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In fact there’s no number 13 on our road – our house should be 13 but it’s 15 instead. But that was how it was when me moved in – in fact I call the garden shed no.13 !
If I really needed to know the answer I’d go to the public library and come away again without finding the answer.
I always thought Jimmy Savile was creepy, like there was something about him that didn’t add up. He somehow managed to be both bland but intense at the same time, relying on a collection of catchphrases and cliches while being over familiar with people.
As a DJ he smarmed his way through whatever show he was presenting without appearing to show any great interest in or knowledge of the artists or industry. And despite his catchphrases and silly noises, he was not funny. All the time it was like he was trying too hard – with his quirky appearance, with his ’causes’, with his ostentatious wealth and his ‘warmth’.
Just thought I’d keep this alive with one of my occasional necroposts….
Reviving this old thread 6 years on……
People have voted with their feet… This is only the second post on this board in this month, and we’re 2/3 of the way through it.
This bears out what people say in the old thread – people aren’t really interested in chatting to strangers the’ll never meet now that the initial few years of novelty have worn off.
Even forums for interest groups like politics, railways, cars or 3D modelling have gone quiet compared with what they were.
In my experience using discussion forums eventually leads to having a slanging match with another member, one who usually takes an extreme viewpoint and then condemns you for disagreeing with them! You only lndeed to look at YouTube and how almost any video on any subject attracts comments of derision and contempt from some people.
The internet is increasingly becoming a tool for practical use and high quality entertainment (I mean quality in terms of performance, not content!) and the poor old general chat room and message board will soon become a thing of the past.
What is interesting is that the ‘Arab Spring’ uprisings were not stopped, despite brutal force being used, and they happened one after another – Tunisia – Egypt – Libya – Syria.
This is a bit like the fall of the Iron Curtain regimes in the 1980’s.
One can’t help feeling there might have been a master plan guiding the uprisings and their sequence, and the master planners might be radical islamists. Whenever they showed clips of freedom fighters in action in Egypt, Libya or Syria, each outgoing burst of gunfire or each RPG launched is accompanied by a shout of “Allahu Akbar” or “God is Great”, and that would indicate an islamist dimension to the struggle.
Like the last poster, I feel I must add that I don’t read the Daily Mail either – I’d class myself as a leftist, and as such I think it’s about time that some on the ‘left’ realise they’re playing a very dangerous game whenever they claim common cause with radical muslims.
Winston Churchill proposed a ‘United States of Europe’ after the Second World War, and his proposal inspired the setting up of the Common Market, which became the EEC and is now the European Union. See: http://www.churchill-society-london.org.uk/astonish.html
I believe the EU is essentially a force for good and can in no way be compared to Nazism.
Sadly, tough, it has been guilty of economic mismanagement in recent years, in the same was as have the governments of its individual member states, including our own.Although I now agree there’s a possibility of countries leaving the Euro currency, I still think, on balance, that this won’t happen. And if there’s a collapse of the Euro currency altogether, the pound would probably go down with it.
Cameron calls Ed Balls “A muttering idiot”
The pot calls the kettle black.
She’s not too bad (for her age) :)
This is the oldest post I could find on JC with zero replies. That’s all I’ve got to say about it except that now it no longer has zero replies.
Landfill it then plant trees on top.
