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by 1DC View the latest post Fri Oct 30, 2020 8:17 pm
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A place to discuss politics and things related to Govts
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by barkingmad View the latest post Fri Oct 30, 2020 7:25 pm
Agony Aunt
By Popular Request - Modded by the Girls of Ops-Normal.
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by Pontius Navigator View the latest post Thu Oct 29, 2020 11:15 am
Ops-normal Projects & Bashes
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by Capetonian View the latest post Sun Sep 22, 2019 8:23 am
Where Are They Now
Lost forever.
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by G-CPTN View the latest post Thu Oct 29, 2020 12:02 pm
We Band of Brothers
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers who have taken the Oath, worn the uniform & even loitered in harm's way occasionally.
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Birthdays

Last post by Ibbie « Fri Oct 16, 2020 7:13 am
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Congrats to Pinky! :ymparty:
How do/did you celebrate?

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YEs Happy belated +2 RiS
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Fri Oct 16, 2020 7:13 am
Absent Friends

Last post by TheGreenGoblin « Sun Sep 20, 2020 1:03 pm
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Alison - I thought this would be a suitable place to keep absent friends' memories alive - somewhere we could visit to just, well, remember. You may...

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I've been informed that Ian Guild has died. He was on TOP as Eurocontrol? He and I have been friends on FB for some years and I knew he'd been in and...
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Last post by TheGreenGoblin
Sun Sep 20, 2020 1:03 pm
Well it happened.

Last post by Pontius Navigator « Tue Jul 07, 2020 6:49 am
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For many of our UK residents and ex-pats BREXIT is probably one of the most momentous events to have taken place in decades. I suspect there will be...

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EA01, what should have happened a couple of years back. Shut the doors, tell it how it is, go for a coffee, come back and tell 'em it is still like...
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Tue Jul 07, 2020 6:49 am
Photos of Everybody

Last post by TheGreenGoblin « Thu Jun 11, 2020 9:23 pm
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What would Jet Blast be without photos.

I'll start…

The caption says:
Here's one taken the day that Dushan was inducted into the Right Wing...

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More Gollum (sorry Smeagol) in Central Africa many years ago...

I feel, but don't look, a little like this these days...

TGG as Gollum.jpg
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Thu Jun 11, 2020 9:23 pm
Rant of the Day v2.

Last post by 1DC « Fri Oct 30, 2020 8:17 pm
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This one was getting a bit big too.

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Yes but cats being cats she would never want the spare.
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Fri Oct 30, 2020 8:17 pm
The Capetonian WOE Thread

Last post by FD2 « Fri Oct 30, 2020 7:56 pm
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The continuation of The Smokin' Hot Where On Earth Thread Mk III .

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OH was declared, people!
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Fri Oct 30, 2020 7:56 pm
Trick or Treat time again!

Last post by Opsboi « Fri Oct 30, 2020 7:40 pm
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by John Hill » Wed Oct 28, 2020 4:30 am
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Is it acceptable to give the little snot-gobblers chocolate laxatives? :-bd

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Having experienced the US version of Halloween, I have to say the UK does a very pale imitation of it.

Yep, I suppose that's because it's a...
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Fri Oct 30, 2020 7:40 pm
Friday Jokes

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To kick off, here's one that had 'em rolling in the aisles (although I admit it was my Kindergarten aisles.)

There were four skunks: daddy skunk,...

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Who's that?

All is revealed
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Fri Oct 30, 2020 7:36 pm
Labour leader.

Last post by barkingmad « Fri Oct 30, 2020 7:25 pm
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Let the Labour leadership battle commence .

Suggestions please as to which candidate would be best for Labour - and which to continue Jeremy's theme.

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Are we talking about this charming “peoples’ representative” elected to look after her contituency’s interests, or at least her own interests?

It...
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Fri Oct 30, 2020 7:25 pm
UK Income Tax

Last post by llondel « Fri Oct 30, 2020 7:02 pm
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by OFSO » Thu Oct 29, 2020 9:44 am

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One wonders what to do. Like a good citizen I declared my income for 2019-2020 in April to HMRC. All summer the progress curser has crawled or...

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Mrs OFSO says treat HMRC like a sleeping dog.

I used to have a few allowances I could have claimed for, probably worth under £50 in my pocket. I...

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Last post by llondel
Fri Oct 30, 2020 7:02 pm
The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread IV

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Time to start a new one, methinks. Enjoy.

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Handsfree, ah, Calvados, still have a drop left from our cruise to Honfleur
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Fri Oct 30, 2020 6:54 pm
Coronabollocks..

Last post by Boac « Fri Oct 30, 2020 5:55 pm
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As we watch our self inflicted descent into economic disaster, courtesy of the latest gift from China, does it never occur to anyone to panic a bit...

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This will be music to BM's tattered state of mind, driven to the edge by his close friend and confidant, Neil Ferguson.

Ferguson is associated with...
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Last post by Boac
Fri Oct 30, 2020 5:55 pm
The US Hamster Wheel

Last post by boing « Fri Oct 30, 2020 3:51 pm
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Raised the possibility of merging three topics relating to US politics a few days ago, receiving no objections. Just looked at the logistics of doing...

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A taser is normally a contact weapon. If used at non-contact range you only have one shot, it can only be used at very close range and it is not...
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Last post by boing
Fri Oct 30, 2020 3:51 pm
Formula One

Last post by Wodrick « Fri Oct 30, 2020 3:04 pm
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It looks as if the contract for the 'Spanish' Grand Prix will lapse after next week's race and that it will be the last one to be held at Barcelona...

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Sense prevails George remains at Williams, not much left for Perez now.
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Last post by Wodrick
Fri Oct 30, 2020 3:04 pm
Wot's for Tea, Ma?

Last post by ian16th « Fri Oct 30, 2020 2:41 pm
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Am sat here at Castle Crun in front of a roaring log fire toasting hand-made crumpets and spreading them with gorgeous creamy local butter. Yummy!...

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Sausage & Bean casserole.
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Last post by ian16th
Fri Oct 30, 2020 2:41 pm
Stupid things you did as a child...

Last post by EA01 « Fri Oct 30, 2020 11:42 am
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by TheGreenGoblin » Sun Sep 27, 2020 12:14 pm
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I was apt to think of my father today and was remembering my grandmother telling me how he came to lose his thumb at the age of 13. Like many boys do...

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Well, made it to here...so far..
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Last post by EA01
Fri Oct 30, 2020 11:42 am
Lockup/ lockdown. How to end it?

Last post by Undried Plum « Fri Oct 30, 2020 11:03 am
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I guess it's a truism that any idiot can stop an engine, or an economy.
Anyone can smash something, but how do you rebuild it?

Now that we've dug...

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The way to end the lockdowns is to make them effective enough to actually bring down the number of infections per 100,000 head of population to...
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Last post by Undried Plum
Fri Oct 30, 2020 11:03 am
Chaos in Spain

Last post by OFSO « Fri Oct 30, 2020 10:41 am
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The Catalan politicians have been in prison since October 2017, no charges brought against them.

Sanchez, the new socialist Prime Minister of Spain,...

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Effing prats. Now appears weekend lockdown starts at 6am on Friday not 6pm. Thousands of Euros fine for driving 5kms to next town to shop........
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Fri Oct 30, 2020 10:41 am
Chaos in Oireland.

Last post by barkingmad « Fri Oct 30, 2020 10:06 am
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Forgive me but for those amongst us interested in European issues I wondered whether it was time we kept half an eye on what’s happening on the...

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Not quite chaos, but an example of how the plague is affecting a geographically similar country with roughly the same genetics but probably a lower...
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Fri Oct 30, 2020 10:06 am
Chaos in France

Last post by barkingmad « Fri Oct 30, 2020 9:50 am
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Our cleaner's daughter, a very competent and organised teenager, lives in Bordeaux where she is a much-in-demand au pair, running several families...

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There appears to be an unhealthy obsession in these pages with the guillotine or similar mechanisms for public and statutory execution of our fellow...
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Last post by barkingmad
Fri Oct 30, 2020 9:50 am
What Song Is Your Current Soundtrack?

Last post by TheGreenGoblin « Fri Oct 30, 2020 1:03 am
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Often, the day starts with a song in our head or the events will suddenly cue up music that seems the perfect soundtrack. Share yours here.

This...

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And how good is this?
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Last post by TheGreenGoblin
Fri Oct 30, 2020 1:03 am
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex

Last post by Undried Plum « Thu Oct 29, 2020 8:54 pm
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Admin, I know that you closed down the Markle bashing thread but we think under current circumstances the situation should be able to be debated here...

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Who is the narrator on this 1:30 political exhortation? ?
or is that the way they all talk over there?

Iran is vastly more advanced, socially,...
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Last post by Undried Plum
Thu Oct 29, 2020 8:54 pm
Chaos in Scotland.

Last post by Undried Plum « Thu Oct 29, 2020 6:54 pm
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Well, why not?

Fish senior now faces 14 charges, 13 of which are sexual in nature. In the meantime, he has, after being expelled from the SNP,...

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Scotland’s proposed hate crime bill will penalize anyone whipping up hatred against “protected groups.” That includes people making “insulting”...
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Last post by Undried Plum
Thu Oct 29, 2020 6:54 pm
WTF is happening in the UK?

Last post by ian16th « Thu Oct 29, 2020 1:22 pm
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People I speak to hold normal opinions- but feel unable to express them.
Folk shrug, they don't understand what's happening, but they are sure it's...

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Oh dear, how sad, never mind.
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Last post by ian16th
Thu Oct 29, 2020 1:22 pm
Departed during 2020

Last post by G-CPTN « Thu Oct 29, 2020 12:02 pm
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Medium and psychic Derek Acorah has died

Never heard of him but I bet he didn't see that coming...

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Bobby Ball, comedian.
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