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Post by register on Mar 16, 2021 10:42:21 GMT
This looked like it had been coming for a few weeks. I’m sure alpinejoe and Register will be back at some point. I hope you are right Rob in respect of Alpine Joe. I know his posts weren't everybody's cup of tea but I loved his contributions. Intelligent and articulate with serious points interspersed with tongue in cheek, and he has a fantastic ability to use words and structure which evoke graphic images. I had a feeling AJ left because of our other recent leaver. Every time AJ put up an intelligent, relevant, and humourous post it would be immediately followed by some peurile drivel from our departed friend. It somewhat detracted from AJ's contributions. So hopefully we will see AJ back before long. As for the other one I am somewhat ambivalent. We proved to be an extremely tolerant forum.If banging out posts which were not really remotely interesting helped him stay out of prison or a perhaps more suitable establishment, then that is fine with me particularly since Jon announced the blocking mechanism whereby I haven't been able to read any of his posts recently. Strangely I never once felt that I had been deprived of anything. Best wishes to him! As my mother used to say "There is nowt as strange as folk" 😉 Why would AJ want to return Setefano...that would be like Einstein trying to get a conversation out of a Short Sighted, Naked Mole Rat. 🐀 |
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Post by register on Mar 16, 2021 14:16:39 GMT
Thanks for that swatcat so nice to see sensible and balanced commentary on the Remotely Interested thread. Actually it was a great idea to start this thread as you can wax lyrical about anything without having to start a new thread which you probably wouldn’t bother about otherwise and nice to see it kept going. Pity about Reg, he started to use this thread to criticise other members and after a quiet friendly word about this decided to delete his account which is his choice..... Just to set the record straight, although it might have seemed criticism of other members it was actually quite the opposite, and had I finished my trilogy that would have become clear to all members...well, maybe not all! On the subject of criticism, Statler & Waldorf criticised every post I put up, whatever the subject matter they appeared on the balcony and heckled...much like a couple of Muppets! So here on this wonderful thread (and the football side) I shall remain...far from the madding crowd. Not commenting (or indeed looking) on/at anything else, and should a couple of Muppets turn up...I will do as advised! 🦦 |
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Post by register on Mar 18, 2021 9:34:33 GMT
www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/meghan-markle-labelled-unworthy-blistering-23749555Nice to see that most people are now waking up to the Woke Brigade! Nice also to see you over here Swatty, because since AJ left there has been no one with any intelligence I can converse with! Of course I’m not ‘the brightest star in the sky’ but I’m happy to admit that...if only others were able to admit it! To save other people from putting up silly posts, I no longer look at the other threads, so if you need help with anything, you know where I am. 🦦
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Post by register on Mar 18, 2021 9:37:07 GMT
www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/meghan-markle-labelled-unworthy-blistering-23749555Nice to see that most people are now waking up to the Woke Brigade! Nice also to see you over here Swatty, because since AJ left there has been no one with any intelligence I can converse with! Of course I’m not ‘the brightest star in the sky’ but I’m happy to admit that...if only others were able to admit it! To save other people from putting up silly posts, I no longer look at the other threads, so if you need help with anything, you know where I am. 🦦 I do like the Woke Brigade one also...sweet caring Meghan! 🤮 |
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Post by register on Mar 19, 2021 20:02:06 GMT
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Post by register on Mar 22, 2021 20:12:57 GMT
Oh Boris, there is poetry in your soul.
Boris has now warned us of the next wave of Covid ‘Washing up on our shores!’ Washing up on our shores...do we get it? There are certainly a couple of people who have no idea what I’m on about so I will continue.
What happens when the summer comes...the boats come! What comes with the boats...Covid Mk 3.
All the Woke Brigade will be stood on the White Cliffs, arm’s akimbo, welcoming the tiny boats. Bedsits will be turned into war rooms, and pots of glue will be made ready. No one will dare stand up to the Woke Brigade, or they will come to a sticky end!
I was going to say more...but I’m stuck at the moment! 💭
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Post by stefano on Mar 23, 2021 11:31:17 GMT
What disgraceful scenes in Bristol a couple of nights ago. Politicians make laws so the response of the intellectually challenged brigade is to attack the police. The police really cannot win in modern society.
During the covid rule breaking BLM protests last summer the police were accused of being institutionally woke. I agree with that view. To see police officers kneeling in the face of protestors was a complete misunderstanding of the role of the police and in my view an abdication of their responsibilities.
They really are though stuck between a rock and a hard place. If they had waded into the protestors and arrested law breaking black people they would have been back to being institutionally racist instead of institutionally woke!
Then moving on to the Clapham Common protests the BBC led the prosecution of the police constantly showing footage which seemed to show the police in a bad light. If you look at it without listening to the commentary of that Munchetty woman it actually does no such thing. There was no excessive force by the police and the techniques used in making arrests are designed to stop harm or injury coming to the person arrested.
But of course the BBC have a clear agenda so they kept showing the same footage time and time again. I am sure that they would have had access to other footage which I have seen showing the real side of what happened, with police officers and police vehicles being attacked and grossly intimidatory and law breaking behaviour by the protestors.
The police had been there for many hours allowing the peaceful vigil (even though it had been banned). A couple of thousand came and went during the day with no problems. By the time darkness fell a smaller number remained and they then moved closer together around the band stand.
This was in clear breach of covid regulations (remember it was not the police who made that law) so the police requested them to disperse. A few hundred did. That left about 200 who just faced up to the police chanting "f**k the police" and throwing stones at them, and a few peeled away and started damaging police vehicles parked about 100 metres away.
Why have we not seen this footage on our wonderful BBC? Well it doesn't suit their agenda does it?
Some of the hard-core protestors of course move on from one protest to the next, and probably half the time have no idea which protest they are now on. That would certainly explain some of the banners you sometimes see which are completely out of place with the actual protest taking place.
What happened at Clapham Common of course totally detracted from the main point and was disrespectful to the memory of the poor young lady brutally murdered as she was walking home. In the same way the summer time protests detracted from the serious issue of addressing racism in modern day society.
All protests these days seem to have Common placards and chants of "De-fund the Police" (quite what they would do then I don't know).
Maybe de-funding the BBC would achieve a better outcome for society as a whole!
Well that is my gloomy thought for the day. I will be back on the match day thread later with an equally gloomy forecast to set us up for this evening. 😉⚽️
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Post by register on Mar 24, 2021 15:35:45 GMT
www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/four-men-who-gang-raped-23733167Difficult subject of course...hanging! Although the man shown on the chair is hardly going to be hanged, more like strangled...Albert Pierrepoint would turn in his grave! Is the law in Iran a good law or a bad one? Would the Pikies who dragged the young copper to his death and will be out in a year or so still be smirking...no they’d be dead! Would the guy who threw his dog in the river, and tied a weight to it and only received an 80 quid fine be smirking...hopefully not after 80 lashes! Scumbags rioting in Bristol...why...because the law in this country is practically nonexistent! Too hard or too soft...I know which way I would prefer! 🪕
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Post by Rob on Mar 24, 2021 16:14:59 GMT
Those acting illegally in Bristol deserve to be punished by existing law for any illegal activity. No new legislation required for that. The wording of the new proposed legislation is bizarre and it is people like the police that end up having to pick up the pieces of it, and they have my sympathy. So also, do those wishing to exercise their right to protest. Not when there are Public Health guidances not to, I wholeheartedly agree. But in a ‘post covid’ world when there are not such Public Health concerns.
Giving powers to potentially imprison for up to 10 years for ‘serious annoyance’ is madness and will create division, hostility and rough justice. Should peaceful demonstration organisers of the future have anticipated the ‘serious annoyance’ that followed by idiots. Well, they will get charged. You can be sure of that. And that is a problem started by politicians and mopped up by police on the front line and then the Courts, who politicians seem to denigrate with repeated hyperbole on a regular basis these days, thereby undermining the rule of law further.
I hope that amendments are made to some of the wording. As it is worded in such a way that differentials between here and Chinese Hong Kong’s attitude to peaceful demonstration become slim on paper. I don’t say that lightly or to cause hysteria. It is based on the draft legislation. It is truly awful. We all know who they are trying to capture in this legislation. The disrupters. The criminal behaviour. They already can with existing legislation. This will just increase the net to those they do not need to capture in a civilised society. And yes, some idiots will bandwagon that. But some more cerebral consideration also raises concern.
This is not a police bashing post. But they will have powers and discretion they neither need nor need to be criticised for. The whole criminal justice system is underfunded from top to bottom on every side of the fence as it is. There’s a few statistics out regarding the Met’s triage of offences and lack of follow up today that some politician will blame another politician for. They would alarm the law abiding citizen or reporter of crime. The politicians are the problem with serial underfunding for stated aims. A civil society wants things investigated, charged where appropriate, not where not, prosecuted, defended, sentenced, acquitted, prevented, deterred and many other ambitions. Those things tend not to come from draconian knee-jerk response. Never have, never will.
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Post by stefano on Mar 24, 2021 16:49:39 GMT
Balanced fair post Rob as a former police officer of 30 years in 2 different forces (D&C and RUC) I would not take issue with any of the points you made. It is certainly easier to get rid of an under performing football manager than it is to get rid of an under performing minister / MP!  |
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Post by Rob on Mar 24, 2021 17:17:24 GMT
RUC. Crikey. What an experience that must have been back then.
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Post by stefano on Mar 24, 2021 17:27:31 GMT
RUC. Crikey. What an experience that must have been back then. Enjoyed it Belfast in late 1970's based at Tennent Street in the Shankill. Met some lovely salt of the earth people and at quite a young age I learned something important that has stayed with me, the vast majority of people wherever you are and whatever you are doing are good people. Managed to see a fair bit of football too Cliftonville was my local team playing at Solitude, Linfield over at Windsor Park, and a couple of games for Glentoran at the Oval. Saw my first ever international games too at Windsor Park both in the European Cup Qualifiers whatever the name was then....Northern Ireland v England 5-1 to England....then Northern Ireland v Republic of Ireland the first ever meeting between the countries since partition in 1921. 1-0 to Northern Ireland. The most difficult moment was my first breakfast. When I asked for fried bread I then discovered there were about 20 different types!  |
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Post by register on Mar 25, 2021 8:38:52 GMT
www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/four-men-who-gang-raped-23733167Difficult subject of course...hanging! Although the man shown on the chair is hardly going to be hanged, more like strangled...Albert Pierrepoint would turn in his grave! Is the law in Iran a good law or a bad one? Would the Pikies who dragged the young copper to his death and will be out in a year or so still be smirking...no they’d be dead! Would the guy who threw his dog in the river, and tied a weight to it and only received an 80 quid fine be smirking...hopefully not after 80 lashes! Scumbags rioting in Bristol...why...because the law in this country is practically nonexistent! Too hard or too soft...I know which way I would prefer! 🪕 A very balanced and very well thought out post Reg! 😆😆😆 I have been in absolute hysterics since all this started. Another very balanced and very well thought out post coming up after dog walking. 😆 |
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Post by stefano on Mar 25, 2021 8:55:21 GMT
As it is breakfast time I was thinking about my Northern Irish breakfast following my post yesterday.
I would say 20 was a bit of an exaggeration, but there were lots. The ones I can remember are soda bread, potato bread, laver bread, veda bread, and boxty. Any Irish ancestry on here to add more? 🇮🇪🧙♂️
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Post by gullone on Mar 25, 2021 11:44:01 GMT
Say NO to a smart meter while you still can !
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