Bassingbourne55

Most people who don’t vote choose not to vote. They choose not to be part of the democratic process. Electorally they are null, void individuals.

Fuel and food going up, house prices and second-hand car prices going down.

With fuel, prices will probaly rise as a general trend. Food price rises are possibly connected with shortages that might correct themselves with this year’s harvest.

House prices look like they can only go down, down and down, since that’s what the experts are mostly…[Read more]

Since my original post the property slump has gone mainstream and the only way now looks to be down, down down.

Bassingbourne55 wrote:
Can’t remember if I replied to this but in case I haven’t, I’ll do so again.

I prefer the slim, graceful athletic look for women, not too curvy, about 5’5″ tall, long dark hair….. I could go on and on but……….

You’re not asking for much really, are you?

That’s my preference – doesn’t mean I’m likely to get LOL!

Can’t remember if I replied to this but in case I haven’t, I’ll do so again.

I prefer the slim, graceful athletic look for women, not too curvy, about 5’5″ tall, long dark hair….. I could go on and on but……….

No comment

I hope he recovers and wish him well. I’m not a monarchist but illness and suffering is the same whether you’re rich or poor.

He took up where Blair left off over ‘make poverty history’ by sending bulldozers into the shanty towns.

Most despots, when they’re gone, however evil they might heve been, leave one or two things that might have been seen with hindsight as benefits – Saddam Hussein (stong unified state of Iraq), Tito (strong unified state of Yugoslavia), Hitler…[Read more]

I’m in my fifties so my twenties were in the 70’s/80’s.
I was a bit aimless in early 20’s but went to got my degree in mid 20’s and settled down.
I think my 20’s were happier than my teens. Or maybe I had my teens a few years late!
I don’t think people or society has changed all that much, we just complain about different things.

I think public…[Read more]

Being a wishy-washy leftist republican atheist pinko liberal, I am vehenmently opposed to radical islam.

A thought occurred. All around the world there are independence movements – people re-discovereing their pre-colonial roots. Tibet, Native Americans, Australian Aborigines, Basques, Corsicans and even the Cornish!

So how long before…[Read more]

In Northern Ireland there was (and is) a genuine dispute between people who want it to remain part of the UK and people who want it to become part of Eire.
Both these causes, though opposed, are rational and not unreasonable in themselves. It’s the terrible and evil things people did in their name that generated the tragedy.

In the case of…[Read more]

Celebrating st paddy’s day in a foreign land is like a celebration of invasion.

St, Patrick was allegedly of mixed British / Roman birth and is thought to have been born in Somerset. He went to Ireland as a Christian missionary. Ironic, really!

But then the UK royal family is of German ancestry, so……

If fox numbers need to be controlled, so be it. But it should be done by professional marksmen, as a job, not by a pack of dogs followed by hooray Henrys on boy-racer horses.

I had a lovely holiday in Ireland last summer. We were in County Galway and we travelled right across the country to get there from Rosslare. Beautiful scenery, yes, and I was enthralled by it. But living as I do in the West Country of England, the ‘Emerald Isle’ bit was lost on me!!!

Irish teaching their English children that being Irish is better for them, racists.

So should Brits living in Spain teach their children that Britain is better than Spain?

While we’re on the subject of Celtic and Celts, the ‘indiginous’ English are, apparently, in terms of the gene pool, almost as celtic as the Welsh and Irish and about the same as the Scots. The English celtic / pre-celtic gene pool was diluted mainly by Danes in the north, while the Scots by Vikings and Picts. The Romans and Saxons might have…[Read more]

We’ve got 2 cars, a trailer, 3 pedal bicycles and a petrol lawnmower.

Essentially that includes all the components that go to make a motorbike – but I’ve never been into motorcycles!

There is a lot of hypocrisy on this matter. If it’s wrong to leave a 14 year-old alone in the house, surely it would also be wrong to let them go out on their own! Nobody makes a fuss about children being allowed out unsupervised unltil they end up drunk in a park at 2 a.m.!

A childcare professional acquaintance once told me that, strictly,…[Read more]

I was a Christian, by choice, as a child. I didn’t come from a particularly churchy family, just nominally C.of E. I desperately wanted to believe, but I couldn’t summon the faith. I would have been wonderful if what we were always told was ‘truth’ had been true. Funny how much the word ‘truth’ is used in Christian propaganda.

Anyway, by the…[Read more]

I was a Christian, by choice, as a child. I didn’t come from a particularly churchy family, just nominally C.of E. I desperately wanted to believe, but I couldn’t summon the faith. I would have been wonderful if what we were always told was ‘truth’ had been true. Funny how much the word ‘truth’ is used in Christian propaganda.

Anyway, by the…[Read more]