, jump on the dole and vote Labour fam.

So what do you think?

by Guest Sat Apr 07, 2018 10:37 pm

Ben Mothafuckin' Reilly wrote:So I've spent the last week with edds, and last night I asked her to marry me and she said she would.

(Pause for applause)

So the plan now is for me to move to the UK, get me citizenship innit, jump on the dole and vote Labour fam.

So what do you think?

Congratulations to you both mate

Very happy for you both, happy days.

I am sure you can get a job, with one of the many media companies we have. (Be funny if that was the Daily Mail lol) Laughing

Vote Labour? Not under Corbyn, surely?

by Syl Sat Apr 07, 2018 11:43 pm

I think it's really brilliant news. I love you

I sincerely wish you both all the love, luck and happiness you both deserve.

by Guest Sat Apr 07, 2018 11:54 pm

Syl wrote:I think it's really brilliant news.

I sincerely wish you both all the love, luck and happiness you both deserve.

Its the most awesome news, that I have found to happen on forums Syl and so happy for them both and hence why I am breaking out on song mode for them both.

Happy days cheers

by magica Sun Apr 08, 2018 12:11 am

Oh congratulations to you both. cheers

Can I be bridesmaid

by Guest Sun Apr 08, 2018 12:15 am

magica wrote:Oh congratulations to you both.

Can I be bridesmaid

That would be cool, but I guess Eddie's little daughter gets dibs on this first Magica.

Laughing

by Eilzel Sun Apr 08, 2018 12:46 am

Omg incredible news! Congrats guys Smile

xxxx

by Original Quill Sun Apr 08, 2018 2:41 am

A Brit with a Texas accent? May god have mercy on us all. Incredibly important news announcement 1363015401

Congrats guys.

by veya_victaous Sun Apr 08, 2018 4:03 am

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by nicko Sun Apr 08, 2018 6:22 am

Can I be Best Man? congrat's to both of you.

by Fred Moletrousers Sun Apr 08, 2018 10:34 am

My warmest and heartiest congratulations to you both.

by 'Wolfie Sun Apr 08, 2018 10:42 am

Didge wrote:
Ben Mothafuckin' Reilly wrote:So I've spent the last week with edds, and last night I asked her to marry me and she said she would.

(Pause for applause)

So the plan now is for me to move to the UK, get me citizenship innit, jump on the dole and vote Labour fam.

So what do you think?

Congratulations to you both mate

Very happy for you both, happy days.

I am sure you can get a job, with one of the many media companies we have. (Be funny if that was the Daily Mail lol)

Vote Labour? Not under Corbyn, surely?

Or...

As an alternative to voting Labour, Ben could always form his own political party..

Round up rhe dregs of some of those also-ran/'dead-in-the-water' Englische mobs such as the Greens, LibDems and UKIP -- and roll them together into a new melded 'centrist' group.

Imagine one 'broad church' alternative party where you could have Andy, Didge, sassy, Victor, nicko, Tommy and Eilzel in bed together ! alien

by Vintage Sun Apr 08, 2018 10:57 am

Congratulations, great news.

by Tommy Monk Sun Apr 08, 2018 11:07 pm

Hearty congrats if first bit is true...!

Second bit... you can fuck right off!!!

lol!

by Victorismyhero Mon Apr 09, 2018 10:32 am

Congratulations to you both.......wonderful...

you can have a honeymoon week in the caravan up at my wood Laughing

by eddie Mon Apr 09, 2018 11:28 am

Thank you to everyone for your best wishes.

Saying yes was a no-brainer. He’s my best mate and we’ve probably known for at least two years how we feel, despite the denials from us both - the amount of times we were “just good friends! - and all it took to get where we are today.

Really appreciate your warmth and happiness for us both x

Syl said it best, as did many of my other friends too:

“...I always sort of knew if the wind went in the right direction you two would end up together one day...”

by Guest Mon Apr 09, 2018 2:06 pm

OMG! What fabulous news! cheers

It had to happen. It was written in the stars

wishing you both every happiness

xxxx

by HoratioTarr Mon Apr 09, 2018 2:20 pm

eddie wrote:Thank you to everyone for your best wishes.

Saying yes was a no-brainer. He’s my best mate and we’ve probably known for at least two years how we feel, despite the denials from us both - the amount of times we were “just good friends! - and all it took to get where we are today.

Really appreciate your warmth and happiness for us both x

Syl said it best, as did many of my other friends too:

“...I always sort of knew if the wind went in the right direction you two would end up together one day...”

Congrats to both of you. fiesta

by Guest Mon Apr 09, 2018 2:27 pm

eddie wrote:Thank you to everyone for your best wishes.

Saying yes was a no-brainer. He’s my best mate and we’ve probably known for at least two years how we feel, despite the denials from us both - the amount of times we were “just good friends! - and all it took to get where we are today.

and if you had £1 for every time you told each other to ''go fuck yourself'' you'd have a tidy sum I reckon

lol!

so chuffed for you both. You deserve to be happy

xxx

by eddie Mon Apr 09, 2018 3:17 pm

gelico wrote:
eddie wrote:Thank you to everyone for your best wishes.

Saying yes was a no-brainer. He’s my best mate and we’ve probably known for at least two years how we feel, despite the denials from us both - the amount of times we were “just good friends! - and all it took to get where we are today.

and if you had £1 for every time you told each other to ''go fuck yourself'' you'd have a tidy sum I reckon

so chuffed for you both. You deserve to be happy

xxx

Hahahahahahahaha you are so near the mark it’s uncanny! Incredibly important news announcement 3489511464

by eddie Mon Apr 09, 2018 3:22 pm

And just for fun, (and it is an astrology fun thing as I’m a Gemini and he’s a Sagittarius), this is actually pretty much how all of our debates go:

Things Go Wrong At The Gemini-Sagittarius Debate

MODERATOR: Thank you for joining us for the first in a series of debates for the leadership of the Zodiac. Tonight, Gemini and Sagittarius will discuss the issues. Sagittarius has won the coin toss --

SAGITTARIUS: Well, I do have the reputation for being lucky...

MOD: -- and will go first. Sag?

SAG: Thanks. A lot of people have complained that there is no real choice in this election. I'd like to take the time now to point out the many significant differences between myself and my opposing sign. First of all --

GEMINI: Bor-ing!

SAG: Beg your pardon?

GEM: You know, supposedly I have the reputation for being the yappy one. Two to one though says you've got ten minutes of material there about how you're all philosophical and stuff, and how I'm just "flighty."

SAG: Have you been reading my notes?

GEM: No, I just know you. I know how you can take one philosophical stance... whether you've really thought it through or not... and spin it into a long tale that sounds like it's all well thought out. But sometimes it isn't. And I'm calling you on it.

SAG: Listen, scatterbrain: you haven't thought out your positions well enough to call anyone on anything. I say you just catalogue data and then use that to argue against anyone who thinks differently from you.

GEM: And that's so different from you how, exactly?

SAG: I... you suck!

GEM: Yeah, well YOU suck!

MOD: Please, could we return to the debate please?

SAG: Who's the nimrod who hired Virgo to moderate this thing anyway?

GEM: Yeah. Virgo's kind of like us in a way, but they're so... Virgo-ish.

SAG: Yeah. They're that thing, that Virgo thing. They're so... they're like the intellectual hallway monitors of the Zodiac.

GEM: Good one, dude! (pauses) This debate sucks.

SAG: Yeah. Hey, wanna go drinking?

GEM: Sure, let's go. I'll drive.

SAG: No, I'll drive.

GEM: No, I'll drive!

SAG: No...

http://matthewastrology.blogspot.co.uk/2008/08/things-go-wrong-at-gemini-sagittarius.html

by Guest Mon Apr 09, 2018 3:28 pm

eddie wrote:And just for fun, (and it is an astrology fun thing as I’m a Gemini and he’s a Sagittarius), this is actually pretty much how all of our debates go:

Things Go Wrong At The Gemini-Sagittarius Debate

MODERATOR: Thank you for joining us for the first in a series of debates for the leadership of the Zodiac. Tonight, Gemini and Sagittarius will discuss the issues. Sagittarius has won the coin toss --

SAGITTARIUS: Well, I do have the reputation for being lucky...

MOD: -- and will go first. Sag?

SAG: Thanks. A lot of people have complained that there is no real choice in this election. I'd like to take the time now to point out the many significant differences between myself and my opposing sign. First of all --

GEMINI: Bor-ing!

SAG: Beg your pardon?

GEM: You know, supposedly I have the reputation for being the yappy one. Two to one though says you've got ten minutes of material there about how you're all philosophical and stuff, and how I'm just "flighty."

SAG: Have you been reading my notes?

GEM: No, I just know you. I know how you can take one philosophical stance... whether you've really thought it through or not... and spin it into a long tale that sounds like it's all well thought out. But sometimes it isn't. And I'm calling you on it.

SAG: Listen, scatterbrain: you haven't thought out your positions well enough to call anyone on anything. I say you just catalogue data and then use that to argue against anyone who thinks differently from you.

GEM: And that's so different from you how, exactly?

SAG: I... you suck!

GEM: Yeah, well YOU suck!

MOD: Please, could we return to the debate please?

SAG: Who's the nimrod who hired Virgo to moderate this thing anyway?

GEM: Yeah. Virgo's kind of like us in a way, but they're so... Virgo-ish.

SAG: Yeah. They're that thing, that Virgo thing. They're so... they're like the intellectual hallway monitors of the Zodiac.

GEM: Good one, dude! (pauses) This debate sucks.

SAG: Yeah. Hey, wanna go drinking?

GEM: Sure, let's go. I'll drive.

SAG: No, I'll drive.

GEM: No, I'll drive!

SAG: No...

http://matthewastrology.blogspot.co.uk/2008/08/things-go-wrong-at-gemini-sagittarius.html

well, that sounds pretty much as it should be

and long may you continue to have such deep and meaningful debates

anyhoos, I love you guys xx

by Ben Reilly Mon Apr 09, 2018 6:12 pm

Thanks so much to all of you for your words. It beats the hell out of "what are you two possibly thinking????!!!!" Laughing

You know me, I'm the quiet type, never really had much of a way with words, so I'm just going to post this up:

by Original Quill Mon Apr 09, 2018 7:20 pm

Now if life is just an old car
And love is just the wheels that keep it rollin'
Every engine needs a spark, yeah
And she's the fire that's kept me goin'

Like that old car, a love needs to be kept up,
And the wheels all need to be tightened, yeah
Keep that engine well oiled, an' always keep it prepped up,
Keep that fender shined and brightened.

Just a thought to add to ol' Eli's song.

by Andy Mon Apr 09, 2018 7:25 pm

There was a young maiden called Ed.
Who wanted to get Ben into bed.
But it just wasn't fair
just to have an affair.
So they both decided to get wed.

by eddie Mon Apr 09, 2018 9:02 pm

Ben, yes you have no words ever. Not one. You are devoid of them, I’d say.

Quill, pretty good mate!

Andy, that was good. Really good.

by Ben Reilly Mon Apr 09, 2018 10:40 pm

Also wanted to throw in, Veya, we opened up your whiskey, finally! Good stuff, man. We were going to take a photo of us clinking glasses together but we got a bit drunk and forgot, which is totally unlike us, I should point out.

by eddie Mon Apr 09, 2018 11:08 pm

Ben Mothafuckin' Reilly wrote:Also wanted to throw in, Veya, we opened up your whiskey, finally! Good stuff, man. We were going to take a photo of us clinking glasses together but we got a bit drunk and forgot, which is totally unlike us, I should point out.

Yes Veya, it was well appreciated. Thank you again me old mucker.

by Guest Mon Apr 09, 2018 11:17 pm

''so, let's get married'' Ben said
''yeah, go on then, let's'' grinned Edd
But discussion was slight
They drank whiskey all night
And the furthest they got was the bed

by veya_victaous Tue Apr 10, 2018 1:03 am

eddie wrote:
Ben Mothafuckin' Reilly wrote:Also wanted to throw in, Veya, we opened up your whiskey, finally! Good stuff, man. We were going to take a photo of us clinking glasses together but we got a bit drunk and forgot, which is totally unlike us, I should point out.

Yes Veya, it was well appreciated. Thank you again me old mucker.

I'm Glad you enjoyed it. drunken

by eddie Tue Apr 10, 2018 11:46 am

gelico wrote:
''so, let's get married'' Ben said
''yeah, go on then, let's'' grinned Edd
But discussion was slight
They drank whiskey all night
And the furthest they got was the bed

Wow. This thread has turned some of you into poets!

by magica Tue Apr 10, 2018 3:30 pm

Ed and Ben met up again
When Ben alighted the plane
They had a big kiss
Then done the biz
Outside in the pouring rain

by nicko Tue Apr 10, 2018 4:20 pm

Will you live in England, or go to America ?

by Fred Moletrousers Tue Apr 10, 2018 5:47 pm

Ben stood on the burning deck
when all around had fled.
And once he'd put the fire out
He went to rescue Ed.

She was drifting in a leaky boat
after escaping from the fire.
But the boat would not long stay afloat
as the waves got higher and higher.

So, ripping off his sailor's shirt
our Ben dived o'er the side,
and swimming to the frightened Ed,
"Throw me a rope," he cried.

"And I will tow you to the ship
that is now safe and sound.
And we will sail the seven seas
and let our love abound."

Then Ed picked up the coil of rope
that lay in the sinking boat;
and threw it to Ben who, by then
could hardly stay afloat.

He caught it with a manly grip,
then looked at it in fear.
"You should have kept one bloody end
before chucking the other here!"

Moral of this story, Eds: Now you've hooked a good man - for Christ's sake don't let go of the line!

Love and warmest thoughts to you both.

by Guest Tue Apr 10, 2018 6:43 pm

Brilliant as ever Moley

by eddie Tue Apr 10, 2018 8:43 pm

Wow. I’ve never given so many greens on one thread! You lot have really made me laugh and also get quite emotional.

We have so much talent on this forum. cheers

by Ben Reilly Tue Apr 10, 2018 10:06 pm

Edds (sorry honey-pie, nearly blew your cover there) read these over the phone to me today when I was taking one of my many breaks at work. They're fantastic, and I'm so flattered! And just when she and I were talking about what a bunch of assholes every last one of you is.

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by Ben Reilly Wed Apr 11, 2018 1:28 am

nicko wrote:Will you live in England, or go to America ?

Well, I'm coming to England, at least for the beginning. I guess I'm going to have to get used to not being able to spread my arms out -- y'all really should have planned things to give yourselves a bit more elbow room! Laughing

by veya_victaous Wed Apr 11, 2018 3:04 am

Ben Mothafuckin' Reilly wrote:
nicko wrote:Will you live in England, or go to America ?

Well, I'm coming to England, at least for the beginning. I guess I'm going to have to get used to not being able to spread my arms out -- y'all really should have planned things to give yourselves a bit more elbow room!

Just make sure you claim ALL the benefits you can, Live the immigrants life of luxury at the British expense. Razz

by Fred Moletrousers Wed Apr 11, 2018 11:28 am

Ben Mothafuckin' Reilly wrote:
nicko wrote:Will you live in England, or go to America ?

Well, I'm coming to England, at least for the beginning. I guess I'm going to have to get used to not being able to spread my arms out -- y'all really should have planned things to give yourselves a bit more elbow room!

We used to have a chunk of France just across the Channel, but the buggers wanted it back.

by nicko Wed Apr 11, 2018 12:02 pm

We used to have a big chunk of America, But lost that as well !

by Fred Moletrousers Wed Apr 11, 2018 6:23 pm

nicko wrote:We used to have a big chunk of America, But lost that as well !

I wouldn't mind getting some of France back; their wine is superb and they do make very good cheese.

Not so sure about America.....

by Guest Wed Apr 11, 2018 8:45 pm

I'm so happy for you both - eddie has been a true friend to me on forum life and I've trusted her with many things that I would never share with anyone but a true genuine person - and I'm just so happy for her and you Ben .

I pray you both have a wonderful life together filled with love and happiness -bless you both abundantly xx

by Ben Reilly Wed Apr 11, 2018 9:32 pm

veya_victaous wrote:
Ben Mothafuckin' Reilly wrote:
nicko wrote:Will you live in England, or go to America ?

Well, I'm coming to England, at least for the beginning. I guess I'm going to have to get used to not being able to spread my arms out -- y'all really should have planned things to give yourselves a bit more elbow room!

Just make sure you claim ALL the benefits you can, Live the immigrants life of luxury at the British expense.

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by Original Quill Thu Apr 12, 2018 2:17 am

Fred Moletrousers wrote:
nicko wrote:We used to have a big chunk of America, But lost that as well !

I wouldn't mind getting some of France back; their wine is superb and they do make very good cheese.

Not so sure about America.....

California wine is far superior. Perhaps you need to expand your world. Wink

by Fred Moletrousers Thu Apr 12, 2018 9:27 am

Original Quill wrote:
Fred Moletrousers wrote:

I wouldn't mind getting some of France back; their wine is superb and they do make very good cheese.

Not so sure about America.....

California wine is far superior. Perhaps you need to expand your world.

I already have, including a visit to the Inglenook winery in Napa Valley some years ago. Some award winning wines are even made in the UK.

by Original Quill Thu Apr 12, 2018 12:00 pm

Fred Moletrousers wrote:
Original Quill wrote:

California wine is far superior. Perhaps you need to expand your world.

I already have, including a visit to the Inglenook winery in Napa Valley some years ago. Some award winning wines are even made in the UK.

Many wine producing regions are superior to the French. It's my belief that the French fields are played out.

Right now I would say not only are the California grapes better than the French, but the fields of Adelaide, and some in Turkey, are also producing superior wines. The French wine industry is living on name solely.

by 'Wolfie Thu Apr 12, 2018 4:26 pm

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Adelaide and the Yarra Valley aren't the only wine regions in Oz...

The Hunter Valley (Pokolbin/Lovedale, Broke, Jerry's Plains..), Mudgee, and even Orange/Mt. Canobalas could all give those French a run for their money..

With climate change gradually changing the growing conditions, some of the commercial wineries here are already buying land in cooler regions down around Tasmania and Victoria -- so that some of those may well become the domjnant Aussie wine regions before the end of the century.

There are also some emerging wine regions in Chile and Argentina as well, that maybe shouldn't be dismissed too quickly..

by Original Quill Thu Apr 12, 2018 4:58 pm

Yes, I forgot to mention some excellent Chilean wines reaching markets up here.

by Raggamuffin Sat Apr 14, 2018 10:47 am

I'm a bit late to the party but congratulations! cheers

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