draculina

so a couple of questions remain….

is this the fastest turnaround in flouncing out and then flouncing in again for cosy?

Cosy was here before I was, so he may have been quicker before I joined.

Is it the fastest turnaround for anyone in JC?

I think a prize may be in order.

Up to you, Mr, but others shouldn’t complain about any brief or dismissive answers from me.

Funnily enough, i don’t think of myself as patronising. my manner comes from the job I did for many years. Can’t change it now.

When I come across people who’ve read more than me, who have thought about things more than I have, and who know more than me,…[Read more]

Cosy, you’ve been flouncing in and out ever since I came on this site.

Some of your posts are amusing, so I hope you return again.

I’m not in the mood for horseplay or clowning at this moment in time, though.

That’s good, Reason. make your points and they’ll get answered, or acknowledged as good points.

make them with posts which spit out dislike and even abuse, then they’ll either receive no answer of just minimal answer. If you’re wanting to exhange insults, look for someone else. I’m not playing that game if I can help it..

But I’m sure you’re…[Read more]

I’m not sure a ban on foreign investment would stop these institutions. The Saudi govern ment is strongly committed to a Wahabi version of Islam, and isn’t poor. There is a growing anti-Saudi feeling – I’m happy to say – because of this and because of their human rights abuses at home and in Yemen.

I also think that the mosques aren’t the cause…[Read more]

I have no idea whether Trump is a racist, or even a xenophobe, but he’s playing to these fears in a pretty crude way.

I agree with you that there is a worryingly strong radicalisation among Muslims, especially in France (where there is one estiamte of 20% support in the banlieues). So what’s your plan of how to handle it – you say it’s less…[Read more]

He’s deaf, you know….it was the bells

drac,
I’m glad you take debate and discussion seriously, and not as an excuse to show what a command of bad language and insults you have in your vocabulary. I don’t think that makes you a wannabe politican, any more than it makes me one. just someone who takes life seriously.

But I do think you’re confusing a technical discussion of racism with…[Read more]

er, yes, cosy.

I was agreeing with you, Reason. American elections are important because the US is so important. Thank you for your contribution, Reason.

Reason….er, yes.

Drac, try xenophobia, which is a more wide-ranging term than racism. Racism is linked, and the two can be confused, but Trump is guilty on both counts. It’s an inward, insular approach to life, becoming more common.

In the US, it’s up to individual states to make the rules for qualification as a presidential candidate, and…[Read more]

Reason….er, yes.

Drac, try xenophobia, which is a more wide-ranging term than racism. Racism is linked, and the two can be confused, but Trump is guilty on both counts. It’s an inward, insular approach to life, becoming more common.

In the US, it’s up to individual states to make the rules for qualification as a presidential candidate, and…[Read more]

and genuine thanks for the sympathy, cosy.

I was poorly, but it was as a result of a bereavement.

I am not RIP yet.

and I have a much gentler temperament than Victor Meldrew has – or had, as he is now RIP.

I keep reiterating – Quasimodo is my soulmate.

and genuine thanks for the sympathy, cosy.

I was poorly, but it was as a result of a bereavement – not my own.

I am not RIP yet.

and I have a much gentler temperament than Victor Meldrew has – or had, as he is now RIP.

I keep reiterating – Quasimodo is my soulmate.

drac, that is a long post which misses the point of racism in the US. Racism there is pretty weird – it’s connected with demeaning referneces to other ethnic groups. WASPs (White Anglo-Saxon Protestants) are the king group. “Everybody else is a visitor”, as Matt Damon’s character says in a very good movie called The Good Shepherd.

I like your…[Read more]

drac, that is a long post which misses the point of racism in the US. Racism there is pretty weird – it’s connected with demeaning referneces to other ethnic groups. WASPs (White Anglo-Saxon Protestants) are the king group. “Everybody else is a visitor”, as Matt Damon’s character says in a very good movie called The Good Shepherd.

I like your…[Read more]

imitation is the sincerest form of flattery

They are both awful candidates, both dishonest in their own way.

But Trump is off the wall. He reminds me too much of Mussolini, the strong man who will get things sorted by a strong arm. Dirty Harry arrives at the White House – Make My Day, Punks, his finger on the nuclear button

In business he’s a serial defaulter; a peddler of falsehoods,…[Read more]

I prefer the boards.

Less room for name-changers and hiders.

No need to sit a long time to get involved in discussion, like the room. I pop in and out, sometimes once a day, sometimes more often.

There can be a lot of abuse on these boards. I prefer not to engage in it, but you have to defend yourself. If someone treats me decently, I’ll treat…[Read more]

Drac,
on trade agreements. Australia and New Zealand are very eager to make such a agreement with us, but we can’t make any agreement with anybody by law until we have finally left the EU. I can’t imagine anyone wanting to build cars in the UK to seel the to Australia.

Some enthusiastic Brexiteers have trumpeted the willingness of Canada to have…[Read more]

Thanks for the info, drac.

It’s interesting that someone such as yourself who writes reasonably should be thinking of voting for FN. I could never vote for those characters, but it’s your right. I also enjoy reading a reasoning argument rather than a rhetorical one for a change, and will respond in kind.

I totally agree with you about teh need…[Read more]