draculina

Now this is one good point you make.

I was arguing that Britain’s total subservience to the US will be increased when the UK leaves the EU because of economic weakness. Britain is desperate for a trade pact with the US.

I think my point was a reasonable and relevant one, but it is speculative.

Your point is factual. The last time we struck…[Read more]

I don’t care whether you think I’m engaged in a pissing contest. To me, it just demonstrates how prejudiced you are.

I’m assuming this one was addressed to me?

or maybe I’m wrong?

I’m assuming this one was addressed to me?

or maybe I’m wrong?

I’m assuming this one was addressed to me???/

or maybe I’m wrong?

I’m assuming this one was addressed to me???/

or maybe I’m wrong?

Noble???

well, given your other comments, maybe….

Nob;e???

well, given your other comments, maybe….

Well, that’s about as clear as mud.

But at least if you had said that at the start the discussion would have been more productive.

As it is, Gerry and Paige made good points imho, and Mooosey gave an interesting if allusive personal account of the impact of the war, despite her other comments.

Well, that’s about as clear as mud.

But at least if you had said that at the start the discussion would have been more productive.

As it is, Gerry and Paige made good points imho, and Mooosey gave an interesting personal account of the impact of the war, despite her other comments.

reflective

Yup. He thinks he’s dribbling a football through the opposing team rather than clarifying a discussion.

If he had started clearly that he had opposed the bombing at the start, and nobody reading that first post of his (on p.2 I think) would ever think that,  then the discussion could have avoided a lot of very odd detours.

Alfie 1 – Discussion…[Read more]

Your first post was a horrible, inflammatory post – not one part of it said you opposed the bombing. On the contrary, y9u said it was a good warning to Russia, and appeared to be calling for a real all-out war.

I took it seriously, but anyone who calls for all-out war is asking for it.

It’s not a football game where you ‘take people apart’ – not…[Read more]

Rather than engaging in fantasies about George V carving up the Middle East in 1917 or quibbling about Iran’s role by pointing to their importance at the time of Alexander the Great…

wouldn’t it have helped discussion along if you had focussed on why you supported this particular bombing??

Had to be said.

Rather than engaging in fantasies about George V carving up the Middle East in 1917 or quibbling about Iran’s role by pointing to their importance at the time of Alexander the great…

wouldn’t it have helped discussion along if you had focussed on why you supported this particular bombing??

Had to be said.

Rather than engaging in fantasies about George V carving up the Middle East in 1917 or quibbling about Iran’s role by pointing to their importance at the time of Alexander the great…

wouldn’t it have helped discussion along if you had focussed on why you supported this particular bombing??

Just saying.

then you don’t know.

I’m sorry.

I didn’t know what had happened to my friends, but fear the worst given the torture and executions meted out on a large scale to secular oppositonists like them in Iran at that time.

then you don’t know.

I’m sorry.

I didn’t know what had happened to my friends, but fear the worst given the torture and executions meted out on secular oppositonists like them in Iran at that time.

If it’s any comfort, you would know if something really bad had happened to your mate.

Even if it was ‘killed while slipping on a banana” or some such idiot excuse.

I’ve known some Arabs who disappeared and I’ll never know what happened.

One guy was an Iraqi exile from Saddam about 1980.

I also knew a couple of Iranian revolutionaries who…[Read more]

I really liked that poem. It was funny, and it even kept its rhythm (not always achieved by people here, obsessed as they are with rhyme).

Waiting for Laine.