Bassingbourne55

I just find what happened to to these girls was so sad. Whatever their chosen lifestyles or whatever risks they took, they are the victims of pure evil.

As I understand it, the veil idea comes from the fact that Mohammed’s wife insisted on speaking from behind a curtain in her tent whan some men came to visit.

Also the headscarf tradition was possibly originally a Christian one, from Syria. One only needs to look at all the Christian imagary including the Virgin Mary to see what I…[Read more]

I used Friends Reuinited a bit a few years ago – found a few old schoolfriends on there and exchanged a few e-mails.

I also found the first girl I went out with and really just sent her and ‘update’ of the 25 odd years that had passed. I got a nice reply but never intended or expected more as I was happily married and so was she.

This was a few…[Read more]

There is all this talk about CO2 emissions caused by burning fossil fuels (and renewable biofuels for that matter except teh replacement crops absorb a similar amount of CO2 while growing).

But what is never mentioned is that burning carbon-based fossil fuels absorbs oxygen from the atmoshere too – so are we not slowly depleting our oxygen?

If…[Read more]

Isn’t it about time heathens, atheists or whatever started ‘kicking off’ against the world’s oldest mental illness – religion!

I haven’t had a break-up since I was a teenager, touch wood! But I’d guess guy deal with in the same way as girls. It is probably less acceptable for us to be bursting into tears all the time but a lot of women take the stiff upper lip approach too.

My cats start shredding the sofa at the very mention of Gordon fcuking Ramsay!

But Jack Dee is boring too!

Sad man? That’s what i wondered myself as I became immersed in the game. But what the heck! – no sadder than men or women who go to stand in a crowd to shout and watch other men kicking a ball about! No sadder than people whoi play shooting on-line games. No sadder than the man who spends years restoring a Morris Minor or the woman who…[Read more]

The big irony of the ‘racist’ Lotus revver is this: –

Lotus is owned by the Proton car company of Malaysia. Malaysia is a predominantly muslim country.

having had a proton myself i was under the impression it was made by mitsubishi ?? or atleast thats what the log book said

Mitsubishi used to own a stake in Proton but not now – from what I…[Read more]

The PC credentials of public sector bureaucrats have given us multilingual forms to fill and multilingual instructions on how to fill them in. Paragraphs in Gujerati, Urdu, Vietnamese, Arabic and, of course, Welsh, abound but where are the translations into Polish, Hungarian, etc.?

The big irony of the ‘racist’ Lotus revver is this: –

Lotus is owned by the Proton car company of Malaysia. Malaysia is a predominantly muslim country.

Oh dear!

Both our cars are VWs, though not the funny old Beetle type!. As most people know, the Volkswagen, or ‘Peoples’ Car’ was Hitler’s idea. Even though Adolf didn’t drive, he was keen on cars and he even did the initial sketch of the Beetle, which poor Ferdinand Porsche, who had worked on a beetle-like car for Mercedes in the early 30’s,…[Read more]

The concept of multiculturalism is fine as long as it is applied to in a spirit of friendship and shared basic values.

But one has to accept that multiculturalism has limits and so should not pander to any aspirations of cultural separatism or supremacism of any group.

You know how some people talk about ‘skellingtons’ instead of skeletons,…[Read more]

This is England.

Our language is English.

Glaswegian: “Thas reet, Jummeh, kudna ‘grree wuthya mooer!”
Cockney: “Yer wah? Stahn da kerwoze! Can’t ya spake blinkin’ blardy English?”
Scouser: “****** @@@@ ****** !!!!! @@@@!”

The train hit a maintenance vehicle while travelling at 120 mph (much below its maximum speed). If a normal high-speed train hit something of a similar size at that speed the scale of the accident would be similar – as has happened in the past.

The thing about the Transrapid was (hopefully still will be) that it could travel at 250+ mph,…[Read more]

Doh! Back to the drawing board!

You lookin’ for a punch-up Bassy

Sorry, not now, I’m too busy!

Race, politics and religion are all capable of dividing the world. From that division, competing supremamacist ideologies might end up fighting for the spoils.

The pacifists shouted ‘peace’ at the enemy, so the enemy killed them!

In wars there are sides – like in football. In football if your side has the ball it’s a good thing but if the other side has the ball it’s a bad thing. The same with war – if your side has smart weapons that can take out the enemy it’s a good thing. If the enemy has smart…[Read more]