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MonkeyTennis?

MonkeyTennis?

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3 hours ago, Wymsey said:

Am not sure what to think of Musk.

 

Him using his platform to encourage riots and civil unrest in the UK was a shocker to me, and negates anything positive he's done (or taken credit for) IMO. 

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Daggers

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1 hour ago, urban.spaceman said:

New "overpriced shite Christmas event scandal" just dropped.

 

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They’ve dumped him in a gay skip? He won’t be happy. 

WigstonWanderer

WigstonWanderer

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3 hours ago, Sampson said:

What Wymsey about expecting Musk to be a strong speaker confuses the heck out of me too though. When you see populists like Farage or Trump, you anssumr they are bound to be strong public speakers even if they lie a lot, they would need to be to get people on their side.
 

I assumed Musk would be the same when he first broke through a few years back, but now I’ve actually watched him, he’s such a mumbler and very uncharasmatic, awkward and nervous the whole time and a very uninspiring speaker. Even to those who agree with him politically, I can’t get my head round how he has such a devoted following or who hang on his every word.

Seeing him on stage with Trump, jumping around, was quite cringeworthy. Looked jacked up on something.

Zear0

Zear0

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6 minutes ago, urban.spaceman said:

 

One of the many problems the Torys will have with so few MPs is absolute imbeciles like her and Philp will be in senior shadow roles. It's painful. 

Daggers

Daggers

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11 minutes ago, urban.spaceman said:

 

Train drivers having to translate Hannibal’s crossing of the Alps from Latin to English would explain why trains are always late, I guess. 
 

My dentist kept me waiting for 45 minutes last week as she was translating The Iliad from Ancient Greek. 

st albans fox

st albans fox

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47 minutes ago, leicsmac said:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clyx9kplge8o

 

A campaign adviser to US President-elect Donald Trump has called the incoming UK ambassador to the US, Lord Peter Mandelson, "an absolute moron".

 

This is the level of diplomatic decorum the UK should expect routinely from the incoming administration, and act accordingly.

Mandelson wasn’t exactly complimentary about trump! 

grobyfox1990

grobyfox1990

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5 hours ago, leicsmac said:

How accurate a summation of how vacuous part of human society is, right there.

That’s human nature. We split into camps. Also when you have a homogenous product at a stable price point, I’d be interested to hear any other way to do business other than with people you like 

st albans fox

st albans fox

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Looks like a terror incident in Magdeburg Xmas market 

car driven at high speed through the market 

 

of course could be a random nutter and not a terrorist 

 

I’ve seen a video and I’m afraid that there will be many dead 

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davieG

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Hashem Al-Ghaili   · 

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30 years ago, Carl Sagan predicted what the United States would be like in the future. How accurate is it today?
"I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time — when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness...”
~Carl Sagan in "The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark"
 
Don't know if true as it popped up on my FB account
 
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Parafox

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15 minutes ago, st albans fox said:

Looks like a terror incident in Magdeburg Xmas market 

car driven at high speed through the market 

 

of course could be a random nutter and not a terrorist 

 

I’ve seen a video and I’m afraid that there will be many dead 

How?

st albans fox

st albans fox

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5 minutes ago, Parafox said:

How?

On x 

it’s a cctv recording - probably a livestream of the market 

rather hoping it isn’t real but I haven’t seen anyone saying that 

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Parafox

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1 minute ago, st albans fox said:

On x 

it’s a cctv recording - probably a livestream of the market 

rather hoping it isn’t real but I haven’t seen anyone saying that 

 

Oh dear. :cry:

leicsmac

leicsmac

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1 hour ago, st albans fox said:

Mandelson wasn’t exactly complimentary about trump! 

At least, in that regard, what Mandelson said had at least some basis in truth.

 

In any case, the point stands that the UK should expect zero respect from this incoming administration unless they are prepared to kiss their rectal passages on every single matter.

 

Trump, and those that follow him, have sycophants and enemies. They do not have friends.

 

1 hour ago, grobyfox1990 said:

That’s human nature. We split into camps. Also when you have a homogenous product at a stable price point, I’d be interested to hear any other way to do business other than with people you like 

It is the very idea of the everywhere "product" at all, that every aspect of human progress, development, life and health appears to have to be packaged as a commodity that has a price and then has to be marketed and sold that I loathe.

 

Not out of any particular moral principle other than the preservation of life, because that and the tribal nature of humanity will, inevitability, lead nowhere good when facing some of the challenges to come.

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Paninistickers

Paninistickers

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1 hour ago, st albans fox said:

Looks like a terror incident in Magdeburg Xmas market 

car driven at high speed through the market 

 

of course could be a random nutter and not a terrorist 

 

I’ve seen a video and I’m afraid that there will be many dead 

Could be. And the authorities will probably claim it's 'not terror related' ....but I'd be happy to have a bet. 

 

Some German cities (along with some Belgian, Swedish and Dutch cities) are in a real mess immigration/ integration wise 

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urban.spaceman

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7 minutes ago, bovril said:

Real shame they're scrapping the programme though. 

They should force the private schools to teach state school kids for free, for a laugh.

 

Can you imagine the meltdown?

RowlattsFox

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Ridiculous that there needs to be but I thought most Christmas markets protected from this sort of thing. Unfortunately, it needs to be standard. I will never fathom how you can do this to people minding their own business. 

 

 

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