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- Thu Feb 22, 2024 3:11 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Happy Presidents' Day Who is your favorite?
- Replies: 49
- Views: 959
Re: Happy Presidents' Day Who is your favorite?
You're right of course - people don't vote directly for a PM but for a Member of Parliament (roughly equivalent to a US Representative) at their local constituency. The leader of the party that wins the most seats is usually 'invited' by the Queen King to form a government. Usually there is not a pr...
- Thu Feb 22, 2024 2:12 pm
- Forum: General stuff & Tabloids
- Topic: Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift have been seen in Sydney
- Replies: 2
- Views: 152
- Thu Feb 22, 2024 3:28 am
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Happy Presidents' Day Who is your favorite?
- Replies: 49
- Views: 959
Re: Happy Presidents' Day Who is your favorite?
It's interesting seeing this 'best President' discussion in a British context. In the general election of 1945, just two months after VE Day and while the Pacific War was still raging, voters rejected Churchill as PM and voted Atlee (Labour) in with 46% of the vote against Churchill's (Conservative)...
- Thu Feb 22, 2024 2:58 am
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Soulless Shoes
- Replies: 13
- Views: 383
Re: Soulless Shoes
I don't understand why, on my YouTube feed and presumably generated by their algorithm, I get ads for TFG 'Trumpinator Bobblehead' dolls. Tagline "I'll be back in 2024." It's an AI-generated Trump voice telling us to buy one or five or twenty or even fifty of these things. I can't see a price withou...
- Sat Feb 17, 2024 4:34 pm
- Forum: General stuff & Tabloids
- Topic: A Carrion Bag?
- Replies: 1
- Views: 113
Re: A Carrion Bag?
I was trying to think of a joke when I read this story but couldn't. Nice one.
- Sat Feb 17, 2024 12:15 am
- Forum: General stuff & Tabloids
- Topic: RIP Navalny
- Replies: 4
- Views: 174
Re: RIP Navalny
There seems to be no check on Putin - the Russian people will have to deal with him. Stalin was never this bad or as brazen. (On second thoughts he probably was.). Prigozhin died in a plane crash along with nine others - some of them were Wagner Group members but others were presumably relatively in...
- Thu Feb 15, 2024 5:48 pm
- Forum: General stuff & Tabloids
- Topic: A woman's work is never done
- Replies: 4
- Views: 354
Re: A woman's work is never done
All that with the anti-Christ and making sure Biden gets in. From the Guardian: Just under a fifth of Americans believe Taylor Swift is part of a conspiracy to help Joe Biden win re-election in November, a new poll found. US rightwing conspiracy theory touts Taylor Swift as ‘Pentagon asset’ “The sup...
- Tue Feb 13, 2024 1:00 am
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Tucker Carson is to air an interview with Vladimir Putin
- Replies: 67
- Views: 1595
Re: Tucker Carson is to air an interview with Vladimir Putin
I didn't know that. Nepali soldiers have long had an outsize role in the UK Army as Gurkhas with a reputation for ferocity and bravery. But Nepal is very poor and probably easy pickings if you want mercenaries.
- Sat Feb 10, 2024 11:12 pm
- Forum: General stuff & Tabloids
- Topic: Anybody Happen to See This Missing Tower Anywhere?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 315
Re: Anybody Happen to See This Missing Tower Anywhere?
I didn't mean to hijack this thread into reminiscences but yes: Tess was quite a lady. I knew of course that Denniz was killed in a car crash in Illinois but I didn't know (or had forgotten which is not unusual these days) about the drunken driver. I remember when Tess's husband Douglas died. We hea...
- Sat Feb 10, 2024 4:30 pm
- Forum: General stuff & Tabloids
- Topic: Anybody Happen to See This Missing Tower Anywhere?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 315
Re: Anybody Happen to See This Missing Tower Anywhere?
My recollection is that Jasper AL is where Smitty,* as in Le Chat House, lived. I know that RayThom and Lord Jim and Denniz were there but of course are no longer here - not sure who else here may recall those days.
* Teresa Smith, married to Douglas.
* Teresa Smith, married to Douglas.
- Fri Feb 09, 2024 5:16 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Tucker Carson is to air an interview with Vladimir Putin
- Replies: 67
- Views: 1595
Re: Tucker Carson is to air an interview with Vladimir Putin
Seems harsh, Meade. But not wrong.
- Fri Feb 09, 2024 2:40 am
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Biden an “elderly man with a poor memory.”
- Replies: 34
- Views: 1021
Re: Biden an “elderly man with a poor memory.”
I don't disagree that it is politics; and Robert Hur - the Special Counsel - knew exactly what he was doing. Truth left the building a long time ago and perception is what matters. This is a disaster for Biden. We have a world in which huge portions of the population believe that the Covid vaccinati...
- Fri Feb 09, 2024 1:26 am
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Biden an “elderly man with a poor memory.”
- Replies: 34
- Views: 1021
Biden an “elderly man with a poor memory.”
I think Biden has done a good job and probably a bit more than I expected of him. But this report by the Special Counsel (on Biden's retention of classified documents) could well be devastating. If Biden were in a box and running against Trump or, frankly, any one of the current GOP crop of candidat...
- Fri Feb 09, 2024 1:12 am
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Tucker Carson is to air an interview with Vladimir Putin
- Replies: 67
- Views: 1595
Re: Tucker Carson is to air an interview with Vladimir Putin
There is no equation with Jane Fonda in 1972. Whatever you think of Fonda and her trip to N Vietnam, she wasn't running anything.
- Mon Feb 05, 2024 12:12 am
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Stupidity in Colorado
- Replies: 10
- Views: 377
Re: Stupidity in Colorado
I don't think it stands a cat in hell's chance of passing.
- Fri Feb 02, 2024 3:17 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: You really, really, REALLY couldn't make this shit up
- Replies: 1342
- Views: 91526
Re: You really, really, REALLY couldn't make this shit up
Thanks for explaining that - I had never heard the expression: or if I had, it had rolled right over me. But typical Trump. I remember when he dismissed the pussy grabbing tape as 'locker room talk' - I suppose so if you are about 13, which is probably the last time I heard that sort of talk in a lo...
- Wed Jan 31, 2024 6:38 am
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: You really, really, REALLY couldn't make this shit up
- Replies: 1342
- Views: 91526
Re: You really, really, REALLY couldn't make this shit up
It's also of course theological horseshit. I am no sort of Biblical expert but to my recollection there is nothing in the Bible against having an idol - it's when you worship that idol as if it were God that it becomes idolatry, which is contrary to the First Commandment.
- Fri Jan 19, 2024 2:32 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Trump's Rose Mary Woods' moment
- Replies: 15
- Views: 861
Re: Trump's Rose Mary Woods' moment
Biden was never my first choice for D candidate - I'm no longer sure who was out of a lacklustre field - but he was of course infinitely times better than the alternative. But he needs to prove to all of us that he is better than just not-Trump. Energy prices are cheaper than the rest of the world ...
- Thu Jan 18, 2024 4:41 am
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Looks like the pussy he has been grabbing...
- Replies: 18
- Views: 508
Re: Looks like the pussy he has been grabbing...
Stigmata, obv.
- Thu Jan 18, 2024 4:35 am
- Forum: General stuff & Tabloids
- Topic: Biden is a coward
- Replies: 21
- Views: 691
Re: Biden is a coward
I like the way Moskowitz speaks - he's not reading his speech, he's talking from the heart.