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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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Tue Mar 22, 2022 10:01 pm
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Well it happened.
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admin » Sat Jun 25, 2016 2:49 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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Next stop - the sunny uplands. Or are ya'll there yet?
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Mon Jul 11, 2022 6:48 am
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Rules for this forum
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admin2 » Tue Mar 01, 2022 10:17 pm
This is how it is to be for now in this forum:
All members signed up and agreed to the following when they joined:
“You agree not to post any...
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Tue Mar 01, 2022 10:17 pm
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Tue Aug 09, 2022 2:26 pm
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The Duke and Duchess of Sussex
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Ex-Ascot » Thu Jan 09, 2020 11:47 am
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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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Nutmeg playing up again.
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Mon Aug 08, 2022 11:24 am
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WTF is happening in the UK?
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AtomKraft » Sat Aug 17, 2019 9:56 am
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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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A friend has electricity contract up for renewal. Rising from 56pm to 77pm (variable) or 120pm fixed for a year.
What do the UK residents think is...
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Last post by Fox3WheresMyBanana
Sun Aug 07, 2022 2:04 pm
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Benefits of Brexit
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compo » Fri Aug 05, 2022 6:00 am
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1. Boris achieved his goal of becoming PM
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Any others?
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2. That nice Mr Putin is now much better informed about things most people wished he didn't know
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Fri Aug 05, 2022 7:14 pm
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Thu Aug 04, 2022 6:50 pm
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Andrew to the Tower?
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Boac » Tue Jan 28, 2020 12:58 pm
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His behaviour is nothing short of dreadful. The Palace is 'declining to comment' but should. This breach of trust is not acceptable for a member of...
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Thu Aug 04, 2022 10:35 am
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Chaos in USA
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barkingmad » Mon Jul 29, 2019 9:18 pm
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About 3,000 deaths recorded after 9/11 and look where that took us?
These statistics put that casualty count into perspective, or maybe not....
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Played, or not played, is not as important as what the Frogs would say pour encourage les autres .
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Wed Aug 03, 2022 7:26 pm
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Last post by boing
Tue Aug 02, 2022 4:51 am
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Another mass shooting, but the system is working!
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John Hill » Mon Jul 18, 2022 9:59 am
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Apparently an armed citizen shot and killed the perpetrator!
I guess we will be hearing more about this incident.
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The Chicago Sun-Times keeps a record of every reported homicide in the city, link here
No one reported in custody yet for any of the shootings....
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Mon Aug 01, 2022 5:18 pm
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Should we be more worried about plastic than global warming?
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Mrs Ex-Ascot » Wed Sep 06, 2017 12:14 pm
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There seems to be more and more worrying articles in the press regarding environmental contamination with plastic materials.
This is one recent...
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Maybe if we just burned all that “recyclable” plastic to generate heat or electricity would be a better way to handle it than to make woke...
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Last post by Dushan
Sun Jul 31, 2022 3:24 pm
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Roe vs Wade?
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EA01 » Sat Jun 25, 2022 12:57 pm
From the outside looking in.....unborn babies are sacrosanct until such time they become sentinent beings after which they are dispensible because of...
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Last post by Undried Plum
Mon Jul 25, 2022 7:10 am
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Chaos in Scotland.
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Magnus » Sun Jan 27, 2019 2:17 pm
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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Fri Jul 22, 2022 8:08 pm
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Chaos in Italy
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OFSO » Thu Jul 14, 2022 7:11 pm
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The Government of Italy has collapsed.
They need a new leader to replace Draghi. Should we send them Boris?
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Chaos in Italy .
Situation normal.
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Thu Jul 14, 2022 9:01 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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And The Culture.
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Last post by OFSO
Wed Jul 13, 2022 8:19 pm
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Nordstrøm
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OFSO » Mon Jul 11, 2022 3:16 pm
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German TV is much occupied with worries about energy, primarily the closing of all gas supplies from Russia. Not a mention of that fool Merkel...
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Thread drift. Someone once told me when prisoners were captured after WWII and there weren't enough allied soldiers to guard them, you could pick out...
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Tue Jul 12, 2022 5:38 am
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Value for money....
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OFSO » Fri Jul 08, 2022 10:17 am
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Boris & Carrie Johnson’s spending is absolutely eye-watering:
Kitchen tablecloth £500
Table lamp £6000
Shade for said lamp £2500
Rug £7000
2 sofas...
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Oh come now Pinky, they do have taste,
Really wish that I was sufficiently computer-savvy to be able to download and post a clip from the old...
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Mon Jul 11, 2022 10:45 am
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Last post by Undried Plum
Sun Jul 10, 2022 3:59 pm
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Thu Jul 07, 2022 3:47 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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N. Korea suggests balloons flown from South brought COVID-19
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea is suggesting its COVID-19 outbreak began in...
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Sun Jul 03, 2022 12:09 am
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"plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose" Afghanistan
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John Hill » Wed Jun 15, 2022 9:53 am
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America's erstwhile friends are set for a come-back in Afghanistan.
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There is still plenty to be made by pilfering the billions (yes billions) of Afghan banking reserves and what must be the most unjust part of this is...
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Last post by John Hill
Tue Jun 28, 2022 5:44 am
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The 'Other massacre/Civil war' thread
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Undried Plum » Thu Jun 23, 2022 6:46 pm
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'Civil war' must be the greatest of all oxymorons in European languages.
I remember, when working in Western Andalucia in the late 1980s, being...
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There's a somewhat forgotten massacre that I'd like to relate here in some detail. It's not totally forgotten locally within Norway, but outside the...
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Last post by Undried Plum
Tue Jun 28, 2022 2:13 am
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A Forgotten Massacre
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OFSO » Thu Jun 23, 2022 11:20 am
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... Although not by the Spanish and more especially, the Catalans. In 1939, over hundred thousand Spanish fled North over the Pyranees into France to...
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I knew the lady who ran the Pyrenees Oriental (PO) magazine. Very sincere
I'm just reading the biography of TE Shaw, Lawrence of Arabia. Amazing....
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Last post by OFSO
Fri Jun 24, 2022 4:35 pm
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Elon Musk and Tesla Are Not Very Nice. Space X, Too.
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PHXPhlyer » Tue Jun 21, 2022 3:22 pm
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Tesla sued by former employees over 'mass layoff'
The lawsuit was filed late Sunday in Texas by two workers who said they were terminated from...
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Diaz alleged that his colleagues and a supervisor subjected him to a hostile work environment that included slurs, caricatures and swastikas in his...
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Tue Jun 21, 2022 11:23 pm
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