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Now that reminds me of a dirty poem, ‘When Song Will Not Do’, by John Hollander lol

oh, Marlboro Man,

I’ve been so worried I haven’t been able to sleep nights.

I was phoning around Marlborough Morgue to find out if there was a stiff from JC lying there…

It’s important not to romanticise.

When I was a boy, my granddad used to tell me of his disgust at the recruiting bands parading around that August of 1914, large numbers of young guys rushing to join the march behind the bands to the recruiting office. There was a very heady atmosphere in which people rushed to slaughter. At the time, he called…[Read more]

I think Russia is getting ready to go into Ukraine.

They’re losing the final battle in Donetsk, and they’ll use the humanitarian disaster (acknowledged by the UN) to create a protection zone around Eastern Ukraine. They’ve announced manoeuvres of their air force around the border, and are massing troops there.

It’s cynical, but if you look at…[Read more]

thanks Ms K.

the two different statues bring out the different approaches of men and women to the death of the young man they had seen grow from being a child. The woman bent and broken in sorrow, the man rigid, face immobile to hide his suffering. Both have their hands crossed over their chests.

Kathe Kollwitz was a German Social Democrat who,…[Read more]

@Moonshadow wrote:

My mate laine,thought this is a nice pic,hope she dosent mind me posting it,I like it.Says something about her.

it says she has a sense of humour which should see her through all the barracking and teasing (my own included).

Take a tee from her wastebasket, Moon and peeps, and all will be well??

@boojangle wrote:

Must you always be such a tvvat Cosy?

well, he is pretty consistent

every chat site has good guides and bad guides.

The reason is that, as you say, they’re not paid 20k a year, or even 0k.

So they become guides for reasons other than money. Like having a whack at someone thye don’t like, getting some mates who want to be in with a guide. Exert a bit of power.

Nothing new. Office politics. Shrug your shoulders

@rogue trader wrote:

did i really type that gor my spelling is atrocious
awaits a ban

were you under the influence of alcohol??

well, of course, as Robert E Lee of the late Confederate Army knew, if you wanted to stop peeps looking t what you’re really up to, you create a diversion so that peeps look elsewhere…

often works

Cosychops, you been watching too much Rambo.

The Americans were defeated in Vietnam, but Sly sets the humiliation right on the screen, and the Americans not only win but show that one good New Jersey boxer can take on the whole Commie Army and beat them easy-peezy. So there – Americans could feel pretty good about themselves – they’d won after…[Read more]

they don’t like women on top in the Navy…

maybe the sailors asked their officers why the ship was going round in decreasing circles

innumerate

@kent f OBE wrote:

The first female commander of a major Royal Navy warship is understood to have left her vessel after allegations of an affair with one of her officers.

I couldn’t read past that :lol:

oh, dear, I hope there wasn’t too loud a plop as she was withdrawn from her vessel O:)

@kent f OBE wrote:

When did Russia lose superpower status?
When wasn’t China a superpower??

What constitutes a superpower nowadays then?

They (don’t you dare say “who is this *they* people bring up) said a few years back India will soon be a superpower….what do you reckon?

1) Russia was a superpower in the post-world war 2 era. If you were as…[Read more]

you still alive, MM?

Trapper, Russia isn’t a superpower any more – China is a potential superpower. Russia is mean because of humiliation since the end of the USSR.

Kenty, agreed, but until the UN appoints me as Czar of the World a solution is outside my reach.

However

and this keeps me going (which may prompt some to shoot it down in flames)

understanding a…[Read more]

Laine’s not gone then…

no idea whether this is good news or bad….

perhaps this thread helped her decide :)

sorry, all, I have a serious side

and I did say at the start that it’s my conceit – I doubt more than one or two would read it…if that..but even given that chance, I’m happy to submit it.

There’s room for many different sorts of post here (sorry MM)

Good re not endorsing massacre, and better that a clearer indication of what you want is emerging.

A solution is certainly really hard because of the structural conditions, but unless it’s found the whole region will continue to be in turmoil, even once the sunni-shi’ite civil war can be ended (and we are directly involved in that in a scary way,…[Read more]