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Whingers' corner
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AtomKraft » Fri Mar 18, 2022 10:46 pm
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boac/ Admin 2.
I don't care what Plum posted. You shouldn't delete it or ban him.
You left wing types are always in favour of control and...
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I think on that note it is a good time to close Whingers' Corner.
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Last post by admin2
Tue Mar 22, 2022 10:01 pm
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BREXIT - A Poll & Discussion
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Alisoncc » Tue Mar 22, 2016 8:51 pm
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I suspect that most of the Ops-Normal patrons would have an opinion on whether the UK would be better served by exiting the EU. My thoughts are that...
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I wonder how long it will last?
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Last post by 1DC
Tue Jan 30, 2024 2:27 pm
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Chaos for investors in China
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OFSO » Sat Aug 19, 2023 2:37 pm
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China's largest property developer, Evergrande, has filed for bankruptcy leaving liabilities of $300 billion, mostly to investors from outside China....
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Evergrande shares halted after Hong Kong court orders liquidation
The embattled property developer, once one of the largest in China, has in recent...
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Last post by PHXPhlyer
Mon Jan 29, 2024 4:45 am
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Cost of living adjustments
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OFSO » Thu Jan 18, 2024 11:33 am
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I've just received the proposed cost of living adjustment figures for *** organisations for 2024. I reproduce the list here, because the last country...
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The ministers (ministerial delegates) presiding over salary and pension adjustments make periodic attempts to revise the system to make it fairer...
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Last post by Ex-Ascot
Fri Jan 19, 2024 2:58 pm
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Chaos in France
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OFSO » Sun Jan 20, 2019 11:25 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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I once had two Gypsy punks try to get to my BlackBerry in a holster on my waist, under my jacket. Not even in the train but in the long tunnel...
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Last post by Dushan
Wed Jan 17, 2024 11:13 pm
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UK Overseas Voting Change
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llondel » Tue Jan 16, 2024 7:39 pm
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It appears that some of us might be able to vote in UK elections again.
Around two million more British citizens living overseas will be able to...
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However, it has been the legal status for some time that HMRC is not bound by any policy or previous cases in determining tax status, especially with...
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Last post by Fox3WheresMyBanana
Wed Jan 17, 2024 8:40 am
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Afghanistan.
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John Hill » Mon Dec 18, 2023 8:45 am
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A somewhat mixed up YouTube video showing repair work in Afghanistan.
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Don't assume that there is nobody in Afghanistan who can handle a helicopter.
However maybe not as many as they would like to have
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Last post by John Hill
Tue Jan 16, 2024 5:52 pm
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Is England up the creek?
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compo » Sun Oct 24, 2021 11:25 pm
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Tory lead government has voted to ditch the paddle - along with the poo. [-X
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My crystal ball tells me that the next budget will promise us great riches :YMPARTY: :YMPARTY:
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Last post by 1DC
Mon Jan 15, 2024 2:12 pm
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I am asking for a friend.....!
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John Hill » Sat Dec 30, 2023 10:20 am
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An old friend of mine has wrangled a cushy number working with the US State Department and he is asking my advice..
His department is tangling with...
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WTF? Oilfields out in the open , don't those crazy sand nigels know to drill for oil indoors?
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Last post by John Hill
Sat Dec 30, 2023 11:07 pm
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Coronabollocks..
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AtomKraft » Sat Mar 07, 2020 3:19 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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Gove has just been before them, flannelling like mad.
Usual rubbish, accepting my part of the responsibility for mistakes that may have been made ,...
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Last post by Fox3WheresMyBanana
Tue Nov 28, 2023 8:15 pm
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Oh shucks! I have been banned!!
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John Hill » Wed Nov 15, 2023 3:59 am
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Over at the other place, mind you I am sure there are some here who would say I deserved for being critical of the invasion of Gaza.
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Danny Faye, the founder of TOP is Israeli. With your attitude towards Israel I am surprised you lasted as long as you did.
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Last post by Dushan
Thu Nov 23, 2023 11:44 pm
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Funny thing about tunnels!
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John Hill » Sun Nov 19, 2023 9:31 pm
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Amazon is offering a DVD titled 'The History Channel, Saddam's Secret Tunnels'
Product Description
In April 2003, U.S. Army engineers began to...
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What is also 'funny' is that it appears that some of the underground structures under the hospital, allegedly used by Hamas, were in fact constructed...
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Last post by Boac
Tue Nov 21, 2023 4:45 pm
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Chaos in Spain
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OFSO » Fri Oct 26, 2018 3:44 pm
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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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Gaza, politics, inflation... Sounds like a good year to be in the spray-paint industry!
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Last post by Fox3WheresMyBanana
Sun Nov 12, 2023 10:02 pm
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Iran issuing threats.
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Alisoncc » Sun Oct 22, 2023 12:42 pm
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Things could get tricky. Hezbollah, Irans proxy, could easily kick-off their end.
Iran has issued a chilling warning to the United States that...
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There were not many oil wells in Afghanistan so you must have had another reason for that little adventure. A lot of innocent people got killed but I...
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Last post by John Hill
Mon Oct 23, 2023 6:51 am
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Other Russian territorial involvement
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OneHungLow » Sat Sep 30, 2023 3:50 am
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Meanwhile on the Kosovo border, and let's not forget what is going on in Nagorno-Karabakh! The duplicitous hand of Moscow is evident in these areas...
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Serbs were asleep at the switch during the 60’s, 70’s, and 80’s enjoying the good life while Albanians were infiltrating Kosovo. Now they protest....
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Last post by OneHungLow
Mon Oct 02, 2023 8:25 am
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Russell Brand
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Boac » Sat Sep 16, 2023 9:17 pm
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Russell Brand is discovering that if you stick your head above the parapet you need to be reasonably 'clean' to avoid having it hacked off. [-X
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FWIW, the reports on the Meedja out here in Australia are definitely leaning towards the 'He's as gulity as Hell so why bother with a trial...' way...
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Last post by Pinky the pilot
Sat Sep 30, 2023 11:31 am
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Rape
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Boac » Sun Sep 17, 2023 9:50 am
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In the UK there is no statute of limitations on rape. Is it time there was? I am growing uneasy at the ease with which someone can call 'rape' at any...
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I wonder what proportion of rapes take place within the family circle? Pretty horrific.
I know of a colleague who coerced his daughters into sex by...
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Last post by jimtherev
Mon Sep 25, 2023 10:33 pm
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Message encryption on social media
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Boac » Wed Sep 20, 2023 8:51 pm
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A bit of a hot topic at the moment. Can anyone give me a reason why people need encryption on this media unless it is for malicious intent?
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I/we hang the laundry on a line in the back yard which is considered a private space.
Quite a number of people make an exhibition of themselves at...
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Last post by OneHungLow
Thu Sep 21, 2023 10:42 pm
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Channel 4 to be privatised
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om15 » Tue Apr 05, 2022 5:02 pm
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There is much to be gloomy about these days, however occasionally the sun comes out and cheers us all up.
Channel 4 news is no longer going to enjoy...
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We may love ... hmmm?
Love and live and let die...
Anyway Channel 4 is safe... :-bd
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Last post by OneHungLow
Thu Sep 21, 2023 7:20 pm
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Net Zero Nil Commonsense.
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barkingmad » Thu Aug 10, 2023 3:07 pm
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Having looked in vain for a similar thread topic and found none, I propose to start a thread dealing specifically with the Net Zero cause.
Climate...
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Some discussion observed today, on the not-so-quite MSM, re the probability that Bliars henchmen have penetrated the Labour party apparatchiks who...
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Last post by barkingmad
Thu Sep 21, 2023 5:00 pm
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Diane Abbott Alert
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OFSO » Tue Oct 01, 2019 4:51 pm
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Diane Abbott is to stand in for Noddy Corbyn at PMQs tomorrow. Pencil and paper handy for some memorable quotes.....
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What is she up to now, this far ahead of the next UK General Election?
Possibly making time for her and J C to get back into the Inner Circle of...
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Last post by barkingmad
Wed Sep 20, 2023 10:55 am
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How slow can you go? - 20 mile an hour speed limits...
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OneHungLow » Sun Sep 17, 2023 11:36 am
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Wales has become the first country in the UK to roll out a default 20mph speed limit for most residential roads.
The scheme begins on Sunday and...
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A new 'bypass' road constructed in Denmark during our time living there was created with 'through traffic' timing of the traffic lights that allowed...
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Last post by G-CPTN
Tue Sep 19, 2023 8:29 pm
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Great British News - GBN
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Pontius Navigator » Tue Jun 15, 2021 7:21 am
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Launched Sunday night, first day yesterday, have you seen it?
The launch was not that good, Big Brother, Andrew Neil, filling the screen talking at...
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Ofcom are supposed to be impartial but howzabout this particular howler, shooting themselves in the foot;
Strange I have not noticed a...
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Last post by barkingmad
Tue Sep 19, 2023 9:52 am
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Conspiracy Theories - are they a conspiracy?
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barkingmad » Sat Aug 19, 2023 8:35 pm
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‘Snot only the Ruskies who believe the late lab-leak conspiracy theory, much derided at the outbreak of the plandemic but now conspiracy fact, as...
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Turtles all the way down... =))
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Last post by OneHungLow
Sat Sep 16, 2023 9:09 pm
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Nuremberg 2.0.
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barkingmad » Sun Feb 06, 2022 11:29 am
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It will be interesting to see how far this action gets, against a judicial system which has already demonstrated their corruption and their...
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Lest we forget the full informed consent info which we all received and understood, prior to the rolling up of the sleeve, here is a little...
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Last post by barkingmad
Fri Sep 15, 2023 3:16 pm
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The Price of Free Speech : Unaffordable?
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barkingmad » Wed Mar 04, 2020 11:26 am
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This is a topic dear to the hearts of those on O-N, especially those who’ve fled the ridiculous shenanigans across in TOP.
In every country there...
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Roll on 1984 and all that, the noose is tightening around our necks;
But few here in O-N seem to be concerned... :-?
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Last post by barkingmad
Fri Sep 15, 2023 2:56 pm
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