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Posted on: Oct 17 2018, 06:43 AM |
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QUOTE (Turin Machine @ Oct 16 2018, 10:03 PM) VisitBritain reckons that tourism linked to royal residences such as Buckingham Palace and Windsor Castle adds up to 2.7 million visitors a year.
And a consultancy called Brand Finance estimated in 2017 that the monarchy’s annual contribution to the UK economy to be around £1.8bn a year, drawing in an additional £550m of tourism revenues a year, and an increase in trade, from the Royal Family acting as ambassadors, supposedly worth £150m a year. The truth is that they came to see the historic buildings and the history. Just as the Russians found, the draw is the Hermitage, not the Czar. A lesson for us |
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Posted on: Oct 11 2018, 03:16 PM |
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QUOTE (je suis Charlie @ Oct 11 2018, 03:59 PM) "Aisha's age at the time of her marriage is frequently mentioned in Islamic literature. According to Sunni hadith sources, Aisha was six or seven years old when she was married to Muhammad in Mecca. The marriage was consummated after the Hegira to Medina, when she had reached the age of nine or ten years old. Many scholars interpret this to indicate that she reached puberty at this age.For example, Sahih al-Bukhari states that Aisha narrated that "the Prophet married her when she was six years old and he consummated his marriage when she was nine years old."
There is I believe a saying, "The fruit don't fall far from the tree". Add a year and it could have been done legally here, plus the Aristos, including the Royals married a earlier. Presumably that was OK because they were British. |
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Posted on: Oct 11 2018, 10:43 AM |
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QUOTE (Strafin @ Oct 11 2018, 09:08 AM) Fish some believe are not sentient as youv'e already mentioned, insects are another good source of protein. Laboratory grown meat is on the cards too. There has been a lot of research and it's becoming quite clear that fish are sentient. Insects too, but in a different way. I've a hypocritical friend who is vegetatian, works in a University sealife reasearch department, well into sealife intelligence, but still eats seafood. Even worse, he goes course fishing, throwing the fish whose mouths he had mutilated back. |
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Posted on: Apr 10 2018, 11:47 AM |
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QUOTE (SirWilliam @ Apr 10 2018, 09:21 AM) Once more a relevant topic of conversation degenerates into a mud slinging fracas. As my old form master to used to say when dealing with squabbling 3rd formers "I have no wish to know who started it only to inform you that I am the one to end it". By all means criticise the opinion but name calling is neither nice for the recipient nor those who wish to make a valid point. It's probably just coincidence, but these little notes of yours seem only to appear when certain posters here have been dished back what they can't stop doing themselves. |
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Posted on: Apr 2 2018, 05:21 PM |
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QUOTE (TallDarkAndHandsome @ Apr 2 2018, 04:36 PM) Quite happy to have another referendum old boy. It might finally shut your whinging up. Though I very much doubt it. Here is one of the pro EuropeansI expect you support with a large Jewish community in his constituency. Nice lot the "New" Labour party. https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/da...t-a3800991.htmlYes, New Labour were 'nice', and they don't like it now they've been exposed. As for the Standard Oiky Osbourn's rag, it's just deflecting attention away from selling Britain short; Passport Covers, GKN, etc. etc. Anything for money you lot; do you have any morals? |
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Posted on: Apr 2 2018, 01:54 PM |
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QUOTE (x2lls @ Apr 2 2018, 12:36 PM) Unlike you, I can't speak for others, but I think you'd find, if you had access, that those I follow on twitter and facebook, or anywhere else for that matter, apart from the odd news article, have nothing to do with Britain First. YOU are part of the problem with YOUR leftist bile. Hit a raw nerve have I? When will you people learn that most other people have very different opinions to yours and they seem to be in the majority. |
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