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  • #430555

    From my original post, my own experience is linked to a possible case of unwitting avoidance of a bad situation. I’ve read that there’s a study involving fatal rail accidents in which train passengers are killed (rather than people being hit by trains). Apparently the statistics show consistently that trains involved in fatal crashes tend to be carrying significantly fewer passengers than would normally be expected for that particular service at the relevant time of day. I believe it was remarked that there were many fewer people in the World Trade Center on the day of the atrocity than would normally be the case, and the same is claimed to be true for the Madrid train bombings.

    However, my conclusion from looking at premonitions forums is that there’s very little evidence that people can predict actual events beyond intelligent speculation or generalised guesswork.

    #429642

    I’m in favour of speed cameras and the average speed cameras look like a good way enforcing speed limits on motorways. But saying they’re there to help cut CO2 emissions is just part of the current ‘carbonphobia’ hysteria.

    Too many people drive too fast on the roads and excessive speed is a major cause of accidents. The faster you go, the longer it takes to stop and the harder you hit something if you fail to stop. (Clean driving licence for 37 years since I passed text at 17, ex HGV driver and reformed petrolhead*)

    *now a dieselhead!

    #430332

    I think it’s just a sign of people getting lazier and lazier and standards slipping. It’s not the fact they’re wearing pyjamas and slippers as such, it’s the fact they couldn’t be bothered to get into their day clothes.

    Another symptom of mindless Britain is people who can’t even be bothered to return their supermarket trolley to the nearest trolley stand, let alone to the store.

    In the past, if we saw people wandering around town in their pyjamas, they were usually elderly and confused.

    #429248

    I did hear on the radio that RBS, now largely owned by British taxpayers, lent US company Kraft money to mount the successful bid to take over Cadburys. Shocking!

    #428418

    I wonder what would have happened if it had been a man dressed as a bull! I doubt if he’d have been sent to prison.

    #426909

    `?….whether Iran becomes non-`fundamentalist` or not, the Islamic struggle will continue regardless..

    …people said that about communism, how it would be unstoppable and irreversible ….. but it wasn’t. Same goes for islamic fundamentalism – when young people lose interest in it and it becomes an old mans’ cause, like in Iran, it will run out of puff. But that moment is probably a couple of decades and many atrocities away, sadly.

    Causes go through a cycle: To begin with they attract angry young men as footsoldiers, then the angry young men become middle-aged leaders, then tired old men. It’s when the cause loses the ability to suck in sufficient numbers of replacement angry young men that it’s doomed. In Iran, the tired old men are the puppetmasters, whereas Al Qaeda / Taliban still seem to be attracting angry young men like the recent ‘Underpants Bomber’ and it’s leadership, from the little we hear, doesn’t appear stale and tired yet, just pure evil.

    #426843

    She’s just a spoilt brat. Hopefully someone will heckle her next performance.

    #426255

    Season’s Greetings from me too.

    #425837

    Because I’m a born worrier I don’t take many things for granted. I suppose one thing I do take for granted is gravity.

    #426696

    it put me in mind of Colin Parry, the father of Tim Parry who had died in an IRA bombing a few years ago, it was this part of Colin’s speech at Tim’s funeral that I will always remember ………

    ‘If my son becomes a symbol of peace and gives everyone a new sense of hope after such a tragedy, then that will be Tim’s unique achievement”.

    If I remember right, Mr Parry started out by campaigning vociferously against the IRA, but they told him to stop and threatened him.

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