An unofficial place to discuss the Telegraph letters, established when the DT website turned off its commenting facility (now reinstated, but we prefer ours),
Intelligent, polite, good-humoured debate is welcome, whether on or off topic. Differing opinions are encouraged, but rudeness or personal attacks on other posters will not be tolerated. Posts which – in the opinion of the moderators – make this a less than cordial environment, are likely to be removed, without prior warning. Persistent offenders will be banned.
Today’s letters (visible only to DT subscribers) are here.
Morning all 🙂😊
Not sure about the weather its still dark. But I have to get our car to the garage for 8.00 MOT, should be OK. I’ll have to walk home 20 minutes,
I could go for a coffee at the bakers. But it would be a long coffee. I need the exercise, I’ll have to wear my uncomfortable knee support.
Slayders.
.
They collect and return ours.
I could have done that but I’m trying to get fitter.
More power to your, err, elbow, Eddy.
15 minutes and after my coffee of the day, sitting comfortably now.
Good morning, chums. Enjoy your day.
Good Morning Folks,
Still dark and raining here
The Met Police’s double standards jar with fundamental British values
Some might call it double standards, others might call it deliberate positive discrimination
I call it Taqiyah.
I call it disgraceful.
I’ve always said that our hierarchy aka political classes and Whitehall are pathological and habitual liars.
They never seem to get anything they do into current perspective.
Apeasment of Muslims.
Absolutely, our long established culture and social structure is sliding into a pit. Our useless Politicians are to blame.
Since Mrs T.
How long will it take for appeasement to turn into total capitulation?
And then will Canterbury Cathedral and Westminster Abbey be turned into mosques?
Spines of Pure Custard?
The pouring sort, not school stuff that had actual resistant lumps in it.
In the dinner queue i was first to the custard jug. The canteen lady was disgusted when i asked her to serve me the skin off the top. Some people just don’t understand.
‘Dinner queue’? So southerners do eat dinner, properly, at dinner time (noon).😉👍🏻
Yes. It was dinner while at school Then i would go home for Tea.
Now i go out to lunch at noon.
It was breakfast, dinner, tea, then supper in the entire country before the 18th century. Same here in Sweden. Their ‘Middag’ (midday meal) was traditionally at 12noon –1p.m. Now it is in the evening but it is still, incongruously, called ‘Middag’.
My school custard was thinner than water.
Crème anglaise .
If the English can rhyme custard with mustard why don’t the French call it coutarde so that it rhymes with moutarde?
Or even coutarde?😉
Thank you – corrected!
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/24bce680a35f8ed4f8b41f35ccd689077af912005eccd2b8d46c50c453e186ab.jpg Custard, especially crême patissière (confectioner’s custard), is what I miss most with my diet. I could sometimes kill for one of my vanilla slices (millefeuille with crême pat)!
One won’t kill you !
If they are that good, could any normal person stop at one?
Yes.
I shall celebrate with one once I’ve achieved my target weight. Just one, mind.
I might have an Eccles cake for pudding!👍🏻
A deserved treat.
👍🏻
Do you remember green custard?
Morning everyone.
Morning, all Y’all from a sun-free North Devon. Plenty hydropower falling from the sky, though.
I bet it was a relief to arrive. Enjoy all the great food and drink !
Thanks! Already planning first pub stop.
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/c33b34409bae843e8d782ec1ed6c8446f57a3d971ecd37bdc5201d778afc86bb.jpg
Curses; beat me to it.
Quite acerbic for Matt.
Good morning Anne and everyone.
Some years ago I was able to chat to a motorbike policeman who was operating a speed camera device on the edge of a 30mph limit. He explained that his gadget was set to record at 35mph (IIRC) so that a motorist would be zapped/snapped if they were doing 36 mph (or possibly 35.1 mph, this would have been about 15 years ago). The PC remarked that many drivers who were fined in the UK claimed to have been caught at 31 mph, but not so. Also worth mentioning that the MoT test does not, or did not, require the vehicle’s speedometer to be calibrated. 10% margin of inaccuracy used to be acceptable, but someone else will know; in other words 33mph would be the minimum. And calibration would have to be carried out frequently, because tyre inflation and wear & tear has an influence. But the most important detail (writes a prig) is that any speed limit is a MAXIMUM. There is nothing to prevent any road user from driving at 10 mph below the limit.
‘There is nothing to prevent any road user from driving at 10 mph below the limit’.
To the fury of all other road users.
A cyclist at 20 mph in a 30 mph zone?
Cyclists at 20mph are a menace.
Cyclists
at 20mphare a menace.Coming back up the A6 from Belper yesterday, I was behind a small car at The Triangle traffic lights that waited until the vehicle in front of her had gone at least 20y before she began moving.
Then, approaching The Anglers’ Rest, doing 35 in a 50 limit, despite having plenty of room to pass a cycling against on-coming traffic, waited until that traffic had cleared, slowing down to under 20.
Seeing the road was clear after the Anglers’, I dropped the van into 3rd, floored it and was past her staying comfortable under the 50 limit!
I often pass these “Slow Down” illuminated warning boards that flash your speed and, when I’m doing an indicated 30 or 40, depending of course on the speed limit, the signs usually show my speed to be 3mph less, i.e. 27 or 37mph.
As usual, very cutting but hits the nail on the head.
Good morning, all. Grey and wet. Likely to remain so.
Very dark here.
Good Moaning.
Judging by the weather, this is an indoor job day = grovelling around in the attic trying to find glasses (drinks for the ingesting of – the other type are in the fridge).
The lockdown establishment is still patronising its leading critics. 24 October 2023.
If you want to understand why social mobility in this country is so difficult, watch the video of Heneghan at the inquiry. Counsel’s approach was a mixture of intellectual arrogance and, in my view, class prejudice. Heneghan is what he is: a bright working class lad who has built his career on his own merits. He may not have acquired the veneer of sophistication that goes with life in colleges, Inns of Court or north London dinner parties. But he – and the country – deserved better.
The whole purpose of this inquiry is to obfuscate the issues and ensure that no blame is laid at the door of the government or its lackeys.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/10/24/lockdown-inquiry-carl-heneghan-covid-19-emb/
Clearly, the scene was set as evidenced by the politicians’ lock-step reactions across the World and ‘The Science’ and not, science, was declared as the arbiter of what was right or wrong. Now, the politicians responsible for the fiasco need a scapegoat to cover their treachery, and as they ignored, pilloried even, the independent scientists, these good people cannot fairly be blamed. That of course leaves those ‘scientists’ and advisors who followed/projected ‘The Science’. If I was a member of that sect I would be afraid, very afraid. Someone has to take the fall and the political establishment has the whitewash and the brush.
Likewise, the political establishment continue to ignore the excess deaths scandal and they have pilloried the one MP who is attempting to expose this scandal. Their modus operandi hasn’t changed but it would appear that the establishment haven’t yet solved the problem of whom to blame for their promotion of the “vaccine”.
“Heneghan was subjected to an adversarial line of questioning which may be appropriate to a courtroom but not to an inquiry. Counsel also attempted to reduce complex questions to simple yes/no answers.”
As I predicted on here last week.
377974+ up ticks,
Morning Each,
First ask, are these two “leaders” of the right calibre to decide such issues when one views their home turf.
We are living daily in England with what the Israelis are currently facing daily, ours has yet to be triggered.
The same man who is holding judgement on what Israel must
do is also daily flooding England via Dover with dangerous deadly flag wavers, ( Terrorist in waiting)
EU and Britain clash over ceasefire between Israel and Hamas
France among European countries supporting pause to help hostages, but Sunak and Biden have taken harder line in fight against terrorists
Diagnosis via OGGA1
Israel must do as Israel judges best to do for Israels
benifit / survival.
377974 + up ticks,
If allergic to swearing look away, but the truth will out,
https://youtu.be/PgHzv9dtUQ8?si=LM8r9LcX0BTohEN5
I often find I agree with many of the points which Tommy Robinson raises. But however valid these points are surely he must realise that his constant use of obscenities does not do much to advance his case?
Obscenity is the prop of the inarticulate prick.
What today’s police force needs is a bit more irony – as well as a bit more mettle!
With a paucity of both at the very top (and in government) I wonder where they would come from.
It’s
leadershipmanagement problem.‘Show me your mettle’, traditionally believed to refer to the displaying of a worker’s hands & arms to a potential employer. A skilled and experienced millstone dresser would have many spots of carbon steel, and scars thereof, embedded in his forearms. As for millstone grit, the best stones came from Derbyshire.
Bollocks.
Too fucking right.
Blumming ‘eck! I’d better watch my language.
377974+ up ticks,
Morning R,
He comes across to me as the first day of spring breathing material.
Quite the averse of the governing elected political overseers and their daily use of obscene actions.
Sticks & stones may break ones bones
( lock-downs KILL)
But names & naughty words
will never………
Michael O’Ryanair swears, but he delivers the goods.
377940+ up ticks,
Afternoon T5
Lest we forget
Mr T Robinson delivered the goods and went to Belmarsh.
I don’t wish him ill, but it’s a good question.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12664565/yair-netanyahu-benjamin-son-idf-reservists-miami.html
Well after my quick drive to drop off our car for its MOT found out what the weather was like the old golf umbrella came in handy.
And our authorities including the police are making and have made one hell of a mess of everything they come into contact with.
Reposted from late last night
Tuesday 24th October, 2024
Jonathan Rackham
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/0c01bad37d6e80ede0777043dc536ca16892c5b4e3ea5f1144846b72fa840ba3.jpg
and very many Happy Returns
With best wishes,
Caroline and Rastus
Keep searching and you will find your ancestor’s treasure that Hergé’s Tintin and Captain Haddock were looking for!
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/32fb780dc9cc424617a59a6bf77b289e900d2c7fbbfce9fd51caa257ce86cc26.png
Happy Birthday Johnathan! Have a great day! 🎉🍾🎂🥂
Grattis på födelsedagen, Johnathan. Hope it’s a good ‘un.
Have a splendiferous day Johnathan.
Penblwydd hapus i ti Jonathan.
Happy Birthday, Jonathan. You beat me to it by a little over three months.
I dunno – all you youngsters…!!
377974+ up ticks,
This was the main question at the village idiots convention the conclusion was there are far more of us outside the village looking in than there are inside looking out.
https://x.com/frantruth/status/1715782998946148502?s=20
A belated good morning to all.
A dull and
dampwet 6°C today though it is due to brighten up at lunchtime.Interesting perspective on support for Hamas and Palestinians.
https://www.takimag.com/article/white-knighting-for-middle-east-unsalvageables/
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/915b92528d60652e9592a46cc6b36da2a983597ce8169329e9de89c5840ae2e4.png
This waterlogged field is the site of a new supermarket: why do we keep building on flood plains?
Environment Agency advice is ignored because of the pressure to deliver housing
When plans were announced for a huge new supermarket in the Lincolnshire village of Washingborough, there were plenty of local objections. Residents were concerned about the impact on the landscape, the traffic and local businesses. There was less anxiety about the fact the 10,000 sq ft Sainsbury’s would be built on land at high risk of flooding.
Why? The answer is complex; however, it can be encapsulated by the irrefutable fact that the more that humans obscenely overpopulate the planet, the exponentially more stupid they become. A world human population of half a billion incredibly intelligent beings, would be massively superior to a world human population of eight billion (and rapidly rising) imbeciles.
But man, proud man,
Dress’d in a little brief authority,
Most ignorant of what he’s most assur’d—
His glassy essence—like an angry ape
Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven
As makes the angels weep.
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/9ea2afa1dc4245280c85f7c3f859945b88b99ed4fe31a04e12a4afeb06c4d333.png How very pathetic to see that the Daily Telegraph has reverted to using the term Global Warming, despite their WEF masters telling them (and everyone else) to tone it down to Climate Change. Old (bad) habits die hard.
Even worse will be the downstream effect of the floodwater displaced by whatever flood defences they put in place.
Exacerbated by the felling of trees.
I wonder how much worse any flooding will be because the car park and store are impermeable and the water will need to be dispersed somehow.
I’d like to see the Royal Mail van that can deliver a house.
I have a bee in my bonnet about ‘deliver’. It seems that outcomes are invariably delivered. Politicians promise to deliver as a matter of course. What they’ll deliver is often unsaid. Delivering is itself the aim. It doesn’t seem to matter what it is.
Imagine ‘bring’ being treated in a similar fashion. I promise to bring. If elected, my party will bring.
It is yet another example of the vapid Americanisms that are surreptitiously replacing proper Standard English. The Daily Telegraph (a pastiche of its former self) is in the vanguard of this incessant idiocy.
“Washingborough”? The name is a bit of a pointer.
Like Watery Lane and Water Meadows.
If any of you watch/listen to GB News, i thought last night’s “Headliners” programme (repeated this morning between 5 am & 6 am) was particularly good. Simon Evans, Steve N Allen and Nick Dixon. Worth a catch-up IMHO.
Good morning all
It’s the 59th anniversary of our first date. We saw Dr No at the Leicester Square theatre followed by a drink at the Blue Boar Inn.
Happy days ever since.
I’m not sure SWMBO and I ever dated in the accepted sense. We just worked together backstage, got close, married.
We’d known each other for 2 years playing table tennis in a school hall. Courted, now there’s an old fashioned concept, for three and a half years and married in 1968.
Very sensible. Celebrities seem to get married nowadays because they are bored.
NY niece and her BF have been ‘courting’ for eight years. My hats keep going out of fashion.
Excellent memory, Alf!
Did you get a goodnight kiss?
No. I was even terrified of holding her hand in case she thought I was too forward.
You Sir, are a gentleman.
Ah, those were the days!
Lovely memories.
Yes, too many to remember them all.
The first film I saw with MB was …. wait for it …. “Spartacus”.
That is the truth.
I don’t think I ever went to the cinema with MOH – with other people, yes.
Forgive my callousness here, but just how much did she think a car bought 7 years ago for £20,000 was likely to be worth after depreciation?
I have sympathy regarding the loss of her car and the circumstances and losing a no-claims bonus is somewhat harsh.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12663145/Grandmother-20-000-car-damaged-Luton-Airport-car-park-fire-fault-says-insurance-company-offers-7-000-payout-Britons-battle-money-no-claims-bonuses-following-blaze.html
What kind of car was it? Easy to work out then if the offer was reasonable.
The article doesn’t seem to say what it was, but at £20,000 new I doubt it was a particularly special vehicle.
I looked up a few examples of depreciation, admittedly likely to be on the high side, on dealer websites, and I think she probably got a reasonable offer.
Insurance companies will always ripp customers off.
Was that the cost when new? The article does not say. Nor does it say how old it was.
It was, the age and cost are given quite a way down the article.
Not the same owner.
The article is quoting more than one case
Ah! Good point.
https://scontent.flhr10-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/395209134_10168530646365161_8135952077249302489_n.jpg?stp=dst-jpg_p180x540&_nc_cat=106&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=5f2048&_nc_ohc=kqvftuKfjh0AX9WqQuV&_nc_ht=scontent.flhr10-1.fna&oh=00_AfBWfzK8GbuTiTacgX53e–CMM0prnU_iIU8R2w-_50C2g&oe=653BB3C2
Why dos the insurance company say it was her fault?
It was clearly not her fault but the insurance company thinks it serves her right if she can’t take a joke and it also serves her right if she was stupid enough to believe the government saying that electric cars were the best way forward..
Perhaps they think she should have taken a taxi and left her car at home.
It is harsh.
When we ever fly from Luton, we take a cab to the bus or now I believe railway link into the airport.
Heaven knows.
It’s why I’m sympathetic re the loss of NCB.
I wonder whether the insurers of the car that burned, or even those covering the car park, if any, could be liable for losses.
IMHO the lack of a fire retardation system was an act of criminal negligence; airports have been and always will be targets for violent criminals with mental issues.
The fact that Daily Mail is not accepting any comments on the article implies that there is some information the authorities wish to suppress. Just like the Grenfell towerblock incident.
IMHO the lack of a fire retardation system was an act of criminal negligence; airports have been and always will be targets for violent criminals with mental issues.
The fact that Daily Mail is not accepting any comments on the article implies that there is some information the authorities wish to suppress. Just like the Grenfell towerblock incident.
But that’s how it works. You lose your NCB if you make a claim. It’s irrelevant who was at fault. It happens all the time. You can’t start feeling sorry now.
It is possible to insure your NCB.
I’ve been involved in a few accidents where the other driver was entirely at fault and didn’t lose my NCB, there was no “knock for knock” involved.
Perhaps procedures have changed.
What sort of car was it ? I couldn’t see it in the report.
Surely a carpark that charges people to use it should have public liability insurance.
Neither could I.
Agreed, but it may be that they “self insure”, never expecting a calamity on the scale they experienced.
I have been unable to find out whether the car park actually belonged to Luton Airport or to a company which leased it to passengers wish to park their cars.
Didn’t the builders go bust, perhaps it’s in the hands of receivers?
Yes. But the building must belong to someone.
If it was an asset of the company still, then presumably the creditors
I assumed that the builders built it – handed it over to the owner (who had commissioned the building) and then went bust. I doubt that it still belonged to the builders in liquidation.
The airport site appears to belong to Luton Borough Council, but there is a private sector operating company called London Luton Airport Operations Limited; currently that company is jointly owned by AENA (Spanish) and AMP (an Australian investment company which is a subsidiary of what was originally the Australian Mutual Provident Society). The parking business is operated by APCOA, which itself is owned by Centerbridge and Strategic Value Partners (SVP). So my money is on APCOA as a lessee and LLAO Ltd as owner.
I am much obliged. So they OUGHT to be insured.
One of the girl students, aged 17, who is with us this week is fully jabbed and has had Covid 3 times and was ill in bed for 3 weeks last time.
Why are the unjabbed faring so much better? Is it ignorance or sheer cowardice that makes the MPs refuse to pay attention to the fact and to hold Andrew Bridgen in contempt?
But MPs appear to be surviving it well
Wilful blindness and guilt perhaps. Friday’s debate, attended by fewer than a dozen MPs, just shows us how determined they all are to bury their heads in the sand when it comes to facing up to the number of excess deaths, and the deaths and injuries caused by the experimental gene therapy jabs, forced on the trusting public.
This would make a good cartoon for Matt if he sketched the Houses of Parliament in the background.
Conservative MP with ostrich
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/908e66ce5ca33c9b9e9ae49cb064881f065812351c734e63231db743c365406f.png
and here is one of the strongest candidates for being in the cabinet when Labour wins the next election.
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/2c3c7c0f7e16319f52f47a5c71ba7e87d10ebddabc239f9e733b8d98eaafa107.png
There was a suggestion that the jabs damaged the immune system. I used Zn and Vit D, like many on here and have not apparently suffered the lurgy.
Me neither KP. We must be doing something right!
Renegades – ignoring “the science”….!!
We too take vitamin D and zinc.
We have both had Covid which will have increased our natural immunity as our systems have not been messed about with any Covid jabs.
Caroline was unaware that she had Covid and only found out when she had a test when the nurse came round to test me. Caroline was fine and after a day in bed sleeping I was completely recovered.
I had another reminder yesterday Richard. Binned it!
I manage to send an email to the NHS last week explaining why I’m not having any covid jabs again.
No acknowledgement. But I didn’t expect it.
Or she may simply have had ‘flu, of course.
Why do people keep having the jabs when clearly they do not work, regardless of the other adverse effects?
Because they are sheep. Simple.
Because the next jab that they have might just be the one that really, really works. They cannot lose their faith in a saviour vaccine.
Last night and this morning one of our students (not the one Rastus is talking about) was really not feeling well at all, and so
we trotted off to see the GP just in case she needed stronger meds than I have at home. She was given a regulation Covid test (negative; she’d had Covid in Saint Tropez in August so she has good immunity). The GP then told us that he’d had Covid six times and that he would rather catch Covid and have natural immunity than have to have repeated Covid jabs.
And this from a GP who was very, very pro-vaccine at the beginning of the whole scam. One day I’ll ask him what made him change his mind…
One of the other girls on the course told us that she had been much iller after the Covid jab than when she had Covid.
It’s time to revive the SPG.
In recent years the most common meaning of Jihad has been Holy War. And there is a long tradition of Jihad being used to mean a military struggle to benefit Islam.3 Aug 2009
Religions – Islam: Jihad – BBCReligions – Islam: Jihad – BBC
““The cause of a Palestinian state is, in itself, a respectable one. “”
But how many times has Israel tried to give the Palestinians their own state and how many times have the Palestinians – or more likely Hamas – refused it because they only thing they will accept is the total extinction of the State of Israel?
Israel withdrew from Gaza in 2005. That is their own state. They preferred to spend money on tunnels and rockets instead of improving the lives of their people.
Jordan was created in 1948 as the “Palestinian” state. That was the original “two state solution”. The Arabs are not interested in compromise, only conquest.
Five times, I believe.
Like the doggo avatar, Delboy.
She’s a beauty. She will be 9 in April.
It’s time to revive the SPG.
Car passes MOT now ready be collected.
At least it’s stopped raining.
All down hill this time much easier. But chilly.
Avoid Luton Airport car park.
I hate the place.
Only flown once from Luton – I don’t think we used the multi storey.
Early, it always seems to be stuffed with young people getting drunk and then making lot of noise to the destination.
Used to fly from Luton to Langenhagen when Britannia Airways had the contract for air-trooping flights.
I hope not; using an aeroplane is much more aerodynamic 🙂
Yep! It took us all the way to Switzerland.
Morning, all. Rain looks as if it’s given up for a few hours.
When the term ‘police farce’ is used this must be the sort of behaviour that is being described. Totally wrong on all levels.
https://twitter.com/brijoyce/status/1716635468505256336
Does anyone know why the police farce were called? It cannot be anything to do with slammers, of course.
Not very good is she – she missed most of them
Assault
Has this boy left school yet?
https://twitter.com/BeardedBob7282/status/1716748947434147980
Could it be a woman?
Sharp intake of breath….
Lesbian grandmother?
Does one usually smile to the camera under such circumstances?
https://static.standard.co.uk/2023/10/24/7/Mr+Macron+shakes+hands+with+Israel%27s+President+Isaac+Herzog+in+Jerusalem-3wxag9e5.jpeg?quality=75&auto=webp&width=640
Looks as though Toy Boy has dental isshoos.
Been chewing Toulouse sausages?
Well, he does have much to lose.
Let’s hope it is painful and fatal.
That’s a bit biting.
2.30
Vladimir Putin ‘found on floor’ after suffering ‘cardiac arrest’ – claim. 24 October 2023.
Vladimir Putin suffered a suspected “cardiac arrest” and the Russian President received assistance until he regained consciousness, a statement posted on a Telegram channel has claimed.
The 71-year-old, who launched his invasion against Ukraine in March 2022, was allegedly found on the floor before being taken to a special intensive care facility.
Odd. It gave me quite a nasty turn. I couldn’t care less if the rest of them dropped dead of apoplexy. This report comes from a source that has reported Vlad’s ill health for over a year. Involving such minor aliments as Terminal Cancer, Parkinsons’s Disease, ingrowing toe nails and the Great Spotted Leprosy.
https://www.gbnews.com/news/world/vladimir-putin-cardiac-arrest-claim-health-news-russia
If he really is as hated in Russia as the Western media claim, surely they would have just let him die…
If one reads the article Sos one is left to wonder how this got out out from what must be one of the most heavily guarded places in the world!
I thought he had been dead for years – just replaced by a series of lookalikes…!!
Oh, another covid vax victim…
Just had a text from the GP surgery.
Dear Mr xxxxxxx
Our records indicated that you use topical testosterone.
Premature puberty and genital enlargements have been reported in children who were in close physical contact with those using topical testosterone and who were repeatedly accidentally exposed to this medicine.
To reduce these risks wash hands and cover affected area before physical contact with a child or adult.
Perhaps i should ask them if goats are safe.
Sign of the times.
I have to apply the gel to my outer thigh. Then…unlike Slammers, i wash my hands. I also don’t have close physical contact skin to skin with children ! Again …unlike Slammers.
No wonder Slammer women wear the veil. To cover up their beards.
A sobering article.
https://www.standard.co.uk/comment/israel-palestine-culture-war-britain-tanya-gold-b1115336.html
” This bespeaks of bad times for Europe…”
Wait until Muslims start forming their own political parties…
They are already in control of sections of mainstream parties around the UK and Europe because they tend to congregate together and to be active. They can already vote their people in place.
It will be worse when they do form independent Islamic parties, because there is a very good chance they could hold the balance of power, extracting even more rights and protections.
One can imagine this kind of exchange:
“We stood for sharia law and we won this constituency. Therefore, sharia law applies here.”
“It doesn’t work like that.”
“Then what’s the point of democracy?”
The Muslim Brotherhood openly describe democracy as a one-stop shop. You get voted in and there’s no further need for elections.
I remember them trying to get islam protected by blasphemy laws and that was quite a while ago. Thankfully they failed, but if they hold the power it will come.
BTL:
Ronald Welsh
These internal email exchanges are of the level of a primary school WhatsApp group, infantile even. Is this the calibre of the staff in our banking institutions nowadays? Get your money out and put it in a shoebox under the bed, it’ll be better looked after there.
Doug Scott
An apology just isn’t good enough. Those staff members need to face legal action for deliberately causing damage to someone else’s business and life. Additionally, NatWest cannot be trusted now and needs their management sacked and replaced with trustworthy professionals.
Miss Winter
How thick and arrogant were these staff members.
Even the most humble office staff generally realise that when you send an email it can be pulled back from the server almost indefinitely.
What fools. Although I have to admit some politicians are equally stupid.
These are the same types that post sexual stuff on social media or What’sApp and think they can get away with it.
Ogga may not agree but I think the way the PTB, the MSM and the banks have ganged up on Nigel Farage is a disgrace.
I agree with ogga that it is disgraceful the way the same groups have ganged up on Tommy Robinson.
Heads should roll – but they won’t.
I’ve just watched the first part of the Farage show where he is accused of being racist, anti-semitic etc etc.
It’s a shame he doesn’t have the appetite for suing them for libel. Because some of their slurs are surely libellous. Where is their evidence that he is racist? Or anti-semitic etc etc?
Nat West staff have behaved in a wholly inappropriate unprofessional manner. All the staff that took part in these correspondences should be disciplined for unprofessional manner.
Let them sweat.
Anybody who is pro keeping our ancient culture is de facto racist these days, alas.
I tried to explain to some colleagues the other day that their long conversation about which emails should be kept and which deleted and why plus the time spent trawling through email correspondence is completely wasted. I used to be very good about only keeping one year’s worth of emails so as to use less server space but now if I do a search it will retrieve relevant messages going back at least twenty years. It’s all still there. Which is useful but also instructive.
BTL:
Ronald Welsh
These internal email exchanges are of the level of a primary school WhatsApp group, infantile even. Is this the calibre of the staff in our banking institutions nowadays? Get your money out and put it in a shoebox under the bed, it’ll be better looked after there.
Doug Scott
An apology just isn’t good enough. Those staff members need to face legal action for deliberately causing damage to someone else’s business and life. Additionally, NatWest cannot be trusted now and needs their management sacked and replaced with trustworthy professionals.
Miss Winter
How thick and arrogant were these staff members.
Even the most humble office staff generally realise that when you send an email it can be pulled back from the server almost indefinitely.
What fools. Although I have to admit some politicians are equally stupid.
These are the same types that post sexual stuff on social media or What’sApp and think they can get away with it.
Good morrow, Gentlefolk. today’s request (and denial).
The Penis has requested a rise.
Request by the penis:
The Penis requests a promotion and a rise for the following reasons:
has to work hard;
has to work at great depths;
has to work upside down;
has no ventilation or air-conditioned environment at work;
has to work in a high humidity environment;
has to work at high temperatures;
does not get weekends and holidays off;
does not get time off after extra hours of work;
has a hazardous work environment that often causes professional sickness.
Request denied——– for the following reasons:
does not work 8 hours in a row;
does not answer immediately to all requests;
after a short activity period, falls asleep at work;
shows no fidelity to the workplace;
retires too early;
does not work at all unless pushed from behind;
does not leave the workplace clean after finishing work;
sometimes finishes work too early.
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/49e0ebbbef596409d29bad45b3a5a59f6ecd51b35236131bad23486c7b5df408.png
I try to keep this as accurate as possible but apparently I have mis-birthdayed Jonathan Rackham whose birthday is not today but on Thursday. (Please confirm)
E & OE
(Errors and Omissions Excepted) – Please let me know if I have got anything wrong and please let me know if you would like to be added to the list if you are not already on it). Please also let me know if anyone wants or needs to be removed from the list!
02 January – 1947 : Poppiesmum
07 January – **** : Lady of the Lake
08 January – 1941 : Rough Common
09 January – **** : thayaric
10 January – 1960 : hopon
16 January – 1941 : Bill Thomas (Legal Beagle)
18 January – **** : Stormy
21 January – **** : Nagsman
23 January – 1951 : Damask Rose
23 January – 1960 : Kifaru
27 January – 1948 : Citroen 1
10 February -1949 : Korky the Kat (Dandy Front Pager)
11 February- 1964 : Phizzee
22 February- 1965 : AW Kamau
22 February- 1951 : Grizzly
24 February- 1941 : Sguest
28 February- 1956 :Jeremy Morfey
29 February- **** : Ped
02 March- **** : Garlands
05 March—– 1957 : Sue MacFarlane
08 March—– 1957 : Geoff Graham
26 March—– 1962 : Caroline Tracey
27 March—– 1947 : Maggiebelle
27 March—– 1941 : Fallick Alec
19 April——- 1954 : Devonian in Kent
22 April——–1950 :Jay Sands
26 April——- **** : Harry Kobeans
18 May———****: Hertslass
24 May——– 1944 : Sir Jasper (NoToNanny) (Tom)
02 June——–1939: Clydesider
08 June——– **** : Still Bleau
09 June——- 1947 : Johnny Norfolk
09 June——– 1947 : Horace Pendleton
23 June——– 1961 : Oberstleutnant (Paul)
01 July———-1946: Rastus C Tastey
12 July——— 1956 : David Wainwright/Stigenace
18 July——— 1941: lacoste
19 July——— 1948: Ndovu (jules)
21 July———-1960: Richard II (ex Tier5Inmate)
26 July——— 1936 : Delboy
29 July———- 1944 : Lewis Duckworth
30 July———- 1946 : Alf the Great
01 August—— 1950 : Datz
03 August—— 1954 : molamola
10 August—— 1967 : ourmaninmunich
14 August ——-1944 jillthelass
18 August—— **** : ashesthandust
19 August——- 1951 : Hugh Janus
04 September- 1948 : Joseph B Fox
07 September- 1946 : Araminta Smade
09 September ———: Conway
11 September- 1947 : peddytheviking
12 September- 1946 : Ready Eddy
13 September- **** : Anne Allan
15 September- **** : veryveryveryoldfella
26 September- **** : Feargal the Cat
30 September 1944 : One Last Try
07 October—– 1960 : Bob 3
11 October—– 1944 : Hardcastle Craggs
24 October——-1948: Jonathan Rackham *?
25 October—– 1955 : Sue Edison
12 November- ***** : Cochrane
01 December– 1956 : Sean Stanley-Adams
06 December– 1943 : Duncan Mac
10 December– **** : Aethelfled
16 December– **** : Plum
21 December– 1945 : Elsie Bloodaxe
(E&OE)
Two birthdays are nothing to complain about.
I have two – I was probably born on 29 Feb. My father had just died and my mother was a little superstitious and registered me as on the 28th. I celebrate nearly every day of the year – cheers!
Too many absent friends
Hallo Rastus, can’t stay, yes, my birthday is on Oct 26 1948. But never mind, perhaps I can have an official NOTTLERS birthday plus my actual birthday? 😁😊😉
That’s the spirit! Cheers!
How regal of you.
1948 was an excellent year 🙂
Gorgeous summer.
I don’t remember that, but September was sunny, judging by pictures of me in my pram 🙂
Mine’s in February, when it is dark, cold and wet. This year I started to have an official birthday in May, when it is much lighter, drier and warmer.
I am 25 June 1952 but missing from the list.
Where is sosraboc’s birthday?
Sos doesn’t have a birthday. He was created in a Lab from goat testicles and dung.
Is that one of your recipes?
Only when Sos is coming to dinner. I like my guests to feel at home.
It’s not a cause for acknowledgement, let alone celebration…
Please accept my apologies for premature birthday congratulations, Johnathan 🙂
My accountant (splendid fellow) had never heard of E&OE.
As a newbie I have escaped your list, a little time till the next one.
6 May 1949
There seems to be a number of coy people not stating their year of birth. For the life of me I simply do not understand why!
Never ask a lady her age. Don;t you know anything ?!
Perhaps it’s a security measure rather than coyness. Your date of birth is sensitive information.
I never offered my birthday
Ibelieve that 24 August 1948 qualifies me as a wrinkly.
My father’s birthday was on the 25th August (but quite a few years before).
Good Grief.
When MB and I walked down the aisle, Phizzee was 11 days old.
ALEX BRUMMER: A toxic cocktail of conflict, debt and Biden’s
trillion-dollar splurge means a financial tsunami is heading Britain’s
way.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-12663637/alex-brummer-joe-biden-bond-markets-sunak-starmer.html
Always look on the bright side…
Yes. I should get better interest on my investments.
What a Bummer!
Good day all,
Late on parade this morning – been busy outside cleaning waders, boots, wading staff and landing net following yesterday’s grayling fishing trip to the Avon during which the grayling, or all bar one, refused to play. However, the trout duly rose with abandon to a sudden fly hatch after 4pm and six beauties ended up in the net despite the season being over a week ago. You can catch them, indeed you really can’t avoid trout if fishing for grayling, but you can’t take them home for dinner. They were notably absent on my last trouting outing of the season. Who says fish are dumb?
Anyway, sunny day at the McPhee’s, wind Sou’-West, 13℃.
The human race really has lost the plot.
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/0af04f7528ba3c614bd1cbe010c9ef2a63ffc7054c48f6c84fa9f06bcb151065.png
The link won’t copy and paste again.
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/0c527bfd652b743c196308ba24acb1050563690c83dea66b00be46755b07b6db.png
That’s nearly as much as our entire monthly food budget for two which includes some pretty good beef, pork and lamb from a reputable family butcher. Who are the people who can contemplate paying £900 for one steak? You could feed a lot of the homelss for that.
Saudis, Gangsters, MP’s, Bankers.
Grayling was a useless minister.
He was a LibDem. Joined the Tories to get his hands on power.
My “Tory” is an eco-freak, woke, limp dumb…. I hope he is got rid of in the GE.
The grayling always reminds me of Lotl.
Look at the size of that baby steak, it is so small that you would need to stop at a chippy on the way home to satisfy your hunger pangs. Unless of course that little cherry tomato is enough.
“You could feed a lot of the homelss for that”.
But you do inded feed the homelss/fecklss. Via income tax, top rate if you can afford such a delicious steak, VAT on the restaurant meal, corporation tax on the restaurant’s profits, business rates, insurance premium tax, Net Zero Renewable tax on the gas and electricity consumed, National Insurance fees on the employees and the business, etc etc. Why do you think the veggie MP for Yorkshiremen encouraged the British to Eat Out?
There’s now talk about banning imports on foods in the UK that are out of season here. The Spanish farmers will go broke.
Back to eating cabbage and carrots then.
And potatoes.
This sounds like a food ‘Lock down’. What are the ‘They’ up to now ?
Better finish off preparing my veg plot asap.
Let’s talk about a free market….or not.
Certain people are not happy unless they are in control of lives of others.
There is only one thing to do with people like that.
I’m sury many of the homeless would give their eye teeth for a room on the Bibby Stockholm barge that apparently isn’t good enough for the New Model Army. Was pleased to hear Nana Akua say as much on GBN but she was immediately accused by a leftie guest of making a straw man argument. Nope, it’s relevant.
Yeh, just read that article. Won’t be going there for my after London walk lunch… Is there a Wetherspoons next door who can do it for a tenner, drink included?
I had a ‘Spoons Madras curry in Margate two Fridays back, a pint of cask bitter included. I thought it good value.
I note that ‘Spoons are not averse to charging premium prices at transport hubs. A pint of bitter at the St. Pancras International Barrel Vault was £4.75. By London standards I imagine that’s moderate pricing but it’s a darn sight more expensive than I pay here in Stevenage. The cheapest bitter I know of here is £2.45 for either Ghost Ship or Doom Bar at Our Mutual Friend. It’s not a ‘Spoons, as you might expect, but a Craft Union pub, part of the Stonegate group.
The restaurant should change its name to “I Saw You Coming”.
They were absent because fish go on holiday at much the same time as fishermen 🙂
Gosh – good news for once. Saw the optometrist on 27 September. She said cataracts now met NHS tests. First appointment with the laser man (for assessment) on 15 November. And just 6 miles from the house.
Phew. I’d assumed it would be at least a year….
You haven’t given them the chance to cancel the appointment at the last minute yet !
Oh ye of
little faithgreat experience 🙂I’ve got two letters in the same envelope cancelling the same appointment next month. But that’s fine, I have had enough of his indifferent attitude. Next letter same day, One of the colleagues will be ‘ringing me’ instead. Well phoning.
My old buddy has just sent me a message saying something similar. He’s had his cataract sorted and off to get his all clear appointment next week. I’m getting lined up this time next week for my second assessment. Right eye.
RICHARD LITTLEJOHN: If the police can scour the internet
for hate speech, surely they can arrest protesters calling for the
eradication of a nation.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-12663789/RICHARD-LITTLEJOHN-police-protesters-eradication-Israel-Palestine-protest.html
Sir Mark Rowley is a disgrace and a coward. He should be stripped of his Knighthood and fired.
The rates charged for Telegraph subscriptions pops up on here now and again. My renewal came in last week, £189 for the basic digital package as against £149 last year and £100 the year before, way above inflation. I spoke to the nice Margaret on the phone this morning. I don’t seem to have got the attractive offers some have got, I ended up with £139 for the year (still a £50 reduction!). When I commented we had to pay extra for the puzzles site to get everything on there she gave me a Puzzles subscription for £5 for the year as against £30 odd. Reasonable I thought and still less than I paid them last year overall.
I queried why I never received the crossword newsletter, she had no real answer but has deleted all my newsletter subscriptions (not sure how many as I have never received any of them..) and told me to resubscribe and they ‘should come through’. I am not holding my breath over that one. Have any of you managed to actually receive the newsletters you subscribe to? The included ‘wine cellar’ offer doesn’t interest me, I drink just a few glasses of the stuff a year, and with my ten minute browse of the website each day I am hardly getting value for money but that is life.
Last week I was offered three months for £1.
That’s ‘cos you is special (and threatened to sue them if you didn’t get a good deal) 🙂
Just went to the letters page, £25 for 12 months.
We use gmail and have no problems with Telegraph newsletters.
If you’re not getting any of your newsletters, then you may need to look at your email settings. It is possibly that the newsletters are automatically being directed into your “spam” box.
If you don’t find them there, it might be that whatever email server you are using has completely blocked these newsletters so that they never even get through to your spam box: if that is the case, you can try contacting the server to see if that is the case and to ask if they can tweak the system. Alternatively, you can create another email address with a different server (like gmail) which you use for the newsletters.
They are just not being sent. On my domain hosted email I have turned off the spam filter, definitely nothing coming through though of course it Ionos may be bouncing telegraph emails for some reason without telling me but in general my email is pretty reliable. Others on Big Daves Crossword Blog have the same, they never see the Crossword newsletter.
I finally gave in and got a year’s subscription to the on-line DT for £25. This morning I was offered the ‘Puzzles’ add on for £1 for the year. As I drink wine and don’t often do puzzles I declined the offer!
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/ce2e618471d456ddeb50d35a4b752c1bce5231ad3db857645c559f899ad8b165.png
Two minutes ago Dave!
Yep…. but probably for new subscribers only, not we long standing ones!
Make a new e-mail address maybe.
Threaten to leave and you’ll probably get it.
Mine is £29 a year because I cancelled. The bloke on the phone immediately offered that price and I immediately said ‘Ta very much’!
Cancel and start again.
Oh dear.
Microsoft Outlook in its various forms has issues with bulk emails, their spam filter on the servers will effectively drop messages they see as spam.
I had trouble with newsletters from the gym, my email address was in the system correctly, they could send a personal email without issues but newsletters just went awol.
Microsoft helpline could not help, the Microsoft forums identified the problem but provided no solutions. In the end I just gave up and used a Gmail account for newsletters.
If they gave it to you you would still be struggling to get value….. Paying for propaganda…wow!
The dopey wokies can’t leave anything alone.
The link wont work but they are laying in to James Bond now.
Try this……….what a load of Bolero.
https://www.bing.com/ck/a?!&&p=e7761c5d8e36d961JmltdHM9MTY5ODEwNTYwMCZpZ3VpZD0zN2NmMTA2ZS03ZGViLTY1YTItMjVjMy0wM2RhN2M5YzY0ZjMmaW5zaWQ9NTU2Mw&ptn=3&hsh=3&fclid=37cf106e-7deb-65a2-25c3-03da7c9c64f3&psq=james+bond+news+today&u=a1aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubmV3aWRlYS5jb20uYXUvbGFzaGFuYS1seW5jaC1uZXctamFtZXMtYm9uZC1jYXN0LWNvbmZpcm1lZA&ntb=1
Any chance of that in English?
Easy Bill follow the link, above you’ll understand. It’s another annoying stitch up of the British people and tradition.
Afternoon, all. Shan’t stay long; I had to put the laptop on to reply to my MO (he wanted to know that I’d got the message) so I thought I’d just check up on Nottl. Will be off to collect my extra meds shortly.
Pretty well ALL the standards that used to apply when I was growing up (fair play, evenhandedness, taking your turn, speaking your mind openly without fear or favour, being honest, not being ashamed of your culture and history) seem to have been suppressed these days. We have become the third world.
377974+ up ticks,
🎵,
Ho let the culling begin we can’t stop it we can’t win……..
Seemingly countries are signing up to an agreement that could result in giving the WHO the go-ahead on compulsory vaccine jabs.
Link please ogga.
377940+ up ticks,
Afternoon VW,
I left twitter for a brief moment, returned then found the link had left .
Linkless I had to resort to “seemingly”
I started to read Christine Andersen’s ‘Hope in the offing’ on Twitter early this morning regarding the WHO, I had to stop reading at that point because of our puppy’s demands to go out. When I got back I couldn’t find it. Life and Twitter had moved on, so I have no idea in what form the ‘hope’ manifests itself.
Try this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-OtmMiUKow
It’s her speech but we don’t get to hear what the brave citizens have to say. But the speech is good.
Thank you vw. If only we had someone like that fighting for our rights in Parliament. It is very much a David and Goliath scenario.
Second email arrived this morning demanding that I get the latest shot.
You have to wonder what they did with the ten million soon to expire shots for the previous ineffective version.
I expect that we will see lots of pressure to get jabbed over here, the mass vaccination clinics are almost deserted.
On my recent visit to the hospital i was met at the door by a lady who asked me if i was here for the vaccine. I said no i was here for something important. Blank face.
See ya laters alligators.
https://static.standard.co.uk/2023/10/24/9/Standard%20cartoon%2C%20call%200191%20603%200178%20or%20visit%20adams.newsprints.co.uk.%20You%20can%20follow%20Adams%20on%20his%20Instagram.jpg?crop=8:5,smart&quality=75&auto=webp&width=960
Oh yes you do, Officer. You are simply too frightened of the slammers to use them.
When you have tens of thousands of protestors whipping themselves into a frenzy, it would be a very brave thin blue line that tackles them. Especially if you consider that this mob behave like a bunch of mid Easter savages and do not exactly conform to traditional English values.
It’s only a matter of time until one of these protests in a western country ends in violence
True. We are now overrun and overwhelmed. The police are outnumbered – and there were more slammers on the march in London that the WHOLE of the armed forces
We have been betrayed by Parliament. Yes the whole bloody lot of them.
To put it into perspective, there are at least 20 local authorities with Muslim populations of of greater than 25,000
and of those at least most have more than 50,000 and of those several are 100,000 plus.
Add in useful idiots and rioting BLMers and the entire armed forces and volunteer reserves and police are almost certainly outnumbered.
I read somewhere that due to the nature of the RoP, if/when someone stands up to it we may be approaching the end-game. Whether the current slight difficulty in the middle east is the start of it, only time will tell.
What a pity Bojo was forced to get rid of those water cannon. They would have been handy to deal with the great unwashed and unhygienic.
And if they are frightened of the slammers now what will the situation be in 20 years when there are very many more; and in 50 years time when Muslims outnumber the rest of us.
Children should be made to learn this by heart in schools so that they can understand how their parents’ and grandparents’ stupidity and literal madness got them to to where they are:
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/ff4da2dc015eb0cd69132beb243ea38e09b158ffaf5573bd9d083ae433c4af17.png
and now we are letting in over ten times that number each year.
Things will never improve in our lifetime.
Not helped by the drive to recruit more “diverse” police (and armed forces).
The police seem to have the power to storm a pub and confiscate gollies, arrest someone for saying ‘you look like my lesbian nana’, ransack Laurence Fox’s home and arrest a woman for silently praying in the street. When it comes to Muslim demos, they don’t want to know.
Spot on.
Well said.
Vey picky, our Plod.
I expect Sir Mark to become a Lord soon.
My old warrant card, signed by the chief constable, stated quite clearly on the front: “The holder of this card possesses all the powers and privileges of a police constable in England and Wales.”
They belong on ships W⚓️S.
Each to his/her own I suppose but I found this fascinating
Jordan Peterson Explains the Cross of Jesus Christ w/ Joe Rogan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AV4xe0uwgoI
Fascinating, as you say. It goes a good way to explain why some people flee tyrannical régimes and come to our Western countries only to try and replicate the very tyranny that they fled.
† This is the point I made yesterday. The authorities are running around trying to uphold laws that are very subjective (in the same way that human rights laws are so generalistic) and yet are calling for more of the same. Should the police act now against the demonstrators, the human rights lawyers will be straight in, intimidating the spineless cabinet as they go.
In the braver Britain of the past, the police might not have had second thoughts about sticking the boot in but then they have rarely had to face what we all face now, which is something beyond the ordinary demonstration getting out of hand because of the presence of a few hard Left psychopaths.
Elsewhere in the DT, Tom Harris writes about the dependency of so many Labour members on Muslim votes. The GE could be exciting but not in the way that many expect it to be.
Surely the police can’t have it both ways? If they are “restricted by current laws in their ability to arrest protesters” how do they explain the multiple arrests during the anti lockdown demonstrations? They seemed keen enough to throw old ladies into vans then, or were those arrests later deemed illegal?? If so, how much compensation was paid?
They are not restricted, or so they would say, from investigating murder, GBH or misconduct in public office. But these are laws that do not now apply to the parasite class who have broken them so numerously to the detriment of our people. The AG and Lord Advocate in solemn and corrupt unison have their telescopes to the wrong eye……
Also very good at attacking women commemorating Sarah Everard; raped and murdered by one of the Met’s ‘finest’.
Just to say – Gus scoffs at “Lord” Pickles….
Don’t we all!🙄
And I believe he ate many of the pies….
Lord Pickles – one of Bill’s cats?
Good afternoon. If caring equalled MSM screeching humanity would be long gone.
https://open.substack.com/pub/tarableu/p/of-course-we-care?r=10qzvs&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
I have just received my certification of Swedish citizenship from Migrationsverket. I now have dual nationality.
This is quite surreal: a committed Brexiteer who is also now a citizen of the EU. Having two passports should make travel a lot easier.
Surely you can’t be a citizen of the EU as it is not a country. You are, however, a citizen of both the U.K. and Sweden.
Congratulations.
Thanks, Alf.
You had me thinking there for a minute. I’ve just found this: EU citizenship is granted automatically to anyone who holds the nationality of an EU country. Some rights and benefits derive from national law, and these may differ from country to country.
Best of luck with that.
Best of luck with what?
The “benefits” of EU “citizenship”.
They can write what they like – but there ain’t no such thing. One can ONLY be a citizen of a country. Thank God the EU is NOT a country. QED.
Schengen is still in force.
So what? The E effing U is NOT a country.
I know that. You know that. Tell it to the unelected party clowns at Brussels.
Only in their deluded minds, Bill.
So with Brexit my EU citizenship was removed. Nobody told me!
You’ll need to get French citizenship (or Breton if they become a sovereign state 😉) to regain your EU pass.
Caroline is going for French nationality and I shall hope to have dual nationality but the process is pretty tortuous.
Canadas abysmal passport renewal system makes having a second passport essential so that you can travel during times that they are expiditing your application.
There again even with two passports I have been caught short and faced travel problems
It’s simple really – campaign to get Swexit!
Oh, I commenced that a decade ago. I have a lot of support locally.
Good to hear. Now you need to go nationwide!
Gratulerer, Grizz!
Thanks, Paul.
Good news for you Grizz.
Thanks, John.
Well done. I have a son near Gothenburg who also has dual nationality. Curiously, his Swedish passport caused a heavy interrogation on USA entry last month for some reason. No idea why.
duplicate removed.
“Tens of thousands of women in Iceland, including Prime Minister Katrín Jakobsdóttir, are refusing to work on Tuesday.
The “kvennafrí”, or women’s day off, has been called in protest at the gender pay gap and gender-based violence.”
Times are hard …..
Opening line of which Ancient Greek play?
What carp.
Length of service.
Hours put in.
Disciplines chosen.
Hazards involved.
Qualifications required
Level of discomfort.
Add that lot in, Hildur.
Lysistrata?
10/10 plus 2 for neatness! xx
Oooh. She’s such a show off. Don’t encourage her. You’ll be burning her bra for her next !
Saw that quite a few years ago before Wimmen’s Lib really got going.
Didn’t they do this a few years ago?
That’s me for this miserable, dank, dark, wet unfriendly day – the only glimmer being my rapid cataract appointment.
Have a spiffing evening.
A demain (dental check up and more LADDER buying…!!)
You were unfortunate, to say the least. It’s been a dry, bright autumn day here with a good deal of sunshine. I had a most pleasant walk for grocery shopping.
Yes; we had a soggy morning, but from lunchtime onwards things got better.
Enough blue sky to make a matelot’s trousers.
Enough blue sky to make a matelot’s trousers what?
Pah!!
There are plenty of English towns unfamiliar with the LibDem decency of Twickenham in which the stealing of a Union or St. George’s flag from a pub would end very badly indeed for the thieves…
Good chuck them out. They are Shiite.
I don’t care which islamic variant they belong to, your pun stands and they should go.
377940+ up ticks,
When the shite finally hits the fan more terrorist when confronted by the guardians of the peace will die of laughter.
https://x.com/JackieMeek6/status/1716832743714345430?s=20
Par on Wordle today.
Wordle 857 4/6
🟨⬜⬜🟩🟩
⬜⬜🟨🟩🟩
⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
par 4 here
Wordle 857 4/6
⬜⬜🟩🟩🟩
🟨⬜🟩🟩🟩
⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
Par for me too today.
Wordle 857 4/6
🟨⬜⬜🟨🟨
⬜🟨🟨🟨⬜
🟨⬜🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
Oh my another par
Wordle 857 4/6
🟨🟨⬜⬜🟩
⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜
🟩🟩🟨⬜🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
I got today’s in two. My best effort ever (I’ve only been doing it for 10 days.)
Geoff Buys Cars’ latest You Tube video (The Luton Airport Fire – Joke Insurance and WHO NEEDS A LAWYER?!) has an interesting theory on the fire at the back-end of the video. Posted about an hour ago.
One of the many comments BTL this video refers to a brake disc problem; sparks, overheated CV joint etc.
Good news Grizz…
“Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has submitted Sweden’s bid to Turkey’s parliament for the first time. The move happened Monday, at a moment the globe’s attention has switched from Russia-Ukraine to the Israel-Gaza war, and has brought Stockholm’s entrance into the alliance a big step closer.
“The Protocol on Sweden’s NATO Accession was signed by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on October 23, 2023 and referred to the Grand National Assembly of Turkey,” the Turkish presidency announced on social media. Turkey under Erdogan has been the most outspoken in blocking Sweden’s bid, having long complained that it harbors ‘terrorists’ – due to the large Kurdish population which often organizes anti-Turkey protests and political movements.
Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson enthusiastically welcomed the development in Stockholm’s favor. “Welcome that President Erdoğan signed Sweden’s ratification protocol to NATO and submitted it to the Grand National Assembly of [Turkey]. Parliamentary procedures will now commence. We are looking forward to becoming a member of NATO.”
NATO today … Swexit tomorrow?
Fingers crossed!
Nobody but a fool would bet on the continuance of the European Union.
The EU is broke, has by its policies caused the destruction of the economies of its member states, principally Germany and The Netherlands with France and Italy not far behind.
The UK is in the process of destroying itself whilst strictly nominally no longer part of the EU.
Sweden would be mistaken in seeking membership of NATO.
NATO Membership would simply mean tens of thousands of Russian troops posted on its borders given the interference and existential threat posed to Russia by Biden’s proxy war in Ukraine.
When Trump is returned to the White House NATO will be defunded and some order will be returned to the geopolitics and essential diplomacy for peace so neglected or misunderstood by Obama’s chosen few idiots in Biden’s High Command.
That High Command comprises Biden (a discredited “brand” with no discernible ethics or morality), Blinken, Sullivan, Nuland, Wray, Garland and the rest of the Democrat shit show.
Erdogan is the very last person the Swedes should associate with.
Morning corrim, my ‘Good news’ was heavily ladened with irony….
Sounds to me that what is being suggested is that Erdogan is someone we need take notice of rather than what we know of him being a murderer and Turkey being a safe harbour for terrorists.
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/8a7b6b31c8dc577463b693aa4ecd20a045ef9df8008e3284c61195b59491d758.png
Eh, wot?
Thought it was just me!🙄
Discovered it’s an AI generated obit meme! Me neither…..
A surreal bit of nonsense from another forum.
“She loved having bobbies”
Is this where you come in?
Re the Alpacas trotting down the A66 story in the DT.
A fine BTL Comment:
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/0e5a6efd757629cad9c72a7eeb7f4af0d938281439e89f41cabab07d93d12a84.png
In Wales, was it?
Extract from a BTL comment:
“The sooner the Tories are history the better. At least Labour make no illusion as to their incompetence and hypocrisy.”
True, but as Labour are SO incompetent, voters would be mad to risk our complete annihilation.
Sadly not funny for some….
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/18714c4a5c5c6369684266126b90c38feb54250abffb9bb9384a023df2d8e68c.png
They must put out the redd carpet for them in the living room.
I bet you meant the rudd carpet.
Typically when something goes wrong in our country it costs the members of the public a fortune and the political classes don’t give a shit when people’s property and their lives are destroyed.
We’ve been flooded twice in the last 19 years, and not through proximity to the Tamar. New housing estates going up on the outskirts of the village using the very old sewer and drainage systems combined with heavy rain.
Oh, I meant ‘redd’.
There was an article in the local rag about a house being flooded several times after new houses were built in the street. Don’t get me started on waste water and foul water disposal! I start to sound like Edwin Chadwick and his passion for drains (all I recall from my British History 1812-1918 section of my A Level History – the other part was European History from the end of the Hundred Years War until 1914).
Sorry, Eddy, a redd is a bit of a gravel nest in a stream or river where salmon or trout spawn.
The things one learns on Nottl! 🙂
That’s me for today, awake at 4 am. MOT pass on our car. Lots of walking. Had two 20 minute dozes in the armchair. Lovely afternoon with the family for grandson 8th birthday.
A large wee dram with ice for me.
Found 2 kilograms of sloes in the bottom of the freezer and will buy a litre of gin and one of vodka and some caster sugar tomorrow. For Christmas drinks and beyond.
Up the wooden Hill now.
Goodnight all. 😴
A bit done up the “garden”, got the raspberry canes I dug up planted into some plastic troughs so they can be replanted late in the winter, if I get round to it.
Not a lot else, but I’m off for a bath & bed now so good night all.
Good night, BoB. Sleep well.
What are we waiting for?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPulEz0gVj8
Ah, guess whose birthday is 25 October. 68 tomorrow.
Have a happy, happy day, Sue, followed by 365 happy unbirthdays.
You’re just a young lass yet!
Hope you have a good’un!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LojqhHnmyvc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcILsIE0j-I
Evening, all. Back again (oh, no! I hear you sigh).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0zKqiClt1k
Wednesday 25th October, 2023
Sue Edison
One of our Golden Girls!
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/1c91bd90b2e03fe4177f93a8a3bd31de075c50ed3d388af5346a5fdc510ea45f.png
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/e281877e66f9640965428cfaf7612b736a56b10f037dc7830d6ff3f7e0f8aba9.png
With very fond wishes for a splendid day
Caroline and Rastus
Many many thanks!
Happy birthday, Sue. Have a great day.
I’m not far behind. Hope life is still good despite what the world throws at us!
Best wishes on your bIrthday Susan! Have a good one…..
Happy birthday, Sue. Bear in mind that sixty and eight might one day be Wordle answers. x
Many happy returns, Sue.
🎶Happy Birthday to you🎶, Sue! Enjoy your day, may the sun shine for you from morn until dusk!🌞🎉🎂🥂🍾🎈🎁🎉🌞
Happy birthday Sue – very soon 🥂🧁❤🍨🍰🥳🎂🍷🦄 it’s almost midnight now! 🥰
Happy Birthday Sue. Edit: I am generally late on the case.
Happy Birthday Sue. Edit: I am generally late on the case.
Happy Birthday Sue. Hope you have something nice planned.
Wishing you a very Happy Birthday Sue.
Have a splendiferous day.
Just coming up to 8.30pm here in West Virginia, so I can correctly wish you a very happy birthday, Sue! Hope it turns into a good one!
Good night, chums. Sleep well and see you all hopefully at 7 am.
377974+ up ticks,
Pillow ponder ,
Do you not think this has a nice ring of sincerity about it ?,
https://x.com/LozzaFox/status/1716921835483529249?s=20
Goodnight, everyone.
Boris Johnson promised Zelensky everything. Truss briefly followed suit and both Sunak and Starmer are agreed on continuing financial and military support to Ukraine.
The result of this UK Uni-party support is that the UK is yet another victim of the Zelensky Curse. We are locked into this mad policy of depleting our armed forces, going bankrupt whilst stoking inflation yet us voters have never been asked our opinions and neither have the Uni-Party allowed debate on the merits and actual demerits of this lunacy.
The Zelensky Curse has lead us up a blind alley.
The blind are leading the blind.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12665953/Police-officer-pepper-spraying-brawl-one-arrested-autistic-girl-watchdog.html
“a good command of English”
She is unfortunate isn’t she….all these controversies just seem to attract themselves to her…
Completely out of her depth.
Good morning, all – Wednesday’s new page is here.
‘Morning, Geoff, and thank you.
Thank you.