After the outpouring of emotion and concern expressed on this message board for Bill Clinton, how comes no-one is remotlely interested in Tony Blairs heart op today? (tongue firmly in cheek).
Well - I think I know the answer to this question, but just thought I’d ask!
P.S. My daughter suffers from S.V.T. and has done since she was born, it is easily sorted with a bag of frozen peas wrapped in a towel , or ice cubes down the back! Can you imagine that at the Labour Party conference?
I am, actually.
Redwolf
I’m sure a great many people on this side of the pond are too, but from what I understand, Voodoo doesn’t work here. Something to do with the climate I think. 
Redwolf…expand…(sorry , I am am an F.E. teacher)
How on earth do you do that highlighty thing?..Discuss…
Do any of our brothers over the pond care… remotley…? We kinda need your support right now, because we are just about to give up on democracy and go down the pub! (It is Friday!)
… probably because, unlike Clinton’s bypass operation, Blair had a relatively minor procedure described thus by the BBC:
“a simple technique which thousands of patients in the UK undergo each year”.
I guess MY definition of minor surgery is surgery performed on someone
other than me!
Colin
Yeah, but Colin, I could do a ‘toasty’ and complain that nobody cares about the English. Sulk Sulk £££$$$$%%%%. (International hug called for I think!) and by God do we need one!
Eh…What does F.E. stand for?
Slan,
D.
nah - Mr Blair is also part Scots. He and I went to high school in Edinburgh around the same time. Mind you, he went to the rather snooty
and private Edinburgh Academy whilst I attended a typical rough public inner city school in the tenements of Gorgie/Dalry.
Colin
I hope he recovers quickly and completely. The U.S. needs all the world supporters we can get these days.
I must be bored - I’m posting again to correct my own mistakes. Blair went to Fettes College not Edinburgh Academy. Both are rather exclusive toff high schools for the non financially challenged.
Colin
Further Education Dublinn.. It means catching the ones who got out of the original net of school and getting them at work! National Vocational Qualifications and ‘Lifelong Learning’. It’s where Charles Clarke puts us old whistling graduates. (ha ha).
P.S. I don’t wear socks and sandals, courdoroy, carry my pencils in my top pocket and weigh 24 stone…before you ask!
P.P.S. ..and I run my own consultancy…Don’t know why I had to say that , but feel I have to defend F.E. teachers!
Blimey, arnt I on the defensive tonight? Thank God I have a big Cheesey Bean baked potato, my Low D, and last orders at the pub, what more could a girl ask for?
Sir Nick… We may not always agree with your foreign policy, but you always have our support…
Well now I understand,I never heard the phrase before being a long time out of school.I asked my sixteen year old son but he was baffled as well.
I live and learn… 
Slan,
D.
Well there you go..he’s too young and you’re too old Dublinn! Ha ha !
Must be a tune in that…
" as the years fly past we lose our grasp
or fuse it in the sun…"
Ooops..thats not a tune ..is it?
Slan,
D.
Dublinn, got back from pub , would love to give you the intelligent pertinent answer that you truly deserve, but now going to make myself a cup of tea.
So, whats happnin with this thread? Is there not a single soul in the entire world who has sympathy for poor little Tony? …Yeah, O.K. I’m flogging a dead horse…Myself, trying to drag a grain of sympathy from the bottom of Chiff… Going to make tea and play Inesheer on the D…(Well at least I tried).
Most people on this forum are from the United States, and Bill Clinton was significantly more influential to our lives than Tony Blair has been. Bill Clinton gets more press coverage than Tony Blair, so many people on this forum didn’t know there was a problem with PM Blair until they read this thread.
Pretty much it. I’d guess I think more about Tony Blair than many of my coworkers, but he’s hardly a daily concern even for me.
I did hear about it on the radio this morning - but it was something to the effect of “Prime Minister Tony Blair had a routine heart procedure last night, and is resting comfortably. Doctors say he is in no danger and should recover fully.”
For what it’s worth, he has (and had) my good wishes - but from the tenor of the news I heard, I wouldn’t have thought that prayer was needed.
he blindly followed bush into this nasty situation in iraq. so i say who cares, f_ck’em.
There is a reason why he opens every address to the nation with the phrase:
“Pee-pool…of Great Britain…” I believe it’s part of his agenda to make it so. But alas I fear we are straying into the realms of the OT:Political thread.