draculina

Eat your heart out, Elvis

interesting points on race, Panda and Kenty, though religion and racial community are often identical. Will keep my eyes peeled fo this though.

Pepperpot, I have never looked at the Irish Independent so have no opinion on its quality. I try to keep an open mind on all posters here, even Telboy lol. Joker I had problems with.

Anc – you read the…[Read more]

The Mail and the Telegraph – pah!

I hadn’t see these reports because I don’t get those rags. They can tell the truth, but I’d like to see that truth corroborated by other sources, thank you.

The BBC didn’t report PC as a problem. Police bungling seems to have been. If there are more reliable sources of coverage, I’ll take more serious…[Read more]

there does eem to be a strong race element to this case, as there was to the murder of Stepehen lawrence. Cop bungling is common to both cases too, though I’d like to kow why the CPS refused tro prosecute when a girl first alerted the police to the fact that she and others were being raped – the refusal of the CPS to act meant that the police…[Read more]

@jen_jen wrote:

@panda12 wrote:

@jen_jen wrote:

As for tackling it, all the charity is doing is raising awareness…

You obviously didn’t look at the website properly. Although the majority of the empty homes are privately owned, some are owned by the local council or social housing.

The gov could easily put legislation in place to ensure that any…

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Jen,
I like your post. You highlight a really important question.

Council housing did have a stigma attached to it by many, but you could hold your head up – I feel no shame for having been brought up in a council house.

But when Thatcher sold off all that housing stock, nothing replaced it. The council housing estates had problem families…[Read more]

@(f)politics? wrote:

@Wordsworth60 wrote:

2 of our fundamental problems in this country are the high price of land, coupled with the high price of property which prevents many people from acquiring suitable living space; and lack of engagement in the political process. Few people know how laws are passed or how the various sections of our…

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@Terry wrote:

@sceptical guy wrote:

Hitler did that with the Jews.

Dude

will you be mentioning Jesus anytime soon?

Go away; think about what you’re posting and why you’re doing it.

Doubt I’ll be mentioning Jesus in this thread. Why – should I be? Don’t think he was a nativist.

Read my post as a whole, Tel, rather than selecting odd little phrases

that’s moving us on, Words, thanks. I hope attempts to deflect discussion though personal slurs and insults can be ignored with contempt, or they’ll derail an important discussion. People like Kenty, minim, poli and Jen have been trying to make serious popints which have to be taken seriously.

Racism is trreating another race as inferior, and…[Read more]

Benny Hill playing Nana Mouskouri singing Time to wemeber the kind of september…

Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time.

first thought of in a field of seveeral thousand French prisoners surrounded by panzers and German troops in 1940.

first played in a Stalag prison camp, with Messiaen insisting on his Jewish mate being in the quartet; they were dressed in prison uniform and ill-fitting boots as they played. The German…[Read more]

good on ya, Pepperpot.

I am still a bit worried that any work on a post will be wasted unless it joins in the infantile backbiting here

well, here goes on the backbiting anyway…

*puts on a Rab Nesbitt accent and shakes his fist

“Swine, ye are!!!”

last scene of a film called The Umbrellas of Cherbourg.

Saw this as a teenager, wearing me Val Doonican cardigan with brown buttons, and me co-op glasses..a 17 year-old looking like a 45 y/o bore

usual romatntic tosh (all music) of young couple dreaming their way to marriage when the guy is then called up to fight in Algeria. They decide to…[Read more]

words,
I understand your frustration, and I also agree wht you that panda has made some very good points.

All II am trying to say is that they are getting away with one of the oldest political tricks in the book. They make it personal, they throw slights and insults at you, and eventually you’ll respond so that debate is cheapened.

Tell them to…[Read more]

words and panda,
rather than respomding in a personal way, may i ask whether and why you think immigration is a racist issue?

A good political tactic used effectively here is to argue by stinging your opponents with insults and gross accusations.. It succeeds in debasing discussion because it becomes a yah boo sucks yes you are well you’re worse…[Read more]

anc’s boobies…

oh sorry, I’ve not seen them…

a man on the tube slowly starting to weep, and a stranger reaching out to comfort him.

well, this discussion has grown – and soured – since I last looked at it.

The issues are too important to just throw my hands up in frustration, though – yet, but keep tryng folks I’m sure you’ll succeed in making me.

The varied posts of poli and Terry indicate th problem of the discussion, if not the subject of people becoming worse off.

Poli…[Read more]

@(f)politics? wrote:

hey i was kidding with ya, everyone opinion counts x

that’s good to know poli. Wasn’t quite sure, though you’ve always been all right with me. And this from a man who teases a lot, too lol

But in a thread where passions can run quite high, such as this one, you can easily confuse the insulting and the tease threads. I try to…[Read more]

@(f)politics? wrote:

like your opinion counts scept tut :lol:

maybe not, pol,

but if you read it carefully, it’s not my opinion. It’s a generally agreed analysis of the problem – debt lies at its heart, the rest are consequences..

My opinion of what has caused this, and of how to get it out, hasn’t been given.

I have pointed to how inapt some…[Read more]

I think Panda is doing great on this thread. Words is also making a good, rational case.

My view has been called rubbish, jus what Gordon brown said..and ? Nothing more. It’s but not answered. It’s not eccentric. I didn’t invent this. Nobody could have done.

The crisis we’re in is really bad – people are having their wages cut, pension benefits…[Read more]