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  1. #3561
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    Well some do like some scots etc. But fortunately it's a minority.

    Tbh if Winnie hadn't been in charge we would probably have settled and then been dealt with in time.
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    Oh my god! There's nothing wrong with the bidet is there?

    “Nothing discloses real character like the use of power. It is easy for the weak to be gentle. Most people can bear adversity. But if you wish to know what a man really is, give him power. This is the supreme test. It is the glory of Lincoln that, having almost absolute power, he never abused it, except on the side of mercy".

    “You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police ... yet in their hearts there is unspoken fear. They are afraid of words and thoughts: words spoken abroad, thoughts stirring at home -- all the more powerful because forbidden -- terrify them. A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic.”

    "You don't have free will. You have the appearance of free will.”

    “There's a war out there, old friend. A world war. And it's not about who's got the most bullets. It's about who controls the information. What we see and hear, how we work, what we think... it's all about the information!”


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  2. #3562
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    Quote Originally Posted by struth View Post

    Tbh if Winnie hadn't been in charge we would probably have settled and then been dealt with in time.

    “The Circus-Circus is what the whole hep world would be doing Saturday night if the Nazis had won the war. This is the sixth Reich. The ground floor is full of gambling tables, like all the other casinos... but the place is about four stories high, in the style of a circus tent, and all manner of strange County-Fair/Polish Carnival madness is going on up in this space.”


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  3. #3563
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    Quote Originally Posted by Joe View Post
    That's two different points. On the first point, IMO you don't need to know history to understand the world you live in. Up until the end of the 19th century, very few people knew much history at all, yet they managed OK. On the second point, why is it desirable to understand the world around you? What advantage does it give you? Maybe it's better just to pootle along rather than bother your head about stuff that's beyond your control.
    I know lots of people who are interested in very little beyond the end of their own street and they have perfectly happy lives. People like that are despised by some people but are they really wrong to live that way?

    I worked with a girl a few years back who had never heard of Barack Obama. When I was gobsmacked at her ignorance her response was that it didn't affect her life so she wasn't arsed. I couldn't really argue with that. After all, the education of everyday working class people is a relatively recent thing. 200 years ago few of us would have been able to read.



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  4. #3564
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    Quote Originally Posted by Macca View Post

    “The Circus-Circus is what the whole hep world would be doing Saturday night if the Nazis had won the war. This is the sixth Reich. The ground floor is full of gambling tables, like all the other casinos... but the place is about four stories high, in the style of a circus tent, and all manner of strange County-Fair/Polish Carnival madness is going on up in this space.”


    Good old Hunter S.
    shot himself didnt he?
    Regards,
    Grant .... ؠ ......Don't be such a big girl's blouse

    I've said it before and I'll say it again: democracy simply-doesn't-work
    .... ..... ...... ...... ................... ..... ..... ..... ..... .....
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    Oh my god! There's nothing wrong with the bidet is there?

    “Nothing discloses real character like the use of power. It is easy for the weak to be gentle. Most people can bear adversity. But if you wish to know what a man really is, give him power. This is the supreme test. It is the glory of Lincoln that, having almost absolute power, he never abused it, except on the side of mercy".

    “You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police ... yet in their hearts there is unspoken fear. They are afraid of words and thoughts: words spoken abroad, thoughts stirring at home -- all the more powerful because forbidden -- terrify them. A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic.”

    "You don't have free will. You have the appearance of free will.”

    “There's a war out there, old friend. A world war. And it's not about who's got the most bullets. It's about who controls the information. What we see and hear, how we work, what we think... it's all about the information!”


    ***SMILE, BE HAPPY***

  5. #3565
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    Quote Originally Posted by struth View Post
    shot himself didnt he?
    Got fed up of being old and ill.
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  6. #3566
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    Quote Originally Posted by Macca View Post
    Got fed up of being old and ill.
    is that a hint
    Regards,
    Grant .... ؠ ......Don't be such a big girl's blouse

    I've said it before and I'll say it again: democracy simply-doesn't-work
    .... ..... ...... ...... ................... ..... ..... ..... ..... .....
    FIIO K7 BT, M11 PLUS, BTR7, KA5 - OPPO BDP-103D - PANASONIC UB450 - PANASONIC 4K ULTRA HD TV - PIXEL 6 - AVANTREE LR BLUETOOTH - 2* X600 SOUNDCORE - HEADPHONES INCLUDE, FIIO, NURAPHONES', FOCAL, OPPO, BOSE, CAMBRIDGE, BOWER & WILKINS, DEVIALET, MARSHALL, SONY, MITCHELL & JOHNSTON - 2*ZBOOK'S- MERCURY BD ROM, ROON, QOBUZ, TIDAL, PLEX, CYBERLINK, JRIVER - MULTI HDD'S -

    Oh my god! There's nothing wrong with the bidet is there?

    “Nothing discloses real character like the use of power. It is easy for the weak to be gentle. Most people can bear adversity. But if you wish to know what a man really is, give him power. This is the supreme test. It is the glory of Lincoln that, having almost absolute power, he never abused it, except on the side of mercy".

    “You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police ... yet in their hearts there is unspoken fear. They are afraid of words and thoughts: words spoken abroad, thoughts stirring at home -- all the more powerful because forbidden -- terrify them. A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic.”

    "You don't have free will. You have the appearance of free will.”

    “There's a war out there, old friend. A world war. And it's not about who's got the most bullets. It's about who controls the information. What we see and hear, how we work, what we think... it's all about the information!”


    ***SMILE, BE HAPPY***

  7. #3567
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    Quote Originally Posted by struth View Post
    is that a hint
    Youv e taking as one !

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    I cycle a lot in Camden and noticed lately some amazing new tarmac on many roads around here. Also, much of it is around poorer council estate areas. I only make this point because
    many often say its only the rich that get looked after in this world, I m of course not trying to make out this is typical of whats happening in uk today just readdressing the balance somewhat. By contrast the other side of
    Hampstead Heath where houses cost umpteen millions the road surface is appalling and is hopeless for cycling. Not sure if thats a different council though. Camden council are very keen on cycling btw.
    Go on Macca get yer bike out !

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    Most councils get stuck into using their capital funding about now each year. They have to use it all up to justify getting as much or more the next year.

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    Here in the states, the history they are teaching is quite different from the history we were taught back in the 1970’s. And from what i know of the facts, much of it is twisted way out of wack, and whether what they are teaching is right, or wrong, the people as a whole are starting to have some very strange ideas about how things went down. People on Facebook arguing that the Americans killed 100 million Native Americans? When I confronted one with the facts, their answer was, the facts are not important, it’s the ideals that matter. And now, the history of slavery as believed by a large margin of society is completely inaccurate. Many now believe that Americans simply sailed to Africa and scooped up millions of indigenous people and brought them back to be beaten and raped continuously for hundreds of years. That Americans invented slavery, there were no slaves before the American slaves, and everyone below the Mason Dickson owned a dozen. And that the slaves rose up and freed themselves.

    And then there are these comedians who are in California who ask random people on a college campus who George Washington was, or Abraham Lincoln, and they flatly have no idea!

    People who graduate with a high school diploma have nearly no history, to them the world began in 1776. Nothing happened before then.

    And now we’ve got the Flat Earthers, and other groups who’s very understanding is based on lies and falsehoods, and the bashing of Christians for what happened a thousand years ago. If you don’t believe in all of the most recent scientific theories and abandon God you’re an idiot who talks to a make believe man in the Sky. And people who actually believe aliens built the Pyramids, and the Holocaust never happened. We have reached a time when it’s perfectly OK to believe whatever the hell one wants to believe! And you’re an ass if you challenge anyone’s misconceptions. I’ve gotta say, the predictions in the Book of Revelation are coming true before our eyes. But make no mistake, people are twisting history around to meet their own agendas. And to cause trouble. To keep the people as confused and in disagreement amongst themselves so the government can keep stealing all our money in the name of the New World Order.

    It’s all very amusing really, I mean, there’s nothing to be done, people believe whatever they want, and the new consensus is we should let them. We should not impose on other’s beliefs no matter how wrong they are, it’s a free country after all.

    Russell

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