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Posted on: Oct 12 2022, 02:16 PM


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QUOTE (Strafin @ Oct 9 2022, 11:50 PM) *
It interrupted everyones.

Not if your intention was to watch the funeral.

So, there's that.
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Posted on: Jul 28 2022, 12:57 PM


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We're in jolly old 'La Belle France' and I have to say the health provision over here seems to be far superior. Yes you need insurance but it's not too expensive, and it works.
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Posted on: Mar 11 2022, 10:11 AM


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What's the difference between a ruble and a dollar?

A dollar.
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Posted on: Mar 10 2022, 12:19 AM


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Let's face it, Ukraine is terminally screwed, and all we've done is paint ourselves into an economic corner. Putin is probably curled up on the floor of his office peeing himself with laughter.
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Posted on: Mar 8 2022, 02:43 PM


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QUOTE (Phil_D11102 @ Mar 8 2022, 10:40 AM) *
Actually it was that unused nuclear deterrent that stretched the Russian Bear and the Warsaw Pact to the breaking point.
NATO, with their professional troops and agreement to deploy cruise missles in 5 countries won the day over the bear who couldn't compete and it"s allies who simply became too disgruntled to put up with then bear anymore.
It is that simple.
It was NATO not the loony smelly left that won the day. Do you think a peace camp ouside the Kremlin would last 5 minutes.
Sadly, just like after WWI, the loses are again upset and NATO year in and year out have been keeping less combat trrops in a position to be deployed quickly. The only good thing post Cold War is the former Warsaw pact countries joing NATO.
The nuclear deterrent did work, but we didnt learn from past history.f

It's perhaps telling that Ukraine once held a third of the Soviet Union's atomic weapons and agreed to denuclearise after a treaty was signed that in effect guaranteed Ukrainian safety and independence. A treaty that was signed with, yes, Russia as co signatory. One wonders if Putin would be so blase about slaughtering civilians had Ukraine held on to a few tactical nukes? 🤔
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Posted on: Jan 26 2022, 10:54 PM


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QUOTE (x2lls @ Jan 26 2022, 10:11 PM) *
Thoughts?

Probably asylum seekers / migrants. If we let them in we have a duty to house and feed them. The only annoying thing is no-one step up and let the people know.

Course, could be famous celeb / crappy TV show has hired the whole place. Who knows? Who cares? It is what it is.
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Posted on: Feb 15 2021, 05:05 PM


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Yay! Got a letter today! Stabination beckons.
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Posted on: Feb 12 2021, 12:33 PM


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Today's date is both a palindrome and an ambigram.

12022021

🥳🥳🥳
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Posted on: Feb 10 2021, 12:53 PM


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It's almost not worth advertising your car these days, it's like throwing a kitten into a pack of pitbulls. The scammers just descend like locusts. Best just insure it then burn it out, safest way.
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Posted on: Nov 7 2020, 06:05 PM


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Welcome President Kamala. 🙋
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Posted on: Oct 1 2020, 07:40 PM


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I would tell you a covid joke, but 99.6% of you won't get it.
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Posted on: Aug 30 2020, 04:44 PM


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QUOTE (SirWilliam @ Aug 28 2020, 06:06 PM) *
My argument with the BBC is they are lowering their impartial status in order to compete with those other outlets you have mentioned.
Bit like the Times or Torygraph using a monosyllabic headlined front page in order to compete with the Mirror, (other useless tabloids are available), but only resulting in alienating their core readership.
The fact that they now want 150 odd quid of my pension for the privilege is purely academic. rolleyes.gif

Sorry chap, but regrettably, the lifestyle you ordered is currently out of stock. Please try again later.
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Posted on: Aug 4 2020, 04:50 PM


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Don't lose hope yet:
BBC News - PC Andrew Harper: Attorney General to review killers' sentences
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-berkshire-53650449
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Posted on: Jun 30 2020, 09:09 AM


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QUOTE (newres @ Jun 30 2020, 04:48 AM) *
Even gammons!

That's good news.
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Posted on: Jun 25 2020, 09:13 PM


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QUOTE (TallDarkAndHandsome @ Jun 25 2020, 06:42 PM) *
They should just have one purge night a year. No police. All crime allowed. See what's left. Just in Inner London. A pay per view event.

I'd buy that for a dollar!
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Posted on: Jun 24 2020, 01:04 PM


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https://www.newburytoday.co.uk/news/news/31...shire-farm.html
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Posted on: May 28 2020, 08:49 AM


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QUOTE (newres @ May 28 2020, 08:09 AM) *
I actually worked in Bray. I should have said that. Apologies.

Bus. It's what? Three miles?
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Posted on: May 22 2020, 08:02 PM


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QUOTE (newres @ May 22 2020, 07:24 PM) *
Still a tw@t I see.

Hmm? Pots and kettles spring to mind.
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Posted on: May 22 2020, 03:36 PM


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QUOTE (SirWilliam @ May 22 2020, 12:22 PM) *
Couldn't agree more old chap but I'm afraid a lot of "innocent" pensioners will perish before the feckless few succumb. angry.gif

I'm afraid that purely from a fiscal point of view that outcome generally may be ideal from both a local and central government strategy.
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Posted on: Apr 28 2020, 10:12 PM


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QUOTE (newres @ Apr 28 2020, 08:23 PM) *
The source isn’t really relevant to how we have managed it. But I don’t “blame” China, any more than I blame America for the Spanish Flu.

I’m not happy about the restrictions on my civil liberties now. Are you?

I'll bet you're a big BuzzFeed reader?
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Posted on: Apr 24 2020, 07:28 PM


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QUOTE (newres @ Apr 24 2020, 07:01 PM) *
Fake news. The first deliveries are expected imminently.

Where’s the Dyson and JCB ventilators?

Not needed now, thanks to superb handling of crisis. If you're trying to be clever at least keep up. Boy.
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Posted on: Apr 22 2020, 12:31 PM


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WAMT?
Having to cancel my ferry bookings, not sure if I'm going to get to France at all this year. Oh, and having to pay a third party to do routine maintenance on the house and gardens if I'm not there ain't funny.
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Posted on: Apr 22 2020, 12:26 PM


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QUOTE (Carshot @ Apr 9 2020, 07:34 PM) *
Does this look familiar to any local school boys? I seems to remember being invited to wait under a clock in the hall in this building for the odd minor misdemeanour

In case the picture remains in thumbnail mode the eBay item is listed as "Newbury. Watership in W.Trigg's Series. "

Super looking place, where exactly did it stand? And is is still extant?
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Posted on: Apr 22 2020, 05:46 AM


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QUOTE (je suis Charlie @ Apr 21 2020, 11:49 PM) *
Well thankfully, the opinions of the kind of left wing window licking soschuul meja haunting idiots you're likely to know bare little weight and even less importance.

You forgot 'remoaner", by the way.
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Posted on: Apr 21 2020, 09:34 AM


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https://mobile.twitter.com/emilyhewertson
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