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Not in British law it ain’t.

Treason carries the death penalty in this country, but the treason laws in Britain are aimed at defending the Crown, not the people. Only if you try to kill the Queen can you be hung for treason (oh, and for attempting to burn on of the Queen’s dockyards).

If she had committed a terrorist offence (and that has to…[Read more]

That’s basically the situation, and good on you for standing back a little and thinking differently.

Whatever she was when she went out there, she sounds like a hardened ISIS fanatic now

There’s no evidence that she took part in the executions, but she did say that seeing heads in a bin didn’t faze her because they were enemies of Islam.

But…[Read more]

What in hell are you on about?

This argument has hardly been aired. it’s an American argument. It’s a day old, and it’s unlikely to be raised again in this country until the Supreme Court gives its judgment.

Linda, thanks for replying, but that isn’t any argument.

A huge number of people in America who understand their government and its laws  profoundly disagree with you, and think that Trump is violating the US Constitution.

That includes the US Congress, both Republicans and Democrats.

Apparently, there’s no need to spend V day alone ever again, wannabe.

There was an item on the Victoria Derbyshire show on BBC 2 a few weeks ago about the trend towards using dolls instead of women in brothels on the Continent *true.

They interviewed some guy with his face hidden by a hoodie. The woman who interviewed him, with a seriousness…[Read more]

So you’re the one who was squatting in my caravan grrrr .

I had to take the lady of my dreams to a romantic tent on the Great Barrier Reef because I wasn’t able to get into that locked caravan, which was continually moving from side to side.

Just 20 years??

You must be young!

When the truth is found…

to be lies….

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZEnWws8U6w

Do people always read what they want to read, rather than what is actually written???

I don’t like all the bands you quote (I really don’t like The Eagles), but am a keen fan of Bob Dylan and the Doors, and loved Motown when it appeared.

What I had actually written was

That means I like American music.

Music, like food etc, is a matter of…[Read more]

Actually, bananarama and buck’s fizz are British, not American.

I think?

But the Americans have their own awful music. I once went to a dance where they played awful redneck C&W music.

One woman approached me and asked me if I wanted to shag. She wondered why I looked stunned, until my friend whispered in her ear that the word means something…[Read more]

ahem.

I think our food tastes differ, milky.

I like mushrooms, but in moderation.

I did have a mushroom meal in a Belgian restaurant once, but felt sick as a dog at the end of it.

The US South does have its own regional style, as Linda notes, but I did find that the US as a whole sweetens its food.

You can get good food there, but you have to…[Read more]

Henry,

it’s true that there is marked social inequality in all developed and undeveloped countries, but the USA is particularity notable because of its sheer wealth.

You can’t put the blame for social inequality on population or finite resources at all. That would affect the total wealth of a country, but inequality refers to the distribution…[Read more]

Sorry, Sophia, the pics of that typical American sweet food turned my stomach.

The food was one thing that put me off the country. I found it gross – personally speaking.

Congratulations.

I hope all turns out well.

I’ve never received any valentine’s gifts or anything, but the best gifts I have ever received were two children. They are more precious than diamonds or chocolates – to me.

Good post, Soph, and great photos.

I can see you didn’t wander around blind.

The US of A is a spectacular world of contrasts. Wealth with a vulgarity like you’ve never seen, and genuine poverty existing side-by-side.

people working very hard, and showing great cruelty to the left-behinds of  society, the ‘bums’ and ‘trailer trash’.

But also…[Read more]

I’m not bothered at all.

I’m just happy for you both

So now they’re both happy in Bangkok.

rudeboy is so cynical. I’m sure they wouldn’t be wasting their bloody time trying to ‘impress’ everybody by posting pics from a website and only pretending that they’re enjoying themselves in the lap of luxury.

JC has brought so many wonderful couples together, and it’s great that Janey is now…[Read more]

really disgusting.

He dropped the Jeremy Kyle photo and has posted a new logo of Janey, this time a close-up of her chin immediately after the potato-peeler job.

Sick, sick.