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@anc wrote:
Quite a long nap! :wink:
Fair point.
Saturday to Tuesday. Think I might have napped a couple of times.
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@jen_jen wrote:
@blossom‘ wrote:
Sneaky or not, you should be driving within speed limits ….for your own sake, and not that of others.
As for being educated not to speed…
Errrr…..they do that when you take your driving licence, if you don’t get it, it’s your own fault.
What I say is stop blaming the system for your own flaws.That’s us told! :lol:
True – but she’s right.
We all know it’s illegal. We all know people die. We can all avoid doing it almost all of the time.
Not sure how you say it without sounding a bit preachy.
On a lighter topic – it not raining, so the dog is getting excited and looking out the window. Time for a bracing walk in the autumn sunshine I think.
8)
Somehow we stumble on in this fantasy that we are world players.
We have at best a medium sized economy and people in the rest of the world only take us seriously because we are a leading member of a large trade block – the EU. The ones who take us seriously on our own, do so because they still remember history – the one where we conquered their countries, imprisoned, bombed or slaughtered their people and stole their natural resources. Let’s not count on them as friends then.
The USA will not upset her trading partners to come to a special deal with us. No-one will be interested in courting us on our own, because we just don’t offer a big enough market to matter.
The only potential route to success we have outside the EU is to compete on wages with the rest of Europe and the third world. If we can just get our workers paid less than the Chinese, they will invest here to make their products for the European market. Our wages just have to be low enough to allow for the extra duty imposed on us if we were outside the EU.
Great strategy – if we can make ourselves poor enough and our workers badly paid enough, we can compete on our own in a global market.
I’m sure all the rich capitalists in the Conservative Party would love that. Some of them have advocated the need for people to earn a fraction of the minimum wage to make Britain rich again.
But rich for who? Rich for the ones who are already rich while the majority live in Victorian poverty? A large part of the Victorian population even thought that was wrong.
Serves the right wing moneyed classes right if they get it. Most of our banking business is with Europe. As part of the EU, we are welcomed, but with Barclays bank disgraced, our other major banks owned by the state (HSBC is mainly an overseas bank), and the loss of EU protections, business will go straight to Frankfurt. Then even the rich will suffer.
This sounding more and more like traditional class warfare. The ones with money think everyone else is a scrounger and advocate actions which will benefit them and hurt others (if they work at all).
In the south of our own continent (and part of our sphere of influence for hundreds of years) a democracy is falling apart, the rule of law breaking down and fascism gradually taking over, with eerie parallels with the 1930s.
It seems at the very time we need the organisation that has maintained European peace for over 65 years the most, the EU is struggling and we want to pull out.
How far we have come.
In the words of the Manic Street Preachers – “if you tolerate this then your children will be next”. In the words of Gaz “wakey wakey”.
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Looks like it sold his book.
Perhaps there is some reward for small kindnesses after all.
:D
Let’s be clear here.
This is a cultural issue. There is a religious justification. That does not mean it is religious. All “true” Muslims do not kill their own family members if they transgress.
If you read the Old Testament in the right way, stoning as a punishment for “wayward” women is quite OK. Similarly other extreme punishments are advocated in Israel based on so called Old Testament teaching. Christian teaching is in theory about forgiveness but it has been used to justify war. The IRA and the Protestant Paramilitaries used religion to justify killings, torture and maimings, and their idea of who deserved it included women and youngsters. Religion was also used to justify the Twin Towers atrocity, despite many Muslims being peaceful people who could not justify such actions.
“Honour” killings, and the threat of them, are dishonourable and against all ideas of human dignity and rights. They have no place in a humane society.
Religion is just an excuse. There are lots of other excuses for barbarism. Religion is not to blame – it’s just being taken along for the ride by people who need a justification.
@irish_lucy wrote:
good its about time, SPEED KILLS.
The police dont warn any other people when they brake the law so why should they say where speed cameras are?
If your own child gets killed by a speeding car would you really run over and say ah dont worry about it I know you werent warned about the camera so i understand why you didnt slow down.
No of course you bloody wouldnt.
Exactly.
Speeding is an offence. People die. We all have a speedo on our car or bike.
Easy-peasy.
If I ever get a ticket I will be blaming myself not the speed camera or the system.
Sheeesh.
I napped, logged on and found six pages of this!
I thought Terry’s picture was genuine, Kent was Kenty’s real first name and Panda was called Panda!
More fool me.
Love and hugs,
Mr Loss xx
@kent f OBE wrote:
@panda12 wrote:
@kent f OBE wrote:
@mrs_teapot wrote:
I wouldn’t buy it….. in fact I sort of resent her writing it…. does that make me a bad person I wonder? Its just all the goodwill the country has shown her family and then she tries to make money out of us? Maybe a daft way of looking at it…. but its my way :?
The Middletons have conducted themselves impecibley beffore during and after (so far) the wedding
Yeah but Kate gets her baps out for the paps! :P
Doesn’t look like she has much to get out … wonder what all the fuss was about I’ve seen bigger moobs :lol:
Ouch!
I agree however that we will never really have an unbiased view on how good an author or a cook she is, as she will always be seen as “cashing in”.
At least she is “cashing in” by doing some work, rather than out at celebrity parties, getting paid by tabloids for flashing her bits round or “modelling”.
Given the way that people think making money as a celebrity involves these things, she has at least tried to do things the right way. She’ll get no thanks for it though, in fact it may harm her, as this thread demonstrates.
I wasn’t too bothered about her arse btw.
Foxes are natural predators.
Man has always found a reason to kill off predators as they provide competition.
Predators are rarely vermin as their population is so easily controlled by controlling their prey populations, which they do naturally as part of their very existence.
If we leave food out for predators (chickens in vulnerable hutches, kebabs hanging out of bins), we create the problem ourselves.
Solve the problem – don’t kill the fox.
